Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defuse the dangerous situation, Secretary of State Dean Rusk suggested that both sides pull back ten miles from the six-mile-wide DMZ, creating a 26-mile neutral belt that would be policed by an international commission. Rusk's sensitivity to charges of escalation may well have prompted the plan; with the U.S. strengthening its forces in the area, he wanted to be on record with an offer to start talking before the U.S. starts shooting. Predictably, Hanoi thumbed down the proposal as "a trick...
...demand for "reciprocity" from the North in exchange for any Allied reduction in the fighting. But the prospects that Hanoi will accept a mutual step-down are as remote as ever. "We can't get the other side even to whisper to us behind the hand," complained Rusk...
...physical backing of 250 Illinois campaign workers and supporters. As a candidate, Percy had promised them a free trip to Washington if they delivered. Last week he paid off with a two-day itinerary that included not only the Senate session but a briefing by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a coq au vin dinner with serenades by two musical groups. The celebration cost Percy $15,625 and won him the reputation of a man who delivers on his promises-to slum dwellers and party stalwarts alike...
...given by the West Germans. Lyndon Johnson especially wanted to meet West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and he would, of course, see Charles de Gaulle, to whom he had not talked in person since President Kennedy's funeral. In the American delegation were Secretary of State Dean Rusk; former High Commissioner in Germany John J. McCloy; General Lucius D. Clay, onetime military governor of the U.S. zone; and former CIA Director Allen Dulles-all old friends of Adenauer...
Secretary of State Rusk, never known for his diplomatic adeptness in dealings with foreign Leftists, insists that Hanoi suspend her infiltration into the South before America stops the bombing. This is folly. It asks Hanoi to abandon her entire military stake in exchange for discontinuing only part of America's military effort...