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...within 72 hours, he would renew bombing north of the 20th parallel. When no reply came, he kept his word. The White House believes that the North Vietnamese knew the risk all along. On Dec. 3, the day before the last round of talks between Kissinger and Le Due Tho began, children were evacuated from Hanoi. Last week it was reported that all civilians were being evacuated, leaving only military and antiaircraft units...
...throw observers off the track ? spending an apparently nonchalant weekend at Camp David when a secret meeting was on in Paris. So secretly have the Paris talks been held that only a handful of Administration officials saw the draft agreement that Kissinger hammered out with Le Due Tho in their five-day session last October. CIA Director Richard Helms obtained his copy through his sources in Viet Nam and asked Kissinger if the text was accurate. Said Kissinger suavely: "It has the odious smell of the truth." On another level, late one night before the election, Nixon came back...
...details" to be worked out. It was odd for a man of Kissinger's caution to have been so euphoric and expansive as he was on Oct. 26. His anticipation was too great, relying too much on what he called the continued "good will" of Hanoi and Le Due Tho, with whom he evidently got on well. He also underestimated the opposition of Thieu...
...politics and maneuvering among the Vietnamese for the ultimate control of Saigon. By raising the sovereignty issue, among others, Nixon sharpened a deliberately fuzzed point, bringing the detailed politics of the settlement back into the present negotiations. In other words, he insisted on nailing down specifics where Kissinger and Tho had purposefully left them vague, subject to future negotiations, as the only means of reaching agreement...
...strategy was simple, but exhausting. It consisted of stationing motorcyclists outside the U.S. embassy residence and the residence of Le Due Tho. Whenever either of them emerged, the motorcyclist roared in pursuit, with a cameraman clinging to the back seat. NBC buttressed its eight-man Paris bureau with 22 temporary employees, including five motorcyclists; CBS and ABC added 17 and 14 Paris staffers respectively, and ABC installed radio-telephone systems in an armada of cars and cycles. Skirmishes between reporters and gendarmes multiplied; Keystone Cop car chases through Paris streets and country roads proliferated...