Word: truce
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...wanted their cease-fire badly, gave in to Cambodia's obdurate Tep Phan. Changes in the texts were ordered, to allow Cambodia to call for outside help if it considered its security threatened. Tep Phan was gratified, but he had one more question. Who would pay for the truce operations? Said Molotov with a laugh: "You have won everything else-you at least ought to foot the bill...
...simultaneous and general cease-fire," a "regrouping of armed forces," observance of the demarcation lines and other provisions that depend on joint action. Supervision. An International Commission-Canada, India and Poland-shall preside as arbitrator of troop movements, supervisor of ports and frontiers and all aspects of the truce. India will preside...
...truce gives the Red Viet Minh time and many potential openings to soften up South Viet Nam (where they have long been ineffectual) before taking it over intact...
...Poland has a veto on the truce's international supervisory commission-a better arrangement than the Communists got in the Korean truce-and can therefore stop anything going wrong for the Communist side...
...emperor ordered the foreheads of Christians tattooed with the words: "Perverted Religion," massacred 25,000 of them at Saigon, and martyred 22 missionaries with the "torture of 100 cuts." The truce forces on Indo-China's Catholics the hard choice of leaving their homes and churches to move south, or to stay and face the possibility of martyrdom at the hands of the Reds. Anti-Communist Vietnamese reported last week that Catholics in the north must already pay fees to attend Mass or wear crosses. A report from a Spanish Dominican priest at Namdinh was released by the Vatican...