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...Ambassador Graham Martin had behaved for weeks as if South Viet Nam was not going to fall at all, whistling with glum urbanity through the Asian Gotterdammerung. He did not want to start a panic. Now, at 3:30 on the morning of Wednesday, April 30, 1975, President Ford flashed orders from the White House for Martin to board a helicopter on the embassy roof and get to the U.S. fleet in the South China...
...pundits debated the value of a summit conference at a time when East-West relations are mostly chilly. "It would serve to clear the air and to have a return to normalcy," said Dimitri Simes of Washington's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Malcolm Toon, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in the Carter Administration, disagreed vigorously. "I happen to feel summits aren't a very useful way of doing serious diplomatic or political business," he said. "It makes no sense for a U.S. President and a Soviet General Secretary to meet just in order...
...number of experts doubt that the U.S. can evolve any common view of Viet Nam and its lessons for many years to come. Says Graham Martin, the last U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam: "I estimated at the end of the war that it probably would be at least two decades before any rational, objective discussion of the war and its causes and effects could be undertaken by scholars who were not so deeply, emotionally engaged at the time that their later perceptions were colored by biases and prejudices." William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, thinks an even longer...
...Saturday, as Nicholson was being buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin met for more than an hour with Secretary George Shultz at the State Department in what Dobrynin called an effort "to put this episode behind us." The two agreed that the commander in chief of the Soviet forces in East Germany and the commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe will meet to decide how such violent incidents can be avoided in the future. Said a senior U.S. official: "We think the Soviet response is something we can build...
Electronic eavesdropping has played a long if not particularly honorable role in postwar East-West relations. The most celebrated case was the discovery of an electronic listening device in a wooden replica of the great seal of the U.S. presented to American Ambassador Averell Harriman by the Soviets in 1945 and displayed by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. at the U.N. in 1960. * Some time after the U.S. moved into its Moscow embassy quarters in 1953, security officials found telephone bugs encased in bamboo, making them impervious to the metal detectors. In 1956 it was the Soviets' turn to expose electronic...