Homecoming Special
Section Two
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.44
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Affirmative Action In Effect See Story Page 12
Friday, October 27, 1972
Kanan Staff Photo by T. DEAN CAPLE
Julian Bond Waits Backstage Before Speech
*Maurice Towndorf*, Alpha Phi Alpha president, introduced Bond *
Kissinger Confirms Rumors Of Vietnam Peace Settlement
The Saigon government, however,
remained a principal stumbling block,
stating that the South Vietnamese could
be the only North Vietnam-U.S.
agreement
WASHINGTON (AP)—Presidential sideie Henry A. Kissinger said Thursday "peace is at hand" in Vietnam and, in his view, in the country three or four days of private diplomacy.
Secondly, he said, "it is inevitable that in a war of such complexity there should be occasional difficulties in reaching a final solution" and he cited what he termed the "domestic policy of the Saigon government to participate in the making of their own peace."
Kissinger gave newsmen an hour-long report on closed—door negotions after Haniol Radio shattered the secrecy lid by announcing the United States and North Vietnam were on the brink of signing a nine-point peace plan.
Kissinger did not quarrel with Hanoi's recitation of the tentative framework of the agreement—a quick ceasefire in places, withdrawal of American troops and equipment within 60 days, an exchange of prisoners on the same time span or resolutions of long-standing political differences by the Vietnamese themselves.
First of all, said Kissinger, Hanoi had set the Tuesday goal. He said the United States, when accepting Oct. 31 as an amateur, would have to end up wrapping up a la bake package on that day.
Kissinger did quarrel, however, with a North Vietnamese claim that the United States had agreed to sign a peace pact next Tuesday but now wanted further talks that South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu was balking at the terms.
Bond Scorns Political Insensitivity, Foresees Backslide Toward Apathy
By PHIL MCLAUGHLIN Kansan Staff Writer
The controversial Georgia state
regional governor spoke in the
SIAA session this year.
The current widespread public apathy and insensitivity toward social injustices and scandalous government behavior could result in four more years of the same conditions and practices or worse. Julian Schoenfeld, a professor at People's Thursday night in Hoe Auditorium.
"Ellist, sexist, resist practices run rampant with public and private life." Bond said. "If you want the same kinds of experience for four years, all you have to do is do nothing."
Bond said that the activism of the '60s had vanished, and an observer would believe that the country had slipped back to the apathy of the '50s, when students and faculty members were afraid to take stands.
BOND SAID that students were locking themselves into academic tomes where discussions became the incessant repetition of ideas. He suggested that students were out of touch with the "real" of making a living in American society.
"The exchange of presidents means to many students just the exchange of the picture in post offices and on dorm room blackboards," Bond said. "For black people the issue is whether we run in place or lie backward like we have been since 1968."
The change in the public mood can be discerned when today's sentiment is contrasted with the civil rights activism of the '60s, he said.
"In the '60s, we picketed together," Bond said. "Today we picket each other. We demonstrated our concern with death and stratec our relevance by the length of our
Bond said the lessons of the '80s showed that serious changes could be achieved in this country if a unity of action could be taken. For example, if there was a national will for change,
hair and the trickiness of our grip. In the
past, we had a leader; today, we have only
ourselves.
The problem, he asserted, is that the minorities lack the necessary unity for concerted action and a pall of complacency hangs over the country.
The next president will make policy decisions that affect the forces determining how people live, especially black and poor people. Bond said.
HE SAID that reelecting the present administration would be "giving a four-year free hand" to men who had no regard for freedom of the press, the condition of poor and black people and basic constitutional rights.
See BOND page 5
In summation, Kissinger, the President's key foreign policy aide gave the view that Thien would ultimately give his approval to the blueprint for ending the war.
Kissinger said there need not be a long delay—that remaining difficulties could be settled in one more negotiating session "lasting no more than three or four days."
"Wait and you will see," he replied. Kissinger, fielding a similar question, said the day before that he would seize upon such grounds to scuttle peace efforts that have come so close to him.
In Paris, where another round of formal peace discussions were held Wednesday, the North Vietnamese chief delegate, Xuan Thuy was asked if Hanoi would continue the talks, privately or otherwise, if the Oct. 31 deadline were not met.
"We believe," he said, "that by far the longest part of the road has been traversed
Saigon radio emphasized that South Vietnam would not be bound by any agreement but did not indicate whether Saigon would oppose it.
"We in South Vietnam have the right of self-determination," the broadcast said. "A separate agreement between North Korea and South Korea States does not concern us in any way."
and what stands in the way of an agreement now are issues that are relatively less important than those that have already been settled."
Kissinger several times emphasized that the timing of partial accord now—and the Oct. 31 target for agreement—were Hanoi's idea. Until Oct. 8 and a major shift in Hanoi's bargaining position, he had been no possibility of a settlement.
Kissinger said South Vietnam's President Thieu had been talking about "a previous plan, not this version" when he expressed opposition earlier this week to any coalition government that would include Communist elements.
Reminded that Nixon's Democratic opponent, Sen. George McGovvern, has suggested Nixon now is prepared to settle on terms he could have obtained four years ago, Kissinger said "there was no compromise" with this agreement four years ago."
The dramatic developments of the day seemed certain to have a major impact on the presidential election campaign rapidly moving toward the balloting on Nov. 7.
Indochina Peace Raises Questions Of Neutrality for Smaller Nations
Referring to the Oct. 8 shift in negotiating signals by Hanoi, he said accord was not in sight "four years ago, three years ago, or two months ago."
HOPE Committee Gets Complaints
McGovern, commenting earlier in the day on reports of unimposed peace, said: "I hope there is no holding back on the part of Israel that we are willing that we can move to get the war over."
BY WILLIAM L. RYAN
AD Special Correspondent
For Asia, what shapes up in the wake of an Indochina peace looks like a whole new game. Smaller nations taking a hopeful view apparently have named the game
Henry A. Kissinger says peace is at hand. If it proves secure enough to permit withdrawal of all military men and preclude further intervention by sea or air, it suggests that a sharp corner is being turned in world history.
All this represents a starting turnabout in the Asia-Pacific picture. An assumption of sharp decline in U.S. influence and authority is inescapable.
It heralds U.S. disengagement from the Southeast Asia mainland. Will that mean stability or instability? Have symptoms of convulsions already begun to surface?
No longer is there implicit U.S. military support for these nations. Having read the portents, they have been mending fences and casting about for alternatives, for new concepts of self-protection. All will be able to cope with the war in Korea, Thais and Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan the change, even though not sudden is nonetheless shocking.
By JEANETTE HARTMANN Kansan Staff Writer
IN THE 1950s the world picture had a rather simple look of a contest of ideologies, a world Communist bloc against a system of U.S. alliances. In the 1960s, disintegration of Soviet-Chinese ties and China's climb to nuclear power contributed to a process of change. In the 1970s, the scene is dominated by a new and perhaps precarious three-way balance between US, China and Russia contacts with Peking and Moscow and prospective U.S. retirement from most of the Asia mainland.
The 1972 HOPE Award Committee has received criticism from several seniors about the stipulation that allowed only the award holders to vote in the final balloting.
Hackney said, however, that there had been no change in policy from previous years.
Conflicting opinions on who was eligible to vote marked the selection process. Even between Steve Clark, senior class adviser, and John Hackney, Wichita senior and class president, there were differing opinions about past policy.
"I WOULD like to stress that our policy of restricting the final balloting of the HOPE Award to senior class card holders is not changed from last year. If people were to change it it was because the regalia party last year was so lady supervised," he said.
The award, used as a recognition of outstanding efforts in the field of teaching, was presented Saturday to John Michel, associate professor of speech and drama.
Clark, assistant director of the Alumni Association, said Thursday that last year all seniors were allowed to come to the HOPE Center for their candidate for the HOPE Award.
IN THE original plans according to Hackney, the dues paying members of the Class of '59 gave money to a fund with the idea that dues-paying members of future senior classes would match their contribution.
Marty Lyons, Schaumburg, III, senior,
said she assumed that only class card
holders would be allowed to vote after the
announcement.
He said that in spite of the fact that class cards were supposed to be checked at the door, many nonclass card holders came to the regalia party anyway. Class cards were not checked again, he said, when the baloting was done.
In spite of the official policy that only senior class card holders would be allowed to vote, Hackney said he the LOPC holdings seniors vote for the HOPA Award because the expressed strong feelings about voting were emphasized that it was his own decision.
Clark said that this year the voting was restricted because class fees support the expenses of the award and because the regalia party was upgraded.
"I PAID the $12 to vote for the HOPE Award and then read I later in the Kansan that some people were allowed to just pay fee and fee and it angered me," she said.
"The senior class officers felt that no one who had not paid dues should be able to direct those who had paid dues where they should pay their money." Hackevn said.
Clark mentioned that seniors could buy regalia in January or make a $3 contribution to the Senior gift without buying a card class. Because neither of these services were advertised, he said he saw no reason for an announcement that a nonclass card holder could vote for the HOEP Award winner for a nominal fee.
"I didn't buy a class card," said Terry Duffield, Richmond, N.J. J, "I don't feel informed about what the senior class would like to have in on." I would have liked to have been in on."
"I didn't feel it was representative that 600 people out of 900 class card holders voted. Who knows, maybe a majority of the classes are in speech and drama," he said.
"It's frustrating. I waited this long to become a senior and just because I don't have a class card, I can't vote for the HOPE Award." he said.
Clark said that his only personal criticism about the HOPE Award was that KU had about 1,200 teachers who were not on staff. He also suggested that the HOPE Award Committee conceived that the HOPE Award Committee
CLARK SAID that in his opinion the significance of the HOPE Award was the recognition of a KU teacher by students. He also said that he would for him isn't that important, Clark said.
Larry Smith, Lawrence senior,
disagreed.
had also been criticized for inadequate security at the polls.
"I think that the senior class has to operate on the premise that most of the student body is honest. I hope that it never happens that the senior class has to operate as if most students are dishonest," said Clark.
In his recommendation to next year's senior class, Hackney said he would suggest that some arrangement be made so that all seniors could vote for the HOPE
He said that he would also recommend that next year's HOPE Award Committee be chosen like this years' six-member committee; many schools represented as possible.
Hackney said that because of the time scheduling, there was no opportunity to arrange for another method of checking identification.
"I would like to hear what people think," he said. "If people think that there should be a small fee paid at the final HOPE Award balloting, that would be fine. But no one came to us before hand with this suggestion."
DURING THE preliminary voting, Hackney said, the HOAP Award Committee had expected computerized lists of the senior enrollment. Not until a few days later, all the students were HOPE Award Committee members told that these lists wouldn't be ready.
WHAT MAY DEVELOP is a test of the Nixon doctrine of 1970.
China's influence rises, Russia contests Peking and asserts her own Asian authority by strengthening the Soviet role in Asia. In the Pacific, the Navy Pacific and Indian Ocean operations.
In effect the doctrine says the United States will provide a nuclear shield for nations whose survival is tied to American security, and furnish military and economic aid to countries threatened by aggression. But it expects those nations to do the rest of the job themselves without direct American military intervention.
Having gone through the long agony of Vietnam, the U.S. public would be unlikely to support any new deployment of ground troops in Iraq or Afghanistan, a statute for on-the-scene military response? Since a nuclear shield is unstable against political攻击，is the United States even now implying that political expansion will end soon? The nation represents a threat to American security?
THE WHOLE PICTURE implies that the Communist threat has been downgraded. In the light of the big powers' new triangular relationship, Vietnam seems, ironically, to have become irrelevant to all but the Vietnamese.
Indochina's neighbors are likely to have read the Saigon regime's resistance to a three-segment government for South Vietnam as implying a dread that some
day, even if it takes quite a long time, the Communists would dominate.
Saigon has a million-man force of army and police with sophisticated equipment, but it lacks political cohesion. Its history has been one of multiple divisions and squabbling by self-seeking politicians. The regime is vulnerable now to the same sort of internal subversion that started the whole business years ago.
No matter how they read it, the Asian leaders have much to ponder.
The United States still has air bases in Thailand, but in the light of new developments these could prove a Thai liability. Fekeing seems to be encouraging and arming Thai guerrillas who make use of the threats they them into a political issue for Bangkok.
U. S. COMMITMENTS remain to South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan, but the emerging new picture appears to have made these regimes wonder how lasting those commitments might be. Thus, South Korea has hedged toward dialogue with the Communist North on the possibility of finding ways of living together.
Southeast Asians, noting a developing power vacuum suggested by withdrawal of both British and American presence and an implied disintegration of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, are taking hopeful steps toward neutralization.
Bewitched
With halloween only a few days away,
future guests and colleagues are out and about
Kansan Photo by CHRIS CANNELLA
selecting the appropriate garb for the occasion. Lisa Aiken, Lawrence, found a large selection to choose from and tried on several for size before finding one to her