Word: van
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...Liberation Press Agency" announced the formation of a "South Viet Nam People's Committee for Solidarity with the American People." Its aim: to cheer on the dissenters and encourage desertion among American and South Vietnamese troops. Said a message to the Mob from North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong: "The Vietnamese people thank their friends in America and wish them great success in their mounting movement...
Wednesday, October 18 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Host Lorne Greene gets assistance from the Baja Marimba Band, Jerry Van Dyke, Barbara Eden, Lou Rawls and Bobby Van to show "How the West Was Swung," a song-and-dance tale of the frontier and its rough-'n'-ready folk...
...with part of a review of Wyndham Lewis' memoirs and part of one of a novel by William Burroughs. Checking further to see what might have been of special interest to the Viet Cong in that issue, we found it contained a story on the supposed martyr, Nguyen Van Be, who had been eulogized in the North for his heroic exploits before suddenly turning up in the South as a live defector, to the embarrassment of Hanoi...
However slim the chances that Hanoi will respond to a bombing pause with meaningful negotiations, the opportunity may soon be offered. South Viet Nam's newly elected President Nguyen Van Thieu said again that he would propose a bombing pause if it would lead to reciprocal talks. And it seems clear that the North Vietnamese are listening-both to him and the current U.S. debate. There even seems to be a remote chance that this will lead to talks sooner rather than later. Hanoi's hard-bitten Defense Minister Giap suggested last week that he is convinced that...
...Farah Diba, 28, invited five of the world's premier jewelers to design a headpiece for this month's solemnification. Some 50 original designs were winnowed to three, of which Farah Diba selected one created by Pierre Arpels, 47, managing director of the Paris branch of Van Cleef & Arpels. Feeling like a man loose "amongst the treasures of The Thousand and One Nights," Arpels chose 1,469 diamonds, 36 rubies, 36 emeralds and 105 pearls from the royal jewels in Iran's Central Bank, spent six months fashioning them into a crown that is literally priceless-though...