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CIA - TonKin Gulf
Fulbright Assails Vietnamization Plan
By TAD SZULC
Special to The New York Time'
mgton University in St. Louis. of power," said today the
Its theme was "The War and country needed to "shake off
Why We. Must End It."
the lingering effects of the nar-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 —
Senator Fulbright has sought
Renewing his attacks on Presi- since October to hold public cotic of power."
dent Nixon's Vietnam policies, hearings on the Vietnam war "Power is a narcotic," he
Senator J. W. Fulbright pre- in the Foreign Relations Com- said, "a potent intoxicant; and
dicted today that the Admin- mittee but these have a been America has been on a 'trip.' "
istration's "Vietnamization" successively deferred in part
No Peril To U.S. Seen
plan would mean "continuing because of the, committee Memterror and death for the- in- bers' reluctance to take a col- The Senator maintained that
definite future" for the Viet- lision course with President the United States "has novital
namese people.
Nixon. Most of the Members security interest in the preserAs defined by the Adminis- favor giving Mr. Nixon a chance vation of South Vietnam as, an
tration, Vietnamization is the to prove the validity of his independent, non-Communist
'state."
process of gradually transfer- Vietnamization approach.
ring combat responsibility from The groups' present plans are "Indeed," he said, "the U. S.
•the United States to South Viet- to hold limited hearings next has no vital interest in whether
namese troops as American month on a number of resolu- South Vietriain is governed by
units are gradually withdrawn tions before the Senate urging Communists, non-Communists
from Vietnam.
public timetables for the with- or a coalition; nor is it a matBut Senator Fulbright, Dem- drawal of United States troops ter of vital interest to the
U.S. whether North and South
ocrat of Arkansas, the chair- from South Vietnam.
man of the Senate Foreign Re- But committee sources have Vietnam are united or divided.
lations Committee described the indicated that the group would "Our interest," he went on,
process as "a continuing war likewise consider the resolution "is in the prevalence, what-
;of stalemate and attrition, submitted this week by Senator ever its form,.. of indigenous
with a reduced number of Charles McM. Mathias Jr., Re- Vietnamese nationalism; beyond
lAmericans reverting to their publican of Maryland, to repeal that, strategic interest gives
pre-1965 "advisory" role in a the 1964 "Tonkin Gulf" resolu- way to ideological preference
semi-permanent war of coun- tion,
which the Johnson Ad- — if not, indeed, to ideological
terinsurgency."
ministration interpreted as au- obsession."
Mr. Fulbright carried his per thorizing the massive United Mr. Fulbright declared that
sonal anti-Administration cam- States involvement in Vietnam. when the war's "political purpaign to a university forum at Senator Fulbright,
poses are recognized as unSt. Louis today. His assault on 1966 found the Unitedwho in worthy, as they have been in
States
Mr. Nixon's position was deliv- suffering from "the arrogance Vietnam, it is rank immorality
ared in a memorial lecture for
the late Senator Thomas C.
iiennings of Missouri at Wash-
REMEMBER THE NEEDIEST!
to press on for a costly, destructive and probably unattainable victory."
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