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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 13, 1967
Middle East 6-day war top 1967 story
By Diane Wengler,
Carol Debonis,
Merrily Robinson
The Middle East erupted into violence last summer for the third time in 20 years. When it was all over a week later, one of the greatest military upsets in history had taken place.
The six-day war between Israel and her Arab neighbors was chosen top news story of 1967 by Kansan editorial writers.
Unlike the Vietnam conflict, this was a war the American people wholeheartedly supported, both morally and with hundreds of thousands of dollars hurriedly collected and sent to Israel.
Tension erupts into war
Arab-Israeli hostilities, simmering for years, reached a boil May 22 when Secretary-General U Thant, at Nasser's request, pulled the U.N. peace-keeping troops out of the Gaza Strip between Egypt and Israel. Nasser immediately closed the Gulf of Aqaba and sent armored divisions into the Strip, Syria, Jordan and Iraq put more troops under Nasser's control and they too were mobilized.
After waiting two weeks for U.S. help, Israel sent her troops against the Arabs and within six days drove them far within their borders. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan emerged as the hero of a struggle in which Israel, vastly outmanned and out-armed, quadrupled her land size and increased her population by 40 per cent.
Other top stories and their ranking were:
2. The Vietnam story this year was one of escalation. While protesters marched and Congress requested (and sometimes demanded) settlement, new troops were sent in and new bombing-targets named. In the continuing story of Vietnam, 1967 was the year of the DMZ, of heavy fighting in the Mekong
River Delta, et Dak To, Con Thien and Hill 881.
Hanoi turned down U.S. peace feelers and B52s began bombing North Vietnam. More than one-half million American soldiers are now fighting in Vietnam's jungles, and the 15,000 mark for U.S. dead was recently passed.
Race riots shock the U.S.
3. Race riots—From Albany, N.Y., to Waterbury, Conn., and Waukegan, Ill., the nation's ghettoes were menaced by rock-throwing, fire-bombing and looting. Newark, the fiercest race riot since Watts, produced 21 dead. The Detroit riot killed 41 and destroyed six square miles of the city.
Riots in Plainfield, N.J., Cairo, Ill., Des Moines and Wichita plunged the nation into its greatest racial crisis since Reconstruction, threatened to bring civil rights progress to a standstill and made questionable heroes of Black Power radicals Stokley Carmichael and H. Rap Brown.
4. The Vietnam war protests were with us all year, but in the fall they became increasingly vocal. The dissent climaxed in October with the massive Pentagon demonstration in Washington, D. C., concluding Draft Resistance Week. Thirty-five thousand protesters ranted and chanted their opposition to the Vietnam war. Among them was just about every element of 1967-style American dissent—hippies, college professors, revolutionaries, housewives, ministers and motorcycle gangs. When it was all over, 425 had been arrested and 13 were injured.
5. "Fire! There's a fire in the cabin!" were the last words spoken before fire ignited the 100 per cent oxygen atmosphere in the manned space capsule during a full-scale simulation of the planned Apollo flight. The resulting deaths of Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H.
Astronauts die in Apollo fire
White II and Roger B. Chaffee constituted America's greatest space tragedy and caused a setback and re-evaluation of our space program.
6. The quiet campus of Glassboro State Teacher's College in New Jersey was the site last June of one of history's most informal summit conferences. Russia's premier Alexei Kosygin and President Johnson chose it as a point halfway between Washington and New York's USSR delegation for private talks during Kosygin's visit to the U.N.
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7. Although Johnson still is the leading candidate for the Democratic party, he is not to be uncontested in 1968. Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota announced he will oppose Johnson in several state primaries. Their subject of controversy is the Vietnam question.
Republicans in their search for a winning ticket have apparently been unable to resolve the conservativeliberal split in the party this year. Although the Gallup poll announced the most popular ticket would be a Rockefeller-Reagan one, party chiefs still favor Richard Nixon.
Although Romney was a leader in early 1967, he lost support with his "brainwashing" charge. Although there is support for actor-turned-politician Reagan, few would give him the top spot against Johnson, politican-turned-actor.
8. The 90th Congress may be remembered for its striking non-productivity as the budget-conscious members took pokes at domestic spending and virtually pigeonholed Johnson's proposed surtax. The Chief of State's old political suave was caught short this year as he found the Democrats almost as difficult to handle as the Republicans
Hippies become an institution
9. Height-Astbury and flower children took the term Hippie cut of quotes this summer. What had been a fad became a seriously studied way of life as teens and post-teens migrated to Hippie settlements on both coasts and such places as Drop City, Colo., and Morning Star Commune, Calif. With love-ins, communal living and free use of drugs, the Hippie movement has fascinated sociologists and shocked "the Establishment." The inherent psychedelia has generated new sounds in music, and pointed new directions in art and writing.
10. After the tragic Apollo episode, the U.S. space program got a boost as the launching of the gigantic Saturn 5 put the U.S. ahead of Russia in brute rocket force. In addition, Surveyor 6 made a soft landing on the moon and performed the first rocket-powered take-off from the lunar face. With help from Russia's Venus 4, U.S. Mariner 5 compiled data depicting Venus as a hall-hole of unbearable heat with optical illusions and a dense, noxious atmosphere.
Many others important
Other important stories of 1967 were:
The 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, Britain's devaluation of the pound, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's vacating his post, Svetlana Stalin's defection from the Soviet Union.
Investigation of questionable activities of Sen. Thomas Dodd and Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's assertions about who killed President Kennedy, De Gaulle's statements that Quebec should "liberate herself" from Canada, appointment of the first Negro to the Supreme Court, and the meeting between Pope Paul XI and Athenagorus I, the first such meeting since the Orthodox and Catholic churches split in the Middle Ages.
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TWOE WHO LOST
In a 6-day classic last summer, Israel stunned the world and humiliated its foes by achieving a devastating victory over the Arab nations. Here, Egyptian prisoners guarded by their Israeli captors on the Sinai Peninsula, reflect the defeat that led strongman Nasser to resign, temporarily, as Egypt's president.
Year's book sales set record
By Rose M. Lee and Dan McCarthy
Book sales of $2.5 billion made 1967 the 15th consecutive record-breaking year in one of the nation's booming businesses.
The books that readers bought in '67 were socio-economic works, biographies and autobiographies.
Associated Press writer John Cunniff found the jumbo, pace-setting, socio-economic book sales indicative of a more educated public.
More provocative mass audiences ideas pour forth in John Kenneth Galbraith's "The New Industrial State," a follow-up to his "The Affluent Society." This latest work keeps Galbraith among the top 10 nonfiction writers according to New York Times and Time Magazine December surveys.
The lofty Nobel Prize for Literature went to Guatemalan Miguel Angel Asturias, whose novels "Mulata de Tal" and "El Presidente" caught international attention for their stinging words on tyrants and exploiters.
Holiday magazine's Prix d'Ennui award for "the worst book of the year" was carried home by James Jones for "Go to the Widow-Maker," a 618-page novel about sex and skin diving.
Although the million was plagued by racial and metropolitan riots, books on the racial issue were rare. One such title, "Black Power—White Resistance," was written by New York Times writer Fred Powledge. Tom Hayden in "Rebellion in Newark: Cf-
ficial violence and Ghetto Response" implied the New Jersey viiot were started and kept alive for five days by Newark police. And Martin Luther King Jr. denounced "black power" in "Where do We Go from There: Chaos or Community?"
Svetland, all Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, had to come to America to post her "Twenty Letters to a Friend." After national magaz.ne serialization, her book still does well in top sales surveys.
With all the noisy, late 1966 fuss about William Manchester's "The Death of a President," Harper and Row's $10 edition, prognosticated to do well, was not the big seller anticipated.
Conversely, the subject of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was so popular that a dozen Bobby books were released (or slated for 1957 release). Pick your choice: RFK as Attorney General, as a presidential hopeful, or as a biographical subject—it's all between many covers. Kennedy also turned out his own book: "To Seek a Newer World."
Memoirs and histories were popular in 1967, "At Esse," by Dwight D Eisenhower, "The Korean War" by Matthew B. Ridgway, "Incredible Victory" by Walter Lord, and "Memoirs" by George F. Kennan are only a few in this category.
Books about journalists and by journalists were also of significance note. James Reston's "Sketches in the Sand," W. A. Swa borg's "Pulitzer," and "Byline Ernest Hemingway" received repeated
mention. "Last Reflections on a War" includes the tape Vietnam war correspondent Bernard E. Fall made before his death in Vietnam in February 1967. Fa's "Hell is a very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu" also came out in 1967.
A flood of titles about Vietnam contained a heavyweight in "The Bitter Heritage" by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Norman Mailer was mailed by most critics for his "Why Are We in Vietnam?", in which Vietnam was mentioned only on the final page. Thorpe Menn, book editor of the Kansas City Star, called Mailer's work "a classic of foulmouth."
On the Mt. Oread scene, Mrs. Charles Stough, buyer of trade books for Kansas Union book shelves, reported that paperback fiction by J. R. R. Tokilien recorded sales in the hunders. Will and Ariel Durant's "Rouseau and Revolution," going at $15 a copy, also sold well. Other titles in sociology, scien e et on and history were popular on campus this year.
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