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American Friends Service Committee — Part 23
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RS. A, CHRISTOPHER
RELATED’ TO that
Mewpoint, she said) ig a”
Teluctance of the North Viet.”
" namese and NLF deicgates fo
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 delegation arrived
in Paris.
‘The prisoner of war issue,
Mys. Christopher added,
ating Xuan ‘Thuy, will is
be} resolved once there is
cecsehire and withdrawal
Arlencan troops, |. fa
Tf TS IN more defined
aspects of the war, however,
that the M-year-old mother of
two young sons is most ‘
.,- interested
“AS a woman, she is *
Concerned about the effect the
conflict has had on Asian
Women and their families...
:“We, learned bow rampant <
. Prostitution has become since
war beran, bow the
“+ family unit has been uprooted
and how women have had to
¢ combatants .as the,
manpower poo} is more and” the other side says a ce:
more drained.”
ae ee rion, he 1s
she
“Delieves is the “futility of
* fplack young men fighting In'a
‘war for a country where they
- tan’t buy a house where they
+ want to". She vows her sons, *
the oldest 8 years old, will not
+ Fear,
wt “DURING one. of ‘the first.
“Gays in ‘Paris, Mrs...
“Christopher, along ‘with 13
«Sight in the war for that --
have falth in negotiations . . .
other black delexates — six *
women and - eight men, ~
sincluding = Muhammed
Kenyatta = formed a black -
Guucus as & sub-Eroup of the:
3, delegation,
“ecauso we could see
parallels in certain kinds of
“we dormed: the caucus”
4eSOR C a
ww cthe: “V. ts
explained.”
of
* how necessary it is for for us as
. Blacks to, bring about «
cessation of’ this war so that
pay rowers can stay bere to chee
fight against oppression in
“America.” ° *
‘More convinced now oat
peace groups must
harder in America in elors,
to
Mrs.
Rene!
halt the war,
Christopher blames the
val sluzgishness in’ the
peace talks to a failure of the |
Pike ageree one basis for
talks; .“One group
negotiate first for a ceasefire,
first,
woai’s holding things up.”
” pur'THEe WHOLE thing!
“she
then negotiate.
added, “is that the: war
“meanwhile is dragging on and
‘On, more and more people ate
” being killed, the United States
4s spending billions of dollars
-for silting ‘over there when it
‘could be spending i for)
gonstructive “purposes - over”
Te.
“The big explanation is that
- we have to keep fighting in
‘Vietnam to ‘protect South
Vietnam from North Vietnam.
Well,
that's Hke hitting a
"Person with your car. so that. -
the car behind your’a won’
--bit the person first, . .
“But what's tho iierm:
‘The
ween rene. oad fe
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