Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrived, wearing sunglasses over his tired eyes and apologizing profusely for being late-he had been entertaining Chou En-lai at a long, lavish lunch. The four went into a huddle. At 5:20 p.m. the word went out: agreement reached. Mendès had accepted the 17th parallel; the Communists had agreed to a delay of two years before Vietnamese elections...
Partition. A demarcation line and demilitarized zone roughly six miles wide shall run at about the 17th parallel of latitude along the Benhai River. (South of it, still in non-Communist hands, lie valuable Tourane seaport and air base and the only free main road into Laos...
Regrouping of Forces. All organized Viet Minh forces must be grouped north of the 17th parallel and all French Union forces south of it. In North Viet Nam, French Union forces must assemble in Hanoi, Haiduong and Haiphong, must evacuate the cities within 80, 100 and 300 days respectively. Communist organized forces in the south must withdraw within 80 to 200 days...
VIETNAM is to be partitioned provisionally at the 17th parallel, the north portion (pop. 12 million) to go to the Communists. Cambodia is to be cleared of all guerrillas and left free to deal with its local Communist problem...
...South: At 3 a.m. on July 22, Geneva's decision reached into Saigon's palm-shaded Palais Gialong, 400 miles south of the 17th parallel. A light burned in a first-floor office. Disillusioned and sleepless, Viet Nam's Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem opened the cablegram from Geneva and read...