Volume 19, Number 9 · November 30, 1972
A Bad Deal that May Not Work
By I.F. Stone
The pending cease-fire agreement, as so far disclosed by Hanoi and Washington, is like a delicate watch, intricately fabricated to make sure it won't work. No agreement ever had so many ingenious provisions calculated to keep it from succeeding. If by chance one spring doesn't break down, there is another in reserve that almost surely will, and if by some unforeseen mishap that one also should work, there is still another which will certainly go blooey sooner or later.
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