Basic points of
cease-fire text
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Text of a White House sum
mary of basic elements of the Vietnam agreement:
MILITARY PROVISIONS
Internationally supervised cease-fire throughout South
and North Vietnam effective at 4 pm. PST, Saturday, Jan.
27, 1973.
Release within 60 days of all American servicemen and
civilians captured and held throughout Indochina, and fullest
possible accounting for missing in action.
Return of all United States forces and military personnel
from South Vietnam within 60 days.
Ban on infiltration of troops and war supplies into South
Vietnam.
The right of unlimited military replacement aid for the
Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).
Respect for demilitarized zone.
Reunification only by peaceful means, through
negotiations between North and South Vietnam without
coercion or annexation.
Reduction and demobilization of Communist and
government forces in the south.
POLITICAL PROVISIONS
Joint U.S. -Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North
Vietnam) statement that the South Vietnamese people, have
the right to self-determination.
The government of the Republic of South Vietnam
continues in existence, recognized by the United States, its
constitutional structure and leadership intact and un
changed.
The right of unlimited economic aid for the Republic of
South Vietnam.
Formation of a nan-government National Council of
National ReconciliationandCancard, operating by unanimity
to organize elections as agreed by the parties and to promote
conciliation and implementation of the agreement
INDOCHINA
Re-affirmation of the 1964 and 1962 Geneva agreements
on Cambodia and Lao6.
Respect for independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial
integrity and neutrality of Cambodia and Laos.
Ban on infiltration of troops and war supplies into
Cambodia and Laos.
Ban on use of Laotian and Cambodian base areas to
encroach on sovereignty and security of one another and of
other countries.
Withdrawal of all foreign troops from Laos and Cam
bodia.
In accordance with traditional U.S. policy, U.S. par
ticipation in postwar reconstruction efforts throughout In
dochina.
With the ending of the war, a new basis for U^. relations
with North Vietnam.
CONTROL AND SUPERVISION
An international commission erf control and supervision,
with 1,160 international supervisory personnel to control and
supervise the elections and various military provisions of the
agreement.
An international conference within 30 days to guarantee
the agreement and the ending of the war
Joint military commission of the parties to implement
appropriate provisions of the agreement.
For Americans and Vietnamese
Tho: ‘Great victory’
PARIS (UPI) — North Vietnamese cease-ure negotiator Le Due
Tho said Wednesday the agreement ending what he called the most
murderous war in history was a “great victory” for both the American
and Vietnamese peoples.
“The just cause has won against the evil cause,” he told a news
conference.
Tho said the fight during the 13 years of U.S. involvement was the
most difficult of the Vietnamese people’s 30-year-old war for “in
dependence and freedom.”
The Hants Politburo member said that to guarantee a durable
peace, “all parties have the obligation strictly to execute the
agreement.” He pledged Vietnam would seek improved relations with
the United States.
In separate statements, both South Vietnam and the Viet Cong
said they approved and would sign the cease-fire accord reached by
Tho and American presidential adviser Henry Kissinger. The Viet
Cong, however, warned “our fight is not yet finished.”
A Saigon spokesman said South Vietnam will sign the cease-fire
pact on a two-party basis, thus withholding recognition of the Viet
Cong. The Saigon stance, however, will not affect signature of the pact
Saturday.
Tho indicated one of the major obstacles during more than five
years of peace talks was the United States demands for withdrawal of
North Vietnamese forces from the south.
Kissinger gives details
of cease-fire agreement
WASHINGTON UPI - Hairy Kissinga an
nounced Wednesday that despite concessions on
both sides, the United States had won all the sub
stantial changes it had sought in the Vietnam set
tlement, including firmer prospects for an early
cease-fire throughout Indochina.
President Nixon’s chief negotiator, at a lengthy,
nationally broadcast news conference at the White
House, said, “It is our firm expectation that within a
short period of time there will be a formal cease-fire
in Laos which, in turn, will lead to a withdrawal erf
all foreign forces from Laos."
He said he expects “a de facto cease-fire will
come into being ova a period of time” in neigh
boring Cambodia, linked to developments in Laos,
but that “we expect the same to be true there.”
He refused to elaborate, but the Washington
Evening Star-News, in a dispatch from Vientiane,
Laos, reported agreement on a Laotian cease-fire to
begin Feb. 11, just 15 days after the Vietnam cease
fire starts an Saturday.
Laotian ambassador Peng Norindr told UPI he
knew of no agreement fa a cease-fire in Laos,
although his government hoped a cease-fire could
be established “as soon as possible,” perhaps
within a week.
Meeting reporters less than 24 hours after he
initialed the cease-fire agreement in Paris with
Hanoi’s Le Due Tho, Kissinga disclosed that the
first of nearly 600 American prisoners would be
freed in Hanoi within two weeks.
The prisoners are to be met by U.S. authorities
and flown out aboard U.S. military planes probably
to Vientiane, as their first stop an their journey
home. They will be released in groups roughly
every 15 days in til the troop withdrawal and
prisoner release is completed within 60 days, he
said.
The slightly more than 100 Americans still held
captive within South Vietnam will be released at the
same time at yet undetermined sites in the south.
The others are held in North Vietnam or Laos.
After the White House released the full text and
four accompanying protocols erf the agreement to be
signed formally in Paris on Saturday, Kissinga
also disclosed in die one-hour, 40-minute session
that:
— The agreement permits North Vietnam to
leave an estimated 145,000 troops in the south, but
that there will be a “substantial reduction” in those
farces largely through attrition because of flat
prohibitions against infiltration of new troops
across the Demilitarized Zone or through Laos or
Cambodia.
■ Hanoi agreed to respect the Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ) as a military line of demarcation, with
the implied recognition of South Vietnam as a
separate, sovereign country.
— Agreement was readied on stationing an
international supervisory team of 1,160 men from
Canada, Poland, Indonesia and Hungary to police
the cease-fire along the DMZ, border crossing
points and fixed localities throughout South Viet
nam. All supervisory teams will be on duty within a
maximum of 30 days after the cease-fire begins, he
said.
— There is no restriction on the estimated 84,000
U.S. servicemen stationed at bases in Thailand and
on offshore vessels of the U.S. 7th Fleet, although he
indicated they would be withdrawn as the need for
them diminishes. Kissinger dismissed the
possibility of a re-introduction of UJS. troops in
South Vietnam as a “hypothetical situation we don’t
expect to arise.”
— He expects the Soviet Union and China to join
an international conference to be established 30
days after the cease-fire begins, and that their
restraint in Indochina would be a “major con
tribution to peace.”
Referring to delays encountered after his Oct.
26 announcement that “peace is at hand” in Viet
nam, Kissinger indicated that major obstacles to
agreement until a tweak-through was achieved in
Paris an Jan. 9 centered on the status of the DMZ
and the size and function of the international
supervisory team.
But, he said, *We believe that we have achieved
the substantial changes ... the substantial adr 7
tations that we asked for an Oct. 36.”
Among these be listed making sure the control
machinery was in place when the cease-fire began,
removing ambiguities in language to avert the
possibility of a “disguised coalition” government in
Saigon, and specific references to “the right of the
South Vietnamese people to self-determination.”
As a result of these changes, Kissinger said*
“We can say with confidence that the formal cease
fire in Laos will go into effect in a considerably
shorter time than was envisaged in October. And
since the cease-fire in Cambodia depends to some
extent on developments in Laos, we expect the same
to be true there.”
Kissinger described the past four years of
negotiations as “peaks and valleys ... of ex
traordinary intensity,” but said the bargaining
ended successfully with the conclusion on both sides
that no agreement was possible as long as each side
held out for all its demands.
“And now that at last we have achieved an
agreement in which the United States did not
prescribe the political future to its allies; an
agreement which will preserve the dignity and self
respect of all of the parties, that together with
healing the wounds in Indochina, we can begin to
heal the wounds in America.”
Watergate
defense
rejected
WASHINGTON UPI — The
judge in the Watergate trial
Wednesday accused one
defendant of taking the law into
his own hands by breaking into
Democratic Party Headquarters
last year and said it was
“ridiculous” to claim he sought
to protect President Nixon.
After sending the jury out of the
courtroom, US. District Judge
John Sirica made the statements
while rejecting James McCord
Jr.’s request to build his defense
around the argument that he
waged political espionage
against the Democrats to guard
the President and other top
Republican officials.
McCord, security chief for
Nixon’s re-election committee at
the time of the June 17 break-in,
and G. Gordon Liddy, then the
committee’s finance counsel, are
charged with conspiracy,
bugging and wiretapping at the
Watergate offices of the
Democratic National Committee.
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An insight?
LOS ANGELES — Documents taken from secret files by
Daniel Ellsberg could have given enemy powers an insight
into operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, a witness
testified Wednesday at the Pentagon Papers trial. Brig. Gen.
Paul Gorman told the jury in the espionage-conspiracy trial
of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo Jr. that the papers
identified specific CIA agents, told how they operated under
“covers” and could be useful years later in analyzing the
timing and methods of America’s vast intelligence network.
Diplomats released
MEXICO CITY — A Haitian DC-6 airliner carrying three
kidnappers arrived here safely Tuesday night after the
abductors succeeded in exchanging 12 political prisoners for
the release of the U.S. ambassador and the U.S consul to
Haiti and 170,000 ransom money in Port-au-Prince. Foreign
Secretary Emilio Rabasa said Wednesday night the
terrorists would be permitted to enter Mexico as political
refugees and given “political asylum.” The gunmen freed
Ambassador Clinton Knox, 6*—one of the highest ranking
Black career diplomats in the State Department-^ r>naul
Ward Christensen, 53.
For sale: One Weirdo
WEST POINT, Calif. — Weirdo, a mean 22-pound rooster
who has killed two cats and crippled a dog, was for sale
Wednesday. Grant Sullens, a high school senior and amateur
chicken breeder, owns Weirdo and a flock of Weirdo’s off
spring—all of whom are giants of the chicken world. Having
won a truckload of chickens in a dice game several years
ago, Sullens crossed and re-crossed them until he got the
superchicken king of his flock. Now Sullens wants to get out
of the chicken raising trade and go to college