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SAIGON—North Vietnam said Hanoi and Washington have agreed on terms for ending the
Vietnam war. It said despite “delaying tactics” by the U.S. it is prepared to sign the agreement
effective Oct. 31. Here, a calendar of the month of October, with the 31st circled, is super-imposed
over a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by UPl’s Dave Kennerly showing a GI atop a devastated hill
in S. Vietnam. (UPI)
Carter sees wins
for Nunn, Nixon
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Jim
my Carter predicted today that
Sam Nunn would win the U.S.
Senate race in Georgia by a
“slight” majority while Presi
dent Nixon would carry the
state by “a much more sub
stantial margin.”
Carter told a Capitol news
Only few
tickets
are left
Jimmy Goolsby, chairman of
the Spalding Democratic
Executive Committee, said 25
tickets for the banquet honoring
Quimby Melton, Jr., would be
placed on sale at the Chamber
of Commerce office.
He said the affair is expected
to be a sellout and these are the
only tickets left. The program
will be Monday at Spalding
Junior High Unit 11.
Citizens will honor Melton for
his 14 years of service in the
General Assembly. He did not
seek reelection this year to the
House.
John Blackmon, Georgia
Revenue Commissioner, will be
the speaker. Arthur Bolton of
Griffin, attorney general of the
state, will be master of
ceremonies.
conference he felt the Demo
crats would still have a major
ity in both the U.S. House and
Senate, however, and that Sen.
Herman Talmadge didn’t need
to be so concerned over Demo
cratic control of the Senate.
The governor also discussed
his plans for completing the in
terstate program in Georgia
two years earlier than the pro
jected completion date, des
cribed criticism of a change in
operations at Dobbins Air Force
Base as “extremely distorted,”
and said he is insisting that a
long list of defects in the De
partment of Public Safety be
corrected.
Carter said he had been pre
dicting all along that Nunn
would win the Senate race, but
he refused to give any estimate
of the margin. “I think Sam
Nunn will win by a slight ma
jority but I haven’t seen
enough polls to predict an ex
act figure,” he said.
“I think President Nixon will
win by a much more substanti
al margin,” Carter said when
asked about the national ticket.
The governor said that he
“and other Democrats would be
glad to see the presidential race
over” although he didn’t think
local Democrats would be hurt
by Nixon’s re-election.
“I believe the Democrats will
be much stronger in the future”
because they had to work hard-
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er in their own races.
Carter said he had given the
state Department of Transpor
tation two plans to finance and
expedite completion of the inter
state highway program in Geor
gia. “We are now alloted SIOO
million a year by the federal
govemmentlfor highway spend
ing, but because of the econom
ic status of the country, we are
only receiving SSO million a
year,” he said.
He said he had authorized
Transportation Department Di
rector Bert Lance to investigate
the possibility of putting in a
toll on 1-95 or issuing general
obligation bonds.
GHS plans
homecoming
ceremony
The Griffin High School
student body is making
elaborate plans for its
homecoming football game. It
will be with Newton County at
Memorial Stadium on Nov. 10.
This will end the regular
season play for the football
team.
The homecoming court
elected by students will be
presented at halftime.
The Student Council is han
dling the election of the court
and other details.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, October 26, 1972
SAIGON (UPI)-North Viet
nam said today Hanoi and
Washington have agreed to end
the Vietnam War on terms that
include a cease-fire, an ex
change of prisoners of war and
withdrawal of all U.S. troops
within 60 days after the
agreement is signed. Hanoi said
it is prepared to sign the pact
next Tuesday, even though the
United States has already
ruptured the accord through
“delaying tactics.”
An announcement by official
Hanoi Radio monitored in
Saigon quoted an official North
Vietnamese goverment state
ment as saying:
“The governments of the
Democratic Republic of Viet
nam (North Vietnam) and the
United States have reached an
agreement for settling of the
war in Vietnam that will
restore peace to Vietnam.”
In Washington, a Defense
Department spokesman said
the Pentagon had no comment
on the North Vietnamese report
and the White House said
spokesmen were “unavailable.”
Agreement Reached
The broadcast said agree
ment on a nine-point peace plan
proposed by Hanoi was reached
Oct. 8 in a private session. It
did not say who attended the
meeting nor where it took
place, but Oct. 8 was the first
day of a record four-day series
of secret peace talks in Paris
by presidential adviser Henry
A. Kissinger, North Vietnamese
politburo member Le Due Tho
and Xuan Thuy, the top Hanoi
negotiator to the Paris peace
talks.
The English-language version
of the Hanoi Radio broadcast—
there also were Vietnamese and
French language versions that
differed somewhat—said:
“The Democratic Republic of
Vietnam continues to keep to
the commitment between the
two sides that the text of the
agreement should remain un
changed and that the date of
the signing of the agreement
will be Oct. 31, 1972.”
Immediately preceding the
English broadcast, heard in
Saigon, was a Vietnamese
language dispatch much har
sher in tone. It denounced the
United States, which it said
“continues to retain the (Pres
ident Nguyen Van Thieu)
regime in Saigon in power and
to continue its invasion of South
Vietnam. The United States has
not respected the agreement.”
The English version also
accused the United States of
breaking the accord “in con
travention of its own pledge”
by raising “difficulties” in
Saigon Oct. 23—last Monday. It
did not say what the difficulties
were.
Broadcast Monitored
A French language Hanoi
Radio broadcast monitored in
Tokyo said the two sides agreed
on the nine-point program that
included a cease-fire effective
Nov. I—the day after the
agreement would be signed.
The broadcast said under terms
of the agreement, all U.S. and
allied troops will leave South
Vietnam within 60 days of
implementation of the accord.
The Communist Vietnam
News Agency (VNA) in a
dispatch from Hanoi and also
heard in Tokyo announced
terms of the cease-fire and
likewise said U.S. troops would
withdraw from South Vietnam
within 60 days of the signing.
Hanoi Radio said the agree
ment included in part a cease
fire, an exchange of all
NEWS
prisoners of war and “the right
of self-determination of the
South Vietnamese people.”
In Paris, the Viet Cong
delegation to the peace talks
which resumed today joined
North Vietnam in demanding
the United States abide by the
agreement to end the war. A
Viet Cong spokesman said
Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the
Viet Cong foreign minister,
would call on the U.S.
delegation at today’s 164th
peace talks session to abide by
the accord.
Earlier Statement
Prior to the Hanoi Radio
broadcast, South Vietnamese
Foreign Minister Tran Van
Lam said today there will be no
cease-fire prior to the U.S.
presidential elections Nov. 7.
But South Vietnamese police
in Da Nang 400 miles north of
Saigon said they had seized a
Communist document saying a
cease-fire is likely by Saturday
and ordered Viet Cong guerril
las “to begin terrorist activities
starting at midnight on Oct. 25
and to continue until 11 a.m.
(11 p.m. EDT Friday) on the
28th of October when it is
anticipated there will be a
cease-fire.”
Despite official U.S. and
South Vietnamese silence on
the Hanoi broadcast, U.S.
military sources in Saigon said
orders “from Washington” to
U.S. air bases in Southeast Asia
directed the cessation of air
strikes above North Vietnam’s
20th Parallel—well south of the
Hanoi-Haiphong area. The order
brought sharply curtailed air
strikes into the North Wednes
day.
Although there was no official
Saigon government reaction to
the broadcast, a high ranking
Vietnam diplomat with close
ties to Thieu said: “I don’t
believe it can be true. I can’t
believe it will happen all of a
sudden like this.”
Opposition Leader Questions
Tran Van Tuyen, leader of
the opposition in Saigon’s
chamber of deputies, said:
“How could they sign a treaty?
I don’t think that we could sign
anything. There are a lot of
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some sun and to do a bit of fishing. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rosner,
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problems to be settled. How
could Washington sign without
Saigon?”
Radio Hanoi’s English lan
guage broadcast gave few
details of the Hanoi-Washington
agreement, but the Vietnamese
language dispatch spelled them
out—although the broadcast as
heard in Saigon was partly
garbled.
As outlined by Radio Hanoi,
the agreement calls for a
freeze on South Vietnamese and
Viet Cong strength in men and
material at the time of the
cease-fire, as well as the
withdrawal of U.S. and allied
troops from the country. The
accord also stipulated an end to
all U.S. bombing of North
Vietnam and mining of the
country’s harbors. The broad
cast gave no details on when
war prisoners would be re
leased but because of static, not
all of that part of the broadcast
outlining terms of the accord
could be heard. “This treaty is
effective starting from the
moment it is signed,” Radio
Hanoi said. But the timetable
as outlined by the broadcast
already is behind schedule—
which could explain Hanoi’s
denunciation of the U.S. “de
lay.”
Weather
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68, low yesterday 42, high
tomorrow in upper 60s, low
tonight in upper 40s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:46, sunset
tomorrow 6:46.
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never say so — they talk about
wanting responsibility.”
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COLUMBUA, Ga.—Campaigning in the south and in
Georgia, Vice-President Spiro Agnew (1) holds aloft the hand
of Congressman Fletcher Thompson (f) GOP senatorial
candidate from Georgia who is running against Sam Nunn
for the senate seat held so long by Senator Richard Russell.
The vice-president spoke to the enthusiastic crowd of over
five thousand at a local shopping center here. (See Page 24.)
(UPI)
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g -SAIGON—On the war fronts, military spokesmen say £
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g are below the 20th Parallel—well south of the Hanoi- g
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Wheaton, Md. here for a vacation which must end for them in
time to return home and cast their vote in the coming
election. (UPI)