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~ * Pe edn at ne ; ! j ; : . - HO OI ome sented a cone sipretiee ey mens. «ane! 1 t | | -t "-- ""r:ende Journal," Philadeiphie, Pa., DPecexper et “silty reite FSS enc €86, carried an article carticned, trotkire bits the Enemy," by ROSS FLANAGAN, which revealed that BRONSOe CLARK, RUSSELL JOHNSON, and ROSS FLANAGAN, all cf the AFSC, in September 1967 participated in a week-long conference in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, with the Czechoslovakia: Peace Committee as host. The meetings, arranged by DAVID DELLINGER, editor of Liberation, brought together 41] Americans generally representative of the "New Left" with eight members of the Democratic Republie of Vietnam. The conference sessions were largely devoted to the presentation of formal statements, professions of mutual admiration, ang the enumeration and exchange of questions for further discussion. The NLF placed major emphasis in its statement on the historical development of the Front's struggle for independence and the quality.of life in its "liberated zones," while the North Vietnamese focused their presentation erouné their country's extensive and imaginative arrangements to cope with stepped-up American bombing. The American delegaticn presented an assessment of the effects (political, Bociai, and economic) of the war in the United States and an explanation of the role of various constituencies active in the anti-war movement. ——_ tm ee ee nen . . H -17-