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...times with a battery of 20 pens. As an ingenious solution to the various sensitivities, Washington and Saigon representatives signed a four-party agreement in the morning on one page, Hanoi and the Viet Cong signed on another page, and finally just Washington and Hanoi signed a two-party accord in the afternoon. Figuring out that process, sighed Kissinger, "has aged us all by several years...
...high-pressure last-minute drive to finish the accord was carried out on two levels. Working furiously through the weekend in Paris, a technical team headed by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William Sullivan held marathon sessions with a similar Hanoi group. Still at issue as Kissinger flew back to Paris for a final top-level meeting with Hanoi's Le Due Tho were a few technical questions, such as turning P.O.W.s over to the U.S. officials...
...Paris accord calls for a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, composed of the Saigon government, the Provisional Revolutionary Government and South Vietnamese neutrals. Its effectiveness will be limited, if not paralyzed, by the fact that any action it takes must be unanimous. But as Thieu well knows, the council could eventually be transformed into a base for a new "coalition" of Communists and neutrals that could bring him down. In his forthcoming discussions with the P.R.G., Thieu is unlikely to give an inch on any crucial issue...
Hayden said that despite the peace accord signed in Paris Saturday, the struggle in Vietnam was not over and opponents of the war should continue to oppose U.S. and to the Saigon government and any U.S. violations of the accord's provisions...
...North Vietnamese compromise in the accord--especially its agreement to separate the political and military settlements--represents a traditional Vietnamese face-saving gesture toward a defeated foreign power, Hayden said...