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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Demilitarized Zone is recognized as a provisional military demarcation line between two parts of Viet Nam that are expected to become reunited through peaceful negotiations between their governments. Thus the current separate entity of South Viet Nam is recognized. The DMZ is to be respected by North and South Viet Nam, but civilian movement through it will be negotiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SETTLEMENT: Paris Peace in Nine Chapters | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...issue: the precise status of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone. Hanoi, which has consistently refused to view Viet Nam as two nations, wanted free military movement through this "temporary" buffer zone. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, on the other hand, claims that the DMZ is a permanent political border for his sovereign nation. It was largely at Thieu's insistence that the U.S. had reopened discussion on this subject, which had purposely been left vague in the nine-point agreement announced by Kissinger in October. Now, on orders from Nixon, Kissinger told Tho that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Final Push for Peace | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

Whether this threat was decisive is not certain, but suddenly, on Jan. 11, Tho indicated a willingness to make some concessions on the DMZ issue. Perhaps the continued pressure from Peking and Moscow to achieve a settlement was as influential as any potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Final Push for Peace | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...extracting from the North the concession that the country was temporarily not unified. The U.S. is not likely to win a guarantee that Hanoi will refrain from using violence to impose its system on the South. But Washington seeks, at the least, an assurance that Hanoi will respect the DMZ as a temporary border between two sovereign halves of a divided country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: A Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...time the talks went well enough for his deputy, General Alexander Haig, to return to Washington to prepare to take a completed agreement to Saigon. But then Kissinger raised the DMZ issue for the second time, and Le Duc Tho exploded. Obviously reflecting Politburo decisions, the North Vietnamese angrily retracted concessions made in earlier sessions and flung down new demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chronology: How Peace Went off the Rails | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

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