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...party and government organizations, enterprises and undertakings, the majority of ordinary cadres are good." It sounded for the moment as though Mao may wish to work out some form of compromise before China is completely destroyed. Perhaps it was his own temporary form of a New Year's truce...
...time of dancing and dragon masks, of firecrackers rigged from snail shells and gunpowder, of feasting on roast pork and sugared apricots. It is also a time of homecoming. This week, as the Vietnamese greet the Year of the Ram under cover of the four-day truce agreed to by both sides, some 100,000 Viet Cong are expected to take leave of their units and slip back to their native villages and families for a brief reunion...
...government finally agreed to let the rebels go free provided that they laid down their arms. Having exhausted the hotel's bar supply, the rebels packed up and left with only jeers for the soldiers rimmed around the hotel. The truce, however, was short-lived. When a new series of anti-Somoza demonstrations broke out, the government closed down two opposition papers and five Managua radio stations, searched homes and stores for arms and arrested 130 opposition leaders. Aguero himself ducked into hiding, then at week's end suddenly reappeared to announce that he still intended...
Since many of these thoughts center increasingly on the situation in Vietnam, the New Year's renewal of the truce seems a suitable occasion to report to you that significant and growing numbers of our contemporaries are deeply troubled about the posture of their government in Vietnam. We believe the state of mind of these people, although largely unreported, is of great importance, because there are many who are deeply troubled for every one who has been outspoken in dissent...
...this context there is widsepread support for the suggestion of the Pope and others that the resumed truce be extended de facto by restraint on both sides, even if no formal agreement is reached. And there is hope that if fighting must be resumed in 1967 it will be resumed on a reduced scale...