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...hard bargaining was far from over. President Nguyen Van Thieu was resisting the terms of the settlement with all his might?publicly, at least. Hanoi was complaining that the U.S. was trying to slip out of a promise to sign the agreement by Oct. 31, a date that seemed too soon to be realistic. Nor was the fighting yet at an end. Indeed the heaviest ground action in months flared up in Viet Nam as both sides jockeyed for eleventh-hour gains in advance of a cease-fire in place...
...moment, Hanoi was still at the hostility stage. At a Paris press conference, North Viet Nam's reedy-voiced spokesman Nguyen Than Le chortled that certainly his colleagues would like to see Kissinger again?but only to "down the champagne" after the agreement had been signed. From Hanoi, Le Due Tho sent word to Kissinger that he would meet him in Paris this week on Monday?but only if the U.S. was ready to sign on the Tuesday, Oct. 31 "deadline." At week's end the Soviet news agency Tass took the highly unusual step of reporting that Soviet Premier...
...Saigon on perhaps the most difficult and critical mission of his extraordinary career in diplomacy. He had in his briefcase an agreement in principle with North Viet Nam for the shape of a settlement, and his was the unenviable task of selling that settlement to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, whose political demise will be an inevitable consequence of the package. However Thieu might balk, Viet Nam seemed closer to the brink of peace than it has been in a decade...
Even in cynical Saigon, Vietnamese reacted strongly-and somewhat surprisingly-to the image of Thieu at bay. Nguyen Van Huyen, the president of the South Vietnamese Senate and an occasional critic of Thieu, openly declared his hope that "he will remain in power to keep stability." Huyen added: "I don't say the U.S. is deserting us, but something very disquieting is happening." TIME Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud cabled: "For the first time in his political career, Thieu has become a truly sympathetic character. Even his opponents have expressed support for him as he apparently attempts to resist American...
...certain that a settlement would not have been possible without election year pressures. News reports from Saigon in recent days have described Thieu's extreme dissatisfaction with the terms of the negotiations. When Kissinger finally left Saigon on Monday, Thieu may have told his colleagues what former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky told ranking members of South Vietnam's National Defense Military College on July...