Word: lutetia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position on the battlefield, there are other reasons for the glacial pace of the talks. One is that the North Vietnamese clear even the most minuscule matters with Hanoi. They even had to exchange twelve cables before they were permitted to move from their expensive digs at the Hotel Lutetia to a 20-room suburban villa once occupied by the late French Communist boss Maurice Thorez. Hanoi hesitated out of fear: What would the Chinese Communists think of North Viet Nam's delegates moving into a villa owned by the openly pro-Soviet French Communists...
...keep flowing for some time, and both he and his second-in-command, Cyrus R. Vance, are thinking of leasing apartments and sending for their wives. Hanoi's 39-member delegation, too, gives every sign of settling in. Last week, to escape the fishbowl atmosphere of the Hotel Lutetia on the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese moved into a comfortable suburban villa in Choisy-le-Roi owned by the French Communist Party...