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...that his boss, President Nixon, was unhappy with his performance. But it was not the first time that Kissinger had found it difficult to be his own man and Richard Nixon's man at the same time. Doggedly carrying on what Washington pundits called "threeway negotiations -with Hanoi, Saigon and Nixon," Kissinger became a driven diplomat. Toward the end, his usual gentle, self-deprecating jokes took on wild flights of black humor. But he persevered, often making tactical compromises, always following his maxim that policy depends on calculation, not emotion...
...triumph over "American imperialism." He said that it recognized the reality of "two administrations, two armies, two controlled zones" in South Viet Nam and represented another step toward "the reunification of the country." "This," he added, "is the necessary advance of history. No force can prevent this advance." Saigon's President Thieu, by contrast, saw the agreement as confirming that "our people have truly destroyed the Communist troops that have come from the North," and he said that North Viet Nam now must respect "the sovereignty and independence of South Viet...
...muffled thunder of outgoing artillery fire could be heard in Saigon up to the end-and after, as the fighting stubbornly rattled on. Yet, when the moment arrived at 8 a.m. last Sunday, the sound of sirens and church bells took over the teeming streets. Policemen whistled motorists and Honda drivers to a stop to observe a minute of silence for the 183,500 South Vietnamese troops who had died in battle since their country was created in the last Viet Nam settlement at Geneva 19 years...
...Saigon's streets were festooned with saffron and red flags and banners that declared VICTORY FOR SOUTH VIET NAM or, more convincingly, THE ENTIRE PEOPLE WELCOME THE CEASEFIRE. Yet there was no rejoicing, not even a sense of relief. Sunday, cease-fire or no, President Nguyen Van Thieu had decreed that all South Vietnamese civilians should go to their jobs as they would on a workday. The idea was to show that there was little to celebrate and that little had changed-a point Thieu made repeatedly in a combative TV address to the nation. "There is no peace...
...airbase at Bien Hoa, home of the last U.S. combat unit in Viet Nam (see box), U.S. pilots flew record sorties in an effort to stop the Communist drive. The Viet Cong made some potentially significant last-minute gains, especially in strategically important Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon, where government control of the provincial capital was seriously threatened...