Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILLIAM B. SCHAFER...
...Usual Insults. Other moves were under way in Vientiane, capital of supposedly neutral Laos, for years a center of communications and intelligence for the warring sides. U.S. Ambassador to Laos William Sullivan and his North Vietnamese counterpart, Le Van Hien, were reported to be secretly discussing the eventual regrouping of troops should a cease-fire be proclaimed. In Paris, U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators met in the ornate Hotel Majestic for the 28th time since the peace talks began on May 13 and exchanged the usual insults. The real news, as elsewhere throughout the current thrust toward peace, lay several...
...maneuvering really began in earnest last February, when General William C. Westmoreland, then the U.S. commander in Viet Nam and now Army Chief of Staff, appealed to the President for 206,000 more U.S. troops in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive. Johnson rejected the request, though he did agree to a modest increase, and the ceiling on U.S. manpower now stands at 549,000. Then came Johnson's March 31 renunciation of a second term and his declaration of a partial bombing pause over the North. Six weeks after that, in mid-May, the Paris peace...
...silent about developments. At that point, the minuscule distribution list for cable traffic from Paris and Saigon was trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five men in Foggy Bottom: Rusk and Benjamin Reed, Executive Secretary of the State Department; William Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his aide, Hay ward Isham; and Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Not even these precautions were considered entirely reliable when particularly touchy issues were involved. At such times, scrambler telephones and even couriers were used...
...however, thinking about the subject of the play, which is a simplistic attack on American blood lust. Ranchman, played with great simian gusto by William Devane, is an accused rapist in police custody. A howling mob, which seems largely composed of teenyboppers, demonstrates throughout-half for him and half against him. A ratty prosecuting attorney introduces highly clinical and irrelevant evidence against him; the alleged rape victims-two women, a young girl and a boy-seem to have enjoyed every minute of the experience...