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...raids on Hanoi, and that the North Vietnamese had agreed to return to "serious" talks in Pans with Henry Kissinger, Washington was pleased, of course, but not at all sure that there would be speedy progress. At Kissinger's first session with Hanoi's Le Due Tho on Jan. 8, the atmosphere was bitter and frosty. Kissinger therefore tackled some of the less contentious issues first, including a mutual release of military prisoners and the technicalities of arranging a ceasefire. These were largely resolved in two days of tough give-and-take...
...Tho balked, however, on a key issue: the precise status of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone. Hanoi, which has consistently refused to view Viet Nam as two nations, wanted free military movement through this "temporary" buffer zone. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, on the other hand, claims that the DMZ is a permanent political border for his sovereign nation. It was largely at Thieu's insistence that the U.S. had reopened discussion on this subject, which had purposely been left vague in the nine-point agreement announced by Kissinger in October. Now, on orders...
Whether this threat was decisive is not certain, but suddenly, on Jan. 11, Tho indicated a willingness to make some concessions on the DMZ issue. Perhaps the continued pressure from Peking and Moscow to achieve a settlement was as influential as any potential...
...clearest sign of progress was Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger's decision to recess his talks with North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho and fly to Florida to consult with Richard Nixon at his Key Biscayne home. Though Kissinger was not due to arrive until after midnight, Nixon's aides let it be known that the President would wait up to hear what Kissinger had to report. Before he left Paris, Kissinger described the week's sessions with the North Vietnamese as "very extensive and useful negotiations." At Orly Airport, he declared that...
...Kissinger's past performance is any criterion, he has already laid down priorities for discussion with Le Due Tho and narrowed the issues to fundamentals. Those fundamentals are the release of American war prisoners conditional only upon U.S. withdrawal, a cease-fire and an international observer force of some consequence. The President does not regard the presence of North Vietnamese troops in South Viet Nam as an insurmountable problem. In the eleven days of savage bombings, he strengthened the Thieu regime as much as he could, at a heavy cost to his own international prestige. Nixon would like...