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...will have plenty to discuss. Three months have now passed since the cease-fire went into effect, and violations by both sides continue unabated in South Viet Nam. Political negotiations between the Saigon government and the Viet Cong are being held, as specified by the Paris accord, but they are locked in stalemate over a crucial issue. Saigon insists that elections to determine the future government of South Viet Nam must be tied to a full-scale withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from the South. The Communists maintain, quite accurately, that no such stipulation is made by the Paris accord...
...securities salesman, leaving behind a wife, a Thunderbird and a town house in Brooklyn Heights. "When I came here," he says, "I had high blood pressure and ulcers -after the first year, both problems had vanished." Lombardi never got around to selling stocks. Instead, he played piano in a Saigon hotel for 18 months at $900 a month: when the American presence was at its highest levels, a polished entertainer like Lombardi was very much in demand. Today he ekes out a meager living by teaching at the University of Saigon (salary: $42 per week) and writing an occasional magazine...
...Dick Hughes, 30, formerly a Boston drama teacher and a friend of Actor Jon Voight, went to Viet Nam in 1968 simply to discover for himself what was going on. Five years later, he runs seven houses of refuge for orphaned Vietnamese boys (five in Saigon and two in Danang). "You have to understand that these boys have nothing," Hughes says. "In Viet Nam, one's career, even one's personal identity, is sublimated to the family. When you lose your family, you lose everything." During the past five years, almost 1,000 boys have stayed at Hughes...
...free their country from U.S. domination. The peace Agreement did not at all lead to an "inconsequential" situation in South Viet-Nam. Instead, the Agreement did provide for the U.S. to recognize the right of South Viet-Nam to settle their own affairs without American interference. If the Saigon regime is forced to abide by the provisions of the Agreement, the people of South Viet-Nam will be able to force Thieu out of office in a peaceful way. If General Thieu continues to violate the Agreement, the people of Viet-Nam will continue armed resistance. Under such a situation...
...Elliot Richardson as a response to "a flagrant violation" of the Laotian cease-fire by the Communists. Washington officials said that the B-52s went into action after a North Vietnamese regiment led an attack on the Tha Vieng area in the Plain of Jars. U.S. embassy sources in Saigon, however, dismissed the attack as a minor action-"perhaps a squabble over rice." After two days the raids halted, which suggested that the B-52s were used more to dramatize U.S. dismay over the deteriorating situation in Indochina and less for specifically tactical purposes...