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In resolutions, the N.C.C. assembly promised continued support for its civil rightist Mississippi Delta Ministry. It asked the U.S. Government for more "candor" in discussing the war in Viet Nam, and called on the U.S. to consider halting the bombing of North Viet Nam and seek the help of the United Nations in reaching a negotiated settlement. In ecumenical gestures, it invited the Roman Catholic Church to join the council's decision-making committees and supported Pope Paul's appeal for an extension of the Christmas-New Year truce in South Viet Nam.