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Buoyed by President Johnson's assurances last month in Honolulu of continued U.S. support, Thieu has been preaching a hard line on the war and against negotiations with the Communists that lends a considerable air of unreality to some of his pronouncements. He has left much of the country's day-to-day administration to Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, a onetime schoolteacher widely respected for his political acumen and his honesty. Huong moved into the Prime Minister's office at No. 7 Thong Nhut (Unity Street) eleven weeks ago, with the warning that corruption, a problem...
WHILE politics preoccupied the nation last week with the approach of the conventions, Lyndon Johnson's energies were absorbed by problems on two broad fronts of foreign policy. At midweek, he flew off to Honolulu to discuss the problem that one of the presidential candidates will undoubtedly find uppermost in his mind the day after inauguration-Viet Nam. Even as Johnson was conferring with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, the showdown over Czechoslovakia brought a sobering reminder that, for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. alike, Europe remains a potentially dangerous arena. It was also...
Absolute Tommyrot. All sorts of rumors of a new U.S. peace offensive over Viet Nam preceded the two-day Honolulu conference. Before leaving for a war tour a fortnight ago, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford gave many the impression that he might seek South Vietnamese approval for a full halt to U.S. bombing of the North. Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy hinted that a bombing pause would indeed be a key issue at Hawaii. Cyrus Vance, No. 2 man on the Paris negotiating team, emphasized the recent lull in fighting around Saigon, feeding speculation that it might prove...
...Debits. It is no secret around the White House that the President earnestly hopes to finish his term with a flourish that would include both a Viet Nam settlement and a broad rapprochement with the Soviet Union, topped off with a visit to Moscow. Honolulu did nothing to further the first wish. Developments in Czechoslovakia did nothing to hasten the other...
...Budapest, in fact, that abruptly froze a momentary thaw in 1956. The difficult balance between deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague may be, they are obviously preferable to the cataclysmic clarity that a conflict between the superpowers would afford...