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...survive. Thieu's personal envoy, Nguyen Phu Due, was received twice by President Nixon in the White House in exchanges described as "very detailed and very frank"-meaning there was sharp disagreement. While Nixon conceded that the proposed agreement was a compromise that could not fully satisfy Saigon, he also emphasized that it gave the Thieu government a fair chance to hold out against the Communists, both militarily and politically. Nixon and Kissinger termed the plan reasonable and urged Thieu, through Duc, to accept...
Already, there is surprisingly strong feeling among many political and intellectual figures in Saigon that a ceasefire is imminent and that Thieu's position is hopeless. "Thieu is finished," contends an anti-Communist Vietnamese scholar. "He was, perhaps, the man for war. He is not the man for peace. We must have a new man." Agrees Ly Quy Chung, a deputy in the South Vietnamese lower house: "We must prepare for the new political struggle. We must have a new team and not the one that has lost the war, or they will lose again." The battle for political...
Smoke. Yet as Saigon's intelligentsia anticipates a cease-fire as all but inevitable, South Vietnamese peasants were not so sure that the years of fighting would ever end. In a hamlet in Binh Duong province, a middle-aged woman sat in front of a hut that had sheltered her family until North Vietnamese soldiers dug bunkers near by and South Vietnamese airplanes bombed the enemy-and her house. "Peace? A ceasefire? Look at our house. This is peace?" she scoffed. Predicted a farmer about both sides: "They will just keep fighting and fighting, while the people stay...
...position remains that the agreement is fair and applicable and opens a new page in the relations between the U.S. and ourselves. There is no reason for delay. The reasons put forward by the U.S. are artificial and unacceptable. Kissinger and others give reasons such as "the difficulties in Saigon with Thieu." But the U.S. is trying to delay the signing of the agreement to intensify deliveries of weapons to strengthen the government of Saigon and continue the policy of Vietnamization. It has not given up the erroneous policy that led to the present state of things...
...from other countries, but the people's liberation forces in the South are under the Provisional Revolutionary Government. To demand the departure of these forces is to demand the elimination of the P.R.G. This is totally unacceptable. This is an issue between the P.R.G. and the Saigon government, and discussions on the reductions and demobilization of armed forces should take place in the postwar period...