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Press Conference

A national press conference is scheduled for
October 3 by the national YAF organization at
which they will reveal a nationally organized
attack aimed at the Vietnam Moratorium
scheduled for October 15 at universities and
colleges across the nation.

Mr. Kwapisz also stated that a Student
Committee for a Rational and Humane
Vietnam Peace would soon be formed.

He charged that the "net intent and
effect of the so-called Vietnam Moratorium is
the North Vietnamese demand for immediate
and unilateral withdrawal of all American
forces, with no regard for the fate of 15 million
South Vietnamese. We of Young Americans for
Freedom invite all concerned and humane
persons to join us in opposing a policy, the
effect of which would abandon the South
Vietnamese to the fanatic barbarity and atrocities
of the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese
masters."

Although the YAF release did not state
what stand the organization takes on the
Vietnam issue, at Activities Night, the YAF
handout "Paper Number 5" which was titled
"Victory in Vietnam: The American Imperative"
stated in part, "YAF advocates that the
President state a firm and unalterable policy of
a U.S. victory in Viet Nam... We urge that our
military might be used to its greatest effect
through the bombing of all military targets
including MIG and missile bases and the port of
Haiphong."