‘New Peace Plan of PRG

How to end the war now

Peace could come to Vietnam
tomorrow if the United’ States
Would accept the latest propos-
als put forward at the Paris
Peace talks by Nguyen Thi Binh,
oreign minister of the Provision-
al Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam.

€se proposals are elabora-

tions on the 10-point peace plan .

advanced by the Provisional
Revolutionary Government on
May 8, 1969.

They completely undermine

the excuses the U.S. representa-

lives have been using over these
last 16 months for not getting
Own to honest negotiations.

‘i Briefly summarized the posi-
10ns advanced by Mrs. Binh on
behalf of her government are as
follows: :

1. A declaration by the United
tates that it. will withdraw all

‘S. troops and materiel from
South Vietnam by June 30, 1971.
If the United States declares its
intention of doing this, then the
atmies of the Provisional Revolu-
tionary government will refrain
from attacks.

2. Formation in Saigon of an
administration devoted to peace,
jependence, neutrality, wel-
are and democracy, excluding
Only President Thieu, Vice-
President Ky, and Prime Minister

iem,

3. Negotiations between such
4 Saigon administration and the
RG for the formation of a pro-
Visional government. This would
Mclude representatives of the
aigon administration, the Pro-
Visional Revolutionary Govern-
Ment, and of other political bod-
1€s and religious institutions.

4. Following the restoration of
Peace this newly set-up provi-
Slonal government would organ-
Ze democratic elections, to

choose a national assembly and
t0 work out a democratic consti-
Ution,
_ Nixon, who has been pretend-
ng he wants to withdraw from
leétnam has constantly argued
that any “rapid” withdrawal
Would jeave “American boys”
€xposed to attack.

Now the real government of
the Vietnamese people has made
't clear that if the United States
Will pledge to get out by next
June 30, their troop withdrawals
Will not be subject to attack.

Nixon and his friends have

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dian independence”.

TTL

_ OUTNOW
added support

Top officers of the Quebec
labor movement have joined
the growing number of peo-
ple prominent in the public
lite of the country who have
signed the OUTNOW petition.

The new endorsers are:
Marcel Pepin, president of the
Confederation of National
Trade Unions; Fernand
Daoust, secretary-treasurer of
the Quebec Federation of La-
bor (CLC), and Raymond La-
liberté, immediate past presi-
dent of the Corporation of
Quebec Teachers. :

Also endorsing the petition
which calls on President Nix-
on to stop the war and get
out of Indochina, is the well-
known Canadian author Far-
ley Mowat.

MARCH AND RALLY OCT. 31

A mass march and rally to end the Vietnam War will take
Place in Toronto on October 31.

This was decided at a conference called by the Vietnam
Mobilization Committee on Sept. 26, at which representatives
of all sections of the Toronto peace movement were present, to-
gether with delegates from a number of other Ontario centres,
where similar actions are also planned.

The demonstration will take place under the slogans: “With-
draw U.S. Troops Now--Out of Indochina” and “Assert Cana-
dian Independence—End Canada’s Complicity.”

George Addison, Executive Secretary of the VMC stressed the
importance of attracting participation in the demonstration, on
the basis of these slogans, of other groups engaged in activi-
ties on a variety of democratic issues—such as the fight against
inflation and unemployment resulting from the war, opposition
to the Americanization of Canadian universities, as well as of
those engaged in the struggle for women’s liberation.

Phyllis Clarke, a member of the executive of the VMC stress-
ed the importance of the peace forces in Canada not only de-
Manding that the U.S. get out of Vietnam, but fighting strongly
for an independent Canadian foreign policy. This fight, she
Pointed out, had been strengthened by including as one of the
central slogans of the upcoming demonstration “Assert Cana-

Edward Broadbent, NDP Member of Parliament for Oshawa-
Whitby told the Conference that the Vietnam war is not a result
of “an international Communist conspiracy,” but is a war of
liberation and social! revolution.

Trying to hold back this revolution, he declared, the United
States has spent $100 billion, killed thousands of Vietnamese,
ruined the land and squandered the lives of its own young men.

LTTE ECC ULUUULLLLLL Ds

kicked up a great fuss about
how they will “never” allow a
government to be “imposed” on
South Vietnam unacceptable to
its people—as if they haven't
been imposing just such govern-
ments for the last 15 years!

But now the Provisional Revo-
lutionary Government has made
even clearer its willingness to
work towards a new provisional
government which could contain
many of those now in the ad-
‘ministration in Saigon. The only
stipulation they make is that the
three most notorious U.S. pup-
pets and butchers must be ex-
cluded.

So now the U.S. negotiating
team in Paris, and the Nixon ad-
ministration in Washington are
squarely on the spot. At first, all
that the new head of the U.S.
team, David K. Bruce (widely
proclaimed as a top-flight diplo-
mat), could think of to say was
that Mrs. Binh’s offer was “old
wine in new bottles.” Now the
Nixon brain trusters are scratch-
ing around for new excuses.

It is going to be harder than
ever to get away with such eva-
sions, as the demand of the
world’s people for the total and
unconditional withdrawal of
U.S. troops — the demand con-
tained in the Outnow petition—
grows to ever greater heights.

»

Time, GE to produce
Yankee texts here

TORONTO—Recent press re-
ports indicate that General
Learning Corp. of Morristown,
N.J., has set up a subsidiary
here to produce text books
and other educational materi-
als for Canadian schools.

GLC isn’t just another book
company seeking to capture a
corner of the Canadian school
book market, while it subverts
our national heritage with
Yankee-biased texts.

The company is jointly own-
ed by Time Inc., publishers of
TIME magazine, and the Gen-
eral Electric Co., two U.S. cor-
porate giants, and its activi-
ties extend well beyond con-
ventional text book publishing
into multi-media techniques,
school administration and
planning and community-
school relations.

Gallop poll registers
support for wars end

A clear majority of the people
of the United States now believe
that their government should set
a firm date for getting out of
Vietnam.

The Hatfield - McGovern plan
recently narrowly defeated in
the Senate has the support of
55% of the population according
to the Gallup Poll. This plan
called for an end to troop in-
volvement in Vietnam by the
end of 1971. (The Provisional
Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam is now asking
that all troops be out by June
30, 1971.)

Only 36% expressed themsel-
ves as being against withdrawal
by the end of 1971.

Significant was the unusual
divergence of opinion between
men and women. Whereas the
men were almost evenly divided,
46% for withdrawal by the end
of next year, and 45% opposed,
the women were 64% in favor
and 27% opposed.

No breakdown was provided
according to class structure, but
it is noteworthy that whereas
people with a college education
were only in favor of the Hat-
field-McGovern plan 47% to
45%, those with high school edu-
cation favored it 57% to 35%,
and those with only public school

education were in support 61%.

to 27%.

All parts of the country, and
Republicans as well as Demo-
crats supported the idea of a
firm date for withdrawal.

Since the establishment of
such a date has been firmly re-
sisted by Nixon and Defense
Minister Laird, this poll calls
into question. seriously their
claim that their continued ag-
gression has the support either
of the working class, the people
away from the eastern seaboard,
or even the Republican party
itself.

Labor leaders

With Congressional elections
coming up in November, strenu-
ous efforts are being put forward
to convert such sentiment into a
more peace-minded Congress.

The broadly-based Coalition
for a Responsible Congress last
week published a full-page ad-
vertisement in the New York

‘Times announcing that five im-

portant labor leaders “will be
with us on October 3 when we
launch a nation-wide drive to

- elect anti-war Senators and Con-

gressmen.”

These leaders are: Leonard
Woodcock, President of the
United Auto ‘Workers; Jerry
Wurf, President of the American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Workers; Patrick Gor-
man, General. Secretary of the
Amalgamated Meatcutters and
Butcher Workmen; Emil Mazey,
General Secretary of the United
Auto Workers; Frank Rosen-
blum, General Secretary and
Treasurer of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers.

Concerned officers

Nixon’s “great silent majority”
was breaking down this week in
another and unexpected place.
The New York Times for Sept.
27 carried a story announcing
that 28 commissioned officers of
the Army, Air Force, Navy and
Marine Corps have announced
their intention to speak out
against the Vietnam war. They
represent about 250 others on
active duty at bases from Ice-
land to Hawaii who have organ-
ized the Concerned Officers
Movement. ;

Lieutenant Louis Font, 24-year
honor graduate of West Point
speaking to the news conference
said:

“I am many things before a
military officer. I am an Amer-
ican citizen. I am a human being.
As a human being, as an Amer-
ican citizen and as a military
officer, I reject this war.

“I personally refuse to parti-
cipate in the’ Vietnam war. I
simply will not go!”

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