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...early for any thought of ceasefire. They would like more time to consolidate Saigon's hold on the countryside, and they are convinced that Hanoi will not stick to its de-escalation understanding with the U.S. Last week the South Vietnamese commander of I Corps, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, charged that the North Vietnamese were moving through the DMZ in company-sized units. Despite 21 significant confirmed violations of the buffer zone, U.S. officers saw no pattern of abuse there and could locate no major military threat. At the same time, Saigon claimed that, despite the understanding that...
Waging a sort of conference-table warfare, the Communist diplomats sought to exacerbate the tensions between the U.S. and Saigon. Brushing aside the our-side-your-side formula, Hanoi's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, stressed in Paris that the new talks will encompass "four delegations-independent delegations with the right to speak." Thuy's public elevation of the N.L.F. to an independent status would, of course, make it even harder for President Thieu to send representatives to Paris. At the same time, Thuy twitted the U.S. for South Viet Nam's unwillingness to join the conference...
When the talks started last spring, it was Kriss who wrote TIME'S cover on Negotiators Harriman, Vance, Xuan Thuy and the North Vietnamese representative in Pans, Mai Van Bo (May 10, 1968). In that story, the big question was: What really brought the North Vietnamese to the conference table? This time, Kriss had to piece together all the moves and countermoves, all the rumors, all the military and diplomatic reports that suggested a bombing pause was imminent. As he worked, he was helped by TIME correspondents who filed their own analyses from most major capitals of the world...
...Averell Harriman and Xuan Thuy hold first plenary session...
First reactions were ebullient. "Any news concerning a bombing halt is a relief," said Banker Nguyen Xuan Oanh. "The conclusion is that the war will end." A farmer uprooted from his Mekong Delta paddies planned to "go to my rice again." Adding to the euphoria, the government pushed the 10 p.m. curfew up to 11 p.m. "We now talk," said a Saigon journalist, "of spending our next Tet in peace...