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Although late in October last year Hanoi had agreed to send Politbureau member Le Duc Tho to Paris for talks on November 20, three days before that date, the North Vietnamese informed Washington that Tho was too ill to come. However, Hanoi's chief delegate to the Paris Talks, Xuan Thuy, was ready for secret talks. Nixon refused to send Kissinger to talk to Thuy who, according to Kissinger, lacks the authority to negotiate on important matters...
Between June and September 1971, the Hanoi delegation at Paris frequently brought the possibility of such an exchange to the attention of U.S. citizens. On July 6, a high-ranking member of the North Vietnamese Politbureau, Le Duc Tho, spoke of the above exchange in an interview with the New York Times. Although he questioned whether Nixon would agree to the proposal, Tho specified that his government was prepared to promptly reach a negotiated solution. The Nixon administration did not respond...
...most damaging piece of evidence which NSA finds is that one of the sponsors is Holstead Holman, former officer in IUS which NSA calls a "Communist student international operating out of Prague and represented on the Politbureau." This is the height of absurdity. Of the world's 8 million students, 5,336,060 are joined together in the International Union of Students (IUS). The IUS is the student organizations of 71 countries. That's a pretty good size Communist international...
...midst of the commotion, a sharp and sinister voice detailed what the Communists were trying to accomplish with their renewed campaign of hate. Minister of People's Culture Joseph Revai, Hungarian Politbureau member, made it clear in a speech to the Communist Central Committee that the remaining rights of the Catholic Church in Hungary must be broken...
...than scare off the random thoughts of the other members. Some alert House secretary might announce an enticing subject one or twice a week--or, if all went well, several subjects for several talk teams. And if the matter of the meeting veered from the Vandalian invasions to the Politbureau to the delayed buck, that would be all right too. The causes of both general education and the House Plan would be served...