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...Nobel committee, in its wisdom, has recently awarded the Peace Prize to U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho...
...awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho is like granting Xaviera Hollander (the Happy Hooker) an award for extreme virtue...
...Norwegians complained that "there is no peace." In Italy, Giorgio La Pira, a prominent left-wing Catholic intellectual, said that the award made sense from a pragmatic point of view. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, the 1971 peace-prize recipient, sent off congratulatory telegrams to both Kissinger and Tho, but the West German press claimed that the prize had been "degraded," wondering sarcastically if it might go next year to Anwar Sadat and Golda Meir...
...York Times ruefully labeled the award the "Nobel war prize," while former Ambassador Edwin O. Reichauer, now a Harvard professor, said: "The fighting in Indochina will go on. Theirs was not a great achievement." Paris' prestigious Le Monde termed it a "masquerade," pointing out that Tho had spent his life committed to violent wars of liberation and that Kissinger was part of the American policy that reached its most unpeaceful moment in the Christmas bombing of Hanoi last year. In Saigon, a government spokesman was pleased enough with Kissinger, but he likened the selection of Tho to "nominating...
Despite the controversy, the fact remains that Kissinger and Tho had indeed concluded a difficult and complex agreement that effectively removed American troops from combat. Whether or not the agreement will lead to peace is uncertain, but the strenuous efforts of Kissinger and Tho in Paris were at the very least a move in the right direction...