Word: truce
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...talk was bluff. On his own campus, Hayakawa simply could not muster the strength to break the strike. The only glimmers of hope came when Hayakawa--through his face-saving negotiating committee--gave in to some of the student demands about black studies. And by the time the formal truce came last week, Hayakawa had dropped his most adamant previous stand--that all the student strikers be expelled...
...would, of course, be glib and ridiculously optimistic to say that all of S.F. State's problems have vanished. The truce ignored many basic tensions and devised makeshift solutions for others. Hayakawa still has to decide whether the strike leaders "deserve" amnesty. And the leaders themselves say that the administration has violated agreements before. The Black Students Union still demands that S.F. State rehire Nathan Hare and George Murray--the two Black Panthers whose firings triggered the strike last fall--while Hayakawa still refuses to bring them back...
...Communists' finest assault troops smashed into South Viet Nam's cities and towns. Then suddenly, in a whoosh of rockets and thud of mortars, the nightmare seemed about to begin again. Barely 19 hours after they had ended a self-imposed, week-long Tet truce, Communist gunners launched coordinated rocket and mortar attacks on more than 100 cities, towns and military installations throughout South Viet Nam, including the capital of Saigon...
...Roosevelt University in Chicago, black students dramatized the usual list of demands by taking over classes in psychology, political science and literature from regular teachers and delivering their own black-oriented lectures. After meeting with the dissidents, Dean of Students Lawrence Silverman announced that he had negotiated a truce, but the students evidently felt otherwise. They sent Silverman a note declaring their intention to continue disrupting classes "by any means necessary," then made good their threat by taking over a history class the very next day. Having warned them that further disruptions could lead to expulsion, Silverman must now prepare...
...first time in the long war, U.S. and Viet Cong envoys met last week to conclude successfully the release of U.S. prisoners. Led by a lieutenant colonel, the U.S. delegation had met with the Viet Cong in the same field 50 miles northwest of Saigon during the Christmas truce, but the Communists had not brought the three men they had promised to free. Both encounters were rigged by the Viet Cong with an eye to making as much propaganda mileage as possible for the National Liberation Front. The U.S., naturally, did not like the situation, but was willing to endure...