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Monday, October 7, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
"NOW ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT AMNESTY."
U.S. must live with less
By GLENN MEYER
President Gerald Ford, in speeches to the United Nations
World Energy Conference.
asked Arab nations to reduce their oil prices. He warned that failure to do so risked world-wide economic chaos, even war.
The shah of Iran replied simply, and to the point. Reduce the prices on your exports first, he said.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told the General Assembly that Arab oil policies represented an "unprecedented attack on the world's energy resources when poor nations were being overwhelmed by food shortages and inflation.
It seems ironic that President Ford should be telling the Arab nations they are asking for more than their fair share of the world's wealth. It has been estimated that between 50 and 70 per cent of the world's resources supports the U.S.
The world's economic troubles aren't because of Arab control of much of the world's resources, but that. Many nations have exploited the resources of other nations without worrying about depriving other peoples of a means of living. Britain and Spain are good examples. The United States is an example is the United States.
A mass murderer may soon be released from the Ft. Leavenworth prison.
If the Army is forced to release Calley Monday or any time in the near future, it should bring new charges against Calley, try and convict him and imprison him for the Mylai murders.
On Sept. 25, Federal Judge Robert Elliott of a U.S. District Court in Georgia overturned the court-martial conviction of William L. Calley of the murders of 22 South Vietnamese civilians.
Calley should stay in prison
On the following day, Judge John R. Brown of the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans overruled Elliott's order to immediately release Calley from prison. Brown granted the Army a stay until Monday, when the Army is expected to seek a 15-day stay of Elliott's order.
An Army court in April 1971 found the lieutenant guilty of the premeditated murders of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in early 1988. Calley, serving in the American Division, was charged with the murder of American soldiers that massacred between 100 and 567 inhabitants of the village of Mylai.
After a four-month trial and two weeks of deliberation, the officers of Calley's court-martial found him guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
During his court-martial Calley testified on the witness stand that he shot Mylai villagers.
In his recent plea for release from prison Calley stated that he was a victim of unequal justice when he was convicted three-and-one-half years ago of murder.
Calley's original life sentence was reduced twice after his 1971 conviction. Gen. Albert O. Conners, commanding general of the 3rd Army, reduced his sentence to 20 years. Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway later reduced the sentence to 10 years.
Was it justice for him to indiscriminately murder men, women and children during the Mylal raid? Is it justice for a man who confessed shootings unarmed civilians to be freed after only three-and-one-half years in detention, three of which were spent under house arrest?
If Lt. William L. Calley lt. is released from prison on Judge Elliott's order or if he is released November, the Army should bring new charge against him for the murder of South Vietnamese civilians.
It would not be justice for Calley to be a free man just seven years after he slaughtered at least 22 unarmed Mylai villagers.
—Steve Fry
Calley reversal shows justice
population, which is only 6 per cent of the world's population.
A federal judge in Columbus, Ga., reversed the military court conviction of former Lt. William L. Calley Sept. 25 for the murder of 22 civilians in the South hamlet hamlet of Mylal. The judge, J. Patrick Calley, said that Calley's conviction was unconstitutional, and he ordered him immediately released.
The judge's decision was a sound one, citing violations of Calley's right to fair trial by pretrial publicity the military judge who refused to subpoena Gen. William C. Westmoreland for Calley's defense and the Army's refusal to give Calley access to the testimony against him in a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing investigating allegations of a massacre at Mylai
However, the civilian court's decision is a fair one on its own standing; it does not need comparison with the present wave of pardons and amnesty to appear just. The Army's case against Calley was a watered-down charge against one man who, so far as he knew, acted within the acceptable boundaries of military action. He had been involved in Vietnam combat and in his experience there or in the stories he heard from other GIs and officers told Calley that behavior like that at Mylai was unacceptable and punishable and that illegal orders could be disobeyed.
The massacre at Mylai on March 18, 1968, was carried out by many men, members of Company C—or "Charlie" company, as they called it—of the 3rd Army. They had been in Vietnam since November 1967 without seeing much combat. When they received orders in February to move north and take a region long held by the Viet Cong, their leader, Capt. Ernest Medina, prepared them to meet the enemy by telling them to trust no one and to assume that everyone was a VC sympathizer. The night before the raid Medina told the unit that was to go into Mylai to expect to meet heavy fire fromVC soldiers who were holing up in the hamlet. He told them to destroy everything. He didn't mention treatment of civilians.
The move to clear Calley comes at a time when the national mood stirs with memories and feelings about the Vietnam era. The war was an episode so distasteful that most Americans eagerly pushed it back into the farthest corners of their minds when the troops and prisoners were sent home. Many lawyers and others have suggested that Canada release are appropriate at a time when amnesty for Vietnam war draft resisters and deserters is being practiced.
Of course, that is not what the Americans found when they entered Mylai, and the stories about the ruthless slaughter of old men, children and women who offered no resistance make the Mylai murders outrageous and tormenting to the conscience. There is no legal nor moral excuse for the terrible deeds of the American soldiers in Mylai that day.
Equally unconscionable is the fact that one man was singled out to answer for the massacre. And the one man so named wasn't even the highest commander at the scene. There were hundreds of bodies at Mylai; Calley was charged with 22 of them. Obviously, then, other men should have been charged and tried and found guilty if evidence warranted it. Otherwise, the conviction of Calley is grossly unequal treatment before the law and gives credit to Judge Elliot's opinion that it was "a cathartic to cleanse the national conscience and the impelment to improve the Army's image," rather than a way to serve justice.
The U.S. Statistical Abstract shows that between 1940 and 1965, our population increased by 47 per cent while our gross national product tripled and our annual gasoline soared. Annual gasoline consumption went from 750 to 1,500 pounds per person, paper consumption from 250 to 510 pounds per person and coal and oil consumption from two-fifths and one-third tons per person.
—Jan Hyatt
reassurances to the contrary, would soon reimpose wage and price controls. This kind of thinking makes a mockery of Ford's pleas to the Arabs to lower their oil prices.
The United States has been fortunate. We have enjoyed a
long period of ever-increasing wealth. We have shared some of our wealth with other nations. In Honduras, food is probably being dropped from U.S. helicopters right now. Unfortunately, we have consumed far more than we have given.
We will have to get used to living with less. The world's resources simply cannot support us anymore. Until we learn to live with less, we can't expect other nations to do the same. We should be first to heed the implied threat in the event of a crisis. If you don't share your wealth, it will be taken from you.
Our economy may be in trouble. But as long as we continue to consume over half of the world's available resources, our economy could be affected by other nations how much to charge their exports. While Americans grumble about the high price of food, people in Honduras, Mali
and India are fighting for their lives.
Dr. K. L. Rao, representing India at the World Energy Conference, put it another way: he should be expected to understand the complaints of a country that is highways to cut the distance to its highways to 55 miles an hour.
CBS news reported that some business consultants were advising their clients to raise prices on their products because they feared that the Ford administration, despite
Talented Feliciano burns brightly after Loggins warms audience
By KENN LOUDEN Entertainment Editor
Newcomer Dave Loggins opened what turned out to be a highly successful concert night at Hoch Auditorium.
Loggins began with the song "Let Me Go Now"—a slow, buildup. He said, "Slow starts are bad." He said, "He was right." He was right."
The second song was “Pieces of April,” a song Loggins wrote and Three Dog Night recorded. The audience preferred the Loggins' version. He continued with another song that Can Break Your Heart!" and the Eagles’ “Peaceful Easy Feeling.”
He joked about being confused with Kenny Loggins and then sang "Danny's Song" to the crowd. "When we come to Boston," he had
dedicated to people who need laxatives.
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completely won over the enthusiastic audience.
Although most of the songs were crowd pleasers such as "The Choir," Ms. Loggins did have some original compositions as to "You Couldn't Get to Me" and "Wondering As the Days Go By." particularly amazing was "The Composition Satisfaction," which was
Jose Feliciano had a hard act to follow, but the audience, warmed up by Loggins, immediately responded.
An excited audience gave Loggins a standing ovation, and he sang "Long, Long Road" as an encore.
Feliciano is a professional musician and an excellent entertainer. On his opening song "Use Me Up," he demonstrated his amazing virtuosity on the guitar.
He used effective rhythmic patterns to get the audience wrapped up in his music. He sang and performed piercing and full of emotion, and his songs created an atmosphere of optimism. His songs were especially effective in the theme song from "Chico and the Man."
Feliciano showed a versatility so great that many of the audience who were unwilling to wear them were genuinely surprised.
He demonstrated his knowledge of bluegrass with Earl Scruggs's "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," and the audience broke into applause before he had a chance to finish. Feliciano showed great senility, often in his couple of numbers and also demonstrated that he could handle rock through his renditions of "Born on the Bayou" and "Jumping Jack Flash."
He gave parodies of John Denver and Elvis Presley that left the audience wanting more. He also parodied various types of disc jockes.
Feliciano received two standing ovations and closed with the favorite "Light My Fire." Feliciano lit several fires Saturday night. Ask anyone who was there.
Exhibit from the Seven East 7th Art Gallery. "Third Annual Printmakers Show." Through Nov. 1.
'Pepsi Threnodies' underlines conflict between fantasy, reality
By EVELYN RAPPORT Theater Reviewer
Theater Reviewer
"Pepsi Threnodies," now showing at William Inge Memorial Theatre leaves one of the most beautiful and piqued, delighted and bored.
Much of this play, which is the opening show of this year's Experimental Series, is fine. There are some very good performances by the generally young cast, and Eric Anderson's script shows genuine ability and perception.
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The acts begin with the ignominious death of two brothers, each of whom exemplifies the ideals of his era. Gordon, the elder brother, chokes to death on a sandwich while watching her husband die, dies of an overdose in his grubby apartment while the stereo plays in the background.
Anderson uses the bouncy, determinedly bright theme from the Pops ads as a counterpoint to his characters' lives. It's an effect bit, pointing out the futility and silliness of trying to find a life that looks as happy as your character's insipidity of advertisements.
We never actually meet the brothers. We are shown their lives and characters through the attitudes and perceptions of their parents, friends and former teachers.
the first act deals with the flagrant materialism of the early 1960s, a period during
which the dream seems to be material afflience—a perfect target for sadness. The second act of a book offers an introspective than the first, in part because Anderson has his own contemporaries.
The difficulties of accurately judging a recent period of upheaval and change are immense, but Anderson makes some penetrating comments to the student protest movement.
The cast portrays about 50 different characters, who make lighting, costume and makeup changes, and make them very
Among the best performances were Barbara Mounsey as Gordon's silly wife, Jeff Cyronek as an unconscious news commentator and a azy artist, Emile Rowan as a senior editor of *The Times* as a woman's show hostess, Ellen Marx as the graduate student searching for the "real Tad Eagle"; Art Sloan as a tenured professor whose attitude will delight beleaguered students; and Dona Young as Ted Tat's harsily cynical girlfriend.
Anderson writes fine dialogue, showing a rare skill at characterization. But the script suffers badly from over-ambitivity. Points are made and remade with unnecessary force, especially in the first act. Judicious editing is badly needed, and with honing and script could be very good indeed.
Even with this problem, "Pepsi Threnodies" is well
worth seeing. Technically, the show is very well done, with innovative lighting effects and marvelous costumes, especially
in the first act. Ronald A. Willis,
professor of theater, directs
with flair and vitality, and uses
the set to create the set in an
interesting way.
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