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"NEW" COMMUNIST PROPOSALS
Q.
Sir: Recently there have been reports out of Paris that the
other side made new proposals. They said they were ready
to negotiate local ceasefires, to talk about withdrawal of
their forces, and to discuss all this with us privately.
Has there been any American follow-up on these proposals ?
A.
We did follow up. Ambassador Bruce, at the very
next session, asked for clarification of a number of vague
changes in language which the North Vietnamese had made.
What we learned was that the vague language which the other
side used really contained nothing new.
One example: when the other side said they would not
shoot at our troops, what they meant by that was that they
would welcome defectors.
Further, the other side made clear that they were
interested only in talking about our withdrawals - not about
their own.
All they did was re-wrap the same old package of
unacceptable demands -- and hand it out to
the
press in
exchange for some fresh headlines.
But
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