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et 4 ee ee ee ae wee [Le eeeemananmmeet dideat + QUATER ACTION GROUr a . . - i -- ' photograph of CARL ZIETIOW, which ertizle etnted in post gc Fubtel: - - ; as One year ago yesterday the vililaze cr Phu Xa, population 250, was bombed by American pianes. ' Twenty-five persons, a dozen of them children, were kilied, and 24 persons, again a dozen of them children, were wounded, These statistics were revealed yesterday by CARL ~° ZIETIOW, a 36-year-old father of three and a resident of Chicago who recently returned from North Vietnam. ZIETIOW, who arranged for the Quaker relief snip, Phoenix, to de- liver medical supplies to the North Vietnamese last March, was speaking at a news conference at the First Church of the Brethren prior to a "Rice and Tea" meal sponsored by Vietnam Summer. ~ "Te official from Phu’ Xa who took us around gave us a souvenir from the village - an anti-personnel bomb." ZIETIOW if shown above holding the bomb, which he thinks was manufactured in or near York. “The bombs, “said ZIETIOW, are not designed to damage mechanical equipment, or nouses, or crops, Their prime purpose is "to kill," he said, ‘and they are "very effective. "Hundreds of towns like Phu Xa have been destroyed by United States bombs ," ‘ZIETIOW said he was told by European observers there. . . - @TETLOW was in North Vietnam from Maren 25 to April 5 of this year, he said, to arrange for the arfival of _ the Phoenix, a 50-Toot sailing yacht manned by eight crew- ° wen. He said he had to spénd three weeks in nearby Cambodia arranging the boat's arrival in North Vietnam with North Vietnamese diplomatic representatives, .? + tem, sa fs we ~ ws Pa = ee See ~s The Americans told us along that they would not al walidate our passports, and vould revoke them upon our return, which they've done. They told us it was trading ~~ with the enemy end that they would prosecute us," ZIETIOW said. 7 The Phoenix carried $10, 000 in medical supplies, mostiy antiviotics, contributed by Quakers throughout the world. we i ee ee ce ee ne . a