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Among the U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam who are still missing, all but eight are known to be dead. The Vietnamese, who have handed over the remains of only 74 Americans, insist that they have no more bodies to return. The U.S. admits that hundreds of dead servicemen are hard to trace because they were lost at sea or in the jungles of Laos, or were buried by peasants in unmarked graves. But the U.S. delegation, honoring a campaign commitment of President Reagan, called on the Vietnamese to give a better accounting of the missing servicemen...
...13th, the predominantly Democratic Federal City Club of Washington, in a gesture of good will, bestowed its public service award on me, a senior representative of the Nixon Administration, and on John Sherman Cooper, a senior Republican Senator. I brought to the occasion an appeal for unity. With Viet Nam behind us, I said, the nation's foreign policy could combine the exuberant idealism of the Kennedy Administration with the unsentimental emphasis on national interest of the Nixon Administration. Recalling the early 1960s, I said: "The Administration then in office, and its opponents, thought of themselves engaged...
Without waiting for a reply, Garment unfolded an astonishing and shattering tale: within a matter of days my evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
...volume of his memoirs, White House Years (1979), his role in the impressive diplomatic achievements of Nixon's first term: the opening to China; the restoration of relations between Washington and Moscow to a more or less even keel; the beginning of the end of America's agony in Viet Nam. Now the "Grand Design " that he and Nixon had conceived to reshape international relations was beginning to materialize, and Kissinger contemplated retiring, perhaps to a fellowship at Oxford's All Souls College...
...additional and even more august job: Secretary of State. In the course of the next year, amid what Kissinger describes as "the disintegration of the Nixon presidency," he found himself dealing with "an explosion in the Middle East, disputes with our allies, an energy crisis, the unraveling of the Viet Nam settlement and a bitter domestic controversy over U.S.-Soviet relations...