Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER three years of ever more furious combat, after dozens of feints and one-sided gestures toward conciliation, the U.S. and North Viet Nam finally moved in the same direction at the same time. The first half step, when it occurred, was just as swift as it was unforeseen...
...will fade along with all the previous false starts towards peace, may not be known for weeks to come. Not even negotiations on the main issues of the conflict are assured, let alone a successful outcome. On the other hand, said the President, "it could lead to another positive step and another positive step and another positive step that might end this terrible...
...Cracks. Even the first half step proved difficult for each side. Bombing of the North, particularly around the heavy-population centers, has been a constant impediment to any peace talks -not to say one of the most emotional issues of the war. Between May 1965 and February 1967, the U.S. suspended the bombing-"Operation Rolling Thunder" - five times, the halts ranging in duration from two to 37 days. None of them cracked the diplomatic...
...hope that this action will lead to early talks," he told the nation, "I am taking the first step to de-escalate the conflict. We are reducing-substantially reducing-the present level of hostilities, and we are doing so unilaterally and at once." Observed a State Department Orientalist: "The President in effect committed political suicide before the world. In the Sinic tradition, this is considered a time-honored gesture of sincerity...
Thus it was an audacious step three years ago when the members of the New York-based Beaux-Arts String Quartet dropped all their outside assignments for four solid months of practicing. Until then, they had hovered uneasily between breaking through and breaking up. Now they were determined to establish themselves by winning the newly established Walter W. Naumburg Foundation chamber-music prize...