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...days later, Kissinger was ready to fly to Saigon via Paris and put the proposition to Thieu. As he boarded the presidential 707 for the flight, Kissinger was given a handwritten letter from Nixon. On two pages of pale green stationery, Nixon had penned some last-minute thoughts for his plenipotentiary for peace. "Do what is right for an honorable peace, without regard to the election," he wrote. A settlement might be "a slight plus for the election," Nixon mused, but more likely it would prove to be "basically a mixed bag for a variety of reasons...
Patriot. In Paris, Kissinger stressed to Xuan Thuy, Le Due Tho's deputy, that there were now three possibilities: All parties would agree to the nine-point plan, or some revisions would have to be made, or there would be a total deadlock. Next day, as Kissinger arrived in Saigon for his four days of talks with Thieu, the trouble began...
...bombing and mining in North Viet Nam. Within 60 days there will be a total withdrawal from South Viet Nam of U.S. and allied troops and military personnel. No troops, military personnel, armaments, munitions or war material for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (Viet Cong) or the Saigon government will be reintroduced into South Viet Nam, except for replacement of war material worn out or damaged after the ceasefire, and then only on a piece-for-piece basis. The U.S. will not continue its military involvement or intervene in the "internal affairs" of South Viet...
...South Vietnamese people will decide their own political future through "genuinely free and democratic general elections under international supervision." The U.S. will not impose a "pro-American regime in Saigon" or commit itself to "any personality or political tendency." General elections will be organized by an administrative organization called the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, composed of three equal segments (the Saigon government, the P.R.G. and neutralist groups). Saigon and the P.R.G. will hold talks to reduce and demobilize their forces and "sign an agreement on the internal matters of South Viet Nam"?if possible, within three...
...supervise the agreement, a four-party military commission (consisting of North Viet Nam, the U.S., the P.R.G. and the Saigon government), and a joint military commission of the P.R.G. and the Saigon government will be formed, as well as an international commission of control. An international guarantee conference on Viet Nam will be convened within 30 days of the signing of the agreement...