Friday, May 19, 1972
N. Viets 'Anguished' Over Visit - Berrigan
PARIS (UPI) --The Rev. Daniel Berrigan said Wednesday after a meeting with the North Vietnamese peace talks delegation that Hanoi was intensely worried by the possible results of President Nixon's trip to Moscow May 21.Berrigan, currently on parole for his part in burning draft records at Catonsville, Md., in 1968, said he met for six hours with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong foreign minister, and then Nguyen Minh Vy, Hanoi's deputy negotiator at the talks."They are as troubled as we are that Moscow is still receiving Nixon," Father Berrigan told a news conference."I think they are waiting and hoping -but worried, intensely worried," he said."They are very conscious of the diplomatic victories of Nixon recently both in China and Russia. They are conscious that in spite of the bombing on the Chinese border and the danger to Russian ships, there is silence from the (Communist) great powers," he said."There is a sense of great anguish and waiting on the Nixon visit" on the part of the North Vietnamese government, he said."N. Viets 'Anguished' Over Visit - Berrigan", by (UPI), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes Friday, May 19, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.