Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Decisive Element. The ultimate decision was obviously up to Lyndon Johnson, who has never stopped trying to extract from Hanoi the assurances of the mutual de-escalation that he had al ways demanded. Given China's heavy pressure on North Viet Nam not to make any overt agreement with the U.S., it seemed doubtful that such assurances would be forthcoming. Hanoi might also have reasoned that the closer the U.S. election drew, the more willing Johnson would be to give ground. On the other hand, the North Vietnamese might prefer to deal with L.B.J. -a known, if occasionally inscrutable...
...doves, at a time when Foreign Minister Abba Eban was in Jerusalem for a Cabinet decision on how far to go toward peace with Egypt and Jordan. Eban's hawkish opponents argue that Jordan's King Hussein is not strong enough to make a peace agreement stick, given the adamant opposition of Jordan-based commandos and Nasser's mood...
...ahead, Bercot and Agnelli last week were hard at work trying to iron out details, such as what the "organism's" corporate name should be and where it should be head quartered (perhaps in Switzerland). Still, Bercot, for one, felt confident enough about the outcome to hail the agreement as a purely "European solution" to the threat of American industrial dominance on the Continent...
Talk about a ceasefire has been almost as persistent over the last three years as talk about the halt in the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. The United States generally has taken the position that a ceasefire would need detailed agreement between Communist and allied leaders, and that it could not be part of a bombing-halt plan for this reason...
Although Johnson's agreement to let the NLF sit at the conference table is a hopeful sign, it is still far from clear that he is willing to face these facts. Until he or his successors do, time will continue to take its toll while we wait for terms we have no right to demand...