University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 22, 1975
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Thieu steps down ...
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"We are doing everything we can so that
process begins as shortly as possible."
Susan
Thieu's resignation, in a tearful, nationally televised address that included a bitter denunciation of the United States, removed him as a major symbolic obstacle to a negotiated settlement. But some U.S. officials questioned whether the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were interested now.
"It sounds like a cliche, but Saigon is just hanging there, ripe for the picking," a State Department official in Washington said. "I can't see why they would wait and let the fall fruit when they can just reach for it now."
Thieu quit with a blast at the United States as having "hared the South Vietnamese people to death." He criticized Kissinger for agreeing to the presence of North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam at the Paris peace talks three years ago.
The Viet Cong's first reaction was that the "Thien clique," meaning his government and any successors designated by him, must leave to pave the way for talks which might lead to a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam war.
Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, army chief of staff and Ford's military adviser, said in Washington that South Vietnam was no longer defensible and that South Vietnam's will to resist was going to erode quite easily as the last vestige of hope was removed
However, he said Thieu's resignation was part of an effort to clear the way for a
government able to negotiate a sedentary. The probability of continued fighting despite Thieu's resignation was heightened by fact that the Communist side had strong military strength around Saigon. It was also likely because the Communists have said that not only Thieu but his whole "clique" must be ousted before talks can really begin.
government able to negotiate a settlement.
Opposition politicians in Saigon said Thiens' resignation would be meaningless unless it led to the rapid formation of a military force. Thiens formed the end of the war, with the Communist side.
Theu said in his televised resignation speech that because of a lack of U.S. help, South Vietnam wasn't strong enough to withstand the North Vietnamese-Viet Cong
In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the United States was notified in advance of Thieu's resignation and would be sympathetic to any request Thieu made to take refuge in the United States.
offensive that began in early March and had swept one-thirds of the country.
There was no immediate comment on
their charges that the United States was
responsible for the deaths.
The Communist-led advances continued even as Thieu said he was quitting office, with the fall of the 20th of South Vietnam's 44 provinces apparently imminent and North Vietnamese and Viet Cong divisions virtually at the gates of Saigon.
Thieu said that, as provided in the constitution, he would be replaced by 71-year-old Vice President Tran Van Huong. Huong, nearly blind and crippled, called for the reopening of the hospital because he said he would die if they did otherwise.
There was speculation that other leaders might emerge soon to bring about negotiations for an end to 15 years of bloody warfare.
The Viet Cong delegation in Paris called for a total U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam, the ouster of the "Thieu claque" and the government of national concern in Saigon.
The French government issued an urgent call for talks to begin between the South and North Korea.
Feminists choose man as leader
BY BRENT ANDERSON
By DREW Kausan Staff Reporter
Who says the National Organization of Women (NOW) is for women only? One couldn't support this by the action taken last week by the Lawrence chapter of the organization.
David Eagle, Prairie Village freshman, was elected president and Doug Witt, Lawrence graduate student, was elected secretary of the Lawrence NOW chapter. Eagle is the first male president of a NOW chapter in Kansas.
"I sought the office for the symbolic reason of letting him know it is all right for
them to work actively in the women's movement." Eagle said last week.
Eagle said there were several men who were members of NOW, and that men were among the original founders of the organization.
"I don't consider myself unique working with the feminist movement," he said. "Not only in Lawrence, but nationally as well, men and women are working together to bring about changes that will be beneficial to both men and women.
"The NOW is just a part of a vast movement bringing about a re-definition of the roles of both men and women in society."
Jazz artists to perform in Newport Mini-Festival
Jazz musicians Clark Terry, Max Roach and Bill Evan, along with their groups, will be on campus today as part of the Newport Jazz Mini-Festival.
Terry, Evans and Roach will conduct rehearsals open to the public with the University Jazz Jazz Hall at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, 8:30 p.m., respectively, in today at 10:32, Murphy Hall.
Roach and his quartet will discuss and demonstrate in Swarowt Reault Hall.
Instrumental clinics will be provided by Terry, trumpets and brass instruments; Vic Sproiler, bassist; Ed Lepo, drummer; Dan Haerle, pianist and Arnie Lawrence, sax and woodwind instruments, from 3.30 to 5.30. Room for the clinics will be arranged.
The Clark Terry Quintet, Bill Evans Trio and Max Roach Quartet will then present a concert at 8 tonight in Hoch Auditorium. The concert is free to all University students who present current registrations at the auditorium door.
Reserved and general admission seats for nonstudents and faculty members for the evening concert are $4.00, $3.50 and $3.00. Other events throughout the day are free.
Terry is one of the premier trumpet players and jazz educators in the world today. He has played with Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Quincy Jones.
Roach, strictly a bop drummer, has played with Miles Davis, Parker Charker and Charles Mingus, among others. He currently lectures on the role of blacks in American music at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Evans is a five-time Grammy music award winner. His seemingly simplicist light touch has propelled him to superstar jazz status.
Jean Robinson, Lawrence graduate student who was elected vice-president, said she thought anyone could support the women's movement.
The Newport Jazz Mini-Festival is sponsored by the University of Kansas Concert Series, the Mid-America Arts Alliance and Briffair Airlines.
"The feminist movement is mature enough to seek and to value responses from all persons who support the full utilization of an individual's capabilities," she said. "This is the primary goal of the women's movement."
Liz Witt, wife of secretary Doug Witt, was elected treasurer of the Lawrence NOW chapter; Jan Robertson was elected public speaker; and Julie Koch was elected as legislative coordinator.
ratton is the wife of director of Affirmative Action for the University of Kansas. Her husband, Bobby R. Patton, chairman of the speech and drama department, is also a member of the local NOW chapter.
"To those who feel that my gender is itself an issue, I can honestly say that in my opinion the male response to the feminist challenge may be inadequate and inappropriate," Eagle said.
"I intend to serve as an example to those men who are in agreement with the goals of NOW but have had no means of expressing their support, as well as to all those who feel
that feminism is strictly a womans concern. "
Daug and Liz Witt became involved in NOW together, and have been active in the movement.
Liz said she supported the presence of men in the feminist movement.
"We are concerned with the direction of people's rights, not just women's rights."
Doug said he saw benefits for men in the feminist movement, and said that men and women working together to make changes would increase the degree of equality between the sexes.
"There are certain things a man can and cannot do," he said, "that place greater limitations and pressures on him. I think the man can not can free men from these pressures."
Eagle also thought both men and women would benefit from changes in their roles and that a working re-definition of those who make a personal level would benefit everyone.
"The view that men must be independent totally and that women must be dependent totally"
Eagle said it was important for men to realize that they had an important part in the business, he said.
Moon...
He also said he thought the number of men involved in the feminist movement would increase as more men saw the value of their participation.
From Page One
"Naked facts are boring because they're detached from personalities." he said. "Newspapers should do more subjective reporting, but instead reporters sacrifice their self-image for a rational personality and make it easy to make a paper with real voices that talk."
The present City Moon has undergone several changes in its short history. Oleh said he started the paper in 1973 when he became interested in juxtaposing pictures of life on Earth with newspaper because it was the cheapest way to produce the publication, he said, and he called it Process News. The name was later changed to avoid any conflicts with the Process Church, a California-based church that is prominently in the Charles Manson case.
Martin soon joined with him to produce the paper, but lack of money reduced them to mimeographing single sheets for a time. Ohle said. When the two could again afford it, they produced another newspaper, this time calling it the River City Moon.
Olle said the name had been shortened to City Moon to avoid stock responses to the lawsuit.
An issue of the City Moon costs about $170 to produce. Ohlhe said. He and Martin sell copies to friends and place copies on sale in the Oread Bookstore and various shops around Lawrence. Money from the sale of these books is production of the next issue. Ohlhe said.
The word "moon" in the title captures many of the paper's characteristics, Martin said. The City Moon reflects the society just as the moon reflects light, and because both are part of the night they also stand for what is inconscioous, bizarre or frightened, he said.
The name also recalls the youthful pastime of mooning (sticking one's bare buttocks out of a car window), and as such it seems to me that some people see in the paper. Martin said.
"The City moon is like a fake Cezanne,
it's said. "It looks like journalism, but it isn't."
"And it's not real," she says.
Nevertheless, Martin said, conventional newspapers should be more like the City
Ohle and Martin said the City Moon was more art than journalism.
Martin said he and Ohle welcomed articles from anyone who wanted to contribute to the paper, but he said writers must undertake the City Moon's style for spuriousness.
Martin said the two hoped to produce an issue every month. So far, issues have appeared sporadically, usually when he has enough money to pay the printer, he said.
"we want articles that are done with dense moral feeling and with a crispness to the writing," he said. "We don't want people to fall into a persona."
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