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Page 2 Salina Journal Wednesday, Jan. 24,1973 8 Salina area men are POWs or MIAs Eight men from North-Central and Northwest Kansas are listed as prisoners of war or missing in action in Southeast Asia. They are: SM-Sgt. Lawrence Clark, U.S. Air Force, whose wife, Margaret, lives at 120 Austin in Schilling Manor.

Missing in Action. Maj. Crosley J. Fitton, U.S. Air Force, whose wife, Judi, lives at 139 Colorado in Schilling Manor.

Missing in Action. Capt. Patrick K. Harrold, U.S. Air Force, Leavenworth, whose wife, Linda, is from Abilene and now lives in Hays.

Missing in Action. Maj. Ramon A. Horinek, U.S. Air Force, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Anton Horinek, Atwood. Confirmed Prisoner of War. Major Bruce Johnson, U.S. Army, whose wife, Kathleen, lives at 2206 Mayfair, Salina.

Missing in Action. Lt. Col. Carl Karst, U.S. Air Force, Galatia, whose wife, Ruth, is from Russell and now lives in Manhattan.

Missing in Action. Capt. Ronald L. Mastin, U.S. Air Force, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Marvin Mastin, Beloit, and whose wife, Susan, lives in Overland Park. Confirmed Prisoner of War. Capt. Dennis Pugh, U.S.

Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Pugh, 252 S. 3rd, Salina. Missing in Action.

Other POWs and MIAs The Associated Press has released a list of POWs and MIAs compiled from a variety of sources including the Committee of Liai- son with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam, newspaper and family sources, and Hanoi radio broadcasts. The AP list does not represent any status change in men who may previously have been listed as MIA. Men from the Midwest are: Anderson, Lt. (ig) Garelh Laverne, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Baker, Maj.

Elmo Cinnard, San Antonio, Texas; born, Morehouse, Mo. Caroll Robert, Frisco, also Missouri. Berg, Capt. Kile Dag, Glendale, wife, Wichita, Kan. Boyd, Capl.

Charles Graham, Wichita, parents, Rockwell City. Iowa. Srodak. Capl. John Warren, St.

Louis, Mo. also Jennings, Mo. Butler, Lt. Philip Meal, Tulsa, also La Jolla, Calif. Byrnes, Capt.

William Glen. Warrenton, Mo. Clark. Capt. John Walter, Columbia, Mo.

Cutler. Capt. James Dickinson, Stillwater, wife, Wichita. Kan. Daniels, Cmdr.

Verlyne Wayne, Ness City, also Hayward, Calif. Franke, Cmdr. Fred Augustus William Midwest City, also San Diego, Calif. Goucri, Sgt. Maj.

Wayne, native of Oklahoma. Hubbard, Capt. Lee, Overland Park, Kan. James, Maj. Gobel Dale, Overland Park, Kan.

Johnson, Capt. Harold Eugene, Overland Park, Kan. Kramer, Capt. Garland Tulsa, Okla. Linberg, Lt.

Col. Jeff, Iowa. Mehrer, Gustav next to kin, 1016 S. 35th Omaha, Neb. Miller, Lt.

Col. Edison Tustin, also Santa Ana, also Clinton, Iowa. Monlux, Capt. Harold Deloss, Tulsa, Okla. Naughton, Lt.

Robert Sheldon, Iowa Plumb, Lt. lig) Joseph Charles, Prairie Village, Kan. Pyle, Capt. Thomas Shaw II, Cordell, OKIa. Risner, Lt.

Col. Robinson, Oklahoma City, Okla. Rose, Capt. George Alan, native of Missouri, Fayetteville, wife, Welch, Va. Schwertfeger, William Ralph, Medford, Okla.

Spencer, Lt. Larry Howard, Earlham, Iowa. Spoon, Capt. Donald Ray, Pleasant Hill, Mo. Stutz, Capt.

Leroy William, Cummings, Kan. Talley, Maj. William Hanson Oklahoma. Vavroch, Lt. Duane Paul, native of Iowa.

Walker, Capt. Herbert Clifford Tulsa, Okla. Woods, Lt. Robert Deane, Garden City, Mo. Mistake raises false hope in Salina home An incomplete card file in the New York bureau of the Associated Press caused joy to soar briefly among the family of Maj.

Bruce Johnson, missing in action since June 10, 1965, before fading again. And probably the only reason joy faded quietly is the amazing strength of Johnson's wife, Kathleen, 2206 Mayfair, who through all the years of escalation and de-escalation, public and secret peace talks, political and military machinations of the warring forces in Southeast Asia, has simply refused to lose hope. The AP Tuesday night sent a "list of war prisoners and some missing servicemen compiled from a variety of sources The only specifically named sources were the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam (the Cora Weiss peace group) and Hanoi radio broadcasts. Also mentioned were "newspaper and family The list bore the name: "Johnson, Maj. Bruce.

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Weekdays between 5:30 and Sunday between 8:00 am and 12:30 pm. peared on any national list of any kind to be received by the news media. The citing of sources which in the past had been responsible for releasing the names of confirmed POWs, plus the fact that of 6 missing men from North-Central and Northwest Kansas only Johnson was named, led some persons who hastily read the list to believe Johnson was named as being held prisoner. But that wasn't the case. He was merely being included in a jumbled list of both POWs and MIAs.

Mrs. Johnson has never had any word that he is or might be a POW. "Oh, I think it's just wonderful. It's what we've all been waiting for." Mrs. Johnson said when she was told of the list.

She called a Pentagon friend, Maj. Joey Eskridge. to seek confirmation. Eskridge had been in charge of the Casualty Section of the Department of the Army at one time and, after tours at the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth and in Vietnam, was back at the Pentagon at another post. He knew how to cut through the military red tape to get confirmation.

But, after Mrs. Johnson had talked with both her mother and Johnson's mother, both in Michigan, Eskridge called back to say he could find no confirmation. Then began a check through AP. Ray Pike, an AP staffer in New York, said the list was compiled from a file of "about 500 cards" kept in the New York bureau. "It represents no new Pike said.

Joy. which a few moments before knew no bounds, now was bounded. Pike said that in many cases the file cards listed the source of information the Cora Weiss POW lists, or one published in a Brazilian newspaper. But all Johnson's card said was "Johnson. Maj.

Bruce. Salina. Kan. Missing since Jan. 10.

1965." On Mrs. Johnson's coffee table there was a thin volume entitled "Apples of a compilation of phrases, paragraphs and snatches of poetry on several subjects. The first sentence under the chapter headed "Long Suffering" reads: "Much wisdom remains to be learned, and if it is only to be learned through adversity, we must endeavor to endure adversity with what fortitude we can command." It somehow seemed to fit the situations, both the immediate one of Tuesday evening and the longer one extending back 7Vz years. Reprieved? Sp-5 Ronald Marrs listens intently to President Nixon's announcement. Marrs and about 60 other soldiers are at Oakland, and were expected to leave for Vietnam in the next few days.

(UPI Photo) Peace package is intricate from Page 1) well advanced," the negotiator said. Kissinger also forecast an eventual "de facto cease-fire" in Cambodia, a neighboring country drawn into the long Indochina conflict. The 12-page agreement, to be signed Saturday before the Vietnam cease-fire takes effect at 6 p.m. (Salina time) that day, does not call for the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from the South--but it does call for all foreign troops to leave Laos and Cambodia. Expanding on stated terms of the agreement.

Kissinger told a White House news conference that U.S. prisoners held in North Vietnam and Laos will be turned over to American medical personnel in Hanoi at two-week intervals while U.S. forces withdraw from South Vietnam. "Healing peace" Kissinger said the United States seeks "a peace that heals," and one that will last. He said the U.S.

aim is to move from hostilities to normalization and conciliation with North Vietnam. believe that under conditions of peace we can contribute throughout Indochina to a realization of the humane aspirations of all the people of Indochina," he said, "and we will in that spirit perform our traditional role of helping people realize these aspirations in peace." The presidential adviser said the U.S.- Hanoi agreement forbids the use of base areas in Laos and Cambodia to infiltrate Communist troops into South Vietnam. He said it. is "our firm expectation that within a short period of time there will be a formal cease-fire in Laos leading to the withdrawal of all foreign forces" and ending use of the country as a corridor for infiltration. scared, we've so long" (Continued from Page 1) may be a long time before we see Carl coming home." The family of SM-Sgt.

Lawrence Clark, missing in action in North Vietnam, also is waiting. Mrs. Margaret Clark, 120 Austin, said, "I've waited for so long, and finally, it's come. I'm very pleased about it (the announcement), but I'm also kind of half and half about it. It might take months and months.

"You pray for this, but when this thing comes you cannot grasp it. Something might come up again to delay everything." Meanwhile, she and the other wives and families wait for what Mrs. Clark calls "the moment of time when they will know whether their husbands and sons are coming home. Ambassador released PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti A U.S. Ambassador Clinton E.

Knox, seized at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon, was released today in exchange for the freedom of 12 prisoners and payment of $70,000. The ambassador and Consul General Ward Christianson, who was held with him. were freed at the airport where their captors prepared to board a plane with the released prisoners to fly to Mexico. Arrangements for freeing the two American diplomats were announced earlier by Haitian Information Secretary Fritz Ci- neaf. The release, however, took place earlier than originally foreseen.

Knox was seized at gunpoint late Tuesday. Kidnapers stopped his car on its way to the embassy residence. During the evening Knox telephoned Christianson, who went to the residence on the outskirts of Port au Prince. Cineaf said the 12 prisoners would flown to Mexico aboard an Air Haiti C47 plane Ambassador Clinton Knox along with five kidnapers. They were to be accompanied by French Ambassador Bernard Dorin, the papal emissary Luigi Barbito, and Mexican Ambassador Armando Duran.

The diplomats acted as intermediaries in negotiation with the kidnapers. Cineaf said the kidnapers originally demanded the release of 31 prisoners and payment of $500,000 by the U.S. government. The $70,000 payment agreed upon was to be made by the Haitian government, he said. Peace-keeping force represents compromise WASHINGTON (AP) The size of the international peacekeeping force being set up to police the Vietnam cease-fire totals 1,160 men--less than one-fourth the force size originally sought by the United States.

The peace agreement and accompanying accords made public today also establish the temporary commission composed of the four warring parties to serve until after United States withdrawal is complete within 60 days. Then a two-party military commission composed of South Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives will take its place. Canada, Hungary, Indonesia and Poland each will supply one-fourth of the total personnel of the International Commission of Control and Supervision. These joint units will be scattered throughout South Vietnam to observe and investigate violations of the cease-fire agreement which will be signed and go into effect Saturday. The size of the international force, while far short of the 5,000 men sought by the United States, is about four times greater than the 250-man force proposed by the North Vietnamese.

Unanimity is required in any votes taken by this commission. But the commission must investigate at the request of any of the four parties and must report minority and separate views of its members. The temporary, four-party Joint Military Commission set up by the agreement is composed of representatives of the United States. South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Personnel ceiling The four-party commission will have a ceiling of 3,300 personnel, working out of a headquarters in Saigon with seven regional joint commissions and 26 teams scattered throughout South Vietnam.

The Joint Commission, according to a White House summary, is intended "to deter and detect violations" of the agreement, "to carry out necessary observations and investigations, and to be a forum to settle differences." Unanimity also is required for commission voting, and unresolved disputes will be referred to the International Commission. The supervisory commission is given powers of movement for observation "as reasonably required." The supervisors also may be empowered to take the initiative in looking for cease- fire violations rather than waiting for formal complaints from the South Vietnamese or the North Vietnamese. But Canadian sources have indicated Peace pacts announced "With says Nixon WASHINGTON A President Nixon, claiming all conditions for "peace with honor" have been met, has announced agreement on a Vietnam accord that will end America's longest war on Saturday. In a television-radio address to the nation Tuesday night. Nixon did not specify whether the Washington-Hanoi pact, initialed Tuesday in Paris and due for signing there Saturday, would end the fighting in Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam.

Nor did he detail the peacekeeping machinery or the formula for settling South Vietnam's political future. Hailed by South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, and announced in bald terms by Hanoi radio, the peace pact as Nixon outlined it calls for: --An internationally-supervised cease- fire to take effect at 6 p.m. (Salina time) Saturday. --Release of all American war prisoners within 60 days thereafter, "the fullest possible accounting" for all missing in action, and--during the same period--withdrawal of all American forces from South Vietnam. Nixon asserted that the agreement, initialed by aide Henry A.

Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Due Tho, meets all conditions "that we considered essential for peace with honor." The chief executive, without going into detail, declared: "The people of South Vietnam have been guaranteed the right to determine their own future, without outside interference." All during the decade-long conflict that claimed 350,000 American casualties, this in essence was the major stated goal of U.S. policy. One who stood by that goal to the point of retiring from the presidency as the war generated increasing homefront dissent was the late Lyndon B. Johnson, whose body was being flown here today to lie in state under the Capitol dome. Of his Democratic predecessor, Nixon said: "In his life President Johnson endured the viilification of those who sought to portray him as a man of war.

But there was nothing he cared about more deeply than achieving a lasting peace in the world No one would have welcomed this peace more than he." Nixon emphasixed. in his 11-minute address from the White House, that the United States "will continue to recognize the government of the Republic of Vietnam as the sole legitimate government of South Vietnam." No Thieu claims SAIGON (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu told the 17 Vz million South Vietnamese today that "there is no guarantee that the forthcoming peace will be an ideal and lasting peace." He forecast a political struggle as difficult and dangerous as the past 18 years of war. Thieu made a 45-minute radio address at the same time President telling the American public of the agreement initialed in Paris Tuesday. The Viet Cong broadcast a pledge that it would "seriously carry out the peace treaty." and North Vietnam said in a com- munique that it hopes the agreement will ensure stable peace in Vietnam and will contribute to the preservation of lasting peace in Indochina and Southeast But Thieu accused the Communists of not having "good will for peace" and warned his people: "As I have frequently told you, no agreement will provide a 100 per cent guarantee for peace, and no international body may be considered to be able to give us a 100 per cent guarantee for peace." "Only our military force," he continued, "only our people's real political strength, only our economic power, and only our determination of militant solidarity among the 17Vz million nationalist people in the South will be the most effective and solid guarantee." The president asserted that the Communists had been defeated militarily and "compelled to end their war of aggression against the South. But from now on, a new phase is opened in the war resistance of the South Vietnamese people.

The new phase is the phase of political struggle in order to prevent the Communists from defeating us by atheism and political craftiness." Thieu claimed the cease-fire agreement met most of his major demands. they do not expect the international supervisors to be given any real enforcement powers. Rather, they anticipate making public reports on violations in hopes of bringing world opinion to bear against the offenders. The Canadians reportedly have been anxious that each of the national contingents be authorized to make such reports separately--without any other national groups threatening a veto. Canada recalls it was just that kind of a veto that helped make the old International Control Commission (ICC) a failure in preventing violations of the 1954 Geneva agreement that was supposed to have ended the Indochina war 19 years ago.

Canada has served on the moribund ICC along with Communist Poland and avowedly neutralist India, There was another international agreement which was supposed to have been policed by the ICC--the 1962 Geneva accords intended to neutralize Laos. President Nixon has charged that "before the ink was dry on the 1962 Geneva documents, and despite the fact that they embodied most of its own proposals, North' Vietnam started violating." Nixon said this nearly three years ago in defending U.S. air operations in Laos in support of the Royal Lao government. Pre-truce attacks doubled (AP) Communist attacks in South Vietnam doubled overnight just before the announcement of the cease-fire agreement. South Vietnamese claimed the Communists were trying for last-minute gains before the truce takes effect this weekend.

There was widely scattered ground fight ing, and U.S. and South Vietnamese planes were operating as usual. Communiques re: ported 147 North Vietnamese and 12 South Vietnamese killed. U.S. sources indicated that American bombing strikes would begin tapering off Thursday but that some strikes probabljr would be flown until just before the start of the ceasefire at 8 a.m..

Sunday, Saigpit time, or 6 p.m. (Salina time) Saturday. The source's said it appeared likely that U.S. advisers still in the field with South Vietnamese troops and assigned to provincial and district teams would begin pulling out in the next few days. The command reported 348 fighter-bomber strikes, more than half of them in the northern provinces, and 87 B52 strikes.

The South Vietnamese command reported 95 "enemy-initiated incidents" in the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. today, bearing out earlier predictions by senior commanders that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong would launch at least one more major effort to gain territory and control of population before the cease-fire. However, senior commanders contend that recent government "spoiling" operations, including a push into a Communist stronghold on the Michelin rubber plantation 40 miles northwest of Saigon, have preempted the strategy. In the most serious fighting reported today, 32 enemy soldiers were reported slain near Hong Ngu, a border town in the Plain of Reeds 80 miles west of Saigon, and 20 more in several skirmishes in coastal Binh Dinh Province. Tho proclaims "greaf victory" PARIS (AP) North Vietnam's Le Due Tho said today the Vietnam peace agreement was "a great victory for the Vietnamese people" and contained no secret or tacit understandings on withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam.

On the day after he initialed a cease-fire agreement with Henry A. Kissinger, the silver-haired Hanoi Politburo member told a news conference that President Nixon's December bombing offensive against the North Vietnamese heartland only delayed the agreement, but did not change it. Relaxed and frequently smiling, Tho told the crowded news conference that agreement culminated "the Vietnamese" people's 13 years of valiant 'struggle against American imperialism at the cogt of i a a i i and privations." Politicians, POW families praise Nixon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Area political figures and POW families were quick to praise President Nixon's announcement of peace in Vietnam. Sen. Bob Dole, said Nixon deserves "great credit for his courage in obtaining an agreement which will assure peace with honor.

"I trust the critics who would have settled for less will now unite behind the President in his efforts to build the peace. It is a time for joining together all Americans and all freedom-loving peoples of the world." Missouri Gov. Christopher S. Bond said the announcement "is profoundly welcomed by all Missourians. After years of suffering and frustration the war is over.

"It is a goal that was reached through difficult negotiations involving many hard hours of work. This long-awaited settlement is the answer to our prayers and raises our hopes that we may realize the President's vision of a generation of peace." For All' M. Landon, former Kansas governor and one-time presidential nominee, the reaction was "Thank God, at last it's all over." He continued "You'll hear some attempt to needle the President that he could have settled in October, or even when he came into office. But I think they're going to fall on deaf ears. The America people are so glad to get out they don't give a damn." Landon said he thought the long struggle in Southeast Asia had accomplished a purpose the U.S.

has professed since former President Harry S. Truman sent troops into Korea more than two decades ago -stopping the march of Communism in Asia. Saved from Reds? "If Kennedy and Johnson had not moved in." Landon said, "all Asia might now be Communist satellites just like the eastern European nations." Mrs. Eugene M. Jewell, Topeka, wife of an Air Force captain shot down in Vietnam in 1965 and a prisoner of war since, called the announcement "the news we've been waiting for." "I think we all wanted a just peace," she added.

"The terms were important to us. I don't see how the next 60 days can be any longer than the last 7Vz years." Retired Army Colonel Arthur K. Harro'ld of Leavenworth, whose son is among the missing in action, sounded pessimistic. "So many times before they (North Vietnam) have agreed and ignored agreements in the same breath," he said. "It sounds fine as stated, but what you've got to read into this is the fact there are 1,300 to 1,400 MIA's that are really unidentified POWs." Mrs.

Robert L. Reynolds, Grainfield, whose son, Terry, was working as a newsman in Vietnam when captured by Communists last April, said she assumed Nixon meant all prisoners, not just those in the military..