Sunday, May 14, 1972
Senate To Act On Viet Terms
WASHINGTON (UPI) --The Senate set a key vote for Tuesday on President Nixon's new Vietnam peace terms amid fresh rumblings of congressional discontent over the administration's war policies.The issue is whether a crease-fire throughout Indochina should be a condition for total U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. Nixon said Monday night, when he announced the mining of North Vietnam's harbors, that the United States would withdraw four months after all U.S. prisoners were released and an internationally supervised cease-fire declared in Indochina.Sens. Clifford P. Case, R-N.J., and Frank Church, D-Idaho, have offered the Senate an amendment that would cut off Indochina war funds in accordance with the President's timetable, but they promised to fight an amendment by Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., to make a cease-fire a condition."If the North Vietnamese do not accept a cease-fire, then the President will have an implicit congressional endorsement to continue indefinitely American participation in the war," they told their colleagues in urging defeat of the Byrd amendment.The vote probably will be close."Senate To Act on Viet Terms", by (UPI) published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Sunday, May 14, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.