Word: settlement
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That assumption may well be correct, but it does not go far enough. In diplomacy, "essential negotiations," as the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn points out, mean "agonizing compromises on both sides" before any settlement can be reached. Not all the basic goals of either U.S. or North Vietnamese policy are likely to survive a genuine settlement. Furthermore, the nature of the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia has undergone considerable change, as French Political Scientist Raymond Aron has astutely pointed out. Initially, the issue in Viet Nam was blunt, says Aron: "Either the Viet Cong will rule in Saigon...
What the U.S. seeks to demonstrate in Viet Nam is that armed aggression cannot be permitted to succeed, and it is still possible to imagine a settlement that accomplishes at least that much. The Viet Cong might lay down their arms, for example, compete with ballots rather than bullets, and eventually take over South Viet Nam by democratic means. The U.S. would not like that, but it could live with it because it would not represent a defeat for the U.S. stand against armed aggression or a victory for the Maoist doctrine of wars of liberation...
Some experts, including William Pfaff of the Hudson Institute, are convinced that any durable settlement for Viet Nam must sooner or later embrace all the countries of Southeast Asia, providing for the neutralization of not only Viet Nam but also Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and perhaps even Malaysia. Pfaff would include Thailand (and to a lesser extent Malaysia) to balance off North Viet Nam's presence in the neutralist bloc with a prospering, pro-Western nation...
...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 it may be a war neither side can win, it remains a conflict that...
WHEN the steel industry reached agreement with the United Steelworkers of America last week on a new labor contract providing for annual wage-and-benefit increases of 6%, Federal Labor Mediator William B. Simkin lauded the settlement as "an outstanding achievement of bargaining." When Bethlehem Steel Corp. followed with price increases, Washington's reaction was far different. Labeling Bethlehem's price hikes "unreasonable," Lyndon Johnson said that they "should not be permitted to stand." To that end, his Administration took action to limit U.S. Government purchase of steel for defense purposes to those companies that hold the line...