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...nearly three weeks since the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister, Nguyen Duy Trinh, announced that his nation "will" enter peace discussions when the United States ends its air raids and naval bombardment north of the 17th parallel. Trinh's assurance--the first Hanoi has ever given publicly--stirred the sudden and exhilarating hope that a major obstacle on the road to peace had been swept away. Only three months previously, President Johnson appeared to mute his earlier--and ill-advised--demand that the North Vietnamese de-escalate their military activities in exchange for the bombing halt required to initiate talks...
...Johnson Administration at first was not even certain that there was any statement to study. The initial report came from the Agence France-Presse correspondent in Hanoi. He quoted North Viet Nam Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh as saying to a visiting delegation of Mongolian Communists: "If the American Government really wants talks, it must first unconditionally cease bombing and all other acts of war against the Democratic Republic of Viet...
...reports that Hanoi's diplomats had made approaches about mediation and sites for negotiations in Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Indonesia. On investigation, however, the reports turned out to be either false or misleading, and U.S. diplomats expressed doubt that Hanoi had undertaken any concerted peace-feeler effort beyond Trinh's statement...
...settlement must be Hanoi's four-point program, which includes the demand that the internal affairs of South Viet Nam be settled in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front. That clearly is unacceptable to both the U.S. and South Viet Nam. Yet Foreign Minister Trinh in his recent statement still insisted on the four points...
...mile barrier across Viet Nam just below the DMZ. It will stretch from the South China Sea to Laos, running only 25 miles south of the two great walls of Dong Hoi and Truong Duc, erected in the 1630s by the Nguyen dynasty to fend off the warring Trinh emperors of the North...