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More simply, Thieu could threaten to embarrass Nixon by loudly rejecting the Kissinger plan and vowing to carry on the fight against the Communists alone. The Administration might find it difficult politically to cut off U.S. aid to Saigon under those circumstances. But it could effectively counter by threatening to negotiate a bilateral, separate peace with Hanoi-a possibility that worries many South Vietnamese...
...week's end, the great Saigon tug of war spilled into a fourth day with no announced end to the maneuvering, while Kissinger flew off, apparently to Cambodia, for additional parleys. The word was out that Thieu had reluctantly agreed on at least one part of the plan: the ceasefire. But he was also said to be digging in against other key provisions of the Kissinger agreement that the Communists certainly regard as vital. Thieu was reportedly unhappy about the caretaker-government provision and adamantly opposed to any basic change in the present constitution that might open...
...fire was announced and the time the machinery to implement it could be smoothly functioning would mean that what is mildly known as "regroupment" could be a serious problem. Communist forces located in isolated "oil spots" would try to expand and link up with Communists in other areas, and Saigon's troops would try to blot them out altogether...
...ones: an American plan for the demobilization -following a cease-fire-of half of the country's armed forces, including seven of its eleven infantry divisions. Other problems will prove more complex, among them the dismantling of the assassination squads maintained by the Viet Cong and by the Saigon government under its Phoenix program...
...validity at all, however, the lesser issues should fall into place once the big problems are settled. Those big problems of peace in Indochina have not been resolved-at least not yet-by any means, but Kissinger's idea is catching on quickly. As Cloud reported from Saigon last week, "the tantalizing scent of peace is in the air for the first time in years. To the South Vietnamese the political questions are secondary-at least for the moment-to the almost unbearable temptation to hope for the best. Such hopes do not come easily to the Vietnamese after...