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Show Mansfield commends Nixon's peace efforts once it lias become clear, not only to Hanoi but also to the government gov-ernment in Saigon on whose behalf be-half we became involved, that it is not they who will decide for us but we ourselves who will decide the course of this nation." Praised Moss Record Sen. Mansfield praised Sen. Moss' record on conservation and consumer protection. Sen. Moss, Sen Mansfield said, lias become one of the Senate's experts on water use and abuse, "perhaps the most important problem in the world today." He credited Sen. Moss with spearheading a continent-wide plan, the North American Water and Power Alliance Project, to channel water from Alaska and northern Canada into water poor regions of the West. "We see, too, in his more recent re-cent legislative activity that Sen. Moss is moving into tile forefront of the defense of the right of the American public to accurate information in-formation and protection from misleading information on the enormous quantity o f complex products and services which are offered for sale in this country," Sen. Mansfield said. Sen. Mansfield added that Moss, standing almost alone", won an agreement from television networks net-works to phase out cigarette advertising. BY SUZANNE DEAN Assistant Managing Editor As University student backers of the Vietnam Moritorium passed leaflets among 1,300 Democrats at a $100-a-couple fund-raising dinner Saturday, Mike Mansfield, DMont., Senate Majority leader, said the events of the last few weeks offer a "flicker of hope" for peace in Vietnam, and that President Nixon "deserves every commendation for veering our policies towards peace." Sen. Mansfield was keynote speaker at the dinner honoring Utah Sen. Frank E. Moss. The "appreciation dinner" drew as special guests Democratic Sens. Ralph W. Yarborough of Texas, Howard W. Cannon of Nevada and Alan Cranston of California. Sen. Joseph Montoya, D-Nevv Mexico, was scheduled to attend but his flight was grounded in Denver by a snowstorm. Hampton Read Telegrams Gov. Calvin Rampton read telegrams from former Presidents Presi-dents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S Truman, Hubert Humph-rey Humph-rey and other Democratic figures. fig-ures. Indications were that attendance at the dinner exceeded early estimates. esti-mates. The event was sponsored by a committee of "friends" including in-cluding University Provost Thomas Thom-as C. King; Dr. Charles Nabors, assistant professor of anatomy; a University Institutional Council member, Mrs. David K. Watkiss and Dr. Robert K. Wolback, associate as-sociate professor of physiology. Sen. Mansfield said the signs of peace in Vietnam are "feeble, to be sure reduced casualties for a short period of time, reduced infiltration in-filtration from North Vietnam, the wide recognition in this nation of the tragedy of military involvement involve-ment in the first place and the beginning of the withdrawal of substantial American forces." Pointing to Peace But, he said, "feeble though they may bo, the signs seem' to be pointing in the direction of peace." Sen. Mansfield conceded that most Americans feel "this brutal war, this war that has left 45,000 dead, 250,000 wounded and cost $100 billion," must end. But he added that there is more to be decided upon than a timetable time-table for withdrawal of American forces. Also needed is "a military strategy which is suited to t h e interim, and, finally, the terms on which a settlement among the Vietnamese themselves w i 1 1 be achieved." He drew applause when he said, "In my judgment the conflict is likely to end sooner than later |