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Citizens Conference vn Ending the War in Indochina : 160 North Fifteenth € -ect Philadelphia, Pennsyl -niw~ 19102 _ : . Cantacts Margaret Bacon--(215) LO: 349372 ¢ office can : . 7-(215) CH 2-179) Home February 16, 1971 . . ; Sons FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1971 ~~ n . . _ One hundred and seventy Americans from a states will leave fron New York's “Kemedy Aizport on March 3 for a week-long ‘conference with principals ‘in the : Paris talke and others. Tel objective is finding out what ‘the requisites for The te peace in Southeast “Asia really are. . .. The Citizens Conference on. Ending the War in indochinay as the project is price, Gomes. ‘(aisc), chess and ‘Laymen Concemed (catc) and the Fellowship. of Reconciliation (FoR). ealled, is sponsored by the’ erican Peiends. Se: _ “The ‘conference wilt afford a large number of American eitizens access to and thoughtful discussion with many persons long femiliar with the Indochina etrugzle," explained Stewart Meachan, peace education secretary of ‘the AFSC. "We hope that upon. their retum to the Urited States, the ‘participante will be . mew and creative interpreters, in their respective commmities, of what they : cy understand ‘the requisites ‘of peace to really be." ; . : ~ o Loe Participants expect to meet with representatives ‘of the Provisional Revolu- * tionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (Pre, formerly the ational \ i | . Liberation Front), the Democratic Republic of ‘Vietnan (orth Vietnam), the ‘ i ; Republic of Vietnam (Saigon) and the U:s. Delegation. coe a * noe - : “x - Meetings are aleo being arranged with representatives of the ational, : . United Front of Canbodia,” the Laotian ‘Student “Union ind various “Endependent , South Vietnamese’ groups opposed to the war (including Buddhists, Catholics, 7 : atudento and groups ‘supporting dissident, members of the Saigon Adninistration’ 8 t wo i Rational Assenbiy. » : rears ‘