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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 11, 196P
Procedural rules deadlock Paris talks
PARIS (UPI) U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators reopened secret talks in Paris Tuesday but failed to resolve their deadlock over ground rules for a broadened Vietnam conference. The stalemate forced indefinite postponement of the opening of the Paris conference.
U. S. deputy delegation leader Cyrus Vance met privately for two hours with his Hanoi counterpart, Col. Ha Van Lau, in a new effort to break the month-old procedural deadlock. But U.S. officials said "no progress" was made in the first such meeting since last Wednesday.
Up until today's private meeting, U.S. officials had been optimistic the stalled conference might get underway this week.
The arrival of a South Vietnamese delegation directed by
Vice Pres. Nguyen Cao Ky during the weekend had completed the roster of negotiators on hand.
A more optimistic note was sounded, however, in Washington. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford said at a news conference he hoped agreement could be reached with Hanoi that would allow mutual withdrawal of troops in Vietnam to begin in the next 40 days.
"I would like to see in the next 40 days the start of the return of American troops from Vietnam, and I think there is an opportunity to agree with Hanoi upon the mutual withdrawal of troops in that period," Clifford said.
The defense secretary, however, ruled out a "unilateral withdrawal," by the United
States. The 40-day period was cited because that is how much time remains before President Johnson relinquishes the White House Jan. 20 to President-elect Richard M. Nixon.
In Paris, South Vietnamese sources revealed the French government had stepped in to try to mediate the sticky procedural dispute over how the four participants to the conference—Hanoi, Washington, Saigon and the Viet Cong—would be seated.
U. S. officials, however, refused to confirm or deny the report of the initiative by the French Foreign Ministry.
The Viet Cong's National Liberation Front (NLF) further bogged down the procedural issue by calling on the United States Tuesday to discard its support for the Saigon government and open direct talks on a Vietnam peace with NLF representatives in Paris.
Duong Dinh Thao, NLF spokesman at the Paris talks, also warned at a news conference his delegation must be granted equal status at the conference. He demanded the conference table be a square one so as to make it evident the negotiations were four-party proceedings.
The Viet Cong demands were in open conflict with American and South Vietnamese proposals to convene the Paris conference at a rectangular table with two basic sides facing each other—the Viet Cong and Hanoi on one side and the United States and Saigon on the other.
1968 Nobel prizes presented in Stockholm
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The $70,000 prize for medicine was split by three Americans, Dr. Marshall W. Nirenberg, 41, of the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., Prof.
The coveted diplomas and checks for $70,000 each also were given to Prof. Luis W. Alvarez, 57, of the University of California at Berkeley, winner of the prize for physics, and Prof. Lars Onsager, 65, of Yale University, the chemistry winner.
STOCKHOLM (UPI)—King Gustav VI of Sweden Tuesday presented checks totaling $280,000 and diplomas to the 1968 Nobel prize winners in the sciences and in literature to five Americans and a Japanese.
The 86-year-old Swedish monarch handed out the awards at a solemn ceremony in Stockholm concert hall to the fanfare of trumpets.
The United States swept all three of the annual prizes for physics, chemistry and medicine.
peace was presented to Prof. Rene Cassin of France. The 81-year-old French legal expert and statesman was honored for his work for the rights of man in a world torn by war, hunger and strife.
The literature prize went to a Japanese for the first time while a Frenchman won the Nobel peace prize. Yasunari Kawabata, 69, author of many best sellers in his native country, was wearing a kimono as he received his $70.00 check and diploma.
H. Gobind Khorana, 46, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Prof. Robert Q. Holley, 46, of Cornell University and the Salk Institute at San Diego, Calif.
Alvarez was honored for his work in elementary particle physics.
The Norwegian-born Onsager won his prize for discoveries when he was a 25-year-old civil engineer working in Oslo.
The three American winners of the prize for medicine were honored for cracking the genetic code, which explains the heredity of man.
In Oslo, the Nobel prize for
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