Nixon dove plan shot down

MOVING TO PIERHEAD MEETING NIXON'S FRAUDULENT eight-point plan to end the Indo-China war yesterday met with an from diato, predictable and brusque response Radio Hanol, in a Vietnamese language broadcast said a ceasefire would mean the S Vietnamese people 'will have to accept another American puppet government in Saigon and at the same time the Laotian and Cambodian people would have to accept a new American colonialist policy.

If Nixon does not want to end the war, then American prisoners will not be allowed to go home and the prisoners list will become longer every day.' On the question of withdrawing US troops, the commentary said that it was Washington's aim to make the people believe that they NOXIN have good will in this matter, but actually the American viewpoint on a pull-out still contains pre-condition... the fact is that the US wants simultaneously to bring back troops to the US and maintain the Nguyen Van Thieu clique'.

Nixon's talk of free election under neutral supervision is no less devious. Although Thieu was prepared to resign, the machinery of government was in Thieu's hands.

The commentary added that Senate chairman • Mguyen Van Juyen who would administer the government in the month before the election 'was a servant of the Saigon government'.

The broadcast concluded by repeating the National Liberation Front's seven-point programme, which calls for a simultaneous withdrawal of troops by a fixed date with a release of prisoners and the replacement of the Thieu government by a government of 'National Concord'.

Having sent Henry Kissinger secretly to Peking and secured a diplomatic coup with Maoist bureaucrats, Nixon thought he could do the same with Hanoi, making him appear a dove during the US presidential campaign.

The failure of his secret diplomacy is obviously what led to the resumption of the barbaric air attacks on N Vietnam and the stepping up of the air war all over Indo• But the bombing's failure to stop the flow of men and supplies to the S only compounded the domestic political crisis.

White House officials admitted as much when they complained to reporters that the 'peace' plan was revealed because the 'public debate had become distorted'.

American workers-subject to Nixon's vicious freezing and unemployment — are becoming increasingly sceptical of Nixon's opaque electioneering schemes.

Gen William Westmoreland, US Army Chief of Staff, is presently in S Vietnam consulting with US and Vietnamese generals on how to keep the war going - while Nixon talks peace.

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