Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps this was not the unmistakable signal to Moscow requested by British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, but as diplomatic warnings go, it was strong language. "Foreign ministers are not village idiots," a top U.S. official explained. "They know we're not talking into thin air. What we're saying is watch...
...into the Aegean Sea, and the escort dutifully took up station a mile astern, rolling gently in the huge carrier's wake. At midday, when the Forrestal catapulted her Phantom jets into clearing skies, the escort drew alongside to within 50 yards of the carrier. But not a signal was exchanged. The escort vessel was Russian, a super gunboat of the Mirka class, and the Forrestal had not invited her to tag along...
...prudently cautioned that the U.S. could be seriously disappointed in its efforts to find peace in Viet Nam. At first, his admonition seemed unwarranted. From most of the world's capitals, including Moscow, came only praise for the President's action. More important, as a silent signal of Hanoi's acceptance of the U.S. offer, the battlefields of South Viet Nam, which have been relatively quiet for the past month, became almost totally still. Then, to Washington's dismay, the U.S. peace initiative foundered on the obduracy of its principal allies, the South Vietnamese...
...asked whether it was really true that the bombing of the North would halt if the way was cleared for the Saigon government to join the talks. Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman replied that this was indeed the case, and flashed word back to Washington that the long-awaited signal had come...
...Mozart was the translucent Laudate Pueri in which the choral balances were exact in well-intoned and excellently phrased singing. The chamber orchestra played quite vigorously even if the conductor, Iva Dee Hiatt, displaying no left-hand technique, threw them to their own devices with her embarrassing Signal Corps gestures...