Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free press monday november3. 1969 mrs. Heather Ireland .346 Yale Avenue who recently received a Gold medal for the highest stand ing in the licentiate music examinations at the univer sity of Manitoba. Mrs. Ire land is an associate of the Koyal conservatory of Tor onto. Thieu urges heroism Saigon special tons at times near tears president Nguyen Van Thieu urged his countrymen Friday night to sacrifice and become self reliant so we can deserve to be called a heroic people deserving of the heroic traditions of our ances tors " speaking of radio and television on the eve of Vietnam s National Day or. Thieu made a passionate defence of his government s recent austerity measures which have been bitterly and widely attacked. He said Many people have keen living be cause of the War but he promised a new austerity in the Rich would make More sacrifices while the poor were protected. He gave a Stern lecture on the need for a balanced budget and control of the e Money subjects not close to the lives of the overwhelming majority of vietnamese. Typically or. Thieu waited a week after the new austerity taxes were announced to defend his government s action. The new taxes imposed on most imports including double or triple the Price of imported luxuries. They also have had a. .sharp., effect on Domestic prices Rose about 10 per cent last week. During the week criticism of or. Thieu and the has been bitter though it has calmed slightly in the last Day or two. The president obviously hoped to deflate his critics with Friday night s speech. Several vietnamese observers gave him High Marks for his Effort. Or. Thieu closed the speech with choked voice and tears in his eyes. He said that if the Day came when he found that i must do something that i believe is the right thing to save the country but which is opposed by the people then i will leave this he said he wanted to save the country not remain personally As its president. Emotion plays a big role in vietnamese p o 1 i t re s and or. Thieu did not spare it Friday night. Defending austerity he noted that even in the United states the american people have had to pay higher taxes and Many important projects had to be postponed because they have had to spend much Money to help us their sacrifices in manpower As Well As in mater Ial and financial resources have created an Adverse current of opinion in the . And pressures Are building up against the american administration but he said we will not let the enemy exploit the impatience of our instead or. Thieu recommended that South Vietnam assume an increasingly larger share of the War Burden and he predicted specifically that More . Troops would be withdrawn next year than this year. He said South Vietnam should do everything it possibly could for itself before we turn to our friends to ask for More Aid the rhetoric of self Reliance has been popular Here for some tune. Or. Thieu said South Vietnam had been living far beyond its Means spending "30 times More than can afford to on imports and allowing some people to live in luxury while peasants faced Many hardships he acknowledged that even if his economic measures hav their intended effect prices we continue to Rise 20 or 30 per cent a year which could be considered acceptable for a country at the president said ther would. Be More austerity Mea sures in the future. He Specif Cally mentioned higher taxes on trips abroad on Transfer capita abroad and High incomes. H said the government was considering exempting 1 o w a a i soldiers and civil servants from taxes. Or. Thieu did not mention the question of the legality of the hew taxes. They were impose by decree and May be illegal in terms of Vietnam s Constitution Thant s help United n a to o . United. States had indicated it will Welcome anything Secretary general u Thant can do to help break the deadlock in the Vietnam peace negotiations it. Was r Al i a b reported this week v Secretary William p. Rogers who was u Thant s guest at a luncheon Here on oct. 20 is understood to have made it Clear that the . Was not asking the Secretary general to. Undertake a new Mission. But if u Thant should move on his own initiative to. Inter Vene with Hanoi or. Rogers reportedly intimated the Nixon administration would readily accept his role. There also was1 a hint that any new proposals he might make would be treated differently from those in the. Past. This was a reference to u Thant s efforts undertaken at the request of president John son in 1964 to arrange talks with North Vietnam to Chi Minh the vietnamese finally agreed and the talks were tentatively scheduled to take place in. Rangoon. But Early in 1965 the United. States rejected them supposedly because of the Touchy South vietnamese Politi Cal situation. On the eve of or. Sloger s visit sen. Edmund Muskie had suggested that u Thant might undertake a. New Effort to promote a Vietnam settlement. Inquiries h Ere brought the res Ponse however that u Thant would move Only if he had a mandate from both sides. If. U Thant has any initiative in mind he also May have irritated. North Vietnam with a reply thursday to a correspondent s question about his Atti Ludeon with . Prisoners Chew Here. Through a spokesman u Thant said he feels that the government of North Vietnam ought to give Access to the americans detained there by an International humanitarian organization such As the league of red Cross Henrik Beer. The swedish president of the league of red Cross societies called on u Thant Here last week but the spokesman said he did not know whether they had specifically discussed the american prison ers. The spokesman acknowledged that u Thant s View has been known for some time to the government of North Vietnam. But he said u Thant declined to comment on questions whether he has been recently in touch with Hanoi. Within the last several weeks there also has been speculation that u Thant has been in Contact with the National liberation front or Viet Cong. The front made overtures to him in the e fall of 1967 about sending a representative to the United nations to talk with Dele Gates. A correspondent who sent a question to him was told that the Secretary general had no comment on any aspect of this this unusually emphatic res Ponse added to the speculation that contacts have recently taken place. Although Many channels Are open for u Thant to either North Vietnam or the Elf a Well informed asian Diplomat said thursday that he thought recent contacts May have been through Romania. U Thant and romanian for eign minister Corneliu Manescu Are known to have become warm friends As a result of or. Junescu s service As president of the general Assembly in 1967-68. Although or. Manescu returned to Bucharest earlier this month. Deputy foreign minister Mircea Malitza was Here until wednesday. Opening concert the opening concert of the season of the Good Neighbours club took place at . Sunday in the clubroom 185 King Street. Guests were the second mile club an Organiza Tion for elderly women and officers of the so Optimist club of Winnipeg. 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