Word: mansfield
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has made no secret of his misgivings over the war in Viet Nam. In public, and in private with the President, the Montana Democrat has repeatedly declared that the Communists may be willing to negotiate peace in Viet Nam on conditions acceptable...
Just to make sure Hanoi was still listening, Mansfield last week once again set forth his own view of the Administration's terms for a settlement-and once again, North Viet Nam warned that it would rather fight for 20 more years, if necessary...
...possible, of course, that Hanoi did not accept Mike Mansfield as a spokesman for the Johnson Administration, which the Senator has often faulted for its handling of the war. It was even more likely that the Communists were simply confused by Mansfield's language. Many Americans were...
...Mansfield said, the U.S. position is that: 1) "there must be a verified choice by the people of South Viet Nam of their own government-a choice free of terrorism, violence and coercion from any quarter"; 2) the people of South Viet Nam should be free to choose between independence and reunification with the Communist North; and 3) "all foreign forces and bases" must be withdrawn from North and South Viet Nam, provided "peace can be reestablished, and the arrangements include adequate international guarantees of noninterference, not only for Viet Nam but for Laos and Cambodia as well...
Unacceptable Condition. In addition, Mansfield had some conditions of his own, which he termed "obviously essential corollaries": 1) there must be an amnesty for everyone on both sides as "an essential block to an extension of the barbarism and atrocities of the struggle into the subsequent peace and, indeed, as an essential part of that peace," and 2) both sides must be willing "to accept and abide by a cease-fire...