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Footlighters
Barbara Jo Cook gets ready to plant a kiss on the head of Bob Forio as Sammy
Murray tries to restrain her during rehearsal of “The Mousetrap.” The mystery
will open tonight at Mez-Art Studio on the Bucksnort road. Curtain time is 8:30.
The annual spring production of the Griffin Footlight Players will be presented
tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday night.
Thieu Endorses
Nixon Proposals
By STEWART HENSLEY
SAIGON (UPI) —Secretary of
State William P. Rogers
conferred today with high South
Vietnamese officials on Pres
ident Nixon’s eight-point peace
plan. U.S. authorities said
President Nguyen Van Thieu
endorsed it "100 per cent.”
The secretary first called on
Foreign Minister Tran Chanh
Thanh and then went to talk
with Premier Tran Van Huong.
These were billed as "protocol
calls.” U.S. officials said the
new Nixon suggestions for
ending the conflict were dis
cussed in some detail.
Rogers scheduled a visit to
the Free World Forces Head
quarters, the post for adminis
trative coordination of the
Allied forces aiding South
Vietnam in the war.
Favorable Reception
The secretary and other U.S.
officials here were described as
"highly gratified” at the
favorable reception Nixon's new
plan for ending the conflict
appeared to be receiving from
most South Vienatmese.
They recognized, however,
that South Vietnamese pleasure
over the Nixon address was
greater than It might otherwise
have been because of a growing
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IT LOOKS SO EASY, but then she’s a big girl. Belinda
Taubman, Australia’s Miss Pacific Quest representative,
keeps trim by teaching ballet to six-year-olds in Sydney.
fear here in recent weeks that
the United States might be
j reparing to abandon the
struggle.
This fear was laid to rest, for
the time being at least, by
Nixon’s pledge that there could
be no "one-sided withdrawal
from Vietnam, or acceptance in
Paris of terms that would
amount to a disguised defeat.”
U.S. officials said Ambassa
dor to Saigon Ellsworth C.
Bunker showed a rough draft of
the Nixon plan to Thieu several
days ago and the South
Vietnamese president p re
nounced it fully satisfactory.
He found the U.S. demand
that South Vietnamese be
permitted to decide their own
future sufficiently strong to
maintain his political bargain
ing position at Paris, it was
said.
Sources close to Rogers
pointed out that the new Nixon
plan eliminates what the
secretary had long contended
was an "ambiguity” in the
Johnson administration’s policy
on mutual force withdrawals.
The 1966 Manila communique
promised withdrawal of forces
within six months after fighting
stopped and "the level of
violence subsides.”
Rogers has said this was not
sufficiently precise. The new
Nixon formula was designed to
try to end the ‘ ambiguity.”
Rogers, who is paying his
initial visit to Vietnam, will
meet Friday for his first formal
conference with Thieu. He also
will confer with other Vietna
mese officials and continue
receiving briefings from U.S.
military and political officers
here charged with educating
him on the situation in the
country.
Saturday and Sunday will be
devoted to field trips by the
secretary. Security precautions
have precluded announcement
ir. advance of the points he will
visit.
He then goes on to Thailand
for separate conferences in
Bangkok with Allied nations. He
first will attend the regular
meeting of foreign ministers of
the members of the Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization (SEA
TO) and then sit in on the
conference of representatives of
the seven countries with forces
fighting in Vietnam against the
Communists.
From Bangkok, Rogers will
go on for brief visits in India,
Pakistan and Afghanistan and
then attend the May 26-27
meeting in Teheran of the
Central Treaty Organization
(CENTO).
He will return to Washington
May 29.
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Thursday, May 15, 1969 Griffin Daily News
‘Free Choice’
Is Mockery
Foreign (News Commentary
By PHU. NEWSOM
CPI Foreign News Analyst
In July about half the
inhabitants of the world’s
second largest Island, and
certainly its most primitive,
will hold an extraordinary
election. American Gl’s of
World War n remember the
island without pleasure.
The Island is New Guinea Just
to the north of Australia and
the election will involve some
800,000 inhabitants of its
western half who in theory at
least will be deciding whether
they wish to remain under
Indonesian rule. The Indone
sians call it West Irian.
The people who are being
asked to decide their future by
’’free choice” still live in the
stone age, do not know the
wheel and in the mountainous
villages never have heard
either of the Indonesians nor
the Dutch whom the Indone
sians supplanted.
Outcome of the so-called
election, which is to be assisted
by the United Nations, may be
considered a foregone conclu
sion. The Indonesians an
nounced in April that it would
not be held on the basis of one
man-one-vote but through “con
sultations” with about 1,000
tribal chiefs and members of
district councils.
They are considered certain
to vote to remain with
Indonesia.
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credit on the United States nor
on the United Nations, both of
which bowed to the demands of
the since discredited Indonesian
President Sukarno in the
interests of non-violence.
The Dutch had been spending
around S3O million a year on
the area, perhaps not always
wisely. Under the Indonesians it
fell to around $2 million.
Tlie Indonesians neither can
support nor develop West Irian.
But neither do they intend to
let go of it. And “free choice”
becomes a mockery.
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South Viet PM Says
To Beg For Peace
Shows Weakness
By DANIEL SOUTHERLANIt
SAIGON (UPD—“...He who
begs for peace is in the weak
position...it is not a good way to
fight.”
The man who points to his
354 days as South Vietnam’s
prime minister to illustrate the
government’s stability criticized
the United States Wednesday
for begging for an end to the
war.
“To Americans, this may
seem very chivalrous, but to
us, in the Far East, he who
begs for peace is in the weak
position...it is not a good way to
fight,” the 66-year-old prime
minister said.
Tran Van Huong spoke in an
interview in his office before
President Nixon’s speech outlin
ing U.S. plans for a settlement
in the eight-year-old Vietnam
War.
Huong mentioned a possible
pullout of 30,000 Americans by
the end of the year and said
that if the North Vietnamese
troops left the battlefield, South
Vietnam could handle the Viet
Cong alone.
“The United States is a
strong country, proud of its
strength,” he said. “But it is
also a young country. The
Americans have a tendency to
yield at the first difficulty they
encounter.”
“The Communists are exploit-
ing this to the hilt. They are
hitting at the weak point of the
Americans, which is their
desire to see a hasty solution to
the Vietnam problem,” Huong
said.
Citing "nothing constructive"
in the new 10-polnt Viet Cong
peace plan, the crew-cut prime
minister said, "There is more
hope for success in secret talks
than in the regular conference”
at Paris.
"If we can get the (Viet
Cong) to talk with us privately,
away from the surveillance of
the North Vietnamese, I think
we can make progress,” Huong
said. "A solution to find an
honorable way out of the war
for them depends on secret
talks.”
On the other matters, Huong
said:
—"We (the South Vietna
mese) are like a fledgling. We
are learning to fly but we need
the presence of the mother
bird. The absence of the mother
bird now could be catastro
phic.”
—“My longevity in office is
proof of our government’s
stability. I honestly never
thought I would last that long
because of all the difficulties
we faced.”
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