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...chief reason for limiting the bombing this time was a strong hunch that Hanoi might finally cooperate. The Communists' Tet offensive, despite its savagery and shock effects, cost the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong heavily. Recently, a 9th Infantry Division brigade captured a revealing critique of the Tet fighting. Issued by Hanoi's Central Office for South Viet Nam, it said: "We failed to seize a number of primary objectives and to destroy mobile and defense units of the enemy. We also failed to motivate the people to stage uprisings. The enemy still resisted and his units...
North Viet Nam has maintained that it cannot bargain for the Viet Cong, that this must be done by the National Liberation Front, which neither the U.S. nor the Saigon government recognizes as an independent entity. N.L.F. representation in some form would be tolerated by Washington, but the Thieu regime says it will never make a deal with the Viet Cong's representatives. The N.L.F., for its part, insists it will not bargain with Thieu's government, whose legitimacy it denies...
These are procedural points. Next would come the fundamental issues. The U.S. wants the withdrawal of all Northern forces from the South, an end to Viet Cong insurrection, and assurances that the South would have a reasonable chance to remain non-Communist and independent. Hanoi's maximum goals are contained in the oft-stated four points of 1965, which-among other things-call for complete U.S. military withdrawal, settling of South Viet Nam's internal affairs on N.L.F. terms, and eventual reunification (i.e., Communization) of North and South "without foreign interference...
...side to accept the other's full demands would amount to surrender, and neither is ready for that. An immediate goal of the U.S. is a ceasefire, even though it would probably be subject to frequent violation. In exchange for that, the U.S. might well accept continued Viet Cong control of the areas it now holds. A marked decline in the level of hostilities would permit gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces if North Viet Nam reciprocated -which might be a very...
...Viet Nam was willing to make any concessions in order to facilitate a peace settlement, he shot back, "No, Mister!"He was also adamant on the issue that troubles the South Vietnamese most: that the U.S. will try to force them to form a coalition government with the Viet Cong. Cried Ky: "If we have now arrived at the stage where we have to accept coalition under American pressure, that means we are going to die in the next five or six months, or at least lose the country. So it is better to lose it fighting. At least...