NEWS SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-247-9-18-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: December 5, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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NEWS SUMMARY
DECEMBER 5, 1972
(MONDAY NETS, WIRES, MASS)
THE MAJOR STORIES` OF THE DAY:
TWO HAITHO SESSIONS LED ALL NETS, WHICH HAD FILM OF
WAVES AS SMILES FROM BOTH SIDES, ALONG W/" ALMOST" BLACK CAT
THAT ALMOST STOLE THE SHOW AS IT MADE ITSELF AT HOME
CIO HAK S CAR DURING SESSIONS. NBC NOTED SPECULATION THAT
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PROGRESS IS BEING MADE OR FULL NEGOTIATING TEAMS WOULDN'T HAVE
BEEN PRESENT AT 2ND SESSION.... OTHER NETS ALSO NOTED WIDESPREAD
EXPECTATIONS AND OPTIMISM THAT THIS WILL BE THE FINAL WEEK OF
TALKS.... ABC' S SILL TOLD OF THE "PERSONAL AND VERY CLOSE CONTROL"
THAT RN HAS TAKEN OVER THE TALKS.
? NBC FILM AS SVN" S LAM INSISTED SVN WILL ACCEPT NOTHING LESS
THAN WRITTEN AGREEMENT OF A TOTAL NVA WITHDRAWAL, FROM SVN,
THO DETAILS COULD BE WORKED OUT LATER. IN WHAT REPORTER SAID WAS
1ST PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF THIS ASPECT OF SECRET TALKS, LAM SAID HAK
HiAD OFFERED NVN SEVERAL FORMULAS FOR WITHDRAWAL BUT ALL HAD
EEEM REJECTED BY HANOI. LAWS REMARKS DIDN'T SOUND LIKE
SVN. S SOVTFUI NB ON DEMANDS. SAID REPORTER.
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ILATION THAT MOVE WAS TO HELP MIN FOR POTENTIAL RACE FOR
ADLAI III' S SEAT IN '74.
ALL NETS NOTED LAIRD SAID DOD' S FY ' 74 BUDGET WILL TOP
S80 g, $4 B OVER 73,. W/MOST INCREASES DUE TO PERSONNEL. LAIRD,
ON NBC, SAID HE WILL EXPLAIN TO NATO THAT NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR
U1IILATERAL CUTS IN LIGHT OF MBFR TALKS. NOW IS THE' TIME TO BE
STRONG AND SHOW COMMITMENT TO NATO, SAID LAIRD.
ALLENDE ON CBS/ABC FILM ISSUING SHARP BLAST FROM UN AT
MULTINATIONALS, ESPECIALLY ITT FOR IMPERIALISM AND AGGRESSION
AGAINST CHILE.
ABC REPORT ON THE "UNUSUAL TURNABOUT" AS IRA IN IRELAND ARE
FLEEING NORTH AS THE "'TERROR HAS FINALLY COME HOME TO THE SON;lC H."
REPORT EMPHASIZED LACK OF POPULAR SUPPORT FOR. IRA IN IRISH REPUB-
LIC AND THE IRONIC FACT THAT IRA-FOUNDER DE VALERA SIGNED THE
CRACKDOWN MEASURE. ABC SAID IRISH REPUBLIC MAY LOOK BACK W/FOND
NOSTALGIA ON IRA BUT IT WANTS PEACE AND QUIET NOW, NOT HHE VIOLENCE
IROUGHT BY .IRA. ON FILM CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN SAID IRA CAN
SURVIVE ONLY DUE TO FOREIGN SUPPORT.
- KK SMITH COMMENTED ON..THE INCREASED TREND TO A "COMITY"
AMONG NATIONS.
? NBC/CBS FILM OF GOP GOVERNORS CONFERENCE. CLOSED DOOR
SESSION WVP AGNEW WAS CALLED "FRIENDLY AND NON-POLITICAL" BY
WVERNORS, IN COMPARISON TO POST-'70 ELECTION' SESSION WHEN
THE VEEP WAS CRITICIZED BY SOME GOVERNORS. NBC FOCUSED ON GOP
DISCONTENT W/WH-1701 WHILE CBS FOUND PARTY LEADERS CONSIDERABLY
HAPPIER THAN OTHE REPORTS HAVE INDICATED.
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NESSON NOTING JDE AND OTHER WH AIDES REFUSED TO TESTIFY ON
WOUNDS OF EXEC. PRIVILEGE, SO WHOLE STORY OF HANDLING MAY
NEVER BE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. LOESCH, ON NBC, DENIED DECISION
NOT T O USE FORCE WAS WH ONE, SAYING IT WAS ADMIN. DECISION
ABOUT WHICH MORTON WAS ADVISED AND CONCURRED WITH. MORTON
EMPHASIZED THAT`THO THERE WAS DISORDER, THERE WASN'T ANY
B;OGDSHED. ABC SAID DECISION TO SACRIFICE BUILDING AND AVOID
MASSACRE WAS APPROVED. BY RN.
SCHORR, AT WATERGATE PRE-TRIAL, SAID DEFENSE SEEMED TRYING
TO MINIMIZE PUBLICITY, BUT JUDGE SIRICA DENIED MANY MOTIONS.
WILL SUBPEONA UNPUBLISHED PORTIONS OF LA TIMES INTERVIEW
V' BALDWIN BUT PAPER SAYS IT' LL NOT PROVIDE THEN. "BIG SURPRISE'
IS THAT PROSECUTION WILL ATTEMPT TO TRACE $114,008 IN RN CAMPAIGN
FUNDS THAT ENDED UP IN BARKER' S ACCOUNT -- A MOVE THAT EXPANDS
SCOPE OF CASE FROM JUST WATERGATE TO QUESTIONS REt PAYMASTERS AND/
FR INVOLVENEN1 OF "HIGHER-UPS."
NBC/CBS FILM BACKGROUNDERS ON APOLLO 17 W/ALL GOING
WELL FOR "SPECTACULAR" FOR WED. NIGHT LAUNCH-
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TOP STORY OF THE DAY, LED CHANCELLOR IS "WHAT COULD BE LAST
ROUND OF TALKS BEFORE A CEASE-FIRE." NOTING COMPARISON OF STAFF
COMPLEMENTS AT MORNING AND AFTERNOON SESSIONS AND STRICTLY HELD
NEWS BLACKOUT, CHANCELLOR SAID FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, ALL WERE
SMILING AT THE END, AND SPECULATION IN US AND SVN IS THAT
AGREEMENT WILL BE REACHED BEFORE XMAS.
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NBC` S DOBYNS, NOTING THERE WAS 00 ANNOUNCEMENT OF AM.
SESSION Bur THAT PRESS WAS WAITING FOR HAK, SAID HAK WAS -STILL
IN A GOOD MOOD" AS HE ARRIVED. HAK, ON FILM, LIGHTLY SAID
1E THOUGHT THIS WAS TO BE A PRIVATE. SESSION. MEETINGS WERE
PRIVATE, SAID DOBYNS, W/ A. M. SESSION APPARENTLY TO EXCHANGE
INFO FROM RECESS. WHATEVER WAS DISCUSSED WAS KEPT TO
iIIGOTIATORS, SAID DOBYNS, BUT ALL WERE SMILING AND WAVING THO
NO ONE. WOULD. SAY ANYTHING AND THUY WAVED OFF QUESTIONS. NOTING
FILL STAFF COMPLEMENT, AT AFTERNOON SESSION, DOBYNS NOTED THIS
RAISED SPECULATION PROGRESS WAS BEING MADE, AND DOSYNS HILIGHTED
HER UNCONFIRMED SPECULATIONS: 1) THAT RN WANTS SOME PEWS
NOME BY XMAS AND THO HAS AGREED, AND 2) THAT AGREEMENT WILL BE
INITIALED BY MID-DEC. AND SIGNED ABOUT 5 DAYS LATER. NOTING
TOTAL HOURS HAK-THO HAVE TALKED SINCE NOV. 29, DOBYNS SAID NO-
KNOWS IF ANYTHING HAS BEEN SETTLED BUT US MOOD OVER
LAST WEEK HAS BEEN' DETERNINEDLY OPTIMISTIC. "..*CHANCELLOR
NOTED LIKELIHOOD OF INFORMAL CEASE- FIRE BETWEEN INITIALING AND
SIGNING.
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BY HORDE OF REPORTERS AW CROSSED BY A BLACK CAT," KALISCHER,
OVER FILM, NOTED DAY BEGAN AT 2 A. M. W/HAK WALK W/HAIG AND
SULLIVAN.. TALKS HOPEFULLY WILL BRING AGREEMENT BEFORE XMAS,
SAID KALISCHER, NOTING THE CAT WAS I ST INCIDENT SINCE THE
MEDIA" S DISCOVERY OF SECRET TALK LOCATION TO CAUSE HAK TO
REGISTER SURPRISE. KALISCHER SAW -W-AYES AND SMILES AS OTHER VIS-
IBLE INDICATORS THINGS WERE GOING GOOD, BUT SAID HE WASN'T SURE
IF IT WAS THE CAT OR PRESS THE "JINXED" THE A. M. SITE, AS
TALKS MOVED TO NEW -- PLUSHEST SITE YET -- IN AFTERNOON.
KALISCHER, IN CONTRAST TO NBC, SAID HAK AND TH0 WEREN'T SMILING
AT END OF 2ND SESSION.
WIDESPREAD- SPECULATION THAT TALKS COULD BE SUCCESSFUL, SAID
ABC' S R.CLFSON BUT NO REAL INDICATION RY EITHER SIDE EXCEPT
FOR DISPLAYS OF GOOD HUMOR.. CLIP OF HAK AS HE JOKED W/PRESS
OVER. FINDING THE "SECRET" SITE. BIG SMILES ALSO FROM NVN
SAID ROLFSON, BUT THOSE ARE UNRELIABLE INDICATOR AS THE.
NEGOTIATORS HAVE SMILED EVEN WHEN THINGS HAVE GONE BADLY.
NOTE OF 100 MPH DRIVE BACK TO HOTEL FOLLOWING PM SESSION
IN THE "PASTORAL SCENE."
ABC' S SILL SAID RN IS, IN EFFECT, IN "REMOTE CONTROL" OF
TALKS. NOTE OF CABLES BACK AND FORTH AFTER 1ST MON.
SESSION. RN WILL CONTINUE' TO DECIDE EVEN THE NUANCES, SAID GILL
WHO NOTED THAT A CENTRAL AIM OF THIS NEW AND CLOSER RN" HAK
CONTACT WAS TO DISPEL REPORTS OF ANY DIVISION BETWEEN THE 2
CVLR TERMS. TALKS WILL CONTINUE TO BE INTERRUPTED AS MUCH AS
NECESSARY, SAID GILL TO ALLOW RN-HAK CONTACTS. BUT RN WILL
NOT ALLOW ANY RIFT TO INTERRUPT HIS EFFORTS TO HAVE A FINAL
ACCORD BY DEC. .15. CLIP OF RN CHOPPER LEAVING KB W/GILL NOTING
CONTACT W/HAK REMAINS POSSIBLE WHILE IN AIR.... UPI SAYS INDICATION
OF THE SENSITIVE STAGE OF THE DISCUSSIONS WAS REPORT THAT RN
WAS IN CLOSE TOUCH W/HAK.... Ali AP SAYS THO THERE HAS
PEEN TALK HAK MAY HAVE OVERPLAYED HIS HAND AS RN' S NO. I
NEGOT IAT QR, THERE HAS BEEN NO SIGN FROM WH THAT HAK HAS LOST ANY
DEGREE OF FAVOR W/RN.
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BRIEFED BY THE US, "BUT CAN'T (30 INTO DETAILS IN THIS FINAL
STAGE, USING ? FINAL" FOR THE FIRST .T IME, NOTED UPI.... NOTING
LAM' S COMMENTS ON BRIEFING, CBS SAID LAN SAID HE WAS TOLD
NEGOTIATIONS WERE IN FINAL STAGE.
LAN THOUGHT A TREATY MIGHT. BE SIGNED SOON, BUT ADDED -WE
CANNOT SAY IF IT WILL BE THIS WEEK OR LATER."... IN ADDITION
TO REPORTING LAN S STATEMENTS RE: SVN' S DEMANDS FOR WRITTEN
AGREEMENT ON NVA WITHDRAWAL, NBC'S KAPLAN SAID LAM STATED GV`N
IS EQUALLY CONCERNED OVER COUNCIL, WHICH LAN SAID NVN IS TRYING
TO TURN INTO REAL GOV' T OF SVN. LAM SAID THIS IS COMPLETELY
(UT OF THE QUESTION. NOTINO REPORTS SUGGESTED SVN WAS SOFTENING,
KAPLAN SAID NOTHING LAM SAID INDICATED THAT, NOR DID
LAN SOUND LIKE A MAN REPRESENTING A GOVT. THAT WAS PREPARED TO
HOW TO AN AGREEMENT IT DOESN'T APPROVE OF.... CHANCELLOR NOTED
THAT DESPITE SVN" S PUBLIC STATEMENTS, US OFFICIALS VIEW THE
TALKS AS STILL ON THE TRACK AND SEE AGREEMENT NEAR. THO SOME
DISPUTE SPECULATIVE TIMETABLES, IT'S HARD TO FIND A
KNOWLEDGEABLE US OFFICIAL WHO DOESN' T THINK AT LAST WE'RE
CLOSE TO A CEASE+-FIRE, SAID CHANCELLOR.
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TIN SONG AND 5 OTHER SAIGON DAILIES PRINTED NEARLY IDENTICAL
Sr OR?IES QUOTING. " HI-RANKING GVN SOURCES" AS SAYING IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
FOR A CEASE-FIRE SIGNING ON OR ABOUT DEC. 15. THEY SAID FOREIGN
'PRESS REPORTS TO THAT EFFECT ARE "COMPLETELY FALSE" AND "RIDICULOUS
AND FABRICATED TO FOOL PUBLIC OPINION." THE PAPERS ACCUSED THE TIMES
AND LE MONDE OF INITIATING A CAMPAIGN " AIMED AT CREATING AN
ATMOSPHERE OF FALSE OPTIMISM," AND QUOTED LAN AS SAYING "THE US
WILL NEVEF" SIGN ANY SEPARATE AGREEMENT OVER SAIGON'S OBJECTIONS.
"I, DON'T BELIEVE RNN. WOULD WANT OR REQUIRE SUCH A THING," SAID
LAM.
PERCY TOLD LAN IF GYM REFUSES TO SIGN A TREATY THAT US AID COULD
HE PLACED IN JEOPARDY, THE CHIC. NEWS SAYS. PERCY SAID HE WASN? T
ACTING ON RN' S BEHALF.
DELLLNGER SAID NVN TOLD HIM POWS MAY RECEIVE XMAS PRESENTS
AND CARDS AGAIN, "LEADING TO VERY SAD CONFIRMATION THAT THE POWS
WILL STILL BE IN HANOI" AT XMAS. DELLINGER HAS SERIOUS DOUBTS
THE ADMIN. IS CARRYING OUT ITS PLEDGE TO END WAR AND HE ANNOUNCED
NATL. "SIGN THE AGREEMENT NOW" CAMPAIGN. IF THE ACCORD ISN'T
SIGNED BY XMAS, "THERE WILL BE VIGILS AND PROTESTS ALL OVER US ON
XMAS WEEK," AND IF ACCORD ISN'T SIGNED BY JAN. 20, THERE WILL BE
PROTESTS AT THE INAUGURATION. DELLINGER SAID THAT SINCE MAK' S
"PEACE IS AT HAND" REMARK, THE ADNI N HAS BEEN "SITTING ON A
VOLCANO."
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WORIGINAL AGREEMENTS, IN EFFECT, BEING TORN UP AND THIEU ABOUT
TO BLOW UP ANY AGREEMENT, HE DIDN'T LIKE--"SO WENT THE OMINOUS
REPORTS AS ANOTHER LULL IN THE BATTLE FOR PEACE INSPIRED NERVOUS
SPECULATION. IN FACT, THE SITUATION WAS NOT AT ALL THAT SOUR."
AND THERE WERE SOUND REASONS FOR CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM, ADDS TIME,
NOTING SOME S. VIETS DESCRIBE HAY, AS "THE KING WHO TRAVELS AT
NIGHT" IN TRIBUTE TO HIS TIRELESS COMINGS AND GOINGS.
TIME SAYS THE WH EXPECTS THIEU TO ACCEPT AGREEMENT, ADDING
RN REFUSED TO MEET W/THIEU BECAUSE THAT WOULD MAKE THIEU LOOK
LIKE A US PUPPET OR' THAT HE WAS PUSHING RN INTO A TOUGHER STANCE.
THUS THE ONLY RBA-THIEU MEETING CONTEMPLATED WOULD BE AS A FINAL
GESTURE OF COOPERATION AFTER THE AGREEMENT OUTLINE IS FIRMED UP.
TIME SAYS HAK WILL BE PRESSING TO MAKE UNWRITTEN UNDERSTANDING
RE: N.VA W/DRAWAL MORE EXPLICIT. ANOTHER PROBLEM IS WHETHER THIEU
WILL RELEASE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS.
THIEU APPARENTLY WILL HAVE TO SIGN OR LET US SIGN W/OUT HIM,,
SAYS TIME, BECAUSE HE'S BEEN WARNED THE DER HILL ISN'T LIKELY TO
VOTE ANY MORE FUNDS FOR GVN IF HE HOLDS OUT. MAO ALSO REPORTS
ALREADY THERE IS SURPRISINGLY STRONG FEELING AMONG MANY POLITICOS
AND INTELLECTUALS IN SAIGON THAT CEASE-FIRE IS IMMINENT AND THAT
THIEU' S POSITION IS HOPELESS. YET, SVN PEASANTS AREN'T SO SURE
THE YEARS OF FIGHTING WILL EVER END.. ONE SAYS: "PEACE? A CEASE-
FIRE? LOOK AT OUR HOUSE. (BOMBED BY ARVN) THIS IS PEACE?" WHILE
ANOTHER BELIEVES, "BOTH SIDES WILL JUST KEEP FIGHTING WHILE THE
PEOPLE STAY IN THE MIDDLE. THEY TELL US TO PUT UP FLAGS. WE PUT
UP FLAGS. THEY TELL US TO MOVE, WE MOVE."
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NCWSWEEK STORY WHICH SAYS HAK REALIZED PEACE WAS NOT AS CLOSE AS
HE HAD THOUGHT BEFORE HE FOUND THAT THIEU WOULDN'T BUDGE. YET,
SAYS MAG, THERE ARE SIGNS THIEU HAS CHANGED COURSE AND IS
RELUCTANTLY (LIP INS ABOARD. 'EMB'ARRASSED" BY HAK` S PREMATURE
STATEMENT, THE WK WAS DOING EVERYTHING IT COULD TO ENCOURAGE
(PT IMISM, BUT HOPEFUL HINTS WEREN'T COMING FROM THE US SIDE
ALONG, SAYS NEWSWEEK NOTING THAT ALTHO THEY DENOUNCED US FOR
DELAY, COMMUNISTS DIDN'T SEEN TO HAVE THEIR HEART IN IT.
GVN, THINKING THERE WAS A SPLIT BETWEEN RN AND MAX, SEND
DUC TO MEET 'W/RN PRIVATELY, BUT THE PLOY FAILED W/HAK SITTING
INL THEIR MARATHON TALKS SUGGESTED STUDY OF AGREEMENT POINT BY
POINT -+ AND THAT SVN HAD FINALLY ACCEPTED 'REALITIES,"' SAYS
NEWSWEE16 STILL, IT WON SOME POINTS BY FORCING ADMIN TO TAKE
A 2ND LOOK THE US GOT SOME "CLARIFICATIONS' FAVORABLE TO GYM
AS HAK APPARENTLY FIRMED UP LANGUAGE ON NVA W/DRAWALS; GOT HANOI
TO RESPECT THE DMZ, AND CLARIFIED DUTIES OF SUPERVISORY FORCES,
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ALL THIS BROUGHT PEACE CLOSER THAN EVER BEFORE, SAYS NEWSWEEK,
BUT EVEN IF HAK, AND THO COME TO AGREEMENT NOW, THE TALKS SEEM
LIKELY TO END ON A MUTED NOTE -- W/NO FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT,
CEREMONY OR PUBLISHED TEXT. AND SOME WH AIDES BELIEVE' RN MAY
YET HAVE TO MEET W/THIEU TO GET HIM TO SIGN. EVEN AT THAT, THE
DANGER THIEU MIGHT DECIDE TO MAKE A LAST-DITCH STAND CAN'T BE
IGNORED, BUT AN ADMIN. AIDE SAYS THIEU COULD TRY TO LOUSE THINGS
lip, ".BUT WE THINK HE KNOWS THAT WOULD BE SUICIDAL."
HAWKS " HAVE BEEN PLEASANTLY SURPRISED AT RN' S DECISION
TO ALTER THE DISASTROUS" HAK?THO ACCORD, SAYS HUMAN EVENTS.
SVN STILL ISN'T SATISFIED BUT THE ACCORD HAS BEEN " VASTLY
IMPROVED." THE BEECHER STORY ON NVN CONCESSIONS IS USED TO
BUTTRESS HE'S ARGUMENT.... THE WEEKLY ALSO GOES AFTER HAK AGAIN
"THE BLOOM IS OFF THE HAK ROSE" --As IT QUOTES AT "LENGTH
FROM NOYES TO INDICATE CRITICISM OF HAK FOR THE NEGOTIATIONS.
NEWSWEEK SAYS FOR I ST TIME IN YEARS, MANY S. VIETS BELIEVE
FIGHTING IS ABOUT OVER. "A KIND OF PEACE FEVER"' HAS SWEPT
SVN AND NEITHER INTERRUPTIONS IN THE TALKS NOR THE HAGGLING
SEEN LIKELY TO DESTROY BELIEF THAT PEACE IS AT HAND. NVA" VC MESSAGE
HAS BEEN THE SAME --DESPITE GVN INTRANSIGENCE, PEACE IS
INEVITABLE-- AND THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE THAT COMMUNISTS ARE
MAKING THEIR POINT. MANY PEASANTS ARE PREPARING TO RETURN TO
ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS.
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ALTHO MUCH OF THE BITTERNESS SEEMS LIKELY TO FADE AWAY. WHAT
PROBABLY WON'T FADE IS THE STRENGTHENED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
VILLAGERS AND COMMUNISTS. GVN EFFORTS TO ENLIST PUBLIC FOR A
POLITICAL BATTLE FAIL TO PENETRATE EARS WHICH LISTEN ONLY FOR
SOUNDS OF PEACE. "THE UPSHOT. IS THAT THE COMMUNISTS HAVE GAINED
AN IMPORTANT POLITICAL EDGE ?.. AN EDGE THEY MAY BE ABLE TO TRANSLATE
INTO QUICK AND SIGNIFICANT INROADS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE WHEN THE
GUNS FALL SILENT," NEWSWEEK SAYS.... ABC NOTED COMMUNISTS CALLED
ON S VIETS TO STEP UP PRESSURE FOR SIGNING AND THEY TOLD OWN
CADRES TO PREPARE TO FIGHT, ON IF TALKS BREAKDOWN,
THAI LEADER THANOM SAID US WILL KEEP GIS AND PLANES THERE
AFTER CEASE-FIRE IN CASE NVN VIOLATES IT. "A VIOLATION....
ALSOP IN NEWSWEEK SAYS THE DEAL IS GOAD, SO LONG AS COMMUNISTS
DON'T CHEAT. BUT ONCE IT'" S MADE, THEY" LL HAVE PLENTY OF REASONS,
(R EXCUSES. THE CEASE- FIRE IS SURE TO BE BROKEN. THE. ELECT ION
WILL EITHER NOT TAKE PLACE OR BE DENOUNCED AS A FARCE. SVN
ISN'T LIKELY TO GREE VC POWS AND NVN CAN USE THIS FAILURE AS
REASON FOR WELSHING ON THE KEY SETTLEMENT PROVISION THAT "ALL
FOREIGN TROOPS" MUST BE W/DRAWN FROM LAOS AND CAMBODIA. ALSOP
SAYS THAT PROVISION MAKES THE DEAL A GOOD DEAL. IF NVA DOES
W DRAW, IT" LL MEAN IT HAS ABANDONED, FOR TIME BEING, THE ATTEMPT
TO IMPOSE A COMMUNIST REGIME BY FORCE. FACT NVN AGREED, EVEN
ON PAPER, TO SO W/DRAW IS PART OF EVIDENCE THAT A BASIC NVN
CHANGE HAS BEEN MADE. ANOTHER IS THEIR INTENSE INTEREST IN US
ECONOMIC AID. IF NVN CHEATS, ON THE SETTLEMENT SAYS ALSOP,
THE AID CAN BE CUT OFF, AND IF THEY CHEAT TOO FLAGRANTLY,
BOMBING CAN BE RESUMED. THESE ARE REASONS ALSOP HOPES SETTLEMENT
WILL RESULT IN PEACE
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CAMBODIA. EVEN IF THEY ARE, PEACE IS SURE TO BE MESSY AND INTER-
MITTENTLY BLOWY, BUT IT WILL BE PEACE OF A SORT ALL THE SAME.
BUT A NAGGING DOUBT REMAINS, SAYS ALSOP, NOTING THE '34 AND
' 62 SETTLEMENTS CAME APART AT THE SEAMS, AND IT' S HARD TO BELIEVE
THE SAME SORT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN AS SOON AS US IS GONE. AND HE IS
PESSIMISTICr-HARD TO BELIEVE NVN WILL W/DRAW FROM LAOS AND
CAMBODIA. "IT IS CALSOP' 9 INSTINCT THEY WILL NOT WIDRAW MORE
THAN TOKEN FORCES... THEY WILL NOT ABANDON, EVEN TEMPORARILY,
THEIR CHERISHED GOAL OF RENAMING SAIGON HO CHI MINH CITY, AND
THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO ACHIEVE THAT GOAL BY ALL MEANS
SHORT OF OVERT, MAIN-FORCE INVASION."
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