Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some high U.S. officials feel that the North Vietnamese have finally realized that their monotonal demand for a complete bombing halt is no longer productive in moving either the U.S. or world opinion; therefore, they expect some kind of breakthrough in Paris during the coming weeks. The North Vietnamese are showing some signs of removing the mask of intransigence that they have worn since the talks began at Paris' Majestic Hotel seven weeks ago. Unbending a bit, Thuy and his aides even took in the horse races at the fashionable Auteuil track in the Bois de Boulogne. They...
...Salt Breakthrough...
Nonetheless, he remains far from euphoric about the likelihood of a quick breakthrough to negotiations, and he is properly reluctant to give Hanoi a tactical and propaganda advantage by permitting the talks to be held in a disadvantageous setting. The last time that happened, he recalls only too well, was in 1951, when preliminary talks on ending the Korean War were held behind Communist lines in the village of Kae-song. U.S. officials were forced to thread through a hostile crowd and display white flags when they went to the table. The chief American negotiator, Vice Admiral C. Turner...
...little dent at all in opening up the military establishment, but just last week he won a promise from the government to promote between 4,000 and 6,000 from the ranks, based on individual performances during the Tet fighting. If Saigon does so, that will be a major breakthrough...