Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invasion was approved by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is still debated whether Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson knew of or supported assassination attempts against foreign leaders, such as the bizarre plan to supply poisoned cigars to Fidel Castro. L.B.J. approved Operation Phoenix, in which agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists. In Chile, the CIA gave money and other help to opponents of Marxist Salvador Allende. But there is no evidence connecting the CIA to the coup that overthrew and killed Allende in 1973, though the episode gave the U.S. a black eye. The CIA'S surveillance of American...
Policymakers sometimes fail to use sound intelligence when it is offered. President Johnson disregarded the discouraging CIA reports on Viet Nam; they were not what he wanted to hear. The White House rejected CIA warnings of a Middle East war in 1973. Why would the Arabs want to start a war they could not win? reasoned the policymakers. It did not occur to them that the Arabs could win something just by fighting better than they had the last time...
...trade talks sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Started in Japan more than four years ago to lower international tariff walls, the so-called Tokyo Round talks have proceeded at a snail's pace-mostly as a result of U.S. preoccupation with Watergate, the Viet Nam pullout and the 1976 presidential elections. Last week the negotiations entered a new and decisive phase, when the U.S. followed Japan and the European Community in presenting its formal negotiating offer. Now that the Big Three have spoken, hard bargaining can begin, and participants have set themselves a July...
...Russians may want to establish a new base at Massawa, though Moscow already has naval and air facilities in both South Yemen and Aden. Ethiopia could prove to be a mini-Viet Nam for the Russians even though, as the second most populous nation in black Africa (pop. 29 million), it offers them a more attractive springboard than Somalia from which to jump into African affairs and establish a strong presence along the Persian Gulf tanker routes...
...unfamiliar Bizet and Berlioz at a 600-guest banquet for visiting French Premier Raymond Barre. China's Vice Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, paid a state visit to Burma, his first trip abroad since he emerged as Peking's No. 3 man last July. Phan Hien, Viet Nam's Deputy Foreign Minister and chief diplomatic troubleshooter, was in Peking on a delicate mission. Teng Ying-ch'ao, 75, the revered widow of Premier Chou Enlai, departed on a good-will visit to Cambodia, and returned to Peking unexpectedly in time to greet Barre...