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Show N. Viet Won War? perb and getting better all the time." Mrs. Wilson said claims by Administration Ad-ministration officials that American bombers are striking military targets tar-gets only "are very hard to validate vali-date when you are on the scene." "Many schools have been destroyed de-stroyed by the bombing. Children now must go to school from 5 to 8 a.m., when the bombing usually starts. All school children wear heavy straw hats to protect their heads from bomb fragments, and they carry first aid kits," Mrs. Wilson Wil-son said. She told of her visit to the city of Phat Dien, where about 50 percent per-cent of the people are Catholic. "Numerous Catholic churches had been bombed, and one church was hit by a guided missile about 30 minutes after we visited it." Mrs. Wilson said she was told that one Catholic church was bombed in 1966 while 72 people were worshipping there, killing all of them. By WALTER GRANT Collegiate Press Service WASHINGTON (CPS) North Vietnam already has won the war, but American bombing and fighting is being continued as a means of "sheer punishment and revence," according to a leading peace worker work-er who just returned from Hanoi. "Our military leaders are not dumb. They are bound to realize this," says Mrs. Dagmar Wilson, founder and leading spokesman of Women Strike fo rPeace, a growing peace movement which now has offices of-fices in 36 states. She says the continued bombing of the North by the United States makes the Vietnamese people "want to fight all the harder." During her two-week visit to North Vietnam, Mrs. Wilson said, there were about three bomb alerts daily. "When planes are dropping bombs on your home and killing members of your family you don't feel like doing anything but shooting shoot-ing back," she said. Mrs. Wilson and two other members mem-bers of Women Strike for Peace went to Hanoi on invitation from the North Vietnamese Women's Union. They returned to the United States in time for the Sixth National Conference of Women Strike for Peace, held here last weekend. Mrs. Wilson said the women plan to protest the war and the Selective Selec-tive Service system at local draft boards and Army induction centers cen-ters across the country. She indicated indi-cated some groups plan to engage in civil disobedience. Second, the women's peace group decided to start a grass-roots movement move-ment to end the Vietnam war in 1968 by helping elect a peace candidate can-didate to the Presidency. "We are going to mobilize the women to mobilize the people of the country," coun-try," she said. Mrs. Wilson said three steps must be taken by the United States before the war can end. "We must stop the bombing, recognize the National Liberation Front, and agree to the ultimate withdrawal of American troops," she said. These conditions were confirmed by North Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Dong during an interview in Hanoi, Mrs. Wilson added. Increasing Socialism She said her trip to Hanoi made her realize President Johnson's policies pol-icies "actually are increasing socialism social-ism in Vietnam instead of persuad-ings, persuad-ings, but were turned down by the three women who made the trip requested an appointment with the President to report on their findings, find-ings, but wre turned down by the White House. The North Vietnamese are a unified uni-fied people, according to Mrs. Wilson. Wil-son. She said their morale is "su- Americans Misled The peace leader emphasized that American citizens are being misled when they're told American soldiers are fighting Communism. "This is not primarily a Communist movement. move-ment. This is a nationalistic movement," move-ment," she said. "We read the program of the National Na-tional Liberation Front and it sounded like what our government would want if we were fighting for a democracy as we claim," she added. Mrs. Wilson said she and the other two women who made the trip talked with six American pilots who had been captured by the North Vietnamese. "One of them told us he now realizes the United States has no business in Vietnam. He said every American newspaper should print the Geneva Accords of 1954 so the American people will know what this war is all about. "We also met an American pilot who has had no contact with members mem-bers of his family since he was reported re-ported missing. He was allowed to write a letter for us to bring home to his family," Mrs. Wilson said. She called the pilot's parents and wife as soon as she returned to the United States to let them know he was alive. "This was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. It made the trip worthwhile," she said. Mrs. Wilson said industrialization industrializa-tion in North Vietnam has progressed pro-gressed rapidly in recent years. But, she said, the North Vietnamese Vietna-mese are a civilized people without technology. "Civilization is the grace of life in those villages. It's the warmth, respect and cooperation coopera-tion which the people have. This is civilization, even if they don't have flush toilets." |