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Kissinger:
‘Some progress
toward peace 9
By United Press International
Presidential adviser Henry A.
Kissinger said Monday there
had been “some progress”
toward peace in his five days of
talks with South Vietnam
President Nguyen Van Thieu
but reports from Saigon indicat
ed a breakthrough might be
hung up on Thieu’s opposition
to a coalition government for
South Vietnam.
Kissinger was reporting today
to President Nixon who told an
election campaign rally in
Uniondale, N.Y., that “the year
1972 will go down in history as
the year that more progress
was made toward real peace in
the world than any year since
World War II.”
Thieu, in keeping with the
secrecy surrounding his talks
with Kissinger and Kissinger’s
talks with the North Vietna
mese Communists in Paris, was
making no statements. But on
Monday signs were daubed on
walls in Saigon expressing
opposition to a coalition that
would include the Communists.
20,000 Demonstrate
The South Vietnamese
government news agency also
reported that at least 20,000
persons in three South Vietna
mese provinces demonstrated
last week against the Commu
nist demand for a three-part
coalition government as part of
a peace settlement.
The question of letting
Thieu says he hasn’t
agreed to cease fire
SAIGON (UPI) - President
Nguyen Van Thieu said tonight
he has “not agreed to any
cease-fire” in the Indochina
War.
Thieu said with sufficient
international guarantees he
would accept a cease-fire at
any time, but indicated no such
guarantees had been received.
“We’re not worried about (a
cease-fire) because we are in
such a strong position,” he
said.
In a long television and radio
address to the nation, Thieu
said any cease-fire would have
to be guaranteed by the Soviet
Union and China. He indicated
no such guarantees had been
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Communists into the Saigon
government appeared to be the
major obstacle but Saigon
dispatches said Thieu, while
hoping for a cease-fire, did not
want one that would permit
North Vietnamese troops to
remain in South Vietnam.
Communist spokesmen said
in Paris Monday that conditions
for a settlement were at hand
but that major obstacles
remained—apparently Thieu’s
refusal to agree to a coalition.
North Vietnmese and Viet
Cong delegates to the peace
talks in Paris said Monday that
basic issues remain unresolved
although conditions for peace
still existed.
Conditions At Hand
Nguyen Thanh Le, a North
Vietnamese spokesman, said in
a press statement: “As we
have said on a number of
occasions, all the conditions are
presently at hand for a prompt
settlement of the Vietnamese
problem.” But he charged that
the war is being “prolonged
and intensified” by the United
States.
Le’s Viet Cong counterpart,
Ly Van Sau, said when asked
about the barrage or reports
that peace or a cease-fire was
near: “Rumors are rumors
and bombs are bombs. So far,
the basic issues have not been
settled.”
Some Vietnamese govern
ment sources said Monday in
obtained.
“We have not agreed to any
cease-fire,” Thieu told the
nation. “Any cease-fire has to
be the result of a political and
military agreement. We have to
guarantee a cease-fire.”
Thieu spoke one day after he
completed five days of talks
with U.S. Presidential adviser
Henry A. Kissinger. Kissinger
said in Washington he had
made “some progress” in his
talks with Thieu but the tone of
Thieu’s longest speech in more
than a year was generally
pessimistic.
The tone of the speech
seemed to indicate that war
would continue in Indochina
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Saigon that Thieu had agreed in
his talks with Kissinger to a
cease-fire “in principle” but the
U.S. Embassy said further
talks were needed. Thieu in the
past has made it clear he
opposes not only the coalition
government the Communists
have demanded but also the
terms of an “in place” cease
fire, wherein each side would
retain the area it controlled at
the time of a peace declaration.
French newspapers Monday
ran bold headlines predicting an
early cease-fire and peace
settlement. And Tass, the
Soviet news agency, gave a
brief but unusually optimistic
summary of the North Vietna
mese Paris statements.
“At present,” Tass said,
“there are all conditions for a
speedy settlement of the
Vietnam problem, said repre
sentative of the DRV (North
Vietnam) delegation at the
Paris talks on Vietnam, Nguyen
Thanh Le, in answer to
questions of newsmen on the
course of peace talks.”
Western observers, although
cautioning against too heavy an
interpretation, said Tass’ choice
of words may be intended as a
hint the Soviet Union consi
dered the talks to be well
advanced.
Nixon Speaks Glowingly
As Kissinger was en route
Monday over the Pacific from
Saigon to Washington, Nixon in
despite worldwide reports in
the past few days that a cease
fire might be imminent.
Thieu referred to Communist
offers for a cease-fire and new
elections in South Vietnam as
“booby traps on the road to
what they call a peace
settlement.”
Thieu said he could never
agree to a coalition government
that would include the Commu
nists—one of the main points
thought to be holding up a
settlement. The Communists
have demanded a coalition as
one of the prices of a
settlement.
During his long and some
times rambling address over a
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, October 24, 1972
a re-election campaign speech
in Uniondale, N.Y., spoke
glowingly of the prospects for
peace. “The year 1972 will go
down in history as the year that
more progress was made
toward real peace in the world
than any year since World War
n,” Nixon said.
Radio Saigon, the official
South Vietnamese government
station, said despite rumors of
an impending peace “the
Republic of Vietnam people and
army will not give up their
fighting duty. Any hope for a
lasting peace in Vietnam must
be based on real victories
against the aggressors."
Laotian Premier Souvanna
Phouma said Monday in Paris
he expects an Indochina cease
fire to be announced before the
end of the month, but peace
will come later, “....a cease-fire
will come inevitably, I think
before the end of the month,”
he said.
Although some reports have
spoken of a cease-fire prior to
the Nov. 7 U.S. presidential
elections, South Vietnam’s Tin
Song (Live News) newspaper—
partially financed by Hoang
Due Nha, Thieu’s nephew and
personal secretary who was
present at all of the Kissinger-
Thieu talks—said “there cannot
be a cease-fire before the U. S.
elections.” The newspaper said
a cease-fire would be declared
“at the latest in March, 1973.”
nationwide radio and television
network Thieu gave his version
of negotiations for an Indochina
peace over the past year.
He said the Communists
continued to demand total
American withdrawal; a halt to
all bombing over North Viet
nam and a coalition govern
ment in Saigon.
He said the North Vietnamese
and Viet Cong have demanded
a total tearing down of the
South Vietnamese government.
“The Communist are not only
saying now they must do away
with Thieu, but with the
legislature, the administration
and the justice sections of
government, which means they
want to wipe out everybody and
start all over again,” Thieu
said.
“Even if we agreed to a
cease-fire and a stop in the
bombing and new elections
within six months, we would
wind up finding ourselves
fighting on the battlefields six
months from now,” Thieu said.
A cease-fire “would have to
be guaranteed by the Soviet
Union and Peking. But even at
that point the North Vietna
mese Communists would con
tinue invading us, and Peking
and Moscow would say the
North Vietnamese are doing
what they want on their own.
“The North Vietnamese
would still be bringing down
their tanks from North Viet
nam.
“Only when they stop bring
ing down their tanks and
artillery and weapons will it be
safe for us to stop the bombing
of North Vietnam.”
Thieu blasted the North
Vietnamese as “invaders” and
the Viet Cong, or National
Liberation Front, as a puppet
of North Vietnam.”
70 students
boycott
at Newnan
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPl)—About
70 black students marched in
front of Newnan High School
today in support of grievances
stemming from racial differ
ences at a homecoming cele
bration.
The students represented less
than 10 per cent of the some
900 students at the racially in
tegrated school but it was not
known how many others were
absent. About 160, twice the
normal absentee rate, were
missing from classes Monday.
The dispute flared last week
over the selection of girls for
the homecoming court. All five
girls selected by the senior
class were white while the
courts for the other classes
were mixed.
Blacks demanded at a meet
ing with Schools Superintendent
Robert Lee that five blacks be
added to the senior court, and
demonstrations at the school
began when they were turned
down.
At the halftime crowning of
the queens during Friday’s
homecoming game between
Newman and Northside of War
ner Robins, about 70 blacks ran
out on the field to crown five
black girls as queens but there
was no other disturbance.
A group of blacks presented
the Newnan-Coweta Board of
education Monday night with a
list of demands, including the
hiring of a black assistant
principal, equal representation
on the student advisory com
mittee and the student union,
a junior-senior prom and
others.
Blacks have also picketed
downtown merchants during
the past few days to back up
their protest.
Autopsy
performed
on horse
An autopsy has been per
formed on one of the horses that
was shot last week. Capt. Bill
Darsey of the Georgia Division
of Investigation said the pur
pose of die autopsy was to
recover a bullet.
His department, along with
sheriff’s officers from Spalding,
Lamar and Monroe Counties
are continuing their investiga
tion. No arrests have been
made.
The Quarter horse died
Friday. It, along with three
other horses in pastures in the
eastern part of Spalding
County, was shot around noon
on Monday, Oct. 16. The dead
horse was owned by Johnny
Sherwood.
Capt. Darsey said the culprits
also shot a car parked on
Walker’s Mill road four or five
times.
Earlier in the day, a cow was
shot and killed in Lamar
County. A conductor on a
Southern Railway freight train
was fired upon about 10 times as
his train was traveling through
Monroe County.
Veterinarian Dr. Fielding
Lindsey performed the autopsy.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—On a dare from their husbands, Sue Buchanan (right), and Alice Shillis
became tycoons overnight. The two bet their husbands that they could sell the pumpkins, five tons
of them, regain their investment and show a good profit in the deal. Good luck, five tons will make
an extremely large pumpkin pie. (UPI)
Top specialist joins
search for Rep. Boggs
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI)
—The Air Force’s top search
and rescue specialist was on
the scene today as the hunt for
a missing plane carrying House
Majority Leader Hale Boggs
and three other men went into
its ninth day.
Brig. Gen. Frank Everest,
commander of the Aerospace
Rescue and Recovery Service
headquartered at Scott Air
Force Base, 111., arrived
Monday with two aides. An Air
Force statement said the three
officers were “to observe the
search operations.”
Bad weather hampered the
search for Boggs again Mon
day, grounding most of the 50
planes slated to fly, but rescue
workers said the hunt would
continue “indefinitely.”
More bad weather was
forecast for today, but a
spokesman said “we may on
Wednesday have an improve
ment in the weather—hopefully
we will.”
Boggs, 58, was on a campaign
swing with freshman Democra-
Barnesville man is held
in beating death of wife
Murder charges are expected
to be placed against a Barnes
ville man whose wife died
yesterday from what authori
ties termed a “most brutal
beating.”
Held in the Lamar County jail
on open charges was Lewis H.
Johnston, 41, of Route Three,
Johnstonville road, Barnesville.
Johnston was employed at
American Mills in Jackson.
His wife, Mrs. Wanda Mae
Bledsoe Johnston, died last
evening of multiple wounds
about the body, including a
ruptured kidney and fractured
skull. She was never able to
make a statement to lawmen,
although they said she regained
consciousness at intervals.
Sheriff’s deputies said the
beating took place at the
couple’s home Sunday, Oct. 15.
They said that Johnston came to
the sheriff’s office and told
tic Rep. Nick Begich, 40, his
aide, Russell Brown, and pilot
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A BIG SEARCH was on
along the Alaska coast for
Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisi
ana, House Democratic
leader. He was on a flight
from Anchorage to Juneau.
them he had been beating his
wife all during the day. Sheriff
J. C. Waller went back to the
house with Johnston and found
Mrs. Johnston in a semi
conscious condition.
She had been beaten with
sticks which Johnston got from
the yard and had cut from trees,
deputies said. They said also it
appeared she had been stabbed
all over the body with the sharp
ends of the sticks. Apparently
she had been stomped in the
face and head.
Sheriff Waller allowed
Johnston to take Mrs. Johnston
in Johnston’s car to the hospital
in Forsyth. They said that due
to her condition, she should go
on to the Macon hospital.
Lamar Sheriff’s officers took
Johnston into custody at the
Macon hospital.
They said Johnston also had
beaten his wife about a week
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Don E. Jonz when their twin
engine Cessna vanished on a
flight from Anchorage to
Juneau last Monday.
“If they survived the crash, I
feel their chances are still very
good,” said Air Force Maj.
Henry Stoecker, spokesman for
the search headquarters at
Elmendorf Air Force Base. “I
don’t know how soon, but I
think we will find the plane.”
Sgt. Robert Young, a veteran
rescue worker, said everyone in
the search operation was still
confident that the plane will be
found and that there was a
good chance of survivors. “We
feel the weather has been good
and there would be no problem
to their survival,” he said.
Young said a maximum
effort would “go on until the
rescue coordination center feels
it has searched every possible
place—it is impossible now to
tell how long that will take.”
Planes have logged 1,536
hours in the search and combed
136,000 square miles.
earlier. The couple had been
married about five months. She
was a native of Texas.
Her body was carried to
Haisten’s funeral home in
Barnesville. Private services
will be held.
Dr. Larry Howard of the State
Crime Lab in Atlanta perform
ed an autopsy last night.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
77, low today 62, high yesterday
73, low yesterday 58, high
tomorrow in mid 60s, low
tonight in upper 40s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:44, sunset
tomorrow 6:48.