Word: cutoffs
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When President Johnson announced the partial halt of North Viet Nam air strikes March 31, he left the strong impression that the bombers would be confined to areas just north of the 17th parallel and the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South. But he left the cutoff line vague on State Department advice, and the vagueness was deliberate. State strategists figured that the impact on world opinion would be greatest if immediately after his statement the bombing frontier was dramatically cut back to the vicinity of the 17th parallel. Diplomats assumed that the Pentagon would understand these motives...
Praise & Disillusion. For a little while, a shadow fell on that sincerity. In preliminary drafts of the speech-and in the advance word given to congressional leaders and foreign powers including Britain, the Soviet Union and France-the 20th parallel cutoff point was explicitly stated. That specific was deleted from the final speech on the ground that Washington should retain some flexibility; thus many listeners inferred that the bombing would continue only in the area immediately north of the Demilitarized Zone. The day after the speech, U.S. bombers ranged more than 200 miles into North Viet Nam to raid...
...single foreign country offered to recognize the new regime, and in a calculated diplomatic snub, the ambassadors of Britain, France, Italy, West Germany and the U.S. even refused to heed a summons from Papadopoulos to drop by for a briefing. A lack of recognition would mean a cutoff in aid programs, a disruption of trade, and a general discomfiture for the sensitive colonels, who badly want to be accepted by the Western nations...
...Bonn University Law Professor Gerhard Griinwald to observe the trial, is still angry over the "gross violation" of its sovereignty in the original arrests. On hearing the verdict, the Bundestag discussed the issue for two hours. Bonn made plain that it was still considering retaliatory action, ranging from a cutoff in the $25 million in aid that it plans to give South Korea next year to a break in diplomatic relations...
Some faculty members argue that the 560 cutoff level is ludicrously low and that Harvard should make up its mind whether to take the requirement seriously or abandon it entirely...