Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days American and North Vietnamese diplomats will probably meet to take a cautious first step toward peace in South Vietnam. The scope of their discussions will be limited to arranging the end of American bombardment north of the 17th parallel. Once the raids are halted, both nations--and presumably their respective allies--will grapple with the more thorny problem of guaranteeing peace and stability in Indochina...
...March 31 President Johnson disclosed a restriction of the bombing raids inside North Vietnam, withdrew from the 1968 Presidential campaign, and hinted that the Vietcong could expect to obtain a share of the ruling power in postwar South Vietnam. Johnson's simultaneous announcement of the three decisions in one nationally broadecasted speech was the first indication to date that the American government had finally resolved to take the diplomatic--rather than punitive--route out of the mess in Vietnam. Undoubtedly the President realized that he had insufficient popular backing to continue the counter-productive escalation of the war. Since escalation...
Unfortunately, the task of cementing a durable peace in Indochina will be more arduous than deciding that talks per se are worthwhile. There is little reason to believe that the United States and North Vietnam agree on anything besides the current utility of initiating peace talks in the hope that a permanent case-fire can be arranged...
...dissolution of the Thieu government and allows the subsequent establishment of a coalition heavily weighted in favor of the NLF, several other knots must be unraveled. In short, what some Americans have long considered a simple sell-out will not be sufficient to conclude the imbroglio in Vietnam...
...thing, the United States, whatever concessions it makes to South Vietnam's Communists, is likely to insist on the military inviolability of frontiers throught-out Southeast Asia. Washington knows that the 1962 Laos agreement has been severely undermined by Hanoi's infiltration of troops and material along the Ho Chi Minh trail. More important, the State Department will probably feel compelled to vindicate the principle the President invoked in 1965 when he first sharply escalated the U.S. commitment in Vietnam. At that date, and with unswerving conviction ever since, the U.S. insisted that it only wanted the Communists to "leave...