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...Thieu's Political Prisoners...
...19th Committee stated that the demonstration will be held to urge a halt to all bombing in Indochina, American approval of the Nine Point Peace Plan, and an end to all aid to the Thieu regime...
...unleashed because, in Nixon's view, the North had acted in bad faith in the negotiations. In October, the U.S. says, the North agreed to separate the question of American prisoners from the fate of Vietnamese political prisoners being held by the South Vietnamese government of Nguyen Van Thieu. Subsequently, they demanded that the two issues be treated together-no Americans released unless Thieu also opened his jails. This Nixon refused to do. "One of the President's major considerations" in resuming the bombing, according to one aide, "was the conditions the North Vietnamese attached to the release...
...seemed evident in Nixon's TV address on this evening, in which he said that there were "ambiguities" in the plan and these must "be settled before we sign the final agreement." Yet privately Nixon decided that he would stop well short of trying to satisfy all of Thieu's doubts on the sovereignty question. Kissinger was to seek a concession on the DMZ aspect, Nixon ruled, and if he got it, they then would try to force Thieu to sign. If Thieu still refused, the U.S. would make a separate peace with Hanoi...
...Thieu's special emissary, Nguyen Phu Duc, flew to Washington to tell Nixon that Hanoi's concessions were insufficient. Nixon rejected nearly all of Duc's demands, which included a massive North Vietnamese troop withdrawal. But the President was still bothered about the DMZ; he told Kissinger to bring the issue up again in Paris...