Can we wait?
By GLORIA VOBEJDA Kansan Correspondent
During the 1968 presidential election, President Nixon said he had a plan to end the war in Vietnam. It appears now we may never learn of this plan, that is, if he ever had one. It is possible that the President may have had to abandon his plan because of new developments. Whatever the case, Mr. Nixon has appealed to the United Nations for help to end the war.
It would not be surprising if the United Nations ignored Mr. Nixon's plea. In the spring of 1968, when we losing more than 500 men a week in Vietnam, Secretary General U. Thant told us if we stopped the bombing, Hanoi would be willing to negotiate. At the time such a measure was unthinkable and U Thant was rebuffed.
The day after the President's U.N. address, the Indian ambassador appeared on nationwide television and said he was disappointed that Mr. Nixon did not take up some of the pressing problems of the world faced by all countries such as air and water pollution. He said Mr. Nixon's entire speech was concerned with Vietnam, an American problem.
proach. This token troop withdrawal has not appeased the doves, and the hawks have had little to save lately.
The President knows he was elected because the people wanted a change in our Vietnam policy; his reelection depends on a change. So far he has withdrawn 25,000 troops from Vietnam. The previous administration had proposed withdrawal of 100,000 men a year. At first Nixon said he thought he could do better than that, but recently he has taken a slower ap-
It is no secret that Mr. Nixon is having problems with the Saigon government. The leaders have been openly critical of our efforts. President Nguyen Van Thieu has warned there would be a coup within 10 days if a coalition government including the Communists were to be formed. Vice-president Nguyen Cao Ky made a unilateral announcement in Saigon of further troop withdrawals without White House knowledge.
A new approach is needed and we think this might be the opportune time to pay off the leaders of the Saigon government, as some persons have suggested in the past. This would enable them to live in some other country in the luxury to which they have become accustomed. We also would have to pay off some of their cronies whose lives might be endangered. This plan would cost considerably less than the war is costing us now and, more important, we could withdraw our troops in a relatively short time and end the endless, senseless killing of our youth.
We spend $30 billion a year in Vietnam. It would cost us $1 billion, the amount we spend in less than two weeks in Vietnam, to give 10,000 persons $100,000 each.
At the present rate of troop withdrawal, Mr. Nixon will have withdrawn about one-half our forces in South Vietnam by the time of the 1972 presidential elections. Will the U.S. public wait that long?
"TUT, TUT. IN YOUR WORLD IT MAY BE CALLED LYING AND CHEATING BUT HERE WE REFER TO IT AS PURPOSEFUL ERROR."
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Student members protest 'rebuke'
(Editor's note: Last week Thursday, the University Council voted 30-12 to issue "a severe and official rebuke" to John C. Wright, associate professor of human development and family life, for his participation in the ROTC Review disruption last May. The eight student members present at the Council meeting voted as a bloe against the motion and then issued the following dissenting statement:)
This body has, on the sheerest whisper of authority, chosen to reinforce the glaring errors developed by the University Disciplinary Board this spring. We, the students of the University Council, dissent from both decisions.
Under the banner of "justice," with or without authority, this council has chosen to ignore one of the most basic tenets of Western thought. Law with its substantive and procedural safeguards was most certainly not developed by bodies such as this, indeed, if anything, they were developed to hinder bodies such as this.
This council did not have the power, either expressed or implied, to dispose of this matter as it has. Legal substantive and procedural processes, as with law itself, are hotbeds of technicalities, designed to establish and indeed limit the power of the established authority to wreck havoc at will. If the established order wishes to act, so be it, but let it be under law, not political duress.
We students, to a man, dissent from this anomaly and would in its place move the dissenting opinion of the committee report. We dissent from this decision for the same reason we dissent from those similar decisions handed down against our fellow students last spring
William H. Hansen
Kansas City, Mo., second-year law student
Peter George
Tuckahoe, N.Y., graduate student
Frank Zilm
St. Louis, Mo., senior Willis Jacob
Lake Charles, La., graduate student
Darryl Bright Junior
William Ebert
Topeka junior
Robert H. Stoddard Shawnee Mission senior
David S. Awbrey
Hutchinson senior,
Student Body President
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