Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the talks get past the bombing issue-and there is always a chance that they could founder right there-the French expect them to be extended, perhaps to include Laos and Cambodia as well as Viet Nam. Vietnamese sources in Paris believe that there will be quick agreement on a U.S. bombing halt and a reciprocal gesture by the North. After that, they expect the U.S. to offer a $1 billion rebuilding program to the North while Hanoi agrees in turn to quit using the Demilitarized Zone as a staging area and to halt infiltration. Then will come...
Into Open Swampland. The Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter...
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...
Viet Nam that would give them everything above the 16th parallel. They emerged without Cambodia and Laos (though a number of Viet Minh divisions are still trying to correct that omission) and with a partition line at the 17th parallel, leaving the old imperial capital of Hue in the South. As for the U.S., it never signed the main agreement, largely because it was convinced that the Viet Nam-wide elections scheduled for 1956 would not be effectively supervised and would guarantee a Communist takeover of the South...
Johnson on March 31 proposed "Geneva or any other suitable place" as a meeting ground. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Buy Trinh came back with Pnompenh, Cambodia, "or another place to be mutually agreed upon." After each side deflected the other's first suggestion, the U.S. named Laos, Burma, Indonesia and India. "Not adequate," replied the North Vietnamese, countering with Warsaw...