EXTENSIONS of REMARKS 3289 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS SUPPORT for the NIXON PEACE End Its War with the DRV
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February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3289 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SUPPORT FOR THE NIXON PEACE end its war with the DRV. Now, at the Paris person-to-person communication can PLAN COULD FOSTER AN END TO forums, the U.S. Ipay be able to end a similar contribute so much to the cause of world war. The Nixon-Kissinger proposal recog peace and understanding. A TERRIBLE WAR nizes that determination of Vietnam's politi cal future-indeed, the future of all Indo I congratulate Youth For Understand Ohlna-must be left to the dynamics of in ing on reaching this milestone and would HON. HOWARD W. ROBISON ternal politics and forces there. And by ex like to share with my colleagues the fol OF NEW YORK pressing its willingness to separate political lowing letter from a YFU participant in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES settlement considerations from military Maryland's Eighth District-a fine testi ones, the American position gains important mony to the worthiness of such pro Monday, February 7, 1972 room for m.aneuver, as Hanoi denounces the grams. proposed electoral scenario. Mr. ROBISON of New York. Mr. The beauty of these eight points, and of The letter follows: Speaker, I have previously expressed the Viet Cong's July, 1971, seven points, ls BETHESDA, MD. January 29, 1972. here my support for President Nixon's that while to each side their substance may The Honorable GILBERT GUDE, new peace initiatives, calling the plan he not be negotiable, there ls considerable Cannon House Office Building, announced on January 25 both construc chance for the U.S. and Hanoi to reach agree Washington, D.O. tive and encouraging, and calling for as ment about those points most directly aimed Sm: Two years ago, during the summer of broad a base of public support for that at ending the present war. In so doing, the 1970, I was very fortunate in being able to plan as is possible under the circum basis for ending the war is at last separated participate in the Youth for Understanding from the basis for a political settlement. The program. For two months, I lived with Herr stances. counsel of Henry Kissinger, in his famous Doktor Guller and his family in a small vil I have since noted-in today's issue of Foreign Affairs article of January, 1969, that lage about halfway between Bern and Thun the Christian Science Monitor-a similar "Cease-fire is thus not so much a step toward in Switzerland. c·all for public support for that plan, this a final settlement as a form of it" is now The first feeling that struck me was the one coming from Prof. Allan E. Good revers-ed, and rightly so. amazing amount of effort made by the YFU man, chairman of the department of In Vietnam, of course, the term "postwar committee in Switzerland towards making government and international relations period" has never been used as a synonym sure the summer was a success. The selection at Clark University, in Worcester, Mass. for peace for political struggle. Over the past of homes was excellent, as were the orienta few years, political leaders and forces there tion meetings and small excursions that the Professor Goodman's column or com have become disillusioned with the war; it committee organized. mentary is being set forth here in full, has grown too big and too costly to maintain My particular family was perfect. With five but it is worth noting therefrom his as one Vietnamese congressman suggested children ranging in age from 16 to 27, I had thought that public support for the Pres to me in an interview: "Only the U.S. could a great opportunity to learn about Switzer ident's plan "could foster an end to a afford the Vietnam war, and if your gov land form many different levels. My family terrible war," and that he connects that ernment thinks it can continue the war by took me on many small trips to nearby cities ending just as I always have with a ter proxy it will soon learn that we South Viet including Interlaken, Murren, and Luzern in mination of hostilities not just for us, as namese can neither afford the war nor Vlet addition to the trips to Bern and Thun that namiza.tlon. Our only hope lies in our abllity I was permitted to take on my own, and thus the proponents of unilateral withdrawal to compete politically with the Viet Cong I was able to see and explore a good pa.rt would have it, but for all the Indochina after the war." of Switzerland. The most important aspect people. In addition to this, Professor Support for the new U.S. proposal, at home of my stay, however, was the feeling of being Goodman applauds, as I have, the Presi and abroad, and for a positive response from a regular member of the family that the dent's willingness to separate the mili Hanoi, could foster an end to a terrible war. Gullers gave me. By going to the same school, tary from the political issues involved in This ls what the President asked for. If it doing the came chores, and enjoying the a true settlement and, then, through use could end or reduce the suffering of the Indo same recreation as a Swiss 16 year old might, of the words of a South Vietnamese con China people, then the long voyage home and I believe I received an unusual insight into the decade of Vietnam would at last be the country that I don't think I could have gressman, helps · us to understand in a over. obtained by just traveling on a tour. The way I have not seen put before why, even proof of this, I feel, is that Switzerland is if this were the President's intent no longer merely another nation in Europe which I do not believe is the case-we to me. Instead, it is almost a second home. could not continue the war by proxy so THE YOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING I believe my stay in Switzerland did a that a politicial settlement, negotiated in great deal for me, and I think the experience STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM would be equally worthwhile to many other the main between the North and the high school youth. I would like to thank South, is the only answer. On the basis you for your efforts in giving Youth for of today's news, though still fragmen HON. GILBERT GUDE Understanding the recognition it deserves. tary, we may be moving at last in that OF MARYLAND Yours truly, direction, too. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CAREY HECKMAN, Professor Goodman's commentary follows: Wednesday, February 2, 1972 ASPIN SCORES AUTO COMPANIES PRICE OF PEACE IN VIETNAM: YEAS Mr. GUDE. Mr. Speaker, I would like (By Allan E. Goodman) to take this opportunity to join my col President Nixon's peace plan hastens the leagues who participated in the special HON. LES ASPIN end of American military involvement in order commending the youth for under OF WISCONSIN standing teenage student exchange pro the Vietnam war and the prospect of a lower IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES level of conflict throughout Inda-China gram, and extend my hearty congratu thereafter. The long voyage home for all lations to this program on the occasion Monday, February 7, 1972 American troops, set in motion in 1968 of its 20th anniversary. through the Vietnamization program, and Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, the automo sped along by the new role in policymaking Teenage student exchange represents bile companies today are seeking to delay of the National Security Council, is nearer an outstanding venture in international implementation of the 90-percent reduc to an end. And the United States has come cooperation, with unlimited opportuni tion of pollutants emitted from cars closer to behaving not as an ally of a be ties for both the student and host family scheduled to go into effect in 1975. I be sieged government but as a principal bellig to gain a special understanding of for lieve that the auto companies are play erent. The Nixon-Kissinger proposal at least eign cultures, family and community life. ing the same game with auto exhaust articulates, as did the limited final declara Youth For Understanding, now celebrat pollution control that they played with tion of the Geneva Conference of 1954, the ing its 20th anniversary, offers four dif limits of American ability to shape future auto safety. The name of the game is at political developments in Indo-China. ferent opportunities for American stu trition and delay. Operating on the old There was no consensus among the great dents to live abroad, as well as programs theory that to slow something down is powers in Geneva then about the political for American families to host foreign t.o kill it, the automobile companies hope, future of Vietnam. There is even less con students. Such exchange is particularly little by little, to destroy this important sensus now. At Geneva, France was able to relevant in today's world where such provision of the law. 3290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 As my colleagues know, the Clean Air Numismatists and other citizens who Indian troops unquestionably has at Act Amendments of 1970 which this have paid the Bureau of the Mint $3 for tributed to the comparatively stable House passed requires that both domestic uncirculated Eisenhower dollars con situation there. As of today there is no and foreign manufacturers reduce auto taining 40 percent silver or $10 for proof indication when, or even if, these Indian emissions by 90 percent by 1975, unless coins of the same composition, and were forces will be withdrawn.