Word: halts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Eugene McCarthy. No one else has done so much to change the course of history: the withdrawal of President Johnson from politics; Bobby Kennedy's plunge into the presidential race and ensuing events; a bombing halt in Viet Nam and peace talks; a President-elect named Richard M. Nixon...
Saigon's announcement that it would send a delegation to Paris came nearly four weeks after Lyndon Johnson announced that he was extending his limited bombing halt to cover all of North Viet Nam. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker waited a week for South Viet namese tempers to cool-and for the American elections to end. Then he went to work to persuade President Nguyen Van Thieu to agree to send a delegation to Paris. So strained were the sessions that Deputy U.S. Ambassador Samuel Berger, who had been particularly unreceptive to Saigon's demands during earlier talks...
...South Vietnamese delegation coming to the Paris peace talks would like the name of a good little bistro where the Bordeaux wine and the Camembert cheese are supportables, they could always ask the Viet Cong. No sooner had Lyndon Johnson announced the bombing halt last month than representatives of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, descended on Paris proclaiming their status as "equal partner" with the U.S., the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese. While the South Vietnamese dithered over whether to attend the talks, the Front's representatives in Paris quickly...
...buffer zone, U.S. officers saw no pattern of abuse there and could locate no major military threat. At the same time, Saigon claimed that, despite the understanding that cities should not be hit, the Communists had shelled 98 civilian areas in the first two weeks since the halt-five times as heavy a bombardment as in the fortnight preceding it. Such statistics would clearly be useful to Thieu if he wanted further justification for boycotting the talks...
...Jackie watchers. One afternoon, after collecting young John at school, Jackie found herself and her Secret Service escort followed by several carloads of reporters. Finally, after a wild chase, the Secret Service man managed to slew his white convertible across the roadway, forcing the reporters to a screeching halt while Jackie's Cadillac disappeared...