Saturday, May 6, 1972
Red Edict On Quang Tri
SAIGON (AP) --The Viet Cong claimed Thursday it had established a "revolutionary administration" in Quang Tri, South Vietnam's northernmost provincial capital that fell to the Communist Monday.A broadcast by the Viet Cong's clandestine Radio Liberation said the "whole city" of Quang Tri had been "liberated."In what it described as a communiqué of "the people's revolutionary committee in Quang Tri City," the broadcast called for nullification of "the administration and other organizations set up by the United States and Saigon government."It also called for nullification of "the military and police of the puppet administration.""Secret agents and members of reactionary organizations must present themselves to the revolutionary administration with weapons, documents and radio equipment," the broadcast said. "Those who try to evade or to continue to operate for the enemy will be punished severely.""Red Edict on Quang Tri" by (AP), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Saturday, May 6, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.