Word: geneva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grudgingly admitted that Ho Chi Minh was "the only truly national leader that Viet Nam has produced in modern times," but over the question of partition of Viet Nam, you conveniently forgot the 1954 Geneva agreement on Viet Nam. This agreement stipulated that Viet Nam-from the China border to the tip of Ca Mau Peninsula-was one country, that the question of reunification of Viet Nam was to be decided by an election throughout Viet...
Divorced. By James Roosevelt, 61, eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former U.S. Congressman, who now works for a Geneva-based investment firm: Gladys Owens Roosevelt, 52, currently free on bail after stabbing Roosevelt last May because she thought he was about to leave her for another woman; on grounds of incompatibility; after 13 years of marriage, one adopted son; in Geneva...
...then escaping to China, where he first met Ho. While Ho was in a Chinese jail in 1942 and '43, Dong led the nationalist movement and has been its administrative head ever since. After France's defeat, he led the triumphant guerrilla delegation to the 1954 Geneva talks, becoming Premier the following year. Just as Ho steered an even course between China and Russia, so in all likelihood would Dong...
Under the Geneva Convention, signed by North Viet Nam in 1957, prisoners are to be humanely treated and identified, sick and injured released. The Red Cross is to be allowed to inspect the camps, and prisoners' mail allowed to be delivered. Despite the fact that many captured Americans are injured airmen, only nine men have been freed by North Viet Nam during the past five years. Because the North Vietnamese have generally refused to let prisoners write home and have not published the names of Americans held captive, no one knows exactly how many...
...August. That has not been forthcoming, perhaps because the Kremlin has had more pressing preoccupations with the Chinese border disturbances and the Czech invasion anniversary. One encouraging sign was a report last week that the Soviet Union will shortly join the U.S. in putting before the 25-nation Geneva disarmament conference a draft treaty limiting military uses of the ocean floor...