Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than punitive--route out of the mess in Vietnam. Undoubtedly the President realized that he had insufficient popular backing to continue the counter-productive escalation of the war. Since escalation was required to maintain a military stalemate the President had little strategic alternative but to move toward a diplomatic settlement...
...their part, the North Vietnamese seemed to agree that time had come to tamp down the fighting and attempt a negotiated settlement. Their April 3 proposal of diplomatic "contact" and the lifting of the siege around Khe Sanh suggest that Hanoi is willing to accommodate hopes inside America for reciprocal de-escalation as a prelude to peace talks...
Later he introduces me to a friend who was born in Lydda, near Tel Aviv, and who wants his house back. He lost it when he and his family left because of the war of '48. Would he be content with a reasonable financal settlement, I ask. "No, he wants his house and his land. No money...
Nixon has also maintained recently that the likeliest prospect for peace is to persuade Moscow to bring pressure on Hanoi for a diplomatic settlement. Such leverage, says Nixon, may be the "key to peace"-though Russia of late has shown no inclination whatever to insert the key in the lock. Exactly what inducements Nixon might offer at the bargaining table are unstated. It could hardly be otherwise. Even if the status of the war next year could be predicted, it would be foolish, his aides point out, to get locked into a bargaining position now. "I don't have...
...after which he would create "the wife I want" through the miracle of LSD. Grant denied all through his lawyers (he is in New York, recovering from auto-accident injuries), but Dyan got the nod from the judge, and $24,000 yearly in child support plus a $57,,000 settlement...