Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian leadership has several reasons to back some sort of negotiated settlement in Vietnam and further a détente with the U.S. It should be able to accept, as it did in Laos, a relatively stable non-aligned government in the South; it has never been very loud in supporting demands that all of Vietnam be reunified by force under Ho Chi Minh...
...Russia and its European allies are unhappy over the cost of the war-which they have helped to defray to the extent of perhaps $2 billion in the past decade-and may be increasing the pressure on Hanoi to make a settlement...
Recent comments by Presidential Aide Walt W. Rostow indicate that the United States and North Vietnam are secretly and informally exploring the possibilities of a negotiated settlement in South Vietnam. If the current peace feelers are to be any more successful than previous probes, the United State must make it clear that it will end the bombing of the North as a prelude to formal negotiations...
...serious about negotiations, it must realize that stopping the bombing is a precondition to formal conferences, and that allowing N.L.F. participation in the government is a prerequisite for successful settlement. Successful negotiations always entail concessions on the part of both parties...
Although halting the bombing might bring "more hope for negotiations," Reischauer said, there is little prospect of such a settlement "simply because the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese are so far apart and so distrust each other...