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While it is clear that President Thieu does not want a negotiated settlement, that does not mean that he will not live with it if the U.S. applies the necessary pressure. No one ever assumed that Thieu approved of the settlement revealed by Hanoi on October 26, or that he would agree to any settlement which did not send his enemies to the firing squad post haste. That is why last week's session of secret talks in Paris, in which Dr. Kissinger raised many issues of principle at Thieu's request that the North Vietnamese predictably rebuffed, was nothing...
Discouraged. Reportedly, Thieu became deeply discouraged about his chances of holding off a settlement when Haig told him how plans to supervise a cease-fire had progressed. Canada, Indonesia, Poland and Hungary have agreed, at least tentatively, to supply a 5,200-man international supervisory force. Spotted in South Viet Nam's 200 districts, its four major ports and along the Demilitarized Zone, the teams will oversee not only the ceasefire but also the elections called for in the nine-point plan. One team, located in Hanoi, will supervise the release of the American P.O.W.s...
...Where Thieu has refused to budge, at least so far, is on the issue of the North Vietnamese troops in the South. The U.S. and Hanoi have already agreed in principle on a partial withdrawal. But Saigon continues to insist on a public assurance by Hanoi that it will withdraw all of its troops-reckoned at 100,000 to 145,000 by U.S. intelligence and at 300,000 by Thieu. The North Vietnamese are not going to agree to such a condition...
...frantic preparations to deal with the uncertain dynamics of peace. By week's end the massive, eleventh-hour infusion of new U.S. military hardware-59 tanks, 100 personnel carriers, 32 heavy-transport planes, 210 fighter-bombers and 280 helicopters-was virtually complete. On the political front, the Thieu regime has added tens of thousands of known or suspected Communists and Communist sympathizers to South Viet Nam's prison population in the past few weeks. Thieu has also mounted a belated effort to broaden his narrow (largely military) base of support with a renewed drive to win a truly...
...dangers of the plastics industry broke new ground. But so far Le Point has not matched L'Express's skill at gathering hard news. With the first hints of a Viet Nam settlement, for instance, L'Express hit the stands with a cover photo of President Thieu and a substantial story on the negotiations; Le Point did not cover the story fully until the following week...