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Thieu remained a prickly obstacle, as he feared, perhaps with some justification, that the nine-point plan worked out by White House Adviser Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Due Tho might seriously undermine his chance to survive. Thieu's personal envoy, Nguyen Phu Due, was received twice by President Nixon in the White House in exchanges described as "very detailed and very frank"-meaning there was sharp disagreement. While Nixon conceded that the proposed agreement was a compromise that could not fully satisfy Saigon, he also emphasized that it gave the Thieu government a fair chance...
Knotty. The single most troublesome difficulty still was what would be required in the way of Communist troop withdrawals from South Viet Nam. The Kissinger-Tho agreement, revealed shortly before the U.S. elections, did not require Hanoi to remove any of its troops. Yet there apparently was a tacit understanding that some would go, although it would not be detailed in writing. This would preserve the Hanoi fiction that there are no North Vietnamese troops there. Thieu insists that all such troops must be removed and that this be guaranteed in print. Kissinger in Paris this week undoubtedly will...
Professor Kissinger's opinions are well known, Le Duc Tho's are not. As Olivier Todd notes (Le Nouvel Observateur, Nov. 27), the North Vietnamese are now struggling with a hard choice between "socialism open to the whole world (and) Marxism-Leninism shut in upon itself... It will soon be known whether thirty years of war will produce an authoritarian state, stiffened into its war communism, or--at last--a state combining socialism and democracy." In that choice America, and in particular Harvard, cannot avoid being implicated...
Time reports (Dec. 4) a "jocular exchange" between Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger...
...Kissinger goof could be put down to State jealousy, but they would surely increase if the President's negotiator were to fail to nail down a settlement on the second go-round. In short, some furious bargaining remained to be done before either Kissinger or Le Duc Tho could look ahead to those professorships at Harvard and Hanoi...