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...Zone. It was the lightweight, fast-firing M-16 rifle, which packs far more punch than the older and heavier weapons that the ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troopers had been carrying. The 1st Regiment soon had a chance to use them. During the Christmas truce, its scouts spotted a large North Vietnamese force moving into the Quang Tri coastal flats. As soon as the truce had ended, the ARVN moved to the attack, boxing the Communists into a four-sided trap with the help of a U.S. Marine blocking force. In a fierce day-long...
This does not necessarily mean that negotiations will come soon, or that the shooting will stop as soon as talks start. In the Korean War, the fighting continued while truce talks dragged on for two years at Panmunjom, and the U.S. suffered 62,200 casualties during the negotiations. In Viet Nam, there are four primary belligerents, and nobody can agree on who will talk about what to whom. The Viet Cong rebels say that they will talk only directly to the U.S.; the South Vietnamese leaders say that they will talk only to Ho Chi Minh; and Ho-unlike...
...Greeks called on him to disband his 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard and to grant wide police powers to the 4,000 U.N. peace-keeping troops stationed on Cyprus. Fearing an encroachment on Cyprus' sovereignty, Makarios replied that he wanted the Security Council to endorse the truce package before he finally acted. That could mean never-since France and the Soviet Union oppose peace-keeping operations on general principles...
President Arthur Costa e Silva, 65, the army general who has been in office for nine months, did not quite know what to say. A staunch and faithful Catholic, he has visited Pope Paul twice in the past three years. To help arrange a truce, Costa asked to meet with the church's leading bishops some time next month. He realizes all too well that it was the wrath of the Catholic Church that helped topple Argen tine Dictator Juan Peron...
Neatly reversing his field, Mr. Dirksen accused his onetime ally in the White House of doing too little "to exploit" diplomatic opportunities for peace. There is no doubt that Mr. Dirksen is correct. Several times in the past two years--most notably during the Tet truce in early 1967--President Johnson has spurned what appeared to be enemy peace talk overtures. It should be recalled, of course, that in February, President Johnson's refusal to trigger talks by stopping the bombing was supported by Senator Dirksen...