Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor Putnam, at a news conference Saturday would not comment upon their position except as stated in the ad. He said that the request to cease bombing, as a preliminary measure to any negotiated settlement, would receive general support from the opponents...
...signal came during New York Timesman Harrison Salisbury's four-hour interview with North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong, whom some observers regard as le patron-the real boss-of the war effort. According to Salisbury, Pham emphasized that his oft-reiterated "four points"* for settlement of the war were not meant as prior "conditions" for peace talks but as a "basis of settlement." Since Hanoi had hitherto insisted that the U.S. had to accept these terms before talks could begin, the apparent shift in emphasis stirred a flurry of speculation. Was Pham softening his position...
...points, announced by Pham on April 8, 1965: 1) recognition of Viet Nam's independence, sovereignty and unity, and withdrawal of U.S. forces from the South; 2) no military alliances with foreign countries for either North or South; 3) settlement of South Viet Nam's affairs "in accordance with the program" of the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political arm; and 4) achievement of reunification by the Vietnamese people without foreign interference...
...this situation is, the U.S. prefers it to resumption of the open conflict that rent the country before the 1962 Geneva settlement; the Communists also prefer the status quo to any upset that would enlarge the Southeast Asian war and perhaps bring U.S. troops into Laos. If Souvanna Phouma were to fall, both sides would find it extremely difficult to agree on a successor. An impasse might cause the Red bloc to recognize Pathet Lao Leader Prince Souphanouvong, Souvanna's half brother, as the ruler of Laos-thus almost certainly thrusting Laos directly into open...
Friends at settlement houses directed them to a non-profit organization which had been recently formed in Cambridge and which was urging a re-study of the whole idea of the Inner Belt...