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Several Foreign Relations Committee members took angry exception to the group's testimony and the hearing reached high pitch when Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) accused Craven and Gregory of having discussed with Nguyen Thi Binh, Chief NLF representative at the Paris negotiations, the possibility of "a kidnapping of public officials of the U.S." as part of next week's demonstrations...
Scott's charge was apparently prompted by testimony in which Gregory read from a letter by Binh which she said was dated April 19. The letter-which expressed support for the spring antiwar campaign-reiterated the NLF's willingness to negotiate an exchange of war prisoners and a safe withdrawal for American troops if the U.S. first set a "reasonable date" for a total military pullout. The NLF had originally made the proposal in Paris last December...
...minutes later Scott asked whether any of the group had ever met personally with Binh, and both Craven and Gregory indicated that they...
...discuss with Madam Binh the tactics to be used in this gathering?" Scott asked...
...treaty, which has been endorsed by Nguyen Thi Binh. chief negotiator for the National Liberation Front at the Paris Peace Talks, calls upon the U. S. to withdraw all American forces from South Vietnam, and to publicly set the date by which all American forces will be removed...