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REF : B UC HARES T 71 8 '. 
1. DIFFICULT FROM BUCHAREST LOCALE TO JUDGE OVERALL SIGNIFICA.CE ..' OF INFORMATION IMPARTED TO US BY PRIMEMIN MAURER. THIS IS . MORE SO BECAUSE ON SURFACE HE HAS ADDUCED LITTLE OR NO EVIDENCE THEY ANY CHANGE HAS OR WILL TAKE PLACE IN POSITION OF HANOI LET ALONE OF CHINESE · OF ~TLING TOWARD . NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF 
VIETNAM PROBLEM. 
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2. NEVERTHELESS IT SEEMS TO ME MAURER HAS GIVEN US FR AN K AND · 
HONEST ACCOUNT OF HIS DISCUSS.ION$ · lN HANO'I, PEIPING AND MOSCOW . 
IF ONLY BECAUSE SO LITTLE NEW IS EVIDENT. MOREOVER, HIS FRANK · 

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PAGE 2 RUFHOL 729 ~ E e R E T ADMISSION <PARAGRAPH 7 REFTEL) THAT NVN INSISTED UPON "CERTAIN · LAPSE OF TlME .. BETWEEN PERMANENT CESSATION OF BOMBING AND START OF TALKS CON TR ARY TO ROMAN IAN· URGINGS; HIS OPT !MI SM EXPRESSED IN BOTH MEETINGS WITH ME THAT FORCE OF PUBLIC OPINION AND INFLUENCE EXERCISED ON HANOI BY SOCIALIST AS WELL AS NON-SOCIALIST 
' GOVERN ~ENTS WOULD COMPEL HANOI TO NEGOTIATING TABLE AND 
• HIS VIEW THAT CESSATION OF BOMBING THOUGH IT MIGHT 8 
ANG SOME 
MILITARY DISADVANTAGE WOULD BE ACT OF GREAT POL·ITICAL WISDOM · 
ALL I NDICA TED HE IS NOT TRYING TO MISLEAD US • . 

3. NEW ELEMENt WHICH MAURER INTRODUCES CAT LEAST NEW TO US HERE~ 
IS HIS I NTIMATION THAT THERE ARE DIVIDED COUNCILS IN HANOI . . 
AND THAT CHINESE HARD STAND INFLUE NCE IS SIMINISHING. WHETHER 
HI S JUDGEMENT IS CORRECT OR NOT, MAURER'S TELL I NG US THIS WOULD 
APPEAR REPRESENT ·COURAGEOUS ACT AND WILLI NGNESS TO TAKE CERT.AI.N . 
RISKS BY ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT .IMPLAYING A CAREFULLY LIMITED 
INTERMEDIARY ROLE. .. . ... 

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4.· OF COURSE ROMANI'ANS, WHO HA.VE NO INTEREST . IN VIETNAM 
PER SE, WOULD L.d<E TO SEE CONFLICT ENDED AS CONTINUANCE O.JLY 
SERVES TO B ING ADDED PRESSURES FROM MOSCOW AND OTHER SOCIALIST 
COUNTRIES AND H·INDERS DEVELOPMENT CLOSER TIES WITH NON-SOCIALIST 

PAGE 3 RUFUHT 729 S ~ e ~ !: T WORLD INCLUO T,JC USA WHICH IS 
BASIC TO ROMANIA , wLICY. NOtABLE IN THIS RESPECT WAS MAURER'S 
STATEMENT <PARAGRAPH 13 G REFTEL> THUU "EXISTENCE OF CONFLICT 
TROUBLES MANY IMPORTANT THINGS IN WHICH ROMANIA IS INTERESTED." 

5. HOPEFULLY AMB HARRIMAN'S DISCUSSIONS WITH MAURER MAY GIVE US FURTHER INSIGHT INTO HANOI ' S POSITION AND POSSIBILITIES OF MOVING TOWARD POLITICAL SOLUTION. VIETNAM. · .· . DAVIS 
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