Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Robert G. Certain, 25, a B-52 navigator, was due to fly home from Guam for Christmas on Dec. 20. The day before, an officer from Andrews Air Force Base drove to the Washington, D.C., office of Certain's father, a labor-relations director for the Southern Railway System, identified himself and said: "I regret to inform you that your son is missing in action in North Viet...
...accuracy, with no erasures, no smudges. The standard text sent last week to all B-52 next of kin, with minor variations, reads as follows: "It is with deep personal concern that I officially inform you that your son is missing in action in North Viet Nam on Dec. 19. He was a navigator on board a B-52 aircraft that crashed after apparently being struck by hostile fire. Other details are unknown at this time. However, they will be furnished to you as soon as they are known. Pending further information he will be listed officially as missing...
...world's hopes soared, the stock market leaped upward with Kissinger's declaration: "What remains to be done can be settled in one more negotiating session with the North Vietnamese negotiators, lasting, I would think, no more than three or four days." But between Oct. 26 and Dec. 16, the settlement that both sides had supposedly agreed upon disastrously unraveled. Kissinger blamed the North Vietnamese for the impasse, and in calculated anger, the President unleashed the most massive bombing of North Viet Nam of the whole long war. One top Administration official said last week that Nixon's behavior...
...within the White House, notably from Haldeman, who considers himself an extension of Nixon and deeply resents Kissinger's high profile and the fact that Kissinger is not subordinate to him as is everyone else on the President's staff. And it did not escape notice that in his Dec. 16 briefing, Kissinger repeatedly emphasized that it was the President who had to be satisfied with the settlement...
...DEC. 3. Apparently anticipating a breakdown in the talks and a resumption of bombing by the U.S., Hanoi began evacuating the capital's schoolchildren to the countryside...