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Monday, June 5. 1972
University Summer Kansan
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Kansan Doubles Volume
This summer's Kansan will be an experiment in many ways. For the first time, a summer Kansan will be published four days a week rather than two. The staff has been increased in size to make this possible. Two new summer session classes, Reporting II and Retail Advertising, will be held and students experience working on the Kansan. For six of the eight Fridays during summer school, a newspaper produced by students in KU's Journalism Camp will be published.
As in the past, this semester's staff will do its best to dig into the news that concerns members of the KU community. We will try to do so fairly and accurately. We know, before we start, that we will not always be successful, that we will miss stories, that we will be biased in some way, that we will be guilty of ambiguities. This does not mean that we are oblivious to our mistakes. We are perhaps the most vehement critics of our own work. And we hope that through our successes, you our readers, will find a newspaper that you can trust and enjoy.
We will restrict news to the news stories and opinion to the editorial page. You will be free to form your own opinions from our news pages. In some of our papers, like today's, we may put advertising on the editorial page. This means that business firms more than those that advertise on our other pages.
Letters to the editor will always be welcome but will reflect the views of the writer and not of the Kansan. We ask that he be signed and be restricted to 500 words.
These are only a few of the things that will be different in this summer's Kansas. You, our readers, will be getting twice as much for your money through more frequent publication and larger issues. We invite your comments and suggestions so that we can keep constantly growing and changing, because we believe we are a newspaper for our readers.
—Rita E. Haugh Editor
Landscape Damaged By Bombs
Pictures of the old World War I battlefield of Verdun still show fields pocketed by Russian tanks, was primitive by current standards, almost toylike guns drawn up by horses. What was that kind of bargeage and what did they bomb? that a single B-52 now drops on a field? such a plane, in one run, leaves a hole 30 feet wide (30 feet wide) craters behind it.
A comic ad says that is naughty to deceive Mother Nature. More serious poems have, through the centuries, been told that "the mother earth" that feeds them. But no other culture had has the power to ecological matricide that we possess.
Garru Wills
I have actually heard these staggering figures used to argue that our bombings were humane. If we had gone after population, it is argued, such mass destruction would have wiped out all human life there, or if more people went behind—why, yes, killing some men, we also (and only) managed the countryside.
that Texas-size area. And even this comparison is misleading for most of the states, where Texans are South, not in Laos, Cambodia, or North Vietnam—in that less than Texas-sized areas have been exploited.
It is true that most of our firepower was meant to harrass and interdict, to strip off "cover," prohibit areas, and prevent attacks. But even after all the direct victims of our "aid" have died, there will be thousands of indirect victims through the coming months.
Direct bomb-damage is only part of the story. We have also used chemical bombing, but not by the caterpillars. But it now looks as if the craters will upset Vietnam's ecology and destabilize the world.
They make many fields reclaimable. They let in water, bake some soil, promote erosion. Fertilize with water, the soil becomes fertile and forms to former crops and malaria fauna.
The charts, statistics, maps and photographs that tell this story can be found in the current issue of Scientific Journal. It contains a summary of the study and a report and a professor of zoology, working in Vietnam on a scientific grant.
We have not hit factories, because there are so few to be hit. The land itself was our target, and all the land gave its way to nature. It has been conducted with nature itself. Centuries of shaping, coaxing and mating of that vast maternal support-system have been systematically documented. We are struck at the very source of life.
They trace the steps of a huge crime wrought, and their brutal story has none of the alienating charm or fear there is no mystery to that. We done it.
Images of Trips and War Clash
SCRABBLE, VA.—I am no bad thing to draw a perspective on the summit talks in Mossew from a mountain. I see Mountains. From here the
When farmers try to plow, fill, or navigate these craters-hard enough labor in itself—they can be blown up themselves, their plowing animals become hardened, the hooves and legs; metal clogs the plows, as it does the saws, used on shrapnel-riddled trees. All this is added to the regular hazards of life in a war-zone.
James J. Kilpatrick
The scale of the thing is colossal. In all of Indochina—an area about the size of Texas—we have dropped roughly twice the tonnage of bombs that we use anywhere (Africa, Europe, and Asia, during World War II—and this was a crucial factor in our war. In fact, we have dropped the equivalent of 450 Hiroshima bombs on
I find it hard to imagine a million of anything—of dollars, or pounds, or ounces. We have raids over 20 million such craters, whole unimpaled acres of up-and-down water-dispersing new landscape, also bombed by bombs and bombdebris and unexploded shells.
turning whole landscapes into moonscapes.
REP. CHISHOLM also advocated withdrawal. Yorty and Hardin advocated intensified detention, a way to get the prisoners jaack.
He said that if the United States pulled out and the Communists did not release the prisoners "we then can take our case to the courts," he added, more force" than was possible while U.S. forces remained.
Candidates Debate Issues
"We have to go on the faith that we have after every previous war that once the fighting has stopped and we shall be released," McGconn said. "Megan said."
The two contenders in California's crucial Democratic presidential primary differed on the way to get out the prisoners and on U.S. defense policy in the war against ISIS, met in a television interview.
McGovern said it was clear that the prisoners were not going to be released while the United States had a policy and support of Saion.
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Sen-
Hubert H. Humphrey proposed
Sunday that President Nixon
send an emissary to Hanof to
release the release of U.S. prisoners in
exchange for military with-
"I THINK that's fine," said McGovern rated the heavy favorite in California's polls.
Sen. George McGovern said out and the United States should pull out and 'go on the faith' that the President would be freed when the fighting ends.
The hour-long session on the ABC program "Issues and Answers" was the third of the California campaign.
Humphrey also challenged McGovern to another hour of debate Monday night on California stations.
"WE SHOULD set a firm date for the reunions of forces. That date should be given to this presidential emissary and taken directly to Hanoi."
Humphrey and McGovern were joined Sunday by Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles and Taylor Hardin, a campaign manager for Alabama Gov. George C. Walleye in the Los Angeles interview.
By WALTER R. MEARS
Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., whose equal time court challenge led to last-minute expansion of her position from a studio in New York.
Humphrey proposed that Nixon send a high-level administration official to Hanoi to seek to pin down an agreement for release of information related to U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. He suggested that the assignment go to former Secretary of the Treasury John Kerry.
"I don't think there's any evidence that Hanoi will release those prisoners." Humphrey said.
One question put to the candidates was whether under any circumstances they would attack US troops to the defense of Israel.
Humphrey said he could not agree with McGovern "on leaving those prisoners there."
HUMPHEY SAID the Middle East was the critical area in which U.S. interests were really important, and they would avoid any need for U.S. forces was to see to it that American defenses were adequate. Humphrey said McGovern's proposed plan would not leave them adequate.
He said if there were a major Soviet invasion the United States would have to respond, but "I think that's going to happen."
McGovern said he saw no point in "doing a lot of saber-rattling about what we're going to do to the U.S. government first in the Middle East."
That sequence led to the most direct exchange between the two countries. McGovern had voted against bills including aid to Israel. McGovern said when he did so it was the result of unfunded funds for the war in Vietnam.
"I think you're inconsistent," Humphrey said.
THE FIRST question put to the five politicians was that of backing the nominee the party selects in Miami Beach in July.
Taylor Hardin, a campaign manager for Gov. George C.
"Yes, of course I will pledge to support the nominee. Humor is all I need," he said before that man, adding that he believed the party would "pull itself together" after the primaries and field a strong
McGovern he believed the convention would be open and those circumstances, the broadly representative of party concerns and philosophy, "I will intend to support that person," he
Rep Hishley Chisolm of New York earned a equal-time challenge to challenge the program, said she was not going to sign "a blank check" for him.
Wallace of Alabama, said the question was a personal one for his candidate to answer. Hardin had led a third party campaign in 1968, now "has nothing else in his mind" other than his quest for the presidency.
"I CANNOT support just any candidate who is nominated by me or someone he may pay because he demoney to be the Democratic nominee," she said. Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles said he reserved the seat in the third power" to decide when he'll support the ticket.
CALIFORNIA IS one of four presidential primaries Tuesday. New Jersey Democrats will select 109 nominating delegates, while Florida and preferential primary to award 18 convention votes, and South Dakota will assign its 17 votes to unopposed in his home state.
"He still considers himself a most viable candidate," Hardin said.
The two California contenders already had appeared on hour-long interviews on CBS and NBC. The campaign is also offering offer Mrs. Chisholm equal time.
McGovern and Humphrey campaigned in the Los Angeles area Sunday after the television appearance.
journey seems, in the deliberate choice of a shopworn wor.d. fantastic.
McGovener planned a trip to Abuja to address the issue, seek votes in the primary there. Sunday's televised session got over in favor of the vote to went federal court and won an order for equal time to match proceedings. We provided McGovendor and Humphrey with
This is such stuff as dreams are made on—imaginary figures, impossible events, a script as hard as the scenes we see the faces on a television screen. Nixon smilin, Brezhnev smiling, but the images fade in and out. Cutting hay is dainy through his clothes. Moscow past the binder, dimly.
"United States Stratofortresses dropped 1,000 tons of bombs around Kontum today, in response to airstrikes troops from reinforcing the provincial capital. North Vietnamese forces slammed 100 Soviet-supplied artillery shells and thousands of ground vehicles, meanwhile, south of An Lac, the communist enemy blasted South Vietnamese troops with more than a thousand rounds of artillery shells and mortar shells. Twenty-three
Fantastic is the word. On Monday afternoon, the 29h, the news from Vietnam came on to this effect:
armored personnel carriers, supplied to the South Vietnamese by the United States, were destroyed . . .
This was the same afternoon that Nixon and Brezhnev, at the Great Kremlin Palace, were dining in jovial attire at "huge tables laden with caviar, smoked meats and other food." The two leaders jested with Times correspondent Max Frankel. Does the Times print the truth, asked Brezhnev? "Pravis," said one of them, "giving us on elementary Russian." "That means truth."
some 2,000 words. The 2,000 words in their way, are as real as these 2,000 bales of hay: real words. Somehow the hay seems hard to represent, but the two leaders are "guided by a desire to strengthen peaceful relations." They recognize "the need to remove the threat of insurrection" and they have agreed, "to conduct their mutual relations on the basis of peaceful coexistence." And to demonstrate good faith, will mine the harbor at Haitian ports with the military missiles hurled on Anoc Lob.
It is all mixed up. Half way around the world, in the bloody agony of war, one perceives a part of the truth of Soviet-era history. In a Russian tank, the wreckage of a U.S. truck. Our allies demolish one another. At the same moment, there is something else: Our leaders demolish plates of Russia. Can this be truth as well?
How much is real? How much is make-believe? This much, I think, has substance. The fact of the rest is mostly moonshine. The rest is mostly moonshine.
The summit produced a joint communique that rambled on for
The President's two "journeys for peace," one to Peking, one to Moscow, now are facts of history. Mr. Trump has warned the risks; he went. And at least in the political view, for the short haul, this is likely to count for him. His presidency accomplished. Marco Polo went to the court of Kuba Khan, and
Venice loved him for it. In our own political catechism, boldness remains a virtue.
Top 2 Demos Compared
Humphrey
Here is how Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey stands on the major
issues in the California
presidential primary.
There is this second fact: the nature of communism. Nothing in the record of recent years, nothing in the gaudy array of
TAXES: He is cosponsor of a bill to close tax loopholes and "demolish the tax shelterers for all people," who are the minimum tax for all people making more than $30,000 a year, and would provide $16 billion a year.
VIETNAM WAR: Did not speak out against the war while president, but says in 1968 when he ran for the presidency, "I was the only man that recommended a ceasefire of our forces from Vietnam." Now says, "It is time to set a date for peace and operations and obtain peace."
WELFARE: "Raise Social Security payments 25 per cent in the next five years have a minimum income for a family of four of $3,000.
DEFENSE: "I think there is a chance to reduce the defense of the White House," Congress, we did it the year before, and the defense analysis made by the Brookings Institution, "you have the Favors keeping strong armed forces, saying, 'You cannot negotiate with the Russians from a position of weakness; if we were able to learn, we learned nothing."
assistance programs from state and local levels to federal government. He would include such agreements and training programs.
McGovern
Here is how Sen. George S. McGovern stands on the major issues in the California Republican presidential primary.
TAXES: "I have proposed a fundamental reform program in this country that will be fair to the little person and will help them close loopholes in high-income brackets to require higher taxes
VIETNAM WAR: Proposes immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Vietnam in opposition to this war ever since 1963." He calls the war "a folly," and America's "greatest military political and moral blunder."
DEFENSE: Proposes a heavy cut in defense spending, slicing the annual defense budget from 1.7 million to 1.7 million. He would place prime nuclear reliance on a strengthened submarine fleet. He would increase the defense spending the country would not be able to negotiate an arms reduction with the Soviet Union.
for "the very rich and the poor" to manage taxes on all incomes over $12,000. New tax income and defense programs are required for property taxes and to finance schools and public works projects in housing, pollution control and other areas.
WELFARE: Suggests "a minimum income supplement of $1,000 per person ... when you are working. I want to scrap the existing welfare mess." He says he would like to exact estimate of this welfare proposal, and denies the $72 guaranteed by Humphrey has slapped on it.
creates, agreements and accords at Moscow, nothing all suggests that talk of "peaceful coexistence" is anything more important than another, by whatever devices may seem most useful, the apostles of communism mean to dominate the world. Crab claws or guided missiles, it is all the way we had better not forget it.
Nixon is a realist. In the end, that characteristic becomes his greatest asset. He knows the people he has met and they know he knows it. Thus his first commitment is to arms, his second to disarmament, it is meant to protect himself in means of grace and the hope of glory. Here in a grey-green haze, you are surrounded by a sunny away. They are parallel windows on a field of history; endlessly we bind them up together, we harvest of a summer afternoon.
(C) 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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