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...broadcast as a "perfidious maneuver to deceive the American electorate in an election year." When the U.S. proposals were formally presented at the 143rd meeting of the Paris negotiators, the Hanoi spokesman similarly accused Nixon of "holding out bright prospects of sham peace during the electoral campaign." A Viet Cong official insisted that the secret talks had been kept private only "at the imperious demand of Mr. Kissinger," yet also assailed Nixon for a lack of "credibility" in disclosing their substance. The Communists refrained from outright rejection of the Nixon plan, however, and a Hanoi correspondent for Pravda reported that...
...much trouble could the Communists cause in South Viet Nam? The U.S. command believes that any offensive will fail, partly because the Viet Cong structure is currently so weak that the North Vietnamese army will be fighting virtually alone. American military experts also concede, though, that the NVA could wreak some "spectaculars," including the seizure of some towns. Even Defense Secretary Laird, who claims 100% confidence in Vietnamization, predicts only that Saigon's troops will win 75% of its battles...
...signal from Hanoi that it will not tolerate any possible deal on Viet Nam cooked up by the U.S. and China. Beyond that, some Pentagon officials are convinced that the Communists want the psychological benefit of a "visible victory." According to this theory, Hanoi and the Viet Cong have decided not to settle for a unilateral American withdrawal, which the world might interpret as simply a political decision made by the White House. Instead, the Communists want a tangible triumph, a la Dienbienphu, which they can hold up as their...
...predecessors-Averell Harriman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Bruce-all treated the talks seriously, partly because U.S. domestic politics demanded it, and partly because there was still hope that the Communists would negotiate. Porter's quite different mandate is to stop the talks from being used as a Viet Cong soapbox-even if it means being beastly to the Communists...
...than actual observation of movements and of countries (as in parts of the communist world where direct access is not possible; "the collection and processing of more than 750,000 pages of documents and analyses on contemporary communist and radical movements"; analysis of "several thousand detailed interviews with Viet Cong (which) will be released by Rand;" studies of "the problem of stability and disorder (by) cross-national comparisons of the performances of national governments;" "detailed analyses of the sociological and psychological bases of attitudinal change...