Word: indochina
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...INDOCHINA. As he has in the past, Nixon will suggest to Brezhnev that Soviet cooperation-meaning putting pressure on Hanoi to observe the cease-fire-will determine the extent of U.S. help in trade and technology. Although Brezhnev may be willing, the President's bargaining position has been weakened by the threat of a congressional cutoff of funds for bombing in Cambodia...
Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho have spent more than 45 hours parleying in Paris during the past month, trying to salvage last January's Indochina cease-fire agreement. The product of their labors did not quite seem commensurate with the effort. Last week they produced a "communiqué" that even the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) and the usually recalcitrant government of South Viet Nam could affix their names to at a stiff ceremony inside Paris' International Conference Center...
Kissinger also found little understanding when he personally begged congressional leaders not to cut off funds for U.S. bombing in Cambodia until he concluded his negotiations. Five hours later, the Senate responded by voting 67-15 to enact the most sweeping fund cutoff in the history of the Indochina war. If the House-Senate conference committee concurs, the bill will end all past, present and future appropriations for U.S. combat on the ground, in the air and upon the waters anywhere in Indochina without prior approval of Congress...
Obtaining a genuine peace in Indochina remains a Tantalus-like frustration, visible but just beyond reach. That was apparent last week as Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho met again in Paris to seek a way of implementing last January's moribund peace agreement...
Events in Indochina last week indicated the need to implement the ceasefire. Heavy fighting continued in Cambodia, much of it for control of Route 4, Phnom-Penh's link to its only deep-water seaport. As American jets flew support missions for Cambodian government troops, the U.S. lost its second pilot in two weeks. On South Viet Nam's northern border, Hanoi continued building its supply roads through the Demilitarized Zone into the northern provinces of South Viet Nam, in violation of the January agreement. Far to the south, week-long clashes in the Mekong Delta, according...