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Kissinger landed at Orly Airport in a jovial mood, noting the "progress and cooperative spirit" that marked his talks with Tho before they recessed May 23. At a reception at Paris' George V Hotel, a perpetually smiling Tho assured guests that he was "optimistic." From Saigon came cheering reports that Vietnamese and Western officials saw the time as ripe for movement toward a real peace. Official photographers and television cameramen were admitted to the first session, which opened Wednesday morning at the Communist villa in Gifsur-Yvette, a Paris suburb. At previous talks, the presence of the cameras...
Then came a thunderbolt from Saigon. A spokesman for South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu declared that his government would not sign any political agreement worked out between only Kissinger and Tho. Acknowledging that Washington and Hanoi can strike whatever deals they please in matters concerning only them, such as possible U.S. aid for North Viet Nam, Saigon insisted that it be present at any sessions where decisions were made affecting South Viet...
Kissinger and Tho were apparently unprepared for these new objections. In Saigon, acting U.S. Ambassador Charles Whitehouse conferred twice with South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam. He also spent three hours closeted with Thieu at the Presidential Palace-one of the longest meetings since the ceasefire. Next morning, another government spokesman announced that the declaration of the previous day was "inaccurate...
Neither Side. To be sure, there have been some notable changes since January. American G.I.s have gone home, prisoners have been exchanged, and Viet Cong officers-escorted always by South Vietnamese security troops-drive around Saigon. There is also the ineffectual presence of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), created to monitor the adherence of both sides to the truce. The Hungarian and Polish commission members, who consider themselves Hanoi's representatives, have employed dilatory and obstructionist tactics to prevent the Canadian and Indonesian members from investigating reported truce violations. Last week External Affairs Minister...
...Saigon, under U.S. pressure, apparently has accepted these terms. Hanoi too is amenable, perhaps because it has already replaced most of the materiel it expended during the 1972 Easter offensive. The North also seems to have shifted its strategy. Its party line these days is that a great victory has been won, since for the first time in 115 years no foreign troops occupy Viet Nam. Now the revolution must be carried forward by political rather than military means. One Communist directive urges its cadres to work harder at building the economic and political infrastructure by growing rice and making...