August 12, 1972

Israeli Min Dayan on Aug 11 says that expulsion of Soviet mil forces and advisers from Egypt will enable Israeli armed forces to redeploy along Suez Canal truce line and reduce call-ups of reservists from active duty, int; expresses hope that interim agreement with Egypt will be reached soon; says 800,000 Egyptian troops still man western bank of canal and counsels caution

Aug 12: Sec Rogers scores Dem Vice Pres nominee S Shriver for asserting on Aug 10 that Pres Nixon 'blew' a chance to end the war in '69, news conf, Aug 12; scores R Clark who is in N Vietnam and has made broadcasts over the Hanoi radio critical of US bombing

US pilots, in ints aboard USS Saratoga in Tonkin Gulf, swear that they have never tried to bomb N Vietnamese dikes; say they are hurt that so many Amers at home do not seem to believe them; they are also troubled that some Amers apparently think they are deliberately bombing other civilian targets such as schools, hosps and residential areas; scoff at foreign visitors to N Vietnam who have been quoted as saying they have seen dikes damaged by US bombs; argue that only isolated damage has been reptd, the kind that may result from an accident; say none of the visitors appears to be qualified to determine whether the damage was done by bombs or other explosives; one officer says that probably the best reason for not hitting the dikes is the fact that the US Pres has told the world US pilots are not hitting them and 'we don't want to make a liar out of him'; pilots say that before each mission they are specifically told to stay away from the dikes; comment on possible effect of bombings on civilian population

chief Vietcong delegate to Paris peace talks Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh says key issue now in talks is a pol settlement in Saigon, not the issue of US withdrawal from Vietnam, int, Aug 11, Paris; says war should end with a solution with guarantees for all; says US must make a pol agreement leading to a new govt in Saigon to bring an end to the war; says Communist side is flexible and realistic and does not seek control of a new govt; says her side seeks a govt in Saigon that is not the instrument of Vietnamization; adds it does not want a Communist govt but seeks a natl dem govt, a broad democracy, with a neutral foreign policy; says that to reach that goal people of S Vietnam must have free, dem elections; says her side opposes Nixon who, she says, wants to organize elections under the control of the existing Saigon regime; says her side is flexible and does not ask for control of the pol situation entirely in its own hands, but in the hands of all pol forces of S Vietnam; says Vietnamization is the key target of the Communist forces; asked about US POWs, says she does not think it logical to talk of them while the war is going on, 'while many Vietnamese are dying and being wounded by bombs from Amer planes and Amer munitions'; rejects reports of Communist atrocities against civilians as 'calumnies'; Mrs Binh por

Sen majority leader Mansfield, after personal clash in Sen with Jackson on Aug 11, introduces new amendment regarding 5-yr interim offensive weapons agreement with USSR designed to force a vote; Mansfield irked by what he regards as Jackson's presumptuousness in telling his supporters there would be no votes on 11th, after which several Sens leave Washington for weekend; introduction of Mansfield amendment, which merely endorses Nixon-Brezhnev statement of principles signed in Moscow in May, runs contrary to Sen Foreign Relations Com recommendations; Jackson blocks vote on Aug 11 by talking at length on Sen floor and refuses to agree to vote on Aug 14; Sec Rogers reaffirms Nixon Adm support for Jackson resolution; Jackson and Fulbright clash on Sen floor in tart, impatient exchs; Jackson, in his speech, holds interim agreement is full of 'ambiguities' and places US in position of 'interim subparity'; Sen Church accuses Nixon Adm of 'waffling' on whether it supports interim agreement; suggests Adm is beginning slow process of 'wittingly or unwittingly' scuttling its own nuclear agreements with Moscow