Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, January 28, 1913 , Dems move to block further 'involvement' By The Associated Press and Reuters WASHINGTON-In the wake of the Vietnam cease-fire signing, S e n a t e Democrats spoke out against further U.S. involvementI in Southeast Asia. Saying there has been "too much presidential war," Frank Church (D-Idaho) introduced a bill which would require congressional ap- proval to send U.S troops back to Indochina if the cease-fire fails. Laird sets end to draft (Continued from Page 1) that option because of the tra- ditional difficulty in attracting highly paid health professionals. Once regarded as havens for young men seeking to avoid the draft, the National Guard and Reserves now are 56,000 men below their authorized strength, and their long waiting lists for enlistments have vanished. The armed forces have drop- ped in authorized strength from about 3.5 million men at the height of the war to 2,346,000 at the end of 1972. A further cut- back of 93,000 men is to be com- pleted by mid-1974. A tberrs thru CIa ssfied Effective in 60 days, if passed, Church's bill would deny funds for reinvolvement of U.S. forces in hostilities "in, over, or from off the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia," with- out congressional approval. The bill brought immediate op- position from Michigan Sen. Robert Griffin, the Senate Republican whip, who said it would be "fool- hardy in the extreme to say to the enemy, 'you can ignore or disregard the agreement that has been signed with knowledge and assurance you can do it with im- punity." Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield asked the administration yesterday to take no military ac- tions in Laos and Cambodia that could prevent extension of the ceasefire to those neighboring nations. 'The warning signs are already apparent," the Montana Democrat and longtime war policy critic told reporters. '"The United States should take the initiative in seeking peace in Laos and Cambodia by halting bombing," he continued. "All sides claim they have won the war. In reality, all sides have lost." Mansfield also warned that any U.S. aid program to help rebuild North Vietnam will meet strong opposition in Congress. "I think we have an obligation to help with the rebuilding of Indo- china," he said. But he added that some members of the House have indicated "they were not at, all happy about an aid program for all of Indochina." I AP Photo THE HANDS BELONG to Sec. of State William Rogers as he signs the historic cease-fire yesterday. Epitaph for a war By HUGH MULLIGAN AP special Correspondent SAIGON (A) - It is Sunday morning, Jan. 28, 1973, and a war has just died. Few mourn its passing, except maybe the fat-cat contractors, the usual unprincipled profiteers, and some professional warlords and proleteriat dreamers of a people's uprising. The Indochinese war resumed Jan. 1, 1961, after the French Viet fighting goes on (Continued from Page 1) called to dislodge a Viet Cong tense in the war, reporting 378 force battling with South Vietna- communist-launched attacks. The mese troops in the area. U.S. command reported two Ameri- Hours later, Saigon reported all can planes shot down yesterday civilian telephone - lines to Tay afternoon and four airmen miss- Ninh were down. ing. Meanwhile, in a dramatic last- One American, John Rucker of minute drive, South Vietnamese Linden, Texas was killed yester- marines have established a gov-: day, possibly the last American to ernment base below the demili-I fall in this war. His death brings tarized zone, according to military to four the number of American sources. A marine group reached casaulties since the cease-fire the banks of the Cua Viet river agreement was announced Tues- some 12 hours before the cease- day. fire was scheduled to take effect, In the last-minute surge of fight- and in a two-pronged drive man- ing yesterday, communist forces aged to advance three miles by carried out a rocket attack on the' dawn, through withering artillery air base outside Saigon and cap-.j barrages. tured a district capital in the Me- And in Cambodia, the govern- kong Delta. ment forces were placed on full At dawn, government officials alert, as military sources predict-1 in Tay Ninh City near Cambodia ed further fighting there. They" said that South Vietnamese dive said they believed deposed Prince bombers were pounding commu- Norodom Sihanouk, now leading nist positions half an hour after a government-in-exile in Peking, the truct officially began. The of- was not willing to end his struggle ficials said the air strikes were to return to Cambodia. -__-_-_ - - I had once before left it for dead. Since then millions of civilians have lost their lives, their homes, their cattle. "Sorry about that" was the one unforgetable GI slogan to come out of the war. It could serve as its epitaph. There were many things to be sorry about on both sides. The killings of My Lai and Hue. The slaughter of Tet 1968. The roll- ing thunder of B52s over Hanoi, Haiphong, and .other places. The six million refugees, according to a U.S. Senate subcommittee, who were driven from their homes. The bomb-cratered val- leys ,the defoliated forests and mangrove swamps, the wrecked bridges. The war divided American as no other issue has done since the Civil War. In its wake and as part of its backwash came the peace marches, campus unrest, the Kent State shootings, the narcotics crisis, the breakdown in military morale and disci- pline, the race rumbles in the Navy, plus fragging, a new word for revenge. The warcost the American taxpayer $17 billion. Its lingering tragedy was the undoing of one American Presi- dent. The promise of its negotiat- ed end helped bring about the landslide re-election of another. More than three million Amer- icans served in the armed force in Vietnam or on ships off the coasts and at bases elsewhere in Southeast Asia. They came home talking a strange language, part of it left over from the Ko- rean War: Hootch maid, number 10, and -the army. U. S. planes dropped three times as many tons of bomb as in World War II, 10 times more than in Korea. It ended with a bang, not a whimper. All night long, on, that final night, broken by Sunday's dawn, the artillery barked, the B52s quaked the earth, flares eerily lit the lush lovely land - and people died, with the war's dying gasp. U.S., Viets sign accords (Continued fronf Page 1) gle against imperialist aggres- sion." AsRogers and Trinh met in a more relaxed atmosphere for the final two-sided signing session, the fighting and dying continued. A Vietnamese civilian was killed in a Communist rocket attack near Saigon only minutes before the cease-fire went into effect, and at least one American was killed on what was hoped to be the last, day of the war. Crowds of demonstrators chant- ed anti-Nixon slogans outside the Paris conference building as the signing ceremonies took place. The demonstrators cheered Binh and booed Rogers and Lam as the four representatives left the build- ing. Lam, incensed by the demon- strations and apparently also by official references in the second set of treaty texts to the Provi- sional Revolutionary Government, briefly disrupted the complex signing procedure by refusing to pen two of the texts. His refusal, however, does not affect the validity of the agree- ment. + Use Dcily Classifieds + INS TANT INFORMA TION FROM AMERICA'S LEADING UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 'r JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD 1913-14 FREIBURG/GERMANY AIX-EN-PROVENCE FRANCE Deadline for Applications: February 1, 1973 Junior Year Language Examinations: February 5, 1973, 7 P.M. GERMAN: Lecture Room 1, M.L.B. FRENCH: Lecture Room 2, M.L.B. APPLICATIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: STUDY ABROAD OFFICE, Room 1058, LSA Building POW listings exchanged (Continued from Page 1) igurney to a military hospital near turn of approximately one-half the their homes, the prisoners will be U.S. civilians missing or captured allowed to make a direct long-dis- in South Vietnam, Laos and Cam- tance telephone call to their rela- bodia. The list included civilians tives in the United States. from other countries. The full list of those named by, Operation Homecoming includes the North Vietnamese and Viet plans for officers to notify POW Cong is expected to be released by families in person, or by phone in tomorrow. rare cases, as the names of their There was no word on the fate men are listed. The names were of the several thousand North Viet- to be publicly released after the namese and Viet Cong prisoners families were notified, and by late held by South Vietnam, although yesterday evening, wire services those lists were also exchanged began carrying the first several several hours after the signing of dozen names. the treaty yesterday. According to Pentagon sources, - ------ the prisoners are to be released in several groups over the next two months-with the first 100 or so to be back in the United States O rder by the end of next week, and the remainder within 60 days. Nineteen Air Force jets manned by medical teams and equipped for Your emergencies ranging from bug bites to psychiatric disorders stood by at Clark Air Base in the Philip- pines to fly to Hanoi and pick up Subscription the first group of freed POWs. 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