Word: rusk
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Feeling at Home. "The U.S.," charged a Hanoi party paper, "is deliberately trying to delay the contacts." The Administration responded publicly by trying to buttress its position and privately by attempting to break the impasse. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said it was time for Hanoi to make a "serious and responsive answer" to U.S. diplomatic communications. Rusk then proposed ten additional countries acceptable to the U.S.: Ceylon, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Malaysia, Italy, Belgium, Finland and Austria...
...diplomatic representation in any of the ten except Ceylon. An ideal spot would be one in which Americans, North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese would feel at home diplomatically, the site of preliminary talks is likely to serve also for any full-scale negotiations that might follow. Rusk observed that he would hardly expect the North Vietnamese to go to Seoul or Canberra any more than the U.S. could be expebted to go to Peking or Hanoi...
...Privately, U.S. officials have come to doubt that the North Vietnamese will accept any place on earth first suggested by the U.S. Accordingly, Washington let it be known that it was seeking proposals from third parties. At the U.N., Arthur Goldberg conferred with Secretary-General U Thant. In Washington, Rusk chatted with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Thant has been talking about Paris and a couple of other cities. Though it has criticized U.S. policy in Viet Nam, Paris would meet the basic U.S. requirements. The reason for its omission from Rusk's shopping list was the hope that Hanoi...
...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...
...Rusk's proposal dripped with insincerity. He suggested such "neutrals" as Belgium and Japan, ignoring the newly-created United States criterion that an acceptable site must have adequate communications facilities for both sides. Conspicuously, Rusk's ten did not include Paris, the only Western capital with which the North Vietnamese are in touch and which they might accept...