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...talks apparently concentrated on three crucial points: 1) finding a formula that would guarantee that the North Vietnamese would make at least a token withdrawal of forces from South Viet Nam after a ceasefire; 2) the question of whether political prisoners held by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's government must be released; 3) the powers and duties of the proposed National Council of Reconciliation that would supervise the postwar elections and a new political arrangement for governing South Viet Nam. Also debated were the problems involved in establishing cease-fires in Laos and Cambodia when fighting stops...
...White House still expects Thieu, after a good deal of agony and political posturing, to do just that. Nixon refused to hold a summit conference with Thieu before the agreement with Hanoi was further pinned down, since that would, paradoxically, make Thieu look as though he were either a U.S. puppet or was pushing Nixon into a tougher bargaining stance. Washington feels that the momentum of negotiations and worldwide hopes for an end to the bloodshed is too strong for Thieu to resist. But Nixon also made it clear that the U.S. would not be blocked from a settlement that...
...revealed shortly before the U.S. elections, did not require Hanoi to remove any of its troops. Yet there apparently was a tacit understanding that some would go, although it would not be detailed in writing. This would preserve the Hanoi fiction that there are no North Vietnamese troops there. Thieu insists that all such troops must be removed and that this be guaranteed in print. Kissinger in Paris this week undoubtedly will be pressing for some compromise formula, presumably one that would make the unwritten understanding more explicit. A knotty related problem is whether Thieu will be required to release...
Although all of those matters could yet produce a deadlock, Washington still expects substantial progress in this week's resumed secret negotiations. More consultations with Thieu presumably will follow this-and that is when the tough South Vietnamese President apparently will have to bite the bullet and either go along with the accords or watch the U.S. sign without him. He has been warned that a Democratic Congress is not likely to vote any more funds for his government if he holds out, although if he is convinced that the agreement would lead to his demise anyway, this would...
Already, there is surprisingly strong feeling among many political and intellectual figures in Saigon that a ceasefire is imminent and that Thieu's position is hopeless. "Thieu is finished," contends an anti-Communist Vietnamese scholar. "He was, perhaps, the man for war. He is not the man for peace. We must have a new man." Agrees Ly Quy Chung, a deputy in the South Vietnamese lower house: "We must prepare for the new political struggle. We must have a new team and not the one that has lost the war, or they will lose again." The battle for political...