Word: communique
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permit the handful of foreign correspondents stationed in the North Vietnamese capital to visit the captured areas. Thus most of the scattered reports about conditions in South Viet Nam's northern provinces have been issued by the "Liberation Press Agency" of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. These euphoric communiqués stress the "delirious welcomes from the crowds" and the "joy on the part of the liberated populations" but say little about what has been happening to the people or the problems the Communists face in taking over so large an area so rapidly...
...Communiqué issued by Presidents Nixon and Thieu at San Clemente, Calif., April...
...Middle East tour of his own to press the Russian preference-a return to Geneva. Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most unbending leader of the Arab confrontation powers, supports that preference. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat still has hopes that Kissinger can achieve further progress; nonetheless, the joint Egyptian-Soviet communiqué issued after Gromyko's visit reflected Sadat's desire for eventual resumption of the Geneva conference. Even members of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government, which long worried about the negative hand of Soviet diplomacy, now say that they have "no fear" about going to Geneva...
Geneva talks and also proposed a set time for discussions to begin-no later than early March, shortly before the United Nations' peace-keeping mandates in the Sinai and Golan Heights demilitarized zones expire. Gromyko obviously meant to use the Soviet-Syrian communiqué as a way to pressure Sadat, who so far has steadfastly resisted Soviet demands for talks in Geneva until he determines how much Kissinger's step-by-step strategy can accomplish...
...once, Mao has set Sinologists to puzzling over a sudden switch in policy or a seemingly inexplicable action. Last week he had them at it again. Why had he been absent from both the Central Committee plenum and the Congress? "I did a double take when I read the communiqué-the lack of Mao was so striking," said one senior U.S. Government analyst. "We are so used to the dominance of Chairman Mao, and then suddenly he is absent...