PEACE TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-247-9-17-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: December 4, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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PEACE TALKS
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ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
FILM ON BOTH NETS SUN. GF HAK-PORTER JOKING ABOUT THE ENVOY? S
CAUTIONING TO PRESS NOT TO BE CAUGHT W/"'THEIR PENS DOWN." NE
THOUGHT THAT WAS FUNNY, SAID A NOT-LAUQHING RATHER OF PORTER' S
REMARK?.???KALISCHER OF CBS DUBBED THE WEEKMISSION PROBABLY"
AN@ NOTINE3 SVN? S .RELUCTANCE TO GO ALONG, HE REPORTED RN IS SAID
TO HAVE. MADE AN DEFER THIEU CAN`T REFUSE..
IF THE TALKS FAILS SAID UTLEY TN NBCS LEAD SUN AS HE EMPHASIZED
THEIR CRITICAL NATURE, THE MOMENTUM COULD BE LOS? ANt! CHANCES FOR
PEACE CONSIDERABLY DIMMED. NBC' S DOBYNS SAID. HAK, PORTER AND
QHER US OFFICIALS WERE APPEARING RELAXED AND SUaBESTIN6, W/OUT
SO SAYINGy THAT PEACE IS NEAR. HE ALSO NOTED THIS 7TH MEETING SINCE.
OCT 26 WHEN HAK SAID 3-4 M?RE WOULD BE ENOUGH. LATER IN THE SHOW
ir~iEN A WRAPUP OF THE FORTHCOMIN4 WEEK'S EVENTS WAS BIVEN, UTLEY
SAID AFTER 4 1/2 YEARS OF TALKS* THIS COULD QE THE FINAL WEEK.
FRANCE BELIEVES THIS WEEK'S MEETING WILL BE THE LAST. W/A CEASES
FIRE SdON TO BE SIt3NED REPORTS NY. NEWS. ONE SOURCE CLOSE TO THE
GOV' T SAID NEITHER GVN OR VC ARE HAPPY ABOUT SITUATION, "BUT THEY' LL
HAVE TO TAKE IT.".... UPI SAYS "MANY DIPLOMATS' BELIEVE THIS'LL BE
THE .LAST WEEK.
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Mi?r ?.. ?1F ? ar. ..
OF PHOTOGS~ PIER POINT ON ~..~. SAID RZ WOULDN'T COMMEp_ DN REPORTS
THAT THI5 WEEK WILL 8E FINAL MEETING OR THAT A CEASEFIRE CAh BE
EXPECTED IN DEC. AR WHETHER SVN WILL SIGN... UPI SAYS RN/HAK TALKED
ANIMATEDLY, BUT NEWSMEN WERE UNABLE TO OVERHEAR ANY DF THE CONVER-
SATION. NEITHER MAN WAS SEEN TO SMILE, SAYS THE WIRE.
NBC LED SAT. W/FILM OF RN-HAK IN FINAL SESSION BEFORE WHAI'S HOPED
WILL BE LAST ROUND IN PARIS. VALERIANI SAID WH WENT OUT OF ITS WAY TD
PUT. DOWN REPORTS THAT HAK HAD GONE BEYOND HIS AUTHORITY IN PARIS.
AND HE SAID PAST WEEK HAD BEEN SPENT TRYINQ TD PROD SVN. IF THIEU
B.,OCKS ACCORD, HE' S BEING TOLD THAT HILL MIGHT, CUT OFF AID AND THAT
WH MIt3NT Nt1T FIGHT SUCH AND EFFORT. DESPITE WH RETICENCE TO COMMENT,
SAID VALERIANI, HAK BELIEVES HE CAN NAxL DOWN ACCORD. BY WEEK'S END
AND SVN WILL QO ALONG. UTLEY ADDEp THAT THE FEELING IS THAT ACCORD
WILL SOON BY SETTLED AND SINNED.
GWERTZMAN OF TIMES ALSO SAYS "THE WH SEEMED TO GO OUT OF ITS
WAY TO PRAISE HAK' S NEC3OTIATING TALENTS AND TO ASSOCIATE RN WlHIS
ACTIONS.'" ... SCR IPPS- HOWARD'S SHACKFORD ON HET SAID THE TALK O F
RN- HAK RIFT IS "DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE."....THE SUIl~ SAYS RN SENT HAK
BACK "IiVZ POINTED ExPRESSIOI~ OF CONFIDENCE" AS ZIEGLER "APPEARED TO
REJECT INSINUATIONS FR01~ SVN THAT. HAK MAY HAVE CONCEDED MORE THAN
RN INTENDED IN THE DRAFT."
ANTHONY LEWIS SAYS IT'S LNCONCEIVABLE THAT HAK ACTED IN IGNORANCE
fft DISREtIARD OF RN' S VIEWS. HE ALSO DOUBTS THE OCT. 26 ANNOUNCEMENT
WAS CYNICALLY AND DECEPTIVELY MADE FnR ELECTION P!lRPOSES. LEWIS
FEELS THE DELAY IS A RESULT OF US UNDERESTIMATION OF THIEU' S OBJECTIONS
AND OVERESTIMATION OF US ABILITIES TO BRING HLM ALDN(3. AS ALWAYS
THE DECISIVE gUESTION REMAINS WILL US SIGN WHEN THIEU DOIi~SN'T
ACTIVELY APPROVE? LEWIS HOPES THAT PEACE WILL C0~4E~~ AS A RESULT
~' RWHAK DECISION TO NA LONGER SEEK TO APPEASE THIEU W/FURTHER
"TERROR AND DESTRUCTION."
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 FORME1t NSV=~iArrarca 1aGLt~ Aaw wRR~ aKi ~n tnc r~a~. a ya anc
B EN ~ T NO SETTLEMENT IS POSS I~E W!0 UT
REASON FOR DELAX HAS E A
Ah~IGUITY AI+? NO "LASTING PEACE"~ SUCH AS US WANTS IS POSSIBLE
W~OUT PRECISION. THE WRITERS FEEL THE AMBIGUITY I5 THE ONE THAT
MUST NOW BE TAKEN ALT HO THEY ASSERT HAK RETURNS TO PARIS SEEKING
Q~EATER PRECISION. AND THEY SAY RN IS RISHINQ THE WHOLE DEAL
BY PRES5IHa FOR pREATEH ACCEPTANCE OF SVN` S DEMAND 9. " IN PRE98IMq
T00 HARD FOR A 'LASTING PEACE'. HE COULD RISK QEITING NO PEACE AT ALL."
GELB/LAKE ALSO RENOUNCE THE IDEA THAT OCT. 26 ANNOUNCEMENT WA5
PART OF AN RN "ELECTIONEERINt3 FRAUD".
A P. ~ MONITOR STORY RELATES THE THESIS THAT "HAK WENT TOD FAR
IN NEGOTIATING WJTHO AND THAT RN HAD DOUBTS ABOUT THE DRAFT."
ACCORDINa To THIS VIEW OF SOME ANALYSTS "WHILE HAK. CONSIDERED
THE OCT. 9. BREAIITHRU AS A GREAT VICTORY RN .EVALUATED IT AS JUST
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL MOVE ON THE CHESS 60ARD OF POLITICS " AND HE
WAS FAR MORE CONCERNED W/SVN' S ABILITY TO SURVIVE.
STERN WIA POST FEATURE SAYS THE 6lUESTIOWOF WHETHER HAK IS IN
TROUBLE HAS FILLED THE VOID IN PEACE NEWS. STORY W/SEVERAL (~MMENTS
8Y FOR PIER WH OR NSC AIDES-- ONE WA5 "BAFFLED" OVER HAK' S INVESTING
SO MUCH PERSONAL CREDIBILITY IN THE OCT. 26 STATEMENT eUT HE'S T00
.RESPECTFUL OF THE KISSING ER Ia TO BELIEVE HAK BOT HIMSELF IN TROUBLE
W/RN. STERN NOTES THE WIDE BELIEF THAT THE USr-SVN CONTRETEMPS
HAVE BEEN WINpOWDRESSING IN ORDER TO MAKE THE ACCORD MORE
PALATABLE TO THE t30P RT(~HT AND ALSO TO SOFTEN SVN PROTESTS.
PER HAPS~ SAYS STERN. HAK WAS FORCED TO PLAY. THE FALL-aUY MORE
IfAVILY THAT HE PLANNED DUE TO SAIpON' S OBDURACY BUT STERN DOUBTS
THE OCT.. 26 ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINED INTENTIONALLY PREMATURE
STATEMENTS. STERN ALSO NOTES SOME FEEL RN HAS SOUGHT TO LEAVE
SOME BETWEEN HE AND HAK IF THINGS DO COME UNSTUCK IN PARIS.
THE POST WRITER SEES NO INDICATION THAT HAK PLANS TO LEAVE THE WH-*~
Qt ANY DISPOSITION BY RN TO SEE HIM LEAVE.
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AN AP Sk'Gwaw1. L.CrfW.7i ~ ..c pa Anv,e. ~ e+~wc.~.r w~nvF: iar~n Va:varA/~r>M
THAT ? PEACE IS AT HAND`. THAT PASSAt3E OF ?IME SEEMS TO HAVE
f~tOUGHT MUCH CONFUSION A61D SHADOW ABOUT THE REAL CHANCE OF A
SETTLEMENT. THE WAR HOES. ONE MUCH AS IT DID aEFORE THE DISCLOSURE,"
SAYS AP, THEN. RECOi3NTINti AIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY MANUEVERS SINCE
(,CT. 2fi AND CONCL~ING BY NOTING SIGNS THAT US PLANS IO WAIT NO
LONGER TO SItiN.
REST ON gUOTES HAK AS SAYING HE " .HAD THE ILLUSI0~1" THAT THE
TALKS CDILD BE COMPLETED "W/OUT HEARTBREAK; BUT.. THE WAR HA5
t~EN HEARTBREAKING FROM THE BEt3INNLNB." BUT. HAK IS CONFIDENT
CF . AN ACCORD SOON ANa RESTON FEELS ""THE LOGIC OF EVENTS REMAINS
061 THE SIDE OF A SETTLEMENT." THE LONGER THIEU HOLDS BACK, THE
MORE DETERMINED RN IS TO DECIDE, ALBEIT RELUCTANTLY. THAT THE
ACCDRD MUST 9E SIBNED EVEN IF SVN REFUSES.
SIDEY SAID T 00 MUCH IS AI STAKE FOR BREAKDOWN. SPEAKING ON
AGRONSKY, HE SAID RN SORT OF 5ET TRAP l:OR HIMSELF` W/ELECT ION
AND CREDIBILITY AND HE MUST END 1iAR NOW. SIDNEY SAID WIS LECTURING
IN .MID-AMERICA IN RECENT DAYS I[N?ICA?ED THAT ANTI-WAR SPIRIT C?ULD
kE SOON REKINDLED; MCt~ WAS SUCH A "HORRIBLE SPECTRI+" TWAT HE
MUFFLED THE ISSUE pLON4 W/OTHERS; IT LIES UNDER SURFACE; PEOPLE
ARE SORE OVER DELAY. THEY' 1~E HAD IT. BUT KILPATRICK SAID HIS
AUD IENCES WANT US TO ST AY T IL DECENT PACT IS REACHED.
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KILPATRICK FEELS HAK HAS " A LITTLE. MUD ON HIS FACE" AND DOESN' T
LOOK T00 GOgJ BUT ACCORB IS LIKELY. LISAGOR CALLED THE DELAY SINCE
HAK` S PROPHECY A "GREAT El'7BARRASSMENT" FOR US AND THERE' S
SEEN GREAT SKEPTICISM AS A RESULT BUT PETER. FEELS EVERYTHING IS
STTLL ON TRACK. NOYES WAS ONLY ONE OF BRUUP WHO THOUGHT THINGS
MIGHT GA ON FOR MARE THAN THIS WEEK?"HE ALSO WAS THE STRONGEST
ADVOCATE OF BRLA~TNa SVN ALONG.
SHACKFORD ON NET SAYS AGCORD IS PROBABLY NEARER HUT HE SAID
WORD "PEACE" NEES MORE PRECISE D IFINIT ION. IT'S REALLY NOT
"PEACE" WHICH IS BEING AGREED UPON B~1T RATHER A CEASEFIRE IN
QtDER TO LET US OUT. LISAGOR ASKED WHY RN COULDN'T JUST. CUT OFF
SAIGONr S WATER AS tJS HALDS ALL' THE ACES. SHACKFORD SEES RN' S
GOAL IS TO GET OUT W/" HONOR" TN A WAX IN WHTGH THE RIGHT CAN' T
MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A "SlELLOUT"?~ AND MAKE THE CHARGE STIGK. F10
WAY AGCORD WILL GO TO HILL IN ANY CASES HE SAIDy ALT HO RECONSTRUCTION
MONEY MUST COME FROM HILL. TIMES MACNEIL PREDICTED MANY "BITTER"
FIGHTS OVER THAT.
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SVN? S FOREIGN MIN. LAM SAYS SVN WON'T SIGN IF NVA WITHDRA~IAL
I5N' T INCLUDED IN ACCORD. THE NY NEWS SAYS DUC REPORTEDLY ASKED
RN TO POStPONE ANY SIGNING FOR 3 MONTHS TO ALLOW FURTHER TERRITQRIAL
EXPANSION. ... MUDD CALLED LA(~' S ST ATEMENT THE STRONGEST INDICATION
YET THAT US WILL INDEED SIGN ND MATTER WHAT SVN DOES. ... UTL>~Y
ADDED THAT IT WAS SVN' S FIRST SUCH PU$LTC STATEMENT AND FIRST SOLID
INDICATION THAT t!S WILL SIGN IN ANY CASE. ...DN SUN. RATHER SAID
THERE WERE "FEARS IN SAIGOiT' THAT US WILL SIGN WITHOUT THIEU.
LE MONDE SAID GVN HAS DIRECTED ITS OFFICIALS TO PREPARE FOR A
CEASE-PYRE, PDSSTBLY AS EARLY AS DEC. 12. ..." SVN CONTINUED TO 1"iAKE
NAWK~LTKE NOISES PUBLICLY:" SAYS THE SUN? S WOODRUFF, "BUT THEY ALSO
TOOK WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE FIRST STEPS TO PREPARE THEIR PEOPLE AND
ADMIN. FOR AN EARLY CEASE FIRE." ...THIEU DECREED A 3 PART .LAW
TNAT WOULD GIVE HIM AND THE ARVN TIGHT CONTROL TN CASE DF A CEASEFIRE.
HE CAN DECLARE STATES OF ALERT. EMERGENCY AND CURFEW THROUGHOUT GVN-
CONTR.CA.LED AREAS. ... N8C FILM OF MASSIVE G1irN CAMPAIGN IN SAIgON
TO SELL THIEU' S PLILICIES ON CEASEFIRES ~) ONLY WIETS CAN SETYLE
CyN FATE A!~ 2) NVA MUST LOSE. REPORTER SAW LITTLE SIGN OF MUCH
Pt~LIC INTEREST IN ALL THE SIGNS.
ACCORDING TO FRIED OF THE NY NEWS NAK` S MEETING IN OCT W/THIEU
WAS "('M1pRKED 8Y STQRMY EXCHANGES IN WHICH HAK SEVERAL TIMES
INTERRUPTED THIEU IN MID-SENTENCE." Di3RINC3 THE FRE6iUENTLY "HEATED"
TALKS, HAK UAGED THIEU TO BE "REALISTIC." AT TIMESi ACCORDING TO
SOflRCES~ " IT GQT PRETTY AO UGH Ate HAK TREATED THIE~J ALMOST LIKE A
KIp."....FRITCHEY SAYS IF THIEU WANIS TO KNOW HIS FATE HE SHOULD
L~IOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO CHIANQ AT THE TIME OF RN? S PEKING SUMMIT
PLANS. THE "LOYALTY SHOW" FOR THIEt1 Ili THE DUC TALKS IS ANA1.OGffUS
TO THE UN FIGHT FOR. THE GENEAALISSI~.
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UPI $Ar~ 1 a~ ruwa ~ nn. r,,.nk., .,~ ..._ . _.. ..--- ----- -
t~' THIEU' S OBJECT IONS MAY WELL BECOME THE KEY TO THE MAKING OR
BREAKING OF LASTING PEACE. IT HAS THE RE5U1-T OF ORDERING THIEU TQ
RELEASE THOUSANDS OF SUSPECTED VC AND COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS.
A THIEU REFUSAL TO DO SO ALMOST CERTAINLY WOULD LEAD TO CHARGES OF
Bpi) FAITH, AND WOULD GET ANY ACCORD OFF TO A SHAKY ST ART, SAYS UPI
WHICH NOTES THAT THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE INDICATION HE HAS MADE ANY
t~i..ANS T O RELEASE THEM, OR TO STOP MAKING ARRESTS FOLLOWING A
SETTLEMENT.
CARGLYN MUGAR, ONE DF T AMERICANS WHO RECENT-ZAYYAT DENIED THAT SOVIET ADVISERS WERE
RETURNING IN SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS. "THERE ARE NO MORE THAN
HULREDS` IN EGYPT NOW.
" JtXiDAN IS AMO NB THE OST PEACEFUL NAT IONS IN MIDEAST" r
SAYS SUN FEATURE WHICH RECALLS THAT C?UNTRY' S FOSIT ION AS "ARAB
STORM-CENTEa"' UST A YEAR AGO. TO SOME EXTENTi HUSSEIN HAS
SUCCEEDED IN SEIZING THE MIfTDLE-GOUNA OF ARAB PaLITIGS. ...
NBG NOTED THAT JORDAN DENIED THAT AN Et~YPT .JET WAS FIRED UPON
AS IT T OC~~( OFF ROM AMMAN.
i~HER FORE~aN AFFAIRS
Wf OUT THE OFFIGIA ANNARE USUALLY EXTENDED HEADS OF ST ATE*
ALLENDE ARRIVED IN NYK FOR AND ADDRESS BEFORE THE UN. NO GOV? T
REPS GREETED HIM. ALLENDE SENT A WIRE OF GREETINGS TO RN EN ROUTE. ..?
ALLELE'S ADDRESS WILL CQNTAIN A SHARP ATTACK ON AN "INVISIBLE
~? ~ KADTr' FOSTERED" B Y US A#iAI NS CHILE. . ? ? ANY NEW EDIT
SUGGEST ONE' EARPLUGS BE READIED:
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INDIA'S GALL FOR IMPROVED k~~.AT IONS. ...GANDHI SAYS BED iER RELATIONS
trAN BE BROUGHT ABOUT BY AN IMPROVED U5 UNDERSTANDINt~ OF INDIA. SHE
TOLD TIMES "THERE SHOULD BE GREATER FRIENDSHIP..... WHENEVER WE DO
pNYTHINi3~ THE U5 ADMIN HAS FELT IT WAS DIREGfiED AGAINST THEM.
THEN THERE IS THE CONSTANT PEEING-OR SO WE ARE TOLD-THAT WE ARE
ARE PRtI*RUSSIAN. THEY HELPED US IN DIFFICULT TIMES.
BUT WE PAY FOR WHATEVER VE d ET FROM THEM."
T HE INDIA- PAK POW EXCHANGE REALLY DIDN` T SOLVE ANY BIG
PROBLEMS SAID NBC' S BRADY. BHUfTO WA5 TRYING TO BREAK
THE DEADLOCit BETWEEN THE ~ COUNTRIES.--BUT HE DIDN'T SUCCEED.
A PRo-60VERNl~ENT PAPER GALLED FOR THE ABOLITION OF MARTIAL
LAW IN GREECE. PAPA?OPOULOS I5 RUMORED READY TD DO Sp.
THE STAR EDITORIALLY FAILS TO SEE WHAT'S WRONG W/ MAC-
QtEQOR' S REPORTED SUGGESTION THAT US MIGHT RECOGNIZE
THODESIA. ARE THAT COUNTRY'S POLICIES ANY MORE DISPLEASING THAN
THOSE OF Ut~AND A W/WHOM THE US DOES HAVE RELATIONS? AND WHY
ISOLATE ANI7 ATTACK .RHODESIA? LOOa HOW SUCH NAME- CALLING HAS
Hi:LPED MOVE S. AFRICA FARTHER TD THE RIGHTS SAYS THE STAR.
"' BANZAI!' .AND T ANAKA BURSTS UPON THE JAPANESE SCENE" IS
HEAD ON A MONITOR PAGE DN THE " COMPUTERIZED BULLDOZER" AND
"MAN OF THE PEOPI,>ir" WHOSE KIND HAG NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE IN
JAPAN.
IN 19~5~ HAMMARSKJtX.D TERMED GHOU "THE MOST SUPERIOR BRAIN
I. HAVE SO FAR MET IN THE FIELD OF FOREIGN POLITICS." NEW
BIO ON DA(~ SAYS HIS "ACTIVE BUT QUIET DIPLOMACY. . PROVED
EXTRAORDINARILY SUCCESSFUL IN A SERIES OF SEEMINGLY
HOPELESS SITIJATION5."
PERON NAS ALL BUT ABAI~?ONED ANY THOUGHTS HE MAY HAVE
HAD OF SEEKINR ELECTION A4AIN IN ARGENT TAN. ... SPY EXPERT
LADiSLAS FARAGD ACCUSED PUBLIG OFFICIALS OF NOT BEING "INTERESTED
IN BRIMGINO BORMANN TO JUSTICE." HE SAID HIS SIX~PART HAD
"FAILED T D PRODUCE THE EFFECT I ENVISAGED.
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