Hanoi demands South Vietnamese police disband before elections
North Viet Namese leader Hoang Quoc Viet said Hanoi will not accept elections in South Vietnam while the police system is intact, fearing a worse Saigon leadership than Thieu. He linked this to Hanoi and the Viet Cong rejecting Nixon’s eight point plan and pushing for police disbandment at Paris talks. Delegations from North Vietnam Viet Cong Pathet Lao and Cambodian government in exile arrived at Orly for a Friday congress condemning U.S. Indochina involvement. A separate note: a program on auto abandonment cleanup will be presented to the Chamber of Commerce Beautification Committee at 7 p.m. today at the Chamber building.