Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast between the matter-of-fact peacefulness of the scene and our own anxiety was almost beyond bearing. At 4 p.m. we would know whether the agony endured by so many for nearly a decade would have purchased an honorable end to the war in Viet...
...meeting resumed on schedule. Le Duc Tho did not beat around the bush. "In order to show our good will and to ensure a rapid end to the war, rapid restoration of peace in Viet Nam, as all of us wish for, today we put forward a new proposal, a very realistic and very simple proposal," he said...
...suggested that the U.S. and North Viet Nam sign an agreement settling the military questions between them-withdrawal, prisoners, ceasefire. The political problem-"that is the most thorny, the most difficult problem"-would not be allowed to prolong our negotiations. Le Duc Tho now dispensed with the entire concept of a coalition government. It was now only an "Administration of National Concord," to be set up within three months by the two South Vietnamese parties and charged with implementing the signed agreements and "organizing" elections...
...there were other provisions that also helped meet our concerns. For three years Hanoi had insisted on an end of American military aid to South Viet Nam. Le Duc Tho now scrapped this proposal; we could continue to supply South Viet Nam. Hanoi accepted our proposal of May 31, 1971, that infiltration into South Viet Nam cease; if observed, this would guarantee the erosion of North Vietnamese strength in the South...
...once I and most of my colleagues understood the significance of what we had heard. In the immediate recess I asked for, my aide, Winston Lord, and I shook hands and said to each other: "We have done it." Haig, who had served in Viet Nam, declared with emotion that we had saved the honor of the military men who had served, died and suffered there...