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By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (UPI ) —
Despite the continued Commu
nist offensive, President Nixon
has decided to pull another
20,000 troops out of Vietnam;
but he said the bombing raids
on the north would continue as
long as the attack persists.
Nixon, in a nationally tele
vised speech Wednesday, also
indicated he may have secret
assurances that Hanoi is now
ready to negotiate in good faith.
The new troop pullout would
bring the U.S. force level to
49,000 by July I—a date by
which the administration be
lieves the Communist invasion
of South Vietnam will have run
its course, according to pres
idential adviser Henry Kissin
ger. The date also coincides
with the rainy season during
which time Hanoi would have
difficulty waging the kind of
ground war in which it is now
involved.
Refers to Negotiations
Referring to the peace
negotiations which resumed in
Paris today, Nixon said “We
are resuming the Paris talks
with a firm expectation that
productive talks leading to
rapid progress will follow
through all available channels.”
That phrase seemed to
indicate Nixon may have
received some behind-the
scenes assurance as a result of
Kissinger’s meeting in Moscow
last weekend, at which time he
was presumably made aware of
what the North Vietnamese
were willing to do to get the
talks started again.
Nixon said the South Vietna
mese had shown great progress
on the battlefield and “we can
now see the day when no more
Americans will be involved at
all.”
But Nixon made it plain he
was not going to stop the raids
on the North as a condition for
resuming the peace talks.
Proposal Rejected
“I have flatly rejected,” he
said, “the proposal that we stop
the bombing of North Vietnam
as a condition for returning to
Commies cut off province on three sides in push
By ARTHUR HIGBEE
SAIGON (UPl)—Communist
forces cut off Quang Tri in
South Vietnam’s northernmost
province on three sides today
and tanks of both opposing
forces were destroyed in the
counter-attack that followed.
U.S. 852 bombers flying above
rain clouds poured tons of
bombs on suspected Communist
positions west of the city.
Four miles south of the city
about 30 refugees were reported
killed and another 40 captured
when the three trucks they
were fleeing in down Highway 1
hit land mines. Other civilians
were caught in crossfire
LBJ back
at ranch
JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI)
—Former President Lyndon B.
Johnson was back on his ranch
today, where doctors say he
will continue to recover from
an April 7 heart attack “in the
comfort of home.”
Johnson, 63, slipped quietly
out of the Brooke Army
Medical Center at San Antonio,
80 miles away, Wednesday
afternoon. Newsmen were told
of his dismissal from the
hospital only after he had left.
“President Johnson has conti
nued to recover from his recent
heart attack in a very
satisfactory manner,” Brooke
spokesman Tom Mathews said.
“Infact, his present condition
is such that, in the opinion of
his physicians, he may now
continue his convalescence in
the comfort of his home. He
was discharged from Brooke
General Hospital in the early
afternoon and returned to the
LBJ Ranch.”
Johnson had been in his
private penthouse suite in the
hospital since April 11. Prior to
that he was hospitalized in
Charlottesville, Va., where he
suffered the attack, lis second,
while on visit to his daughter
and son-in-law.
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PRESIDENT’S MAN in
Vietnam during the Com- I
inunist offensive, Maj. Gen. \
Alexander M. Haig heads \
a five-man team including
State and Defense Depart
ment representatives
charged with making an
on-the-spot assessment of
the situation. Haig, deputy
assistant for national
security affairs, serves un
der Henry Kissinger on the
White House staff.
the negotiating table. They sold
that package to the United
States once before, in 1968, and
we are not going to buy it again
in 1972.”
Before Nixon’s appearance,
the National Peace Action
Coalition announced plans for
demonstrations Saturday in
nearly 20 cities to protest the
war and said there would be a
nationwide campus strike next
week. Referring to that and to
similar dissent which has
erupted since he resumed
bombing Hanoi and Haiphong,
Nixon said:
“The Communists have failed
in their efforts to win over the
people of South Vietnam
politically. General (Creighton
W.) Abrams believes that they
will fail in their efforts to
conquer South Vietnam militari
ly. Their one remaining hope is
to win in the Congress of the
United States, and among the
people of the United States, the
victory they cannot win among
the people of South Vietnam or
on the battlefield in South
Vietnam.”
between South Vietnamese for
ces east of the highway and
Communist forces west of it.
Some civilians, including one
of the two American civilian
advisers in Quang Tri, 18 miles
south of the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ), were evacuated by
helicopter. About 80 American
military advisers remained.
Militaiy spokesmen said the
Communist attack forced South
Vietnamese commanders to
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pull their headquarters position
back more than two miles. The
852 s bombed positions west of
the city sighting targets by
radar.
Northwest of town, South
Vietnamese Marines claimed
they killed 120 North Vietna
mese and knocked out six
Soviet-built tanks. Allied offi
cers said the Communists were
using a new type of antitank
weapon and said a number of
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South Vietnamese tanks also
were knocked out.
In Da Nang, the five-province
headquarters 80 miles to the
southeast, the South Vietna
mese command was reported
considering calling in further
air strikes despite inclement
weather to head off an
apparent Communist threat to
a vital bridge at the Quang Tri
River.
A senior American adviser,
meanwhile, said Saigon govern
ment troops were reorganizing
for defense of Kontum in the
Central Highlands. “There is no
intention to give up Kontum,”
said John Paul Vann, senior
U.S. adviser in the highlands
sector known as II Corps. “The
plan is to fight for the city.”
The South Vietnamese have
20,000 troops in Quang Tri
Province. Pickup sth pgh: Four
U.S.