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...trying recently to justify its bombing of Cambodia. A "key official" told The New York Times on April 3 that North Vietnam "fully understood" that the United States would continue bombing until a ceasefire took effect in Cambodia. The State Department has also alleged that Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho agreed during January that ceasefires would start in Laos and Cambodia two weeks after the beginning of the Vietnam ceasefire, CBS news reported...
Sipping tea at the Presidential Palace, Premier Pham Van Dong and Kissinger's familiar Paris adversary Le Duc Tho spent some of their time with the American in replaying the Paris talks, trying to assess each other's motives and tactics. They smiled often, obviously respecting each other's professional skills. There were few recriminations about the war. Instead there were realistic analyses of the problems that lie ahead...
...clearest sign of progress was Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger's decision to recess his talks with North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho and fly to Florida to consult with Richard Nixon at his Key Biscayne home. Though Kissinger was not due to arrive until after midnight, Nixon's aides let it be known that the President would wait up to hear what Kissinger had to report. Before he left Paris, Kissinger described the week's sessions with the North Vietnamese as "very extensive and useful negotiations." At Orly Airport, he declared that...
Abram Sangrey, a spokesman for the Friends, said that the AFSC is now in the process of negotiating with Hanoi for the fifth shipment of supplies to Viet-Duc, which he said was the principal teaching hospital in the North before it was destroyed in the pre-1968 bombing raids...
Kissinger continued to display good cheer for the photographers, but his optimism finally began to fade when Le Duc Tho gave him Hanoi's long-delayed protocol governing the I.C.C. on "the night before I was to leave Paris, six weeks after we had stated what our aim was, five weeks after the ceasefire was supposed to be signed." To the U.S. the proposal was a joke; it called for a force of 250 men to handle a task the U.S. thought would require a force of some...