Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point is reached. Ten hours of formal negotiations plus countless hours of press briefings and background sessions produced little more than posturing and polemics, a kind of ritual, throat-clearing preamble of insults and accusations. "We are now involved in a major propaganda campaign," said Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman. "But one day they will get tired and get down to constructive discussions...
Until that day comes-optimists give it several weeks, skeptics several months -the delegates are digging in for a long stay. Harriman expects that what he calls "the garbage" will keep flowing for some time, and both he and his second-in-command, Cyrus R. Vance, are thinking of leasing apartments and sending for their wives. Hanoi's 39-member delegation, too, gives every sign of settling in. Last week, to escape the fishbowl atmosphere of the Hotel Lutetia on the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese moved into a comfortable suburban villa in Choisy-le-Roi owned...
...talks opened at the old Hotel Majestic on a matchless Paris spring morning. For the benefit of newsmen and photographers, Harriman, towering at least a foot above Hanoi's chunky Chief...
That is a matter of concern to some of Washington's Asian allies, who fear that Harriman and Johnson may give away too much too soon. Reflecting that fear, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu declared on the eve of the talks: "The Republic of Viet Nam will not yield even a centimeter of land to the Communists, will not form a coalition government with the N.L.F., and will firmly not acknowledge the N.L.F. as an equal political entity to negotiate with...
...talks, and renounced a second term, until he was fairly certain that they would yield some results. They also maintain that Moscow might well have encouraged that view, and note that Xuan Thuy is well known as a member of Hanoi's pro-Soviet faction. In any case, Harriman emphasized when asked whether the U.S. had put a time limit on the talks: "None whatsoever." He and Vance, he added, were "both determined to remain for the duration, whatever that...