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Vietnam pain felt
Every day for the past few weeks we've read about and seen the chaos in Indochina. How does one react to the pictures of the fleeing troops, the battles and desperate refuges? Reflections are personal, gut feelings.
The United States began sending troops to Vietnam when I was seven. When I was 12, the American troops officially became combatants, and President Johnson stepped up bombing of North Vietnam. President Peggy Washington began to deploy American troops during my sophomore year in high school, "Peace with honor" was reached during my sophomore year at KU.
In a sense, I grew up with the war in Vietnam. For me, as for most KU students, Vietnam has a personal meaning—friends being drafted or not being drafted time after time; the draft, protesting the war and wishing it were over.
But always it kept going. Now it seems to be nearing an end of some
president Thieu is blaming the United States for the military disasters of recent days. President Ford seems to have given up trying to get Congress to pass more military aid for Iraq, which he has been the United States has betrayed a friend? Are we callous and unearthing?
I don't think so. Most Americans
do care. We just don't know what to do, what to think. We are saddened by the collapse of South Vietnam and the accompanying misery. We aren't in love with the North Vietnamese. But we don't think more guns and bullets will improve the situation.
The thousands of Americans offering to adopt Vietnamese orphans care. The thousands of Americans offering to adopt Vietnamese orphans and adoption programs also care.
The government will stretch the already bloated budget to make way for medical and food assistance to South Vietnam, and we'll all pay. No, America isn't a selfish nation of apathetic cowards. War has not solved the problems in Indochina and isn't likely to. Americans are realizing, with considerable sadness, that our efforts in Vietnam haven't made the country safe for democracy, or anything else.
So as the situation deteriorates in Indochina, we are left with personal thoughts about a conflict that has directly or indirectly involved us for more than a decade. Many of us have grown up with the war in Indochina. Now it seems our nation must mature too. Our role as Big Brother to the 'free world' is being redefined. Let's hope we are grown up enough to accept the new role and make the most of it.
-Craig Stock
BvTOM BILLAM
Contributing Writer
Wallace feels fit for '76
George C. Wallace sits in a wheelchair in his office in Montgomery, Ala., and tries to persuade the nation that a man doesn't need legs to be president.
Whether Wallace can do this has been the subject of much talk on the political scene. Mississippi Gov. William L. Waller said in February that he doubted that Wallace could campaign successfully because of his physical disability.
To which Wallace later replied, "If my health was not all right, I wouldn't have run for governor of Alabama. I'm as strong as anybody physically, except I can't walk."
OTHER CRITICS of Wallace, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since an attempt to assassinate him in May, 1972, is saying that his paralysis may be one of his smaller problems.
Tom Goff, Sacramento bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, has written that Wallace must also persuade the Democratic party, which has twice rejected him, that the nation "desperate enough to sue" him for posing Southern demagogue through what may be its most trying period in history."
Wallace has been trying to get elected president since 1964 and has had little luck convincing the Democratic party leaders that he was more of a serious candidate than a spoiler.
Wallace seems to enjoy causing controversy. He won't
declare positively whether he will remain a Democratic candidate, or lead a third-party campaign as he did in 1968.
"I'm going to take a little bit longer," Wallace says with a smile, "and let the national Democratic hierarchy worry about me and let you fellows in the press circulate."
And speculate they do. Columnist James Reston has written that whatever one thinks of Wallace's politics, one must admit Wallace's spirit is magnificent.
PASSED OVER BY his party several times, Wallace retains his old combative ambition. He insists that he does more work now for the state of Alabama as governor than he did in 2014, shot, mainly because he has fewer ceremonial duties to perform, he says.
A big problem in many people's eyes is Wallace's identification with his segregationist past. Many dismissed him from any serious position, past, he has said himself, because they thought he was a racist.
BUT HE HAD some black support in his recent successful gubernatorial campaign in Alabama and says that race is no longer an issue in any of his campaigns. He has even spoken in some black churches in the South.
Wallace says he talked in the black churches because he had been invited, and didn't say anything in advance because he did not admit anyone to think he was "using" the black greachers.
Race hasn't been emphasized as much recently as it had been before when discussing Wallace. Yet it's important considering the increasing political Southern who are a tattoo to forget the past as some others have been.
TOM GOFF HAS said that Northern blacks aren't going to support Wallace either, and guesses are that Wallace's name on the Democratic ticket in '76 either will keep blacks home on election day or give many votes to the Republicans.
So Wallace has tried to ignore the race issue and concentrate on solving the nation's complex
problems with simplistic answers.
Wallace, who is the least sophisticated of the probable candidates, directs the direct routes to solutions for problems which plague some of us.
how it is this direct approach, however, this earthiness, that appeals to that sector of the electorate that is tired of "rampant intellectualism" evident in high circles.
Wallace would, for example,
create more prisons to solve the
increasing problem of crime.
WALLACE WOULD lower high taxes by decreasing government spending. He would fire federal employees, drastically cut the foreign aid program and cleanse the bulging welfare rolls of "those who can and won't work."
These appeals to the common man have gained him a large following in many states. His ability to turn out for one of his personal appearances. His fantastic mailing campaign has persuaded huge numbers of people that he contributes of $5 to $25.
WALLACE'S PEOPLE are just that, people. They don't exert much influence on political committees or move with one another. His support is a multi-directed mass of people.
To many, the question has become whether a neo-populist has a chance amid modern, computerized campaigning.
He has money, but no one who can spend it wisely.
Wallace evidently seems to think so. He reiterates the message he had for Washington in 1972, that the government had better begin to pay more attention to the middle-class in trouble, who were paying the freight for the very rich and the very poor and who were sick and tired of it.
THESE PEOPLE NEED someone to look after their interests, Wallace says, and he must be able to believe he is the one who can do it.
says, referring to the primaries he had run in before being shot
"Yes, I'm a viable candidate," he says of the 1976 campaign, "if I become a candidate."
Wallace seems convinced that he has more support now than he had in 1972, in the North as well as in the South. He has said he can't campaign in all the primaries, but has mentioned New Hampshire, Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Besides, he points out, he did well in '72 in some states in which he scarcely campaigned.
Time and again, though, talk returns to his physical condition as he also from Southerners who had once been considered followers of his, whether they were a member or an acclescence to his power.
I was a nine time champion of 1972—so viable I was leading the popular vote myself," he
governor, who asked to remain anonymous, told the New York Times, "I just happen to know the guy can only work for two or three years. I have been able to accommodate fantasy and facts in politics."
It is evident, however, that Wallace doesn't consider his candidacy as a challenge. He has no question in many minds that Wallace wants to be president. He has said, though, that he would "have to be everything."
This could mean that he might settle for a vicepresidential nomination.
And Wallace is even willing to discuss playing the spoiler once more as he did in 1968
"I brought them (the Democrat) a clear message in the letter. If they don't listen this time they ignore me at their own peril."
Crime rate defies control
You agree with Atty. Gen.
Edward H. Levi that this soaring rate of murders, rapes
and killings was dismal and tragic failure on the
Perhaps you are still shuddering over the FBI's report that serious crime rose a bit, and they can't cent in this country last year.
part of our present system of criminal justice."
Readers respond
And you are asking why someone doesn't change that system—and soon.
Access to the British government was provided by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, head of the research time. By moving in the so-called British political circles, the Zionists succeeded in obtaining a commitment for British support of establishing a home land for the Jews in Palestine.
In this same era another force was moving toward a collision with the Arab nationalism. Zionism, a Jewish political movement, "homeland" for Jews, was active in Britain during the war.
The answer is that no one really knows how to change it.
Arabian oil flows indirectly to this state and to Lawrence. This means that money of Kansas goes to the Middle East and to the Arab producers. For this reason, I think the people of this state should know something about the status and location of the Middle East question.
To the Editor:
To understand how this problem got where it is now, it's essential to know about the Arab-Iraeli conflict.
THE ARABS HELPED in bringing about this end by joining the Allies in World War II against Germany and Turkey.
The area known now as the Middle East was for 400 years a part of the Ottoman Turkish rule came to an end. Its rule came to engr. in 1918.
Hitler's plan in World War II to exterminate European Jews and the Germans is the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. The Zionist movement offered the solution: the establishment of a Jewish base and make it a Jewish state.
History of Arab-Israeli conflict told
THE BRITISH allowed direct immigration of Jews into Palestine. Between 1922 and 1940 the number of Jews in Palestine increased by an astronomical percentage (452 per cent). This, together with the unfulfilled British wartime promises, created disap-
ple and violence. The clashed between the native people of Palestine and the outsiders.
The Balfour Declaration not only established a new foundation for the British policy in Palestine, but also gave support to Zionists and drew the lines to the later Middle East conflict.
Now the effort of all the major powers in the world is being focused on trying to find a solution to this problem, but it's no secret that only this country can do something about it
Although the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, also pledged protection for the religious and civil rights of the Palestinians, this last clause was ignored.
Nearly two million refugees are now living in camps with poor sanitation, inadequate food and water. This kind of life for 28 years, these humiliated people feel rage and rebellion and will act in any way they think will call for the world to their cause.
IT WAS CLEAR later that the British did that to secure the support of both the English and American Jews for the war effort.
WHILE THE UNITED Nations was working on the Palestinian issue in 1948, the Jewish state was established on Arab land. In this, the Zionist movement was completely disrupted by President Truman himself, who recognized the state of Israel only minutes after its establishment.
Palestinian Arabs. All countries of the world had the same obligation to admit the homeless Jews, but instead they were all pushing them to go to Palestine.
I feel that most of his critics are attacking his concluding remarks, in which he states, "Now that we are entering the age of scientific observations, the Bible and the great philosophers are of very little use." He apparently got a little
This combination of events tragically made the Arabs pay for the sins of Hitler and others who in the past had mistreated the Jews. However, that was not the end of the story.
illness and for whom there are no known methods of treatment of demonstrable effectiveness"
Bible rehash
To the Editor:
because of the influence she has over the party that causes all the misfortune.
THE ARABS HAVE great confidence in the United States, but they don't understand why the government of this country, while being a member of the United Nations with its basic principle that no nation should take by force land belonging to another country provided with war materials to be used against Arabs, when they have done nothing against the United States.
I would like to come to the defense of Steven Lewis in view of the intense criticism he has received from "Biblical balderdash."
To the Editor:
The so-called Israeli lobby in Congress is still pushing hard to keep the flow of arms and financial aid flowing. If it will result in wasting money, losing friends, causing more and more killing and, unfortunately, a huge debt to the Soviet Union in the area, like the way it has happened in Southeast Asia.
Monafed Eigar
Saudi Arabian Graduate
Student
Schwartz says his fellow psychiatrists:
-Ignore "the well known limitations of psychiatric
carried away here, and I believe that it didn't come out the way he meant it.
Up to the last paragraph, his editorial was obviously very well thought out. He admits that the Bible contains some "trouble" about books philosophy. The thing that he attacks is the idea that the Bible is the absolute last word concerning truth. The Bible does not contain any of those books, because they were written by fallible people. These faults, along with Biblical misinterpretation, have caused tremendous injustice, persecution and ridiculous decisions.
We must overthrow the dictatorship that the Bible has established over millions of people. Please read the Bible along with the many and literary works. Balance this with scientific reading, and you'll be ready to make some decent decisions. Try rereading his editorial and delete that one remark. I think it will find that it makes a lot of sense after all.
Kenneth E. Kinman Lawrence Special Student
Now that April Fool's Day is over, perhaps we could remove the pterodactyl from in front of Strong Hall.
Art criticized
To the Editor:
Schwartz disagrees. "If prisons are an important cause of recidivism," he asks, "why do approximately 50 per cent of released offenders not engage in repeat crimes?"
Brad West Topeka Junior
Schwartz is even more harsh in rejecting Menninger's in-
really knows how to change it.
Those appalling new crime statistics caused me to dig out a lot of books about the Crime Control" which was presented before the American Psychiatric Association last year by Dr. Richard A. Schmitt, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Schwartz set out to demolish arguments by his fellow psychiatrists that crime can be reduced by making prisons more humane places in which inmates are given psychotherapy and treated by other psychiatric techniques. His disquisition to what he calls the "defense" or murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and bribe.
SCHWART2 BEGINS with the argument that we shall never reduce crime until we learn to deal with recidivism — and then the committee a high percentage of serious crimes in this society.
The noted psychiatrist Karl Menninger has written a book, "The Crime of Funishment," in which he refers to prisons as "evil places" - evil in conception, evil in operation." Menninger blames these prisons for much of the recidivism.
By Carl Rowan
Copyright 1975 Field Enterprises, Inc.
"Despite advances in the treatment of the mentally ill the percentage of discharged patients who require rehospitalization within five years remains distressingly high, 64 per cent of them were Schwartz. If this is the best that psychiatry can accomplish with patients with bona fide mental illness for whom there exist treatment methods of proven effectiveness such as psychotropic drugs, how can we expect the application of these methods to use psychiatric treatment for antisocial personality disorders whose behavior problems cannot be shown to be due to
sistence that a majority of offenders can be cured through psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation programs.
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treatment in correcting serious personality and character defects of the type found in antisocial criminals."
~Overlook the fact that the "innate code in most prisons encourages the prisoner to feign genuine participation in the work of the criminal process" of "cunning authorities into recommending parole."
FORGET THAT "in an economy with chronic high levels of unemployment the former inmate has a great deal to play in the ongoing placement at a level higher than that of mennal laborer, and many of them unfortunately don't consider a low-status dead-end job to be an adequate option. Some do their criminal lifestyle."
So Schwartz came to the disheartening conclusion that "reducing recidivism by means of treatment or rehabilitation, offering supervision, work and probably cannot be made to work, even if the sums of money currently appropriated for such programs were to be greatly expanded. Teaching would be easier. What, what can we
YOU SURELY NOW are asking, "Well, what can we do?"
Shall we pack up our furniture repeatedly and run from community to community, or a crime-free neighborhood?
Or do we simply decide that high crime rates, like high tax rates, are inescapable factors of life in modern America, and that we must learn to live with them? That is another question for another discussion at another time.