WITHDRAWAL TERMS 'MET'
Muskegon Chronicle Friday, May 9, 1969
| TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese news agency quoted North Vietnamese
officials in Hanoi today as saying U.S. demands for mutual withdrawal of troops from South
Vietnam have been met by the Viet Cong's new 10 point peace proposal. They saw the plan as
one difficult for the United States to reject. In introducing the plan in the Paris peace talks Thursday, the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front said: "The question of the Vietnamese armed forces in South Vietnam shall be resolved by the Vietnamese parties among themselves." While vague, the declaration amounted to an acknowledgement that North Vietnamese troops were in South Vietnam, long denied by Hanoi. Nihon Dempa said Hanoi sources described the peace package as decisive for bringing the war to an end and one the United States could not reject. Another point which the sources said the United States would find difficult to refuse was that providing for international supervision of the withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops. The United States is studying the plan, but the South Vietnamese Foreign Ministry rejected it today. It announced a willingness, however, to discuss some of the points. |