Wednesday, November 20, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Thieu still objects to NLF
Saigon boycott postpones negotiations
PARIS (UPI)—High allied sources said yesterday the Paris negotiations on Vietnam have been postponed again because of U.S. failure to break down South Vietnam's boycott of the talks.
The sources said there would be no meeting today, the usual day for formal sessions of Vietnam talks. It will mark the third straight week the beginning of the broadened talks has been put off because of South Vietnamese objections.
A diplomatic official with direct access to the negotiations said last night:
"We can report no progress in our effort to reach an accord with Saigon on terms of reference that would overcome their hostility to the presence of the National Liberation Front (NLF)."
But the United States was reported to have redoubled its efforts, and the source said hopes remained high in the allied camp that President Nguyen Van Thieu soon would work out a formula with U.S. envoy Ellsworth Bunker that would send a delegation to Paris.
South Vietnam has balked at taking part in Paris talks that would include a separate, independent delegation of the NLF, political arm of the Viet Cong.
The expanded talks originally were scheduled to open in Paris Nov. 6 under the Washington-Hanoi accord that led to the halt of U.S. bombardment of North Vietnam. They have failed thus far to get off the ground because of Saigon's boycott.
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N.Y. students return to classrooms
NEW YORK (UPI)-The 1.1 million students in the nation's largest school system and most of their 57,000 teachers returned to classrooms yesterday to resume the task of education interrupted by the longest teachers' strike in the city's history.
Drafted grads can finish term
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey has advised local draft boards to allow drafted graduate students to finish out their school term before they are required to report for induction, Selective Service headquarters said yesterday.
The new policy was adopted to ease the impact of the draft on the students and the nation's graduate schools.
Last Feb. 15, on the advice of the National Security Council, Hershey ordered an end of academic deferments for graduate students other than those in medicine.
Many first-year graduate students declined to enroll even though their 1-A status could make them eligible for the draft at any time.
Hershey's new policy was intended to ensure the students' investment of time and funds for tuition, housing and books would not be lost by the arrival of a draft notice while the students were in the middle of a term, a spokesman said.
Members of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) voted Monday to accept an agreement ending their citywide strike, latest in a series of three since schools opened Sept. 9. The vote was 17,058 for the agreement and 2,738 against.
Public school pupils have missed 36 days of classes as a result of three teacher strikes this term.
Under the agreement announced by Mayor John V. Lindsay, three principals in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district were suspended along with the tocal governing board of the largely Negro and Puerto Rican district.
Luis Fuentes, one of the three suspended principals, said Monday he would report to his desk today and it would take "five or six of New York's finest" to remove him. Fuentes is the only Puerto Rican principal in the city.
The agreement also named Dr.
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Johnson said Monday the return of the 79 teachers to Ocean Hill-Brownsville's eight schools would be delayed until today
Because of the school crisis most students in New York City's 900 public schools missed all but 11 days of instruction since Sept. 9. They will have to go to school longer each day and attend classes on 10 holidays to make up the time, but there will be no compulsory classes next summer.
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delegation to Paris, Xuan Thuy, said in an interview Monday there would be no expanded peace talks unless the Viet Cong is recognized as an equal partner at the conference table.
High Communist sources told
UPI Tuesday that once talks did get underway, the Viet Cong delegation would submit to the first meeting a plan demanding priority for the drafting of a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam.
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