Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June it will be 20 years since the airlift began to Berlin that saved that city after the Russians and East Germans had blockaded all surface communications. The city, as one man, hoped and prayed that the Allied airlift would be successful. In 1961, the Wall went up between West and East. One must wonder what would happen if once again Berlin was in danger, a city that has thrived under the protection of the Allies. The students should realise that they are using the democratic freedom of West Berlin to champion a cause that, if victorious, would withdraw their...
MARGARET H. WICKER East Norwich...
Venerable Bivouac. For the Paris parley, Harriman and Vance will be accompanied by three principal aides: Philip Habib, Lebanese-descended Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs; William Jordan, former newsman and Viet Nam specialist for the National Security Council staff; and Lieut. General Andrew Goodpaster, Dwight Eisenhower's onetime military aide who was recently designated General Creighton Abrams' deputy in Viet Nam. The huge, 164-member U.S. Embassy in Paris will provide manpower and logistical support for the delegates, most of whom are likely to bivouac just across the street from the embassy at the venerable Hotel...
...result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable failures as the 1946 talks with Vietnamese nationalists that led directly to the French-Indochinese war and the Treaty of Versailles that ended World...
...course, is no more anxious than Thieu and Ky to accept a coalition that would swallow non-Communist elements. Speaking on CBS-TV's Face the Nation last week, William Bundy warned that an "imposed coalition" giving the Viet Cong key Cabinet posts "would be likely to follow the East European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer...