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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1973
Page
1
In Peking Kissinger met for two hours with Mao Tse-Tung in a frank wide ranging conversation, described by the Florida White House as productive. The meeting followed Kissinger’s arrival in the capital and is part of ongoing high level diplomacy between the United States and China.
The Pathet Lao said no American prisoners would be released until a negotiated Laos cease-fire is in effect. They cited readiness to exchange prisoners after a cease-fire, detailing a prisoner accounting and asserting return of those captured in Laos. US lists over 300 missing, including pilots.
Bitter cold drenches the eastern United States with record lows from Indiana to New York. Snow and ice disrupt the Plains and trigger power outages in Ohio. In China, Kissinger meets Mao at Chungnanhai amid talks on Vietnam cease fire and Taiwan troop withdrawal rumors.
Lt. Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr. who spent nearly nine years as a prisoner in North Vietnam, was baffled by pantyhose during a family reunion at Oakland Naval Hospital. His sister Delia and Madeline teased him as he examined her legs and asked what they were, marking a light moment after his return.
North and South Vietnamese officers urged troops to halt hostilities and honor the cease fire in fact as well as in principle. The Saigon government reported more than 8,000 killed and thousands wounded since the cease-fire, with the JMC pressing for a true truce. President Thieu met with 300 leaders to unite opposition to the Viet Cong National Liberation Front as elections approach, though fighting must stop before voting.
The final group of 143 American POWs was brought to Clark Air Base in the Philippines after release in Indochina ending the first phase of Operation Homecoming. North Vietnam agreed to free 20 more around midnight EST and 431 others were slated for release by March 29 under the cease-fire terms.
Detroit reporters cite Sen. Robert P. Griffin and Rep. Gerald R. Ford Jr. as saying the United States should participate in rebuilding North Vietnam but need not take a major role. The lawmakers spoke at the state GOP convention in Cobo Hall, emphasizing cautious U S involvement.
The Men's Clothing Industry Association will award each returning prisoner of war a $500 clothing certificate redeemable at any retail store in their home town. Certificates will be mailed home to help veterans acquire a modern wardrobe before civilian work. Monogrammed bathrobes are also offered by the Bathrobe Manufacturers' Association.
President Nixon named L. Patrick Gray III to head the FBI and continue in the post he held in an acting capacity after Hoover's death. Bradford Cook was chosen as SEC chairman and John R. Evans to join the SEC board. Gray, 56, retired from 20 years in the Navy in 1960 to join Nixon's personal staff.
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