Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the fear among military men that Hanoi was not really serious, statesmen and diplomats the world over passed the word that a breakthrough was at hand. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, long a hard-liner about the war in nearby South Viet Nam, returned from a visit to Washington to announce that the U.S. and North Viet Nam had entered the "final stages" of bargaining for a bombing pause, predicted results in the "not too distant fu ture." In Paris, an official of an allied country with troops in the South said flatly: "Everything is settled...
...fighting ahead, and the assumption was that he and Thieu had agreed on a new step-up in military activity. That assumption may well have been incorrect. Not long after the Honolulu meeting, a group of South Vietnamese senators passed through Paris en route home after a visit to Washington and told newsmen and diplomats there that a bombing pause was in the offing...
...five-day state visit was clearly off to a bad start, even though penitent Turkish authorities promptly sacked the security chief and promised to send the forgetful official to some Turkish equivalent of Siberia. That night at dinner, President Cevdet Sunay gently reminded his guest that Turkey intended to remain a staunch member of NATO. Formerly, he said, Turkey had worked as hard as France for an East-West détente, but the occupation of Czechoslovakia had "unfortunately shown us that our optimism was too great...
...booters at present have a 5-1-3 overall record and are 1-1-2 in the Ivy League, good for a fourth-place tie. They will visit Princeton next Saturday and will host Brown and Yale the following two weekends...
...election protest today, however, has become only a part of a larger protest against a return Dow visit on Thursday and Friday. If enough support can be mobilized, students will seize an administrative building on Thursday and hold it in a "non-obstructive way" until Dow leaves the campus...