Word: according
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final analysis there is hardly room for argument. Lyndon Johnson committed the U.S. to reconstruction back in 1965, and the truce accord makes that commitment binding. The real question is not whether the U.S. will provide aid, but how much will be provided, and in what spirit it will be given-and received...
...times with a battery of 20 pens. As an ingenious solution to the various sensitivities, Washington and Saigon representatives signed a four-party agreement in the morning on one page, Hanoi and the Viet Cong signed on another page, and finally just Washington and Hanoi signed a two-party accord in the afternoon. Figuring out that process, sighed Kissinger, "has aged us all by several years...
...high-pressure last-minute drive to finish the accord was carried out on two levels. Working furiously through the weekend in Paris, a technical team headed by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William Sullivan held marathon sessions with a similar Hanoi group. Still at issue as Kissinger flew back to Paris for a final top-level meeting with Hanoi's Le Due Tho were a few technical questions, such as turning P.O.W.s over to the U.S. officials...
...Paris accord calls for a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, composed of the Saigon government, the Provisional Revolutionary Government and South Vietnamese neutrals. Its effectiveness will be limited, if not paralyzed, by the fact that any action it takes must be unanimous. But as Thieu well knows, the council could eventually be transformed into a base for a new "coalition" of Communists and neutrals that could bring him down. In his forthcoming discussions with the P.R.G., Thieu is unlikely to give an inch on any crucial issue...
...unanimous vote in full-fledged reports, and the new commission is also split down the middle: Canada and Indonesia on the right and Poland and Hungary on the left. But the ICC protocol allows individual members to make their own reports in the absence of full ICC accord...