Word: geneva
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Though in private conversation Johnson had spoken disparagingly of Paris, he was only slightly worried about it. He would have preferred Geneva, which is sympathetic to the U.S., while Paris, with the biggest Vietnamese colony outside of Southeast Asia and no fewer than 150 Vietnamese restaurants, is definitely pro-Hanoi. In an early draft of his statement on the talks, Johnson betrayed some apprehension about how the French would act when he said that he hoped they would grant equal treatment to all parties. The final draft described France as a country "where all parties should expect such treatment." Despite...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Figure Skating from Geneva, Switzerland, featuring World Champions Peggy Fleming, Emmerich Danzer and the Protopopov hus-band-and-wife team; International Crosscountry Motorcycle Racing championships from Simi, Calif...
Johnson on March 31 proposed "Geneva or any other suitable place" as a meeting ground. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Buy Trinh came back with Pnompenh, Cambodia, "or another place to be mutually agreed upon." After each side deflected the other's first suggestion, the U.S. named Laos, Burma, Indonesia and India. "Not adequate," replied the North Vietnamese, countering with Warsaw...
...Matter of Propaganda. Initially, Johnson suggested Geneva. Without rejecting the Swiss city outright, Hanoi came back with Pnompenh. Johnson, in turn, pointed out that Cambodia's capital has serious communications shortcomings and that neither the U.S. nor South Viet Nam has an embassy there. Instead, he proposed four other Asian sites (Vientiane, Rangoon, Djakarta and New Delhi...
...insistence upon an end to all attacks on its territory had not been met. Washington accepted, even though Hanoi limited the initial agenda to the question of a full cessation of U.S. attacks. The entire exchange took just 68 hours. Washington, through embassy channels in Laos, immediately proposed Geneva as the meeting place. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh, in a Hanoi interview with CBS, suggested Pnompenh, the Cambodian capital, as the site...