Word: thuy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both Washington and Paris last week, the feeling grew that U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators have finally begun to move from rhetoric toward reality in their meetings. North Viet Nam's chief negotiator in the peace talks, Xuan Thuy, went out of his way to belittle American suggestions that longer tea or coffee breaks between the formal sessions represented some progress, noting ironically: "We talk about the seasons, the weather, the food, the scenery...
...world opinion; therefore, they expect some kind of breakthrough in Paris during the coming weeks. The North Vietnamese are showing some signs of removing the mask of intransigence that they have worn since the talks began at Paris' Majestic Hotel seven weeks ago. Unbending a bit, Thuy and his aides even took in the horse races at the fashionable Auteuil track in the Bois de Boulogne. They are also spending more and more time talking about real problems and gradually letting the demand for a bombing halt fade into the background. The U.S., on the other hand, is trying...
...North Vietnamese generals, had so far taken a toll of over 100 civilians killed, and could not have been intended to do military damage. "I want to be sure you understand that this is a situation that could have the most serious consequences for these talks," he told Xuan Thuy and Le Due Tho, Hanoi's negotiators. Harriman got his reply-not in Paris but in South Viet Nam. The Viet Cong's Liberation Radio warned Saigon residents to abandon the capital or prepare for a 100-round-per-day rocket barrage that would last for 100 days...
Clear Statement. In the arduous efforts to end the war, that conversational cameo may not seem earthshaking. But amid the ritual of prepared exchanges, in a situation where the fund of optimism constantly verges on bankruptcy, Thuy's approach to Harriman offered the only glimmer of hope during last week's three-hour and 45-minute session. For by thus addressing his opposite number informally, Thuy may have been hinting that his delegation will soon be willing to talk directly to U.S. negotiators in an atmosphere undistorted by propaganda-as Harriman has been proposing all along-rather than...
...Thuy: I have said that the U.S. must cease its bombings before the related matters can be discussed...