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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Sunday in Sanders Theater a few weeks ago, he continually stressed, as Rusk has not, the need for a political solution through negotiations "that will not sacrifice the vital interests of anybody involved." More important, he called for "international supervision to make sure no segment of South Vietnamese civilians is denied a proper place in a peaceful settlement." Apparently, this means that the Viet Cong, as terroristic and Communistic as they may be in Washington's view, will be ensured a major role in a peaceful South Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arthur J. Goldberg | 2/28/1967 | See Source »

...make the American position more palatable to its critics at home and abroad. The job has had its rewards. The responsibility for delivering the encouraging speech at Howard University, asking Hanoi to clarify the ambiguities in its statements on negotiations, fell to Goldberg. If McNamara or Rusk had delivered that statement, diplomats might not have been able to believe their own ears; but it should be disconcerting for Goldberg to realize that only McNamara's or Rusk's making such a declaration could possibly convince anyone that America is really serious about a negotiated peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arthur J. Goldberg | 2/28/1967 | See Source »

Such is the spiderweb scope and space-age sophistication of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the nation's deep-secret seeker of foreknowledge in the dim, cold demi-world of international intelligence. CIA is America's chief combatant in what Secretary of State Dean Rusk calls "a tough struggle going on in the back alleys all over the world, a never-ending war, and there's no quarter asked and none given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Silent Service | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...contact with Washington during Kosygin's visit, urged Lyndon Johnson to extend the U.S. bombing pause beyond the truce deadline so that Hanoi could weigh the Russian proposal. Johnson agreed. At one point, Kosygin asked the British if they could get either Johnson or Secretary of State Dean Rusk to the conference table. The U.S. reply was delivered to British Foreign Minister George Brown during Queen Elizabeth's dinner for Kosygin at Buckingham Palace. Brown scanned the answer, then scrawled a note and passed it to Kosygin. "I can deliver either of my friends," he told Kosygin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Back to the Fighting | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Fall should have been able to visit a peaceful Vietnam by 1967. America has spent six years consuming lives and dollars in Vietnam, but no one is quite sure why we're still there. Goldberg says we are waiting to negotiate. Rusk would like to contain Chinese expansionism and reaffirm the SEATO treaty. Johnson wants to bring back "the coonskin on the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bernard B. Fall | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

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