Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What has Mr. Kissinger achieved so far? A temporary truce in Viet Nam−by giving legality to over 200,000 rebel Viet Cong troops−that nobody of sound mind would have agreed...
When William P. Rogers signed the Paris truce agreement last January, the U.S. agreed that "advisers to all paramilitary organizations and the police force will be withdrawn" from South Viet Nam and that it would not "intervene in the internal affairs of South Viet Nam." Presumably that meant that the U.S. would stop training and subsidizing President Nguyen Van Thieu's 122,000-man national police force, which has collected more than $131.7 million in U.S. assistance since...
...largest amount of aid to Thieu's police has come openly from the Defense Department. Since the Paris treaty permits one-for-one replacement of worn-out military equipment that was in Viet Nam at the time of the truce, and since the police seem to be wearing out their supplies at a great rate, the Pentagon is shipping them Jeeps, radios and other equipment at a cost of $8.8 million this fiscal year...
...true state of American diplomacy. It was Kissinger, the theorist of a Bismarckian balance of power, who had created the intellectual framework for Nixon's greatest achievements in foreign policy, the new detente with China, the progressive improvement of relations with the Soviet Union and, finally, the truce in Viet Nam. It was Kissinger, too, who personally brought those theories into reality in an endless series of secret flights and exhaustive negotiations in Peking, Moscow, Paris. Secretary of State Rogers traveled to official conferences and presided over the traditional routines of foreign affairs...
...when the two warring women's groups declared a truce that allowed players from both circuits to compete against one another in major tournaments. Evert's first test came at the French Open in June when she advanced to the finals against Margaret Court, won the first set 7-6, took a commanding 5-3 lead in the second-and then fell apart. Suffering from a bad case of overconfidence, she blew the second set 7-6 and lost the third 6-4. Then in quick and dispiriting succession, she lost to Australia's Evonne Goolagong...