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Diplomatic Steps Quicken For Vietnam Peace Envoys *By GKORGK KSPF.ll Associated Press WriterSAIGON lAPl — Representatives of the four parlies in the Vietnam peace agreement mol in three cities Monday in quickening diplomatic sleps toward clearing sea mines from North - Vietnam, holding top-level political talks on the South nod Rolling American war prisoners back home.As dispositions lor pence need era lclt;l. the fighting slowed.U.S. officials in Washington aixl Snigon 'declared the firs! Rronp of American prisoners will be released this week, hut declined to give n specific imielable.Ambassador Michel Gauvin of Canada, chairman of the Inlcrnalionnl Commission of Control and Supervision said release of Ihusc held in Soulh V:olnam will be closer lo the end of the week.Tner. four hours Inter lie told ncusmen the release will corr.c within. I presume, n week or so.••There will be an exchange of prisoners. Gauvin added after n four-hour commission meeling. 1 don!! know whore or when.Senior U.S. officials said one nf the first groups of American prisoners will be released from jungle camps along the Soulii Vietnam-Cnmbodiar- border in the An I.oc-I/ic N'inh. area, 00-70 dies north of Saigon.in Washington, Defense Department spokesman Jerry W. h’ricdhcim said NorthVietnam is expected to release its first UAmerienn prisoners by Sunday, the time rlt;frame specified in the cease-fire agreement signed in Paris Jan. 27. p.Our hope is that we will have some by the n*middle of lliis week. Kriedlicim said. nNor lit Vietnamese. Vie! Cong. Amerienn and South Vietnamese representatives of a mprisoner committee of the Joint Military diCommission met in Saigon for three hours to viron out repatriation details. It was the third nsuccessive day they had met.In Haiphong. Rear Alt;Jm. Brian McCauley and 15 members of his staff conferred with senior North Vietnamese officials on clearing ; mines from North Vietnam's seven ports and thousands of miles of inland waterways. McCauley is the commander of the Navy task ^force gathering in the Tonkin Gulf to begin clearing the mines as specified in the agreement.In Paris. Sou Hi Vietnamese and Vic: Cong delegates met face to face for the first time for prcliminaiy low-level procedural talks lo |(set the .stage for high-level negotiations on the future politic? shape of South Viclnam.Nguyen I’huong Thiop. acting deputy leader, of the South Vietnamese peace talks delega- VHon. and FJinh Bo I Tbi of the Viet Cong’s Provisional Revolutionary Government con ilferred for tun hours al the International Conference Center on Avenue Klebcr. where lthe peace talks dragged on for four years. ti
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Florence Morning News
Florence, South Carolina, US
Tue, Feb 06, 1973
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