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Show f .7-- ; MEWS. 4 Ceasefire . By STEWART HENSLEY WASHINGTON (UPI) Henry Kissinger may be able to pull off a Vietnam ceasefire before election day, hiif House sources doubt it. They believe that there lies ahead hard bargaining against ?, Jground of continued US bombing Of the North v. hieh has become an integral part of the U.S. 1969, 1954 now The lute House has been suipnsed by the high thres- fight. VV hold of pain b 1972 nsi Can Henry Pull It Off? It Looks Doubtful against the ese. the hardships they are carried on able to endure and still mainagainst the Americans. tain the will and capability to Irench and October the Vietnam Kissinger m his secret talks also found Hanoi unwilling to accept verbal or contractual assurances. The North Vietnamese believed that they had been doublecrossed by the French, who reneged on their 1946 agreement, and had been sold down the river bv failure to implement the Agreement. 1954 Geneva They had a distiessing tendency to discount the withdrawal of 500,000 U.S. servicemen and emphasize instead that the United States had 200 000 U S. airmen and troops still based in Southeast Asia and on earners at sea. Hanoi has made it clear that it does not w ant a paper peace agreement, but a disposition of military forces and a political setup in Saigon barring liv recurrence of Western intervention and giving Hanoi ultimate political control of the South Thats the problem Kissinger is struggling with in the hope of resolution before thte lustre his image acquired m Moscow and Peking is tarnished by the deadlock in Vietnam. negotiating technique. In ued until ' , Kissinger, President Nixons chief adviser, viewed the Vietnam iss'e as a peripheral aberration which could be dissolved as the United States the manipulated levers of power on a global basis to achieve closer relations with Moscow and Peking. The Nixon doctrine was proclaimed, pledging a low U.S. profile in Asia, but worded ambiguously to avoid frightening nervous allies. Nixon then undertook to show his good faith by starting troop withdrawals from Vietnam. . LlbKSlS The President and Kissinger nioved to exploit the continuing China Russia split. Kissing-er- , in a sophisticated updating of 19th Century balance ot power theories, vvoiked to get concessions from China and Russia on one issue while they granted concessions on anoth- er. This calculated exercise bore fruit, with Moscow and Peking each acknowledging that and mutual antipathy made it advisable to cozy up to Washington. But Kissinger began to play the theory down when it became obvious that it threatened to embarrass the Communist powers. The big gains have been in Soviet-America- relations, n the arms limitations agreement and the beginning of major trade arrangements. In return for U.S. promises of favorable commercial consideration and loans, Russia undertook to apply pressure on Hanoi to make peace in with Indochina. ? v China, which was promised the United States would cven-- ; tually pull its forces from Tai-- l wan, is also known to have urged North Vietnam to take Nixons peace forces as seri- ously. 8 This is a point at which the theory of big power effective-nes- s on ; mall power problems broke down. Kissinger, Euro-I- pean oriented and admittedly short on Asian expertise, found Hanoi did not react as it was supposed to. Hanoi refused to negotiate - on Washington's terms, as all Kissingers text books said it should have done. had diswas the depth of Hanois dedication to what it considered a fight for inde- What counted Kissinger bepn pendence in 1940 against the Japanese, contin &uy7H WEST1NGH0USE HiReLP AU.-LC- heating and cooling system moyouoer A ecHPSDa WESTINGHOUSE PRECIPITRON5 ELECTRONIC AIR CLEANER FOR Vj OURFULLISER VICE fzOF? comfort Clean, fiEnjoy year-roun- d ltered air circulates automatically at the exact temperature your family prefers. Heating and cooling combined in a single unit to give you economy of purchase, operation and space. calutodavfoRtioN SEED CrTT Pr ." FREE DELIVERY COMPLETE HOME RUtlSICNGS QNS-ST- O? estimate someday youll probably heat electrically 3?tUHYWfllT? CENTER THR Smoot GSZE UTAH ENGINEERING 50 West Truman Ave. 484451? O mamrnBmiimmmmmmHiM&mAamipTfrimntmri JS TitimwwwfWR |