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Whether such changes justify the U.S. bombing raids that Nixon launched as part of his demand for "serious" negotiation remains doubtful. And whether the aerial assault was actually what motivated Hanoi to return to serious bargaining is still being argued heatedly -without, so far, any answer in sight. Kissinger would only say, "There was a deadlock which was described in the middle of December, and there was rapid movement when negotiations resumed. These facts have to be analyzed by each person for himself." Tho, on the other hand, insisted that the bombings "failed completely," actually delayed a settlement and were...
...political figure in the Western world was more critical of President Nixon's decision to resume the bombing of North Viet Nam than Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme. In an emotional statement last December. Palme, 45, an intense, dedicated socialist, compared the aerial attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong to the past atrocities of "Guernica, Oradour, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice, Sharpeville, Treblinka." Washington, long annoyed by Sweden's harsh criticism of the U.S. role in the war, reacted sharply, telling Stockholm, in effect, not to bother sending a new ambassador to the U.S. capital for the time...
...December In President Nixon ordered the heaviest aerial bombing of civilian in history, and he has refused to answer for this to the American people...
...nearly as much distaste for Havana-bound hijackers as have American authorities. Last Nov. 10, after three men hijacked a Southern Airways jet and took it on a marathon flight to Cuba (TIME, Nov. 27), Castro ordered them jailed and called for broader measures to put the clamps on aerial piracy. With that, the U.S. and Cuba, through Swiss intermediaries, began negotiations that could lead to a mutual agreement to ensure that hijackers would face harsh punishment for their crime in both countries...
...aerial skirmishing was unlikely to lead to escalation of war on the ground. On the other hand, it was equally unlikely to contribute to any increase in diplomatic activity. Far from pressuring either side, the U.S. State Department, at the orders of the White House, is merely offering itself as a potential Middle East go-between should Israel or the Arabs really want to talk. One State Department official who favors more pressure from Washington last week gloomily characterized peace prospects as "moribund...