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Greetings from Ho. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg presented Secretary-General U Thant with a letter urging him to "take whatever steps you consider necessary to bring about the necessary discussions which could lead to such a cease-fire." The letter represented no change in U.S. policy but, to underscore Washington's determination to explore all avenues to peace, Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced that the U.S. would give Thant "maximum latitude" in his diplomatic probes-which presumably meant admitting the Viet Cong to any peace talks. In his annual Christmas message, Pope Paul...
...science of measurements. Consider Walter Norton of Norton & Sons, who tailored a shooting suit for Bing Crosby with "plus twos" and also suits for Jack Paar and ten U.S. ambassadors. First, Norton snaps Polaroid pictures of the client front and side. Then, he drapes him in a Rube Goldberg contraption made out of wire rods, cloth tapes and spirit levels (to spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention at the beginning, they relax...
...happened on Monday -- and it really wasn't much to talk about. Seven waves of U.S. jets pounded a fuel storage depot near Hanoi, and Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Goldberg promised U.N. Secretary-General U Thant that America would cooperate with United Nations efforts to arrange a cease-fire in Vietnam. Blabber incoherently and swing a big stick -- that's the futile game...
...explained -- as it has never been -- is what Washington means when it says that it will "cooperate." U Thant's notion of a cease-fire is based on a three-point proposal that includes the cessation of the bombing of the North. And the United States, for all of Goldberg's conciliatory talk, hasn't given any indication that it will halt the fruitless bombing for any length of time. In fact, only last week Air Force jets apparently bombed residential areas of Hanoi -- hardly a "military target...
Everybody, particularly the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, realize that Goldberg's words are more significant for what they omit than for what they concede. And again, the U.S. has attempted to hide its intransigence over the bombing with meaningless words of encouragement for a cease-fire. The peace efforts, in turn, are inevitably doomed to failure as long as the bombing -- ineffectual and inflammatory at the same time -- continues...