# Kissinger

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While Mr. Nixon was telling the television audience that the United States "will not be defeated," will not "surrender our friends to Communist aggression" and will not stop bombing North Vietnam until the current offensive "stops," Kissinger was saying things that indicated American policy is a good deal more flexible than the President's language suggested.

Perhaps the most intriguing of Kissinger's comments —in context of Mr. Nixon's demand for a "stop" to the Hanoi offensive—was his indication that the North Vietnamese could retain at least some of the territory they have or may yet capture."

In hinting at the position the United States will take in the resumed Paris talks—either in regular formal sessions or in the secret talks that seem likely to resume soon—Kissinger said the North Vietnamese would have to withdraw the troops that crossed into South Vietnam through the demilitarized zone.

But he ducked a direct answer when asked if the United States would also demand that the Communists give up areas in the central highlands and the Cambodian border area which they have seized.

And he volunteered a specific definition of "defeating the invasion" that seemed to provide for continued control of some Communist-captured areas.

"The definition of defeating the invasion," he said, "would be if it stopped without having captured a very significant number of provincial capitals, or without having so opened up the countryside that the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese can operate unimpededly through the countryside."

Kissinger declined to spell out publicly a precise U.S. position on terms that would constitute "ending the invasion," but he made clear that American negotiators in Paris will do just that in private. "We will have a very precise proposition to make," he said.

As to expectations that the renewed negotiations will be more productive than past sessions, Kissinger was again purposely vague. But he noted pointedly that Le Duc Tho, a member of North Vietnam's Politburo and the man with whom Kissinger held a series of secret meetings last year, was on his way back to Paris. "He does not generally return for trivial reasons," the U.S. official added.

Kissinger also said there has been "rather noticeable diplomatic activity" — including Le Duc Tho's return to Paris — and said that Mr. Nixon's stated "firm expectation that productive talks. . . will follow" was based on such indications.

These comments naturally led reporters to cross-examine Kissinger on his secret conversations with Brezhnev last weekend. And while the presidential aide steadily refused to discuss specifications of the Moscow talks, he conveyed an impression of substantial progress on a wide range of U.S.-Soviet concerns, including Vietnam.

He said that "all the negotiations that have been in progress with the Soviet Union are on course and I think it is safe to say that they may have received an additional impetus as a result of the meetings in Moscow."

Another indication that U.S.-Soviet relations, temporarily strained by the Soviet-supplied North Vietnamese offensive, had improved was the fact that Mr. Nixon did not mention in his speech the use of Russian tanks and heavy artillery by the invading forces.

A fortnight ago, the President and other administration officials took virtually every opportunity to condemn the Soviet Union for providing such arms. Wednesday night, despite the hard-line tone of his talk, he never once referred to the subject — a shift that could hardly have been unintentional.

The President's tough talk, indeed, seemed directed at a completely different audience than Kissinger's more flexible words. Mr. Nixon, it appeared, was talking to his own domestic constituency, seeking public support to head off any congressional repudiation of his policies as he negotiates with Hanoi and Moscow.

Kissinger, on the other hand, seemed to be speaking to listeners abroad—in Hanoi, or Paris, or Moscow—presumably in a move to put on the public record, and thus confirm as U.S. policy, some of the things he discussed last weekend in private with Brezhnev and others.

himself in the picture as a possible compromise nominated if the convention should deadlock, Muskie replied, "that's a possible option."

His biggest error, he said, was committing himself at the outset of his formal candidacy four months ago to run in the first eight primaries and as many more as money, energy and time would allow.

"That strategy has produced two primary victories and over 135 delegates," he said, second only to McGovern's two victories and 241 delegates.

"However, it was a mistake," Muskie said. "No other candidate made a similar commitment. It required that I make a major effort and a major expenditure of resources in every primary with a maximum impact in none. Nowhere were the consequences of such a strategy more clearly demonstrated than in Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania — diminishing results and diminishing resources.

"I have made the decision, therefore, to withdraw from active participation in the remaining presidential primaries. I do so with regret, but I have no choice. I do not have the money to continue.

"I realize that this decision reduces my prospects in the campaign, nevertheless, at the urging of friends and supporters around the country, I do not withdraw my candidacy," Muskie said.

He said he will continue to press for the goals desired by the voters, as expressed in the primaries:

* An end to the Vietnam War.

* An anti-inflation policy which "controls prices as well as wages, and which produces jobs instead of unemployment."

* A "more equitable distribution of the burdens and the benefits of our society."

* An open and responsive government, "free from the corrupting influence of special interests."

To achieve these goals, Muskie said, requires the defeat of President Nixon. "I am committed to that objective," he said.

Muskie said his campaign, which raised more than $2 million during the year and a half it actually was in operation, now is probably in debt.

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["Mancheste Union Leaden", "4/26/72", "# How Nixon Was Gulled", "WASHINGTON — Dr. Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, was used by a high Soviet official to mislead President Nixon into believing that the North Vietnamese would not launch their present massive invasion of the northern part of South Vietnam.", "The Russia official is Sergiey Pavlov, chief of the Department of Administration of the Soviet", "present North Vietnamese offensive to weaken the Russians' bargaining position in Moscow.", "\"In dealing with the Soviets, Kissinger at time\ncan't see the forest for the trees,\" stated one to\nAmerican intelligence official. \"He rejects out of\nhand any information about Soviet capabilities\nand intentions that doesn't fit into his precon-\nceived idea of how the Russians should act.\"", "The deception of Pavlov's visit is spotlighted by the visit of another Soviet official to Hanoi. While Pavlov was here uttering his sweet, \"cover-up words\" to Kissinger, Air Marshal Pavel Batitsky, a deputy Soviet Defense Minister and commander of Soviet-Air Defense Forces, was in Hanoi helping the North Vietnamese generals plan their offensive.", "The Pavlov-Kissinger meeting raises the ques-\ntion of how many times must American officials\nbe misled by Soviet officials before they realize\nthat this is the way that Moscow plays the\ndangerous game of conquest.", "When Moscow was sneaking missiles into Cuba\nin 1962, the Kremlin used Foreign Minister An-\ndrey Gromyko to try to mislead President Ken-\nedy by having him deny that the Soviets were\nshipping or planned to send any offensive wea-\npons to Castro. Gromyko almost trapped Kennedy\ninto agreeing to a summit meeting to discuss\nCuba.", "Gromyko was again pressed into service in 1968 when the Russians launched their surprise invasion of Czechoslovakia. Gromyko helped cover the Soviet invasion preparations by meeting with President Johnson to work out details of his abortive trip to Moscow.", "Apparently, President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger\nhave learned nothing from these two incidents.\nTheir refusal to do so is now costing thousands of\nlives and freedom four countless others.", "FUTURE HEADLINES—Vice President Agnew\nis scheduled to deliver a major headline-making\nspeech at the Capitol Hill Republican Club this\nweek. Its content is being very closely guarded...\n...When in Mexico recently, Dr. Henry Kissinger\nmet secretly with a high-ranking Soviet official\nwho flew in from Moscow... Kurt Waldheim,\nnew secretary-general of the United Nations,\ndropped a broad hint recently that the U.S. should\ntake the lead in bringing Fidel Castro's Cuba\nback into the non-Communist world. He wants the\nU.S. to propose that Cuba rejoin the Organization\nof American States. Nixon favors no change in\nU.S. policy toward Castro until after the Novem-\nber election.... Japanese experts predict that\nU.S. Red Air trade will reach the $300 million\nmark by 1974—with U.S. exports twice as large as\nimports from China.", "MR. SCOTT", "Central Committee, and a close associate and\npersonal friend of Soviet Communist Party boss\nLeonid B. Brezhnev.", "In Washington last month to discuss details of\nPresident Nixon's May trip to Moscow, Pavlov\nassured Kissinger that his government wouldn't\ndo anything to embarrass the President before or\nduring the summit meeting.", "During their two and one-half hour meeting,\nPavlov went out of his way to discount reports\nthat the Russians had made massive arms ship-\nments to North Vietnam since January 1 as part\nof Hanoi's plans for a spring offensive.", "As reported in this column on March 31 \"more\nthan 200 Iron Curtain vessels carrying everything\nfrom SAM ground-to-air missiles to Soviet tanks\nand rockets have been unloaded at North Viet-\nnam ports since January 1.\" These are the\nweapons that have given Hanoi superior firepower\non the ground during the first week of their\nattacks.", "Kissinger passed Pavlov's misleading informa-\ntion and assurances along to President Nixon.\nWhite House Aides say privately the President in\nturn relied on Kissinger's report rather than\nacting on photographs taken by American recon-\nnaissance planes that clearly showed the huge\nSoviet arms buildup in the area near the De-\nmilitarized Zone, separating North from South\nVietnam.", "The President's error in judgment of what the\nNorth Vietnamese and Soviets were up to caused\nhim to turn down a request last month by the\nJoint Chiefs of Staff to bomb the growing con-\ncentration of military supplies above the Demili-\ntarized Zone (DMZ).", "This wrong decision could be one of the most\ntragic of the Vietnam war. It permitted Hanoi to\nuse the DMZ as the jumping off point for its\nmassive invasion. Had the Joint Chiefs of Staff\nbeen permitted to bomb the North Vietnamese\nbulldozer their offensive would have had most of\nthe steam taken out of it before it was launched.", "Instead, thousands of South Vietnamese civil-\nvians and military personnel are now dead—the\nvictims of North Vietnamese war preparations\nwhich American air power if used in time and the\nright way could have stopped.", "STRANGE THINKING—Most disturbing to\nAmerican intelligence officials is the fact that\nKissinger apparently doesn't realize that he was\ntaken by Pavlov or apparently doesn't care.", "Already, he has rejected a recommendation\nthat President Nixon should postpone or cancel\nhis trip to Moscow in protest of the Soviet help\nfor the North Vietnamese offensive. Kissinger\nalso discounts a Central Intelligence Agency\nwarning that the Soviets armed and planned the", "## Observant Citizen", "### Skippie", "To the Editors: Should you be the parents of a\nten year old boy, how would you feel, should some\ncourt authority take him from you and farm him\nout in another family? According to a news story\nthis has recently happened in our neighbor state\nof Vermont. There is one difference, this boy was\nplaced in the home of a couple now too old as\ndefined by Vermont authority, to be foster\nparents.", "How old is too old? In this case the boy was\nplaced in this home when he was an infant, so\nthey are the only parents he has ever known. To\nhim, they ARE his parents. Can anyone fail to\nrealize the traumatic effect this change will make\nin this young boy's life? It appears to us to be a\none way ticket to juvenile delinquency.", "For more than eight years this couple was not\ntoo old to give this boy the love and care he\nneeded and still needs. Now he is torn helplessly\naway from his home and his parents. This is a\ncritical time in a boy's life which should be\ncommon knowledge to everyone engaged in child\nwelfare.", "Look around and you will find people of sixty,\nseventy and even eighty years of age who are\nmore active than there are considerably stronger. It\nseems to us that there are social workers who", "NEED TO BE\nMAINTAINED\nBY THE\nPUBLIC", "PE", "$3.\nSD", "ry be governed by the same low public moral\nstandards prevailing elsewhere.", "THE SOLUTION TO THIS CONFUSED SITU-\nATION, WE BELIEVE, IS IN THE HANDS OF\nAGRESS, WHICH, UNDER ARTICLE 3, SEC-\nON 2 OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, HAS THE\nOVER TO WITHDRAW FROM THE\nPREME COURT THE RIGHT TO SIT AS\nAN ATRIcular TRIBUNAL ON WHAT SHOULD BE\nINSIDEDER OBSCENE IN EVERY COM-\NITY IN THE LAND. 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