Nixon warns Reds
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon warned North Vietnam last night that "an appropriate response" can be expected if the Communists continue the shelling of South Vietnamese cities.
Asked whether the possible responses included a resumption of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, the President said: "I believe that it is far more effective in international policy to use deeds rather than words threatening deeds in order to accomplish objectives."
Nixon's firm answer left no doubt that U.S. action could be expected if the shellings of the current 10-day Communist offensive continued.
"I'm not going to threaten-I don't think that would be helpful--that we're going to start bombing the North or anything else," he said. "I'll only indicate that we will not tolerate a continuation of this kind of attack without some response that will be appropriate."
The President said he was particularly concerned about the increase in American casualties in Vietnam as a result of the current Communist offensive.
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The U.S. objective in Southeast Asia, he said, was to end the Vietnam war as soon as possible on an honorable basis that will "not leave the seeds of another war there to plague us in the future."
Nixon said he had "no plans to withdraw troops at this time or the nearby future," but he noted that Defense Secretary
Melvin R. Laird would be leaving on a trip to the war zone today and that he would ascertain U.S. troop needs.
Speaking at a nationally broadcast White House news conference on the eve of the disputed West German election of a federal president in West Berlin, the President said, "The situation seems to have leveled off" recently.
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