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发表于 2016-7-9 23:20:11 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
  January 15
          President Nixon"s decision follows peace talks
          1973: Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam
          England have
          President Nixon has ordered a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam
following peace talks in Paris.
          The decision comes after Dr Henry Kissinger, the president"s assistant for
National Security Affairs, returned to Washington yesterday from France with a
draft peace proposal.
          Representatives from North and South Vietnam and the United States have
been at the negotiating table and reports from Paris say progress has been made
with compromises on all sides.
          But many political issues remain to be resolved.
          Although attacks against the North have been halted, air assaults are
continuing against communist forces in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
          Communist negotiators in Paris are now calling for the ceasefire to be
extended to these areas.
          President Nixon"s special envoy to Saigon, General Alexander Haig, is in
the South Vietnamese capital briefing the president on the 25 article peace
agreement worked out in Paris.
          Initial discussions with President Nguyen Van Thieu lasted nearly three
hours.
          Afterwards, the president ordered a five-man delegation to fly to France to
consider the proposals in more detail.
          Reaction in Washington has been cautious.
          Senator Barry Goldwater, who previously supported the American role in
Vietnam, said: "I can"t say peace is at hand, but I feel that we"re making
progress."
          The Daily Telegraph correspondent in Saigon says President Thieu may feel
it is unwise "to jeopardise further American support by holding out against an
agreement which Washington considers just".
          Stalin encouraged the purges in eastern bloc countries
          1953: East German purge begins
          Artificially 1969:
          The The East German authorities have begun a purge of senior officials
accused of plotting against the state and spying for "imperialistic" powers.
          Several officers, including the Christian Democratic Foreign Minister,
Georg Dertinger, and a number of Jewish politicians, have either been removed or
have disappeared in the past few days.
          The arrests follow a similar purge in Czechoslovakia last November which
led to the trial in Prague of 14 senior Communists, 11 of them Jewish, charged
with espionage and treason.
          Former Communist Party General Secretary Rudolf Slansky was among those
convicted of plotting against the Czech Government and executed on 3
December.
          The chief prosecutor at the trial claimed Slansky had had criminal contacts
with Israeli agents and that these agents had been interfering in
government.
          Two weeks after the Prague trial it was revealed in Moscow that several
doctors, including a number of Jewish GPs, had conspired to poison the Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin.
          The so-called Doctors" Plot coincided with a spate of anti-Zionist
propaganda and was followed by a number of arrests as the ailing Soviet dictator
tried to bolster his position.
          Reports today from Berlin say it is not yet clear why Mr Dertinger has been
detained, but he was known to be friendly with Otto Fischl, the Czech
representative in East Berlin, who was one of those hanged last month.
          He has always been openly supportive of the Soviet Union but as a member of
the East German Christian Democratic Union he was also a supporter of a united
Germany.
          He has been foreign minister since the provisional East German Government
was formed in September 1949.
          Reports say Peter Florin, a Jewish member of the foreign ministry, has also
been replaced.
          It looks as if these arrests are only the beginning of a more widespread
purge of political groups and organisations in East Germany.
          Meanwhile in West Germany there have been mounting protests, especially
among right-wing politicians, at the arrest yesterday of several leading
neo-Nazis by the British..
          The British High Commissioner said those detained were accused of
infiltrating West German political parties and were known as the Naumann circle
after Dr Werner Naumann, former State Secretary in Goebbel"s Ministry of
Propaganda.
          The group of neo-Nazis arrested in west Germany are known as the Naumann
circle after Dr Naumann, former State Secretary in Goebbels"s Ministry of
Propaganda.
          Vocabulary:
          espionage : the systematic use of spies to get military or political
secrets(间谍)
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