Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret operations and ruses. Sometimes Nixon has even helped to throw observers off the track ? spending an apparently nonchalant weekend at Camp David when a secret meeting was on in Paris. So secretly have the Paris talks been held that only a handful of Administration officials saw the draft agreement that Kissinger hammered out with Le Due Tho in their five-day session last October. CIA Director Richard Helms obtained his copy through his sources in Viet Nam and asked Kissinger if the text was accurate. Said Kissinger suavely: "It has the odious smell of the truth." On another...
...part, Nixon, who fully understood what Kissinger had brought back from Paris, backed off when Thieu balked. In sending Kissinger back to the North Vietnamese to extract more specific language in the draft on the sovereignty of South Viet Nam, so as to meet some of Thieu's objections, Nixon alarmed Hanoi, which had believed it had a deal. In predictable riposte, Hanoi then began asking for revisions of its own. As Kissinger explained in his Oct. 26 briefing...
...early October Henry Kissinger flew to Washington with a 58-page document in his briefcase. It was the draft of an agreement that he believed-and millions of others were soon led to believe-would lead to a rapid settlement of the Viet Nam War. What went wrong? TIME correspondents in Washington, Paris and Saigon have reconstructed the chronology of events, both public and hitherto secret, since peace first appeared a possibility...
...villa near the Paris suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho quickly arrived at the draft of a nine-point agreement. It was not yet a full accord; some vital details were yet to be filled in. But it constituted a major breakthrough. The plan separated the purely military issues from the political ones; it provided for an in-place cease-fire that would end the major fighting immediately, a U.S. withdrawal and the return of the American prisoners of war within 60 days, and for the establishment of a purposefully vague...
...North Vietnamese, Kissinger said, fought for an Oct. 31 signing date "almost as maniacally as they fought the war." He promised to make a "major effort" to get the agreement signed by then, but he pointed out on six separate occasions that the draft would have to be accepted by all parties. The North Vietnamese may not have taken his meaning: they had always assumed that Kissinger was speaking for both President Nixon and the South Vietnamese...