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...negotiations and the war itself, the U.S. delegation at the Paris talks has been seeking agreement on restoring the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Viet Nam. It is also trying to arrange prisoner exchanges. More generally, it is exploring the possibility of mutual U.S.-North Vietnamese troop withdrawals...
Such situations were once the end of Westerns; in The Stalking Moon it is only the beginning. Sarah's "husband" is Salvaje (Nathaniel Narcisco), a murderous Apache with a memory as long as his rifle. As the troop moves West, Salvaje follows like a red plague, killing everything-including horses and dogs-in his path...
...only solid proposal of the day came from the U.S. In a brief statement, Lodge suggested the immediate re-establishment of the Demilitarized Zone as an inviolate buffer zone between the two Viet Nams. He also urged efforts toward troop withdrawal by both sides. Saigon's chief delegate, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, echoed the American proposals but could not resist a little propaganda on the side. "You'll never take the South by force," he warned the Communists. Shortly thereafter, the 6½-hour conference ended with an agreement to reconvene this week...
...that would determine the conference rules. At the end of the first session, however, Vance announced that all sides had reached full agreement on the procedures to be followed in later meetings. The conference is therefore free to get down to substantive matters this week. One is a mutual troop withdrawal, though it was announced last week that U.S. and South Vietnamese officials have begun working out a timetable to begin bringing home some G.I.s this year. Other issues include the political future of South Viet Nam and the territorial integrity of neighboring Cambodia and Laos...
...survival put a heavy premium on the dawning intelligence of man. The first toolmaker gained an enormous survival advantage over his fellows-and may have asserted it by cornering the local supply of women. This male dominance operated to drive less intellectual males to the periphery of the troop, or tribe; it also served to transmit the toolmaker's genes to the next generation...