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...days after Richard Nixon's second Inaugural, I left for Paris for the final meeting with Le Duc Tho. It was to take place for the first time on neutral and ceremonial ground in a conference room at Avenue Kleber, the scene of 174 futile plenary sessions since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...that he established, with Nixon's encouragement, to bypass the regular bureaucracies. One such channel was set up in Paris to deal secretly with North Vietnamese negotiators. Initially he dealt with Xuan Thuy, Hanoi's chief negotiator at the official plenary peace talks on Avenue Kleber. On one occasion, Xuan Thuy argued that hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese troops were in South Viet Nam through the "free choice" of the local population. Kissinger found this so absurd that, he writes, "I jokingly invited him to Harvard to teach a seminar on Marxism and Leninism after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

After months of haggling and pleading, H. Johannes Witteveen, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, managed to herd representatives of 14 nations into the Kleber Avenue conference center in Paris last week for some pressing business. Although the nations of the world have been borrowing madly from one another and from private banks, many countries, especially underdeveloped nations of the Third World, are still unable to pay the soaring costs of imported oil. To bail out these nearly bankrupt states, Witteveen wants seven Western nations, led by the U.S., and seven OPEC countries, headed by Saudi Arabia, to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: The Lender of Last Resort | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...Touch. Faced with such an impasse, Kissinger and Tho could do little in their meeting last week but reaffirm their support of the Paris agreement and promise to keep in touch. "No amount of official hand wringing on the Avenue Kleber," remarked a Western diplomat in Saigon, "can affect Hanoi's attempt to hold and aggrandize, and Saigon's attempt to prove that that hold doesn't exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Assessing a Murderous Cease-Fire | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...coconut tree while the rest of us were still learning basics." Actually, Bocuse and his mentor, the late Fernand Point, were shaking the tradition of Escoffier, who personified the elaborate approach that many foreigners think of as being the whole of French cooking. Says Jean Didier of the Guide Kleber: "If Point was God, Bocuse is his prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Simple Lion | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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