TALKS 12-6

5TH ADD 1ST LP TALKS PARIS PLB227 X X X GATE.

KISSINGER WAS ACCOMPANIED AT THE TALKS BY HIS DEPUTY,
GEN. AL EXANDER HAIG, AND BY STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL
WILLIAM S. SULLIVAN.

THO'S AIRES WERE XUAN THUY AND THE VICE-MINISTER FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NGUYEN CO THACH.

KISSINGER WAITED FOR TWO AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE AND
THEY WENT IN TOGETHER.

FORTY-FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE TALKS STARTED, A DELIVERY VAN
BROUGHT FOOD AND DRINK TO THE HOUSE. THERE WAS A CASE OF RED
WINE, SEVERAL BOTTLES OF SEVEN UP AND COCA COLA AND PLATES
OF FOOD COVERED WITH WHITE NAPKINS.

ONE OF THE AERIALS ON THE ROOF WAS ABOUT 20 FEET HIGH, BUT
NONE OF THE DELEGATION AIRES WOULD SAY IF IT WAS SPECIALLY
ERECTED FOR THE TALKS.

A PRIMARY SCHOOL FACED THE HOUSE ACROSS A BROAD BOULEVARD
PLANTED WITH CHESTNUT TREES.

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5TH ADD 1ST LP TALKS PARIS PLB240 X X X CHESTNUT TREES.

THE HOUSE IN WHICH THE TALKS TOOK PLACE IS OWNED BY AN
AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO HAS LIVED IN PARIS SINCE BEFORE WORLD WAR
TWO --ARNAUPT CLERC, AGED 52.

NEW YORK-BORN CLERC SAID AN AMERICAN EMBASSY OFFICIAL
ASKED HIM LAST THURSDAY IF THE DELEGATIONS COULD USE HIS
HOME. HE AGREED AND MOVED INTO A HOTEL ON THE CHAMPS
ELYSSEE LAST SUNDAY WITH HIS WIFE AND THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY,
GERARD.

HE SAID THE NEGOTIATORS ARE USING THE HOUSE RENT FREE
BUT PAYING CLERC'S HOTEL BILL.

HE TOLD UPI: "I DON'T KNOW WHEN WE CAN MOVE BACK, BUT
I DOUBT IF THEY WILL NEED THE HOUSE AFTER TODAY. I SUPPOSE
THEY CONTACTED ME BECAUSE I HAVE HAD MANY REUNIONS FOR WAR
VETERANS IN MY HOME AND EMBASSY PEOPLE MUST HAVE NOTED THE
SIZE OF THE HOUSE AND ITS USEFULNESS FOR TALKS LIKE THESE."

CLERC SAID THE DELEGATIONS HIRED A FRENCH COOK AND STAFF
TO PREPARE FOOD.

HE SAID THE ROOM IN WHICH THE TALKS ARE TAKING PLACE IS
ABOUT 30 FEET BY 45 FEET WITH FLEMISH TAPESTRY FILLING ONE
WALL AND FLEMISH PAINTINGS ON THE OTHER WALLS. THE ROOM HAS
TWO BAY WINDOWS, 15 FT. HIGH CEILINGS AND TWO LARGE CHANDELIERS.

CLERC SAID THERE IS A SECOND ROOM WHERE THE NEGOTIATORS
COULD HOLD SEPARATE MEETINGS.

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THE HOUSE HAS THREE BEDROOMS, AND BATHROOMS ON BOTH
FLOORS. THE FACADE IS WHITE MARBLE AND THERE IS A TWO-CAR
GARAGE.

HE SAID THE DELEGATIONS WERE USING A MAHOGANY TABLE WHICH
CAN SEAT 16 PERSONS.

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BY DENNIS NFIELD

SAIGON (AP)-VIFT CONG AND NORTH VIETNAMESE GUNNERS BLASTFD
MORE THAN 50 ROCKETS INTO SAIGON'S TAN SON NHUT AIRBASE AND
ADJOINING AREAS OF THE CAPITAL WEDNESDAY IN THE HEAVIEST ATTACK
ON THE CITY SINCE THE 1968 COMMUNIST TET OFFENSIVE.

THE SHELLING WAS FOLLOWED BY GROUND FIGHTING ONLY SEVEN MILES
FROM THE CITY CENTER WHICH INITIAL REPORTS INDICATED ALSO WAS
THE HEAVIEST FIGHTING THAT CLOSE TO SAIGON SINCE THE TET
BATTLES.

THE SOVIET-MADE 122MM ROCKETS KILLED ONE AMERICAN AIRMAN AND
WOUNDED TWO OTHERS. FIGHT SOUTH VIETNAMESE, THREE OF THEM
SOLDIERS, WERE KILLED AND 52 WOUNDED IN THE TAN SON NHUT
BARRAGE. NINETEEN OF THE WOUNDED WERE SOLDIERS.

MILITARY SOURCES SAID TROOPS BELONGING TO A SAPPER
BATTALION OF THE NORTH VIETNAMESE 7TH DIVISION INFILTRATED
TAM BINH VILLAGE DURING THE NIGHT.

THEY WOUNDED UP THE INHABITANTS BUT SOME FSCAPED AND TOLD
AUTHORITIES THERE WERE BETWEEN 200 AND 300 INVADERS. TAM
BINH VILLAGE IS ACROSS THE SAIGON RIVER FROM TWO SUSPECTED
ROCKET SITES.

SOUTH VIETNAMESE INFANTRY AND MILITIA DROVE TOWARD THE VILLAGE
IN A PINCH MOVEMENT FROM THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST. THEY
WERE BACKED BY ARMORED VEHICLES, HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS AND
TACTICAL AIR STRIKES.

THREE GOVERNMENT TROOPS WERE KILLED AND FOUR WOUNDED IN THE
FIGHTING AROUND TAM BINH, ACCORDING TO FIFTH REPORTS. COMMUNIST
CASUALTIES WERE UNKNOWN.

THE GROUND FIGHTING BROKE OFF IN MIDAFTERNOON BUT AIR
STRIKES CONTINUED UNTIL EARLY EVENING. ABOUT 1,500 GOVERNMENT
TROOPS WERE BELIEVED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION.

ASKED AT THE DAILY X X 3RD GRAF V029
IRD1152GMTDFC-6-72

AFP-117

VIETNAM

NOUVELLE REUNION DU CONSEIL NATIONAL DE SECURITE A SAIGON

SAIGON 6 DEC (AFP).-

POUR LA SIXIEME FOIS EN UNE SEMAINE LE PRESIDENT NGUYEN
VAN THIEU A REUNI MERCREDI LE CONSEIL NATIONAL DE SECURITE.

LA REUNION A DURE QUATRE HEURES ET DEMIE, APPREND-ON DE
SOURCE INFORMEE.

CE CONSEIL GROUPE OUTRE LE PRESIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE,
LES VICE-PRESIDENTS, LE PREMIER MINISTRE - QUI EST EGALEMENT
MINISTRE DE LA DEFENSE ET DE L'INTERIEUR - ET LE MINISTRE
DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES.

POUR CETTE REUNION DE MERCREDI QUI A ETE CONSACREE A
L'EXAMEN DE L'EVOLUTION DES NEGOCIATIONS DE PARIS, INDIQUE-T-ON
DE MEME SOURCE, LES PRESIDENTS DU SENAT ET DE LA CHAMBRE DES
DEPUTES, MM. NGUYEN VAN HUYEN ET NGUYEN BA CAN, S'ETAIENT JOINTS
AUX MEMBRES HABITUELS DU CONSEIL.

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VIETNAM

BOMBARDEMENT DU VILLAGE DE TAM BINH

TAM BINH, 6 DECEMBRE AFP

DES CHASSEURS-BOMBARCIERS ET DES HELICOPTERES SUD-
VIETNAMIENS ONT BOMBARDE MERCREDI AU NAPALM LE VILLAGE DE TAM
BINH, D'OU LES ARTILLEURS VIETCONG ONT TIRE SUR L'AEROPORT DE
SAIGON.

APRES CE BOMBARDEMENT, QUI A DURE 20 MINUTES, QUELQUES TIRS
DE MORTIER EFFECTUES PAR LES VIETCONG ONT A NOUVEAU RETENTI.
LES TROUPES GOUVERNEMENTALES ENGERCLEMENT LE VILLAGE.

SELON UN OFFICIER SUD-VIETNAMIEN QUI PARTICIPE A CETTE
OPERATION, UN BATAILLON VIETCONG (ENVIRON 150 HOMMES)
S'ETAIT RETRANCHE DANS UN DES HAMEAUX QUI COMPOSENT CE VILLAGE,
SITUE A 10 KM AU NORD DE SAIGON ET A SEULEMENT 7 KM DE
L'AEROPORT DE TAN SON NHUT.

DES HABITANTS DE TAM BINH QUI ONT PRIS LA FUITE ONT RAPPORTE
QUE LES VIETCONG AVAIENT PENETRE DANS LE VILLAGE DANS LA NUIT
DE MARDI A MERCREDI, VERS MINUIT. LES PREMIERS TIRS DECLENCHES
CONTRE L'AEROPORT DEVAIENT RETENTIR VERS 7H45 LOCALES (23.45GMT).

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13.30

900
AFP-131

ELECTIONS JAPONaises
LE PARTI LIBERAL PART FAVORI

TOKYO, 6 DECEMBRE AFP
PAR JACQUES ALLAIS

AUX ELECTIONS GENERALES DE DIMANCHE PROCHAIN (10 DEC)
LE PANDA, EMBLEME DU " LDP", PARTI GOUVERNEMENTAL LIBERAL
SEMOCRATÉ (DEPUIS QUE PEKIN A FAIT CADEAU D'UN COUPLE DE CES
ANIMAUX AU GOUVERNEMENT JAPONAIS), L'EMPORTERA AISEMENT SUR SES
ADVERSAIRES. LE LDP, A PREDIT AUJOURD'HUI LE PREMIER MINISTRE
KAKUEI TANAKA, OBTIENDRA ENVIRON 285 SIEGES SUR LES 491
SIEGES DE LA CHAMBRE BASSE (CONTRE 288 AUX DERNIERES ELECTIONS
DE 1969).

LE PANDA DONC DEPASSERA DE PLUSIEURS LONGUEURS LA GRENQUILLE
DU PARTI SOCIAL DEMOCRATÉ (31 SIEGES EN 69)- GRENQUILLE, EN
JAPONAIS, SE DIT KAERU QUI SIGNIFIE EGALEMENT CHANGER-, LA
LOCOMITIVE DU KOMEITO (BOUDDHISTE-CENTRE DROITE, 47 SIEGES)
SYMBOLISANT LE DYNAMISME, ET LA FLECHE DU PARTI SOCIALISTE
(90 SIEGES) QUI VOLE VERS LA GAUCHE. LE SYMBOLE CHOISI PAR LES
COMMUNISTES (14 SIEGES) FIGURE SUR TOUTES LES CARTES POSTALES
C'EST LE MONT FUJI REPRESENTANT " L'INDEPENDANCE RACIALE
DU JAPAN, (LES COMMUNISTES JAPONAIS SONT FACHES AVEC PEKIN)
ET L'ESPRIT ET LA FIERTE DES JAPONAIS". LE MONT FUJI, FONT
MECHAMMENT REMARQUER SES ADVERSAIRES, EST EGALEMENT UN VOLCAN
ETEINT.

LA CAMPAGNE ELECTORALE, DONT LE RESULTAT EST CONNU
D'AVANCE, SUSCITE CHEZ LES JAPONAIS, POURTANT NATURELLEMENT
CURIEUX ET BADAUDS, UNE INDIFFERENCE CONSIDERABLE.

SUIVRA AFP MV%22 13.13

I

900
AFP-132

ELECTIONS JAPONaises
TOKYO- LE PARTI LIBERAL (DEUX)

LA POLITIQUE, IL EST VRAI, JOUE UN ROLE TRES MODESTE
DANS LA VIE PRIVEE DES JAPONAIS. AUX DERNIERES ELECTIONS
(1969) LES ABSTENTIONS ONT ATTEINT 31,5 POUR CENT.

LA JEUNESSE, EN PARTICULIER, NE SE PASSIONNE PAS POUR UNE
CONSULTATION ELECTORALE QUI, A SES YEUX, NE CHANGERA RIEN.
SUR 74.149.167 VOTANTS, (DONT 38.268.546 JAPONAISES). 20
MILLIONS D'ELECTEURS ONT DE 20 A 30 ANS. POUR ATTIRER L'ATTENTION
D'UNE JEUNESSE SUR QUI LES ARTICLES ETRANGERS EXERCENT UN
ATTRAIT IRRESISTIBLE, CERTAINS PARTIS POLITIQUES ONT ADOPTÉ
DES SLOGANS EN ANGLAIS " CHANGE JAPAN" (CHANGEZ LE JAPAN)
PROCLAME UNE AFFICHE DU PARTI SOCIALISTE, " BIG TOMORROW" (UN
GRAND AVENIR) S'ECRIE LA GRENQUILLE DES SOECUAX-DEMOCRATES.

LE TAUX ELEVE DES ABSTENTIONS AUX DERNIERES ELECTIONS
AVAIT CERTAINEMENT REFLETE L'ENNUI DES JAPONAIS D'ETRE
GOUVERNE DEPUIS PLUS DE SIX ANS PAR LE PREMIER MINISTRE EISAKU
SATO. LE PREMIER MINISTRE KAKUEI TANAKA, LUI, EST AU POUVOIR
DEPUIS MOINS DE SIX MOIS. IL N'A EU NI LE TEMPS DE SE
FATIGUER, NI DE FATIGUER LES AUTRES.

AFP MV%22 13.18

NHUT MILITARY AIR BASE WITH THE HEAVIEST REPORTED ROCKET BARRAGE IN FOUR YEARS, BLOWING UP AIRCRAFT, SETTING FIRES AND KILLING SEVERAL PERSONS, MILITARY SOURCES SAIP.

THE SOURCES SAIP AT LEAST 51 SOVIET-BUILT 122MM ROCKETS HIT THE BASE, KILLING SEVEN SOLDIERS, ONE OF THEM AMERICAN, AND WOUNDING 31 OTHERS IN THE SURPRISE EARLY NOVEMBER ATTACK. THE SOURCES SAIP MOST OF THE WOUNDED WERE CIVILIANS, INCLUDING SIX CHILDREN.

SOUTH VIETNAM'S LARGEST ALLIED MILITARY BASE, TAN SON NHUT IS STAFFED BY MORE THAN 6,000 U.S. SOLDIERS AS WELL AS SOUTH VIETNAMESE PERSONNEL. SAIGON RESIDENTS CALLED THE SHELLING THE WORST SINCE THE 1968 COMMUNIST TET OFFENSIVE WHEN THE BASE WAS STORMED BY COMMUNIST INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY TROOPS.

THE ROCKETS DESTROYED ONE HELICOPTER, DAMAGED FOUR OTHERS, AND SENT CLOUDS OF BLACK SMOKE BILLOVING INTO THE AIR AS AT LEAST ONE FUEL TANK WAS HIT, MILITARY SOURCES SAIP.

TEN OF THE 102-POINT (46-KILO) ROCKETS HIT NEAR THE AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER, FOUR MORE HIT A RUNWAY, ONE LANDED IN A HOUSING AREA AND ANOTHER BLASTED APART THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER'S CLUB, THE SOURCES SAIP.

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THE U.S. COMMAND, HEADQUARTERED NEAR TAN SON NHUT, SAIP THE BASE, WHICH ALSO DOVES AS A CIVILIAN AIRPORT, HAD BEEN PUT "ON RED ALERT" FOLLOWING THE ATTACK. ALL COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS HAD BEEN CANCELLED, MILITARY SOURCES SAIP.

IT WAS THE FIRST ATTACK SINCE APRIL 14 WHEN THREE ROCKETS HIT BUT CAUSED NO DAMAGE AND THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY A YEAR THAT A SAIGON AREA HAS BEEN HIT BY THE SIX-FOOT (1.80 M) - LONG SOVIET ROCKETS, THE SOURCES SAIP.

ELSEWHERE, SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARATROOPERS, EPGING WESTWARD INTO COMMUNIST-HELP TERRITORY IN QUANG TRI PROVINCE TUESDAY, BEAT BACK A NORTH VIETNAMESE ATTACK AND DESTROYED NINE TANKS, MILITARY SOURCES SAIP.

U.S. B52 BOMBERS FLEW FOUR BAI'S OVER THE BATTLE SCENE JUST SOUTH OF QUANG TRI CITY IN SUPPORT OF THE PARATROOPERS WHILE MORE PLANES POMPED COMMUNIST POSITIONS ELSEWHERE IN THE PROVINCE, THE U.S. COMMAND SAIP.

SEVEN B52'S ALSO HIT TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM TUESDAY, ONE OF THEM WEST OF DONG HOI, A PORT CITY ABOUT 40 MILES (64 KM) NORTH OF THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE (DMZ) SEPARATING THE TWO VIETNAMS, THE COMMAND SAIP. THE OTHER SIX BAITS WERE SCATTERED ALONG NORTH VIETNAM'S SOUTHERN COAST BETWEEN DONG HOI AND THE DMZ, THE COMMAND SAIP.

OTHER FIGHTING WAS CENTERED IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, 250 MILES (402 KM) NORTH OF SAIGON WHERE COMMUNIST TROOPS LAUNCHED AT LEAST FIVE GROUND AND SHELLING ATTACKS AGAINST GOVERNMENT POSITIONS AND KONTUM, FIELD REPORTS SAIP.

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SAIGON--INDOCHINA WRAPUP 5 (W027) TO UPDATE SUB FIRST TWO GRAFS TAKE FIVE:

U.S. B52 BOMBERS KEPT UP THEIR POUNDING OF TROOP CONCENTRATIONS IN QUANG TRI PROVINCE WEDNESDAY, THE U.S. COMMAND REPORTED. DURING 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON, 24 MISSIONS OF UP TO THREE PLANES EACH WERE MOUNTED IN SOUTH VIETNAM, 14 OF THEM IN QUANG TRI.

THERE WERE NINE MISSIONS AGAINST COMMUNIST SUPPLY CACHES NORTH OF THE DEMARCATION LINE AROUND THE PORT OF DONG HOI, THE COMMAND ANNOUNCED.

AMERICAN FIGHTER BOMBERS LAUNCHED 90 TACTICAL STRIKES AGAINST THE NORTH TUESDAY.

AN A7 CORSAIR PILOT FROM THE CARRIER SARATOGA REPORTED DESTROYING THE BIG THIEN LINH DONG RAILROAD BRIDGE, EIGHT MILES SOUTHWEST OF THANH HOA, WITH A WALLEYE GUIDED BOMB. OTHER NAVY JETS DAMAGED THE THI LONG RAIL BRIDGE AND A ROAD BRIDGE IN THE SAME AREA, SOME 200 MILES ABOVE THE DMZ, THE 7TH FLFET REPORTED.

U.S. JETS MEANWHILE FLEW 296 TACTICAL MISSIONS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, 132 OF THEM IN THE NORTHERN MOST MILITARY REGION 1, SAID THE U.S. COMMAND.

HANOI RADIO CLAIMED XXX-3RD GRAF TAKE FIVE W027

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PARIS (UPI)--THE VIETNAME PEACE NEGOTIATORS MET TODAY FOR THEIR THIRD SESSION OF TALKS IN YET ANOTHER NEW LOCATION -- NEUILLY SUR SEINE, ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PARIS.

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TALKS 12-6

1ST ADD 1ST LP TALKS PARIS PLB221 XXX OF PARIS.

WHITE HOUSE AIDE HENRY A. KISSINGER ARRIVED AT A TWO-STORY HOUSE, NUMBER 31 AVENUE DE SAUSSAYE IN ONE OF THE RICHEST AREAS OF PARIS, SHORTLY AFTER 10 A.M. (2922 GMT).

LE DUC THO, THE CHIEF HANOI NEGOTIATOR, WENT INTO THE HOUSE, WHICH HAS A GARDEN IN FRONT, 15 MINUTES LATER.

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TALKS 12-6

2ND ADD 1ST LP TALKS PARIS PLB222 XXX MINUTES LATER.

THE MEETING PLACE - SAID BY THE FRENCH PRESS TO BE THE CHOICE
OF THE AMERICAN DELEGATION - IS THE FOURTH TALKS SITE USED
BY THE TWO SIDES IN THE CURRENT 22ND ROUND OF TALKS AND THE 21ST
LAST MONTH.

NEITHER DELEGATION COULD OFFER ANY EXPLANATION WHY THE TWO SIDES MOVED FROM PLACE TO PLACE.

PREVIOUSLY THEY MET AT A VILLA OWNED BY THE FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY IN GIF SUR YVETTE OUTSIDE OF PARIS, IN A HOUSE BELONGING TO THE NORTH VIETNAMESE MISSION IN SUBURBAN CHOISY LE ROI, AND AT A LUXURIOUS VILLA, FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF A BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO AVIATION HERO AND NOW THAT OF A PARISIAN INDUSTRIALIST, AT SAINTE GEMME, 32 MILES (50 KM) WEST OF PARIS.

THE HOUSE IN WHICH THE TWO SIDES MET TODAY FRENCH JEWELER.

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WEDNESDAY MORNING - 6 DECEMBER 1972

WASHINGTON POST - 6 DECEMBER 1972 P-17

Victor Zorza

Four More Years:
Kissinger's Role

THE EXTENSION of Henry Kissinger's job to what now looks like an eight-year term carries within itself the seeds of disaster, unless he makes some drastic changes in his own method of operation.

The next stage of the international power game will be infinitely more complex than it was in the last four years. There will be many more players, and they will be acting at cross-purposes. They will be playing for the biggest stakes ever, for a "generation of peace" that should open the way to a world without wars, and, for Nixon and Kissinger, to a place in history unsurpassed by any figure of antiquity or modern times.

But they have only four years in which to do it, and the danger is that they may push history more than it is

willing to be pushed. "We are moving with history," as a good Marxist would put it, "and moving history ourselves." Only the words are Mr. Nixon's.

The Nixon-Kissinger formula that would allow Europe, China and Japan to join the two main superpowers, the United States and Russia, in a five-sided power structure to keep the world's peace, is viewed with suspicion outside the White House and the Kremlin. Even the Kremlin has its doubts, but the outsiders will have to be coaxed and bullied into an international framework which the two superpowers may design in the interest of all—but which the others will believe is in the interest of the two.

THE UNITED STATES has already browbeaten both Japan and Europe into accepting an international

economic arrangement which they see as being mainly in the American interest—and they fear that there is more to come. The Sino-Soviet dispute began in earnest when Nikita Khrushchev tried, as Peking saw it, to make a global deal with President Eisenhower at China's expense. Washington and Moscow came together to impose a settlement on North and South Vietnam, both of whom were screaming "betrayal." The White House and the Kremlin are already working to impose a similar deal on their Israeli and Arab clients.

This is certainly in the interests of peace, and small countries in Indochina or in the Middle East may be told that if they don't like it, they can lump it. But Europe, China, and Japan are a different proposition. They will have to be talked into it in a protracted series of interlocking negotiations that cannot possibly be completed in four years.

If obstacles threaten to interfere with Mr. Nixon's time-table, he is apt to increase the pressure to the very limit, as he did, for instance, when he ordered the

bombing and mining of North Vietnam. But this always carries the risk of crossing the limit, and endangering the whole intricate structure of negotiation.

When the international power game becomes so much more elaborate than it was in Mr. Nixon's first term, the sheer quantity of Kissinger's work will grow so greatly as to threaten a rapid deterioration in its quality.

KISSINGER REFUSES to rely on the State Department, but his own staff cannot provide the detailed diplomatic footwork which will now have to be integrated with his own thinking and activities.

These weaknesses will be greatly multiplied unless an altogether new working formula is developed for the altogether new situation which we are now approaching. If the State Department has to be bypassed, and there may be good reasons for this, some other framework must be devised, or the "generation of peace" may prove to be as elusive as many people think it is.

© 1972, Victor Zorza