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...finally came to an end last week with two coldly formal signing sessions in the silk-walled, gilt-mirrored conference room of the former Majestic Hotel in Paris, the South Vietnamese government and its Viet Cong enemies still refused even to sign the same piece of paper...
...State, William Rogers, who ended up signing his name on various sheets of paper 72 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...
...cease-fire throughout Viet Nam, but not simultaneously in Cambodia or Laos, will begin Jan. 27, with all military units remaining in place. Any disputes over control of territory are to be resolved by the two-party joint military commission from the South Viet Nam and Viet Cong combatants. All U.S. troops are to be withdrawn within 60 days, and all U.S. military bases in South Viet Nam are to be dismantled. There can be no re-entry of military forces into South Viet Nam, and no increase in military equipment...
...heaviest fighting since the Easter offensive. Flying from bases in Thailand, Navy carriers offshore and the airbase at Bien Hoa, home of the last U.S. combat unit in Viet Nam (see box), U.S. pilots flew record sorties in an effort to stop the Communist drive. The Viet Cong made some potentially significant last-minute gains, especially in strategically important Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon, where government control of the provincial capital was seriously threatened...
...character. American intervention has transformed the Vietnam conflict into a crucial test of American capacity to suppress movements of national liberation. Before Vietnam, it was not at all certain that even a substantially united people could defeat the concentrated power of the United States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the pupet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam...