Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strictly military terms, Zais' explanation made eminent sense, particularly since U.S. units are still operating under orders, first issued at the time of the bombing halt, to exert "maximum pressure" on their foe-part of the U.S. version of "fight and talk." Nixon, like Lyndon Johnson before him, probably feels that lack of such pressure could erode the allied negotiating position in Paris. But the war and domestic reaction to it have gone far beyond purely military considerations now, and the battle of Ap Bia raises the question of whether or not the U.S. should try to scale down...
...wake of President Richard Nixon's Viet Nam speech, the U.S. and North Viet Nam last week edged cautiously toward substance in the Paris peace talks. The movement, as usual, appeared tortuously slow. That was in part a measure of the distance that still separates the participants, but more important, it was a sign that each side has yet to render a final verdict on the other's proposal. After last week's session in the old Hotel Majestic, North Viet Nam's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, left Paris for his first visit home since...
...which would just happen to correspond with the U.S. schedule. On the issue of interim authority in the South, the major stumbling block, the U.S. has given up its demand that elections for a permanent government be controlled by the present Saigon regime. That, to be sure, is still a long way from agreeing to Hanoi's demand for a coalition government that would include Communists, but the U.S. has not even ruled out that possibility, in the dubious event that the South Vietnamese government would agree...
...surface, at least, his persistence brought the forms of peace no closer. North Vietnamese Spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le said that the two positions remained "as different as night from day." Still, U.S. negotiators noted that the session remained refreshingly free of propaganda blasts, and Lodge himself left convinced that "a basis now exists for productive discussions...
...boast of inflicting outsized losses on the enemy. A letter, signed by "Many Readers," appeared in the March issue of Popular Current Events, a party periodical, asking: "If, since the war began, we have annihilated 1,500,000 of the enemy, including 500,000 Americans, why does the enemy still have more than 1,000,000 troops in South Viet Nam?" The editor's reply was strictly party-line-that the U.S. is a huge industrial country that is able to mobilize great resources by draining its colonies. The interesting point was that the regime allowed such a question...