Peace Agreement

5000 participated in a candlelight march to the Whitehouse on Sunday night, January 26, to protest further U.S. military and economic aid to Indochina. The march was part of the three day Assembly to Save the Peace Agreement, organized by the Coalition to Stop Funding the War and the United Campaign for Peace in Indo china. 300 Ohio delegates joined 2000 anti-war activists from Vietnam, Sweden, France, Canada, Italy, Ireland and West Germany, as well as the United States, at Georgetown University in WashIngton, D.C.

American, Vietnamese and other international speakers addressed the full assembly, plenary cont, from paya A

would provide low-cost nutritious meals for expectant women. At present, women on welfare or with low incomes are not able to eat as they should, and consequently often give birth to underweight or unhealthy infants.

Think of it, sisters. As Elizabeth Fishel wrote in Childbirth: A Feminist View, "...suppose the American woman were to feel proud throughout her pregnancy, capable and dignified during delivery, joyful postpartum, and confident in raising her child – just imagine what power she would have then!"

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sessions and smaller groups in workshops. They told of the necessity for the implementation of the Paris Peace Accords and for the defeat of the $300 million supplemental aid-to-Vietnam ,and $220 million supplemental aid-to-Cambodia bills which are due for Congressional vote. These bills are termed "supplemental" because they are requests for money in addition to the $700 million already appropriated by the U.S. for fiscal year 1975 and already spent by Thieu and Lon Nol. Stress was laid on the fact that only U.S. economic assistance over $8.17 billion since 1973 -has allowed the Saigon and Phnom Penh regimes to exist. Leaders of both the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) and the Third

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Force (non-PRG South Vietnamese opposing the Thieu regime) agree that Thieu would never survive a democratic political settlement were U.S. aid withdrawn.

Three films graphically portrayed the effects of the war on the people, their lives and their land: "Year of the Tiger", from the first filmmakers to enter Vietnam after the U.S. bombing ceased; "Introduction to the Enemy", the recent Fonda-Hayden film by Haskell Wexler; and "Hearts and Minds", a newly released Warner Brothers feature length documentary depicting U.S. bombing and the military mentality.

Since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 1973, over 177,000 Indochinese people have lost their lives in the fighting, Assembly organizers said. According to the Senate Subcommit-

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tee on Refugees, 1.4 million refugees have been generated in South Vietnam alone since that time. Separated farmilies could be reunited if "resettlement" (concentration) camps were closed and if the more than 100,000 political prisoners were released from Thieu's U.S. funded jails. This is what our "economic aid" is going toward: the perpetuation of misery and torture.

The conference concluded at the New York Avenue Presbyterian (Gerald Ford's) Church with a convocation addressed by clergy and international visitors. Following the convocation, the candlelight march wove its way through La fayette Park, passed the Whitehouse, and closed with a brief rally of speeches and song. 3000 signed pledges promising they would return to Washington with five other people if the war in Indochina escalates.

It had been repeatedly stressed to the delegates that they continue to educate their communities and apply pressure to their representatives. Armed with the information received at the Assembly, nearly 800 lobbyists remained in Washington Monday to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the signing of the peace agreement by visiting their senators and congresspersons in an effort to persuade them to vote against the supplemental bills. Twenty members of the del. egation seized the office of Hubert Humphrey and occupied it for seven hours because he is attempting to legislate a "compromise acceptable to the administration."

Ohio's new Senator Glenn seems to need plenty of pressure from his constituants as he pleaded ignorance of the issues to those who visited his office. A rather noncommittal response was received from James Stanton, It is most important that these two men hear from us and soon: In hard, inflationary, out-ofwork times, NO MORE MONEY TO CORRUPT DICTATORS THIEU and LON NOLI

Sen. John Glenn 1203 Dirksen Bldg. Washington, DC 20510

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Cong James Stanton 1107 Longworth Bldg. Washington, DC 20515 (202)225-5871

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Educational materials, films, speakers, etc.: Cleveland Chapter Indochina Peace Campaign

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