VIETNAM PEACE
Views Of Sato
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CANBERRA, Oct. 12. The cessation of United States bombing of North Vietnam was in itself not enough to bring the parties in the Vietnam war to the conference table, the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Eisaku Sato, said today. For any good to be achieved by a bombing pause there would have to be an assurance of reciprocity from the North, he said. The 66-year-old Prime Minister was addressing the only scheduled press conference of his three-day Australian visit.
In an historic step, the conference was telecast live throughout Australia and to Japan by the United States Telstar satellite. Unperturbed by the questioning, and stabbing the table with a pencil for emphasis, Mr Sato said that Japan’s constitution expressly forbade the sending of troops to fight outside the country. “And if this attitude was held by others (nations) it would be a great help in obtaining a peaceful settlement," he said through an interpreter.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31499, 13 October 1967, Page 15
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