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...Vietnamese did not choose greatness--who but a lunatic would?--they had greatness thrust upon them. Most of them would probably have preferred peace under General Thieu to the endless terror of civil war and American repression...
Actually, of course, amnesty means forgetting, and Nixon is right to reject this. That there was a saving remnant who would not fight for General Thieu is one of the few aspects of the Indochina war that we can be proud of. If we had any sense, we should shout it from the mountaintops...
...gained official recognition as a legitimate administration with a right to maintain armed forces on its territory, the Vietnamese have gained the departure of at least America's ground troops, and Hanoi has entered into a Council of National Reconciliation with the promise of further isolating Nguyen Van Thieu politically...
...Lines. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu exaggerated only slightly when he declared that "there is no cease-fire at all." The ICCS chairman, Michel Gauvin of Canada, agreed. "The Joint Military Commission has as yet failed to get an effective cease-fire all over the country," he said. "It has failed to establish lines of demarcation between troops." Indeed, although the level of fighting was declining, there still were some 180 clashes a day-well above the level of many of the quieter periods of the war. For the entire cease-fire period so far, Saigon...
...antagonist, Le Due Tho. In three days of intensive talks, he was to meet Le Duan, the Communist Party leader, and Premier Pham Van Dong. The North Vietnamese had sought this visit with some urgency, possibly as a means of worrying South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi can also use any rapprochement with Washington to give it more flexibility in dealing with both Moscow and Peking...