Nation readies for Oct.15
By United Press International
By United Press International Supporters and opponents of the Vietnam Moratorium cautioned Tuesday against outbreaks of violence as thousands of Americans geared for a nationwide round of demonstrations against the war.
Fears a peaceful protest could erupt into disorders triggered a movement of troops into the Rock Island, Ill., arsenal and led to precautions by police and authorities elsewhere across the country.
The Nixon Administration—speaking through Vice President Spiro T. Agnew—urged the leaders of the Moratorium to repudiate North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong's support for their demonstrations.
The Moratorium leaders promptly refused and said it was "regrettable that the administration would seize this straw in an attempt to discredit the patriotism of those millions of Americans who sincerely desire peace."
About 150 Army troops from
Ft. Riley moved into the Rock Island Arsenal in a "precautionary measure" against any attempted intrusions by antiwar demonstrators. New York City police are ready to keep tab on demonstrators with a new television surveillance network.
Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott and House GOP leader Gerald R. Ford said after a meeting with President Nixon they hoped the demonstrations would be peaceful. They warned any violence would damage the President's efforts to end the war.
Congressional supporters of the Moratorium warned against violence and condemned "senseless destruction" by young radicals who rampaged through Chicago last week.
Scott called Dong's open letter to the American person an "insolent intrusion." Earlier he said Nixon "shares the anguish of spirit which will be exhibited tomorrow for those who have fallen."
Organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee predicted
disagree about the means but let the world understand the American people want peace."
Hanoi hails protest
PARIS (UPI) — North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, whose regime is banking on U.S. public pressure to force Washington into accepting Hanoi's negotiating demands, acclaimed the Vietnam moratorium day in an open letter Tuesday to the American people.
The Viet Cong's foreign minister Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, in a separate statement, also hailed the moratorium scheduled for Wednesday and renewed standing communist accusations that Washington is bent on prolonging the war.
"Your struggle is a noble reflection of the legitimate and urgent demands of the American people, which is to safeguard the honor of the U.S. and save its children and brothers from a useless death in Vietnam," Dong said to antiwar demonstrators.
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu invited leaders of the antiwar movement in the United States to visit South Vietnam for an inspection tour of the war zone.
"I think they will change their minds," Thieu told newsmen during a visit to a Hue cemetery where he attended a ceremony for hundreds of civilians killed by the communists during the 1968 Tet offensive but whose bodies had been discovered only recently in mass graves.
Many American servicemen in Saigon Tuesday reacted bitterly to the nationwide Vietnam Moratorium Day scheduled to be held in the United States Wednesday. Hanoi radio hailed the antiwar protestors.
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Only one of about a dozen soldiers, sailors and airmen polled here expressed support for the planned demonstration. A few others said they did not care one way or the other.
"I came in the Army as a draftee, and I'm over here now and doing what I'm supposed to do, and I think the people back there are making things a little more difficult over here," he said.
Typical of the GI reaction was the opinion of WO Thomas McDonald, 21, of Brewster, Ohio.
"We become disgusted and I sure think they should let the war be run by the people that are supposed to run it, and they should support the United States the way they're supposed to."
But army Spec. 5 John Haug,
23, of Madison, Wis., disagree.
"I wish them all the luck in the world," he said. "I wish I was back there participating in them myself. In a free country, I think the right of dissent is very important.
"I don't think they're making it any harder on the soldiers. I think they are making it harder on the prospects for a negotiated peace settlement, but I still think it's something that should be done."
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HARTFORD, Ill. (UPI)—Candidates Berry and Grapes were on the ballot for mayor.
on the eve of today's antiwar protest President Nixon would respond by stepping up U.S. troop withdrawals from the war zone.
war as soon as possible. "The debate is about how we achieve peace," he said. "Honest men can
"Tomorrow's demonstrations will show the President that a broad section of the people is asking him for a firm commitment to withdraw all American forces starting now," said Sam Brown, a national coordinator of the group sponsoring the nationwide protest.
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