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...Paris, and that means that Americans are once again attuned to what the diplomats call "nuances." Last week there were 1½ nuances to ponder. The half nuance was the fact that for the first time ever, your press mentioned the meeting between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho-a hint that now you may be serious about the talks. The full nuance was that enthusiastic piece that your party newspaper ran in praise of the "McGovern phenomenon"-an indication that you may have no intention whatsoever of settling the war with Richard Nixon...
...remark by Xuan Thuy. He suggested that while the Communists still wanted to oust Thieu, the shape of Saigon's political future might be left-as the U.S. has proposed-to later negotiations between the two Viet Nams. Then, at week's end, Le Due Tho, a North Vietnamese Politburo member who has had secret talks with Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, returned to Paris and indicated his willingness to enter into private talks again. Said Tho: "If Mr. Kissinger has something new to say and shows an interest in seeing me, I am ready...
...Chinese were prepared to lend a hand within limits. Indeed, they are believed to have urged such negotiations when Le Due Tho, Hanoi's chief delegate to the Paris peace talks, visited Peking a few days earlier. The Chinese have made it clear in private that they disapprove of Hanoi's current offensive-and of the conventional-type warfare that the North Vietnamese have been waging with Soviet weaponry. Thus they have recently provided only military aid to Hanoi and have closed their harbors to Soviet ships bearing supplies for North Viet...
...North Viet Nam's ability to make war and, on the evidence of the slowed offensive in the South, may have accomplished Washington's immediate objective of severely impairing delivery of supplies -though U.S. intelligence has been fooled on that score more than once before. Le Due Tho, Hanoi's chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks, recently conceded, in a definite understatement, that "Mr. Nixon's actions of intensifying the war naturally cause certain difficulties and losses to the North Vietnamese people." More surprisingly, North Viet Nam's official party newspaper Nhan Dan recently...
...organizing a tripartite "government of national concord," consisting of members of the Saigon administration who have "changed their policy," representatives of other political and social forces in South Viet Nam (including South Vietnamese leaders living in exile in France) and the National Liberation Front. Not very convincingly, Le Due Tho has stated that "we do not want a Communist regime in the South." In private talks with U.S. officials, Hanoi has insisted on the power to decide who qualifies for all three factions, which would make a Communist takeover inevitable...