Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break came at a point when Johnson and many of his countrymen had begun to despair that talks would ever get started. After the President's March 31 speech announcing a curtailment in the bombing of North Viet Nam?and his even more dramatic decision not to seek a second term?the U.S. officially proposed 15 sites* for talks, unofficially offered Hanoi a considerably longer shopping list. Hanoi rejected them all, steadfastly insisted that the U.S. choose between two venues that would be physically and psychologically unsuitable?the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, where neither Washington nor its Saigon ally...
...March 31 announcement of a significant reduction in the bombing of the North "in the hope that this action will lead to early talks." Three days later, Hanoi said it was ready to send representatives to talk to the U.S. about "the unconditional cessation of the U.S. bombing raids and all other acts of war against the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam so that talks may start." Then began the month of sparring over a site...
...from the Demilitarized Zone at the 17th parallel to the 19th parallel rather than by trying to bombard the entire North. Indeed, the U.S. flew nearly 700 more missions in April over the 21% of North Viet Nam's territory that is not yet proscribed than it did in March, when most of the country was fair game...
...what is normal? Last week Clifford said he was "not aware of any increase in infiltration" since Johnson's March 31 order to curtail the bombing. But Dean Rusk, testifying on the foreign-aid bill before a House committee, said infiltration had increased. Indeed, some intelligence sources claim that 30,000 infiltrators poured into the South in April alone?a 2�-fold increase over the normal rate?and that their weapons were new, excellent and plentiful...
From the first, his duties in Paris have included propagandizing Europeans, dissident Americans and South Vietnamese residing in France. His latest coup was to trot out a herd of Southern students to march in last week's May Day parade under a Viet Cong flag...