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...replied bitterly that Nixon had embarked "not on a path to peace but a detour around Election Day." North Viet Nam's Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood. In Saigon, meanwhile, South Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu escalated his fulminations of discontent by declaring that the plan was a shameless "surrender to the Communists...
...that Kissinger had so persuasively limned a week ago seemed slightly more elusive. It appeared that Kissinger's final session of "no more than three or four days" in Paris might take five or six days, and then be followed by another round of talks in Saigon. But the White House still remained confident that an agreement will be signed probably by the end of November...
Concessions demanded by the Saigon government include complete withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops before a ceasefire. Recent historical experience would make such a requirement untenably for Hanoi, however. When North Vietnam withdraw from the South in 1954 at the time of ceasefire, Saigon failed to comply with the provision of the 1954 Geneva agreements that there be elections...
...NORTH VIETNAMESE consider that the continued presence of their troops in the South will insure Saigon's compliance with the new agreement. Hopefully, President Thieu will noon realize that he can only obtain guarantees for the eventual withdrawal of the northern troops if all the political factions in the South agree beforehand that the victor in the elections will follow a strictly neutral foreign policy, release all political prisoners, guarantee individual liberties, and work diligently to rebuilt the country. Such an agreement should not be too difficult for Thieu since he and other South Vietnamese officials endorsed the idea...
...upset over the failure of the secret draft agreement to provide for the release of political prisoners held by the Saigon government. A story in The New York Times last Thursday said that Vietnamese in Paris have received reports that the Saigon government has recently begun torturing an imprisoned Saigon student leader. The article also said that persons whom the PRG wants to participate in the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord would remain in Saigon jails according to the terms of the draft agreement...