Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free january 1968 i would have made a 603p school principal Donald Duck what were Thev bidding on on what theod Pav me to do my House cleaning Job i let pm keep and Loose change Thev find around the Mickey mouse when i 6ot in Back to my Roo a i this Ive been sitting Here waiting for them i wonder who miss it you wrote it a half hour Blondie in Goins to let Jill i1 out to Pinner tonight in just Slad she have any i have news Vou theres nothing Home cooked a Harp cays rip Kirby credit where credit is remember recommending this to me so ioh6 Pappy in Fie ased that my taste in miss i and Lois its just mom 6ropins for the right name again i mean Stop Tiffany Jones 6et a move in in look n a hurry chars Here he comes Ricky but i out of the Bloh Pewere Here to 00 a not snaps for Kejr family ruin your move will you Beetle Bailey it Doest try to 1 cd help a idly sleep from do i have to have a cholesterol does or must be ready to face All parties in Vietnam Frk youve 6ainep two in Oka now turn Are we willing to confront he serious problems of the 60s and 70s this is the ques Tion Robert Kennedy asks in the following excerpts from his recent to seek a newer the Book grew out of travel and his experience As senator and attorney by Robert Kennedy last of a series excerpted from the Book to seek a newer world copy right c 1967 by Robert Ken published by Doubleday once at the conference our problem would in a sense be More negotiations Are not the end of the but Only a Bridge to the future of South that future must include the right of the people of South Vietnam to How to accomplish this has always been at the heart of the problem of peaceful Settle the negotiators must develop a program to Dis Mantle the War to establish procedures for a for the laying Down of and for the gradual with drawl of foreign forces from the country and All this accompanied by the political Steps necessary to protect the safety of All sides while the War is being More difficult and intricate is the Resolution of South Vietnam tangled this question is not Only to a but to the preliminary question of arriving at serious stopping the bombing May bring Hanoi to but the National liberation front Elf seeks More than a halt to bombing of the North it seeks a role in the whether the Elf would come to and the position they would take will almost certainly depend in Large part on the terms of Politi Cal settlement which Are understood to be what should those terms be we have not Defeated the Viet Cong they have not Defeated us nor can a military Victory is not in sight for any settlement must therefore be a Compromise however would protect the self determine Tion of the vietnamese All the people of South communist and Buddhist and should be Able to choose their leaders and seek office through peaceful political processes free from Exter Nal coercion and internal All should have the Opportunity to seek peace fully a share of Power and preferably through free they should determine their future and the nature of their system and resolve the question of vietnamese re first step the first step would be for the South vietnamese As Well As other political elements not represented in to begin their own discussions with the National liberation for Many the people of South Vietnam have been divided in fierce and hostile if they Are to Settle their own they must at least begin to talk to each try to eliminate unnecessary and search out areas of possible agree undoubtedly a cease fire would allow this process to begin at the Village and Hamlet aiming toward Village elections in which All including the National liberation could freely i have always Felt that the United As a major must also be ready to talk directly to All parties North and military and communist and no communist most directly we must negotiate not Only with the North vietnamese govern ment in Hanoi but with the Elf in the the exact status of the whether puppet or partly i depend is a matter of some dispute among Douglas Pike thinks them a Complete creature of the North while it was the conviction of Bernard fall that the native fighters in the whatever their material dependence on have their own goals and their own plans for the Many of these who have talked with the Elf support this even to the Point of asserting that the Viet Doug do not seek the reunification of Vietnam in the foreseeable whatever the real rela which May Well be seen differently by North Vietnam and the Elf the Elf has and our adversary in the Field throughout most of South Vietnam they Are an indispensable part of any settlement and this we will have to recognize through direct if they Are we should talk to if they Are it makes no difference that they Are at the Confer ence table with North Viet the Only objection to their participation is that it would Confer status upon they have already achieved More status on the Battlefield than we could give them at the conference major goal it was and is essential that no communist Viet namese take a major role in discussions leading to a negotiated and exert effective Force and influence in Competition with the Elf for future the effective Ness of their participation in negotiations will largely de Pend on the extent to which they have the Confidence of their own people and represent their therefore the failure of the 1967 elections is undoubtedly a Handicap to fruitful peace had there been a free political process in South Vietnam during the Spring and summer of it undoubtedly would have broadened the final govern ment to include other ele ments of South vietnamese thus making it Clear to Hanoi and the Elf that they were faced with a formidable negotiating and which represented the Choice and objectives of the no communist majority in South As much As that Opportunity must be reopened most particularly by broadening the base of the present Saigon and curbing the arbitrary use of police Powers and censor the most distinctive legacy of the diem period May have been the suppression of the new National leadership that might have but did Over his decade of if the present ruling group is All that is allowed to compete with the the Viet Cong would certainly dominate the secure a lasting Settle ment of the War would be extremely difficult unless All parties Are secure i the knowledge that free elections open to All would ultimately be and that those who won them would take Confidence will depend on the Structure of government Between the end of hostilities and elections perhaps a prolonged certainly one in which the rights of All major political elements must be protected by any negotiated would not be enough suspicion and fear Are now too deeply in the communists would fear a takeover by the just As we might fear a communist during the interim period Between the end of hostilities and it will be necessary to establish a ruling Structure in which both have there Are Many possible ways of achieving it May be desirable to formulate a series of inter National agreed upon by the major Powers As Well As by the combat perhaps by establish ing an International Force supervise the political pro Cess and ensure against efforts to mount a this might be accomplished through an expanded and strengthened International control by the United or by agreement of the interested to the extent the South vietnamese share in this interim administration it will be As i have said for All import ant elements in the country to have a share of Power and the de tails of an exact formula must await actual Neotia the important thing is that it provide enforceable and unbreakable guarantees against fraudulent elections and any by either to take Power without or despite the hatred filled we face an obdurate fired with hatred for the foreigner however bar the great resources of the soviet u n i with the masses of China looming our own vast re and even the great bravery of our Are Able Only to Avert military yet they do not preserve us As we for involvement and danger mount with every new elsewhere the world goes on increasingly apart from and events of great moment pass us at Home we Are beset with dangers we hardly under As political leaders speak of our streets in a vocabulary Learned from this faraway but we Are not trapped and we Are not we need not and cannot allow the decisions of others or the of an inscrutable Fate to pull us blindly nothing in our position is More danger Ous than the often heard statement that the future is All in the hands of our such fatalism is the worst surrender of the truth is that there is much we can do not so much in fou Point or five Point but begin Ning with a change in we must recognize that the struggle in the South is just that a struggle in the a reassessment would at the to the question of the Saigon government ensuring its broadening to include now unrepresented elements of the South vietnamese such As Buddhist labor and civilian political with such an we would work to end harassment by the military and secret and restore the Village and Hamlet democracy that has been this pro Cess would begin by ending the system of Saigon appointment of District and province chiefs which is Central to the network of corruption and mis govern ment in the Countryside ensuring that these officials Are locally elected and responsible to the rather than to the senior military commander in the serious Reform recognition of the wars real character would also ensure attention to a serious program of social i have outlined one possible program for undoubtedly there Are As Well As programs to improve the Village Cut Down on ease the condition of millions of and make life in the cities More than a daily struggle against inflation and this is not just a matter of spending a few More billion it is primarily a matter of Justice and decency within vietnamese it May be asked whether Progress toward these objectives will not encounter Strong resentment from the military and social ruling of course it As it has in the but if these not Init there is neither Prospect of Success our nor Wisdom or Pur pose for our the worst danger of making this our War is that our stake in it becomes greater than that of the Saigon govern when the regime refuses we Are told that we cannot reduce our assistance because to do so would injure the War but it is and they must understand that Refus ing the necessary reforms will have direct and severe continued support of a government after this Long history and our patient still refuses is not pragmatic or Tough it is ideological and a sur Render of american inter ests to a government that without our support would not survive a during the diem period in 196163 we should have done far More than we did to move that government toward re certainly from that and the experience of the entire last we should have Learned our Reform Only Hope these reforms will be necessary whether or not negotiations take in Only real Progress in the be ginning at last to attract the support of the people and not greater destruction in the North offers a real Prospect of convincing our adversaries that an Early settlement is this would be especially True if All vietnamese elements could be induced to participate in local elections at of even Neutra lists Are barred from such such social and political if begun now and continued during Neotia might Well influence favourably the Quality of any ultimate recognition of the charac Ter of the War would also affect our military shifting its emphasis away from attacks on the North and combat by american toward greater Reli Ance on South vietnamese action in the this Means less concentration american s w e e p s and search and destroy mis and More on physical Protection of the densely populated areas near the coast and the Mekong if sweeps Are considered have military let them be carried out by South vietnamese a greater Burden of the military Effort at the demilitarized zone should be assumed by the Viet with american marines being gradually South v i e t n a m should have the total Nobil Iza Tion that they have so far refused to put into and should begin to draft the tens of thousands of eligible who up to the present time have been Able to avoid service in thus we could serve our stated while conserving and protecting american limiting further destruction of the South vietnamese people by and assuring real Security in the import ant areas of the country now under it is our in Money and on which the enemy relies for his Hope that we will grow lowering the wars Cost to a rile making Clear our intention of re is one sure Way of convincing our adversaries that we can and will remain until a satisfactory resold is we should demonstrate clearly that this is a South vietnamese struggle that we Are there to help but not to take Over the country or the War from the agony agony and inter limited nature of our goals and the formidable consequences of rising Combine to compel us to seek whatever new Initia Tives can resolve this conflict consistent with our and in our will prove unreasoning and obstinate and peace cannot come without negotiations in and of them selves Are not the answer but Only the Means to an failure to under stand what we wish to what is negotiable and what is can Lead to a damaging and dangerous termination of any discussions that might ensue from an end of the but we cannot allow ourselves to be swayed or by false fears of humiliation or false Hopes of we calmly and what will and Vance our own the peace and Security of the and the Benefit South above All we need the will for a peaceful settlement and once we go to we need the Wisdom persistence that will required to find a Satis factory we owe no less to our to our and to those whose land we both protect and in that the stakes Are High they Are the Home of the child in a Jungle the hunger of a Man driven his the life of a Young 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