Word: tho
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...would like to nominate a man who had the decency to refuse an award that he felt he did not deserve. The award was the Nobel Peace Prize, and my nomination is Le Due Tho...
...current state of their handiwork. Taking time off from his frantic efforts to find peace in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stopped by in Paris to confer with his partner in this year's Nobel Peace Prize, North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho.* Later, a U.S. spokesman said that the 4½-hour meeting at the Hotel Majestic had been "good-humored" and that the two men had agreed to keep the "channel of communication" between them open. The paucity of detail was doubtless a reflection of the fact that the cease-fire...
...diplomacy. He accused the Secretary of State of mishandling relations with Japan and Europe. "As for Southeast Asia, we, like the Romans of Tacitus, seem to have made a desert and called it peace. Considering all this, maybe half the Nobel Peace Prize [which Kissinger shared with Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator] was about right." Hughes went on: "As long as Nixon continues in office, we can expect him to do what comes naturally-overreact in all directions ... There is nothing further that Nixon can add to the formulation and conduct of American foreign policy for the next...
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are holding a highly-touted meeting today, but after 11 fruitless months, there's no reason to expect much to come out of their meeting. The decision for peace in Vietnam is ours. Congress should cut off aid to Thieu...
...awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho is like granting Xaviera Hollander (the Happy Hooker) an award for extreme virtue...