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...home after being released by Arab hijackers to say that the erstwhile hostages endorsed his policy. At the Southern European headquarters of NATO in Naples, he described the alliance as "perhaps the most successful of any in the history of the world." He insisted that despite speculation about U.S. troop withdrawals from NATO forces in West Germany, the U.S. commitment to maintaining NATO's strength was as firm as ever...
...Settlement in Viet Nam and Cyrus Vance, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and later one of Lyndon Johnson's negotiators in Paris. Vance has been pressing his suggestions with Administration officials in private and is now fighting for them publicly. He believes that U.S. willingness to pledge total troop withdrawal by an early date might be the necessary inducement for Communist agreement to a ceasefire. Under his scenario, an international force of perhaps 3,000 men, manning 300 monitoring posts, would supervise the ceasefire. As Vance sees it, there are a number of built-in advantages to his proposal...
...some sort of cease fire proposal, coupled with what has remained consistent U.S. policy: international supervision of any truce, free elections, and no imposition of a coalition government through negotiation against the wishes of Saigon. There is speculation that Nixon may announce his plan-perhaps linking it with new troop withdrawals-in an address to the nation this month. It would be logical for him to time the announcement for maximum effect on the congressional elections. But White House aides insist that if Hanoi expects changes in basic Administration policy for domestic reasons, it is mistaken. Whatever the Hanoi regime...
...Nile, four Soviet-built helicopters landed beside a palace on Gezira Island, the original headquarters of Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. From the lead copter, a flag-draped coffin was unloaded and strapped to a gun carriage pulled by six black horses. A funeral cortege formed, with a troop of lance-bearing cavalrymen leading the way. Six military bands, the morning sun glinting richly off their brass, struck up the melancholy strains of Chopin's Funeral March. Twenty-seven visiting chiefs of state, eleven Prime Ministers and 22 other foreign delegates assembled behind the gun carriage. The first rounds...
...five points were: a call for a standstill cease-fire all over Indochina under international supervision; an Indochina peace conference to settle the Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian disputes: negotiations on a timetable for troop withdrawals; a political settlement reflecting the present balance of forces in South Vietnam; and the immediate release of all prisoners of war by both sides...