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...over how to conduct its campaign against British rule of Northern Ireland, MacStiofáin became leader of the Provisional wing, which has been responsible for most of the subsequent bombings and terrorist shootings in the North. Until his arrest last week, his leadership remained unchallenged. During a temporary truce last June, the British government brought him to London as head of an I.R.A. negotiating team, but violence broke out again in Ulster a few days later. British officials consider MacStiofáin ruthless and impossible to deal with, and urgently pressed the Dublin government of Prime Minister Jack Lynch...
There are other, less troublesome items on the Paris agenda. The negotiators must agree on the coordination of a truce in South Viet Nam with parallel cease-fires in Laos and Cambodia. They must also settle on a site for the multi-nation "guarantee conference" that is supposed to convene within 30 days to deal with the larger problems of peace in Viet Nam and presumably the rest of Indochina as well. Paris is questionable as a site because Saigon feels that France is partial to the North Vietnamese; Geneva is out, since Hanoi has bitter memories of the city...
...Truce talks open in Paris between U.S. and North Viet Nam. Averell Harriman represents...
Might the North alternatively achieve a Communist-dominated reunification by negotiation? The proposed truce settlement calls for reunification but does not provide any detailed plan. Most experts believe that a negotiated reunification within the next five years is even less likely than a Communist takeover. It will take many years before the divisions in Viet Nam?caused by history, the blood debts of the war, internal political disputes and regional differences?can be surmounted. There are also some rivalries between Hanoi and the Viet Cong, and these splits have been aggravated since the death of Ho Chi Minh. The Communists...
...during the long bombing campaign; over 50 are civilians, trapped while out on patrol. One of them, Lieut, (j.g.) Everett Alvarez, now 34, was shot down fully eight years ago; others, still unidentified, may have been seized during the past few weeks. In the 60 days after the impending truce settlement, they will all begin their voyage home...