Word: attends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has shortchanged urgent domestic claims-all dictate that ending the war must lead all other tasks on the President's agenda." Yet the report concedes that the end of the fighting "will not quickly ease the Government's budgetary bind." Despite Saigon's decision to attend the Paris peace talks (see following story) and the hope for more serious talks, negotiations could still be dragging on as the 1970 midterm elections approach...
RICHARD NIXON'S top priority will, of course, be Viet Nam-at least in the foreseeable future. Though he could only welcome Saigon's agreement last week to attend the Paris talks, hardly anyone in Washington believes that any substantive moves toward peace will be made before the next President takes office. At best, the negotiators in Paris may have settled what they call the "modalities": such inconsequential but emotion-charged issues as seating arrangements, speaking order, briefing rules, and myriad other details...
...Thieu. In the ensuing 2½ weeks, the U.S. statement went through seven drafts before it satisfied Thieu. The final 750-word statement offered explicit assurances to Saigon that Washington: > Does not recognize the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political agency, even though the N.L.F. will attend the talks. "We will regard all the persons on the other side of the table as members of a single side, that of Hanoi," said the statement...
Thieu quickly began assembling a 100-man team to attend the talks, announced that Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, while not actually heading the delegation, would be "supervising, controlling, directing, going between Saigon and Paris to receive instructions." Ky will also bring his lissome wife Mai to Paris as Saigon's answer to the Viet Cong's attractive Madame Nguyen Thi Binh (see THE WORLD...
...Sides or Four. Once the South Vietnamese delegation arrives, it could be months before the procedural wrangles are settled. No sooner had Saigon said that it would attend the talks than Hanoi replied: "We will not talk to [South Viet Nam] on any matter." Absurd as it may sound, all parties are still embroiled in a dispute about whether the conference is two-sided or four-sided. Both Hanoi and the N.L.F. delegation in Paris insist that the talks amount to a four-way conference and that the presence of the Saigon delegation "does not signify any kind of recognition...