Manila manifesto issued
MANILA —(UPI)— President Johnson and six Pacific allies today issued a Manila manifesto setting forth a six-point plan to end the bloody fighting but it hinged on North Viet Nam getting out of the South, ending infiltration and "lowering the level of violence"—presumably a reference to the Viet Cong.
THERE WAS no immediate reaction to the peace plan from North Viet Nam or Red China. But shortly before it was issued, Hanoi again denounced the Manila summit conference as a "new peace farce staged by the United States."
Soviet paper calls Chinese warmongers
MOSCOW — (UPI) — A leading Russian newspaper accused Red China of planning war against the Soviet Union today in one of the longest and bitterest denunciations yet against the former Soviet ally.
The paper quoted militant statements made by leading Chinese officials during the current anti-western purges sweeping China as evidence that China is thinking in terms of a possible Sino-Soviet military clash.
THE 2,000-WORD article was written by the Peking correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda and was carried by the Soviet news agency Tass both in Russian and foreign languages.
The paper cited inflammatory statements made at the Peking celebration of Communist China's 17th anniversary.
Chinese Defense Minister Lin Pao, heir apparent to Chairman Mao Tse-tung, told the rally the Chinese people "will bring to an end the struggle against modern revisionism, whose center is the Soviet Communist Party leadership," the article said.
The section of the communique dealing with withdrawal said:
"In particular, they the allies declared that allied forces are in the Republic of Viet Nam because that country is the object of aggression and its government requested support in the resistance of its people to aggression. They shall be withdrawn, after close consultation, as the other side withdraws its forces to the North, ceases infiltration, and the level of violence thus subsides. Those forces will be withdrawn as soon as possible and not later than six months after the above conditions have been fulfilled."
The six points were:
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- "Cessation of aggression." The allies said South Viet Nam asked only that externally supported terror and aggression be halted.
- "Preservation of the territorial integrity of South Viet Nam." Johnson and the other leaders said the South Vietnamese sought only to defend their own territory.
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- "Reunification of Viet Nam."
- "Resolution of internal problems." The South Vietnamese will move toward reconciliation of all elements in the country.
- "Removal of allied military forces."
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- "Effective guarantees."
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CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI)—The U.S. space agency called off an attempt to send an Atlas-Centaur rocket on its last flight today because of troubles in the high-powered upper stage.
The important test, needed to set the stage for the flights of two Surveyor moon-landing spacecraft early next year, was not immediately rescheduled. Still on tap is the launch tomorrow night of a new communications satellite.
A SPOKESMAN for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today's postponement was caused by trouble with instruments designed to report on the temperatures in the engines of the Centaur rocket. That data was vital for the mission.
THE ALLIES said they were determined to prevent Communist domination of South Viet Nam and would fight as long as necessary to prevent it.
"Our purpose is peace—peace in South Viet Nam and in the rest of Asia and the Pacific. . ."
But they added:
SAIGON—(UPI)Government forces have opened a major drive in the Mekong Delta where Viet Cong forces have conducted an
South Viet forces launch major drive
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Escaped master spy poses possible threat to security
LONDON—(UPI)—British officials were reported facing up today to the possibility that escaped master spy George Blake has reached the safety of the Iron Curtain where he could pose a new threat to British—and perhaps American—security.
There was speculation that highly vulnerable British agents in some Communist countries may
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have to be withdrawn in view of Blake's escape. The Daily Mail reported that some of them may already be on the move.
Blake, 44, was accusee of using his position as a trusted British diplomat to inform the Russians on dozens of British secret agents, some of whom were believed captured and executed.
NO AMERICAN units were reported in the delta.
American Marines waiting grimly in muddy emplacements along the southern edge of the supposedly neutral six-mile (DMZ) strip separating North and South Viet Nam expected the offensive at any time.
unrelenting campaign of terrorism, it was announced today. A spokesman called it the biggest South Vietnamese operation of the war.
He was serving a 42-year sentence in Wormwood Scrubs Prison when he escaped Saturday.
Action in the rest of the war slowed to a lull and monsoon weather held U.S. air raid missions over Viet Nam Monday to 21.
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The size of the operation came as a surprise. There had been widespread speculation Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. military commander in Viet Nam, had wanted government forces only to deal with pacifying and securing areas after U.S. troops and their allies had beaten back main force Communist units.
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