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American Friends Service Committee — Part 23

128 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: May 15, 1972 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: American Friends Service Committee · 128 pages OCR'd
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PI 0 og erat ening PH. eee UE i es ee . OY GA a ney Mf tae lhe <tr tin jan be hedanppeyete ES ae: late at, Noe eerie + se ee : -* , 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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