Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 11-4-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 954. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/954 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Mostly Fair to News in Print: Partly Cloudy; You Can See It, Mild Wednesday Reread It, Keep It NIXON TELLS AMERICANS - Withdrawal Schedule Worked Out By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Against this background Nixon, after, reviewing the his- talks was entirely the fault of the enemy, and he specified (AP) President Nixon says WASHINGTON — he has tory of the war, focused his speech on turning the conflict how the war had nevertheless been scaled down on both sides. worked out with South Vietnam "an orderly scheduled time- over to the South Vietnamese, thus gradually disengaging table", for withdrawal of all U.S. ground combat troops from American ground combat forces until all can be brought As to the future, Nixon said: Vietnam but may have to revise it if Hanoi "significantly" home. "We have adopted a plan which we have worked out escalates the war. For this plan he asked support, particularly the support in cooperation with the South Vietnamese for the complete "I have chosen a plan for peace," Nixon told a national of "the great silent majority of my fellow Americans." withdrawal of all U.S. ground combat forces and their re- television audience Monday night, "t believe it will succeed. The speech, as White House officials noted, contained placement by South Vietnamese forces on an orderly sched- "If it does succeed, what the critics say now will not no spectacular new proposals, and his critics were quick to uled timetable . As South Vietnamese forces become matter. If it does not succeed, anything I say then will not jump on this point. Senator Albert Gore, D-Tenn., called stronger¦ , the rate of American withdrawal can become great- matter." for early hearings on the war by the Senate Foreign Rela- er.". - He disclosed he had undertaken several secret contacts tions Committee—hearings which had been deferred pending Nixon did not detail either the dates . in his timetable or with North Vietnam to try to break the stalemate in the the speech. the total of troops to be brought home. Administration offi- Paris peace talks. But Republican leaders and some Democrats hailed cials say the withdrawal rate will go up in 1970, and specula- These included a personal letter to the late Ho Chi Nixon's presentation as pointing the way toward peace. And tion is that pullbacks during the year may total 175,000 or Minh in which he urged "an early resolution of this tragic presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the more, if there are no upsets. war." But Ho replied, shortly before his death Sept. 3, with White House switchboard was jammed with calls praising (Continued on Page 2A, Column 2) a demand for settlement on his terms, and this initiative, speech. the ¦ ' like all the others, failed. Nixon said the failure to make any progress in the peace ' " ":' NIXON ' V THIEU AGREES WITH NIXON'S Speech Draws Predictable Rea ction VIET ADDRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- some Democrats, hailed Nixon's Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, in Saigon and Hanoi rather than as candid and frank. dent Nixon's Vietnam address report as candid and pointing Alan Cranston of California and in Washington." "The President has made a SAIGON 0PI — President Javits of most frank and forthright state- from the way towards peace. They Republican Jacob K. In Minneapolis, former Vice Nguyen Van Thien express- drew predictable reactions New York/ ment on Vietnam," said House ed total agreement today his . supporters and critics in urged Americans to write or "There is no choice now but President Hubert H. Humphrey GOp Leader Gerald R. Ford of with President Nixon's Congress. Leaders of antiwar wire their support of the Presi- for the Senate Foreign Relations said he was disappointed Nixon Michigan. "An act of great speech on the Vietnam war. protest groups called for redou- dent's course to the White Committee constructively -try courage—and an address that bled efforts to force a quick end to announced no new troop with- "The people of Vietnam House. to contribute to the finding of a drawals and failed to call for a promises to be a turning point want nothing more than to to the war. And Ronald L. Ziegler, the , commented Senate policy for peace " Gore said. cease-fire. in history," gradually taie the respon- A leading Senate critic, chief executive's press secre- Fulbright, however, deferred GOP Whip Robert P. Griffin of sibility to preserve their Tennessee Democrat Albert tary, reported White House comment pending a study of Javits said "The President's Michigan. own independence and free- Gore, urged early scheduling of switchboards were jammed Nixon's text. statement, as eloquent and mov- Several other senior congres- dom with the efficient as- the Foreign Relations Commit- with calls praising the Presi- McGovern accused Nixon of ing as it was, hasn 't changed sional Democrats, including sistance of the . allied coun- tee hearings on the war de- dent's speech. "We've never pursuing the "same tired old anything. It can only be charac- chairman John C. Stennis of the GIANT TOADSTOOL OR UFO? .. Is the mail scaling tries, especially that of the ferred last month by chairman had a response like this to a discredited policy we have fol- terized as a disappointment." Senate Armed Services Commit- people of the United States, giant mushroom? A sculpture of an A-bomb explosion? A J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., pend- presidential address," he said. lowed to the death of 40,000 But other Republicans praised tee, Sen, Henry M. Jackson, of • with a view to achieving ing Njxbn 's speech Monday flying saucer? Actually the man on the pulley is painting Criticism of Nixon came from young Americans." Muskie said the President in an outpouring Washington and Rep; Emanuel the self-sufficiency and self night. Democratic Sens. Gore, George Nixon's plan "leaves the deci- of similarly worded statements, a rather prosaic water tank just . being finished in Raleigh, development which I have Celler of New York, praised Republican leaders, joined by S. McGovern of South Dakota , sion as to American withdrawal many of which used words such s effovts to bring peace. N.C. (AP Photofax) ; affirmed many times." Nixon' A group of 100 House mem- bers, 50 (rom each party, called HAD HOPED FOR ANOTHER WI THDRAWAL for support of Nixon "in his ef- North Vietnam forts to negotiate a just peace in Vietnam." ; ! T ugboatCrew But 10 Democratic war critics in the House, expressing dis- Blasts Speech Reaction of GI's Mixed couragement, predicted ' 'oppo- . SAIGON (AP) — American GIs said he still opposed the war, but Nix- fort to the enemy." sition to the President's course ite his efforts to registered varying degrees of approval on made "one of the best delivered \ Marine 2nd Lt. Keith McConnel of will grow desp Trapped Alive? speeches I've ever heard . But I Lorain, Ohio, said he was glad to hear discredit the opposition." ' ' and disappointment following President As Defiance think it's pretty much the same we've the President "ask for support from David Hawk and Sam Brown , MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. tion, 12 miles southwest of LONDON (AP) - North Viet- Nixon's speech on the Vietnam war, been getting. I don't believe the ma- the middle." "The only thing you've two coordinators of the Vietnam Committee which UPi — Two Navy rescue craft Cape Lookout, N.C. nam today called President Nix- Initial South Vietnamese reaction was jority of the American people have the heard anything from have been the Moratorium generally favorable. led nationwide demonstrations sped today toward a spot in Water at that point is 112 on's speech on Vietnam a "defi- patience to wait until the South Viet- antiwar people and the military-indus- the Atlantic Ocean where a feet deep, which Copeland "I had expected him to announce namese supposedly are capable of tak- trial complex," he said. Oct. 15 and plans more Nov.13- ¦ "" missing tugboat may lie on said is a "good depth for ance not only of the Vietnamese another withdrawal," said Spec. -4-Jim ing over." - -¦¦¦ .- President Nguyen Van thieu had no 14 , expfessed disappomtment. the bottom with its crew of diving work."; people but 6f the American"peo- Talley, 22, of Newnan, Ga. The 25th "I was not disappointed,"-sald .Gapt. -V. immediate comment on the speech.- But "The only thing that he made six trapped alive. The Navy rescue vessels ple and all the peace-loving peo- Division Infantryman said he was "in a John Kelly, 35, Watertown. Mass., a White House press secretary Ronald clear was the possibility of a "It's a very new vessel were , the salvage boat Re- ple in the world." way disappointed" but "I'm glad he member of the 1st Infantry Division at L. Ziegler said the administration had re-escalation or the continuation and is probably intact if it covery, which carries divers of the present disastrous poli- Whfl^ this reaction was ex- stated Ms position. Now we know where Di An, north of Saigon, "I didn't expect "full arid complete consultation" with did go down," said Lt.