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...perhaps the most difficult and critical mission of his extraordinary career in diplomacy. He had in his briefcase an agreement in principle with North Viet Nam for the shape of a settlement, and his was the unenviable task of selling that settlement to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, whose political demise will be an inevitable consequence of the package. However Thieu might balk, Viet Nam seemed closer to the brink of peace than it has been in a decade...
...proposed settlement may have to be altered in some details during the negotiations with Thieu. But from South Vietnamese sources TIME obtained an outline of the Hanoi-Washington bargain that Kissinger brought from Paris. In essence it provides for an internationally supervised ceasefire, the formation of a new South Vietnamese government and elections for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for South Viet Nam. To separate military from political matters it proposes three separate committees or bodies to implement a settlement, a process that might take many months to accomplish. What the White House wants, say the Saigon...
...PEACE. Once the cease-fire was in effect direct negotiations would begin between the present Saigon government and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) maintained by the National Liberation Front in South Viet Nam. The two sides would work out the composition of a "caretaker government" that would succeed the Thieu regime and prepare the country for general elections to choose a constituent assembly. The assembly would draft a new constitution, a new round of elections would be held, and a new and presumably broad-based government that included Communists would take its place in Saigon...
...committee composed of Saigon government and P.R.G. representatives to take on the formidable task of organizing a caretaker government. In this government, the main political factions in South Viet Nam-Communist, neutralist and the Thieu government-would be represented, but not necessarily equally. Which groups would have how large a share in the caretaker government-and therefore to some extent in the elections and constitution that ensue from it-would be subject to negotiations between the representatives of the Saigon government and the P.R.G. on the committee. This provision meets Nixon's demands that he not have to participate...
...committee composed of all four parties to the war: the U.S., Hanoi, the Thieu government and the P.R.G. This group would work with the I.C.C., arbitrating who controlled what territory at the time of the ceasefire, negotiating the U.S. withdrawal and the release of the P.O.W.s and the other large, overall problems of ending combat in Viet...