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...complex package had been worked out by Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Duc Tho in Paris apparently without Thieu's approval, and Kissinger's arrival in Saigon with the agreement spurred Thieu into a frenzy of defensive activity. Emerging from his near imperial isolation, he began reaching out for public support. He turned up at a Saigon youth rally to rail against "henchmen of the Communists." He gave dinners for a variety of officials and legislators, some of them opposition figures he normally scorns-or jails. He ordered banners placed in Saigon bearing his contention that...
Treasure. The U.S. has apparently agreed in principle to the dismantling of what the Nixon Administration has maintained with blood and treasure as South Viet Nam's constitutional government and to back the writing of a new constitution with Communist participation. In the process, Thieu, whom Nixon promised never to abandon, would be forced to negotiate against great odds just to retain his position in the interim and must certainly lose it in the long run. Through the cease-fire "in place," the package would "reward aggression," as Nixon once put it, by ceding the Communists territory obtained...
...part, Hanoi has agreed to negotiate directly with the Thieu government while the South Vietnamese President is still in power, which it had said that it would never do. In fact, the Communists even seem willing to let Thieu remain in office until the caretaker government is formed, again a retreat. And they have agreed to forgo a strictly tripartite government with precisely one-third representation guaranteed them...
...seems certain that, should Thieu still be around at that point, the constituent assembly would in effect simply write him out of power. Thus the plan would allow the Administration both to preserve a role for Thieu for a time and-after a decent interval -have him set aside and satisfy the future political realities of Viet...
...narrow sense at least he would have kept that vow. Whatever happened to Thieu and to the makeup of the Saigon government-the complexities of Vietnamese life after so many years of war are such that few foresee any sudden Communist "takeover"-the Administration could argue that it had "imposed" nothing on the country, that it was all "up to the Vietnamese themselves...