Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supervisory groups were mainly still concerned about preliminary matters. Members of both the ICCS and the Joint Military Commission began meeting, working out procedural details and, in some cases, settling into field offices. At My Tho in the Mekong Delta, for example, an ICCS observer team consisting of six Canadians, five Hungarians, nine Indonesians and five Poles took over the entire third floor of the town's Grand Hotel. They set up an op erations room plastered with 20 maps of their assigned region. Then they spent most of the week arguing about how to arrange for communications, transportation...
When Kissinger and Tho met on Tuesday (their 24th round of talks in 3½ years), the atmosphere was surprisingly amiable, and instead of the anticipated two days of hard bargaining, final agreement came in just four hours. Photographers were called in to record the initialing of a completed pact by Tho and Kissinger, although this fact was not disclosed. The historic announcement was left to simultaneous broadcasts in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi...
...ultimate vagueness of the settlement is that it enables the contesting parties to read it as they see fit. Hanoi Negotiator Tho, far more ebullient than Kissinger, called it "a very great victory for the Vietnamese people," a triumph over "American imperialism." He said that it recognized the reality of "two administrations, two armies, two controlled zones" in South Viet Nam and represented another step toward "the reunification of the country." "This," he added, "is the necessary advance of history. No force can prevent this advance." Saigon's President Thieu, by contrast, saw the agreement as confirming that...
...Tho insisted that the final treaty remained "basically the same" as the October version. Kissinger claimed that "substantial changes" had been made. Yet, when he listed the ones he thought most important, they seemed only of limited significance. They included these points...
...serious bargaining is still being argued heatedly -without, so far, any answer in sight. Kissinger would only say, "There was a deadlock which was described in the middle of December, and there was rapid movement when negotiations resumed. These facts have to be analyzed by each person for himself." Tho, on the other hand, insisted that the bombings "failed completely," actually delayed a settlement and were halted because of the international outcry against them...