Word: deale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clark Clifford was obviously upset by Saigon's intransigence and unable to hide his pique. Saigon had known all along that the National Liberation Front would accompany Hanoi to the Paris peace talks, he told a press conference. The South Vietnamese, Clifford said, had pulled out of the deal "in the ninth inning." Then he added: "We should make every reasonable effort to demonstrate to Saigon why it should come in and join the talks. At the same time, if they choose not to, I believe the President has the constitutional responsibility of proceeding with the talks." Clifford...
...Thus, when the showdown came in October, the South Vietnamese and the Americans suddenly discovered that they had misunderstood each other all along. The U.S. claimed that Saigon had backed out on the bargain at the last minute; the South Vietnamese maintained that they had never agreed to the deal in the first place...
...Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker may have thought that President Nguyen Van Thieu was firmly pinned down, the Vietnamese leadership had never been completely committed. Thieu may have told Bunker that he favored a bombing-halt communiqué-indeed, the U.S. Embassy sent such verbatim quotes on to Washington-but the deal was never really confirmed. This, in turn, suggests that the Americans may have missed subtle South Vietnamese hints prior to the halt; after all, Saigon never liked to give the American ambassador a flat no on anything. When Thieu finally did on Nov. 1, his veto was all the more...
...steps nearer, Sihanouk now says that the men will go free once he has received a note from Lyndon Johnson pledging that U.S. forces in Viet Nam will "do their best" to avoid violations of Cambodian territory. As a head of state, the Prince refuses to deal with anyone but L.B.J.; a recent Dean Rusk note containing the pledge was brushed aside as "insufficient...
...Under a deal devised with the help of Kidder, Peabody & Co., a group of blue-chip investors has agreed to give Lytton Financial a $25.5 million transfusion. The holding company will sell $8,000,000 worth of common stock to pay off a crippling burden of debt. To rebuild its reserves, the company's largest subsidiary, Los Angeles-based Lytton