Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that view. In a captured Communist directive released last month by the U.S., the Viet Cong command told its men that "only when, we have successfully accomplished the general offensive and general uprising will the negotiations demonstrate their significance, which consists of creating conditions for the enemy to accept final defeat and withdraw in an 'honorable' manner." In the U.S., government policy planners have done hardly any staff work on the actual nuts-and-bolts details of a settlement cease-fire arrangements, means of inspection for troop withdrawals, stages of reducing the fighting. One reason for the lack...
...peace-keeping force, "Asian, if possible," would then be positioned between the two forces as a "security buffer," to be followed by the gradual withdrawal from Viet Nam of all foreign forces. Rockefeller's plan then calls for free elections, the results of which he would presumably accept even if the Communists...
...they currently control-perhaps getting as much as 35% of the vote in an early election. That might very well prove to be a plurality and, as the Saigon constitution is now written, would give them the country overnight-an outcome that would be hard for the U.S. to accept. If South Viet Nam ever does go Communist, the U.S. hopes that it would be only after a long political struggle...
...alternatives. At this juncture, it is difficult to imagine the Thieu government or the Communists agreeing to work together in a larger political process. One of the two might do so if it felt that the odds of settlement were clearly tilted in its favor-and the other might accept such an outcome if it clearly felt that it had lost the war. Part of the difficulty of the Viet Nam war is that, though it may be a war neither side can win, it remains a conflict that each side is convinced it has not yet lost. Any settlement...
...Czechoslovakia are, of course, totally different situations. Both conflicts, though, serve to show the limits of big-power action. The U.S. and Russia must move with caution for fear of touching off nuclear conflict, and pay some attention to the opinions of their allies. Both superpowers must come to accept some changes that they do not like. The Russians may eventually learn the limits not only of military intervention, of which they have always been rather chary, but of political subversion as well...