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Griflin went to Paris on May 20 as a member of the Catholic Commission of Inquiry, an interdenominational group of antiwar clergy and laymen. He met with Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the PRG delegation, and with Xuan Thuy, head of the North Vietnamese delegation...
Hanoi, however, may well refuse to release American prisoners as long as any U.S. troops remain in Viet Nam. Last week the North Vietnamese delegate to the Paris peace talks, Xuan Thuy, invited negotiations on a fixed-date withdrawal of U.S. troops, suggesting that if the date is set, discussions on the release of prisoners may begin. The message, along with several others (see box, following page), was doubtless timed to support the demonstrators in the U.S. In effect, it was the same offer Hanoi made last year. Nixon replied at his press conference that he would...
...April 24 demonstration is being co-sponsored by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, which had been pressing for its own mass rally until a communique from Xuan Thuv. head of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, convinced them not to dilute the one scheduled mass march, but to appeal to as large a base as possible. But the People's Coalition (PCPJ) has not pushed the April 24 date, preferring to concentrate their energies on the two weeks which follow...
...reason why the operation stalled was that it took six days for General Hoang Xuan Lam, the ARVN commander, to get around to establishing a forward command post inside Laos, where the troops, the B-52s and the other elements could be coordinated. What is more, Lam's staff was riven by jealousies. Major General Le Nguyen Khang, who bosses South Viet Nam's elite Marines and holds a slight seniority edge over Lam, was so miffed when Lam was named to run the Laos operation that he retired to Saigon and turned his responsibilities over...
...People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), which had been organizing for a week of disruptive civil disobedience in Washington beginning with a militant mass demonstration on May 2, abandoned its scheduled date after receiving a request for unity within the American antiwar movement from Xuan Thuy, head of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks...