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_ ~GAl Te Cone srunieces Ove Madi tha War im Leadowh its / ‘ , 160 North Fifteenth oy vet ; * Phil! adalphia, Pennsylv. ja 19102 ) i. Contact: Margarct ‘vacon--(215) LO 3-9372 Office ' 215) cH 24 179, Homo \ February 16, 1971 - FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 197),. One hundred and seventy Asericans from kl states will leave from New York's : we Kennedy Airport on Murch 3 for a week-long conference with principals in the Paris talks and others. Their objective is finding out what the requisites for peace in Southeast Acia really are. “ The Citizens Conference on Ending the War in Indochina,.as the project is called, is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee ‘(arsc), Clergy and Laymen Concerned (CALC) and the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). "The conference will afford a large number of American citizens access to end thought ful discussion with many persons long familiar with the Indochina | struggle," explained Stewart Meacham, peace education secretary of the AFSC. “We hope that upon their retum to the United States, the participants will be new and creative interpreters, in their respective communities, of what they understand the requisites of peace to really be.” tionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG, formerly the National Libération Front), the Democratic Republic of Victnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (Saigon) and the U.S. Delegation. Meetings are also being arranged with repreacntatives of the National United Front ‘of Caubodia, the Laotian Student Uni on and various independent ‘South Vietnamese group oppaged to the war (including Buddhiots, Catholica, Btudenty and yroupo supporlisys dissident members of the Saison Administration’ B National Asuembly.) -more= , s