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Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government, was reported to be in Washington yesterday, completing plans for a trip to Saigon later this week.
Sources in Cambridge indicated that Kissinger will leave "fairly soon," and his office expects him to return to Cambridge by October 18.
It would be Kissinger's second trip to Vietnam in the past year. Last October, while on sabbatical leave, Kissinger flew to Saigon to serve as special consultant to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge '23. Lodge had specifically requested Kissinger's services.
Lodge and Kissinger have been personal friends since they met at the 1964 Republican Convention, when Kissinger was attached to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller's campaign staff.
State Department officials would not speculate last night on Kissinger's duties but he may be personally responsible to Lodge.
Kissinger, especially in his lectures for Government 180 ("Principles of International Relations"), has been strongly critical of both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations' foreign policies.
Defended U.S. Policy
However, last December, Kissinger defended American policy in Vietnam against attacks by three Oxford men in a transatlantic television debate.
Kissinger argued that "the only way to escape this log jam is to stop talking about the past and try to see whether one can find comparable restraints on both sides to stop the shooting and begin the negotiations."
In the summation to his argument, Kissinger said that he had very few doubts about the motivation of American policy, but often worried about the judgements of policy-makers.
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