Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last time you will be able to kick Lyndon Johnson around." For all his seeming relaxation, however, the President's attention was focused on any signs from Hanoi that might signal a desire for peace. In what could have been a significant move, word came that North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Peking, Ngo Minh Loan, had hurried back to Hanoi at about the same time that Johnson had left his ranch...
Other clues pointed to the possibility that the impasse might at last be breaking up. One was the return to South Viet Nam, at the invitation of President Nguyen Van Thieu, of Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"). The leader of the 1963 coup that deposed Ngo Dinh Diem, he had spent nearly four years in exile. Hanoi, which apparently sees Big Minh as a possible bridge between the present Saigon regime and the Viet Cong guerrillas, has accordingly taken pains to treat him gently. A sharp reduction in fighting in the South also took place. U.S. battle deaths...
...maintained that it had received no reply from Hanoi to Johnson's latest suggestions-though there were reports that an answer had already arrived and was under study. A break could come at any time, but just when depended principally on two men: North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon Johnson. On the other hand, if the present initiative should prove fruitless, Johnson could continue through the end of his term without uttering another word about a bombing halt. Still, he must find it tantalizing to think of the impact he could create...
Successful as the scheme proved, the oil-tanker business remains a fragile floating crap game in international finance. Fortunately for Onassis, the demand for petroleum imposed by the Marshall Plan, the Korean War and now Viet Nam has kept the tankers cruising through the past 30 years at an ever accelerating pace. He has also been aided along the way by Oilman John Paul Getty, 75, whom Onassis admired and courted...
These are tabulated on a "key issues" chart of most-discussed topics. Last week the law-and-order issue on Nixon's charts slipped from September's 20% to only 11.9%, while Viet Nam spurted to 24.5%. Nixon workers even keep track of the shifting odds on the U.S. elections offered by London's bookmakers, who last week favored the G.O.P. ticket...