Word: thuy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he established, with Nixon's encouragement, to bypass the regular bureaucracies. One such channel was set up in Paris to deal secretly with North Vietnamese negotiators. Initially he dealt with Xuan Thuy, Hanoi's chief negotiator at the official plenary peace talks on Avenue Kleber. On one occasion, Xuan Thuy argued that hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese troops were in South Viet Nam through the "free choice" of the local population. Kissinger found this so absurd that, he writes, "I jokingly invited him to Harvard to teach a seminar on Marxism and Leninism after...
...first meeting, Xuan Thuy greeted me and led me into the living room to meet the man whose conceit it was to use the title of Special Adviser to Xuan Thuy, although as a member of the governing Politburo he outranked him by several levels. Le Duc Tho's large luminous eyes only rarely revealed the fanaticism that had induced him as a boy of 16 to join the anti-French Communist guerrillas. It was our misfortune that his cause should be to break our will and to establish Hanoi's rule over
...could not be more striking. Even toward the end of the war the southern capital exuded raffish energy from its thriving markets and lively night life. There are no cabarets in Hanoi, and since the departure of the city's Chinese, almost no restaurants. One can visit the Thuy Ta floating cafe at night to drink iced coffee and watch the moon glisten on the Lake of the Returned Sword, but many Hanoi residents consider that an extravagance. On humid summer evenings the largest crowds gather at the grassy esplanade in front of Ho's granite mausoleum...
...Americans don't even realize it because it's just part of your lives. But we feel so free here, and we have peace of mind," says Dang Thuy Nguyen, TIME's former office manager in Saigon, who is now one of our telex operators in New York. Dang is one of TIME's four Vietnamese employees who were evacuated with their families during the last days of the Indochina war. All together, 37 Vietnamese sponsored by TIME have come to the U.S. Now living in Connecticut, New Jersey and California, they are learning to cope...
...Vann, I'll mention him now because he's dead, and some other people in the government. I refer you to Roger Morris's piece in the Washington Monthly, in which Morris discloses--he was Kissinger's assistant--that Henry Kissinger came back from his first meeting with Xuan Thuy in September of 1969, and asked his staff including Morris to prepare full plans for a "savage" blow against North Vietnam that would bring them to their knees. And he said then as he'd said on other occasions, when his staff told him this wouldn't work...