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363-04837 to 363-04842
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Title
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Article about South Vietnamese delegation for the Paris Peace Talks
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Description
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Original title: "depart", Keever's title: "Saigon's Delegation Departs for Paris Peace Talks." Article draft about the South Vietnamese diplomatic delegation headed by Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ after being rubber-stamped by the National Assembly. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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AI Usage Disclosure
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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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Transcript
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SAIGON, DECEMBER 7--Vice President guy Cao Ky and Saig South
Vietnam8s Vietnam's official and supplemental delegations were scheduled to
depart for the Paris peace talks this week-end following a last-minute,
pre-cooked flurry of democratio exercises in democracy and some low-ky
key, behind-the-scenes governmental squabbles.
(Hank:
Within a few hours, the delegation is scheduled to depart,
so please then change the lead update the lead and make any necessary
inserts from the wire services.
significant happenes,
An is at the airport and if anything
1811 1'11 bable later inte inserts to this piece).
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In a pre-planned governmental arrangement to demonstrate how
constitutional democracy works in South Vietnam, both the two-house
legislature and the newly 1 appointed Supreme Court got into the act
Negotiating
in sending the delegations to Paris. This exercise began on Dec
RemRosenbeim Wednesday this week, when the sixty-man, upper-house
AN OVERWHELringLy
of the legislature debated and approved by almajority vote
in a closed-door session b
to the sending of the
official and Vice Presidential delegations to Paris.
Then, however, the 137-man Lower House of the elected legislature
protested, arguing the S decision of the Senate was unconstitutional.
Deputies from the Lower House pulled out copies of South Vietnam's
AND
constitutiony referred to Article 39, semad section three, spelling
out that the authority of the National Assembly was to "determine declarations
of war and a holding of peace talks." And, the National Assembly,
they argued, again pointing to the constitution, "includes two houses,
the Lower House and the Upper House," which they interpreted to mean
meeting in joint session.
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FOR Hours on
A more-or-less make-believe constitutional crisis had developed-and
CASE
them on Friday, the two-month-old Supreme Court was given its tak
since its birth; the black-robed nine sages of the Court met most of
Friday, including over the lunch-hour,
at Gia Long Palace and by mid-afternoon
decided that the Lower position of the Lower House deputies was correct,
and that both Houses had to meet jointly to a approve constitutionally
the sending of the delegations to Paris. On Saturday the joint session
was held behind closed-doors, and the dispatching of the peace
delegations was approved by the legislature, AFTER Eight Hours
fifteen minutes of debate.
AND
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In the end, the South Vietnamese government demonstrated that the
éfor the first time that the check-and-balance system of the executive,
legislative and judicial branches # could work in accordance with
the written constitution--and that their unity of the three branches
prevailed to give the delegation more spammenhimmaamd solid
support as it prepared to emplane to Paris.
Political
Aside from this rather sedate show of strength for instant democracy,
a behind-the-scenes series of frictions began bubbling about the
seinsrbinnmafixam composition of the delegations. First, Mrs. N
Nguyen Thi Vương a prominent Saigon lawyer, told a Saigon newspaper
she had it requested to withdraw from the negotiating
delegation because she objected to press reports that she was
Negotiator,
MERELY
Saigon's answer to the Viet Cong female-head of delegation, Mrs.
Nguyen Thi Binh,
The niece of a Trotskyite and herself a teenage
revolutionary fighter with the Communists against the French colonialists,
ATTACK
Mrs. It Vui also came under fimm suspicion in the Lower House for h
SIDE. Some LegiSLATORS warned.
having relatives on the other Communist spy and that she might act as
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a "spy for the Communists."
Political sources here say that she gave
up her Gomis support for the Communists when he uncle was assassinated
inxthem by the Vietnamese Stalinist wing of the Communist movement.
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In the end, however, Mrs. Vui was expected to join the dele
official delegation. (Please update if she actually does or does not).
Second,
the
some of the Ministers of the government, and
reportedly even Prime Minister Tran Van Huong were known to feel they had
been left out of the process of selecting the delegation. Instead of the
Minister of Information selecting the two twenty-man team of radio,
newsmen, tw national television technicians, public relations and other
information specialists from within its own ministry--aides to Vice
ARGUED.
President Ky made the selections and began running the whole show. The
lower-ranging
stay-at-home government officials became jealous and vowed that when
their Paris-bound colleagues returned home, they would find themselves
without government jobs. Also, Vietnamese-language newspapers generally
supporting Cochinchinese Prime Minister Huong began publishing veiled or
direct accusations that the Tonkinese, including Vice President, Ky,
xmblem rather than native Southerners would be running the
whole show in Paris. The three-man brain trust which is to serve
Vice President Ky while in Paris are all Northerners,
Masterminding
these newspaper
accounts complained, and Especially Dang Duc Kn Khoi and Nguyen Ngoc Linh,
Both
came
for a long time serving the Vietnamese government in press matters,
under fi especially hot verbal attack from the Southern-oriented newspapers j
anbin some even the Vice President Ky did also.
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Want So for As to Suggest
One Vietnamese-language newspaper ever fairly bluntly stated that
if the Viet Cong in Paris said these Northerners did not repeat not
represent anybody, they would be right.
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Date
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1968, Dec. 7
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Subject
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Nguyễn, Cao Kỳ, 1930-2011; National Assembly of Vietnam (Republic); Paris Peace Accords (1968-1973); Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Peace; Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States; Diplomatic and consular service, Vietnamese
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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, F39
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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
