Word: war
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...preclude any movement toward peace until that cutoff date, since "any incentive for the enemy to negotiate is destroyed if he is told in advance if he just waits for 18 months, we'll be out anyway." Nixon seemed goaded into insisting that he hoped to end the war even faster, although the goal he stated of being out "before the end of 1970 or the middle of 1971" extends past Goodell's deadline. "We're on a course that is going to end this war," he declared. "It will end much sooner if we can have...
...serious voice in the new chorus of protest is that of Democratic National Chairman Senator Fred Harris, who rallied Senators Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Kennedy to a council of antiwar. They indicated that they will introduce resolutions expressing the intent of Congress that the U.S. withdraw from the war as speedily as possible. "It is time to take the gloves off on Viet Nam," said Harris. "I'm afraid that Mr. Nixon is rapidly losing the advantage he had by virtue of the fact that he could say, 'I didn't start this war...
...reappearance of dissent in the form of demands for U.S. troop withdrawals, whether immediate or on a specific timetable, reflects the war-weariness of a part of the U.S. public. In a sense that Nixon did not quite state, it does represent a form of "defeatism"-a widespread feeling that there is no clear way of forcing a peace settlement from Hanoi, but that the killing must stop and therefore the U.S. must pull out. On the other extreme, Nixon's plea for unity, while based on the valid notion that the war's real battleground has shifted...
...Thieu supports it. The trouble with the theory is that whoever organizes elections in Viet Nam wins them. Hanoi cannot be expected to accept defeat at any elections the Thieu regime supervises-since the Communists are not defeated now. No doubt the North Vietnamese would like to get the war over with too, but they simply have not been hurt enough, as far as anyone can tell, to make them accept a settlement that they would regard as negating their achievements on the battlefield. One avenue that perhaps offers some hope is for elections organized by both sides with...
...does South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu feel about his own role in the U.S. debate over the war? In an unusually candid hour-long interview with TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark last week, Thieu stoutly defended his government and insisted on its continuance at least until the elections scheduled for 1971. Among the questions and answers...