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VIET NAM does not go away," wrote Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud. "Like it or not, the story here seems to have found the secret to perpetual life." With firefights still raging outside Saigon, Cloud was understandably guarded in his reaction to reports of an imminent ceasefire. But last week, with Henry Kissinger proclaiming "Peace is at hand," a team of 23 TIME writers and reporter-researchers under Senior Editors Jason McManus and Otto Friedrich put the final touches to a 20-page special section on the long war and the shape of coming peace. The section was begun three...
...omens of settlement gathered too. The U.S. restricted its bombing of North Viet Nam to targets below the 20th parallel. South Vietnamese flags were selling at a brisk pace in Saigon, as Vietnamese prepared to show their colors?and protect themselves ?in the event of a truce. In Paris, the French government was said to be making quiet preparations to host a new Geneva-style "guarantee conference" of five or six nations that would oversee an orderly cessation of hostilities throughout the scarred Indochina landscape. Inevitably, the accounting would begin of the cost of a decade...
...between Hanoi and Saigon?and there were signs in the explosive events of last week that the new role was proving to be as slippery as the old one. Although TIME had learned and published the outline of the secret agreements, there was no public confirmation of them until Saigon's fulminations against what was afoot and moves by Washington to seek more negotiations panicked a suspicious Hanoi into breaking its secrecy agreements with the U.S. and broadcasting the details. That in turn forced Washington to its public commitment, through Henry Kissinger, to the success of an extraordinarily intricate enterprise...
...imbroglio began with Kissinger's journey to Saigon. He managed to obtain Thieu's reluctant agreement to a cease-fire after four days of "heated" talks. But the tough-minded South Vietnamese President dug in against the proposal for a three-part council composed of Communists, Thieu loyalists and "neutrals." It would arrange elections, which Thieu fears would lead to a gradual Communist takeover or at least a new constitution that would effectively drum his narrowly based regime out of power. Fighting back in a two-hour TV address last week, Thieu denounced the plan as "a cunning scheme...
...almost abrupt with the Thieu regime. Saigon's wishes "would be taken extremely seriously," he said, but "we will make our own decisions as to how long we believe a war should be continued." He spoke warmly to Hanoi. He insisted that the Oct. 31 deadline had been Hanoi's creation, and that while he had promised "a major effort" to meet it the U.S. did not feel bound by it. Things had been delayed by various problems?the most important of which seemed to have arisen in Saigon. But he "understood" Hanoi's disappointment, and reassured the North Vietnamese...