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Third-Party Hope. Raising the number of U.S.-proposed sites to 15 seemed mainly a ploy to demonstrate that the U.S. was open-minded. North Viet Nam dismissed the four criteria as "absurd and insolent," and termed the lengthened list a "tortuous maneuver" to delay talks. Privately, U.S. officials have come to doubt that the North Vietnamese will accept any place on earth first suggested by the U.S. Accordingly, Washington let it be known that it was seeking proposals from third parties. At the U.N., Arthur Goldberg conferred with Secretary-General U Thant. In Washington, Rusk chatted with Soviet Ambassador...
Beneath these trappings of beauty and romance the life force of Haiti lies untouched. The people are desperately poor, they are uneducated, and they live in the small huts and villages of the countryside--where the only signs of modernization are telephone wires strung along the rutted and tortuous roads. Most peasants work small plots of land for their food, live in thatched huts or rusted tin shacks, and try to raise pigs or chickens for trade in the city marketplaces...
...still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...
...General Westmoreland's phrase, there was "light at the end of the tunnel" a few weeks ago, recent events have made the path to peace as tortuous as ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset...
Gray later commented that "this could have been done by City Hall, but this process, which looks tortuous, is what I believe in." He said he felt that Cambridge's plan for electing the majority of the governing agency will be superior to the appointment of Boston agency members. "The people have to know that they are running this program," Gray said...