Word: gio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two hours of this, the parties abandoned business to walk in the secluded rear garden and exchange small talk. The Vietnamese served cha gio, snacks of fish covered with thin rice wafers and dipped in the inevitable fermented fish oil, nuoc mam. Withdrawing to discuss the U.S. position among themselves, the Communists then returned to talk seriously, but often ambiguously, for another two hours. They kept complaining that the Americans simply did not understand their position. Says Kissinger: "They behaved correctly. Their personal behavior was impeccable, and I have great respect for them as individuals. They were tough, tenacious...
...present, observers in South Vietnam report that no large-scale removal of civilians from northern to southern South Vietnam has begun, although at the October 28 session of the Paris Talks, the delegate of the Provisional Revolutionary Government did report that forced relocation of residents of Gio Linh and Cam Lo districts of Quang Tri province had taken place; on December 2, the same delegate stated that relocation had been stepped...
...loomed large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential effect of SST flights on skin cancer...