Word: feeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time last week, in fact, it seemed that Nasser was offering a peace feeler. Speaking with reporters at the U.N., Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad was understood to say that his country would negotiate directly with Israel-even before the Israelis withdrew from Arab lands. Later Riad denied saying anything about direct talks, but he did say that Israel and Egypt were engaged in "Rhodes-type" negotiations. This approach was used in the 1948-49 peace talks on the island of Rhodes, where the Arabs and Israelis, for the record at least, never directly faced each other. Proposals...
...coming months," and Johnson quickly agreed to the get-together. It was their first formal session since the bitter 45-minute confrontation in the White House 14 months ago, when the President angrily lashed out at Bobby for having fostered rumors that he had received a Viet Nam peace feeler during a European visit. Now, in an hour-long meeting described by both sides as "cordial," Johnson briefed Kennedy on the crises confronting the nation and told him, in effect: "If you want to assume this burden and if the people want you to, why should I stand...
...ground war against the Communists coupled with restricted bombing raids against the North. Implicit in his position, however, was an invitation to negotiations. Typically, the week yielded a spate of hints about breakthroughs on the diplomatic front; the U.S., for example, was talking to the Swiss about yet another feeler from Hanoi that talks would begin if the Americans would only quit bombing the North...
...words from Hanoi and Pnompenh was serious and empirical. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, asked if Hanoi's change in tense represented a bid to talk, replied: "I don't know yet. But I wouldn't want to characterize this statement today as either a peace feeler or as purely a propaganda move. Let's find out what this statement means as well as what it says...
...optimistic mood were reports that Hanoi's diplomats had made approaches about mediation and sites for negotiations in Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Indonesia. On investigation, however, the reports turned out to be either false or misleading, and U.S. diplomats expressed doubt that Hanoi had undertaken any concerted peace-feeler effort beyond Trinh's statement...