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' i A : a en eT 1 oe met stn Pie ete We Bae Uhowrs Cipzing in Snore Belew) ‘nounced et a “futile effort” yes- toured Southcas: Asia. Bronson P. Clark, who meéc! Americen Friends Service Com- mittee, reported to @ session of, their Arch Street Meeting) House, 4th and Arch sts, j ‘Talk of victory is # “myth that) is deluding Ar 2” i was charged by the Quaker observer.| “Our hoped-for victory would rethi 5 m? td, for our pol an only Gestay the country 'qithout” winning the Viel- aamese,” Clerk declared, ‘kvinning As a “Myth? “We are noi defending South Vietnam bui are in a massive {military effort to impose a pov- sernment of our choice upos It,” ‘ne added. 4 itary, while the mili- tary view the war in terms of another five years snd cnother} tuillion men, at the minimum,’ he continued is a myth that we are winning. Eighty percent | tof the countryside is stil] in con- tro! of Viet Cong, known there; 2s the National Liberetion Front. “The so-called pacification of the natives is another myth being fed to the American peo- {to live in barbed-wire protected areas, and only venture out in armed strength” = . 3A Police State” terdey by a Quaker who recently is encoure feating Nori Vietnam” to one Saigon leaders to themselves negotiate with the; the two-month trp for theiterms. the 257th Yearly Meeting of the; Kore leThe word “nega ict Cong end set their own) “Instead of this, ovr policy; ras 10 be bi on thet of) ing the coun- continued. ion,” 60 fre- y the administra- tion in the U. S. is almost un- known or unraentioned there. “There is no free press, 43,000 political prisoners, the Buddhist: th: ly crush: semb]y screcned to keep out not only .communisis but also neu tralists, and free-thinking intel lectuals, including college pro-, fessors, are closely watched. | “Our military achievements have thus far been the leveling of Villages, forests and rubbei pl a cevsing rice) z ie cities) “ith refugees and wire] injured wetims, many with burns @ amputations.” Team if-Quang Ngal Clark reported especially on ‘the city of Quang Ngai and the! work there of an American Friends Service tcam of ten na- tives and five Americens. The; Americans include John Pixton,! history professor on leave fram the Ogontz Center of Pennsyl- vania State University, and, Iple, The American troops have! Keith Brinton, of George School,! Newtown, Bucks county. Clark resigned in January as an executive of an electronics firm at Oberlin, Ohio, to join the Clark called the possibility of egotiations also a myth, unless American Friends Service Com-| mittee, He recently moved to the U. S. shifts its policy from| Germantown. The*Friends Yezrly Meeting, hich numbers $2 local meetings: With 18,000 members, will con- finue through Wednesday. tral Judge Albert B. niatis, ti Lansdowne, is presiding cleri * | Vietnam War ‘Futiic Etfert/y Duaker Observer Cliarges 3 . The war in Vietnam wes de. “winning something” and ‘'de- 1 si -16- (indicote page, name of newspope:, City end stote 3/25/67 Suncay Dian 5.