Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there remains the uncomfortable thought that both Washington and Saigon may have indulged in deliberate misunderstandings-the U.S. motivated by its desire to talk substantive peace as quickly as possible, South Viet Nam by its reluctance to sit down with the Communists. The episode contains some lessons, for such conflicts will occur again if and when the Paris negotiations start in earnest. TIME State Department Correspondent Jess Cook's analysis of what went wrong...
...attitude toward the U.S., his handling of the prisoners seemed odd. In fact, he is simply adjusting his policies once more to the course of events in Southeast Asia. Initially, his price for releasing the eleven was high. But since the halt of American bombing of North Viet Nam, and the consequent feeling that peace is a few steps nearer, Sihanouk now says that the men will go free once he has received a note from Lyndon Johnson pledging that U.S. forces in Viet Nam will "do their best" to avoid violations of Cambodian territory. As a head of state...
...shift? Sihanouk is determined to ensure neutral Cambodia's survival, and he expects a unified, and probably Communist government in Viet Nam in the not too distant future. Traditionally, a strong Viet Nam has always meant trouble for Cambodia, and the Prince is now swinging toward the U.S. in order to preserve a counterweight to what he sees as the coming threat from the East. Thus the kindnesses toward the eleven G.I.s, whom Sihanouk seems increasingly eager to hand over. "Their stay is too expensive," he joked last week. "I have to pay for many good lunches for them...
...islands it administers in the Ryukyu chain back to Japan. The question is, when? During 23 years of occupation, the U.S. has turned Okinawa into an American Gibraltar in the Pacific, a strategic forward base for nuclear-armed B-52 bombers and a logistics launching pad for the Viet Nam war. At the same time, the continued occupation has become the touchiest issue in Japanese politics-and virtually the only political cause that stirs the 952,000 Okinawans...
...dismissed as a reactionary. Certainly he is no Vatican prisoner. His ambitious trips to Jerusalem, New York, India, Turkey, Portugal and Colombia are dramatic evidence of his desire to be a "pilgrim Pope." Time and again he has expressed his dedication to the cause of world peace-in Viet Nam, Nigeria and elsewhere. Paul has introduced a subtle new diplomatic policy of negotiation with Communism that has improved the lot of his church in Eastern Europe and may lead to a more fruitful Christian-Marxist dialogue. His encyclical, Populorum Progressio, boldly amplified the writings of John XXIII in expressing sympathy...