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Indicating Saigon's tough-bargaining attitude a,t Paris is- one important

and ironic oonoession that the 'lhieu government wrangled from the .American

officialdom before he agreed to end his month-long boycott of the peaoe talks.

1his concession � goes baok to the final Palaoe sessions bet men the

Vietnamese eovernment and .Amerioa.n Ambassador Ellsworth S. Dunlter only hours

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before President Lyndon Johnson announced unilaterialJ./ his N 0vember 1st
bombing halt of the North-and before 'lhieu told the Americans he would not
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send a delegntion to Paris in early November.

As a last-minute compromise

in th0se final Palace confrontati01�1/v1oe President

lt.'f'i;!ffi."'lnh

Nguyen Cao Ky

proposed that Saigon \vould still send a deleg tion to Paris-but would first
tho implioation being that the Victnaraose

disouss only procedural questions,
government ms noi repeat no lon

r trusted the arrangements rlth Hanoi that

Harriman was supposedly makinc; on its behalf".

before P resident Johnson's November 1 spoeoh,

In the pre-da.v.rn hours,

the Amerioan officialdom heTe

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arguing these procedural discussions 1:-.
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asM.ngton was in a hurry. But, � latox! in

reportedly rejected this oomp:rorn.i.se,
would tak0

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attempts to induce Sai n to go to Paris,

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tho .American offioialdom backed

down and agreed to this oondi tion which it had earlier i•ejeotod--the net l'eaul t

being that Washington and Hanoi lost time in Paris,
least internally,
from tho

but T'Aieu gained,

in political prestige end VTOn even more

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clarifications

erioans than he had previously asked for du.ring the Oo tober sessions.

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Hence,

wl1ile President Johnson wanted to launch immediately into

sub stantii.re issues in .Paris,

some �G Vietnamese political ootttres

sources close to the government are now predicting a battle over

procedures in .Paris that may take as long as three m onths-or more.

Another evidence of Saigon'o hard-nosed attitude at Paris is the
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behind-the-soones role assigned to flamboyant)Vice President ��l!r.'
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,. K�who is the most prestigious and po iTerful leader!/ of South' Vietnam• s
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hawks-or eagles as they call themselves. Ky �as o
knomi. to ' opposed
_;, any poaoe negotiations sho:rt of' acoepting a Communist suri·ende:r_;

and the fa.ct that he is masterminding the Paris matters is a softening

of his-and t..1').e government• s--position to some extent.

he oa;n be ex ectcd to veto making
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But,

certainly

many important oonoossions to the

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it is evidence of a cm'

clever and oalcul ted political move by President 'lhieu and the government

for the right-wing fa.otion,

mioh looks to Ky for leadership and trusts

his no-sell-out a.tt tudt\,wi tp. the Communists, oan not be expected to
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Eventually--at some time--the expectation here is that the Americans

and Hanoi vill roach some bilateral ag,reement for a gradual exit of

of some "foreign t:roops*'--hut probably not a total w:i. thdrawal by oithe:r side.
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'l>vhile the intensity of the cTal' :I, may be scaled down 1 there is
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currently little hope that the Co mmunist will accept Saig�n•s terms for peaoe
and there is not repeat not a glimmer of e·1idenoe that Vice P ,esident Ky

in Paris or President 'lllieu in Saigon will a� aocept anything clo_se to
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the Communist teros of a ooali tion governmen1i in Saieon.

out of the interr-ntional headlines,

the war may fade auay somewhat,

hile

the hopes for any genuine peace for ba tared South V ietnam appear very din
indeed.

The offici"-'

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Saigon1 delegation actually negotiating inside the

oonfercnce all numbers only five and his headed by a oompotent foreign
affairo technician and f

fflr ex-am,asaador to �anila,

delegation of Vice President Ky,

numbers

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sixty eieht p&F§fflF,

trust (0 ne full colonel,

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mo ml� operate ou tside the conference hall,

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twelve an seo,retariat

(including colonels, captains, typists, stenographers, speeohvll'iters) and

twenty seven service people (aide de oamps,

bodygua1·ds,

hairdresser for

Also a task foroe «I' of more than
cook for the whole delegation).
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.. pr,ss and informa tion specialists is also
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