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...Columbus, Ga., father of five adopted South Vietnamese girls. A widowed physician with five sons, Tisdale met his second wife Betty in 1967 while he was an Army doctor in Viet Nam and she was bringing supplies to an orphanage at An Loc. Their oldest girls Lien, 7, and Xuan, 8, are in second grade in Columbus and doing well in school, though they still have some trouble with English. Because schools in South Viet Nam are so overcrowded and understaffed that they are forced to hold triple sessions starting at 7 a.m., "the kids are crazy about going...
...from my letter to Lodge of August 4, the North Vietnamese delegate, Xuan Thuy, responded to Lodge's challenge by modifying his country's insistence that it had the right to select participants in a coalition and to establish the policies of the new government in the South...
...many of the above problems have already been settled. A report in last Friday's Boston Evening Globe indicated that Hanoi had begun withdrawing some of its troops from northern South Vietnam. In an interview in Sunday's New York Times, North Vietnam's ambassador to the Paris negotiations, Xuan Thuy, said that the international supervisory commission could begin its operations as soon as the peace agreement is signed. Hanoi's press spokesman in Paris insisted on October 27 that the U.S. and North Vietnam had already agreed on arrangements on safeguarding the ceasefire and the "prerogatives, function and procedure...
...South Vietnamese are of goodwill, Ambassador Xuan Thuy told The New York Times, "we can settle immediately, but without goodwill, we can do nothing." His words bring to mind the "Eagle and the Fox" by the ancient Greek slave Aesop. The eagle had pledged to be friends with the fox. But one day, while it was away hunting, the eagle abducted the fox's cubs to feed to her hungry eaglets. The fox was unable to take revenge until a burning entrail, which the eagle had brought home from a sacrificial altar, set her nest on fire. As the eaglets...
Patriot. In Paris, Kissinger stressed to Xuan Thuy, Le Due Tho's deputy, that there were now three possibilities: All parties would agree to the nine-point plan, or some revisions would have to be made, or there would be a total deadlock. Next day, as Kissinger arrived in Saigon for his four days of talks with Thieu, the trouble began...