Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hanoi, in fact, called the heavy U.S. air losses "America's Dien Bien Phu of the skies" and anticipated the halt by suggesting it would be seen by the North Vietnamese as an admission of American weakness. That was doubtless boasting for effect. But what concessions, if any, either side is now prepared to make remains cloaked in the secrecy of the exchanges between the White House and Hanoi that led to the agreement to go back to the table-exchanges that conceivably may have been by cable directly between the President and North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong...
...European allies were officially silent. The themes of world, reaction ranged from outrage, to a more moderate sadness, to a kind of unenthusiastic sympathy for the President's implacable line. Only on Taiwan and in Saigon were the raids greeted with almost unmitigated satisfaction. Then, with the bombing halt, came expressions of relief and hope mixed with recrimination. A sampling of reactions...
BEFORE THE BOMBING HALT...
AFTER THE BOMBING HALT...
French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann: "Hope is re-born." The French national radio called the bombing halt "the best news of the end of 1972," but scorned Washington's carrot-and-stick tactics...