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Citizens Conference on Ending the War in Indochina: Pebruary 25, 1971 News Release - 2 Meatings are also being arranged with representatives of the Natfonal untted Front of Cambodia, the Laotian Student Union and various independent south vietna= wese groups opposed to the war (including puddhists, Catholics, studente and groups supporting dissident members of the Saigon Administration's National Assembly.) br. Allan arick, national program director of the FOR, said that in uddition to meting with official government representatives at the peace talks "we are anxious to learn a great deal more about the recent upsurge of civilian resistance to the war in the large cities of South Vietnam, We want to reach a better under~ standing of what the Vietnamese people themselves are struggling for." The Rev. Richard Fernandez, director of CALC, indicated that “the conference will come at an extremely propitious moment given the United States second invasion of a sovereign country (Laos) in less than eleven months. Mr, Melvin Laird," the clergyman continued, "has told us that the invasion of Laos doesn't represent @ widening of the war -=- we are interested to see what both Asians and Europeans see in this new move," 6+