Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parallel. They emerged without Cambodia and Laos (though a number of Viet Minh divisions are still trying to correct that omission) and with a partition line at the 17th parallel, leaving the old imperial capital of Hue in the South. As for the U.S., it never signed the main agreement, largely because it was convinced that the Viet Nam-wide elections scheduled for 1956 would not be effectively supervised and would guarantee a Communist takeover of the South...
Endless Effort. Both sides will have to accept certain realities if agreement is ever to be reached. The U.S. will have to reconcile itself to the prospect that future Saigon governments will include at least some Communists. Hanoi will have to accept the reality that even a phased U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam will probably require at least three to five years. U.S. air power is likely to offer the South a protective umbrella for a much longer period...
There matters stood until last week, when the President met with House leaders and, with great reluctance, worked out an agreement for a slash of $4 billion in cash from the 1969 budget and a hefty cut of $18 billion in already promised, but not yet due allotments for future budgets. Both cutbacks were then ratified by the key House Appropriations Committee...
Although South Viet Nam had braced itself for the inevitability of negotiations between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, last week's agreement to talk cast a pall of gloom over Saigon. The only official acknowledgment of the decision was a grudging communique issued by President Nguyen Van Thieu's Foreign Ministry, warning that the talks could be used by Hanoi "for propaganda purposes" and "to foster dissension between the Republic of Viet Nam's allies." Still, for nearly a month the South Vietnamese government has had a negotiations task force at work preparing Saigon...
Private Property. With the agreement of university trustees, Columbia lawyers drew up complaints that students were trespassing on the private property of the trustees in occupying the buildings, filed the papers with police. Moving to the campus in vans and squad cars, the police sealed off all gates, and then, on the orders of Commissioner Howard Leary, marched toward the five occupied buildings...