Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While continuing these diplomatic efforts, the U.S. was hinting none too subtly that the bombing restriction might not be continued indefinitely. Johnson, in Honolulu to confer with South Korean President Chung Hee Park about both Viet Nam and Seoul's security problems (see THE WORLD), stressed that it had been a long time since the bombing limitation began on March 31. "Our restraint," added Rusk, "was meant to inspire discussions about ending this war, not to provide an excuse for propaganda warfare while the battle raged...
...incidents were part of a growing pattern of provocation and violence by the North - and as such, a major reason for President Chung Hee Park's trip to Honolulu last week to meet with President Johnson. In private conversations attended only by the two Presidents and their interpreters, Johnson briefed Park on U.S. plans for peace talks on Viet Nam, apparently convinced him that the U.S. intends neither to make reckless concessions to the Communists nor to leave South Korea. Their joint communique noted President Park's "satisfaction with these developments...
...army in the southern part of the country, and organized a special 20,000-man commando force for sabotage and guerrilla warfare missions over the border. It has launched 321 raids in the past year, a 600% increase over the year before. One such mission was designed to assassinate Park, but it failed (TIME, Feb. 2); not long after, the U.S.S. Pueblo was hijacked. The South does not expect a full-scale invasion, but it believes that the current raids are part of a gathering spring offensive that is aimed at undermining South Korean confidence and morale...
...marchers, led by a drummer and carrying signs distributed at Dudley Station, walked along Washington Street to Blackstone Park, where they stopped to rest and rally supporters...
Broadway Producer Hillard Elkins was strolling beside Manhattan's Central Park last week when he got an itch to speak with the man directing the revival of his musical Golden Boy, in rehearsal at the George Abbott Theater some 20 blocks away. Elkins sat down on the nearest bench, opened his briefcase and picked up the telephone. "Hello, mobile. Come in, please. This is JL 5-5035," he began, and in moments the director was on the other end of the line...