It was these statesmen who created a relatively secure micro-economy for the Lakes region, an economy based on agriculture and small-scale industry such as the production of textiles, bobbins, and charcoal.
It was these statesmen who were able to create a relatively secure micro-economy.
The key to peace lay in Nixon's decision to jettison his demand that Ho Chi Minh withdraw from South Vietnam--a demand that he could have renounced four years earlier, sparing 18,000 American lives.