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Even the largest bed would be hardpressed to accommodate Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the January cease-fire in Vietnam...
...award from Hanoi and Washington were predictably different. While President Nixon praised the committee for giving "deserved recognition to the art of negotiation," and Kissinger in turn praised Nixon for "creating the conditions necessary for this settlement," a North Vietnamese official said he personally thought Le Duc Tho would decline the award...
Both men rose from humble origins and neither has shied away from the use of force in carrying out his own political and philosophical beliefs. But their lives are aimed in opposite directions. Le Duc Tho, a life-long revolutionary who fought the French and has spent ten years in jail, envisions a socialist society of peace and justice...
...Tho and Henry Kissinger...
Nguyen Van Thieu has long believed in dealing with the Communists primarily with guns. Last week, only a few days after Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho signed in Paris what might be called Cease-Fire II, Thieu gave a showy display of that belief. In the annual South Vietnamese celebration of power known as Armed Forces Day, jet fighters whistled overhead while tanks, self-propelled artillery and armed amphibious vehicles thundered past the reviewing stands on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Boulevard. Twenty thousand men-the equivalent of two divisions-marched...