Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Seas Hotel; landlocked Kansas was assigned to the Sea Gull. Wisconsin's delegates made a felicitous choice in the Crown, whose Roaring 20s Club should make Milwaukeeans in particular feel right at home with its nickel beer. Unhappiest of all were the Pennsylvanians, who landed in the Diplomat, 14 miles up the beach and closer to Fort Lauderdale than to the hall. To spare himself the long trip, Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond Shafer set up shop aboard a $400,000 oceanography mother ship, the Undersea Hunter, moored in Indian Creek, directly across from the Fontainebleau. In addition...
...part, the U.S. wants an end to all armed aggression against the government of South Viet Nam and assurances that the South Vietnamese can go their own way in freedom. These goals are so far apart that many would agree with the judgment of Edwin Reischauer, Asian scholar and diplomat, who says in Beyond Vietnam: "It is hard to envisage at this stage a negotiated settlement that is not virtually a surrender by one side or the other...
...this would require elections, perhaps a series of them, and how these could be kept free and fair in Viet Nam, corroded by war and ill-trained in the disciplines of democracy, is a staggering problem. "You exercise your ingenuity," says a U.S. diplomat, "trying to find some formula by which everyone thinks he would have some chance to win a nonviolent competition. But somebody's going to be wrong." Outside the Government, a great deal of ingenuity has been applied in recent months to devising "scenarios" of how the war might be ended, the peace structured...
...become France's Finance Minister a year before the young Louis was crowned at the age of 15. He thought of Louis as a young whippersnapper, and with some justice he felt he had been of more service to the state. Renowned as a courtier, conversationalist and diplomat, he had devised dozens of ingenious schemes to finance France's war with Spain, and when he decided to build himself a château on a tract of land that he owned halfway between Paris and Fontainebleau, he spared no expense. He summoned Louis Le Vau, the leading architect...
Kraslow and Loory, both able Washington correspondents for the Los Angeles Times, illustrate the point with a wealth of diligently acquired detail, much of it, indeed, secret. In late 1966, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge conferred repeatedly with a Polish diplomat who shuttled between Hanoi and Saigon. Shrouded plans (code-named "Marigold" by the State Department) were laid for a U.S.-North Vietnamese meeting in Warsaw on Dec. 6. Two weeks before, however, the White House had approved a bombing list including previously off-limits targets in Hanoi. Because of rain and high winds the strikes did not actually take place...