Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of Giap's political aims were evident: to embarrass the U.S. and undercut the authority of the South Vietnamese government, to frighten urban South Vietnamese and undermine pacification in the countryside, to give the impression to the U.S. public that the war is in a stalemate. Some U.S. officials also see the offensive as a prelude to North Viet Nam's coming to the conference table, aimed at enhancing Hanoi's hand in negotiations...
...Attempt to Embarrass. What the U.S. could lose by a bombing pause, military leaders point out, is the sustained, punishing impact of the daily harassment and destruction of the North's war machine. The University of London's P. J. Honey, an expert on North Viet Nam, believes the North is in dire need of just such a respite. Though no one is predicting the imminent collapse of Ho Chi Minh's regime, the North is obviously under severe strain. In the nearly three years since the bombings began, Honey says, there has been a marked erosion...
...same, if Hanoi is serious about negotiations, says Honey, its contacts with Washington in various parts of the world are "good enough so as not to need to rely on what Outer Mongolians tell the A.F.P. This has the look to me of simply another attempt to embarrass the U.S. Government...
When it came to Moscow's plans for a world conference to embarrass the Chinese, however, Tito and Ceauseşcu flew into each other's arms. Both fear that any such Communist togetherness could result in resolutions that would hamper their independence or force them to take sides in the Sino-Soviet dispute. In an effort to reassure them, the Russians have pledged that the conference would not be "a meeting designed to excommunicate the Chinese." But Ceauseşcu has turned down the Russians' invitation to a preliminary meeting next month in Budapest that will...
...bribery and resigned from his state tax job. Kuss was also indicted on the same charges; McGowan and several other Republicans have been ousted from both county and party jobs. There was some grumbling that Publisher Bill Moyers, late of the White House, had launched the investigation to embarrass Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a possible opponent of President Johnson next year. But Newsday's owner, Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, is a staunch Republican. And more disclosures are still to come. "I think we've got enough stuff to keep us going through 1968," says Editor Bill Mcllwain. "There...