Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amidst the exchange of insults, Vance and his North Vietnamese counterpart, Colonel Ha Van Lau, met but got nowhere on the issue of a conference table. Hanoi, in fact, has rivaled Saigon in its fussing over the point. For both, the seemingly puerile bickering about furniture represents a vital issue of sovereignty. The Communists are determined to bring the N.L.F. to the table as an equal; Saigon just as adamantly refuses...
...interesting. Americans are aghast when the Soviet Union issues the Brezhnev Doctrine. Why? The U.S., in 1823, announced to the world the Monroe Doctrine to support our own intervention, imperialism, and hands-off policy in this hemisphere. The Russians are simply learning from their equally ambitious counterpart how to deal with troublesome neighbors...
Lady Bird has already introduced Pat Nixon to Hopkins' domestic counterpart, Chief Usher J. Bernard West, who presides over some 70 cooks, butlers, maids, elevator operators, electricians and carpenters. Under his overall supervision are five housemen who constantly wax and buff the floors; a full-time window cleaner who has 147 windows and eight skylights to cope with; and three flower arrangers who keep busy adorning the twelve guest rooms. After 27 years of White House ceremonies-including J.F.K.'s funeral and Lynda Bird's wedding-West says with equanimity: "We never have crises...
...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...
ABDUCTED by Joseph E. Levine, chained in a dungeon with Steve Reeves (and a cast of thousands), the epic saga has arisen. In Hagbard and Signe the cinesaga stands up, wipes off the grade-C slime, and brings to film the stature of its literary counterpart...