Saturday, April 29, 1972
Hanoi Rebuked For Attacking While Calling For Peace Talks
WASHINGTON (AP) --The United States accused North Vietnam Thursday of "a sign of bad faith" in Hanoi's launching of a further offensive while U.S. envoys were preparing to return to the Paris peace talks.Referring particularly to the new Communist assault against Quang Tri, a South Vietnamese city just below the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Vietnamese actions, State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said:"Put together, one can say no less than this is a sign of bad faith, that in our judgment it is outrageous, particularly in light of the continuing public pressure that they (the enemy) were engaged in pressing for the U.S. to return to the conference forum.""How can North Vietnam expect discussions to get anywhere under these circumstances, virtually at the point of the gun?"McCloskey set forth the U.S. views in remarks understood to have White House approval.The State Department spokesman spoke after Hanoi's rebuff of the U.S. position at the Paris conference which President Nixon had ordered resumed."Hanoi Rebuked for Attacking While Calling for Peace Talks", by (AP) published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Saturday, April 29, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.