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...peace talks had reached a dead-end impasse. The original agreements, in effect, were being torn up, and negotiations had to begin anew. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu was about to blow up any agreement he did not like anyway. So went the ominous reports last week as another lull in the battle for peace inspired nervous speculation. In fact, the situation was not at all that sour. There were sound reasons for cautious optimism as the secret talks were to resume this week and Henry Kissinger resumed his commuting to Paris. In tribute...
...Thieu remained a prickly obstacle, as he feared, perhaps with some justification, that the nine-point plan worked out by White House Adviser Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Due Tho might seriously undermine his chance to survive. Thieu's personal envoy, Nguyen Phu Due, was received twice by President Nixon in the White House in exchanges described as "very detailed and very frank"-meaning there was sharp disagreement. While Nixon conceded that the proposed agreement was a compromise that could not fully satisfy Saigon, he also emphasized that it gave the Thieu government a fair chance...
...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...
...that the agreement is fair and applicable and opens a new page in the relations between the U.S. and ourselves. There is no reason for delay. The reasons put forward by the U.S. are artificial and unacceptable. Kissinger and others give reasons such as "the difficulties in Saigon with Thieu." But the U.S. is trying to delay the signing of the agreement to intensify deliveries of weapons to strengthen the government of Saigon and continue the policy of Vietnamization. It has not given up the erroneous policy that led to the present state of things...
President Nguyen Van Thieu has shown some concern for the plight of the hill people, abolishing official discrimination. He also created the Ministry for the Development of Ethnic Minorities in 1967, and named Luett, one of the relatively few well-educated Montagnards, as its current head. But Thieu recently jolted tribespeople who had hoped to produce more educated leaders to shepherd them into their changing world. He eliminated the draft exemption that was used by some young Montagnards to get an education, and roaming press gangs quickly swept 2,000 of the 14,000 Montagnards attending Vietnamese schools into military...