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Venerable Bivouac. For the Paris parley, Harriman and Vance will be accompanied by three principal aides: Philip Habib, Lebanese-descended Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs; William Jordan, former newsman and Viet Nam specialist for the National Security Council staff; and Lieut. General Andrew Goodpaster, Dwight Eisenhower's onetime military aide who was recently designated General Creighton Abrams' deputy in Viet Nam. The huge, 164-member U.S. Embassy in Paris will provide manpower and logistical support for the delegates, most of whom are likely to bivouac just across the street from the embassy at the venerable Hotel...
...smugness. "Was it ever in doubt?" murmured Premier Georges Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable failures as the 1946 talks with Vietnamese nationalists...
...Vance's return to Washington, the sixth secret parley was held with North Korea, but there still was no indication that Pyongyang was prepared to give the seamen their freedom at any time soon. In fact, the North was as bellicose as usual. It spent much of the week publicizing purported "confessions" by the entire crew admitting that Pueblo had "intruded deep" into North Korea's waters-a ploy apparently aimed at inducing the U.S. to issue an apology in exchange for the crewmen's return. And at week's end Pyongyang loudly claimed that...
...these two organizations could crystallize into irreparable hostility. In April, 30 leading Presbyterians published an open letter in several church journals, warning against the possibilities of rift. Last week Southern Presbyterian Moderator Marshall Dendy of Richmond announced that he had invited leaders of both factions to a peace parley in Atlanta next January...
When the private parley was over, the President summoned newsmen to the handsome second-floor sitting room of the White House for the first news conference ever held there. On a couch before one of the gracefully arched windows sat General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Westmoreland and McNamara. On a plush easy chair alongside the couch sat the President. When the audience of reporters was assembled, there ensued an extraordinary tableau. Whether or not it figures in future histories of Southeast Asia, it should certainly merit a mention in some Harvard Business School study of executive technique...