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Then Kissinger, or an aide, flies off to Saigon to win the concurrence of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who raises some objections. The two principal negotiators go back to Paris to resolve the difficulties. That is the point at which Kissinger will find himself this week when he once again meets Those in an attempt to resuscitate the faltering Viet Nam truce...
...Washington last week, Kissinger stressed that this supposedly final round of talks "concerns almost entirely methods of implementation rather than renegotiation." The discussions were necessary, he went on, because of a lack of "willingness to observe provisions that are clearly understood"-apparently a reference to Saigon as well as Hanoi...
Translated into plain English, Kissinger's statement amounted to an unhappy admission that fighting has continued in the four months since the truce agreement was signed. In spite of their questionable accuracy, figures released last week by Saigon reflect the level of violence: 21,455 Communist and 5,510 South Vietnamese soldiers killed, at least 3,530 civilians dead or wounded...
...recently as 1969, South Viet Nam was host to nearly 540,000 Americans-though hardly tourists-who funneled some $400 million a year into the Vietnamese economy. Now that all but 10,000 of them have gone home, Saigon is trying a new lure for American dollars...
...Even Saigon, stripped of its barbed wire and military posts, might be seen for what it was: a charming, French-style city of tree-lined boulevards...