“Peace” Yacht Sails Again
(N.Z P.A -Reuter—Copyright) HONG KONG, Jan. 25. The United States pacifist yacht Phoenix, frustrated in its bid to distribute more than SUS7OOO worth of medical equipment, first to the North Vietnamese Government and then to the South Vietnamese, has left Hong for the North Vietnamese port of Haiphong. The yacht has Hanoi's permission to go to Haiphong. The surgical supplies aboard the Phoenix will be handed to the North Vietnamese Red Cross Society for distribution to the North Vietnamese and to the Viet Cong, according to a spokesman for the Quaker action group sponsoring the voyage. The North Vietnamese had earlier refused the vessel entry because of intensive United States bombing, and when the Phoenix went to South Vietnam she was refused permission to land the gifts she carried “as much a protest against the war as aid to the people of Vietnam.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 20
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