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Article on North Vietnam's agreement to peace talks
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Original title: "LBJ Peace talks - talks." Original caption: "Hanoi's acceptance to start talking." Article by Keever on North Vietnam's agreement to continue peace talks
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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SAIGON, April 26-Hanoi's acceptance to start talking p
produced a second political bombshell in South Vietha Vietnam, its second
in four days.
Saigon is electric with emotional, frenzied talk of peace,
coalition government,
wild speculation of what
to all of this vis varied and
an American withdrawal,
will happen next-and the reaction
mixed deponocking off among the different elements of the Vietnamese population.
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But, Hanoi's acceptance was only a baby bombshell compared to
President Johnson's speech four days ago outlining his d- de-escalation
policy on bombing North Vietnam and his refusal to accept a second
terms as president.
Still, the Saigon government, behind closed doors, and
Vietnamese political sophisticates were clearly surprised by Hanoi's
early acceptance.
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Only four hours before the Hanoi Radio broadcast its government's
answer to President Johnson, the Saigon government was known to be
continuing mapping out its plans for a general mobilization, calling
up all men into military service between the ages of 18 and 33.
The Hanoi announcement did little to alleviate the "state of depression"
President y Nguyen Van Thieu was known to have fallen into since
the American Embassy notified two days before President Johnson's
speech of the American initiate Inrat initiative towards peace talks.
No, did the Hanoi acceptance solace Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky
who reacted to President Johnson's peace move by "scaling the
walls in a rage and cursing the Americans for deserting the Vietnamese,"
informed sources report.
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HA KA
The American community did not seem to have any set expectations
of Hanoi would reply to the Johnson peace offer, and they many Americans
were still stepping out of their daze from President Johnson's
speech
minangunam Monday morning here,
"Everything has either swung
is sys
swinging around in circles," one source explained.
Clearly though, the Hanoi acceptance intensified the
of American hose that xxxxx talks with North Vietnam
long-held fear of
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would take on ap prolonged, agonizing form of Panmunjon during the Korea
War and that the bitterest, bloodiest fighting lay ahead.
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HAD
The politically-informed Vietnamese sophisticates,
however, expected Hanoi to flat-out reject the President's offer;
"Hanoi wants 100 per cent bombing cessation,
get it," one source explained.
and won't talk until they
Saigonese throughout last night Istened switched their
radio dials between VOA, BBC, Radio Hanoi, Radio Peking, Moscow and
Liberation Radiq..
me ye
dissected every word of the Hanoi Radio
communiques answering President Johnson, and two divergent renoves
interpretations results:
Hanoi did not say anything about South Vietnzm
Vietnam-and so the war will continue here, and its opposite argument
Hano18 Hanoi's acee acceptance to talk about anything is approac
prelude to settling the
war in the South.
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Since President Johnson's Monday speech, Saigon has been buzzing
Saigonese, including ministers within the government, has been buzzing
with the possibility of a coalition government, but the scales were
tipped when Hanoi accepted to beginx talking.
President Johnson's omitting President Thieu from the roll of
American digna digna dignitaries during his official visit to Honolulu
was considered a "orude" diplomatic move, and one which indicated to
the Vietnamese that the American support of the Thieu government was
weakening and that the Mrr American government might be willing to
previous condition of accepting the National Liberation
Coalition
meet Hanoi'
Front into a new Saigon government.
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As the news of Hanoi's decision came over radios in Saigon, one
maid working for an American officials exclaimed: "Fini barom
boom, boom, very, very good. I have three brothers in Vietnamese
army.
At the working level, another Vietnamese laborer explained
through an interpreter, "If peace comes, it webe would be a wonderful
thing. I have an nephew who is about to be a drafted, and I'm
trying to buy him into a safe position, in a non-combat unit,
sele tulit. We tried to get him into the Vietnamese Navy, but they
already have too many volunteers. I've arranged to buy him a job at the
ordnance depot in Vung Tau, It will cost me 40,000 piastres ($400)
to give to the major-and unfortunately, my nephew mys must hide from
the urart evade the police for another month before he can go there.
Frankly, it's much better to raise chicken chickens than to ras res
raise children. We can sell chickens for 100 piastres, but
children only cost us money and if we're lucky we only get back the
dead body from the battlefield. It would be good to have peace.
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At the other end of the economic spectrum, the upper-crust
intelleg intellectuals began with the Communist Tet offensive making
up their minds about how to get out of the country and how they would
do it. They thought they had time; the Hanoi acceptance today
told them didn't. Some are trying to buy Chinese Nationalist
selling under the table for 300,000 piastres-$3000,
passports,
a sizeable sum of money in Vietnam.
Others are attempting to buy
Laotian passports, less expensive, ranging from $100 t $1000 to $2000,
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depdning on/connections.
While the black market rate on the American dollar has remained
Slen DeR
stable, the rate of French franc, a very slim merket, has jumped
from 36 to 45 piastres per fra nouv new frange on the black market.
These would be the rich, French-educated Vietnamese who sought to
leave for France, which is the most likely escape hatch for Vietnamese
with French leanings and connections. Ironically, a number of French
women and children have during past weeks also been loving Vietnam,
Depa ng
leaving behind their husbands to maintain their plantations and economic
interests.
buy
there
Other Vietnamese are arranging to be smuggled to Cambodia, and//try to
Cambodian passports, reliable sources report.
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A Vietnamese bar-girl, who had made a fortune off the American
military buildup, began buying diamonds which she could sell once
with a French husband asked
she got to France.
"A friend invited
me a week ago to go to France with him.
She said there's going to be a
coalition government and you and I can't live under them. When
I heard Radio Hanoi last night, I decided to go with her and tal
take my three children,"
It was not uncommon to find mixed contradictory emotions within
one Veitnamese individual.
Previous Ly
who had served the
A 44-year-old Vietnamese businessman,
Vietnamese army 15 years and now faced being recalled under Thieu's
upcoming general mobilization scheme pondered:
hope hen
then
I'm glad Hanoi is going to talk, so I don't get called up. But,
the Americans as might agree to a settlement and in the long range,
South Vietnam will have a coalition government, which the Communists
will dominate."
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In a business office in Saigon, a malo small no knot of
importers, who had profited from the war,
ann9o annou communique.
discussed the Hanoi
A 40 year old explained: "In general, we should be proud of the
Communist Vietnamese. Not only has the United States suffered a
defeat--because the Americans were supposed to win this war militarily
at any cost and they have failed.
Unfortunately,
tux regret
these Vietnamese countrymen are Communist and we can not live with them.
I fled fo the Communists once-in 1954 from North Vietnam and I don't
know what I'll do this time.
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A businesswoman joined the conversation: "Look it. If the
Americans agree to negotiate, we are finished--comp pocompletely
lost. I'm afraid my children will be dumped into a Communist
dye-bath and come out rosy or red. Children are just like new
white cloth and their (political) co. colors can be died. But,
I'm sure it won't do the Communists any good to try to dye us older
persons--were're already colred colored.
"
like
Anoh Another businessman explained: anyway since Tet,
we haven't been doing a good business. Purchasing power has dropped
by 97 per cent and the inflation is getting worse. Maybe with peace
we will have some kind of order instead of this chaos.
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A Vietnamese army officer:
"I'm afraid Hanoi's acceptance
will make my job much harder. It's will be more difficult to control
the troops and there is going to be more fighting ahead of us.
But why should be Vietnamese troopers want to fight hard-and risk
being killed the last minute before peace."
A Vietnamese member of the National Assembly:
"I don't
have to worry too much. The Communists are s smart enough not too
bed too tough on the hot-tempered South Vietnamese.
cooperation.
They need our
And we still have more military strenth than they do.
If they make concessions, they'll have the cooperation of the
Viethace se soldiers and politicians, who will accommodate with them.
But, if they're too tought, the anti-Communists will fight back.
Another assemblyman added: "The Americans are generous people
and they won't abandon us without making a deal with the Communists
not to assassinate the anti-Communists. But, in general it is very sad
to end the war by negotiations-the Vietnamese government & is just now
ready to fight-but it is not ready to negotiate at all."
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One Vietnamese woman, with two sons in the Vietnamese army
cancelled her decision to out her hair
and a third to be called up,
and become a Buddhist nun when she heard of Hanoi's acceptance.
is always good 'she said and war is always destructive.
One rich Chinese businessman bought a pet shepherd puppy
as an additional pet. He warned a fellow Saigon playboy: "If a
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"Peace
coalitiong government is formed, you won't have a chance to fool around
any more. You'll have to get to work. to help the society heal the
wounds of war. So you should live it up now that the war is going on,
and before it is too late."
The playboy responded: "Yes, it's too bad Vietnam doesn't have
a big island like Formosa. But, we have only Phu Quoc fisland, which
is too little for the million Vietnamese who want to flee here. Besides,
the Cambodians are already claiming they own Phu Quoc."
An elderly woman: If peace comes back to Vietnam, there won't
be so many Amet Americans or so many cars. I can go back to the countryside
and be buried properly when I die. Not like the war victims who are buried
without coffins."
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Date
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1968, Apr. 26
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Peace; Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6297
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Size
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21 x 26 cm
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Container
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B11, F7
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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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Collector
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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
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Language
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English
