Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likelihood, this week's talks between the President's National Security Adviser and the North Vietnamese on the 58-page draft agreement would continue for at least three or four days and perhaps even more. Following the Paris sessions, either Kissinger or his deputy, General Alexander M. Haig, would go to Saigon to review the terms with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, who is preparing for a cease-fire while continuing to maintain a public posture of bristling opposition to a settlement...
...round of secret talks figured to be difficult. Nevertheless, during the long hiatus in the negotiations, some of the issues that Kissinger will raise have somewhat diminished. When he returned to Washington last week after a two-day visit in Saigon, General Haig was able to report that Thieu had begun to yield-though reluctantly-on some of his objections to the nine-point plan...
Discouraged. Reportedly, Thieu became deeply discouraged about his chances of holding off a settlement when Haig told him how plans to supervise a cease-fire had progressed. Canada, Indonesia, Poland and Hungary have agreed, at least tentatively, to supply a 5,200-man international supervisory force. Spotted in South Viet Nam's 200 districts, its four major ports and along the Demilitarized Zone, the teams will oversee not only the ceasefire but also the elections called for in the nine-point plan. One team, located in Hanoi, will supervise the release of the American P.O.W.s...
Back in Washington after his unprecedented five-day meeting at Rambouillet, Kissinger and Haig drove straight to the White House. "How are the girls in Paris?" Nixon quipped. Then they got down to work...
...there was nothing in Kissinger's briefcase that the President cared to disclose when his National Security Adviser returned to Washington after his unprecedented four straight days of secret talks with the North Vietnamese. Kissinger and Major General Alexander Haig reported to Nixon and Secretary of State William Rogers at breakfast. To the public, matters were reported still "in a sensitive stage," with "many difficult things to settle...