Thursday, September 14, 1978
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University Daily Kansan
U.S. extending Vietnam trade ban
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter, rebuffing persistent signals of friendship from Vietnam, is quietly extending the U.S. trade embargo against Hanoi.
In its early months, the Carter administration showed considerable interest in friendly ties with Hanoi, but it now seems cool to the idea.
the main reason for the continuation of the embargo is the administration is
anxious not to offend China, which looks upon Vietnam as an instrument of Soviet strategic purposes in Southeast Asia, officials say.
AND, THEY SAY even though there have been indications from Vietnam that it no longer insists on a U.S. aid commitment before the establishment of normal diplomatic ties, there has been no official notice from Vietnam to that effect.
Under a law passed two years ago, the president is required each year to review restrictions on trade imposed against him and lift an lift such restrictions when he chooses.
A notice in Tuesday's Federal Register disclosed that the restrictions against Vietnam are being taken. Center was banned from takeoffs, lifting or extending the buoyancy by today.
Oswald's widow talks of shooting
But Marina Oswald Porter testified that her heart stopped when she heard on television that the shots which felled the president had come from the Texas governor. The shooting Oswald worked there and he had shot at retired Gen. Edwin Walker months earlier.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Lee Harvey Oswald's widow told the House assassinations committee that he asked her to say if her husband murdered President John F. Kennedy.
Porter also said her husband once threatened to shoot Richard M. Nixon. She capped she coped with that problem by locking Oswald in the bathroom.
Porter said there had been nothing unusual about her husband when he left. "It's just something I don't want."
assassination. She also said Oswald avoided
discussing Kennedy's murder the one time
she was on the plane.
"No, I don't," she said.
REP. RICHARDSON Prayer, D-N.C., asked her if, with 15 years of hindisight, she could say whether Oswald assassinated the president.
"If he did it, do you know why?" Preyen asked.
"I don't know if I am qualified to make statements like that because I knew one side of Lee but I did not know his whole character," she replied.
Asked if Oswald protested his innocence,
said, "he never protested. I am innocent."
She said the incident involving Gen. Walker, a retired military figure who was involved in an anti-communist campaign, was the result of her involvement with politics and fascism with guns.
"I realized it was not just a manly bobby of possessing the rifle," she said of the night that Oswald came home bragging about seeing what he had seen. He was capable of killing someone with it."
"Did he look calm?" she was asked.
"He looked scared," she answered.
A recent sign of that came during a trip to Vietnam late last month by Rep. G. V. Montgomery, D-Miss., and a congressional delegation.
VIETNAM, PLAGUED by conflicts with neighboring China and Cambodia, has been seeking diplomatic and economic assistance has been one of its principal targets.
Earlier, Porter testified that when they were first married and lived in Russia, her husband tuned in Kennedy's speeches on a radio and had "only good" things to say.
Montgomery, who has led a campaign to find the remains of missing Americans in Vietnam and has made 11 trips to Hanoi, and the French, the warmth of the reception on his recent visit.
"The attitude has changed totally," he said.
MONTGOMERY SAID Vietnam has dropped all preconditions for normal relations. However, State Department officials say they have not been officially told
The administration says that it is willing to exchange ambassadors with Vietnam without preconditions and that the trade could be lifted immediately afterwards.
Officials say there are sound economic arguments for lifting the embargo. Trade with Vietnam could help cut the U.S. trade imposition to pass the $30 billion mark this year.
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