Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process of refining his thoughts and tailoring them to the time limitation, Evans invited a few dozen friends and advisers to his official residence in Olympia for a trial run-through of his still unfinished speech last week. One suggestion offered afterward: throw in a few more ripsnorting flourishes to bring the people in Convention Hall to their feet. Evans vetoed the idea. "We ought to aim at the people who are watching on television," he said, "rather than delegates who won't be listening anyhow...
...pollsters. One pollster called last week's results "a fiasco." Another, Burns Roper, observed: "If this statement of 'open lead' for Rockefeller is construed by readers as being designed to influence the outcome of the Republican Convention, it will be most unfortunate, both for the political process and for the public-opinion polling profession...
...scheme calls for a cease-fire only after thorough negotiations have settled all the ground rules of deescalation. The sequence would then be a ceasefire, the withdrawal of all external forces, both allied and North Vietnamese, and the substantial demobilization of Viet Cong and South Vietnamese army forces. The process, he believes, would require at least two years. Overseeing it would be an international peace-keeping force of at least 30,000 men, including Communist elements from Eastern Europe, headed by a commander in chief acceptable to both the U.S. and Russia...
Localizing the conflict would tend to cool down the war even if the process were begun before formal cease-fire or withdrawal arrangements. Perhaps both the North Vietnamese and the U.S. would have little to say in any village arrangements honestly arrived at. Indeed, as agreements were reached, all foreigners might well be asked to leave the areas involved. Thus a system based on this new oil-spot theory might work to gradually lower the level of violence. It would have the liability of confirming Viet Cong control in areas they already own. By the same token, the government would...
...itself has been messy and formless, and the from-the-ground-up solution might reflect Vietnamese realities to a much greater extent than the alternatives. At this juncture, it is difficult to imagine the Thieu government or the Communists agreeing to work together in a larger political process. One of the two might do so if it felt that the odds of settlement were clearly tilted in its favor-and the other might accept such an outcome if it clearly felt that it had lost the war. Part of the difficulty of the Viet Nam war is that, though...