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Richard M. Neus?adt '69, a first-year Law School student-who organized the meeting-said the group thought that an organized peace campaign could "put pressure on the President to increase the pace of troop withdrawals" from Vietnam...
...pace of U.S. troop withdrawals...
...portrayal of the Communist negotiators as intransigent. He told the New York Times' Harrison Salisbury that he had repeatedly offered to meet privately with Lodge to discuss "general problems" affecting South Viet Nam. Lodge had refused, claimed Thuy, because the discussion would not be confined to mutual troop withdrawals. What else did Thuy want to talk about? Plans for a coalition government in the South-a topic Lodge obviously could not discuss unless there were a major change in Nixon's Viet Nam policy...
...Defense Department had had accurate means of determining how the North Vietnamese people and the Viet Cong would react to an American troop build-up, Deutsch said, the Pentagon could have predicted the trend toward escalation and avoided it. Instead, Washington based its policy on the mistaken idea that large numbers of guerillas would desert rather than face a long war, be added. In that instance, Deutsch explained, the Pentagon could have furthered the interests of peace through the application of social science research...
...Possible U.S. Troop Withdrawals: In the short run, I do not believe it would correspond with the common interest, including the interest of the United States, to change things in a substantial way. We agreed upon an offset arrangement for two years. It was an understanding on both sides that during this period there would be no substantial changes. We are in a discussion within the Atlantic Alliance on how we could make moves vis-à-vis the East in order to try, if one can, to enter into serious negotiations about an equal reduction of troop levels. This would...