Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HENRY KISSINGER deplaned at Andrews Air Force Base after another bargaining session in Paris with Hanoi's Le Due Tho. A reporter asked, "Do you still think that 'peace is at hand'?" Replied Kissinger with a smile: "That's a great phrase. Who used...
...Administration's report of progress, the credibility of Nixon and Kissinger is clearly on the line. Kissinger gave no hint of that as he laid all of the blame for delay on Hanoi. He charged that Hanoi had suddenly begun raising "one frivolous issue after another." Tho and his associates would agree on a point, then retract it or try to make substantive alterations "in the guise of linguistic changes...
Imprudent. When the secret talks first produced a nine-point agreement between Kissinger and Tho last October, that problem was handled mainly by using vague language. The announced summary of Point 5 stated merely that "the reunification of Viet Nam shall be carried out step by step through peaceful means," which seemed to imply that Viet Nam is divided now, but only until enough comity can be restored to permit reunification. The U.S. also agreed in Point 1 to respect the 1954 Geneva agreements, which partitioned the country only in a military sense, noting that no political or territorial boundaries...
...Gamma, Alpha and Fluffy, from their perches in the tree. Then the evening news flashes on the TV screen. Andrea and her daughters lock into place, as if in pantomime of a film freeze frame. Henry Kissinger has met again in Paris with his North Vietnamese counterpart Le Due Tho...
...fate of Saigon's political prisoners is one of the most troublesome issues bedeviling the prospects of peace. Hanoi claims that the nine-point agreement worked out by Henry Kissinger and Le Due Tho provides that "all captured and detained personnel will be returned simultaneously with the U.S. troop withdrawal." But to release the prisoners would present a delicate problem to President Thieu. Most of them are resentful enough to support any leftist opposition and work to bring his government down...