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...details, but it was known that his main effort had been to work out a strict schedule of adherence to the Viet Nam ceasefire. (One major problem: the North Vietnamese demand for the release of all political prisoners in the South and a guaranteed political role for the Viet Cong.) Outside of Viet Nam, Kissinger's main goal was to stop the fighting in Cambodia. "We are trying for a Laos-type solution," said one top U.S. official, meaning direct talks between the government and the Communist-backed Khmer Rouge rebels...
...South; North Viet Nam pointed out that U.S. planes were continuing to bomb in Cambodia and claimed that bombing was taking place in South Viet Nam as well. Bombs were indeed falling in Cambodia, particularly around the Mekong River, which is a vital lifeline to Phnom-Penh. The Viet Cong, meanwhile, charged that some of their positions in South Viet Nam had been bombed by U.S. aircraft and demanded that the International Commission of Control and Supervision investigate...
Until the 1970 coup d'etat, in which Marshal Lon Not overthrew the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian rebel force, then known as the Khmer Rouge, was a ragged band of perhaps 3,000 guerrillas who were affiliated with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Since then, the rebels have grown into a seasoned revolutionary army of at least 45,000 troops, with a solid support cadre of more than 70,000 civilians. Last week, after visiting Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand sent this report on the insurgents...
...will have plenty to discuss. Three months have now passed since the cease-fire went into effect, and violations by both sides continue unabated in South Viet Nam. Political negotiations between the Saigon government and the Viet Cong are being held, as specified by the Paris accord, but they are locked in stalemate over a crucial issue. Saigon insists that elections to determine the future government of South Viet Nam must be tied to a full-scale withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from the South. The Communists maintain, quite accurately, that no such stipulation is made by the Paris accord...
Across the border in South Viet Nam, government troops continued to battle North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in actions scattered across the country. Canadian and Indonesian truce officials, thwarted by both sides as well as by their Hungarian and Polish colleagues, were hinting at quitting the ineffective International Commission of Control and Supervision-a move that would all but destroy the unit. For Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam, peace seemed no nearer at hand than it did a year...