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We have always sakd--on January 26th we said the electorial com-
mission will have a presentation of all political tendencies or
whatever the phrase was we used. And that's in effect what we
are doing. With a high sounding title. It has no police, no courts,
no executive functions, no administrative responsibilities.
B:
Yeah. And the police and the Army remain on the truce control,
K:
That's right. Look at the Hanoi statement, they said that the existing
administrations in all their internal/external functions will be main-
tained, until after the elections.
B:
Yeah. That's a big concession, isn't it?
K:
You know, the proposal was that a provisional coalition be formed
that the supercede the existing government that would be abolished.
And that this coalition government would then determine the elections
and organize them and have all executive functions, including foreign
policy.
B:
Or executive functions?
K:
Or executive functions. After the agreement is finally concluded,
I will go through all the positions we are taking by the other side
and the legislative history leaves absolutely no questions.
B:
Yeah.
K:
What started out as a coalition government which would supercede the
existing government has become, in effect, an electorial commission
which would supervise elections to which the existing governments
first agree, and that all administrative and executive functions, foreign
policy defense, police, courts, would stay with the existing governments.
B:
Yeah. The only real concession you made was to accept the occupational
part of the South Vietnamese territory, and
K:
But that's a defacto situation. And when--not to accept wouldn't
change that fact.
B:
Yeah. Well it simply what you can't win on a battlefield you can win
at the conference table, isn't it.
K:
That situation hasn't changed in six years, and to continue the war
for that objective, is as you know, almost impossible in America.
Moreover, there only two ways of achieving it; one is through military
conquest by the South Vietnamese which they haven't been able to do;
or by bombing the North so badly that they will surrender.
B:q
Right.
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