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PHOENIX, Page SevenBack to the Stone AgeWith the opportunity safely to disengage American military personnel and prisoners from the Vietnamese conflict now rapidly receding, President Nixon has resorted once more to naked force to try to obtain his own larger objectives in Southeast Asia%u2014 objectives which are neither realistic nor essential to this country%u2019s security interests. However much Hanoi may be responsible for disrupting the negotiations%u2014which is a highly disputed point%u2014 civilized man will be horrified at the renewed spectacle of the world%u2019s mightiest air force mercilessly pounding a small Asian nation in an abuse of national power and disregard of humanitarian principles.Administration spokesmen have suggested that the renewed bombing is designed to forestall an anticipated Communist offensive. There is little evidence to support such a prospect. In fact, American military spokesmen have long been arguing that Communist troops are not now capable of mounting any serious threat to Saigon%u2019s massive -and heavily armed forces.'JOURNEY FOR PEACE'Although the bombs unquestionably are aimed at military targets, there can be no doubt that they will inflict terrible suffering on civilians in the heavily populated Hanoi-Haiphong area and other population centers. By thus raising the cost of continuing resistance, the President evidently hopes to induce North Vietnam%u2019s leaders to abandon their struggle of nearly three decades and agree to his tenns. Even if this were morally acceptable strategy, all past experience argues against its success.North Vietnam may yet be bombed %u201cback to the Stone Age,%u201d as an Air Force general once suggested. In the process, the United States itself is in danger of being reduced to a kind of Stone Age barbarism that could destroy some of what is most worth preserving in American civilization.FOUR MORE YEARS? %u2022NSW YORK POST, FRIDAY, DECIMKR 31, IfT ILocal Leaders S upport Peace M archBorough President Sebastian Leone, State Senator Carol Bellamy, City Councilman-AtLarge Kenneth Haber and Congresswomen Elizabeth Holtzman urged Brooklynites to join the massive peace demonstration in Washington Saturday at a press conference held at New York City Community College last week. Student leaders, Paul Massas who is president of the Brooklyn College Student Government and Mark Friedman who is chairman of the Brooklyn Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Southeast Asia, also urged local support for the march.The Borough President, sporting a button which read %u201c Get Brooklynwar. %u201c If the President doesn%u2019t stop the war,%u201d he said, %u201c then Congress will know it has the support of New York City to cut off funds.%u201dState Senator Carol Bellamy said, %u201c It is important that we not only speak out against the war, but also put our bodies on the line%u201d and urged all of Brooklyn to join the Inauguration Day protest. %u201c It is very important to go to Washington,%u201d she said. %u201c I wish we could take all of Brooklyn.%u201d The senator then read %u201c I Am a Viet Nam Veteran,%u201d a poem from Winning Hearts and Minds.Other speakers at Friday%u2019s press conference were Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn College Student Government President Paul Massas, Mark Friedman, chairman of the Brooklyn Student Mobilization Committee, and Katherine Sojourner, national coordinator of the National Peace Action Coalition which is sponsoring the Inauguration Day Protest.Local le a d e rs m et F rid a y to u rg e s u p p o rt fo r p e a c e m arch.%u00ab 'Z Z T m Wk h o mC \\ Jw M O W w %u00abM ore than 50,000 Americans k illed in Vietnam ,m ore than 300,000 wounded or injured, m ere than1,600 SMl.W.%u2019s or M.I.S.5s ...In one%u2019 week, in fact, Mr. Nixon has created about 10 per cent more P.O.W.%u2019 s and M. I.A.%u2019 s than the North Vietnamese already held; in the same week, the Air Force lost an average of almost two B-52%u2019 s a day out of a total of only about a hundred said to be operational at any one time in the Indochinese theater. These extraordinary losses suggest that the North Vietnamese, so far from being cowed, are as always responding to escalation with strong new measures of their own. That is the history of this unwinnable and unspeakable war.NO MORE BOMBING! NO MORE PRISONERS! NO MORE KILLING!The Endless Agony\captive in Southeast Asia harbored desperate hopes that a peace treaty could be signed before Christmas.... Now we know that we must face another Christmas with no immediate peace in sight. It is a bitter prospect and the disappointments and frustrations are severe. \-from the statement by the National Leagueo f Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia.New York Times Editorial, Wednesday, December 20, 1972S e b a s tia n LeoneOut of the War,%u201d re-read an antiwar speech he gave in June, 1971, at a peace rally in Prospect Park to emphasize, as he said, %u201c what little progress has been made toward peace in the last two years.%u201d He added, %u201c It was not necessary to change one work word.Councilman Haber said he will introduce a resolution at the next meeting of City Council demanding that Congress act on its own behalf and hold back appropriations if President Nixon does not end thePark Officials OK March SitesRepresentatives of PeaceGroups sponsoring the Jan.20 Anti-War Demonstrationin Washington, D.C., haveannounced that allnecessary permits havebeen obtained for the action. On Sat., Jan. 20,Inauguration Day, inWashington, D.C., %u201cTheMarch Against Death andfor Peace in Vietnam%u201d willassemble near the LincolnMemorial at Bacon Dr. At 12noon the march will step offdown Constitution Avenueto 14th St. to theWashington Monument. Thestage for the rally will be setup between 16th and 17thSts. on the north side of themonument. In this waypeople attending the rallywill face the White House.The assembly and rallysites and march route wereannnunrpH after a meetingbetween Representatives ofNPAC and PCPJ with theirattorney, Phil Hirshkop, andRepresentatives of the U.S.Park Police andMetropolitan Police. JerryGordon of NPAC and SydneyPeck of PCPJ made theannouncement.TEAR OFF AND MAIL TO: SENATOR MIKE MANSFIELD, SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C.uevw csEnatuk: congress is our la s t nope! we urge you to tane tne leaciersnip m ending tm s monstrous, ille g a l war. The new Congress must and can end th is barbarism by denying President Nixon the funds he needs to continue the slaughter in Southeast Asia.Name_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Address____________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________THIS PUBLIC SERVICE AD PAID FOR BY BEN MILLER, CHAIRM AN, PEACE COMMITTEE,WEST BROOKLYN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS