Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonial master, might also have both the incentive and the influence to act as honest broker for negotiations. It became known last week that Secretary of State Dean Rusk had sent Paris a note painstakingly outlining proposals by which Hanoi and the U.S. could mutually withdraw from South Viet Nam. Yet on his subsequent trip to Cambodia, Charles de Gaulle urged that the U.S. quit Viet Nam and pointedly refrained from directing any similar suggestion to the North Vietnamese aggressors...
...Gaulle, the message was unusually blunt, if characteristically unhelpful. U.S. intervention in Viet Nam, he said, had rekindled war in Southeast Asia, and threatened world war. What America should do is withdraw from the battlefield now with honor, "an act of renouncing," he said, that would not "injure [the U.S.'s] pride, interfere with its ideals, or prejudice its interests." After all, France did the same thing in Algeria, he pointed out -but failed to mention that the Algerian war involved no alien aggression like Hanoi's. The U.S. would be all the more advised to quit Viet...
...enemy, it was an alarming thought. The Viet Cong has pledged "to smash the election farce of the U.S. aggressors and their henchmen in Saigon," and ordered all the 541 candidates running for 108 places in the assembly-to be elected Sept. 1 1-to "withdraw their names immediately" on pain of death. So far the V.C. have talked tougher than they have acted: no candidates have yet been assassinated. But Communist cadres have been infiltrating hamlets and villages at night to conduct anti-election seminars, and have begun stealing identification cards and voter registration slips from peasants. The Viet...
...Hints emerged that certain party officials were arguing for a softening of the ten-month purge that has swept the country. One day Peking's newspapers were nine hours late reaching the stands. The reason for the delay, according to rumors in the capital, was a decision to withdraw a front-page picture of Chairman...
Aiken, formerly a Harvard professor, did not disagree only with Rendell. He also attacked Thomas Boylston Adams, candidate for the Senate, who earlier in the evening advocated negotiations. "That is malarkey," Aiken roared. "We have two choices: fight or withdraw...