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Even the largest bed would be hardpressed to accommodate Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the January cease-fire in Vietnam...
Reactions to the award from Hanoi and Washington were predictably different. While President Nixon praised the committee for giving "deserved recognition to the art of negotiation," and Kissinger in turn praised Nixon for "creating the conditions necessary for this settlement," a North Vietnamese official said he personally thought Le Duc Tho would decline the award...
Both men rose from humble origins and neither has shied away from the use of force in carrying out his own political and philosophical beliefs. But their lives are aimed in opposite directions. Le Duc Tho, a life-long revolutionary who fought the French and has spent ten years in jail, envisions a socialist society of peace and justice...
Kissinger will be in Oslo on December 10 to receive the Nobel medal and a cash award of about $60,000, but speculators say Le Duc Tho will be absent...
...dual award is actually a thinly veiled praise of President Nixon's policy of negotiated settlement, Le Duc Tho's absence would hardly seem surprising. The man who negotiated with Kissinger for 42 months has never admitted that the agreement was less than a victory for the North Vietnamese. It is unlikely he wants to climb into bed with Kissinger on Alfred Nobel's terms...