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Article about South Vietnamese political dysfunction
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Original title: "thieu", Keever's Title: "Snap Government's and a Boycott of Paris Peace Talks Draws Mixed Reactions", Article draft about South Vietnamese political dysfunction, for the Christian Science Monitor, page 1-11
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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, HOVEMBER 27 The announcement by the government of President
Nguyen Van Thieu that it would begin its pivotal journey to Paris marks
potentially a new phase of the Vietnam war and the probable beginning of the
end of an allout American commitment to fight the Communists to the finish
here.
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the road to peace in South Vietnam still apeared long perhaps even
endless find riddled with political ambushes and propaganda crossfires.
Even if the reduction of the scale of hostilities is reduced by a
égradual and proportionateé W withdrawal of American, North Vietnamese
and other foreign troops, the question still remak remains whether the
Soubles to Southern combattants of the Communists will accept the peace
conditions of the Saigon regime t government. These peace conditions
center around the 6 one manzone vote principle in which the Communists
must lay down their weapons, reduce t renounce the use of violence to
overthrow the lar law of the land but are given in return political
amnesties, the rights of other Vietnamese citizens incldi including the
right to vote for future legally constituted governments.
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The reluctant announcement of the South Vietnamese government that it
would end its boycott of the Vietnam peace talks by sending a delegation
to Paris was regarded ht here as a mixed bag. First, it was a concession
to Washington and President Lyndon Johnson--"We had to send the old man
to the grave smiling," one Vietnamese politician explained, referring to
the change-over in the White House; second, however, it was regarded
as a long-range victory over President Johnson and the clook-President
Thieu cot on paper most of the items he had argued most vehemently for
during the October meetings with Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, the most
important of which was re-affirmation of American policy to oppose a
coalition government in the Sod cottlement in the South. And, third,
the journey to Paris seemed to introduce with the commu Communists a
highly intense, yet indecisive political-propaganda struggle in the
international struggle, which would take second place to
significant developments within which might occur in South Vietnam.
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For the diplomatic observers here, the South Vietnamese government's
decision was significant in the negative that is, if the South Vie
Vietnamese had continued for toy much longer its boycott of the Paris
talks in more I intolerable mess would have resulted, in the words of
one. Yet, the decision is not repeat not necessarily significant in the
positive peace is still a long way off for the South Vietnamese
people, and perhaps it will cojo come only on the battlefield.
6In the eyes of the world, all that was required of the
Americans wasto deliver the Saigon government in Paris, & one diplomatic
observer explained. And all that uns required to the South Vietnamone
wasto go in a face-saving manner so so that they would not repoat not
appearing as blocking the road to what the the outside world views
be
as peace.
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The decisio announced decision of the Thieu government--which was
hailed in official circles as a victory for the South Vietnamese
on the one hand as a cos concession to
regime was considered here,
on the other hand,
Washingtonby agreeing to go to Paris at allbut,
as a stiffening of the Saigon regine's storen short-term dipfos
diplomatic stratagen to fors forestall any significant decisions until after
the inauguration of President-elect Richard M. Nixon into the White House,
the exodus of American Ambassador
a on January 20-and, hopefully,
Averill Harriman from Pari the Paris conference table.
official
Ambassador Harriman, who is blamed by the South Vietnamese government
for much, although not repeat no all of the i snafu with the Americans'
since the November 1 bombing halt, has been an anathema to various
Saigon governments since 1962, when he agg agreed to and ag arranged a
cao coalition government settlement for enig neighboring, Laos, which most
anite Communist Asians believe has proved did disasterous.
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While the Vietnamese government has announced the end of its boycott, the
official delegation it not repeat not expected to leave Saigon for at least
a week or ten days, o informed sources report. And, once
it arrives in Paris, it is expected to begin discussions on procedures
in other words talks about the peace talks rather than substantive matters,
official sources report. The expectation here is that deciding such
procedural matters as what day of the tenton wool to meet on, who
sit whore and in what manner will easily consume enough time until the
new American administration is in place in Washington. And, the Vietnamese
o government hopes a more hard-ligio American Ambassador than Averrill
Harriman has been appointed by that administration to serve in Paris.
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The formation of the official and unofficial South Vietnamese
governmental delegations going to Paris has been a subject of intense
e speculation in Saigon for days, but thus far no repeat no official
announcements have been madonor, in some cases, has the government
definitely decided on the official delegation. However, informed sources
report that flamboyant, hard-line anti-Communist Vice President Nguyen
Cao Ky is likely to play the import most important behind-the-scenes
role in Paris. @ Ky will be the Le Due Tho for the South Vietnamese in
Paris, one informed source explained, pulling strings on not only
the official delegation inside the conference hall, but also on a
papoole psychological warfare bug But, Ky himcolf will not
share the spotlight role inside the negotiating room.
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The docision of the Vietnamese government today is considered
singi significant internally for healing the bench greatest breach
in Vietnamese-American alliance since American troops wh were first
commited here in midla 1965, and which ex the frictions of which
exploded into worldwide visibility with the November 13th axchange of
acrimonous chergos and counter-charges between govorimonts oficials of
So American Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford and Vietnamese Minister
of Information Ton That Thien.
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The Thieu government is expected here by official and diplomatic
observers to be entering the new plan Paris peace talks in a much
stronger position than if he had signed on the dotted line under a
dateline pressure of the American election day as President Johnson
had wanted, 4 one informed source explained. The Vietnamese government
at the highest levels seems more unified at this point than at any
time since the American commitment of combat troops; also, the government
has un
even brutal American pressure
by defying intense,
undercut for the whole world the Commist propaganda line that the Saigon
regine is mere puppets of the American officials.
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Specifically, the Thieu government obtained officially, publicly
and on paper the specific guarantees that it-hat-as had asked for during the
hontod Palace confrontations with Ambassador Ellsworth Bunkor in October.
These included the partial concession by the Americans that the
Vietnamese government would play the leading role in discussions
concerning the political settlement in the South, while the American
officials reserved the right to have the leading role in the talks
on nattore such as the withdrawal of American troops. The Vietnamese
Government also got in writing that the territorial integrity of S-uth
Vietnam would be respected rumors hav had been rampant in Saigon that
South Vietnam would be divided into pen neutralist and be anti-Communist
soctions is it got reassurances, at it once had at the July Honolulu
Conference, for Adiroot and a serious talks with n Hanoi, instead of
with tho National Liberation Front. It received for propaganda purposes
clarification in writing about the our side, your side, tommy
conference setup, under which Saigon cansand undoubtedly willmattempt to
ignore the cisto separate existence of the National Liberation Front
at the Paris conference tablo. And, significantly, the American
officials hore have an understanding, but no firm promises from the
Saigon regime that the Thiou representatives will not repeat not simply
walk out of the conference if the Communists raise too much of a
propaganda storm about the representation of the National Liberation Front.
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from President
And, the Thieu government also is received
Johnson the perogative of entering into procedural, instead of
substantive talkothich had Thieu had asked for during the Palace
confrontations, thus indicating again the Vietnamese lack of trust in
the ammel arrangements the American officials had supposedly made in
a Paris on their behalf. Instead the Saigon regime will inste
make their own deal with Hanoi in Parisand, quite conveniently, this will
at least take them enough time for Richard Nixon to be installed in the
White Houso.
It is quite a different matter for the Saigon regime to go to Paris
and make a deal at the side of an American administration that does not
have to live with with a Vietnam settlement for more than two months
and making a doal mies
at the side of an American administration
that has to live with it for four years, like Nixon will, one informed
source explained.
And, most significantly, the Thieu government got reaffirmation
that the American policy wasto reject a coalition government ferumal
for settling the war in the Southand would support the South Vietnamese
peace plan of giving one man, one-vote perogatives to Communists who
lay down their a weapons.
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While diplomatic observers here were prone to hand laurels to
President Thiou for his astute handling of the South Vietnamese
crisis and the feeling he had gained stature in the rest of the world,
even the most pro-American embasses we eesti embassies sooned critical
of the
can porformance.
must be
This it is out certainly one of the shabbiest pages in American
promezo diplomnoy, one pro-American it embassy official said. The
Americans displayed the periemmal big-power thinking of gunboat
diplomacy, thinking they could get the South Vietnamese to Paris
without clarifying the terms. The Americans, to be generous,
said to have kept f everything fussy and vague in order to get Saigon
there under the intense pressure of the Pred Presidential elections
doadline in the United States. Well, the Vietnamese deserve credit
for sticking up for th all they have though fought for and who
knows, by doing so Thiou may have influenced the outcome of the
American election. The Americans shows showed all the big power
insensitivities towaşde a very proud peoples the Americand thought
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because alot of American GI's have died does not repeat not mean .TNAME
alot more Vietnamese have not also and in the end, they are the on
for which the war and the proper peace has been fought.6
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Date
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1968, Nov. 27
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Peace; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Peace treaties
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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
