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363-08376 to 363-08380
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Title
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Article about the circumstances in South Vietnam regarding 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 circumstances in South Vietnam regarding 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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SAIGON, November 22-Promillinship.
The South Vietnamese
government's diplomatic strategy is to stall sending a delegation
to the Paris peace talks as long and as much as possible--at least until
January 20, when the new Administration is inaugurated in Washington-
these three unlikely circumstances develop:
unless
1. The Communists back down in Paris and merge the National
Liberation Front delegation with Hanois,
instead of having the NLF
as a separate entity, which the Saigon government has previously vowed
it will never accep would never accept because it diminishes the
sovereignty and legality of the legally constituted government.
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so far,
But
World opinion shifts radically against the Saigon government.
the Communist chellings of towns and violations of the
demilitarized zone-which Pro dont Lyndon Joy Johnson led the world to believe
would not repeat not happen--soon to be making the government's anti-Communist
position hore more comprehensible to the outaide world.
3. mom
President Joy Johnson applies so much
Thieu can
press on the Saigon government to go to Paris that
no repeat no longer stall without suffering serious reprisals affecting the
conduct of the
or even the longevity of himself and Vice President
Hai Nguyen Cao Ky in office.
Americans will attempt to a
Rumors are rampant in Sigon that the
spark a coup d'etat again Thieu
and Kyalthough these rumors are not given much credence in serious circles.
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"I see nothing now or on the near horizon to get a Saigon delegation
to Paris before January 20," one reliable source explained. "And after
January 20th, there will be some sort of a face-saving in formula worked
out between Washington and Saigon, but not repeat not between Hanoi and
Saigon. Saigon is not repeat not man with the National Liberation
Front having a coparete delegation in Paris. It would have been if Thieu
and Ky had acquiesced to Lyndon Johnson- but since they they have dug in
their heels. Now there will have to be a complete new deal made in Paris
and the new deal will have to come from the new administration.
Saigon's vantage point, it is better to
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negotiate along with
an American administration that will have to live with the Vietnam solution
for the next four years, rather than with Johnson who man can make
any deal he wants with Manol without having to suffer the consquences of that
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The source continued:
"That then will happen is something not repeat not happening that is,
the talks will drag on and oné, maybe even at a lower level, with
Saigon maybe cending an observor tea only. And Hanoi's military position
beo go from bad to wrose and
to faden my. The thing is now the Am
troops will have
Allies are winning the
war on the battlefield, Hanoi will not repeat not allow itself to be
defeated in negotiation.
And being unable to win militarily or at the
conference table, the only thing left is for Hanoi to remove itself
by fading away to lick its wounds and to fight another day,"
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At the rootof the problem of sending a delegation to Paris is the
fact that the Thiou goverment believes whether true or not-that part
of the secret deal between LBJ and Hoin Na Hanoi involved first the remove
romoval of Thiou and Ky from office, and they being replaced by someone
more agreeablo to Hanoi, which may explain why the American pressured
Thiou so much in 00 tober for the return to General Duong Van (Big) Minh-
and second, in effect, a de facto ocalition goverment in Saigon.
And when Thieu and Ky learned this and sized up the LBJ peace package-
knowing the American efficials here were either lying to them or else
not repeat not telling them the whole picture-Thiou has remained adamant
to avoid falling into a joint LBJ-Hanoi aba ambush in Paris.
While not No
one hore pretends to know what Nixon's future position will be, hieu
and Co. still cling to the hope that Nixon was being honest during the
election campaign when he said he opposed a coalition government in
Saigon.
(Sorrient I have not received your dope sheet, so hope this is of
some uno to you as in. Please just invent a byline for me.
Regards Bev Despe).
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Date
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1968, Nov. 22
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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
