Word: pnompenh
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...Matter of Propaganda. Initially, Johnson suggested Geneva. Without rejecting the Swiss city outright, Hanoi came back with Pnompenh. Johnson, in turn, pointed out that Cambodia's capital has serious communications shortcomings and that neither the U.S. nor South Viet Nam has an embassy there. Instead, he proposed four other Asian sites (Vientiane, Rangoon, Djakarta and New Delhi...
North Viet Nam's reply came through a most unorthodox channel: a Tass dispatch from Hanoi saying that Washington's reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats...
...Hanoi limited the initial agenda to the question of a full cessation of U.S. attacks. The entire exchange took just 68 hours. Washington, through embassy channels in Laos, immediately proposed Geneva as the meeting place. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh, in a Hanoi interview with CBS, suggested Pnompenh, the Cambodian capital, as the site...
...intention of kowtowing to Peking because "the more you lick China's boots, the more she scorns you." Undeterred by his host's verbiage, Bowles arrived on schedule, spent two long sessions with the unpredictable prince amid the tropical splendor of his Chamcar Mon Palace in Pnompenh...
...number of world capitals. U.S. Ambassador to Burma Henry A. Byroade has been in frequent touch with North Vietnamese officials and could be reached at any time. So, too, could embassy personnel in Moscow, who also have had dealings with the North Vietnamese. Chester Bowles's visit to Pnompenh this week gives the North another opportunity for a high-level contact. If Hanoi does not want to confer directly with Washington, President Johnson has made it clear that he would favor informal talks between the N.L.F. and South Viet Nam. "The war can be stopped in a matter...