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363-05106 to 363-05114
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Title
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Article about disagreements about delegations to the Paris Peace Talks
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Description
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Original title: "hanoi", Keever's title: "Both Hanoi and Saigon Governments Weigh Who Sits with Whom in Paris Peace Talks," Article draft about disagreements over whether the two Vietnamese governments would sit together or separately during the Paris Peace Talks, for the Christian Science Monitor, page 1-9
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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,
OCTOBER 26-Even before the current peace flurry came
into public view, leaders in Hanoi were known to be in disagreement about
whether or not to sit at the conference table with the Saigon government-
which the Community at one testroye sited,
One diplomatic visitor to Hanoi in early October explained:
"Some of the Communist leaders agreed to sit with the Saigon
I don't know what they will decide to do."
government and some did not.
The latest word reaching Saigon is that Hanoi is still-thus far-
refusing to sit with an official representation from the South Vietnamese
government, but instead wants another delegation to represent the South
at the Paris peace talks., Some sources say the Communists have specified
Sadelegation including
that General Dyong Van Minh-"Big Minh"--the foer formerly exiled Southern
general who lead the first coup d'etat against in 1963 against the
late
1963.
President Ngo Dinh Diem and his regime.
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In Saigon, also, the South Vietnamese government is remoto
reported in disagreement with American officials over the future reto
of the government of President Nguyen van Thieu in the peace talks D
PR
the Viet Cong, the Southern Communist compet
in conjunc
political and military component.
It will cause a major shift in policy for Hanoi, the Viet Cong and
SEIG the Saigon government to a begin talks at the same table-since the
Communists have vowed to destroy the legally elected Saigon government and
the Saigon government refuses to consider the Viet Cong as anything but
outlaws.
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"Almost everything has been agreed to by Washington and Hanoi
except the role of the Southern members at the next stage of the peace
talks," one informed source reported.
explanes
The diplomat who visited Hanoi said that since norigen verp
stopped flying over the northern nine-tenths of the country an oven
months 200,
the North Vietnamese goverment has done little to repair
or reconstruct bombed out houses or
public buildings. Goods
rolling into Hai Phong by Communist ships is stacked in the opens
warehouses have not im not repeat not been rebuilt.
But,
he said, all visible roads and bridges have been rebuilt in
some fashion--some bridges have two or three alternativo, but seni-permanent
This Communist emphasis on improving transportation
routes available now.
from Hai Phong down to the 19th 1 parallel has worried Amorioan
troop commanders,
who nee note Hanoi more capable, pouring down supplies)
into South Vietnam, especially hon the monsoon weather clears up
the LastiAN-dide
Mount
them.
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the U.sitor to He
He said I the on 261100 S railroad system from Hanoi
to al Phong and then ing running into China Communist China hed
been repelrod and some of the Chinese Communist laborers once assigned
to ropa rebuilding word keeping that raille opon have boon withdraw.
It is vist peter to travel from Peking to Hanoi by train-two days-than
by plane, which for some unknown reasons stops each trip for four days
at a small airfield outside of Hanoi-much to the inconvenience of the
travelers.
Most of the North Vietnamese
bioyole of food; private
caxs and public busses are roa rarely soon; but trucks moving supplies
are
visible in great numbers and in many areas of
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Since late June, train schedules from Communist Chine have been
regular he said, before that, axinthe trains had been disrupted in
Ching-officially explained by Panier Chinese Pr Premier Chou En-Lai
because of Red Gaurd activitios.
He assumed that reconstruction work on industroy a industrial, public
and individual buildings had not been initiated because of lack of materials.
There is barely enough food just enough food to food the North
Vietnamese populationhich is now reduced esix to two meals a day
per person.
B
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"At diplomatic receit receptions,
we must always order alot of food,
he explained. "And it is compulsory that there is no ing only eating-
beforexman for en half hour before we start talking and toasting with the
North Vietnamese."
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The air war over the North haw has proeduc produced the opposite
reaction in North Vietnam from the f heavy fighting in the South.
In
the South, the intensity of fighting produced a population flight to the
urban areagbut in North Vietnam, the air war produced a higirkumam
am decentralization of population and government into the
countryside. He said the schoolchildren in Hanoi still study in school
schools located outside the capital, but and visit with their parents
only on week-ends. He said the North Vietnamese governmented 2 ad
administrations from the provincial echelon downwards-have been moved
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ino into the countryside to escape air bombardment.
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Also, he said, North Vietnam's light industry has still beon
de-centralized. He visited Nam Dinh, northwest of Hanoi, which was once
a major textile producing city. He said the major mills had been heavily
bombar bombod, but that the machines had been built underground into
cement shelters, where the workers continued to wrok work, even though
they had dhe received 25 to 30 air alerts a day before American ar
airraids over the North were the area on March 31. He said most of
the residents of Nam Dinh had left the city for the countryside, except
for the textile workers, who had dispersed their comminimum machines
in their cement bunkers throughout the city.
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He said one village between Hanoi and Nam Dinh, which was situated
Almost T
near a major bridge, had been my destroyed by American air-raids.
In Hanoi, he said young men are frequently seen on the streets--more
than he recalled from his previous visit two months before He did not
know if they were soldiers were on leave. He said rarely are uniformed
are d
ly
persons-seen-oven-policome government officers uniformed-including
even policement although occasionally a uniformed woman soldier is seen.
He said the North Vietnamese had set up a special exhibition of
ORDNANC
American-dropped bombing fragments and remains of destroyed airplei
airplanes.
Prot
Along with this, the government efficiently proscribed
Om ways in which the population should attempt to pretreet itself
from the varying kinds of ordnance. The government rapidly issues
these instructions to the population when a new American military development
WAS
is undertaken-for example, when the USS New Jersey began spouting lethal
naval gunfire inte onto the shorelines in late Septemor September, the
government immediately prosec proscribed that said that persons were killed
ith only three-netter deep, fosholes they were The population and troops
in the area were
ordered to dig dom eight-meters up foxholes.
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He said that Peking's relations with Hanoi were "correct"; the Chinese
never publicly criticized the Hanoi leadership, although it did im
occasionally berate bereate its European A'allies. The Soviets and other
Bast European All1-118B allies at t gave Hanoi a free rein
in dealing with Pk Peking because "the Vietnamese have known the Chinese
for thousands of years and can understand each other betwee better than
Europeans."
Within the past three weeks, he said, the Chinese Communists on a
fle flight from Plein Peking to Hanoi stopped the transport plane at a small
town on the Chinese side of the border. For four days,
Vietnamese and
Africans on the plane were treated well in adequate facilities, but Poles
and Russians on the paplane were put up in very "uncon "uncomfortable"
"The local authorities just decided to treat the long noses differently,"
he explained.
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Date
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1968, Oct. 26
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Peace; Vietnam (Republic)--Relations--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Vietnam (Republic); Peace treaties; Diplomacy
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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
