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SMILING broadly as he deplaned at Paris' Orly Airport, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger effusively praised North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho as "my old friend in the search for peace." Later, when the two met at the U.S.-owned villa outside Paris, there were more smiles and handshakes. With this ceremonial display of affection, the talks on the future of Viet Nam were reconvened last week. At stake, once again, was peace in Indochina; Kissinger and Tho, it was hoped, would figure out ways to stop the continued fighting that threatens to undo the cease-fire agreement they...
Firm Order. Even before the start of his talks with Le Due Tho, Kissinger's bargaining position had been threatened by a strong show of congressional opposition to any further bombing of Laos and Cambodia. First the House of Representatives, which had never before approved a measure aimed at ending or reducing U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, voted 219-188 to block a requested transfer in the Supplemental Appropriations Bill of already allotted funds from other Defense Department programs to pay for the bombing. Last week the normally conservative and hawkish Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved an amendment...
What even Richard Nixon could not ignore about the House vote was that it came one week before Henry Kissinger's rendezvous with Le Duc Tho in Paris. Although the stated purpose of their meeting is to discuss ways to ensure the correct implementation of the January peace agreement, it is highly probable that the American side intends to use the session as a chance to brandish its entire line of threats...
...effort to end the Cambodian fighting and make the cease-fire work in South Viet Nam and Laos, the U.S. has been trying to get Hanoi's top negotiator, Le Due Tho, back to Paris for another meeting with Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger. The North Vietnamese originally agreed to such a meeting, according to the White House. But then they refused to cooperate until the U.S. promised to resume the clearing of Haiphong harbor and discuss postwar American economic aid for the North-both of which had been suspended by the U.S. in protest against Hanoi's cease...
...past three months. Perhaps now, with the rainy season due to begin before very long, the North Vietnamese might be prepared to settle some of the disputed points that were not resolved by the Paris agreement. At week's end Hanoi raised some doubts about whether the Kissinger-Tho meeting would be held at all, apparently in an effort to pressure the U.S. into resuming the clearing of mines in North Vietnamese waters. But, with preliminary talks already under way between the deputy negotiators, William Sullivan for the U.S. and Nguyen Co Thach for North Viet Nam, it seemed...