Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colonize or pacify Cambodia effectively. No one, least of all the Cambodians, believes that the present regime in Phnom-Penh is anything other than a Hanoi puppet government. Many analysts think that Cambodia is being run by a high council in Hanoi, headed by Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho, who was co-winner (with Henry Kissinger) of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for having brought peace to Indochina. Tho refused to accept the honor...
...Tho considered negotiations as another battle. His idea of a negotiation was to put forward his unilateral demands. Their essence was for the U.S. to withdraw on a deadline so short that the collapse of Saigon would be inevitable. On the way out we were being asked to dismantle an allied government and establish an alternative whose composition would be prescribed by Hanoi. Any proposition that failed to agree with this he rejected as "not concrete...
...first series of secret negotiations with Le Duc Tho ended with his statement that unless we changed our position, there was nothing more to discuss...
...that it came about because "the sanctuaries increasingly aroused the nationalist outrage of Cambodians," and that Hanoi's forces began overrunning Cambodia as early as the end of March 1970. Kissinger reveals, for the first time, that on April 4, 1970, in Paris, he proposed to Le Duc Tho that they should "discuss immediately concrete and specific measures to guarantee the neutrality of Cambodia, [either] bilaterally or in an international frame work. " But Tho abruptly dismissed any suggestion of neutralization or of a conference. He emphasized that "it was his people's destiny not merely to take over...
...Cambodia in 1970. We did not encourage Lon Nol or even begin to arm him for weeks after North Vietnamese troops were ravaging a neutral country. The option of Lon Nol's restoring Cambodia's neutrality did not exist; it had been explicitly rejected by Le Duc Tho on April 4, 1970. And by then Sihanouk was no longer in a position to be neutralist. The real prospect before us, therefore, was exactly what the quoted paragraph describes as the most likely outcome: the reopening of Sihanoukville, a government in Phnom-Penh dominated by Hanoi and reopened sanctuaries...