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VSTERN OHIO'S GREAT HOME NEWSPAPER[LY JEFFERSONIAN 1461cooler Sunday with chance of rain, snow. High in the mid to low 40s.IDGE, OHIO 43725 SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1 973 10 COPY ESTABLISHED 1824Signing of Peace PactEnds Long Vietnam WarRelease Of POWsTo BeginWASHINGTON (UPI) - The long, uncertain years of waiting end today for the families of America’s servicemen missing and captured in Southest Asia. By midnight most will know whether their sons and husbands are among those coming home.The first group of more than 100 freed prisoners of war could be released by North Vietnam within a few days and some might be back in the United States next week, the Defense Department believes.Pentagon officials said Friday they expected U.S. diplomats in Paris to get Hanoi’s official list of POWs held in Laos, South Vietnam and North Vietnam before noon EST and transmit it to Washington immediately. It is the first formal POW accounting Hanoi has ever offered.Then comes the notification process—joyous for many families, and terribly painful Tor others.“Ail the families will be contacted just as quickly as we can contact them—both the families of the men on that list, and the families of those who are not on it,” said Dr. Roger Shields, the Pentagon’s topKEY BISCAYNE, FLA.: President Nixon stops to chat with a youngster in a section reserved for POW families after Nixon’s arrival at Homestead Air Force Base. (UPI)NO CELEBRATION THIS TIMECambridgeites Jubilant After Two World WarsFighting To StopTodayPARIS (UPI) - U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers and foreign ministers of the three other parties in the Vietnam War signed a peace agreement today, ending America’s longest armed conflict.The cease-fire provision of the agreement becomes effective at 7 p.m. EST.The document, entitled “A-greement on Ending War and Restoring Peace,” calls for withdrawal of all American troops from South Vietnam and release of all American prisoners of war within 60 days. Almost 46,000 Americans were killed in the 12-year U.S. involvement in the war.Announcement of the peace Atty. Milton H. Turner gave a talking “peace” and one couple agreement in Vietnam brought stirring patriotic address. just quietly walked down the no response in Cambridge such At the head of the evening’s street knowing they would see as was triggered by the parade was the Cambridge their son again..a r____Following a morning ceremony in which representatives of North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong’s Provisional Revolutionary Government participates, Rogers and North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh returned to the table where four years of peace negotiations have been conducted and signed another set of the same agreements plus an additional accord providing for the U.S. to lift its naval blockade and demine the harbors of North Vietnam.
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 27, 1973
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