Wednesday, May 15, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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U.S., N. Vietnam leaders resume talks
PARIS — (UPI) — American and North Vietnamese negotiators today met for the second time in three days in talks aimed at arranging a Vietnam war peace conference.
No early diplomatic breakthrough was in sight that might lead to agreement on scaling down the war enough to get the full dress conference underway.
U. S. Ambassador-at-large W
Averell Harriman and North Vietnam's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, met for three hours and a half in the French Foreign Ministry's International Conference Center near the Arch of Triumph.
All Harriman would say when he left the meeting was that the talks lasted three hours and a half and would resume Saturday at 10:30 a.m. 5:30 a.m. EDT. The talks
began at 10:30 a.m. today and ended at 2 p.m. 9 a.m. EDT.
They spent three hours meeting Monday. That first session was taken up fully with opening statement by the two delegation chiefs. Tuesday's day of recess was devoted to mutual public propaganda attacks.
Leaving the U.S. Embassy for today's session, Harriman indicated he preferred more private
and less public discussion by the negotiators. "As far as we are concerned, we are quite ready to have our talks in private—as is constructive," he told newsmen.
"Sometimes it is very useful that the public should know everything. Sometimes there are things of a confidential nature," he said.
Asked how the talks were going, the veteran negotiator said, "This is the kind of question I never answer."
Lack of funds plagues 'poor march'
North Vietnamese spokesmen repeatedly told newsmen Tuesday that real peace negotiations can begin only after the United States completely halts bombing North Vietnam.
Developments since Monday strengthened a conviction here that the talks will go on for weeks if not months before it will be possible to say if some military de-escalation of the war is possible.
WASHINGTON —(UPI) —The Poor People's March is running into a problem all too familiar to its participants—lack of money.
Harriman was said to have plans in his pocket to try to make these preliminary U.S.-North Vietnam sessions lead to real peace talks.
Officials of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC said today they have in hand less than one-third of the funds to finance the campaign for one month.
Monday he suggested restoring a demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam and a mutual pullback of opposing forces. Now he had "additional suggestions." But U.S. officials declined to talk about them or say when Harriman would lay them on the green-covered table separating him from Thuy in the International Conference Center.
They voiced hope that the gap will be filled by contributions from sympathetic Americans within the next week or so.
amounts of less than one dollar to more than one donation of $25,000, and came from thousands of individual donors and all parts of the country.
The financial report came as several hundred marchers settled into headquarters provided both by local churches and homes and in a tent-shelter "Resurrection City" near the Lincoln Memorial.
The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, leader of the march, arranged to meet with members of Congress today to present the poor people's demands for help.
Anthony Henry, Washington director of the march, estimated it will cost about $1 million to transport approximately 4,000 persons to Washington, house them in a temporary village of plywood-plastic A-frame huts and lean-to's now being erected near the Lincoln Memorial, and feed them for one month.
He said that to date SCLC has received just over $300,000 in contributions to defray costs of the campaign.
The contributions ranged in
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