Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAST four weeks, the war in Vietnam has accelerated while negotiations to end it have broken off. North Vietnam's special emissary Le Duc Tho has offered to resume negotiations with the United States, but Washington has demanded that Hanoi and the PRG stop their offensive before talks can begin. The U.S. has now sent B-52 bombers to hit Haiphong. The resumption of large-scale fighting in Vietnam is not only on dangering Nixon's "era of negotiations, but they may well plunge the world into a second cold war. Some perspective on Southeast Asian diplomacy during the last...
...reckless provocation, to treat the representatives of Hanoi and the PRG in such a gross and banal fashion that the other side--or so Washington hoped--would break off the talks. Last January 25, Nixon abruptly disclosed the existence of secret talks between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. In what was undoubtedly a highly distorted account of those negotiations, the President destroyed the only remaining channel of effective discussion for the simple purpose of winning domestic and international public support in his continuation of the war. And when Hanoi and the PRG refused to play into his hands...
...like that almost the best of any movie I've made. It suffered from lack of 'selling.' It was made on a budget of 'frozen rupees' from things like The Sound of Music, but then it was never pushed enough. The Museum of Modern Art has a copy, tho'; it might be revived. What it was about? Well, you know, the old theme of 'East, West, never the twain shall meet...
...weekly newsletter suggested that Nixon may be planning another smashing surprise by settling the Viet Nam War while he is in Peking. It envisioned "a secret summit of leaders from the Asian Communist nations" meeting with Nixon. As supporting evidence, the newsletter claimed that Hanoi's Le Due Tho will be in Peking at the sametime as Nixon. Secretary of State William Rogers knocked down the idea. The Democrats seemed to be building up expectations, presumably hoping to benefit from the disappointment if no such settlement occurs...
...November 17, the same day that Hanoi informed Washington that Tho would not be coming to Paris, two French newspapers, Le Monde and Le Figaro, reported that Tho would not come and that the United States had stationed five aircraft carriers off the Vietnamese coast--more carriers than the U.S. has ever stationed there at any time during its involvement in Vietnam. The presence of so many aircraft carriers must have made Hanoi wonder why, before they had even had a chance to give a reply to the secret U.S. peace plan, Nixon and Kissinger were already threatening them...