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~~ eal Conse oon Breda the War in Ladoch ini { ' , 160 Herth Fit uh ae sek . ny . : . * phil. ndalphia, Pennsy2 ja 19102 ) . Lo Sontact: Margaret ‘pacon-- {2 W 3-9372 Office - ' : : . 215) CH 2-179 Homo . | February 16, 1971 ; \ - FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1972,. One hundred and seventy Aucricans from hl states will leave frem New York's a Kennedy Airport on Murch 3 for a week-long conference with principals in the Paris talks and others. Their objective is finding out what the requisites for peace in Southeast Asia really are. “ The Citizens Conference on Ending the War in Indochina, - as the project is called, is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (arse), Clergy and Laymen Concemed (CALC) and the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FUR). "The conference will afford a large number of American citizens access to end thoughtful discussion with many persons long familiar with the Indochina struggle," explained Stewart Meacham, peace education secretary of the AFSC. “We hope that upon their returm to the United States, the participants will be new and creative interpreters, in their respective communities, of what they understand the requisites of peace to really be." Participants expect to meet with representatives of the Provisional Revolu-" tionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG, formerly the National Liberation Front), the Democratic Republic of Victnan (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (Saigon) and the U.S. Delegation. Meetings are also being arranged with representatives of the National United Front ‘of Canbodia, tho Laotian Student Union * and various independent ‘South Vieknunece groups oppoued to the war (including Buddhiots, Catholica, otudenmty and yvoupo supporting; dissident members of the Saigon Administration! a National Assembly.) vs =more= , ©