Word: indochina
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...show their colors?and protect themselves ?in the event of a truce. In Paris, the French government was said to be making quiet preparations to host a new Geneva-style "guarantee conference" of five or six nations that would oversee an orderly cessation of hostilities throughout the scarred Indochina landscape. Inevitably, the accounting would begin of the cost of a decade of war in lives lost and bodies maimed, in homes destroyed and land ravaged, in shattered careers and alienated generations...
...four parties will strictly respect the Cambodian and Laotian people's "fundamental national rights as recognized by the 1954 Geneva agreements on Indochina and the 1962 Geneva agreements on Laos"?that is, their independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. They will also respect the neutrality of Cambodia and Laos. Foreign countries will put an end to all military activities in Cambodia and Laos, and will "totally withdraw" and refrain from reintroducing arms...
...ending of the war "will create conditions for establishing a new, equal and mutually beneficial relationship" between North Viet Nam and the U.S. The U.S. will contribute "to healing the wounds of war and to reconstruction in North Viet Nam and throughout Indochina...
...course, rejected unilateral withdrawal by the U.S. from the outset of his Administration. He was convinced that America's role in the world could not allow abandoning a commitment and an ally. More important, he felt that the sacrifices in blood that the U.S. had already made in Indochina must not be dishonored and seemingly rendered in vain. So the quest for either a clear victory through Vietnamization and the massive use of U.S. airpower, or a negotiated, face-saving "peace with honor" began?to be accomplished within the four years of his first Administration, Nixon promised...
September 2,1945. Ho Chi Minh, head of the Communist-dominated Viet Minh and leader of the Vietnamese resistance to the Japanese occupation, proclaims an independent Viet Nam. (Indochina had been under French control since...