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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 30, 1968
Richard Nixon outlines his stands
Editor's note: This is the second part of a Kansan series on the three presidential candidates and their stands on today's issues.
Richard Nixon has engineered a smooth campaign this year, except, of course, the sometimes rather jagged presence of Spiro Agnew, his running mate.
But Nixon, himself, has all through the summer and the early fall managed to present an unruffled professional image untouched by the strife of modern politics.
In part, he held this image by declining to voice his stand on many of the major issues of the campaign such as Vietnam and by refusing to debate Humphrey if third party candidate, Wallace, was included.
However, this position has also garnered him much criticism from both his opponents and increasingly from his own supporters. So, in the last days of the campaign, Nixon is finally making known some of his stands on today's issues.
VIETNAM-This is the main area which Nixon has been refusing to comment upon, saying that he doesn't want to jeopardize the Paris peace negotiations.
By stressing general areas such as the fact that Americans want a change in their lives and law and order, Nixon has kept himself above attack on issue stands.
He does cite the mistakes he thinks the past administrations made in Vietnam. He thinks bombing should not have been used in North Vietnam unless in a diplomatic way, first, threatening the North Vietnamese with the bombing and then using it only if they refused to stop the infiltration of troops into South Veitnam. Nixon says that the United States misjudged the character of the war and didn't train the South Vietnamese or American soldiers for guerilla warfare. He also says that the Soviet Union should have been
more aggressively enlisted to be a peacemaker in Vietnam.
But Nixon evades any questions about his position on Vietnam after elected saying he doesn't want to jeopardize the peace talks or
Richard Nixon
“paint himself in a corner” by saying now what he will do in January.
FOREIGN POLICY—Nixon criticizes the past administrations in this area, saying that in the past eight years since Eisenhower left office, world opinion of the United States has fallen. Nixon says
a new foreign policy team should work out new initiatives in all trouble spots of the world. He stresses stronger European alliances.
Negotiating with Russia from a position of strength not weakness is also a key point of Nixon's foreign policy. It is necessary, Nixon says, to "convince the Soviet Union . . . that negotiation is a much better answer than continuing to bring about these confrontations around the world."
LAW AND ORDER-Nixon has used "the breakdown of law and order" as a pivotal point in his campaign.
Criminal activity has increased because of Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Nixon says. He would strengthen the Justice Department with more personnel, encourage the use of wiretapping and sponsor a drive against narcotics traffic.
Nixon has said that any student or faculty member of any university who "breaks the law and engages in violence should be expelled immediately." University and college officials should take an "uncompromising line" with campus dissidents, he said.
His positions on racial disorders include an early warning system of possible riots, well-trained and very adequate police force and better communications with ghetto dwellers to forestall riots.
Nixon says that Humphrey is tied to the policies of the past in relation to law and order and that he himself would bring in a "completely new team."
U. S. ECONOMY-Nixon deplores the present economic conditions and promises to "tighten out belt," in government spending if he is elected and still spend what is necessary.
The new surtax, imposed by the last Congress, should be discontinued as soon as the economy is back in shape, Nixon says. The tax burden is too high and there is need for a tax reform.
Alison Steimel Editorial Editor
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Letters to the editor
Biafra lifeline account, 'gay' life
To the Editor:
Your story in Monday's UDK on the KU Biafra Lifeline was very good. However, the headline on the story was misleading. While it is true that 200 people took part in the Vigil outside the School of Religion, it also is true that well over 1,000 people took part in the Biafra Lifeline as a whole. For instance, well over 200 people were present in the Auditorium on Friday evening when U.S. Senatorial candidate William I. Robinson spoke in favor of U.S. Government action to aid the starving children of Biafra.
I think the key line in your excellent account was that the people who took part in the Biafra Lifeline cared that half a world away, 12,000 children would have starved to death before the 24 hour vigil was through. They cared, and they did something about it. They wrote letters to their elected representatives asking them to move the nation that can put men into orbit to put food into the stomachs of starving children. We hope that all of the readers of the UDK care also, and also will write to their elected representatives and ask them to do what they can to prevent the deaths of "6 million people once again."
Sincerely,
Howard Kahane
Philosophy Dept.
On behalf of the suffering people of Biafra, we, the undersigned, wish to thank the University of Kansas faculty and students, K.U.R.A., KANU, FKUK, KUOK, students and professors from other schools, the Lawrence Chapter of the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive, and the Lawrence community for your sympathy, concern, and co-operation during the Biafra Drive and Biafra Lifeline.
To the Editor:
We are greatly indebted to Dr. William J. Moore, Dean of the School of Religion, for allowing us the use of the building for the teach-in and the vigil.
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your concern for suffering humanity is above politics. We are grateful and hope that you will continue to express your concern for the fate of the people of Biafra.
Sincerely yours,
Emmanuel Odimgle
Hyacinth Ubamadu
Biafran Students
I am writing in response to the article published in the October 25th edition of the UDK entitled, "Student tells of his 'gay life.'" Disregarding the fact that the article said nothing which the average reader did not already know, it was in poor taste, written on the level of a seventh-grader, and used phrasing which was almost too much to take. (For example, "He was grinning with a masculine smile.")
The general consensus of opinion of the students with whom I
To the editor:
Probably the most irritating thing, however, was that this article was close to an entire page in length, beginning at the top of the front page, while the coverage of Julian Bond's lecture was barely squeezed in.
I am hopeful that KU students can expect to be presented with more newsworthy information in the future.
spoke was that the article was simply not UDK material. Several students commented, "Why would I want to know about what Ralph (not his real name) finds attractive in a male companion?" And the fact that "Ralph" kept his eyes open for the "beautiful" boys who walked past was not exactly interest-holding information; in fact, it made one stop and wonder just why the article was written at all.
Sincerely.
Frances Penberg
Shawnee Mission sophomore
'Yeah. He had a message for you, all right.'