Word: truce
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...Teamsters Union members. The lockout idled a quarter-million Teamsters and stalled trucks that carry 65% of the freight hauled on the nation's highways. If a swift agreement was not reached, the Federal Government appeared ready to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, calling for an 80-day truce, in which work would resume and bar gaining continue...
Thant, reiterating his fears of a wider war in Asia, invoked Hanoi's wrath by suggesting an eminently fairminded, three-step formula for ending the war: 1) "a general standstill truce," to be followed in a few weeks by 2) "preliminary talks" between Washington and Hanoi, possibly refereed by Moscow and London as co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference that partitioned Indo-China, and 3) reconvening of the Geneva Conference...
...plan. For one thing, they pointed out, the Secretary-General did not specify with any degree of clarity whether or not the U.S. air war against North Viet Nam, which he calls "an insurmountable obstacle to discussions," would have to be suspended as a precondition to the truce. For another, they noted that any such truce could become a trap. They recalled in particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, pressured U.S. mediators into calling for a standstill...
Nonetheless, because Thant for the first time urged a mutual truce rather than a unilateral U.S. deescalation, the Administration moved with alacrity to accept his proposal as "constructive and positive." Hanoi thereupon broadcast a scathing denunciation of Thant for having made "no distinction between the aggressors and the victim of aggression," while Peking branded him "an errand boy for Washington...
...rejected Johnson's proposal in a personal letter delivered on Feb. 15 -- the day after the lunar new year cease fire truce -- when the United States resumed bombing the North...