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...raised some doubts about whether the Kissinger-Tho meeting would be held at all, apparently in an effort to pressure the U.S. into resuming the clearing of mines in North Vietnamese waters. But, with preliminary talks already under way between the deputy negotiators, William Sullivan for the U.S. and Nguyen Co Thach for North Viet Nam, it seemed probable that the top-level meetings would take place on schedule...
...could the people of Vietnam withstand this continual bombardment? Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese defense minister, explains their resolve by citing a poem written by a 16-year-old girl. "She dedicates her life to Vietnam in this poem, and then she is killed in a bombing raid," Giap says. "Our people have her dedication...
Thieu gets the 'friendship' of your government; the Communists get the 'friendship' of those of you who don't like what your government does. Where do the Vietnamese people come in? Who is our friend? Yours sincerely, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Law '73 Hoang T. Ly, Harvard '76 Nguyen Thi Suong Hong, Harvard '75 Ho Hue Tam, GSAS 3 Pham Thi Hoa, East Asian Research Center
...Saigon, the North and South Vietnamese are barely civil to each other. The Paris accords call for "consultations in a spirit of national reconciliation and concord, mutual respect and mutual non-elimination." But, no less than the Communists, President Nguyen Van Thieu, who returned to Saigon last week from a trip abroad, still prefers to pursue a policy of elimination. So far he has shown far more political strength than anyone had thought he would immediately after the ceasefire. He has made only a pretense of moving toward joint political arrangements with the Communists, feeling no pressure...
...back to Saigon from the U.S., South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu got the cold shoulder throughout Europe. Britain's Prime Minister Ted Heath decided to helicopter Thieu to a private meeting at Chequers rather than chance an ugly demonstration in Whitehall. In Bonn, 2,500 leftist rioters wrecked the 18th century town hall to protest the visit, while in Hannover, Chancellor Willy Brandt bluntly told a cheering audience: "Some visitors one would rather see leaving than coming." Choppered over Rome, again to avoid demonstrators, Thieu dropped in at the Vatican, where Pope Paul VI urged him to release...