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Wednesday, January 24, 1973
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Nixon Says Cease-Fire Effective Saturday...
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162,000 Vietnamsemen and 922,000 Communists reported killed in action.
U. S. involvement in the war, America's longest, began while John F. Kennedy was in the White House. It deepened during Lyndon B. Johnson's term, and when Nixonook office in January 1989, about 530,000 members were committed to a land war in Indochina.
Nixon began a four-year phased withdrawal and as of now about 24,000 U.S. personnel remain in South Vietnam, none of them involved in a land combat role.
ADVANCE INDICATIONS that an agreement was about to be announced in
President Nguyen Van Thieu told the
school Vietnamese people that the com-
munity is ready.
mean they have abandoned plans to take over the country, but only that "their war of invasion has been defeated," he called for the US military to "completely win over the Communists."
—North Vietnam's Paris delegation announced that The, a member of the Hanoi poliburo, would hold a news conference today at the same international conference center where he conferred with Kissinger on Tuesday;
—The French news agency, Agence France-Presse, quoted informed sources in reporting that the agreement and its protocols of application were terminated before the Kissinger-The meeting opened Tuesday. Technical experts from both sides had conferred for 13 hours Monday, apparently completing language of the accord;
Already in Paris are South Vietnam's foreign minister, Tran Van Lam, and his Viet Cong counterpart, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh. Kissinger conferred with Lam before and after his meeting with Theo, and sources said Lam was planning to return to Saigon by Sunday, indicating the agreement would be signed by then;
-The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in an article by contributing editor Marquis Childs, quoted unnamed sources in Washington as saying an agreement was initialized by Kissinger and Tho, that Nixon and Rogers will review their agreement in Washington and that if it meets with their approval Rogers would飞 to Paris.
EVEN IN THE HOURS before Nixon's address, the war raged on.
U. S. bombers hammered away at North Vietnamese positions across South Vietnam with the heaviest strikes in five months, but the United States said military sources said was intended to
minimize an expected Communicist move to seize as much territory as possible before a war.
South Vietnamese military sources said there were indications enemy troops and supplies were moving from the Cambodian side, where they are heading the Saigon River corridor toward Saigon.
Some U.S. sources said they anticipated an effort by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops to occupy villages and hamlets in the area of Saigon October when a ceasefire was expected.
KISSINGER'S OVERNIGHT trip to Paris, which the White House announced was for the purpose of "completing the text of an agreement," was much shorter than expected, although sources had reported that Kissinger's was to wrap up an agreement this week.
The presidential assistant for national security affairs, a former Harvard law professor, has been criticized.
four years ago to help Nixon renounce American foreign policy, conducted 30 months of negotiations with Tho in complete and then undetected from Paris a dozen times undetected.
Then, on Jan. 25, 1972, Nixon disclosed in a nationally televised address that the secret talks had been under way. He outlined the U.S. and North Vietnamese proposals, and ordered Kissinger to pursue the talks when and where possible.
Less than five months later—on May 8-Nixon ordered stepped-up bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of such barbaras as Vietnam. The United States Communists into serious negotiations.
massive bombing of the Hanoi and Haiphong areas.
HE SUSPENDED the bombing on Dec. 30 and announced Hanoi had agreed to resume the Paris negotiations on Jan. 8. The early January talks lasted six days and apparently brought the opposing sides to the brink of an agreement.
Kissinger returned to the United States in the early morning hours of Jan. 14 to consult with Nixon. Later that same day, the President dispatched Gen. Alexander Hagl with Thiep, with Thiep, to Saigon and other Asian capitals to brief leaders on the revised accord.
Sources List POWs, MIAs From Region
NEW YORK (AP)—The following is a list of war prisoners and some missing servicemen compiled from a variety of sources, including the lists issued by the Committee of Liaison With Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam, newspaper and family records and from Hanoi radio broadcasts where more than one address is given. The first is that of the commander of the prison camp, and ranks have been checked with an official Pentagon list of prisoners issued Dec. 30, 1989. Where no rank appears, it indicates the name comes only from the liaison committee list includes:
Anderson, LL, jg Gireh Laverene, Cedar Ramida. Iowa
Beeler, I.L. Caroll Robert, Frisco, Tex,
also Missouri.
Baker, Maj. Elmo Cinnard, San Antonio,
Texas; born, Morehouse, Me.
Berg, Capt. Kile Dag, Glendale, Ariz; wife, Wichita, Kan.
Boyd, Capt. Charles Graham, Wichita,
Kan.; parents. Rockwell City, Iowa.
Broadak, Capt. John Warren, St. Louis,
Mo. also Jennings, Mo.
Butler, LL. Phi Neal, Tulsa, Okla., also
La Jolla, Calif.
The next day, Nixon ordered a halt to all offensive operations, including bombing, mining and shelling, in North Vietnam. This set the stage for an announcement last week that Kissinger and The would meet again on Tuesday to complete the text of an agreement.
KESSINGER'S TRIPS to Paris continued through the summer and fall, and made such rapid progress in October that the presidential adviser declared shortly before the 1972 presidential election that "peace is at hand."
Byrnes, Capt. William Glen, Warrenton,
Mo.
Clapt, Cark, John Walter, Columbia, Mo.
Dickinson, Olka, wite, Wichita,
Stillwater, Okla, wite, Wichita
Daniels, Cmdr. Verlyne Wayne, Ness City, Kan.
Franke, Cmdr. Fred Augustus William
Midwest Court, Okla., also San Diego
Gouch, Sgt. Maj. Wayne, native of Oklahoma.
kansas.
Norick Ramen Anton Atwood, Ken
Kallion Kallion, Auðebo, Kallu
Hubbard, Capt. Edwin Lee, Overland
 Park, Ken
S. Sju Ave, Orana, Na
Miller, Lt. Ed. Collision W. Tustin, Calif.
After Nixon declared in his inauguration address that America's longest and most bitter war was coming to an end, Haig returned from his five-nation Asian journey to Japan, where indications he brought word of Thieu's approval of the pact's major provisions.
Johnson, Capt. Harold Eugene, Overland Park, Kan.
James, Maj. Gobel Dale, Overland Park,
Kan.
Kramer, Capt. Garland D. Tulsa, Okla.
Ulindberg, Ut. Col. Jeff, Iowa
Mastin, Capt. Ronald Lambert, Merriam, Kan.
Mehrer, Gustav A., next to kin, 1016
S. 35th Ave. Omaha, Nahe
Miller, Lt. Col Edison W., Tustin, Calif., also Santa Ana, Calif., also Clinton, Iowa. Monux, Capt. Harold Deloss, Tulsa, Okla.
Pyle, Capt. Thomas Shaw II, Cordell,
Okla.
Naughton, L. Robert J., Sheldon, Iowa,
Joseph Jg josephe.Cherie, Prairie
Village, Kan.
Risner, L.I. Col. Robinson, Oklahoma City,
Okla.
george, George Alan, native of Missouri, Fayetteville,llc, welf, Welch Moura.
Schwertfeger, William Ralph, Medford,
Okla.
Spencer, L. Larry Howard, Earlham, Iowa
iowa.
Spoon, Capt. Donald Ray, Pleasant Hill,
Stutz, Opt. Leroy William, Cummings,
Kan.
Talley, Maj. William Hanson Jr., Oklahoma.
Vavcch, I. D. Lune Pau, native of Tulsa,
Walker, Cap. Herbert Clifford Jr., Tulsa.
Oklahoma
Woods, Lt. Robert Deane, Garden City,
Mo.
Local Church
To Thank God
University Lutheran Church, 15th and Iowa, has planned a special "Thank God I Over" celebration in January of 2014. Nickson's announcement of a caesarella.
The church made preparations for such a service after Kissinger's announcement Oct. 28 that peace was at hand. The idea came from Mike and his 19-year graduate student and president of the congregation, Conrad said.
The informal service will be at 9 p.m. tonight the Rev, Don Conrad said yesterday.
"Really, we had to debate whether to go ahead with it," Conrad said. "There was a lot of skepticism, but we decided that since the President had made his announcement, we would go through with it."
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His statement sent optimism soaring. But hopes for a quick settlement were dashed during the following weeks when the talks suddenly snagged. Each side blamed the other, but it was clear that Thieu's objections to a tentative agreement had caused the United States to propose major changes in its warding.
POW Teams Await Orders
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of Defense Melvin L. Raird announced Tuesday night that flight crews and teams of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel were standing by—awarding only a on-board us. The U.S. servicemen held captive in Indochina.
In December, after the talks broke off,
Nikon atered waves of 185 bombings over
the United States.
Laird said, shortly after President Nixon announced that an Indochina cease-fire would go into effect 6 p.m. CST Saturday, that initial flights to pick up the prisoners would begin "as soon as possible after the formal signing of the agreement in Paris."
The secretary provided no other details in his brief statement, saying that specific information would be provided "as soon as that is appropriate."
LARD ALSO DREW attention to the other 1,335 Americans listed as missing in Saskatchewan.
However, it is expected that the vanguard of some 587 captured American GIs will begin returning within a matter of days after the agreement is signed.
"I want to emphasize that we will be just as concerned about the safe return of the four of our men as we are about the first, and second, women," he said in an accounting for all the missing in action."
The procedure for the repatriation was completed months ago with only the mechanics of the actual release awaiting terms of the cease-fire agreement.
THEY WILL BE LOADED aboard huge Air Force C141 transports now standing by in the Western Pacific and shutted to Clark Field in the Philippines, the primary location for a mass release, some would be flown to U.S. bases on Okinawa and Guam.
The Pentagon had hoped to fly medical evacuation planes directly to Hanofi for the pickup but officials believed North Vietnam was unlike it to go along with this. Instead, the men will be flown from Hanoi into Communist aircraft to Vienna in Laos.
New uniforms specially tailored to account for expected weight loss and stitched with decorations and rank insignia earned in prison await all men at Clark Field.
Also awaiting the men at Clark are toilet kits and "personnel information brochures" to help them travel from their families and list of back pay allowances leave time and list of back pay allowances leave time留下 while in capacity. To
bring these modern Rip Van Winkle up to date on the events of the past seven years they will be given a 219-page synopsis of news stories.
PHYSICIANS AND PSYCHIATRISTS will examine them and intelligence officers question them on prison life and any other details they have of their comrades still in captivity.
Kissinger left for paris on Monday while Nixon spent the day in his hideaway office, presumably already at work on his Tuesday night speech.
Operation Homecoming anticipates that some of the men, because of their long periods in captivity, may face long periods of adjustment. Their wives have been warned by military psychiatrists that their husbands may have such problems as temporary impotence, depression and a tendency to have accidents.
Once cleared by the doctors at Clark, the men will be sent to Travis Air Force Base in California. From there they fan out across the country to more than 30 military hospitals closest to their homes for further treatment and examination.
Family reunions will take place as soon as possible after their arrivals at the local hospitals. For those unable to make the long trip home from Clark, families will be flown at government expense to the Philippines to reunions there.
Congress' Reaction Relieved But Cautious
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon's announcement at 3 a.m. America will be out of the Vietnam war in 60 days brought praise and relief from congressmen Tuesday night—but doubts that the war is over for the Vietnamese.
"We have fought the war with so many illusions," said SEN. Frank Church, D-Idaho, a longstanding war critic. "Let us have no illusions about the peace. It is no longer an option, and it may last no longer than the earlier truce in 1964 when the French withdrew."
("The key question is can this peace last?")
"Can it heal in South Vietnam?"
"Can it lead to healing in South Vietnam?"
"The American people owe President Nixon a deep debt of gratitude" Goldwater nobilty.
Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, R-Ariz., said never in U.S. history had a President "acted so courageously" not only in the face of the attack but, unprecedented criticism at home.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., did not mention Nixon but expressed "profound relief that these years of the nation's crisis and tragedy and bitterness are over."
"Our prayer now," he said, "is that the peace we have attained is a true peace, not only for America but for all the people of North, North and South."
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., was optimistic.
"The final departure of American forces from Indochina," Humphrey said, "will mean more than a end of the war in America; can once again turn our attention to the urgent domestic needs and it will also mean that the people of Vietnam, North and South, can begin to recover."
Said Sen, Caliborne Pell, D-R.I.: "Thank God. I pray it sticks."
Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, expressed
a senatorial gratefulness and Nixon
concern over the war's impact.
"It does not appear that these terms are
particularly different from what was
the bombing," Moss said. "The resumption of
the bombing." Moss said.
Rep. Bella S. Abzug, D-N.Y., one of the House' most vocal critics of the war, said America must not only pull its troops but cut off its military aid to Indochina.
"Congress must use its fund cutoff powers to lock the door behind the President," she said.
Many Republicans praised President Nixon for holding out for what Sen. William B. Saxbe, R-Ohio, called a peace "that is honorable and just."
Sens. Henry Jackson, and Warren G. Magnuson, Washington Democrats, said they were sorry former President Lyndon B. Johnson could not live to see it.
"I think this is a settlement we could 'awe had before," echoed Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. "The only concessions made by the North Vietnamese are to release American prisoners and to agree to elections supervised by nations that may well be sympathetic to the North Vietnamese point of view."
"I comment the President for tough it out," said Senate Armed Service Chairman John C. Stennis, D-Miss. "I know a great deal of the stuff he made and difficult decisions he had."
"That this peace is an honorable peace," said House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford, "is due solely to one man—the resolute man who is Richard Nixon."
Sen. Dick Clark, D-Iowa, said, "I only hope that we have learned enough from our experience in Vietnam to guarantee that we can deal with the mistakes and the mistakes that we have made there."
Sen. Mark Haffield, R-Ore., said peace will come as America ceases "to use our dollars and guns to support unrepresentable and unjust governments in Southeast Asia."
"Moreover," Hattelfeld said, "Congress must determine that never again will it allow its constitutional responsibilities to be imposed on the nation located in committing the nation to war."
NV Increase Attacks As Cease-Fire Nears
Military headquarters reported 98 enemy attacks during the 24-hour period ending at 5 a.m. CST today compared with 82 in the past week, three-thirds are rocket and mortar assaults.
SAIGON (AP) — Enemy forces nearly doubled their attacks across South Vietnam in a high point of activity before a ceasefire. The Saigon command announced Wednesday.
MILITARY SOURCES said the air raids—the heaviest in one day in five months, and the ground thrusts were greater than an enemy land grab before a cease-fire.
President Nguyen Van Thien, in a special Tet lunar new year letter read over government television Tuesday night, the Communist Party said the Communists during a cease-fire.
"WE SHOULD NOT believe that the Communists will respect the agreement. We should not rely on their signature, and should not believe that they have renounced their intensification of efforts to take control of South Vietnam."
"If the Communists have to agree to sign a cease-fire agreement it is only because their war of invasion has been defeated," the president said.
The U.S. Command reported that fighters-bombers carried out 74 stalks across the front line.
a. m. Tuesday. At the same time U.S. B52 bombers logged an additional 80 strikes from the northernmost province of Quang Tri to the southern Mekong Delta.
THE U.S. COMMAND said the total number of the latest strikes was the highest in South Vietnam since Aug. 22, when 375 sorties were lost.
The documents reportedly also instructed the Communist forces to assassinate as and sympathize with possible before or after international cease-fire supervisors.
TO SUPPORT this land-grab theory, sources reported North Vietnamese and Chinese on the front from the Cambodian border in the direction of Saigon, and from the Cambodian and Lostan countries eastward toward Kontum and both hotly contested regions.
South Vietnamese marines and paratroopers met continued heavy resistance as they attempted to regain ground in Quang Trì Province—territory just under the demilitarized zone where they were stationed in their invasion of the south, last spring.
The heavy fighting that has raged in the Michelin rubber plantation 40 miles northwest of Detroit, where they have slackened, but field officers said they renewed accepted attacks in the area.