Friday, October 13, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Rusk reaffirms Vietnam policy
ident Johnson's Vietnam policy finally has been cast in starkly simple terms, designed to serve as an effective basis for the administration in its mounting battle with its critics.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a principal architect of the policy, was the official selected to do this. He took care of the job with considerable skill and with what was, for him, unusual fervor in a long news conference Thursday.
In essence, the justification for the administration's uncompromising stand on Vietnam boiled down to this:
The United States is fighting to prevent the possible domination of "hundreds of millions of people in the free nations of Asia" by a nuclear-armed Communist China that will have a population of one billion within the next 10 to 20 years.
-Critics who cast doubt on the determination of the United States to stand by its commitment in Vietnam subject America to "mortal danger." They could lead the Communists into miscalculation that would result in "catastrophe for all mankind."
—It is childish to quibble over whether the United States should
cease bombing North Vietnam in an effort to get peace negotiations. Hanoi has made it clear, publicly and privately, that it is not interested in sincere talks based on mutual give and take.
In effect, Rusk's unusual performance was the first major administration statement of the forthcoming 1968 presidential campaign. It rejected criticism from doves as well as hawks. The implication throughout was that those who disagreed with the present course were out of touch with the realities of the situation.
It was clear, in Rusk's argument, that the administration does not really believe Hanoi has any intention of negotiating in good faith. Thus, the argument projected is that it is extremely naive for America to tear itself apart in wrangling over the question of whether the current diplomatic and military tactics are offering the North Vietnamese maximum incentive to talk peace.
One of the strongest "incentives to peace" in Rusk's view, is the gradually intensified bombing of the North. This now has moved to the point where U.S. planes Thursday for the first time attacked shipyards in the port of Haiphong.
Dallas to be tight town, chief says
DALLAS — (UPI) - Four times the normal number of police will patrol downtown Dallas tonight to prevent Texas-Oklahoma football fans' revelries from getting out of hand.
Police Chief Charles Batchelor will operate out of five command posts. Paperwork on arrests will be written through the command posts then the offenders will be taken to city hall.
Police will crack down on vandalism, assault, excessive intoxication, and persons sitting on bodies or fenders of moving cars.
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