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...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...
...round of secret talks figured to be difficult. Nevertheless, during the long hiatus in the negotiations, some of the issues that Kissinger will raise have somewhat diminished. When he returned to Washington last week after a two-day visit in Saigon, General Haig was able to report that Thieu had begun to yield-though reluctantly-on some of his objections to the nine-point plan...
...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...
...Despite Thieu's adamant public stance, the continued optimism of the Nixon Administration suggests that Thieu may be showing somewhat more flexibility in private than he has revealed in public; but his final disposition on the whole question remains unclear. What guarantees the U.S. may have given Thieu are not known. The U.S. is believed to be considering a plan to hire Viet Nam War veterans and other civilians to work as advisers to ARVN after the ceasefire, a scheme that would inevitably draw criticism from Hanoi, to say nothing of U.S. war critics...
...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...