U£$ VIETNAM STUDENTS HAKE PEACE PACT
BELOW IS THE TEXT of the People's Peace Treaty negotiated between representatives fit  the-U.-Si student movement and student-movements of North and
South Vietnam. David Ifshin, who signed the agreement as president of the National Student Association, released the text at a Washington press conference
January 25. He stressed the Vietnamese,lack of hostility.to the visitors.
In Vietnam the agreement was signed jointly by the U.S. student delegation
and by representatives of the North Vietnam National Student Union and of the
Liberated Students' Union of South Vietnam., '"•- ,-; .• a o ... :.v,
Be it known that the American and Vietnamese people are not enemies. The war
is carried out in the names of the people of the United States and South Vietnam but - - -
without our consent. It destroys the land and people of Vietnam. It drains America of,
its resources, its youth and its honor.
Wa hereby agree to end the war on the following terms, so that both peoples can
"' Ihre under the jöy of independence and can devote themselves to building a society
based on human equal!ty and respect for the earth.
1. The Americans agree to immediate arid total withdrawal from Vietnam and publicly
to set the date by which all American forces will be removed.
The Vietnamese pledge that as soon as the U.S. Government publicly sets a date
-:-:*.. for tot^ withdrawal: g       ■;cr:.iiïi.~-ë
, r, 2. They, will enter discussions to secure the release of all American prisoners, in
cluding pilots captured while bombing North Vietnam.
3. There will bs an immediate cease-fire between U.S. forces and those led by the
.       Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam.
4. They will enter discussions of the procedures to guarantee the safety of alt
withdrawing troops.
S. The Americans pSetiga to end the imposition of Thitu-Ky*KhJam on the people of
South Vietnam in order to insure their right to self-determination and so that all
political prisoners can be released. , < ■
6. The Vietnamese pledge to form a provisional coalition government to organize
democratic elections. All parties agree to respect the results,of elections in
which all South Vietnamese can participate freely without the presence of any
foreign troops.
7. The South Vietnamese pledge to enter discussion of procedures to guarantee
the safety and political freedom of those South Vietnamese who have collaborated with the U.S. or with the U.S.-supported regime. ~
8. The Americans and Vietnamese agree to respect the independence, peace and
neutrality of Laos and Cambodia in accord with the 1964 and 1962 Gene«
conventions and not to interfere in the internal affairs of these two countries.
9. Upon these points of agreement, wè pledge to end the war and resolve all other
questions in the spirit of self-determinatioh and mutual respect for the independence and political freedom of the people of Vietnam and the United States.
By ratifying the agreement, we pledge to take whatever actions are appropriate tc
implement the terms of this joint Treaty and to insure its acceptance by the govern
ment of the United St«t^
A SHARP REBUKE was ôe&l-î the Pcr_t*»^n by the news that a People's Peace
Pact was signed in Hanoi late last fall, by U.S. and North and South
Vietnam students, and is now being acclaimed by youth everywhere. The good
news broke just when the U.S. war machine, trailing-Saigon and Thai mercenr.
aries, furtively entered Laos and plunged deeper into Cambodia.
U.S. signers of the pact in Hanoi were David Ifshin and 12 other memhera
of the.National Students Association, after long earnest talks with their
peer groups in Vietnam. .The Thieu-Ky regime refused visas for South Vietnam
to the U.S. delegation, which included two black students, two young women.,
two Puerto Ricans and one Asian. One visitor however gained admission. asra'
tourist: Doug Hostetter, a student at N.Y. School for Social Research, who
had previously worked 3 years in South Vietnam as a community organizer; he
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