Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer able to help us, I will appeal to other allied nations such as South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand to help us." Privately, President Thieu warned U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker that South Viet Nam reserved the right to repudiate any political agreement that the U.S. might reach with Hanoi...
AFTER conference, held in late February, agreement seemed near Deborah Batts '69, RUS president, summed up the students' mood when she said, "We are for cooperation, not confrontation." The Trustees, too, seemed eager for a compromise solution...
...thing, the United States, whatever concessions it makes to South Vietnam's Communists, is likely to insist on the military inviolability of frontiers throught-out Southeast Asia. Washington knows that the 1962 Laos agreement has been severely undermined by Hanoi's infiltration of troops and material along the Ho Chi Minh trail. More important, the State Department will probably feel compelled to vindicate the principle the President invoked in 1965 when he first sharply escalated the U.S. commitment in Vietnam. At that date, and with unswerving conviction ever since, the U.S. insisted that it only wanted the Communists to "leave...
...this score, the past behavior of the North Vietnamese gives little cause for American optimism. And the Chinese, who participated in the Laos talks in 1962, will probably continue to resist America's mildest efforts to bring stability at last to Indochina. Thus, any agreement on frontiers produced by peace talks would have to be backed up by some sort of international guarantee--a historically fragile device...
...Some agreement was crucial as part of the effort to restore confidence in monetary arrangements, lately shaken by the gold crisis and buffeted by wrangles over the future role of gold in global finance. What the pact demonstrated is that most of the West's leading nations are still able to overcome parochial concerns and organize in the interest of economic stability...