Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's cities, some officials in Hanoi seemed convinced that they had both Saigon and Washington on the run. Once talks got started, they were unlikely to be in the mood even to consider concessions. Actually, both U.S. and South Vietnamese officials were increasingly coming around to the view that Tet, in the long run, had proved to be a disaster to the Communists, costing them 42,000 men, by U.S. estimate, rallying many South Vietnamese to fresh efforts, and resulting in "no enemy flags in our cities," as Constituent Assemblyman Dr. Phan Quang Dan said last week during...
...bombing of the North. Only after Washington agrees to do so, Hanoi has persistently maintained, will it then go on to formal negotiations with a full agenda. But in its note to Washington last week, Hanoi significantly altered its wording; now, it said, it "is of the view that the formal talks should be held immediately." Possibly, Ho now intends to telescope the talks...
...Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable failures as the 1946 talks with Vietnamese nationalists that led directly to the French-Indochinese war and the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and, in the view of some historians, paved the way for World...
...most probably would have become a corporate executive-if never a board chairman. As a youthful agitator and underground journalist and later as a diplomat, jowly Xuan Thuy (pronounced Swan Twee) earned the trust of Viet Nam's Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party Central Committee and head of its foreign relations section...
...concerned, this adds up to a transcendental experience. "What you finally have," says he, "is no beginning and no end, but a series of physical experiences moving on to infinity." To experience infinity, New Yorkers should first call at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, where five Irwins are on view. Once there, the viewers are expected to contemplate each work for at least 30 minutes-which is what Irwin does. As time passes, lights and blushes interweave; the shadows on the wall seem to march up and join the painting, until the spectator may well feel as though he were...