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363-08372 to 363-08375
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Title
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Article about the South Vietnamese approach to the Paris Peace Talks
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Description
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Original title: paris, Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about the South Vietnamese approach to the Paris Peace Talks, for the London Observer
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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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paris 1 (frier/doopo)
SAIGON, DECEMBER 6=-Promillinship.
Although Prosidont
Nguyen Van Thieu has oflica officially denied South Vietnam's sovoral
deletions to Paris will "wait for President Nixon or anybody else," it
the evidence here is that the short-term Saigon diplomatic strategy
is to do just that.
Saigon newspapers general refel reflecting government thing
are running banner headlines that it will be as long as six months boli
bel before any vaguely significant substantive issues cancorning posse
in the South are discussed at the conference table. Vietnamese political
sources, including some joining the delegations going to Paris this weck,
privately confide that the Saigon government is in no repeat no rush
to decide any important questions until Nixon is in the White House-and
they hope-American Ambassador Averill Averell Harriman, oonsidered here
as "selling out Laos" in 1962, is reviewed in Paris.
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paris 2 (friar/deepe)
This concession
Indicating Saigon's tough-bargaining attitude at Paris is one important
and ironic concession that the Thieu government wrangled from the American
officialdom before he agreed to end his month-long boycott of the peace talks.
goes back to the final Palace sessions between the
Vietnamese government and American Ambassador Ellsworth S. Bunker only hours
before President Lyndon Johnson announced unilateriall his November 1st
bombing halt of the North-and before Thieu told the Americans he would not
send a delegation to Paris in early November. As a last-minute compromise
S,
in these final Palace confrontation, Vice President Nh Nguyen Cao Ky
proposed that Saigon would still send a delegation to Paris-but would first
discuss only procedural questions, the implication being that the Vietnamese
government was not repeat no longer trusted the arrangements with Hanoi that
Harriman was supposedly making on its behalf. In the pre-dawn hours, shortly
before President Johnson's November 1 speech, the American officialdom here
reportedly rejected this compromise, arguing these procedural discussions
would take months and Washington was in a hurry. But, on later, in
attempts to induce Saigon to go to Paris, the American officialdom backed
down and agreed to this condition which it had earlier rejected--the net result
being that Washington and Hanoi lost time in Paris, but Thieu gained, at
Novem
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least internally, in political prestige and won even more o clarifications
from the Americans than he had previously asked for during the October sessions.
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Hence, while President Johnson wanted to launch immediately into
substantive issues in Paris, some Vietnamese political souces
sources close to the government are now predicting a battle over
procedures in Paris that may take as long as three months or more.
Another evidence of Saigon's hard-nosed attitude at Paris is the
ControvERS. Al
behind-the-scenes role assigned to flamboyant) Vice President Neuvo
Ky who is the most prestigious and powerful leaderd of South' Vietnam's
have once
hawks or eagles as they call themselves. Ky was on known to opposed
to any peace negotiations short of accepting a Communist surrender,
and the fact that he is masterminding the Paris matters is a softening
of his and the government's position to some extent. But, certainly
he can be expected to veto making any many important concessions to the
the sending of an elected Vice President to Europe will--
Communists.
VIETNA
the Sean government believes, perhaps erroneously enhance Saigon's
prestige at the conference table, internally, it is evidence of a cler
clever and calculated political move by President Thieu and the government.
for the right-wing faotion, which looks to Ky for leadership and trusts
his no-sell-out attitude, with the Communists, can not be expected to
cause political distrubances disturbances in Saigon. Also, the right-wing
d
the political sp internal political spectrum is now committed to peace
neg negotiations of some sort, Burt and will have to bear responsibility fo
of the talks
for the outcoming, thus eliminating their perogatives for di se dissatisfe
A Compromise is Actuale Reacti
dissatisfaction,
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paris 4 (friar/deepe)
Eventually--at some time--the expectation here is that the Americans
and Hanoi will reach some bilateral agreement for a gradual exit of
of some "foreign troops"--but probably not a total withdrawal by either side.
But
And thus,
while the intensity of the war may be scaled down, there is
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currently little hope that the Communist will accept Saigon's terms for peace
and there is not repeat not a glimmer of evidence that Vice President Ky
in Paris or President Thieu in Saigon will at accept anything close to
the Communist terms of a coalition government in Saigon. Hence, while
the war may fade away somewhat, out of the international headlines,
the hopes for any genuine peace for battered South Vietnam appear very dim
indeed.
These
The
The official Saigon delegation actually negotiating inside the
conference hall numbers only five and his headed by a competent foreign
affairs technician and former ex-ambassador to Manila, Pham Dung L
delegation of Vice President Ky, who will operate outside the conference hall,
numbers A sixty eight person, persons,
trust (one full colonel, two civilians), one two twelve-man secretariat
(including colonels, captains, typists, stenographers, speechwriters) and
twenty seven service people (aide de camps, bodyguards, hairdresser for
mrs. ky, cook for the whole delegation).
PUBLIC RELATion
which includes a three-man brain
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Also a task force of more than
twenty insation mecialiate press and information specialists is also
FORTY SEVEN
businessmen, Vietnamese journalists and other
unofficial citizens are also scheduled for Tario,
scheduled for Paris,
torre
PRIVATE
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Date
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1968, Dec. 6
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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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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B191, F5
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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, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
