Panel Reaches Verbal Impasse On India Crisis
By Walt Jayroe
A four-man panel discussing the Indian-Pakistani crisis at Tuesday's Current Events Forum offered no simple solutions, but did agree on the complexity of the problem.
Daniel Horowitz, visiting lecturer in political science; Howard Baumgartel, professor of human relations; Robert Burton, director of the Eastern civilization program; and Roy Laird, associate professor of political science participated in the discussion.
AS ONE panelist said, "No local war remains local for long. Repercussions draw us (the U.S.) as well as others toward it."
The panel concurred that while the Indian-Pakistan conflict is important in itself, it is minor when placed in a proper perspective in the world. The real importance lies in how world powers—China, Russia, and the U.S.-react to the situation.
Horowitz, who has many years of State Department experience, expressed the U.S.'s interests in the situation.
HE LISTED three basic objectives of the U.S. in relation to the situation:
an intense interest in the development of strong and independent countries, including Pakistan and India.
- assisting economic progress under democratic institutions,
- and the entainment of China within its own borders.
- and the containment of China In closing, Horowitz listed some of the steps the U.S. may take:
- to keep the United Nations in the picture,
- convey clearly to others that we will not allow aggression,
- attempt to tamp down the conflict
- attempt to tamp down the connct,
- Asian countries must be shown that we will give active support when it is needed.
Laird had doubts on the Soviet response to the crisis.
"I emphatically don't know," he said, "but Washington must think of possible Soviet responses."
think or possible Soviet response.
LAIRD FELT that Russia's internal problems, especially the agriculture crisis, might work toward U.S. interests. There is "room for serious doubt that Russia will go much further in her co-operation with the West," he added. He said that Russia's lost grip on her satellites, especially the eastern ones, may precipitate a Soviet power struggle with perhaps a Stalinist group gaining control and posing additional problems to the already complex situation.
Burton, commenting on the Chinese perspective, gave a brief background of Chinese movement into its border areas.
SINCE 1950 Communist China has been trying to tidy up its borders, reaching agreements with everyone except the Russians," he said.
Tibet, now one of the pivotal areas in the current India-Pakistan crisis, was occupied by China during the 1950's. Burton added.
Burton felt that a pattern of Chinese relationship with other countries might reveal that China hasn't pressed her luck where there has been a resolution, but the reverse had occurred when there was no strong stand.
COMMENTING on the current border conflict with India, he felt that it was a Chinese issue rather than a Communist issue.
Baumgartel, discussing the background of the India-Pakistan aspect, felt that the conflict "was a tragic occurrence of history at this time. Both sides are right, and both sides are wrong."
"India feels that Kashmir is as legally a part of her country as Texas is a part of the United States," he said.
Howard Baumgartel .. illustrates a point
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Daily hansan
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1965
63rd Year, No. 3
Battling India, Pakistan Agree to U.N. Cease-Fire
NEW YORK CITY — (UPI)— Pakistan and India bowed today to a United Nations demand for a cease-fire effective at 4 p.m. CST, but heavy fighting was reported still underway in West Pakistan.
The crisis between India and Communist China also eased and an immediate confrontation appeared to have been avoided when Peking announced India had complied with its ultimatum to dismantle military bases on the border.
INDIAN PRIME Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri defiantly announced in Parliament, however, that Indian troops have been ordered to drive Chinese Communist forces from border areas in the Himalayas.
"Our armed forces have been instructed to repel the aggressors," Shastri said.
Indian Defense Ministry denied the Chinese report India had dismantled the bases. He said this was impossible because India had no installations in Chinese territory.
An official spokesman for the
"If any installations have been demolished on the Chinese side of the border obviously the Chinese themselves must have done it," he said.
ON THE WAR FRONT. the government-owned All India Radio said three more Pakistani F86
Weather
The Weather Bureau predicts cooler temperatures and increasing cloudiness for Thursday, with occasional rain or showers. Skies will be mostly fair with cooler temperatures tonight. The low temperature is expected to be between 45 and 50 degrees, forecasters said.
Sabrejets were shot down today in the Sialkot-Kasur sector of West Pakistan and that Indian forces were only four miles from the Pakistan military base of Sialkot.
Sialik is seven miles inside Pakistan below the southern borders of Kashmir and was the scene of a major tank battle. Kasur, a border town, is 25 miles southeast of Lahore where Indian troops have driven to within five miles of the city, Pakistan's second largest.
The All India Radio also reported that 33 persons, 29 of them patients, were killed today during a Pakistani bomb attack on a jail and hospital at Jodhpur, 400 miles south of Lahore. It was not clear whether the reported attack took place before or after Pakistan announced it was accepting a ceasefire.
Campus Diagnosis: Crowd Claustrophobia
By Stephen Russell
KU students may find themselves standing in class, driving in bumper-to-bumper traffic along Jayhawk Boulevard, and wishing they could wear football equipment in order to charge through crowded hallways because of the increased enrollment of 1965 over 1964.
JAMES K. HITT, director of admissions and registrar, said 14,341 students were enrolled as of Monday which is 1,280 students over 1964's record high. The final enrollment figure will not be made official until after fees are paid, he added.
INCREASED ENROLLMENT also presents problems in housing conditions evident in the overpopulation of McCollum Hall, men's residence hall.
One counselor in McCollum, Jay LaGree, Farmington, N.M., graduate student, believes he has all the problems solved—including the inevitable.
A sign posted on the hall bulletin board reads:
NOTICE!!
"This wing will elect a wing disaster warden who will be the ranking official at all disasters. The wing disaster warden will have an official disaster whistle and an official disaster cap.
"The disaster warden will also be in charge at
fire drills and bomb scares. Be thinking about who YOU want for disaster warden."
The notice is signed "Jay."
Several of the University's ten schools have noticed overcrowded classrooms or larger enrollments. Most schools have not issued complete figures yet.
KENNETH E. ANDERSON, dean of the school of education, said enrollment is up 100 students over last year's number in the school. They have had no trouble with overcrowded classes although the basic classes are larger.
DUANE G. WENZEL, dean of the school of pharmacy, said enrollment was larger than last year's, making the pharmacy school "tight for space but fortunately still able to live within its walls."
Martin Jones, assistant dean of the school of business administration, said the school was still crowded with approximately the same number of undergraduates enrolled in the fall semester of 1964 which was 528.
THOMAS GORTON, dean of the school of fine arts, stated an increase of enrollment especially in courses involving music organizations such as the KU band, orchestra and choral ensembles. Classes in music history had to be moved to larger rooms due to the large number of students, he added.
AT LEAST ONE STUDENT will be standing, temporarily, in a class in the school of law, according to Dean James K. Logan. He has 64 students enrolled in his class which meets in a room with only 63 chairs in it. He said enrollment in the school has increased approximately 20 per cent over last year's figure.
William J. Moore, dean of the school of religion, also listed an increase in enrollment of 20 per cent over last year. "The dust hasn't settled yet." he said, predicting still further enrollments in the next few weeks.
WILLIAM P. ALBRECHT, dean of the graduate school, estimated an enrollment of approximately 2.800 in graduate school which is an increase of about 200 students over last year. Although there are many students, there is no noticeable difference in classroom space, he said.
More students will also mean more cars on campus this year, according to Chief Moomau of the Traffic and Security office. He reported 6,627 student cars registered as of Monday morning. Compared with the number of student car registrations listed at the end of 1964, 6,644, it is evident that there will be more cars on campus this year, he said.