| UPI Roundup
I Paper says prisoners to be released
I
LONDON — The Manchester Guardian said Tuesday the
i North Vietnamese apparently have agreed to release all
j|: American prisoners held in both North and South Vietnam in
exchange for captured Communist soldiers and a cease-fire
| agreement. In a front page story from Geneva, the influential
| newspaper said the prisoners would be exchanged within 60
jj: days after the signing of a peace treaty. “According to North
| Vietnamese sources in Paris, American POWs wherever
| they are held in Vietnam will be included in the deal,” the
newspaper said. The newspaper said the move represented
:• several major concessions by the North Vietnamese who
:• agreed to ignore the political prisoners held in South Viet
nam. “In the event of a peace agreement the NLF (National
Liberation Front—Viet Cong) will be obliged to surrender the
U.S. prisoners it detains while the neutralists and the NLF
:• political prisoners will remain in jail,” it said.
j Gas rationing to cut auto use
LOS ANGELES—A drastic anti-smog program calling
■: for gasoline rationing to cut automobile use in the Los
Angeles area by up to 82 per cent in the summer was
■: proposed Monday by the federal Environmental Protection
: Agency.
William Ruckelshaus, head of the agency set up by
Congress under the Clean Air Act of 1970, submitted the plan,
which also called for mandatory automobile inspection and
installation of anti-smog devices on old cars costing as much
as $400.
Ruckelshaus, in a news conference, said the gasoline
rationing could not be fully implemented until 1977, and
£ acknowledged that public resistance to any such step might
£ well prevent its ever going into effect.
£
!j Death penalty favored
PRINCETON, N.J.—A majority of Americans favor the
death penalty for murderers despite the U.S. Supreme
Court’s recent ruling which in effect struck down capital
i; punishment, the Gallup Poll indicated Monday. “In a survey
conducted in December, a majority of 57 per cent of adults, 18
and older, said they favor the death penalty for persons
convicted of murder,” Gallup said, “This percentage
represents an increase in support since March, 1972 when 50
| per cent favored the death penalty.” The survey was based
i; on interviews Dec. 8-11 with more than one thousand adults,
>’ 18 or older, in more than 300 locations.
Demonstrations set
for Nixon inaugural
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Undeterred by President Nixon’s halting
of the bombing, shelling and mining of North Vietnam, antiwar
leaders said Monday their plans for demonstrations on Nixon’s
inaugural were going forward
' Pointing out that Nixon’s actions do not meet the antiwar
movement’s demands of signing the October nine-point peace
agreement and getting entirely out of Southease Asia, the leaders said
nothing Nixon lias yet done changes their plans.
“We are strongly suspicious that this is nothing more than a
maneuver to lull people into inaction,” Jerry Gordon, national co
coordinator of the National Peace Action Coalition told UPI.
But Gordon said NPAC believed “it is going to be difficult to trick
the American people again. People have been burned by this last
October promise of peace and they will turn out in large numbers to
demand that the United States get entirely out of Southeast Asia.”
He said NPAC, which is co-sponsoring the mass march Jan. 20
with the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice, will continue to
demonstrate until its demand that the United States is out of all
Southeast Asia is met.
Just before Nixon made his announcement, leaders of Vietnam
Veterans Against the War said they would hold their own
“disciplined” and “separate” antiwar march on inauguration day.
In a reference to the current rash of peace rumors before Nixon’s
announcement, WAW national coordinator Ed Damato said, “I don’t
think that people believe that peace is at hand.”
Damato and WAW Washington coordinator Tim Butz predicted
the WAW march would draw between 1,000 and 1,500 veterans and
their supporters.
Butz said that because of WAW emphasis on the single demand
that the United States sign the nine-point agreement, the WAW action
will be “completely separate” from all other demonstrations that day.
In addition to the WAW march, NPAC and PCPJ are holding a
mass march and rally, expected to begin at the Lincoln Memorial and
end at the Washington Monument. Their rally is expected to be the
largest of the antiwar inaugural demonstrations and unofficial
estimates have put the number expected at 50,000.
Students for a Democratic Society and the Youth International
Party also hope to draw a 1,000 demonstrators to a “march against
racism and war” near the Capitol. Some Yippie leaders have
predicted that march may attempt to disrupt the inaugural
proceedings or parade following Nixon’s swearing-in ceremony.
In North Vietnam
Nixon calls off bombing
KEYBISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI)—
President Nixon Monday ordered
a halt in the bombing and all
other offensive military actions
against North Vietnam as a
result of progress made in
negotiating an end to the war.
The order, in effect, rolls back
the military activities which
Nixon promised last May 8 would
remain in effect until a ceasefire
is reached throughout all of In
dochina.
White House Press Secretary
Ronald Ziegler, who announced
the decision to reporters at the
Florida White House, declined to
comment whether this meant an
end to the long war was im
minent.
But he did disclose that Henry
Kissinger, Nixon’s chief Vietnam
negotiator, would return to Paris
“in the near future” for more
talks with Hanoi’s Le Due Tho.
This fed the belief that a ten
tative agreement had been
reached and Kissinger would be
returning to the French capital to
initial it within the next few days.
Ziegler declined to comment on
reports from Saigon that the
war’s end would coincide with the
Vietnamese lunar new year
which begins on Feb. 3.
“Because of the progress made
in negotiations between Dr.
Kissinger and special adviser Le
Due Tho, President Nixon has
directed that the bombing,
shelling and any further mining
of North Vietnam be suspended,”
Ziegler said.
He said the order went out
Sunday night following extensive,
day-long conferences between
Nixon and Kissinger and became
effective at 10 a.m. EST Monday.
Ziegler said the mines already
in place in North Vietnam’s
harbors and coastal waters would
remain and the subject of their
de-activation “is being dealt with
in the negotiations.’’
Reconnaissance flights would
continue over North Vietnam, he
said, but he declined to comment
on whether there was any change
in the bombing policy over Laos
where U.S. planes have been
daily pounding the Ho Chi Minh
Trail.
Ziegler said South Vietnamese
President Nguyen Van Thieu was
informed of the President’s
decision but declined to say
whether Thieu approved it.
“This is a unilateral decision
by the President...based upon his
assessment of the negotiations as
they stand now,’’ Ziegler said.
He declined to say whether the
North Vietnamese had made any
concessions in return for the
military de-escalation on the U.S.
side.
But when he announced the
unprecedented steps against
North Vietnam on May 8, Nixon
said they would continue until
there is an internationally
supervised ceasefire throughout
all of Indochina and all U.S.
prisoners of war are released.
The President, extending a
working weekend at his vacation
home here, met for a total of
about five hours with Kissinger
and Gen. Alexander Haig Jr.
Sunday to discuss the status of
the negotiations before ordering
Haig to Saigon to brief Thieu.
Nixon and Kissinger conferred
twice more Monday and
POW wife: It’s just
like a yo-yo game
“We have had our hopes up so many times only to have them
dashed again,” said Mrs. Billie Thornton of Fresno, Calif. “It’s just
like a yo-yo game.”
Thornton’s son, Navy Lt. Gary Thornton, has been a prisoner of
war in North Vietnam since 1960. Her weary reaction Monday sum
* med up the mood of the families of U.S. prisoners Of war to the
possibility—again—that peace was in the offing.
Most POW families were hopeful but cautious. Many were frankly
skeptical.
“It certainly sounds encouraging. But I’m sure that like everyone
else who has so recently been let down I think I’m going to wait until
it’s more definite before I get excited,” said Mrs. Richard Stratton of
Palo Alto, Calif. Her Navy pilot husband was shot down and captured
Jan. 5, 1967.
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Kissinger departed for
Washington later in the day. The
President was expected to
remain here until today or
Wednesday, keeping in touch
with Kissinger by telephone and
preparing the address he will
deliver Jan. 20 at his
inauguration.
Haig’s trip fit the end-the-war
scenario outlined by Kissinger
and other U.S. officials earlier.
They said then that after a ten
tative agreement had been
reached, it would be presented to
Thieu for his official reaction.
President Nixon would then
give his final approval and
Kissinger and Tho would initial
the accord. The formal signing,
which would activate provisions
of the treaty, would take place
sometime later.
Ziegler said Haig’s visit to
Saigon was part of continuing
consultations between Nixon and
Thieu and he declined once again
to say whether Haig actually
carried with him a tentative
agreement.
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