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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...
...minutes later Scott asked whether any of the group had ever met personally with Binh, and both Craven and Gregory indicated that they...
...Craven answered that PCPJ organizers had informed student groups in other countries of the proposed demonstrations. Pressed for elaboration, he added that Binh had also been told of the plans for the protest. Scott then leveled the charge that Craven and Gregory had discussed a possible kidnap with Binh-and had decided not to go through with it. At another point in the hearing, Scott said that his Senate office would no longer be open for lobbyists this week. He was not available for comment on the charges yesterday...
...Craven had opened the two-and-one-half hour hearing with a denunciation of U.S. involvement in Lacs, whose central area he said "has been destroyed by intensive bombing and the automotive battle field...
...Laser-guided bombing strikes are launched against the civilian areas of Laos." said Craven, a member of the U.S. student group which negotiated the People's Peace Treaty with North and South Vietnamese students in their native countries last year. He said that the U.S. was now using five, ten, and fifteen thousand ton bombs in Laos, "bombs that literally vibrate people to death even when they take refuge in caves and tunnels...