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...Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud can serve as Exhibit A of the work ethic in journalism. "In Viet Nam," he says, "correspondents routinely labor twelve hours a day. When you are not covering the story, you are writing about it; when you are not writing about it, you are talking about it." Late last week the Saigon bureau learned the outlines of the secret peace plan reliably reported to have been developed in Paris. Cloud's report became the principal part of our cover story on the negotiations. Timothy James, a veteran of many late-breaking stories...
...does not have to be in our Saigon bureau or Nation section to keep busy. Hardly was martial law declared in South Korea last week when Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel was on his way. After getting a scarce seat on the night's last plane, he arrived in Seoul to find a midnight curfew, hotel rooms booked solid, and Korean officials reluctant to talk. Nickel persisted, and he produced this week's story in World...
...Paris, so many dead. Even the once secret sessions begun by Richard Nixon soon after he took office seemed to be inexorably changing from ventures of high drama and promise to mere suspense entertainment. But last week Henry Kissinger, the President's plenipotentiary for peace, was in Saigon on perhaps the most difficult and critical mission of his extraordinary career in diplomacy. He had in his briefcase an agreement in principle with North Viet Nam for the shape of a settlement, and his was the unenviable task of selling that settlement to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, whose...
...government and elections for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for South Viet Nam. To separate military from political matters it proposes three separate committees or bodies to implement a settlement, a process that might take many months to accomplish. What the White House wants, say the Saigon sources, is to be able to announce an agreement "in principle" on the package before Election Day, though the first step of a cease-fire might not even be possible that soon. What the plan outlines on the military and political fronts...
BUILDING A POLITICAL PEACE. Once the cease-fire was in effect direct negotiations would begin between the present Saigon government and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) maintained by the National Liberation Front in South Viet Nam. The two sides would work out the composition of a "caretaker government" that would succeed the Thieu regime and prepare the country for general elections to choose a constituent assembly. The assembly would draft a new constitution, a new round of elections would be held, and a new and presumably broad-based government that included Communists would take its place in Saigon...