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Greetings from Ho. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg presented Secretary-General U Thant with a letter urging him to "take whatever steps you consider necessary to bring about the necessary discussions which could lead to such a cease-fire." The letter represented no change in U.S. policy but, to underscore Washington's determination to explore all avenues to peace, Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced that the U.S. would give Thant "maximum latitude" in his diplomatic probes-which presumably meant admitting the Viet Cong to any peace talks. In his annual Christmas message, Pope Paul...
...Search. Clearly something had fallen on Hanoi, but it was far from clear what that something was. While critics of U.S. bombing, from U Thant to the Vatican to Bertrand Russell, hastened to accuse the U.S. of escalating the war, Washington mumbled and fumbled until it was too late to erase the initial impact of the shrill reports...
...happened on Monday -- and it really wasn't much to talk about. Seven waves of U.S. jets pounded a fuel storage depot near Hanoi, and Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Goldberg promised U.N. Secretary-General U Thant that America would cooperate with United Nations efforts to arrange a cease-fire in Vietnam. Blabber incoherently and swing a big stick -- that's the futile game...
What remains to be explained -- as it has never been -- is what Washington means when it says that it will "cooperate." U Thant's notion of a cease-fire is based on a three-point proposal that includes the cessation of the bombing of the North. And the United States, for all of Goldberg's conciliatory talk, hasn't given any indication that it will halt the fruitless bombing for any length of time. In fact, only last week Air Force jets apparently bombed residential areas of Hanoi -- hardly a "military target...
...however, encouraging that after several years of being snubbed or ignored, U Thant finally is able to evoke some sort of sensible -- albeit hypocritical -- response from...