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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came last week when President Johnson dramatically restricted the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam without demanding any reciprocal restraint by the Communists. North Viet Nam, in turn, agreed to the first significant face-to-face diplomatic contact with the U.S. since embassy-level talks in Moscow 14 months ago, although its insistence upon an end to all attacks on its territory had not been met. Washington accepted, even though Hanoi limited the initial agenda to the question of a full cessation of U.S. attacks. The entire exchange took just 68 hours. Washington, through embassy channels in Laos, immediately proposed...
...hope that this action will lead to early talks," he told the nation, "I am taking the first step to de-escalate the conflict. We are reducing-substantially reducing-the present level of hostilities, and we are doing so unilaterally and at once." Observed a State Department Orientalist: "The President in effect committed political suicide before the world. In the Sinic tradition, this is considered a time-honored gesture of sincerity...
...neither is ready for that. An immediate goal of the U.S. is a ceasefire, even though it would probably be subject to frequent violation. In exchange for that, the U.S. might well accept continued Viet Cong control of the areas it now holds. A marked decline in the level of hostilities would permit gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces if North Viet Nam reciprocated -which might be a very...
Bitter Legacy. Another possibility is the continuation of military activity but on a declining level, as both the U.S. and North Viet Nam disengage. For this to lead to peace, formal political status for the N.L.F. would be required eventually. The Thieu government, as recently as last week, continued to insist it would never accept any coalition with the Front. There are other variations on the theme. But any settlement that promises to yield any satisfaction to both sides also entails concessions by both sides. The Communists might have to forgo their goal of an immediate N.L.F. takeover...
Afro had asked for an endowed chair for a black professor, more courses relevant to blacks, more lower level black Faculty members, and admissions of blacks in proportion to their percentage of the population as a whole...