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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 19. 1967
Ex-marine says Vietnam not vital
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—Gen. David Shoup, retired Marine Corps commandant, believes the Vietnam conflict is really a Civil War and calls the contention it is vital to U.S. interests "unadulterated poppycock."
The outspoken Medal of Honor winner said Communists in Southeast Asia are not the threat to the United States the Johnson administration contends.
And the war is really mere civil strife between "those crooks in Saigon" and Vietnamese nationalists seeking a better life, he said.
Hits Saigon Regime
Shoup, 63, who said early in 1966 the United States should have kept its "dirty, bloody fingers" out of Vietnam, reiterated his views Monday in a taped radio interview with Rep. William F. Rylan, D-N.Y.
Shoup, Marine commandant from 1960 to 1965, had this to say about the administration's contention Asian Communists are a threat to America:
"They just keep trying to keep the people worried about the Communists crawling up the banks of Pearl Harbor, or crawling up the Palisades, or crawling up the beaches of Los Angeles, which of course is a bunch of pure, unadulterated poppycock."
Urges Ceasefire
Shoup also proposed that President Johnson promise in advance to cease all offensive military actions when peace talks begin. He
said Johnson should call on North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh to set the time and place for negotiations.
Wheeler, addressing the Detroit Economic Club, said the United States is prepared to end the bombing of North Vietnam, but only if there is "assurance such a stoppage would be promptly followed by productive talks whose objective is peace."
He said Hanoi is continuing the war in hopes that American discord over the conflict will bring a basic change in U.S. policy before the Viet Cong collapse.
Extend Bombing Halt
Meanwhile nine House Republicans renewed their suggestion that the United States extend the brief upcoming Christmas and New Year's truces with a 60-day halt in U.S. bombing north of the 21st parallel, an area that includes Hanoi but not the port of Haiphong.
Feregin Students. If you are leaving Lawrence during the Christmas holidays, don't fail to leave your address the Dean of Foreign Students office.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Christian Science Organization.
7:30 p.m. Danch庙 Chapel.
Jayhawk Rodeo Club. 7:30 p.m.
Party. Boarding Stables on Hwy. 290.
Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"The Knack."
WEDNESDAY
Christmas Recess Begins. 5:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
SATURDAY, December 23
Basketball, 8:15 p.m. p. St. Louis.
Tigre
Basketball 8 p.m. Louisville, There.
WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY, 27.01.
Big Eight Basketball Tournament,
Oklahoma State, 9:30 p.m. Dec. 28.)
Potpourri won by two
The speech department has announced the winners of this semester's Potpourri, a contest held among the best speakers in Speech I classes.
The winners of the contest, held last Wednesday and Thursday, are Nancy K. Jorn, Oberlin freshman and Mark C. Duster, St. Louis freshman.
Supreme Court sets wiretapping limits
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The Supreme Court has given the states some guidance how to regulate wiretapping and other types of electronic eavesdropping by police.
Thus if police want to eavesdrop, they must conform to these requirements, Stewart said, and they must later notify the authorizing magistrate in detail of what information has been taken.
A search warrant must be based upon "probable cause" to believe a crime has been, or is being committed and must specify the place to be searched or the person or things to be seized.
In an opinion by Justice Potter Stewart Monday, the court placed these practices within the framework of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, which says that police must get a warrant from a magistrate before they can search an individual or his home.
The vote on the decision was 7 to 1 with Justice Hugo L. Black the lone dissenter. Justice Thur-
good Marshall, who served until recently as U.S. solicitor General, did not participate.
The test case concerned the conviction of Charles Katz of Los Angeles on charges of making telephone calls to transmit betting information. After FBI agents saw Katz using a particular row of telephone booths on Sunset Boulevard, they placed a device on top of the bank of booths to tape record his end of the conversations. Katz challenged the use of the tapes as evidence at his trial.
The Stewart opinion reversed the conviction because the FBI had not conformed to 4th Amendment standards.
The decision dispelled the confusion generated last term when the court struck down a New York law authorizing wiretapping under a judge's order. The court said the law was too sweeping and gave the policeman a "toving commission" to seize any and all conversations.
Constantine, junta discuss return
By United Press International
The Greek military regime put strong pressure today on King Constantine to choose whether he will return to a weakened throne, let a regent take his place or remain in permanent exile.
In Athens the regime stole some of the young king's thunder by promising to set the date soon for Democratic elections to adopt a
new constitution and possibly to establish a parliament.
Constantine, who fled to Rome Thursday after an unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing the military junta that took power in April, conferred Monday with an envoy from the colonels.
Stylianos Pattakos, deputy premier in the military government, said Monday the government did not feel this was "the proper
time" for Constantine to return but that he should decide now if he wants to return in the future.
The junta has reportedly demanded the removal of "corrupt" palace officials and a guarantee that Constantine will be "genuinely nonpolitical."
The colonels also have insisted that the strong-willed queen mother, Frederika, stay out of the country.
The born loser
LONGVIEW, Tex. —(UPI)— The policeman read the note on the windshield of a car parked in a no-parking area.
It read:
"I have circled this block ten times, and I have an appointment and must keep it or lose my job. Forgive us for trespasses."
The officer wrote a note of his own. It read:
"I have circled this block for 20 years. If I don't give you a ticket I will lose my job. Lead us not into temptation."
TONIGHT - Tues., Dec. 19 THE RED DOG CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH THE FABULOUS FLIPPERS - plus S. Claus
Sat., Dec. 23 - Capitol Recording Artist - THE MAC TRUQUE Sat., Dec. 30 - NEW YEAR'S PARTY - Hats, Horns, Everything