Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traveling Light. For the U.S., the chief negotiator in what is likely to prove a harrowing test of endurance, patience and skill will be Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman, who at 76 boasts not only a long record of suecessful negotiations with Communist diplomats but astonishing stamina as well. Backing up Harriman will be Cyrus R. Vance, 51, until last year the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As its chief representative, Hanoi designated Xuan Thuy, 55, a veteran diplomat and journalist who retired as Foreign Minister three years ago. Supporting him will probably be Mai Van Bo, 50, the pudgy, polished former...
...Harriman has his way?and he quite often does?the U.S. will be traveling uncharacteristically light. During the Laos negotiations six years ago, the U.S. had a 126-man team. Harriman quickly decided that he wanted as his deputy a junior Foreign Service officer named William H. Sullivan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Laos and the chief go-between with the North Vietnamese in Vientiane. Impossible, snorted the State Department; Sullivan was outranked by whole battalions of bureaucrats. "I know," retorted Harriman. "I'm sending them home." Result: the cumbersome U.S. delegation was cut by two-thirds, and Harriman...
...even though everyone is talking peace and the stock market loves it and Averell Harriman is whispering and they are trying to find somewhere to talk and Irving Howe is happy, the war is not over--it is not anywhere near over. It is over in the hearts of our countrymen but not over in Vietnam. It will surely go on for at least two more years, and the situation at home will be much the same as it is over there: no one will want to take a chance on getting wounded or killed on the day before...
Irreconcilable Aims. What might happen next is far less clear. President Johnson has named as his negotiators Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman, 76, sometimes called "The Crocodile" for the snapping speed of his mind on complex problems, and Llewellyn Thompson, 63, Ambassador to Moscow. Both are veterans of many confrontations with the Communists. What can they negotiate...
...fact, exploit the U.S. move. This proviso has now been dropped. Instead, Johnson urged Britain and the Soviet Union, co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference that ended the Indochina war, to do all within their power to move Hanoi toward talks. He announced that Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman and Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassador to Moscow, would be available to go to Geneva or any other suitable locale to talk peace. He urged Ho Chi Minh to respond positively...