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...Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger...
...meantime, Vietnamese continue to die in skirmishes between Saigon and NLF troops, and Vietnamese prisoners from the Saigon government's jails continue to tell stories of their treatment: "The two hands of the woman are tied together and drawn up to the ceiling," four Vietnamese from Thu Duc prison wrote in 1970. "The police then twirl her around, beating her until she is unconscious...
Nguyen Van Thieu has long believed in dealing with the Communists primarily with guns. Last week, only a few days after Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho signed in Paris what might be called Cease-Fire II, Thieu gave a showy display of that belief. In the annual South Vietnamese celebration of power known as Armed Forces Day, jet fighters whistled overhead while tanks, self-propelled artillery and armed amphibious vehicles thundered past the reviewing stands on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Boulevard. Twenty thousand men-the equivalent of two divisions-marched...
What even Richard Nixon could not ignore about the House vote was that it came one week before Henry Kissinger's rendezvous with Le Duc Tho in Paris. Although the stated purpose of their meeting is to discuss ways to ensure the correct implementation of the January peace agreement, it is highly probable that the American side intends to use the session as a chance to brandish its entire line of threats...
...ailing President Lon Nol could effectively survive. Amidst these signs that the cease-fire agreement has all but collapsed, the White House announced that Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger would return to Paris in mid-May for another round of talks with the silver-haired chief North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Duc...