Word: indochina
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Although he has publicly denounced U.S. policy in Indochina, Yevtushenko has had no qualms about meeting its makers. After talking with him at a dinner party, Henry Kissinger arranged for Yevtushenko to see Richard Nixon. Last week poet and President conferred for 70 minutes at the White House; according to Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, Nixon informed Yevtushenko that poetry and music are "an international language...
...make the U.S. public believe that Hanoi would separate military from political issues. During secret negotiations in May 1971, Nixon pointed out, the U.S. had pledged to withdraw all troops within six months if Hanoi agreed to release U.S. prisoners of war and to a cease-fire throughout Indochina...
While the U.S. has proposed that elections take place six months after withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Nixon plan of October 11 stipulates that the countries of Indochina will "adopt a foreign policy consistent with the military provisions of the 1954 Geneva accords," and that after a cease-fire is signed "there will be no further infiltration of outside forces into the countries of Indochina...
...defense treaty with Thailand, the SEATO treaty, and Thailand is not involved in the war as Cambodia and Laos are. So we would expect that we would, at least for the short run, continue to have some Americans in Thailand. But that doesn't affect the settlement in Indochina...
...return of so much airpower to the Indochina battle-field hides the fact that the Nixon Administration does not really fear that Hanoi and the PRG can do much damage to the Thieu regime during Tet, the lunar new year. When questioned about the situation a highly placed official appeared to hope that Hanoi would expend all its energies during Tet on the theory that its whole military apparatus would be destroyed. During the next four years that Hanoi would require to rebuild its forces, the 'force of reason' and a decrease in Russian and Chinese aid would convince Hanoi...