Oregon daily emerald., November 21, 1972, Page 8, Image 8

News Roundup
from UPI reports
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said -Monday it had
essentially completed a crash program to arm South Vietnam
with 10,000 tons of new military equipment prior ‘o the with
drawal of American forces. Defense Department . nokesman
Jerry W. Friedheim told United Press International the .massive
buildup, except for “a few things" still on the way, wa. ended
during the weekend and U.S. military aid will now revert to the
regular levels. The timing coincided with White House envoy
Henry A. Kissinger’s resumption of peace negotiations in Paris
with North Vietnamese representatives. North Vietnam has
sharply criticized the United States for accelerating its military
aid to Saigon government forces at a time when the two sides
were nearing agreement on a ceasefire. It demanded again
Monday that the shipments be halted. U.S. officials, however,
would make no connection between Kissinger’s new round of
talks and the decision to end the arms buildup.
PARIS— Peace envoy Henry Kissinger met privately for
nearly five hours with top North Vietnamese negotiators
Monday in what could be the last negotiating sessions to end the
Vietnam war. The talks were expected to last several days.
Even as Kissinger met with North Vietnamese negotiators Le
Due Tho and Xuan Thuy, the Viet Cong issued a statement
denouncing President Nixon and South Vietnamese President
Nguyen Van Thieu. The location of Kissinger’s talks was sup
posed to be secret, but newsmen traced the negotiators to a villa
in Gif-sur-Yvette, a Paris suburb near Versailles. The talks
began at about 10:00 a.m. and lasted until 4:00 p.m. Neither
Kissinger nor Tho left the grounds of the villa between those
hours. Both top negotiators took turns walking in the villa’s
garden during breaks in the discussions. At the close of the
session, members of each party could be seen shaking hands,
but individuals could not be identified by newsmen. As he left
the villa, Kissinger was asked how the talks had gone. He smiled
and waved but said nothing. Tho smiled and waved in response
to the same question when he left a few minutes after Kissinger.
BONN — West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, riding the
crest of a landslide election victory, said Monday he would have
“an early meeting” with President Nixon and British Prime
Minister Edward Heath. The day after his Social Democrats
won 44.9 per cent of the vote in the balloting for a new
parliament—a record for that party—Brandt also began the
process of healing the divisions created by the election. At a
brief, impromptu news conference, Brandt said he contacted
Nixon and Heath when he learned of his re-election Sunday
night. “I called Mr. Heath today, and he will visit me early next
year,” Brandt said.
WASHINGTON — Jean Westwood gave the first hint
Monday that she may not, as she said after the election, insist on
remaining as Democratic National Committee chairman. But
she vowed to fight to the end for party reforms. “Everything I
will be doing in the next several weeks and every calculation
that I make about my own future will be based on my conception
of what is best for the Democratic Party as a whole,” she said in
a statement issued through her committee office. Her own
future, Mrs. Westwood said, “is subordinate to considerations
about the future of the party,” and added: “I have until Dec. 9 to
decide how my own future as chairman of the Democratic
National Committee fits into these considerations.”
CAPE KENNEDY — The fully fueled Apollo 17 rocket
passed an important countdown test Monday night for
America’s last planned launch to the moon Dec. 6. The 363-foot
space machine cruised smoothly through a long, realistic
countdown rehearsal and blastoff was simulated at 9:53 p.m.
EST, the time of night astronauts Eugene A. Ceman, Ronald E.
Evans and Dr. Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt are to be launched.
“Everything looked in real good shape,” reported launch
director Walter Kapryan. “We’re ready to go.”
WASHINGTON — The State Department announced
Monday that Cuba had proposed a date to begin talks to
negotiate an airplane hijacking agreement and that three men
accused of hijacking a Southern airlines jetliner last week would
be tried in Cuban courts. Bray said that in response to a U.S.
request, the Fidel Castro government had proposed a specific
time for starting the talks through the Swiss embassy in Havana
on an agreement designed to halt skyjacking. He said the talks
could begin soon, but that he could not disclose the date until the
United States had decided whether or not to accept the date.
THURMONT, Md. — President Nixon decided to begin his
second term with a governmental house cleaning because he
fears his administration might stagnate without new ideas and
fresh faces, the White House said Monday. “There is a tendency
after a landslide victory for an administration to go downhill if
there are not new ideas,” press secretary Ronald Ziegler told
newsmen at Camp David where the President is planning his
“four more years.” Nixon called six top officials, including CIA
director Richard Heims, to individual conferences in the study
at Aspin Lodge, the rustic presidential residence at the moun
tain top retreat in the Maryland mountains.
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