Word: thuy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Viet Nam and the N.L.F. at the other, to prevent the guerrillas from getting a whole side of a table to themselves. It might have seemed absurd, but in the past, conferences on grave issues have foundered over such trivial "modalities" (see box). And as Hanoi Spokesman Xuan Thuy noted, "Whether it is important or not, it must be resolved. You cannot sit down at a conference without a table...
Waging a sort of conference-table warfare, the Communist diplomats sought to exacerbate the tensions between the U.S. and Saigon. Brushing aside the our-side-your-side formula, Hanoi's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, stressed in Paris that the new talks will encompass "four delegations-independent delegations with the right to speak." Thuy's public elevation of the N.L.F. to an independent status would, of course, make it even harder for President Thieu to send representatives to Paris. At the same time, Thuy twitted the U.S. for South Viet Nam's unwillingness to join the conference...
When the talks started last spring, it was Kriss who wrote TIME'S cover on Negotiators Harriman, Vance, Xuan Thuy and the North Vietnamese representative in Pans, Mai Van Bo (May 10, 1968). In that story, the big question was: What really brought the North Vietnamese to the conference table? This time, Kriss had to piece together all the moves and countermoves, all the rumors, all the military and diplomatic reports that suggested a bombing pause was imminent. As he worked, he was helped by TIME correspondents who filed their own analyses from most major capitals of the world...
...Averell Harriman and Xuan Thuy hold first plenary session...
...Highlands northwest of Saigon. Within days, Liberation Radio, the voice of the Viet Cong, announced its formation, and Radio Hanoi said that Southern intellectuals, businessmen, even government officials and soldiers had met at Mimot. Congratulatory telegrams poured in from assorted Communist organizations around the world. North Vietnamese Negotiator Xuan Thuy mentioned the Alliance in the Paris talks, saying that with its formation "the front fighting the U.S. and its lackeys has broadened." An Alliance propaganda officer set up shop in the offices of the National Liberation Front in Paris There were suggestions that the North Vietnamese might see the Alliance...