DEFIES RETALIATION IN SCORING U.S. ON VIETNAM POLICY
In a speech delivered in Cairo November 24, President Gamal Abdel Nasser scored Washington's policies in Vietnam. He characterized the war there as a "tragedy whose horror surpasses any humanly conceivable horror." The head of the United Arab Republic demanded that the United States stop its bombing of north Vietnam and withdraw its troops. .
Nasser revealed that his own government had been subjected to heavy pressure from Washington to cease and desist in saying anything critical about the United States. The pressure is of the most brutal kind; namely, cutting off food shipments to the Egyptian people. "American policy has chosen to suspend this arrangement," Nasser said, "and our first duty is to prove to those who want to put pressure on us that we can rely on ourselves and can..follow. an independent road and bear its consequences."'-.