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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1973
Page
1
Washington and Hanoi outlined a 12 page peace package limiting a cease fire to South Vietnam while Kissinger predicted a formal Laos cease fire and a de facto Cambodia halt. The pact bars foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia and seeks to shift to normalization with North Vietnam.
President Nixon described an internationally supervised cease fire to begin at 7 p.m. EST and a 60 day window for prisoner release and U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam. The plan backs South Vietnamese self determination, Thieu government support, and talks among major powers to ensure implementation. The accord also proposes a National Reconciliation Council and provisional demilitarized zone with future reunification on terms of a North South settlement.
Mrs Helen Craven was found guilty on all 10 counts of embezzling 25000 dollars from Erie during her tenure as city treasurer. The verdict came after a jury deliberation that began at 11 30 a m and ended at 4 20 p m with the court crowd kept orderly by Judge George Donaldson. She remains free on bond while a motion for a new trial is scheduled for March 7 at 9 30 a m.
T K Ray Walsh, manager of People's Theater, says censorship used to be Kansas Board of Reviews duty but a Supreme Court ruling banned censorship and KBR no longer exists. Walsh adds the theater does not censor films and only rating labels like X, R, GP, and G govern content.
The intercepted note to Cha discusses the war's dual impact, balancing the slogan Give Peace a Chance with the presence and fame of the Green Berets. The message hints at public attitudes shaped by conflict and military influence during the era.
President Thieu told 17 million South Vietnamese that peace may not be ideal or lasting and warned of a difficult political struggle ahead. He said only military strength, political unity, economic power, and militant solidarity can guarantee security. Premier Dong hailed the agreement as a great victory and vowed to push the revolutionary cause using the pact and forthcoming documents.
Gov. Docking backs a circuit-breaker property tax plan offering home owners under 20,000 annual income refunds from 50 to 150 dollars and retroactive 1972 relief. Sen. Jack Steineger calls it the engine of Docking's package while Democrats push reapproval of the tax lid to protect relief from local tax increases.
President advisor Henry Kissinger announced that 479 U.S. prisoners in North Vietnam and Laos will be released in roughly two week installments, aligned with a 60 day South Vietnam withdrawal. POWs will be flown to U.S. locations from Hanoi by medical teams, with exact return sites to be set by a new joint military commission. The process begins after the cease fire and lists of captives will be exchanged on signing day.
The international force for the Vietnam cease-fire totals 1,160 personnel, far below U S aims but about four times the North Vietnamese proposal. A four party Joint Military Commission will operate with a 3,300 headcount, supported by regional teams and a headquarters in Saigon. Canada Hungary Indonesia and Poland will provide equal shares. The force observes and reports cease-fire violations while remaining to deter disputes and guide world opinion.
In a Senate address Barry Goldwater labeled George McGovern a sorehead and a poor loser. He cited McGovern's Oxford England speech as a major example of bad taste. McGovern had warned the U S is closer to one man rule in talks with press.
U S ambassador Clinton E Knox and Consul General Ward Christianson were released at Port au Prince airport after being held at gunpoint. The captors freed 12 prisoners and received $70 000 in ransom before boarding a plane to Mexico with the released inmates.
In Washington a somber national tribute marks Lyndon Baines Johnson's funeral rites. Johnson’s body departs the LBJ Library in Austin to honor guards and a procession along Constitution Avenue before entering Congress for the final farewell.
Hugh W. Sloan Jr. testified that former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former Treasury Secretary Maurice H. Stans approved payments to the man charged in the political espionage conspiracy against Democrats. The jury heard Sloan indicate Mitchell and Stans were connected to the fund used to finance the political spying.
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