Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobel peace prize nominees, including such divergent figures as Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito, Richard Nixon and Viet Nam War Critic Daniel Ellsberg, any decision was bound to be controversial. But the selection last week of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Chief Negotiator Le DuC Tho for their efforts in attaining a cease-fire in Viet Nam aroused an unprecedented storm of criticism...
...unabashedly delighted; President Nixon, who might have hoped to win it himself, said that the award gave "deserved recognition to the art of negotiation itself in the process of ending a war and laying the groundwork for peace." Hanoi, however, was resoundingly silent, lending substance to rumors that Tho would not accept the prize...
Both men rose from humble origins and neither has shied away from the use of force in carrying out his own political and philosophical beliefs. But their lives are aimed in opposite directions. Le Duc Tho, a life-long revolutionary who fought the French and has spent ten years in jail, envisions a socialist society of peace and justice...
Kissinger will be in Oslo on December 10 to receive the Nobel medal and a cash award of about $60,000, but speculators say Le Duc Tho will be absent...
...dual award is actually a thinly veiled praise of President Nixon's policy of negotiated settlement, Le Duc Tho's absence would hardly seem surprising. The man who negotiated with Kissinger for 42 months has never admitted that the agreement was less than a victory for the North Vietnamese. It is unlikely he wants to climb into bed with Kissinger on Alfred Nobel's terms...