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American Friends Service Committee — Part 17
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the Phoenix represénved & reaizious noney raclent, dizect-
action project attenrtine to reieve suffer: ing, create
positive’ human commuricetion, pend protest the "United
States war policy in Vietnam."
ZIETLOW said the North Vietnamese, too, did not want
_ the Phoenix to enter Haiphong harbor.
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The North Vietnamese Red Cross had cabled us come
they appreciated our concern and effort, but don't come
ZIETIOW said. The North Vietnamese sent them a telegram
saying "Strongly Advise Do Not, Repeat Do Not" sail into
the Gulf of Tonkin, because U. *s. bombing of the area was
too intense for safety, ZIETLOW said. He spént three weeks
convincing the Vietnamese that the ship should enter Haiphong
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ZIETIOW, who spent three years working for the “Buffalo,
N. Y., Council of churches, and oné year with the National
Council of Churches, said he came away from North Vietnam
convinced that the only way the war can be stopped is if
the United States ceases bombing the North. He said he -
talked with Foreign Minister Nguyen Dui Thrinh, as well as
dozens of ether North Vietnamese.
Further, he noted, the North Vietnamese do not consider
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the fello wing | three ‘points, a5 negotiable:
oO =-Thay do not accept and will not accept the idea
of &@ permanently divided Vietnam.
' o-fhey insist that Communists must be allowed to par-
ttetpate in, although not dominate, South Vietnamese govern-
mental processes,
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‘remain on any Vietnamese
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UY. S&S, military bases shall
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soil - North or South,
-ZIETLOW said that upon his return from Nerth Vietnan,
. he conferred with five members of the U. S. Senate Foreign
- Relations Committee, Who told hii President JOHNSON's
policy is to demand “each of the above items which the North
Vietnamese say they cannot accept, .
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