Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TRYING to get out into the countryside to supervise the still shaky truce in South Viet Nam, an inspection team from the Four Party Joint Military Commission (the U.S., South Viet Nam, North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong) alighted from American helicopters in a soccer field at Ban Me Thuot, the Montagnard capital in the Central Highlands. Suddenly they were surrounded by a milling crowd of several hundred people, who threw stones and roughed up eight of the Communist representatives. A Saigon spokesman later apologized for the incident but claimed that the people had been "infuriated by Communist violations...
...Commission of Control and Supervision also ran into an unexpected problem: it could not even get into Quang Tri city, south of the DMZ, because that town was under a heavy North Vietnamese artillery barrage. Two full weeks after the signing of the settlement there still was no effective truce inspection anywhere in the country...
...talking to North Viet Nam's top emissary, Le Due Tho, Sullivan was working 18-hour days at the "tandem negotiations" that tack led the technical details of the cease fire, such as the logistical arrangements for the release of war prisoners and the machinery for supervising the truce...
...Kissinger flew into Vientiane, Laos, cease-fire negotiations between Premier Souvanna Phouma and the Communist-dominated Pathet Lao were already well advanced. The chief difficulty has been the Communist insistence that any military truce be coupled with political concessions. A similar position had hampered the set tlement in Viet Nam until Hanoi finally agreed to separate those issues. If a similar deal can be struck in Laos - and Kissinger was pressing for it - a ceasefire could come as early as this week. In anticipation of that, the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops made last-minute pushes to grab more...
...projects and preferably channeled through a multi-nation agency. Kissinger will have a bargaining point in the recent signs of i congressional resistance to any aid to Hanoi at all - a resistance that undoubtedly will grow if there is any major 1 Communist failure to carry out the 1 truce settlement...