Viet Nam Coup Possible Issue
U. S. involvement in Viet Nam may be one of the most significant issues in the 1964 presidential campaign, a member of the KU East Asian Area Studies Committee said last night.
Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science, said future developments in South Viet Nam may precipitate significant issues in the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign.
Pringsheim said if the new South Vietnamese regime fails, Republican candidates for the presidency—"particularly Sen. Barry Goldwater"—will use that failure extensively as a campaign weapon against President Kennedy.
"ALL THE major candidates." Pringsheim said, "are using foreign policy issues as a major portion of their appeal to the public. It would seem, however, that the foreign issues are the most dangerous to Kennedy because he, as president, can't really control developments overseas but he can be blamed for U.S. mistakes."
HE SAID domestic issues are usually less susceptible to charges or blame than are foreign issues.
Pringsheim said the "out" party has an advantage in the matter of foreign affairs because it can point out things which go wrong and blame them on the party in power.
"If the new regime in South Viet Nam fails," Pringsheim said, "Goldwater will be able to say that something the Kennedy administration did or did not do precipitated the coup and thus led to the failure of the Vietnamese government."
Pringsheim said Goldwater may be expecting that the new regime will fail to win the favor of the people and that the Communist cause will flourish. If this happens, Pringsheim believes Goldwater will "mercilessly" attack Kennedy and blame the Kennedy administration for not preventing the coup which brought the new government into power.
"IN THE event of such a failure, any survivors of the Diem regime, such as Mme. Nhu, will become quite important figures. Mme. Nhu, for example, could be made a heroine. She could ask questions such as 'Why did you sell us out when we were your friends?' " She could make quite a martyr figure." Pringsheim said.
Pringsheim said if the new regime in South Viet Nam fails and that if the question of the Kennedy administration's part in the recent coup is then sufficiently dramatized by Goldwater, the issue may be the one which tips the balance in the 1964 election.
UNITED PRESS International reported today from Saigon that slain President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother took refuge in the U.S. Consulate in Hue but was turned over to the provisional government.
Diplomatic sources said the brother, Ngo Dinh Can, was flown to Saigon in a U.S. government plane.
Can was Diem's overlord in the Hue area, scene of some of the strongest repressions of the Buddhists. He was hated and feared by the Buddhist majority in the central Vietnamese city and officials were concerned that his home there would be mobbed. He had been under house arrest since the coup Friday.
THE SOURCES said Can took refuge this morning in the U.S. Consulate offices and residences.
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"We are in touch with the Soviet government on the matter both in the embassy here and in Moscow," the press secretary said.
In his meeting with reporters, Salinger said the situation is a subject of concern to the President and Kennedy was keeping close watch on developments.
IN THIS connection, senior officials of the British, French and West German Embassies arranged to meet at the State Department today to discuss allied strategy.
The secretary made the statement as he arrived at the capitol to brief the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the coup in South Viet Nam. Rusk also was expected to discuss the Berlin situation.
Officials also reported that Foy D. Kohler, U. S. Ambassador to Moscow, had been ordered to return to Moscow immediately for expected talks with high Soviet officials. He has been on leave in London.
British, French Support U.S. On Berlin Blockade Incident
WASHINGTON, —(UPI)— President Kennedy is deeply concerned over Russia's latest Berlin highway blockade and officials are trying to resolve the impasse through talks here and in Moscow, the White House said today.
Rusk himself said the United States was handling the situation on a moment to moment basis and cannot be permitted.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger also said the chief executive had discussed the situation with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other State Department officials. Salinger said there were no plans for a Kennedy-Rusk meeting but he did not rule one out.
OTHER OFFICIALS made no effort to conceal their concern over the new Soviet challenge. They called the blockade another in a series of incidents of "brinksmanship" through which the Russians hope to seek political concessions.
They said the blockade was of serious dimensions and was becoming more serious as time went on.
IN A DEMONSTATION of Western unity, the French and British planned to travel 110 miles through East Germany to stand by the American convoy of 44 men in 12 vehicles headed for Berlin along the Autobahn from the West.
The British and French convows had orders not to dismount for a head count at the Soviet checkpoint outside West Berlin.
The French convey of 44 men in eight trucks and two jeeps left West Berlin for the Russian checkpoint at Babelsberg.
The American convoy was held up yesterday because the soldiers refused to leave their vehicles to be counted.
As the French convoy moved out of the Western Allied checkpoint on the Berlin border, a British convoy of 43 soldiers in seven trucks and one jeep moved up to the Western Allied checkpoint.
The size of all three convoys was about the same in men and vehicles indicating that three western powers were putting the Soviets on the spot, aiming at a showdown over clearance procedures.
The Western allied position is that soldiers will dismount in any convoy where there are more than 31 passengers, excluding drivers and assistant drivers. Where there are fewer than that number of passengers, the men remain in their vehicles.
IN THE AMERICAN convoy stopped yesterday, 24 men were drivers or assistants and 20 were passengers. Lt. John Lamb of North Augusta, S.C., refused a Soviet order to have his men dismount.
The Russians disagree with this formula formally presented to the Soviet Union on Oct. 29 following a previous series of blockades of U.S. convoys. They refused to accept it yesterday, and told the Americans that they and not the Western allies would set clearance procedures.
Professor Michener Elected to Academy
Charles D. Michener, Watkins distinguished professor of entomology, has been elected to the 1,500 member American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He is the only Kansan in the 184 year- old academy.
Michener also has been elected as a member of the Linnaean Society of London, one of the best-known biological organizations in the world.
Michener, at 45 one of the world's authorities on chigger mites and
Kitchens Need More Than Pots and Pans
EXPERIMENTAL COOKERY—The penitrometer, a new piece of experimental equipment in the Home Economics Department, is demonstrated by Mrs. Joyce Ostrander, instructor of home economics. The device is used to measure the rigidity of substances such as custards, puddings and jams, and is used in quality control in large companies.
By Linda Ellis
KU Home Economics students may not get to the moon with their research but with the scientific approach they will become more progressive homemakers.
At least four pieces of new experimental cookery equipment in the department this fall will enable students to do research into food values and quality.
THE FOOD TESTS being run this fall were previously done in a make-shift way with no permanent equipment.
An instrument used in large companies to measure quality control was another addition to the department. Another addition to the department is called a Stormer Viscomiter. It is an instrument using a water bath and gold plated cups to compare the viscosity or thickness of substances like catsup, jam and mustard.
One of the instruments being used for the first time by the students is the penitrometer. In beginning courses of foods and nutrition, students are required to test such substances as puddings, jams and starch pastes. This device measures rigidity of such substances.
MANY LARGE companies use the device, on a larger scale, to measure the controlled quality of creamed corn, said Joyce Ostrander, instructor of home economics.
One example of the scientific experiment conducted by students involved a Loaf-Volume meter. It was proved that eggs stored in cold units give more volume to a sponge cake.
The device which measures volume is a tall cylinder containing the substance to be measured. A previously determined amount of rape seeds are added and a measurement taken. Under scientific conditions the experiment must be done with exact amounts and time sequences to get precision results.
Though all tests are scientific, in addition to the scientific tests run some have their more pleasant sides to the research.
AFTER THE objective tests, students form taste panels and judge the foods on human subjective grounds. They taste a substance for bitterness, sweetness, sourness and salt content. Problems arise if a student does not taste properly.
Therefore each prospective panel member is tested to determine his tasting ability. The person tastes a small piece of filter paper impregnated with a chemical solution.
The acquisition of the new equipment is just one step in the broadening of the Home Economics Department. In the future the department hopes to get more equipment to enable individuals to do private research for publication.
Mrs. Ostrander said she hopes the new accommodations for the department will include laboratories to house all of the present equipment and any new pieces they will have by that time.
WITH THE demolition of Fraser Hall the home economics department will be moved temporarily until the new building is completed. The site of the temporary home is as yet undetermined.
bees, was chairman of the KU entomology department from 1949 until 1961, when he left the position to devote full time to research and teaching. Appointed KU's first Watkins distinguished professor in 1958, he receives income from a $100,000 endowment of the Elizabeth M. Watkins bequest, besides his salary.
Michener has been a member of the KU faculty since 1948, coming from the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, where he was an associate curator. His service was interrupted by World War II, when he was a captain with the U.S. Army Sanitary Corps in Panama. There he began studies that later helped to establish him as an authority on chigger mites.
During the Korean conflict Michener was called upon to train and supply the experts who sought to determine the means of transmission of certain Asiatic diseases that were new to American medicine.
In recent years, he has concentrated his research on caste (social) behavior of bees. In this work he has held a Guggenheim fellowship in Brazil (1955-56) and a Fulbright grant in Australia (1968-59). He also has studied sweat bees in Mexico, Panama, New Guinea, the Fiji Islands as well as the United States.
Michener is the author of two books, 180 published shorter papers, and is the editor of "Evolution," a professional publication. Active in the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, he has been the American editor of its journal which he co-founded, and has been president of the organization's North American section.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was established to promote "every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people."
Weather
Fog blanketed the Lawrence area through mid-morning Tuesday, but skies had cleared by noon.
Fair weather is predicted through Wednesday for Northeast Kansas. The low temperature tonight will be in the 40's and the high Wednesday in the 60's.