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...other hand there have been clear indications in the last week that a bombing halt would be productive. The North Vietnamese clarified their January position on negotiations--if the bombing stopped negotiation could start within three weeks. U Thant returned from his trip to Southeast Asia with the same message--a U.S. bombing halt remains the prerequisite for any end to the conflict...
...still-anonymous foreign intermediary to sound out officials in Hanoi last month, meanwhile suspending bombing in the Hanoi-Haiphong region. Italy's Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani met with North Vietnamese envoys in Rome, sent Washington a lengthy report of Hanoi's views. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant jetted to New Delhi, Moscow, London and Paris, arriving back in Manhattan last week. Hanoi made an other gesture-plainly calculated, no matter how welcome-by releasing three captured U.S. flyers...
Johnson, meanwhile, kept repeating that he would begin a conference "tomorrow" if possible and that he would consent to whatever initial agenda the other side might propose. The President also invited Thant to Washington this week to "thank him very much for another try." In fact, the Administration was fiercely yet helplessly exasperated by Hanoi's skillful use of inconclusive peace hints as a psychological counterweight to its bloody assaults on South Viet Nam. Furthermore, Communist propagandists in South Viet Nam assiduously spread the word that the U.S. was conniving with the North to sell out the Saigon regime...
...moves," said one high official. "The San Antonio formula is it, as far as we are concerned." Whatever the real import of Hanoi's intensified diplomatic campaign, one side benefit from the Communist viewpoint is the increased pressure it puts on Washington. United Nations Secretary General U Thant chimed in once again and put responsibility for getting talks started on the U.S. The Soviet Union condemned Johnson's "unwillingness to negotiate," although elsewhere Soviet-American diplomacy-which may yet prove the key to any meaningful negotiations over Viet Nam-was more fruitful. The two nations finally agreed...
There was something familiar about the name. The leader of China's Red Guards? A Paris couturier? Star of the Dracula movies? Perhaps a new submarine? Those glorious guesses were obtained when 2,000 Britons were asked to identify U Thant. Only 58% of the chaps in the street could place U Thant correctly as U.N. Secretary-General. Ah well, he still made out better than Svet-Icma Alliluyeva, who was identified by 51% as Franco's daughter, Khrushchev's daughter, or "the religious bloke with the Beatles...