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...supervisory groups were mainly still concerned about preliminary matters. Members of both the ICCS and the Joint Military Commission began meeting, working out procedural details and, in some cases, settling into field offices. At My Tho in the Mekong Delta, for example, an ICCS observer team consisting of six Canadians, five Hungarians, nine Indonesians and five Poles took over the entire third floor of the town's Grand Hotel. They set up an op erations room plastered with 20 maps of their assigned region. Then they spent most of the week arguing about how to arrange for communications, transportation...
...silver-haired Sullivan has been Kissinger's chief political adviser throughout the long cease-fire negotiations. While Kissinger was talking to North Viet Nam's top emissary, Le Due Tho, Sullivan was working 18-hour days at the "tandem negotiations" that tack led the technical details of the cease fire, such as the logistical arrangements for the release of war prisoners and the machinery for supervising the truce...
...ultimate vagueness of the settlement is that it enables the contesting parties to read it as they see fit. Hanoi Negotiator Tho, far more ebullient than Kissinger, called it "a very great victory for the Vietnamese people," a triumph over "American imperialism." He said that it recognized the reality of "two administrations, two armies, two controlled zones" in South Viet Nam and represented another step toward "the reunification of the country." "This," he added, "is the necessary advance of history. No force can prevent this advance." Saigon's President Thieu, by contrast, saw the agreement as confirming that...
...Tho insisted that the final treaty remained "basically the same" as the October version. Kissinger claimed that "substantial changes" had been made. Yet, when he listed the ones he thought most important, they seemed only of limited significance. They included these points...
...serious bargaining is still being argued heatedly -without, so far, any answer in sight. Kissinger would only say, "There was a deadlock which was described in the middle of December, and there was rapid movement when negotiations resumed. These facts have to be analyzed by each person for himself." Tho, on the other hand, insisted that the bombings "failed completely," actually delayed a settlement and were halted because of the international outcry against them...