Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese did not reject Johnson's message out of hand. Instead, Politburo Member Le Due Tho, officially described as an "adviser" at the peace talks but actually Hanoi's principal overseer, hurried home via Moscow, where he conferred with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Once he reached Hanoi, he found himself embroiled in a bitter debate between North Viet Nam's pro-Chinese and pro-Soviet factions. One or more messages were apparently sent seeking more information. The Administration noted simply that no "breakthrough" response had come from Hanoi. Some U.S. officials feared that the North Vietnamese...
...supporting the call for a bombing halt in spite of Saigon's reaction, Humphrey has shown that, at least, he will not be hampered in his search for peace by Premier Thieu and his military establishment. In his policy speech on Vietnam, the Vice President made no mention of Saigon's approval as a necessary prelude to the bombing halt...
Though their coup was bitterly denounced in practically every capital in the world, the colonels have managed to win grudging diplomatic recognition from the major powers as the effective, if unloved masters of Greece. Last week Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos finally gained the concession that he and his fellow junta colleagues regarded as the ultimate symbol of acceptance. It was the resumption by the U.S. of heavy-arms shipments to Greece...
...worst rioting Tokyo had seen since 1960, when the Zengakuren prevented President Eisenhower's state visit to Japan and toppled Premier Kishi. But even then, though much more unified and with far more public support than today, Zengakuren could not prevent the signing of the U.S.-Japanese Security Pact. The pact, replacing the earlier Security Treaty of 1951, was signed in 1960. It actually gives Japan a greater voice than before in any U.S. military activities on Japanese territory, and pledges both countries to take unspecified action if either one is attacked in territories under Japanese administration...
Married. Princess Moune, 33, daughter of Laotian Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, currently a foreign-affairs adviser in her father's cabinet; and Perry J. Stieglitz, 48, cultural-affairs attache of the U.S. embassy in, Vientiane; she for the second time, he for the first; in a traditional Buddhist ceremony; in Vientiane...