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While preparing for a final negotiating session, Hanoi was at pains to assure its unhappy ally, the National Liberation Front, that it had not sacrificed too many of the Front's longtime goals: insistence upon a coalition regime in Saigon, for example, and the removal of Thieu. The U.S., on the other hand, was still hoping that Hanoi would make further, more specific concessions on several key points. Among them: that a cease-fire in South Viet Nam be followed quickly by one in Laos and Cambodia, and that the North Vietnamese commit themselves to the withdrawal of troops from...
...path to peace but a detour around Election Day." North Viet Nam's Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood. In Saigon, meanwhile, South Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu escalated his fulminations of discontent by declaring that the plan was a shameless "surrender to the Communists...
...Saigon, Thieu was busily positioning himself as an independent patriot. The nine points? He damned the National Council of Reconciliation and Concord that is provided in the Kissinger plan to organize new elections as "a disguised coalition" with the Communists. A ceasefire? Thieu insisted that first Hanoi would have to pull all of the estimated 145,000 troops it has in the South back to North Viet...
...NORTH VIETNAMESE consider that the continued presence of their troops in the South will insure Saigon's compliance with the new agreement. Hopefully, President Thieu will noon realize that he can only obtain guarantees for the eventual withdrawal of the northern troops if all the political factions in the South agree beforehand that the victor in the elections will follow a strictly neutral foreign policy, release all political prisoners, guarantee individual liberties, and work diligently to rebuilt the country. Such an agreement should not be too difficult for Thieu since he and other South Vietnamese officials endorsed the idea...
...ball with the Watergate caper. Last week he fantasied a post-cease-fire briefing-as conducted by Washington's C.R.P. (Committee for the Re-Election of the President)-for Saigon politicos on how to win a Viet Nam reunification election: set up committees like "Viet Cong for Thieu," force special interests to contribute $10 million, protect donors' identity by routing contributions through Mexican banks, and send the money back to Saigon to buy "bugging equipment, miniature cameras, disappearing ink, forged letterheads-all the usual paraphernalia that anyone needs for a free and open election...