Word: talksâ
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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That was no exaggeration. For one thing, it is unclear whether Hanoi regards the forthcoming meeting as a propaganda ploy, a purely procedural preliminary to wider talks???or something more. In the past, the North Vietnamese have insisted that this round of parleys be held to resolve one issue and one issue only: whether the U.S. intends to call a complete, unconditional halt to its bombing of the North. Only after Washington agrees to do so, Hanoi has persistently maintained, will it then go on to formal negotiations with a full agenda. But in its note to Washington last week...
...Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks???perhaps overlooking such notable failures as the 1946 talks with Vietnamese nationalists that led directly to the French-Indochinese war and the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and, in the view of some historians, paved the way for World...
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