Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the largest bed would be hardpressed to accommodate Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the January cease-fire in Vietnam...
...award from Hanoi and Washington were predictably different. While President Nixon praised the committee for giving "deserved recognition to the art of negotiation," and Kissinger in turn praised Nixon for "creating the conditions necessary for this settlement," a North Vietnamese official said he personally thought Le Duc Tho would decline the award...
...Tho and Henry Kissinger...
Nguyen Van Thieu has long believed in dealing with the Communists primarily with guns. Last week, only a few days after Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho signed in Paris what might be called Cease-Fire II, Thieu gave a showy display of that belief. In the annual South Vietnamese celebration of power known as Armed Forces Day, jet fighters whistled overhead while tanks, self-propelled artillery and armed amphibious vehicles thundered past the reviewing stands on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Boulevard. Twenty thousand men-the equivalent of two divisions-marched...
...Cambodia in one sentence, stating merely that "Article 20 of the [January] agreement regarding Cambodia and Laos shall be scrupulously implemented." Yet fierce fighting still rages along the access routes to Phnom-Penh, as U.S. warplanes continue flying combat missions. Kissinger implied that he has a tacit understanding with Tho that could bring peace to Cambodia and Laos (where fighting has stopped but no progress toward a political settlement has been made). Tho has denied that there is any understanding, secret or otherwise...