THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No. 78
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Friday, February 4, 1972
Kansan Photo by RICHARD GUSTIN
Ed Bruns, Left, Represents Veterans
Presents seven-point program
Veterans Representative Presents Seven-Point Employment Aid Plan
By RICHARD GUSTIN Kansan Staff Writer
A seven-point program designed to aid veterans in finding part-time and full-time employment was presented by Ed Bruns, the president of the Lawrence Institute, in the first session of the Lawrence Jobs for Vets Committee Thursday. Although formed last June, the organization has not yet filed a complaint, president
In an hour and a half presentation, we present the ms program which recommended that
1. the free ad placement service for Vietnam veterans in the Lawrence Journal-World be revived and offered as a continuous service,
2. local business and city government agencies hire veterans on a preferential basis and even create part-time jobs for them.
v. veterans not attending school be given job preference over veterans and other students
4. regular and free public service announcements and advertisements be used on television and radio stations to inform local businesses to hire veterans.
5. the office of Campus Veterans, in cooperation with the employment service,
6. private employment agencies charge no fee for veteran job placement,
7. the idea of a job fair be eliminated.
Mayor Robert Palliam, committee chairman, said the commission would consider it at its meeting next week.
The Campus Veterans and the committee will soon start independent surveys to find out the number of veterans in the Lawrence area who are unable to
find employment. Once these surveys were completed Pallium said the committee could determine courses of action.
At the request of the committee, Bruns accepted a position to represent veterans
Palliam said in an interview after the meeting that the problem now facing the committee was 'ascertaining the identity' and making employers aware of them."
Enemy Braced for Loss In Major New Offensive
SAIGON (AP)—North Vietnam is ready to lose one-fifth of $50,000 men posed to attack in the central highlands and many of its troops "have already resigned themselves to death," the region's top U. S. adviser said Thursday.
"The enemy feels it necessary to show me is really still in this war," said John Paul Vann, senior American adviser in the South Vietnam, who covers 47 percent of Southeast Vietnam.
United States will pull out of here without negotiating an agreement," Vann added. Vann told a news conference in the central highlands city of Pleuka, that one enemy body in live is found with a chest tattoo; "Born in the North to die in the
Although the two South Vietnamese army divisions guarding the cities are repeated to be the country's worst, Vann said: "I don't expect to lose anything."
Vann said the North Vietnamese would probably harass the highlands province capitals of Kontum and Pleiku, but he did not give serious attempt to capture those cities.
Vann estimated that the North Vietnamese had committed 15,000 men to the troop camp. The main targets are expected to be the troops at Hdk-Tak Toa, area of reported buildups of troops and tanks. This is where the US forces Los, Cambodia and South Vietnam meet.
"In this offensive the enemy will be killed by overwhelming artillery and air support. I'm enough of a realist that I'm not going to ask the ARVN—Army of the Republic of Vietnam—to do what they won't do."
He said the offensive expected around the Tet new year celebration in mid-February would probably hit his region hardest in mountainous Kontum Province. Other heavy attacks have been predicted for the northern tin of South Vietnam.
Vann's statement that he did not expect an attempt to seize a province capital differed somewhat from a radio interview six days ago. He said then that he believed his purpose would be an attack on Kontoh to "grab headlines around the world."
At the Pleiku news conference Vann said: "I can't tell you what the emmy is going to do, only what he says he is going to do."
Vann said the North Vietnamese were hampered by a malaria outbreak and one detector reported his whole battalion stricken. Other enemy problems are caused by the unanticipated attack schedule as a reaction to President Nixon's visit to mainland China beginning
Feb. 21.
Enemy troops were reported avoiding border rangers slipping into South Vietnam and heading toward Kontum and Pleiku. No significant fighting was seen on the ground, but midday, however, and action elsewhere in South Vietnam was light and scattered.
U. S. and South Vietnamese plains kept raids on the Ro Chi Minh supply trail in southern Laos. BS2 bombers flew 30 to the cities in them in Laos and Cambodia.
Reports from Laos said government troops had withdrawn from Muang Kassy, miles north of Vientiane, on the high ground to the royal capital of Luang Prabang.
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Viet Cong Present U.S. With Revised Peace Plan
PARIS (AP)—The Viet Cong placed before the Paris peace talks Thursday their revised peace plan calling for the immediate resignation of Nguyen Van Thieu as South Vietnam's president. But the United States suggested the president and a top official at President Nixon's eight-point plan as the basis for ending the Indochina war.
The Communists told Porter they did not accept the plan, disclosed last week by Nixon on television and put to the North by Geraldine and aid to the North by Henry A. Kissinger last October 11.
U. S. Ambassador William J. Porter made no detailed response to the Viet Cong plan, but in Washington, a State Department official seemed to be some hopeful elements in it.
Porter replied, "This seems to indicate a
basic misunderstanding of the negotiating process generally and of what our proposal is intended to do.
Under the U. S. plan, he added the United States is prepared to begin troop withdrawals and prisoner exchanges while other points are negotiated.
"Ours is a proposal which is fully consistent with the principle that the political future of South Vietnam will be left for the South Vietnamese people to decide for themselves, free from outside interference." Porter declared.
Prof Fears Alienation of Japanese
He said the plan was not submitted on a take-it-or-leave-it basis but is open for the public.
Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series dealing with the opinions of KU faculty members and students on the mission of Nixon's trip to China Feb. 21 to 28.
But the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong appeared to be abandoning any further consideration of the Nixon plan, which is backed by South Vietnam, and are going on to an elaborated version of the Viet Con's seven-point plan.
By PAUL SWEARINGEN
Kansan Staff Writer
Chances include a demand for the immediate resignation of Thieu and insistence that the United States "set a terminal date" for the troop withdrawal.
President Richard Nixon's announcement that he would visit the People's Republic of China Feb. 21-28 left Asian leaders shocked by what they wondered what consequences his trip
"This specific terminal date will also be the terminal date for the release of all military and civilian prisoners," the Communists said.
Richard A. Falk, Milbank professor of international law at Princeton University, spoke on the challenge for international law to address the grave opening of the Judge Timothy Stephen
Kansan Photo by JIM KATON
International Law Professor Speaks in Woodruff
Nevertheless, there's a great deal of international importance in easing tensions between the two countries, as well as personal pressure. It is a symbolic
Previously the Communists had demanded that the United States cease supporting Theu and had asked that the Americans get out of Vietnam by the end of 1971.
Lectureship Thursday. He will speak on the prospect for response of international law and the global environment in the final session of the global environment, today in Wooldraft Auditorium.
would have on the world. In this three-part series, KU faculty members and students will speculate on the possible effects of travel journey behind the Bamboo Curtain.
and a leader of the oppressed, projecting a courageous diplomatic image all the
Grant Goodman, chairman of the East Asian Studies Department whose main interest is Japan, sees the effects of the greatest danger arising from Nikon's trip.
"Nixon shocked Japan twice in 1971, first by announcing his trip to China without warning the Japanese, and then by the ten per cent import charge," he
"I'm concerned about the maintenance of the closest possible ties between the United States and Japan," Goodman said. "China today is not nearly as important to the United States as Japan, economically or militarily."
Goodman was quick to point out that China's relative importance to the United States is far less than Japan's, and that the precipitous manner in which the trip was announced may result in the alienation of the United States by Japan.
"The atomic bomb that China is supposed to have exploded and the satellite they launched are only minimal Japan's restrained military potential.
Goodman is concerned also with the image that most Americans have of China and the Chinese. He points to the failures of Western missionaries to Christianize both China and Japan as one indicator that Americans just don't understand China.
"Japan is restrained by an economic umbilical and by a military pact with the United States. If they embarked on a serious effort to build up their total military strength, there would be dangers to international peace would be greater than the danger posed by China.
"We have, over the decades, created an image of China as a sprawling land of suffering peasants who call for love," Goodman said. "The Chinese at least created an image that our missionaries welcome as we witness where the Japanese were more hostile.
"China took ten or twenty years to build
bomb bribery, compete, produce an
atomic bomb," said the United Nations.
"For some reason, the mention of China has evoked a peculiar emotional response to this book. I do not have it. We seem to conjur up a mysterious eastern image of the Chinese. The wellspring of emotional response to China runs deep in the American psyche."
as being about as close to a political genius as any previous president.
Although Goodman does not necessarily concur with all of the stated molives for the attack, he agrees that the attack was not intended.
"The trip no doubt will enhance his image in the U. S." Goodman said. "He has sensed the mood of the country and has shown great perspicacity in announcing his China trip. He'll return to the U. S. with acclaims of being a great world statesman
See NIXON, Page 3
Latest Lottery Losers Express Disbelief, Indignation and Regret
By CHRIS CARSTENSON Kansan Staff Writer
It was only after Walter Crokite announced that March 6 had been chosen. No. 1 in the draft lottery took Jack Gilliam, who would really believe the number he had drawn.
"Walter Cronkite doesn't lie," Gillam said regretfully.
"I thought it would never happen to me," he said. "I had classes all day and didn't think about the lottery much. After my 4:30 English class, a friend picked me up. I asked him how the lottery had gone; he naused a bit and said he had got 168.
"Then I asked what mine was. When he No. 1, I said, 'Oh come on, quit kidding
Gilliam's first thought was the possibility of having to leave school. He said his biggest complaint was that all his friends would be gone when he returned to school.
"It kind of robs you of the society you live in," Gillam protested.
ED JACKSON'S first worry also was the thought of having to drop out of school. Jackson, a Naperville, Ill., freshman, drew No. 2.
"It's strange," he said, "that the government can be against a lottery in private practice and yet use it to play with lives on a national scale."
Jackson immediately contacted a draft counselor.
Brian Martin, Wichita freshman, locked himself in seclusion with a bottle of champagne and some caviar when he discovered his number was three.
Widespread apathy towards the war is something Martin cannot understand.
"It really didn't make a lot of difference," he said. "I was planning to go along."
I'm tired of the Army messing up
The local Draft Help office reported a big increase in males seeking draft help.
people's lives," he said.
Bill Cutter of the office said some males reacted to low draft numbers with "fearful apathy", and "pull within themselves", "and pull out a new way to fight the lottery is at its source.
"Gays should register to vote and begin actively supporting legislation opposing homosexuality."
Cindy Parrish, Great Bend freshman,
said she was really upset when she found
out that the boy she was dating drew No.
16
"This really could change a lot of our
plans." she said.
A cake in the shape of a star and pot money of $4.25 were presented to Thad Campbell, Fairless Hill, Pa., freshman, who was the lowest in Grace Pearson Hall.
When asked for a speech, Campbell began, "I regret I have but one life to give ... , and before he could finish, the hall's residents broke out laughing.
fim, Brenner, Princeton, Kan. Jimman said he 'greatly welcomed' him in the program.
"My first thought was that I could finish school, he said, "but no particular concern," he added.
Kansan Photo by RON SCHLOERR
Holders of Low Draft Numbers Begin to Ponder ... Uncertainty for some end does not with the lottery . . .
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