Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during 1972. negotiating an end to U.S. participation in the Vietnamese war, Kissinger often worked double sessions, seeing the North and South Vietnamese separately and at length in search of ways to bring the two antagonists closer. He established a respectful relationship with Hanoi's chief representative Le Due Tho. despite his exasperation with the doggedly hortatory North Vietnamese approach to negotiations...
...European affairs as Assistant Secretary. Sisco's old job of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs was last week given to his capable longtime assistant, Alfred ("Roy") Atherton, 52. Jack Kubisch, 52, who was in the Paris embassy during Kissinger's secret sessions with Le Due Tho, now runs Inter-American Affairs. Robert Ingersoll, 60, who tried conscientiously to patch up U.S.-Japanese relations as best he could as Ambassador to Japan, was called home from Tokyo five months ago to become Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs...
Contrast, for instance, the two 1973 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Le Duc Tho, the North Vietnamese Politburo member, has devoted his life to his people; he spent 10 of his 62 years in colonial jails for resistance activities. Henry Kissinger seeks only a world of stability which excludes revolutionary change, and he has bombed little children in pursuit of his goal. Le Duc Tho refused his half of the prize, explaining that the war had not ended. Kissinger sent one of his subordinates to fetch his half...
...Touch. Faced with such an impasse, Kissinger and Tho could do little in their meeting last week but reaffirm their support of the Paris agreement and promise to keep in touch. "No amount of official hand wringing on the Avenue Kleber," remarked a Western diplomat in Saigon, "can affect Hanoi's attempt to hold and aggrandize, and Saigon's attempt to prove that that hold doesn't exist...
...Tho, however, turned down the prize while Kissinger accepted it in absentia...