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...Viet Nam's Le Due Tho have spent more than 45 hours parleying in Paris during the past month, trying to salvage last January's Indochina cease-fire agreement. The product of their labors did not quite seem commensurate with the effort. Last week they produced a "communiqué" that even the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) and the usually recalcitrant government of South Viet Nam could affix their names to at a stiff ceremony inside Paris' International Conference Center...
Stripped of its diplomatic jargon, the 14-point, 2,500-word document merely directed all parties to work harder to make the January agreement succeed. To emphasize this, the negotiators liberally sprinkled the communiqué with such earnest phrases as "strictly observe," "scrupulously implement" and "without delay...
...communiqué called for a complete cease-fire last Friday, a ban on the infiltration of all new troops and materiel except replacements for those lost by attrition, a repatriation of all captured military and civilian personnel, a return of both Vietnamese forces to positions they occupied in January, and a renewed effort to determine the fate of men missing in action. For its part, the U.S. agreed to end all aerial reconnaissance over North Viet Nam, to resume minesweeping operations in North Vietnamese waters, and to pursue the talks for economic aid to Hanoi...
Lacked Teeth. Under the terms of the January ceasefire, virtually all these conditions should have been fulfilled by now. That they have not more or less confirms the criticism that the January agreement lacked teeth from the start. Yet the communiqué provides no new enforcement mechanism...
...Bonn official remarked "He was really talking about aid, not trade and paying off with raw materials." In Brezhnev's political discussions with Brandt, Berlin as always proved to be a problem. Halfway through the visit, the Russians refused to include any reference to Berlin in the joint communiqué. In response, Brandt refused to sign any statement at all. The Germans told their Russian counterparts that the use of Berlin as a pressure point was a central ingredient in the cold war and if the Soviets pursued that pattern there could be no détente. After several...