Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ratifying Reality. Both sides will be negotiating with the Geneva Conference of 1954 clearly in mind. The Communists still feel that they were cheated by the final agreement. They entered the talks with hopes of winning effective control over Laos and Cambodia and of achieving a partition...
...military planners right now is the uncertainly surrounding the actual plans of the Campaign's leadership, Ralph D. Abernathy's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In marked contrast to the organizers of last fall's militant anti-war demonstration here, SCLC officials have made no prolonged efforts towards arriving at agreement with Federal officials over such matters as tactics and sites for demonstrations in the Capital...
There are some hopeful signs. Last Thursday, the Urban League and Boston College announced a joint project to ease the transfer of white businesses to blacks. The agreement gave the community group control of resources, which seemed the key community demand. But the problem of hard-won foundation grants wasn't involved, and there was only one project and a relatively small group of people involved. Broad, institutionalized cooperation will vastly increase the chance of misunderstanding--slighting of community advisors, and a whole range of personal problems which easily take on racial connotations...
LAST Friday's agreement on Paris negotiations is an encouraging break-through, but despite Administration jubilance, the development is not a blanket vindication of U.S. peace policies to date. Waging a quibbling tug of war, the U.S. has dragged a concession on negotiating sites from Hanoi, but substantive talks are going to demand more flexibility and consistency than U.S. diplomats showed during last month's peace campaign...
...double standard, combined with inflexible stands on the issues, could doom the peace talks to break-down or stalemate. If the agreement on Paris was a triumph for U.S. diplomacy, it could also be a prelude to disastrous--and avoidable--diplomatic failure...