Schlesinger analyzes '68 election
FORMER AIDE
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., special assistant to both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, tells K-State students Hubert Humphrey needed only another 72 hours to win the presidency.
By LINDA LOYD Kansan Staff Writer
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., historian and former White House aide, in an analysis of the 1968 election yesterday, called for the Johnson administration's outdated New Deal politics to be replaced with the new politics of mass involvement advocated in the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy.
"I cannot help feeling that the old politics' has run its course." Schlesinger told 4,000 persons in K-State's Ahearn Field House. "My guess is that the future lies between the McCarthy and Kennedy ways."
The Pulitzer prize winning author said these conflicting political ideologies could be seen in this year's election which he labeled one of the "oddest" in American history.
"Each major party nominated
the man whom many observers considered the weakest of its available candidates. Neither candidate developed an effective theme, made a memorable speech or uttered a fresh idea."
Intellectual's reaction to the election was disgust, Schlesinger said, while non-intellectuals registered their protests by supporting George Wallace who became a "repository for general resentment and rancor."
"Mr. Nixon waged a campaign of mechanical bansality and evasions intended to minimize the risk of saying anything which might offend anybody. Mr. Humphrey, carrying the burden of an unpopular war, an unpopular president and an unpopular administration, seemed frantic and ineffectual."
Discussing the primary campaigns of Kennedy and McCarthy, Schlesinger said McCarthy forces represented a coalition of the college-educated, emphasizing the limits of presidential
power and the limitation that must be placed on that power.
"Kennedy saw the Democratic party not as a coalition of college graduates but as a link between two Americans—between the educated and the uneducated, between rich and poor America, between black and white."
Schlesinger attributed the closeness of the 1968 election to dissatisfaction of Americans with the administration's Vietnam policy and their dread of a "mechanical" man, Hubert Humphrey, in the White House.
Explaining the necessity of political change, the noted historian said that Roosevelt's New Deal coalition was economically oriented, while today the United States is affluent and the concern lies with the level of education rather than income.
Schlesinger expressed hope that the 1968 election would go down in history as the "last hurrah of the old politics" and
that the major parties would understand political imperatives of the new age.
Schlesinger has won two Pulitzer prizes for his "Age of Roosevelt" and for "A Thousand Days," an account of the administration of the late President John F. Kennedy.
Landon receives professorship
Former Kansas Governor and 1936 presidential nominee, Alfred M. Landon of Topeka, was named distinguished professor of political science at Kansas State University yesterday.
Landon's appointment by the Board of Regents was announced in Manhattan at K-State's Landon lecture of public issues featuring former White House aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
N. Viet accuse U.S.
PARIS-North Vietnam today accused the United States of breaking its word on war negotiations. It also said charges of Communist violations of Vietnam's Demilitarized Zone (DMZY) were a "maneuver designed to hide American policy of aggression."
Nguyen Thanh Le, chief spokesman for the Hanoi delegation here, told a news conference the United States had agreed to separate Vict Cong and North Vietnamese delegations at planned talks here.
Soviet probe returning
MOSCOW—The Soviet unmanned lunar probe spacecraft Zond 6 streaked toward a return to earth today, repeating the spectacular round-the-moon trip made by Russia's Zond 5 spaceship last September.
Zond 6 looped the moon Thursday and conducted "studies of physical characteristics in the near-lunar area," the Soviet news agency Tass said.
Bombers hit camps
SAIGON-U.S. Air Force divebombers and allied artillery today blasted two North Vietnamese camps in Vietnam's Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), killing 34 Communists and triggering 12 explosions in guerrilla fuel and ammunition stockpiles.
Unofficially, the new Communist supply camps were the 11th and 12th violations of a Hanoi agreement that it would not "abuse" the zone if the United States would stop the bombing of North Vietnam.
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79th Year. No.44 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Friday, November 15, 1968
Prof charges bias
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Writer
Pope Paul, Catholic and Jewish relief agencies, and the major news-gathering organizations, including AP and UPI, have been biased against the Nigerians in the Biafran conflict, Joel Adedeji, a visiting professor at KU, charged yesterday.
Adedeji, a Nigerian, made his accusations at a Biafra forum sponsored by the International Club.
Father Brendan Downey, pastor of KU's Catholic students and a supporter of last month's Biafra Vigil and Teach-In, was in the audience and swiftly responded to Adedei.
"This is undoubtedly true," he replied to the Nigerian's charge. "The Pope is undoubtedly partisan towards those who are starving."
The forum began with ten-minute
Adedeji was one of three featured speakers who took part in the forum. The others were Hyacinth Ubamadu, a Biafran student, and Gerald Brown, a U.M.K.C. instructor who was living in Nigeria when the war began.
statements by each of the participants. Each African voiced his own country's stand and Brown gave the views of a foreign observer.
The Nigerians heatedly disputed many of the remarks by Ubamadu, the Biafran, and accused him of ignorance, emotionalism, provincialism, and distorting the facts. Ubamadu, in turn, hurled counter-charges at his accusers.
In his earlier formal statement, Ubamadu had said the Nigerian troops had ravaged the Biafran university town of Onitsha, leveling every school building and burning the library. He also charged the government in the largely Moslem Northern region with systematically attempting to massacre Ibo Biafran tribesmen.
Adedeji hit the Bifrans equally hard, charging they had used monies intended for refugee resettlement to buy arms.
"Biafa is the dream of an elite who want to form an empire," he charged. "They know that with propaganda they can persuade others to their point of view."
Brown, "middle man" in the discussion, attempted to reconcile some of the wildly contrasting statements made by the other two forum speakers. Many Ibos had been killed in the North, he said, but the attacks had not been supported by the local governments. Quite to the contrary, efforts were made to get the Ibos out of the territory safely. The troops who slaughtered the Iboses were mutineers who had already slain their non-Ibo officers, he said.
Weather
Cloudy and cool with northerly winds 10 to 20 mph today. Partly cloudy and a little cooler tonight. Becoming mostly cloudy with no important temperature change Saturday. High today near 40. Low tonight around 30. Precipitation probabilities 10 per cent today, 10 per cent tonight, 20 per cent Saturday.
Pershing Riflemen, students give blood
The KU campus Blood Drive ended yesterday with a march to donate by 16 Pershing Rifflemen from the Military Science Building to McCollum Hall lounge.
Mrs. George Byers, executive chairman of the drive, said although she was somewhat disappointed with the results, the Red Cross is glad to get any blood it can.
The drive ended well short of the goal of 600 pints of blood. Only about 350 students donated blood to the Red Cross in the three days that tables were set up in McColum.
She said some students were willing to donate but were rejected for minor medical reasons. Recent vaccinations or diseases were common reasons for rejections. If blood contains any "impurities" from these causes, both the donor's and the recipient's health may be impaired, Mrs. Byers said.
Several Pershing Rifflemen were rejected because they recently took smallpox vaccinations for next summer's camp. The Pershing Rifles, a tri-service honorary military fraternity, hoped to win the award for the greatest participation by a fraternity.
The blood drive will return to campus in February, but Mrs. Byers urged students to donate at the Community Building here in Lawrence also.