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363-04093 to 363-04102
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Title
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Third part of an article about the war in South Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: "peace", Keever's title: "Vietnamese Politics Begin to Define Peace Talks." Article about increasing discussion in Saigon about negotiations with Hanoi. President Johnson's decision not to run for office earlier in the year had put negotiations on the minds of both the Americans and South Vietnamese. Discussions of a three to four year peace plan sponsored by the Americans, and a plan to have both the anti-communist forces and the Việt Cộng participate in free and fair elections upon its conclusion, are brought up. For the Christian Science Monitor
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peace 1 (normass/deepe)
(This is theft last of a three-part series on the multi-facted
war in South Vietnam, as Washington-Hanoi peace talks begin).
SAIGON, APRIL 12-Three different arrangements for bringing
peace to South Vietnam are now being privately discussed in Vietnamese
political circles here.
The three concepts have no repeat no official status in the eyes
of either the Vietnamese government nor the American mission here. Nor,
is there any assurance any of them would be acceptable to the Communist
perhaps slices for
side. Yet, they may be important.
thinking to
ection of future official
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zczc sag
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peace 2 (normass/deepe)
all three concepts represent only embryonic thinking of those
Enificent It is considered significant,
concerned. This alone is
however, that the Vietnamese political community here has begun discussing
in some detail and coherency a sort of peace settlement for the South--
which it nomer never did before President Jay Johnson's April 1
speech.
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zczc sag
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peace 3 (normass/deepe)
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Saigon politicians used to pay lip service to negotiations
before and some advocated it," one source explained. "But, they never
truly thought the Americans would negotiate. They thought the American
committment to the South was so great, their troops would never be
withdrawn; they thought the American prestige was so tied to Vietnam,
they would never stop fighting until they had won the war.
"So the government leaders and politicians thought they had all the
time in h the world to line their pockets and fight among among
themselves. But, President Johnson's speech pulled the political
rug out from under them and gave them an abrupt awakening. Now they're
starg starting to figure out peace proposals that will salvage as much
of South Vietnam and the anti-Communist self-interest as possible."
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These political sources are quick to draw a clear line
beizes
of distinction between talking and negotiating. They view the Washington-
Hanoi communications as indicating only preliminary talks about the
related to the American bombing of the North. Whether this actually
evolves into bargaining about peace in the South remains to be seen,
they say.
The first peace proposal is voiced by Vietnamese politicians
have
who claim to discussed the matter with high-placed American officials
knowledgeable about developments on the peace front.
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The sources
follows: The Americans
advocating this proposal detail it as
will give the Vietnamese anti-Communists
"a last chan chance" to prove themselves by stretching the peace
three
time-frame to
three
years. During these four years,
the Americans
would regroup their forces in certain enclaves after the ceasefire;
the Vietnamese government forces would continue to control their
enclaves,
and if possible expand them,
Southern Viet Cong or North Vietnamese,
whether
and the Communists--eftirer
since it is hard to distinguish
The
the difference at long range--would regroup in their base areas.
No Northern troops would be regrouped in Souther base
areas in the
Whether the
South, not sent back North as was the case in 1954.
American and Communist troops would be phased-out of the country,
during these four years
demobilized, or disarmed would be a matter of discussion.
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peace 6 (normass/deepe)
On the political side, within the South, the Vietnamese
Liberation Front would discuss together the
government and the National
formation of a new government within three years and d an election
The
in the South would be held to be approve that government.
result would probably be a coalition of some sort, but if the anti-Communists
were successful in governing and gaining support of the population, they
Then, this government in the South
could gain the dominant voice.
as well as the Communist government in the North would hold all-Vietnam
Vietnam-wide elections to determine the unt unification of both halves.
This would follow the pattern laid down by the Geneva Conference of 1954,
but which was 15 later ignored.
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peace 7 (normass/deepe)
The second proposal,
one of several "buffer" concepts, is
This
being advocated b advocated by sai those Vietnamese sophisticates from
saigon and the Mekong Delta. It probably would be rejected by all sides
at a bargaining table, but it has some popular support in Saigon because
it reflects a deep-felt interplay of Vietnamese regionalism.
interplay relates to three divisions of Vietnam--not the two regions of
North and South shown on today's maps. These regions are called North,
Central and Southern;
division in their administrative system by carving out Tonkin (upper North
Vietnam), Centra Annam (from the 18th parallel in the North half way
the French followed this traditional Vietnamese
southwards down to the top half of South Vietnam) and Cochinchina (slightly
above saigon southwards to the tip of the country).
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zozo sag
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peace 8 (normass/deepe)
In this case the Chen Cochinchinese politicians
willingly give up the northern half the republic,
would
convert it into
a buffer which would form a neutralist government headed by the
old-Emporio Emperor Imperial faction,
the radioel Buddhist leaders and
North Vietnam
would not be
their associated political compo
changed or discussed. Then the Cochinchina section, from Saigon
south, would make their own arrangements with the National Liberation
Front--the southern leaders which is Southern-led and oriented,
Since
an
while
the Northern political cadre would be regrouped elsewhere.
the Southerners, even in the National Liberation Front, have been
ruled by the Northerners and ACentral Vietnamese for so long,
The important
all-Southern alliance could easily be worked out.
economic factor here would be that the rice-rich Mekong Delta,
considered a chief objective of the Communist drive in the South,
St
of different political
would remain in all-Southern hands, though
of different political
hues.
long
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This proposal does have enough circulation and offency in
Vietnam that informed sources say the anti-Communists living in Hue and
the upper sections other cities north of Sa gon fear the Che Cochinchinese
JUST
would do must that--and think they are going to be abandoned be the
to the Communists by their own government cuently in Saigon.
The third proposal,
another variation of the buffer concept,
seems to have more chance of
of being seriously considered.
It is
also voiced by Vietnamese who claim to have talked with the American
officialdom.
In this case, one or two of the southernmost provinces of
plus the five northernmost
North Vietnam, above the 17th parallel,
provinces south of the 17th parallel in the South would be formed to make
this
the buffer zone
area for
which would be used on as a regrouping areaffor all
"from foreign" troops American, Korean, Australl Australian,
and the Viet Cong.
well as the North Vietnamese. In this "neutral"
would control the physical withdrawal
as
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area the United Nations
of all these military forces
back to their homes homelands, except for the Viet Cong.
This
buffer zone would be governed by the pro-French net hout neutralist
circle of the old Imperial family and the pro-Buddhist politicians.
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This buffer zone
would also be open to visits from
north or south. North of
this buffer would remain Communist for at least three years;
families on either side of the boundaries,
sout
in the south,
however,
a transformation would take place.
Within
three years a new government would be formed south of the bufferline,
Then,
based on a general election of all Vietnamese in the area.
after these three years,
to unify Vietnam
elections would be held in all three
- in the north, the buffer zone and the south,
autonomous zones--
and what mounts to three separate countries at the time would somehow
be amalgamated into one
at the ballot box.
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Date
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1968, Apr. 12
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Peace; Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B10, F9
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
