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...Saigon and North Vietnamese sources in Paris, that the talks had become snagged. U.S. officials acknowledged that Kissinger was returning to Washington with some tough North Vietnamese responses to issues raised by the U.S. in Paris. Those responses would require decisions this week by President Nixon, after consultation with Nguyen Phu Duc, a special South Vietnamese emissary dispatched to Washington by President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...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...
Then Kissinger would return to Paris, where he and Le Duc Tho would initial the draft. The papers could be ready for a formal signing in Paris by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers and North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh as early as the end of the month, but in any case the signing would take place no later than mid-December. Under the 60-day withdrawal plan, the remaining U.S. troops in South Viet Nam and the more than 500 P.O.W.s known to be held by the Communists throughout Indochina could begin coming home before Christmas...
...South Vietnamese President, Nguyen Van Thieu, meanwhile continued to reject the proposed accord and at the same time to rally his people in preparation for a ceasefire. Last Sunday, despite a ban on public demonstrations, his government permitted (and stage-managed) the largest political rally the capital has seen in six years. More than 10,000 Vietnamese Catholics marched to the Saigon city hall to register their support of Thieu and their opposition to the settlement...
...Churchill freak like myself, any kind of visual stimuli is welcome which recalls a man whose abilities would put any post-war American politician to shame, particularly the current resident of the White House who is fond of comparing himself to Churchill when he isn't calling Nguyen Van Thieu the Churchill the Churchill of Asia...