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363-08286 to 363-08290
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Title
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Article about 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 Paris Peace Talks, for the Economist
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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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paris 1 (park/deepe)
SAIGON, NOVEMBER 20-From the remote and befomled vantage point
of Saigon,
it currently appears the Paris peace talks are becoming an
aimless. exercise in diplomatic futility and are likely to remain so until
at least
January 20 when the Nixon Administration is inaugurated in Washington.
Second-guessing in some high-level informed circles here is that if Nixon
maintains his current anti-coalition-government solution for the South-
yirem e then even after January 20th, the Paris talks may evolve into
an even more meaningless sideshow to the battlefield arena in the South.
The assumption of this line of reasoning is that if the Communists can not
win a coalition government in the South at the conference table from either
Johnson or Nixon--then they'll continue fighting until they do so or realize
they must "fadeaway" from the battlefield. The military prognosis is
that Communists he will soon have the cup oapability for one
launohing one more massive, Tet-styled offensive of serious
Burony one
more
magnitue magnitude- within the next twelve months-but that their
chances of getting anywhere near the success of their Tet campaig
are diminishing shapr harply.
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paris 2 (park/deepe)
Against this backdrop of victorious campaigns on the battlefield-but
facing only the prospects of negotiating a coalition government at the
conference tabley the sto stratagem of the South Vietnamese government
appears at this time to be to stall sending a delegation to Paris if all
possible unless these three unlikely factors occur:
1. The Communists in Paris capitulate on the major point they have
already won-or grabbed-from the Johnson Administration, and the
National Liberation Front is no longer seated as a separate delegation.
2. The Johnson Administration applies so much pressure on Saigon, Frien
President Nguyen Van Thieu is forced to send the delegation. But the only
Heartful meaningful pressure would be decisive actions which would result
directly or indirectly to the overthrowing of President Thieu and Vice
President Ney Nguyen Cao Ky--although the fade facade of the constitutional
government structure would still be held in tact. While there is little
evidence Washington is currently contemplating the overthrow of Thieu-ky,
it appears unlikely the Americans could probit ignite a coup against
them even if Johnson so ordered there is stable sympathy for Thiou's
position here among both American military officers and the American
Central Intelligence Agency, and Johnson would run the risk of some fairly
high-level resigna tions of his own subordinates if he gave such an order.
SIGN
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Paris 3 (park/deepe)
the inoreasingly shrill demands and accusations of Communist
3. World public opinion turns radically against the Saigon government.
But, thus far,
public statements,
the Communist ahellings of cities and direct violations
of the demilitarized zones which Johnson had led the world to believe would
not repeat not happen-and the clumsy "big stick" tantrum Secretary
pr performed by Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford last week have served.
either to portray Saigon at the t in the useful position of being
an underdog, or else to so confuse the whole mass of tangled issues
Fts associated with Paris that the outside world just loves closes its
ears.
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Paris 4 (park/deepe)
Even if Saigon does dispatch a delegation to Paris before January 20,
it seems likelyft to be unwilling to negotiate anything of substantive
importance until after that date.
It does seen that Saigon has hafl half agreed with the American
officials here on the easy half of the obstacle-some arrangement
sort of an arrangement of the Allied side of the negotiating team. But,
the the real obstacle-the seating of the National Liberation Front as a
single delegation-still appears to be unresolved at this time.
Also,
it is true Saigon has taken half-steps to prepare for sending a delegation
to Paris South Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Dang Lam has cabled the Foreign
Ministry here he has already arranged lodging,
automobiles and other details
for when the delegation exives. A South Vietnamese colonel in charge
of the signal corps is scheduled to return to saigon this week after arranging
communications from Paris and two other military technicians are scheduled to
leave for Paris this weekǝ And Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and President
Thieu, with aides, are working immm drafting a text of a working
PAPER
paper defining what Saigon is actually agreeing to-but no repeat no agreement
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has yet to be reached on the paper-
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Paris 5 (park/deepe)
And, it is true both South Vietnamese and American officials are
reports of Amerioan-South Vietnamese
oozing, rather than leaking,
agreements, cordiality and renewed friendship,
"
Sick Lea
a friendship greatly
"
enhanced with the enor attint ligy departure of Deputy
Ambassador Samuel Berger,
who ste greatly irked Thieu and Ky in the
(Vietnamese sources are lo gloating
Palace confrontation in October.
that Berger has been kicked out of country by Thieu, but, actually,
cheers may be premature.
their
Anyway, there is a perceptible thaw in top
US US Saigon relations since
answered in hours in equally accusative
Reformation
_fam confrontation,
the
Clifford's bombshell last week--which was
if not tattle-tale
Tanguage
by Saigon's Minister
Ton That Thien. After these two embarrassing kiss-and-tell
both Saigon and Washington apparently realized the
whole alliance for prosecution of the war had reached its gravest crisis.
since the commitment of American combat troops in 1965. But, while
official thaw has been sufficient to "patch up" the outward
appearance of the anti-Communist alliance here, it still does not seem
significent enough at this time for Saigon to willingly send a delegation
to Paris.
For,
as long as President Johnson remains in the White House,
President Thieu's proclivity is still to regard dispatching a delegation
to Paris in much the same light as launching a funeral procession-a
procession to his own funeral and that of a non-Communist South Vietnam.
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Date
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Unknown, Nov. 20
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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, F3
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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
