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...16th of their secret conferences. Scarcely by coincidence, Le Due Tho flew to Peking to talk to Premier Chou En-lai and then on to Hanoi to consult with his government while Kissinger flew to Saigon for nearly six hours of talks with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. At least some approach toward a settlement was obviously being explored. At week's end Kissinger returned to Camp David, Nixon's mountain hideaway in Maryland, to report the results of his meetings...
...involving a cease-fire in place and a unilateral U.S. withdrawal in return for the release of American prisoners of war, because that would not settle the central question-control of South Viet Nam following a ceasefire. Hanoi wants Washington to get rid of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu as a condition for a settlement. Washington in turn is seeking a formula that would permit the U.S. to withdraw militarily while leaving the political settlement to Saigon and Hanoi. In other words, the U.S. would be willing to leave things so that Hanoi has a fair chance of getting...
...Thieu-Teared. One of the latest approaches is a U.S. proposal for a "two-tier" government for South Viet Nam. One Saigon government would control the non-Communist portion of the South and another would run the Communist-held parts-perhaps including all or most of Quang Tri and Binh Dinh provinces and a slice of Military Region II along the Laotian border...
...refusal to talk directly with Saigon. It also meets Washington's demand that a coalition government must not be forced upon Saigon. U.S. military aid to Saigon would probably be strictly limited to defensive weapons. Since the plan would almost certainly result in the resignation of Thieu, it has been described by one Washington wag as being 'in reality a Thieu teared plan...
...Thieu is well aware that such proposals could lead to his eventual sacrifice. Evidently girding himself for political battles to come, he acquired emergency powers last June, and last week decreed a set of harsh new restrictions on the freedom of the South Vietnamese press. Saigon's 27 dailies must henceforth deposit $50,000 as security against libel suits or government fines. The effect is that about half of them-and most of the opposition newspapers-will be forced to close...