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American Friends Service Committee — Part 23
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RELATED’ TO that
viewpoint, she said, is a‘ -
Teluctance of the North Viet-
” patnese and NLF delegates to
have faith in negotiations
because of the invasion of
Cambodia last April-and the .
U.S.-backed South Vietnamese |
invasion of Laos only a woek -
before Mrs, Christopher and
the peace delezation arrived .
Paris.
The prisoner of way issue,
a Christopher added,
quoting Xuan Thuy, will also
de} resolved once there is a
cecsefire and withdrawal of
Arienican troops, st
. interested,
lame
oe This eet
oom TANTS OF Wat ae.
razed during a conflict...
s0esn't. happen ‘until the
canting has stopped,” she
TY tS IN more defined
“aspects of the war, however,
that the %-year-old mother of
two young sons is most
At a woman, she
concerned about the effect the
conflict has had on Asian
-..Wwomen and their families. .
“We, learned bow rampant
_.. Prostitution has become since
War bepan, how the
4”: family unit has been uprooted
"and how women have had to
~- become combatants as the |
@ore drained.”
= r °
. 7 r «
w ‘the: 'V. Me. -
explained.
“The. North vachies. .
delegations understang Ow -
position as blacks and our ee
istory in America. That aan
, Made vs even more aware Of
how necessary it is for us as
. blacks
_ Cessation of this war so that
to, bring about @
, Our brothers can stay here to cane bee
. Sight against oppression in -
“America.” :
’ “More convinced now ut
peace groups must
harder in America in efforts
to halt the war, a
* Mrs. Christopher blames the’
_ talks;
“general sluggishness in’ the
peace talks to a failure of the.
parties to apree on ga basis for
“One = §Toup
‘| negoliate first for a ceasefire,
Manpower poo] is more and.
AS a black person, she is
_ believes is the “futility of
- any
’-: Christopher,
other black delezates — six
men,
*<ineluding Muhammed. ~
- tan’t .
* want to.” She vows her sons,* —
black young men fighting In'a
war for a country where they
a house where they
eoncerned aboul what she
the oldest 9 years old, will not |
. fight in. the war for that
“DURING ont. of the fee.
in *Paris,:
along ‘with 13.
women and . eight
Kenyatta = formed a black
Mrs ates
Caucus as & Sub-group of the -
i, delegation.
“We dormed the canes.
“Pecauso we could see
paraliels in certain xinds af
the other side says a ceasefi
first, then negotiate.
what's holding things up.”
” Bur THE WHOLE thing.®
"she added, “ls that the: war a
"meanwhile is dragging on and
on, more and more people ate
. 48 spending billions of dollars
- for killing over there whan it
‘could be spending % for’
being killed, the United States. ©. 3
eS ‘purposes: over ~ .
“The big explanation ig that
’ Vietnam to ‘protect South
Victnam from North Vietnam,
Well, that's lke hitting « .
“person with your car. so that. - 7
‘the car behind your's wont _ OR:
- .. bit the person first, -: ts
“But what's the diferer- mo .
The ane, berson'a: dGosd in. ,
-. we have to Keep fighting in mein
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