Word: trinh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Besides Rogers of the U.S., Gromyko of the U.S.S.R., Chi of China, Lam of South Viet Nam, Binh of the Viet Cong and Sharp of Canada, the others were North Viet Nam's Nguyen Duy Trinh, France's Maurice Schumann, Britain's Alec Douglas-Home, Indonesia's Adam Malik, Poland's Stefan Olszowski and Hungary's Janos Peter. The U.N.'s Kurt Waldheim was present but did not sign the pact...
Then Kissinger would return to Paris, where he and Le Duc Tho would initial the draft. The papers could be ready for a formal signing in Paris by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers and North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh as early as the end of the month, but in any case the signing would take place no later than mid-December. Under the 60-day withdrawal plan, the remaining U.S. troops in South Viet Nam and the more than 500 P.O.W.s known to be held by the Communists throughout Indochina could begin coming home before Christmas...
...late as the end of November, North Vietnam retained some hope for negotiation. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh wrote in Hoc Tap that "diplomacy is a front of strategic importance as it has its own forces and potentialities and does not merely reflect the successes of armed and political struggle at home but also plays a positive role...
...government does seem to be making inroads. To convert a single hamlet from a rating of V even to D requires not only tons of ammunition, miles of barbed wire and nightly counterinsurgency ambushes, but also vast amounts of cement, tin, fertilizer, sweat and blood. The hamlet of Trinh Phu is a case in point. One year ago, government troops entered Trinh Phu for the first time in a decade. To look at pacification in terms of people rather than printouts, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth paid a visit to Trinh Phu, a partially pacified hamlet with a D rating...
...quality of official leadership that will determine the future of Trinh Phu and of the entire pacification program. Local government is still often corrupt. "We have established territorial security," says Army Major Alan Butler, the district's senior U.S. adviser. "But the test is whether at the hamlet level the government can deliver the goods rather than the Viet Cong." Hamlet Chief Tran Van Giao puts it another way. "Our security is now fair," he observed. "Soon I hope to have full security, a place for women to have babies. Where there can be some electricity and medical supplies...