Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cease-fire agreement hit a snag. U.S. Government officials in Saigon insisted that the North Vietnamese release, in addition to all remaining U.S. prisoners in both Viet Nams, the ten P.O.W.s known to be held in Laos, arguing that that had been part of an "understanding" between Le Due Tho and Henry Kissinger. Until that condition was met, the U.S. said, it would refuse to continue the withdrawal of its troops...
That goal is still Nixon's special preoccupation. He eagerly asks Kissinger about North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho: "What kind of man is he?" Then he listens to the traveling professor spin out his stories, which by now are better than those of Marco Polo...
Sipping tea at the Presidential Palace, Premier Pham Van Dong and Kissinger's familiar Paris adversary Le Duc Tho spent some of their time with the American in replaying the Paris talks, trying to assess each other's motives and tactics. They smiled often, obviously respecting each other's professional skills. There were few recriminations about the war. Instead there were realistic analyses of the problems that lie ahead...
...silver-haired Sullivan has been Kissinger's chief political adviser throughout the long cease-fire negotiations. While Kissinger was talking to North Viet Nam's top emissary, Le Due Tho, Sullivan was working 18-hour days at the "tandem negotiations" that tack led the technical details of the cease fire, such as the logistical arrangements for the release of war prisoners and the machinery for supervising the truce...
...contemporary diplomacy. Here was one of the chief architects of the U.S. bombing and mining policy being given a welcome in the capital of what had so recently been a bitter enemy. Kissinger was making his first visit to Hanoi at the invitation of his Paris 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...