Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome may well depend on just how many support troops the U.S. can maintain in South Viet Nam and for how long. Will U.S. public opinion stand for this support indefinitely? And how would such a U.S. presence in the South affect the chances of making a deal with Hanoi...
...Premier, in command of a neutralist-royalist coalition. In 1964, the Communists drove the neutralists from the Plain of Jars and set about creating their own "neutralist" wing from a nucleus of defectors. The Pathet Lao figure that a new coalition will be formed once peace comes to Viet Nam, and they hope to control at least half the Cabinet posts by placing their "neutralists" in the government. Aware of the Communists' intentions, Souvanna Phouma confirmed that the offensive, at least on the Plain of Jars, was more political than military...
Among the representatives from 125* nations who launched the General Assembly's 24th session, a similar mixture of muted hope and outright despair seemed to prevail. Few expected the 13-week session to produce much progress in settling the world's major conflicts in Viet Nam and the Middle East. Still, there was always the possibility that some crises could be eased at private diplomatic meetings in the town houses and apartments of New York. At one such meeting, held in U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's 38th-floor office suite at week's end, representatives...
Neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union, in their major speeches, offered much promise that the current session would be more dynamic or productive than its predecessors. President Nixon, in his first appearance before the General Assembly, emphasized that U.S. steps toward peace in Viet Nam, including the bombing halt and troop withdrawals, have been "responsive to views expressed in this room." Accordingly, he asked delegates of all nations to turn their "best diplomatic efforts" to persuading Hanoi to make a few concessions too. The delegates, apparently disappointed that the President had failed to unveil new plans for peace...
...Clue. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was low-keyed but also off-key; in a long statement on regional security, he demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Viet Nam and of Israelis from the occupied territories, but implied that North Vietnamese units should be allowed to remain in the South and Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. Most disappointingly, he gave no definite clue that Russia was finally willing to begin talks with the U.S. on limiting strategic weapons. He even rejected Nixon's proposal to agree immediately to impose an embargo on arms shipments to the Middle East...