Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops, a renunciation of subversive tactics by the guerrillas, and a certainty of genuine self-determination for the South. The Communists' maximum goals were set forth in the four points of 1965?U.S. military withdrawal; no outside military alliances for either North or South; settlement of the South's internal affairs "in accordance with the program" of the N.L.F., and eventual reunification of North and South...
...that the South will not immediately go Communist, but they are unlikely to be the sort of ironclad guarantees that Washington would like. Hanoi may get the N.L.F. recognized as a legal party, but not as a controlling force in a coalition government. If there is to be a settlement at all, it must be one that hews fairly closely to the existing situation. As Columbia Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinsky put it recently: "A settlement is a ratification of reality, not a structuring of reality...
...prevent a Communist takeover. He directed the force of federal troops that restored quiet to Detroit after last summer's riots, and last month advised the capital's Mayor Walter Washington in the violence following Martin Luther King's assassination. In November, Vance negotiated a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus crisis; in February he soothed irate South Koreans who wished to retaliate when a North Korean commando squad attempted to assassinate President Chung Hee Park just two days before the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo...
...have been very anxious to continue the discussions we had with the faculty Ad Hoc Committee. The faculty will clearly be affected by any settlement that is ultimately reached; as the major part of the University community their participation in any new forms and structures that are created at Columbia when the present crisis is over is imperative. Moreover, many members of the faculty, at great personal risk, played a key role on Thursday night in preventing a police invasion of student held buildings. We have been presenting the political position outlined above to the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee...
...seems to be building a similar rhetorical trap for itself by supporting the hysterical South Vietnamese position on the National Liberation Front. Some sort of coalition, linked with withdrawal of North Vietnamese and American troops, now seems the most likely basis for a compromise peace settlement. The Thieu-Ky regime has so far rejected any coalition out of hand, obviously aware that genuine cooperation would doom their military regime...