N. Vietnam Calls U.S. Offer 'Absurd'

PARIS--The Communist delegation to the Paris peace talks Thursday rejected President Nixon's latest peace plan as an "unreasonable and absurd" ultimatum, but hinted they might listen to any new proposal Nixon might make.

The North Vietnamese negotiators stand, coupled with a violent condemnation of U.S. air strikes in Vietnam, failed to move the conference off dead center as had been hoped in Washington.

Nguyen Thi Binh, Viet Cong foreign minister, said the ceasefire called for again Thursday by U.S. negotiator Willilam J. Porter and Saigt.s Pham Dang Lam "does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to self defense."