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JAPANESE PEACE TEAM IN U.S.

NEW YORK--Members of a Japanese "Team for Peace" meet the press

in New York on the first leg of a three-week mission to "pray

together, think together and, if possible, act together" with

American Christians on behalf of a peaceful settlement in Vietnam.

Dr. Isamu Omura (left), moderator of Japan's United Church of

Christ, answers questions as the four men and one woman appeared at

the Overseas Press Club. At right is Prof. Yoshiaki Iizaka of

Gakushuin University in Tokyo. The group was sent to the U.S. by

the Japan Christian Council for Peace in Vietnam.

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RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-6E-65-NBM)