Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tinhorn Dictator? Clifford's rebuke privately pleased U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman, who agreed that the brick-walling over procedures has gone on long enough. Still, Harriman took pains to try to soothe Ky, went so far as to spend at one point 75 minutes conferring with...
...reply, U.S. Chief Negotiator W. Averell Harriman conceded that the U.S. could hardly talk about the substantive political issues for a settlement without the participation of the Saigon government. He added, moreover, that "there are other matters of de-escalating the war we could make progress on if they did not arrive." That was true enough. But it was also true that the delay in the start of Phase II of the talks- which could lead to a formal cease-fire -had for the moment robbed the U.S. of its diplomatic momentum...
...first came on Oct. 9, when a North Vietnamese negotiator asked whether it was really true that the bombing of the North would halt if the way was cleared for the Saigon government to join the talks. Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman replied that this was indeed the case, and flashed word back to Washington that the long-awaited signal had come...
When the talks started last spring, it was Kriss who wrote TIME'S cover on Negotiators Harriman, Vance, Xuan Thuy and the North Vietnamese representative in Pans, Mai Van Bo (May 10, 1968). In that story, the big question was: What really brought the North Vietnamese to the conference table? This time, Kriss had to piece together all the moves and countermoves, all the rumors, all the military and diplomatic reports that suggested a bombing pause was imminent. As he worked, he was helped by TIME correspondents who filed their own analyses from most major capitals of the world...
Still, it was plain that sentiment within the Administration was overwhelmingly for a pause. From Paris, Averell Harriman was one of the first to advise that the opportunity should be grasped at once. Though nobody knew what Clifford told the President in private, studies from his staff tended to discount the value of continued bombing. "The results were so impressive," said one official, "that no one bothers to argue any more." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze was said to share the antibombing predilection...