Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christmas vacation offered a temporary lull, but a showdown of brute student power was looming. In late December, Hayakawa became a permanent fixture on evening newscasts in California. Wearing his perpetual tam o'shanter ("a symbol of courage," he said), he toured his college and swore that it would open peacefully in January. Reagan and Dumke said they would back him, and hordes of businessmen and housewives in the rest of the state began wearing Hayakawa tam o'shanters as a gesture of support...
...this a genuine lull, or had the Communists been hurt so badly by Abrams' successful tactics that they were merely pulling back to regroup, as they have done so often in the past? Many in the Johnson Administration seemed willing to interpret the lull as a deliberate signal from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese wanted to move on to a new phase in the Paris peace negotiations. A minority, centered in the Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always...
...Breakdown. The Communist concentration led a U.S. officer to comment: "There are still no signs that the lull in enemy activity has been directed by Hanoi as a sign of good faith. We still believe that the enemy is refitting for another offensive." Supporting his view was the fact that prisoner interrogations and captured documents continued to indicate that a November as sault was planned. The U.S., for its part, maintained its bombing raids against North Viet Nam's panhandle-roughly from the 17th to the 19th parallels. Early last week, bomber pilots flew 139 missions, the most...
Three Questions. Their comments were discounted at the time, but within a matter of weeks came Johnson's mes sage to Hanoi, transmitted through the Paris negotiators, that got the final phase under way. L.B.J. was swayed partly by the fighting lull, partly by word from Paris that Hanoi's men had given assurances that if Johnson grounded the bombers he would not have reason to regret it. In unusually gentle terms, he asked Hanoi to indicate what it would do, if the bombing ended, about...
Hence Johnson's dilemma: a pause would become possible only if he were to go ahead on the basis of what he once considered insufficient evidence of a favorable response-namely, the fighting lull and veiled assurances from Hanoi's agents that the U.S. was not being lured into a trap...