Mao era diplomacy moves toward liaison offices in Beijing and Washington
Don Oakley outlines a rapid shift in Sino-American engagement from cultural exchanges like acupuncture kits to the opening of liaison offices in both capitals. The piece contrasts old China with Maoist modernity, noting changes in governance, ideology, and the role of opposition, while acknowledging ongoing potential for peaceful struggle rather than war.
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China
America
Peking
Henry A Kisinger
Anchor Press
Sabin Chemicals, Inc
Boston
Asia Information Office
Hong Kong
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Lin Piao
Liu Shao-chi
Confucius
Don Oakley
Wicker: Cease-fire in Vietnam brings few gains
The first month of the Vietnam cease-fire yields only the release of the initial American POW group. Fighting stays high, control is weak, and political settlement remains unsettled. Nixon presses troop withdrawals while Hanoi uses prisoner releases as bargaining leverage, complicating efforts at lasting peace.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times News Service
New York
South Vietnam
Vietnam
P.O.W
Hanoi
Washington
Nixon
Saigon
Paris talks frame Vietnam fate as Saigon seeks political gain
Berry's World notes the Paris negotiations reflect Saigon's political aims more than U.S. policy in the 1970s. Despite arms and aid to South Vietnam, the Paris accords delegate Vietnam's political future to its own leaders. Fighting continues as both sides resist full cooperation, with Americans heading home and Nixon claiming peacemaker credit. The likely path remains military, not political.
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Nixon
Paris
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Geneva
Saigon
Letters To The Editor On Morality And Politics
A pair of readers critique societal changes from welfare to birth control and abortion, arguing a loss of personal responsibility. A second writer denounces federal revenue sharing as communism, proposing an alternate flag and calling for more founding fathers in government.
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United States
American Government of Freedom and Liberty
New Deal
U.S. A
George Washingtons
Thomas Jeffersons
Chatsworth church plans lay mission weekend
Chatsworth United Methodist Church sponsors a Lay Witness Mission with coordinator Frank Calloway of Decatur leading the effort this weekend. He is joined by his wife and daughter, owners of Seat Cover Center in Decatur, with prior Lay Witness Mission experience. Mark Shriver, son of a United Methodist minister, leads the youth program as a high school senior at Dalton City, and about 30 junior participants are involved.
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Chatsworth
Frank Calloway
Decatur
E. R. Stoutemyer
Carl Fox
Saunemin Meeting Postponed to March 22 at 7 30 PM
Saunemin PT.A meeting is postponed to Thursday March 22 at 7 30 p.m. Community reports note return from Florida trips and family visits across Pontiac Springfield Dwight and other towns. Tlinois Wesleyan Dean's List student Gregory Shubert from Saunemin highlighted amid church program details for Chat sworth mission events. Four killed and four injured in avalanche at Schlierssee Germany affecting mountain hut collapse.
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Walter Billington
Saunemin
Saunemin Pt.a
Walter Righter
Florida
Margaret Wrey
Margaret Ellinger
Mae Cays
Sara Redlich
Blanche Dick
Livingston
Pontiac
Melvin Polston
Cord, Ark
Kindred Turner
Robert Jardine
Crescent City
Marvin Jardine
Charles Fraher
William Kimber
Odell
Springfield
New Salem
W. F. Short
Tacoma
Wash
Ralph Sodini
Dwight
Harry Schnittker
Leona Gish
Paul Felks
Lori
Evelyn Freeland
Dale
Dorothy
Forrest
Jim Gray
Emington
John H. Eggenberger
Henry Eggenberger and Sons
Steve Eggenberger
Gregory Shubert
Tlinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington
Rites Friday at Chatsworth for Mrs Case
Florence P. Case Bradley, a former Chatsworth resident and longtime teacher, dies at 71. Funeral set for Friday at 10 am at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Chatsworth with burial in St Patrick's Cemetery. She taught in Bourbonnais and surrounding townships and is survived by three siblings.
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Chatsworth
Florence P. Case
Bradley
Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic
Charles Kar
St Patrick's Come
Culkin Memorial
St. Mary’s Hospital
Kankakee
Matthew
Margaret
Graham) Monahan
Ilinois State University
Normal
Cecil Case
Gibson City
Charlotte Township
Saunemin Township
Fairbury
Bourbonnais
Francis Monahan
Forrest
Charles Monahan
Margaret Mauritzen
Bloomington
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
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Vietcong
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Ashington
Vientma
Berry's
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Avalanch
Schliersee
Germany
Locust St
Illinois
Pontiac Leader Pubishing CO
Livingston County
Jerome Pearre
John Pleako
Elizabeth Harris
Jim Caviezel
Joan Renne
Weldon Greenberg
Ken Bord
Wayne Jensen
Donald Jobst
Merlyn Shanebrook
Chenez
Corneil
Cullom
Fla Forrest
Gridley
Alinois
Yiter
Ponfiac Hlinois
E. Howard
Vermillion Plaza Shopping
Journeymen
Meat Cutters
Delicatessen
Dairy Clerks
Checkers
Pontiac Super Valu
Vermillion Plaza
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