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By DARRELL CHRISTIAN
Kernel Staff Writer

What is Vietnam?
It was death for 5,000 Americans in
19G6.

It is a war that some politicians and
observers alike have predicted will continue for 15 years hence.
And it is problems for the Selective
Service System, which has the monthly
chore of supplying that hot spot in Southeast Asia with United States fightingmen
to check Communist aggression.
These problems are not new; nor is
the debate that now stirs over the draft.

"wants to sec their viewpoint, too."

Next month a special Presidential Commission appointed to study its merits and
fallacies will make its recommendations.
What will the report say?
Most believe the commission will propose no major changes in the present
system, only changes in how the law is
administered.
Sen. John Sherman Cooper,
one of the first Congressmen to propose
the Presidential commission, reserved
comment until the report is made public.
A spokesman in Cooper's office said the
senator has recently become a member
of the foreign relations committee and

E. W. Kelley, UK political science
professor, said he can foresee no significant changes being made "as long as we
choose to pursue our present foreign

policy."

Major proposals from opponents of the
draft take this form:
An involuntary draft for
non-militar- y

tasks.

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tasks
Drafting women for
to relieve some of the burden on present
military draft calls.
A random selection technique, similar
to a lottery, for determining which one
will serve.
in three
non-militar- y

The administration apparently Itopcs
to make the war as painless as possible
this year in terms of draft calls and new
'
inflationary stimulus to the economy.
The average monthly draft call will
high because of the need to
maintain a military establishment of 3.1
million and provide replacements for nun
tour in Vietcompleting their
demand will be
nam. But the over-al- l
less because the buildup is, in elfett, being
terminated.
A nation-widpoll among high school
juniors and seniors conducted by Scholastic
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Vol. 58, No. 83

University of Kentucky
WEDNESDAY, JAN.

LEXINGTON,

25, 1907

K.Y.,

Eight Pages

False Alarm At Complex
Fires Midnight Trouble
to

Flowers From IBM?
No, everything's not coming up roses from the IBM machine,
but some offbeat people over on second floor, Funkhouser decided
they could add a little sunshine to their botanical lives by making
sunflower from that grand old University instituthis super-size- d

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thelBMcard.

AW S Senate Begins

Hours Study Tuesday

An evaluation of women's hours by the AWS Senate will begin
next Tuesday, according to Connie Mullins, AWS president.
Miss Mullins said the statis
Conducted in late November,
tics from an AWS poll on curand women's the poll centered around theques-tionfews in sororities
are you satisfied with hours
dormitories would be presented
at that time. She gave no date as they are; do you favor an exfor any changes in hours to be tension of
instituted, but said they would to sophomores, or to freshmen;
have to be "worked out through do you favor a system of no
various steps ... everyone from hours? A number of questions
the janitor and safety officer to called for personal comments;
the dean of women is involved." girls desiring no curfew were
For these reasons, she said it asked, for example, to explain
would probably take "the rest how they would implement and
of the semester" to activate any maintain such a system.
The poll's findings will be
new plans.
used only as a guideline in the
A discussion of junior-senio- r
hours by resident advisers and evaluation of women's liours.
house mothers, to be presented Miss Mullins has said the AWS
Senate is not obligated to enact
to AWS on Fed. 7, will be "cons,

sidered" in the Senate's
sions, Miss Mullins said.

deci-

any changes suggested by the
survey.

By JOHN ZEH
Kernel Associate Editor
Someone set off a false fire
alarm in a women's dorm at
the new Complex about midnight Tuesday, triggering a disturbance by some 1,000 curious
men students who swarmed into
the area.
The students, aroused by
sirens of city police and firemen
speeding to Complex Eight up
Hilltop and Woodland Avenues,
dispersed an hour later. Campus
police and the dean of men said
they had no trouble with the
crowd.

City police responded at the
request of Lexington firemen,
who said students were blocking
their wav. CamDus officers reported that soft drink bottles
were hurled from fraternity house
rooftops. The air was let out of
all four tires on a campus police
car. Some rocks were thrown by
a few of the "loud, boisterous"
students, the Dean of Men's Office said.
There were no arrests or other
disciplinary action.
The University officials emphasized that most of the students
were just out to see what was
"
happening, "fire
not to cause trouble. The warm
weather was a stimulant, they
added. "We had a similar false
alann in November, but nothing
happened because it was wet
and cold, one said.
Complex Eight Housemother
licks said she
Mrs. Maxie
thought the alarm was pulled as
a prank. A mechanical failure in
the alarm system has been ruled
out. Other alarms were set off
in Complex Five, Six and Seven,
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density student residential area
bordered by Fraternity Row,
first one sounded.
Cooperstown, and the new ComDean of Men Jack Hall and plex. Women occupy four of the
three assistants arrived on the five Complex sections now open,
and two Cooperstown buildings.
scene about 12:45 a.m., respondThe crowd first assembled on
to a call by city police.
ing
Hall convinced the city officers the mall leading from Woodland
that when they left the crowd to the Complex, but later lined
intersection. The
would disperse. He was right; the
within 15 minutes only a few 168 women from Complex Eight
people were left in the area. were evacuated when the alarm
sounded, but were outside no
UK Safety and Security Diasrector Fred Dempsey said his more than five minutes. The
made no effort sembling men were "tempted by
campus policemen
to control or disperse the crowd lace, chiffon and a glimpse of
Lexbecause it was not necessary. bare thigh," according to a
He credited Hall and his staff ington Herald story Wednesday.
Mrs. Hicks said, however, that
with preventing any further disall 168 women had coats on and
turbance.
were "very orderly." "I do know
Location of the trouble was
our girls were behaving," she
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all women's residences, after the

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Faculty At

Berkeley-Denounce-

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Regents

By GLADWIN HILL
(c) New York Times News

Service

CALIF. -- The University of California's Berkeley
faculty tonight voted against policy proposals of the Reagan Administration, rebuked the Board of Regents, and demanded a
larger faculty role in major Univ ersity decisions.
The teachers also formally in
structed a committee to look into Berkeley teaching complement
the feasibility of organizing a meeting as the Berkeley division
"professors union" to strengthen of the Universitywide Academic
Senate, which comprises all
their "collective bargaining"
faculty members. Similar meetadpower with the University
ings were scheduled on the Uniministration and the regents.
versity's other eight campuses
The action, growing out of
last week's abrupt dismissal of today and tomorrow.
The faculty meeting followed
University President Dr. Clark
was taken by 767 faculty an orderly noon protest rally by
Kerr,
members about half the total about 2,500 of Berkeley's 27,000
students. On the fringe of the
rally, student solicitors at tables
accepted enrollments and contributions for an "ad hoc committee to impeach Reagan" and
as 25 percent of his nursing positions were sold buttons iascribed "Abolish
The Regents."
vacant, not counting the needs of the unused wards.
Hundreds of students staged
A 20 percent wage increase in July helpa "silent vigil" outside the Acaed make UK's summer recruiting efforts
demic Senate meeting.
successful. Wages will probably be inCheers went up w hen a resocreased another 10 percent next month "But lution was adopted charging the
we're still a long way from being out of regents' majority that voted to
the woods," Wittrup concedes.
file Kerr with having "betrayed
So are most other liospitals in Kentucky
your trust."
The teachers said it was "inregistered nurses now,
They need
the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) dispensable to prevent further
estimates. The situation will worsen as the damage to the university" that:
state's health needs multiply, its executive
The advice of the faculty
secretary, Hasty W. Riddle, points out. be secured in decisions
BERKELEY,

Nursing Shortage Limits University Hospital

In these respects, University Hospital
By JOHN ZEH
can be considered one of the hardest hit
Kernel Associate Editor
in Kentucky, a state where anemic salaries
A fourth of the 450 beds in Lexington's
$12 million University Hospital cannot be have brought on an acute deficiency of
nurses.
used. There are not enough nurses.
But unlike the shocking shortage in most
As a result, the facility cannot take all
the patients referred there, most of wlum other hospitals, all but a few nursing posibadly need more specialized care than their tions budgeted for UK's activated beds are
rural doctors give. They must go elsewhere
Third in a scries.
for treatment.
is postElective surgery ( no
poned. "Some probably never get it," one filled. (Consequently, care for patients adadministrator fears. Clinical experiences for mitted is at a high level.)
"Things were not so rosy earlier this
University medical students are limited due
to the idle space. Activation of the empty year though," chief administrator Richard
wards is nine months behind schedule.
Wittrup admits, pointing out that as many

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Visual And Tactile
Campbell's Sculpture:
often said, "You've got to get the feci of it!"
All of Campbell's work is done by hand. His fingers
are continuously in contact with the stone. For months
(on some pieces) he involves himself in the process of
feeling the stones out, of learning through his hands
the forces that are inside the stones, in short, of making

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that the most vital, living confrontations
his art occur when one is not trying to "underwith
stand" or "appreciate" it, but at moments when the
shield of intellect is lowered and one's whole body,
mind, and soul spontaneously become aware of the
sculpture's simultaneous existence in space-tim-

the sculpture.
This perception by physical sensation from discrete
skin organs is not only an important factor in creating
the art, but is also a prime means of appreciating it.
The strong geometry of "Homage to stonehenge" is
freed and illuminated in counterpoint by the manual
history breaking richly forth from its fluid surface. And,
from this approach, a piece as severe as"The Innocent"
has the same warmth and loveliness as human flesh.
Another way of enjoying and being enlarged by
Campbell's sculpture can best be summarized in a statement he once made concerning his method of working.
He said, "The best things happen sideways." Translated
into language somewhat less impenetrable than stone

MICHAEL YOCUM
To speak properly of Kenneth Campbell's sculpture
one would need to retain the unity that is the basis
and reality of his work. This, in my opinion, would
entail the use of his thoughts, his emotions, his existence, and the methods and skills whereby he expresses himself.
To speak thusly one would have to be Kenneth
Campbell and one would have to carve stones. That,
of course, is possible for only one person. We find
ourselves at that
(very treacherous) bend
of the road: art must speak for itself. Any analytical
attempt, any game of critical or historical charades, any
explanation (no matter how well intended or handled)
can only vitiate the art itself. With the reader keeping
this in mind a little more will be, reluctantly, tendered.
Attention to several things can help one more fully
appreciate Campbell's sculpture. His work is, for instance, not only visual, but intensely tactile; the pieces
arc meant to be touched, caressed, felt. As he has
By

In viewing Kenneth Campbell's exhibition, it is probably a good idea to take it easy; to enjoy his sense
of humor (much evident in this show); to delight in
his attention to "minute particulars," both tactilly
and visually; and to remember that this is the work
of a highly intelligent man who mistrusts intellect save
as a guideline for the all inclusive common sense by
and through which his sculptures are created.

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These moments, like those of Proust's involuntary
and freshness to
memory, owe much of their power
fact that they are never come at directly, but althe
the central chanways apprehended indirectly, through
nels of human experience.

Annual Mardi Gras Charity Ball Set
For Feb. 4; Proceeds Go To Charity
king and queen will be
elected and the king will be
called "Rex" as in the New Orleans Mardi Cras.
All sororities and women's
residence halls will nominate a
king candidate. All fraternities
and men's residence halls will
choose a candidate for queen.
"Rex" will be elected by sturen.
from Louisville dent vote in the student center
The Chateaus
will entertain. The dance will the week prior the dance.
He will choose his Queen
be scmifbrmal.
A

The annual Mardi Gras Charity Ball, sponsored by the Newman Center, will be held Feb. 4
in the Student Center Ballroom.
For the first time, the ball
will be a charity affair. All proceeds will be donated to Lexington's Cardinal Hill Convalescent Hospital for crippled child-

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at the ball by spinning a wheel
of fortune.
The Queen will visit the hospital sometime soon after the
dance and present the money
and distribute gifts to the child-

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Tickets for the dance are available at Graves Cox, University
Wallace Book Store,
Shop,
Kennedy Book Store, University
Book Store, and all fraternity)
houses. They are $3 in advance
and $4 at the door.
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University Art Club Film Series
Presents
"DAY IN THE COUNTRY"
Polanski

By Roman

"TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE"
Jean Renoir

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New Magazine,

Cousin Of Stylus,
To Appear Here
Sometime in March, a new
literary magazine, the Kentucky
Review, will appear on campus.
This magazine is a second
cousin to the now defunct Stylus and is the brainchild of editor, Robert Walker. TheKCntucky
'
Review is to be aimed at all
people interested in the humanities and the arts nd will include such distinguished names
as Jonathan Green and Christopher Middleton.
The magazine differs from
Stylus in that it is less a creative magazine and more one of
wide interests; exhibiting poetry,
a short story by Dr. R. O. Evans
of the English Department, a
book review by Dr. Jesse
on Gilbert Ryle's "Plato's
Progress," various art pieces, a
philosophical dialogue, and a

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Works of Kenneth Campbell, UK resident sculpture instructor,
are being shown daily in the Fine Arts Gallery through Feb. 19.

The Kentucky Review is ready
to be sent to the publisher pending the final proofreading. The
hold up in publication has been
the lack of response from students in submitting work for the

Art Film Festival Begins
Thursday With Tivo Shows
When an artist "lays his cards on the table," the student should
know what he is seeing, says Bill Roughen,
president of the Art

Club.
For this reason, the Art Club is sponsoring a campuswide Art
Film Festival to expose all students to the art of film making.
magazine.
A variety of subjects will be covered, but the exact titles of
The editors have asked for
more critical material especially the films have not been confirmed.
The series will start at 7 p.m. Thursday with "A Day in the
essays for the next issue the
deadline is May 5. This issue of Country" and "Two Men in a Wardrobe" in the Student Center
the magazine will be out in Theatre.
More films will be shown on Jan. 29, Feb. 9, Feb. 16, March 2,
March but hereafter, the publiMarch 9, March 23, and March 30.
cation dates are set for FebThe films on Feb. 9 and Feb. 16 will be Charlie
ruary and October.
Chaplin movies
shown at the Nexus Coffee House.
Another project sponsored by the Art Club this semester is the
Student Art Callery to be held at the Reynolds
From tho 30's & 40's
Building on Broadway.

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There will be five different showings
during the semester. Students are invited to see the works any week
from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. The shows will include works from classes day
from the beginning
to the graduate levels. The date for the
opening has not been set.
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Medical Needs Multiply
But Nurses Are Few
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Reports from officials in
scattered parts of the state show
these shortages:
Louisville hospitals have more
than 200 vacancies. TheOwens-borarea could use 25 more
registered nurses. T. J. Sampson
Hospital in Glasgow alone needs
12 nurses. The
Appalachian Regional Hospitals in Eastern Kentucky are short 50.
Lexington's hospitals need at
least 100 fulltime RNs; more than
50 private duty nurses are needed.
A Somerset hospital has only
half the RNs needed. Psychiatric hospitals have only 80 percent of their jobs filled. Bowling
Green needs 15 RNs. The state
Health Department has 15 vacancies, three in depressed Harlan County alone.
As one administrator said,
"There just aren't enough nurses
to go around."
Nor are there enough people
working in allied health fields,
where deficits are considered "urgent" by state health officials,
professional groups, and educators. Several of them have asked
Gov. Edward T. Breathitt to
appoint a special study team to
determine how the shortage can
best be alleviated. It is expected
that the governor will carry out
the request soon.
The nursing shortage in Ken-o

tucky is actually a shortage of
nurses willing to work, the Kentucky Nurses Association says.
There are 8,370 registered nurses
licensed by the state, but only
6,209 are active. And, only 2,826
of the 3,367 licensed practical
nurses listed are working.
Get those nurses to return,
says Nelle VVeller, the KNA's
executive secretary, and "then
let's see if we have a shortage."
How can they be induced back
to work? "Pay them," she demands. The average starting salary at most Kentucky hospitals
has been $300 a month. In larger
cities a general duty nurse has
5
started at
a month.
Salaries are changing rapidly
now, due in part to nurses' new
militancy elsewhere and the
KNA's $6,500 minimum-salar$350-$37-

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goal.

Here are comparisonsof recent
starting salaries for registered
nurses in specific areas or fields:
Appalachian Regional Hospi

tals,

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effective Jan. 1, $1,500 a year
Lexago; Paducah,
ington, $5,200; Owensboro, $20
a day; State Health Department,
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after Jan. 1; Louisville, $5,200;
state Department of Mental
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$6,450, for example.
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had on patient care inKentucky?
Nurses must be spread thinner,
taking on added duties and working overtime. Staff and patient
morale suffers. Inexperienced personnel must be pressed into ser-

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Like nearly everywhere else,
the patient suffers from not only
his own ailment, but also from
another sickness plaguing the
profession he depends upon for
help.
Next: A Cure?

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Miss Suzanne Norman, nursing team leader on University Hospital's
pediatrics floor, gives special attention to a child. Wards at the
UK hospital that are open are adequately staffed with nurses.

DEAR REB:

composer, and need a new car.
The trouble is, I'm just too Bizet to pick one out. And
what's more, many of the new cars see are Offenbach in the garage for repairs. But do have a good
friend who is pleased with his new '67 Dodge Dart.
He was given an excellent deal and Berlioz any
money on it.MyBach is to the wall. Can you help me?
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My advice is that you let yourself Ravel in the enjoyDart for '67.
ment of driving the sporty,
You'll find its Liszt price is a lot lower than you'd
expect. And even though it's longer outside and
bigger inside this year, Dart's still an easy car to
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the Lexington Rotary Club.
The $100 awards were given
for outstanding scholarship and
recognition as good citizens on
campus.
Seniors receiving awards were
Charles Anderson, Maysville; and
Anne Simonetti, Lexington. April
Lillard, Irving, Tex.; and Laura
Muntz, Cynthiana, were junior
recipients.
Carol Hoskins, Lexington;
and Bruce Waddell, St. Charles,

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* THE VIETNAM ISSUE

War Dishonorable, President Deceitful
Kight years before the defeat
of the French forces at Dicnb-ienpli- u
in 195-1North Vietnamese
President Ho Chi Minh told a
leading French official, "If we have
to fight, we will fight. You will
kill ten of our men and we will
kill one of yours, and in the end
it will be you who will tire of it."

Today the United States is

The Vietnam war, then, is tragic
because it reflects an incapacity on
the part of the United States to
respond creatively to communist-oriente- d
revolutionary movements
within newly emergent countries.
A policy of unqualified opposition
to any and all such movements
implies support for the
governments regardless of
how unresponsive to national aspirations they may be.
non-commun-

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volved in a costly war in the same
country, and many Americans and
their representatives in Washington are growing increasingly
weary weary of the impact of
the war on the American economy,
weary of the Johnson Administration's outdated concept of communism and Southeast Asian affairs
and weary of the creditability gap
which prevents them from getting
the truth about the war.
However, President Johnson, as
recently as last week, said the United States will persist in the war.

terms of the number of American
The Credit ability Cap
soldiers killed.
And while the loss of lives in
Not only do few Americans know
Vietnam may be less than the highwhy we are in Vietnam, but a
way death toll, this is quite be- rising number of citizens believe
side the point.
are not being told the truth
The point is the question of they
about the war by their government.
just what these soldiers are dying
This is the creditability gap
for. The Johnson Administration
so often discussed, and it is reaL
and the nation's other Hawks see
The reports of Harrison Salthe war as a clearcut battle against
Communism. They argue that if isbury of the New York Times have
Vietnam falls, all of Asia will one added fuel to the arguments of those
Economic Impact
day fall also, i.e., that old alba- who say ttye government distorts
information about Vietnam. As the
Figures released at the end of tross the Domino Theory.
1966 show that during this fiscal
This theory, however, is out- first American newsman allowed in
the United States is spend: dated, as most foreign policy ex- North Vietnam, Salisbury preyear
ing $322,000 for each Vietcong kilperts will attest. The struggles in sented a picture to American readled.
Asia have always been more na- ers that the Administration had
If the enemy to freedom in South tionalistic than ideological, but the painted differently. Now two more
Bill
Vietnam is, as the Johnson Ad- State Department has yet to rec- American
newspapermen,
ministration says, the Vietcong and ognize this fact. Perhaps the Amer- Baggs, editor of the Miami News,
the North Vietnamese infiltrators, ican sense of pride will not allow former Pulitzer Prize winner Harry
Salisit seems the American economy will us to admit that we are engaged Ashmore, have confirmed
take quite a beating before the in a war against the tide of Asian bury's reports.
threat is removed by the present nationalism.
Together, these reports show
what a mighty nation like the UniThe Vietnam war has expanded
military escalation.
The air war against North Vietto international proportions largely ted States can do to a small, weak
nation like North Vietnam and do
nam and Vietcong bases in the because the U.S. views the conSouth is an example of the ef- flict as a test of will between de- at will.
We have beaten their backs to
fect the war has daily on the mocracy and communism. This apAmerican economy. B52's cost proach reflects how the U.S. views the wall, but as Ho Chi Minh
$1,000 an hour to fly. The typical any national movement, whether predicted to the French some 20
trip from Guam to a North Viet- implicitly or explicitly communist, years ago their will to fight renamese target is eight hours; thereas part of a world-wid- e
Red of- mains unbroken. We would sub
fore, a bombing raid for one B52 fensive directed against the "free
costs $8,000 in flying time alone. world."
A single bomb load costs some
The American Hawks obviously
$60,000. (Recent reports indicate' do not realize that one can speak
the United States is flying B52's of a Communist world in the same
out of Thailand and Cambodia as sense as one speaks of an Arab
well as Guam.)
world or a Christian world. But
So far this fiscal year, about this need not imply that the Com425 American bombers have made
munist world, anymore than the
this round trip monthly. The cost Christian world, is a unity comapproaches $30 million a month. mitted to a single ideology and
This $1 million a day is only strategy.
a fraction of the bombing costs,
It is somewhat ironic that the
however. Secretary McNamara has Johnson Administration seems to
estimated that the U.S. will lose have recognized the extent to which
about 580 aircraft worth about $2 national interests are redefining
million each during the current
relations in Eastern Europe.
fiscal year.
Rut this same Administration seems
unable to view the Vietnamese comConcept Of Communism
munist revolution as anything less
The cost to the American econ- than a vanguard movement deomy is one measure of the Viet- signed to overwhelm Southeast
nam war not usually discussed. Asia, presumably in concert with
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mit that this will is more commendable than American diplomacy, which is often characterized
by statements like that of L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee, who
said the U.S. should "flatten Hanoi .. . public opinion be damned."
President Johnson could have
agreed to American talks with the
North Vietnamese in 1964 but refused. The talks, arranged by Sec
retary General U Thant and U.N.
Ambassador Adali Stevenson were
to be kept secret so that neither
side could suffer. Yet the U.S.
would not talk.
Now the State Department
makes sweeping proposals for talks
while the American bombers continue to flatten North Vietnamese
industry and civilians when they
are in the way.
It seems unlikely that North
Vietnam can be bullied into talking. Britain, during the dark days
of early World War II, was beat
to its knees yet fought all the more
valiantly. Are we to expect any
nation to give in at bayonet point?
Moreover, the Salisbury reports
and other information again indicate how the American people are
being misled. Anyone who doubts
need only look at the records of the
past five years. The mistruths and
fabrications are all there the pron
ises and the statements that were to
be proven false days, weeks, or
months later.
Faced with a costly and dishonorable war, a dishonest and
'deceitful Administration, the American people can do little but wonder
about the wisdom of continuing
,down the same narrow tunnel with
,ho light yet visible at the end.

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would also eliminate the squabMagazines found that 77 percent ble over student deferments,
of male students favor the involwhich have been assailed as beuntary draft for
ing discrimatory to the poor who
tasks. Such activities would in- cannot afford college.
clude the Peace Corps, Medical
The fact that the scholars
Corps, VISTA and the Job Corps. and soldiers agreed on the issue
Involuntary service for wo- of youngest first is considered by
men, including "tasks of prosome as a significant bearing on
tecting, conserving and develop- the present congressional session.
ing our country or those counStill, there is not enough evitries we wish to aid," was fa- dence to hope for major changes
vored by 46 percent of the same in the law. It is generally thought
age group.
that Congress will try to stradThe same survey asked the dle both sides of the debate and
youths' opinion on a lottery draft call for more rigid controls over
"once a year for all
draft board standards to end the
men who are physically flagrant variations in deferment
and mentally able to serve in qualifications.
the armed forces." Fifty-onperEven the National Advisory
cent of the boys and 46.2 percent Commission on Selective Service
of the girls considered it a poor may fail because of the long
idea.
shadow cast by manpower needs
Prof. Kelley said the involfor the Vietnam war. The same
tasks fate befell an extensive manpower
untary draft for
would not solve the present probstudy begun by the Pentagon
lems of the selective service sys- in early 1964 before commitment
tem. "Whether we admit it or