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...Washington, Henry Kissinger waited for word that Hanoi's Le Duc Tho would join him in Paris for the promised one final session to wrap up the peace package. On television, Richard Nixon repeated that he would not be "stampeded" into signing the agreement before it is "right." George McGovern replied bitterly that Nixon had embarked "not on a path to peace but a detour around Election Day." North Viet Nam's Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood...
WHILE world attention has focused on Henry Kissinger for his role in negotiating a peace agreement on the Viet Nam War, Kissinger's counterpart from Hanoi, Le Duc Tho, has remained a mysterious and largely unrecognized figure. Kissinger, 49, the witty bon vivant and cosmopolite, seems to relish the spotlight; Tho, 62, a starchy and somewhat parochial party loyalist, lingers in the shadows, partly because of his own personality and partly as a reflection of his country's wishes. Kissinger once pointed up his own sense of humor and Tho's more doctrinaire determination by telling...
...Tho's inchworm approach to a settlement has been more cautious than his own progress through his country's Communist Party. Born in Nam Ha, North Viet Nam, the son of a middle-echelon official in the French colonial administration, Tho found foreign occupation so intolerable that at the age of 20 he became a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party. By 1945 he had been appointed to the Central Committee, and in 1949 was sent to South Viet Nam as the second man in charge of reorganizing Communist political and military activities. His superior...
Thus, when Kissinger finally sat down for his first secret talk with Tho in 1969, he faced one of the principal architects of Hanoi's campaign not only against the South but also against the U.S., a fact that helped rather than hurt the negotiations. Comments one American official: "His authority makes him easier to deal with. The others are incapable of making decisions." For three years the two have been meeting in a small villa outside of Paris, sipping tea and munching rice cookies while they traded demands, nuances and -more recently-concessions...
Patriot. In Paris, Kissinger stressed to Xuan Thuy, Le Due Tho's deputy, that there were now three possibilities: All parties would agree to the nine-point plan, or some revisions would have to be made, or there would be a total deadlock. Next day, as Kissinger arrived in Saigon for his four days of talks with Thieu, the trouble began...