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...carefully timed. The Sino-Soviet negotiations over reducing border tensions were supposed to resume in Peking last week, but apparently have been delayed because the two sides are so far apart. Moscow has agreed to discuss minor border adjustments, but the Chinese insist on a broader approach: a mutual troop withdrawal from the disputed areas and a Soviet admission that the present frontiers are based on "unequal treaties" dating back to czarist times. The Chinese were also miffed because the Soviet negotiator, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, returned to the talks a week later than he had promised. When...
...Gradually the teacher steers the children into talking about what is the use of a hierarchy in the first place. "The system keeps the peace," she suggests. The hour ends with a spirited game in which one team of children defines the characteristics of each member of a baboon troop, and then another team tries to guess where the individual described fits into the baboon hierarchy...
...rally began with a performance of the Radical Arts Troop satirizing the disciplinary procedures of the Administration...
...substantial majority approve the President's plan for U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam. Support for immediate withdrawal of U.S. fighting men has dropped from 36% in October to 32% last month, while support for an accelerated troop pullout has fallen from 29% to 26%. Correspondingly, backing for the Nixon timetable of withdrawals geared to South Vietnamese ability to take over the fighting has increased. Sixty-one per cent went along with the Nixon schedule in October; 65% went along last month...
...develop community spirit." Prepared by the U.S. Command in Viet Nam for military press officers, the directive bans or substantially alters 22 terms that once were used frequently in briefings for correspondents in Saigon. Instead of "search and destroy," U.S. briefing officers should now say "search and clear." U.S. troop withdrawals are to be described as "U.S. redeployment" or "replacement by ARVN" (Army of the Republic of South Viet Nam). A Viet Cong tax collector should be called a V.C. extortionist. V.C. defectors are to be called ralliers...