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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 11, 1965
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World Spotlight
Phone Call Embarrasses Shah
LIVERPOOL, England-(UPI)-Telephone company officials here tried to impress the visiting Shah of Iran Wednesday.
They visited the Shah to test out some of their new equipment. The Shah chose to call the Iranian Embassy in London.
All the circuits were busy.
Still busy.
A second call was made.
The third call was completed—to a wrong number.
The Shah settled for a call to a pre-recorded, anonymous voice. He got the correct time of day.
Officials of the automatic telephone and electric company were embarrassed about the whole affair. As was the Shah of Iran.
Redistricting Bill Questioned
HUTCHINSON—(UPI)—The Hutchinson News said in an editorial today that the new Kansas reapportionment law "is a sadly tarnished monument" to the Legislature's attitude toward a basic responsibility.
Viet Nam Aid Rises $50 Million
The News said the law will be tested in the federal courts. Three executives of the News brought the suits which led to outlawing present congressional and legislative districts in Kansas.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara told Congress today that this year's bill for U.S. military aid in South Viet Nam had gone up an additional $50 million.
McNamara said that President Johnson was transferring $50 million previously earmarked for economic aid to the military program because of sharply rising costs of the Viet Nam war.
Negroes, Clergy Stage All-Night Vigil in Selma
SELMA, Ala.—(UPI)—About 400 Negroes and white clergymen from 30 states staged an all-night prayer vigil and stood their ground early today in a cold drizzle of rain.
The marathon demonstration, before a police line, began shortly after dark Wednesday night for the Rev. James Reeb, a white clergyman of Boston whose severe beating during racial demonstrations two nights ago sparked nationwide protests.
Professor Hurt In Auto Crash
Gurcharan S. Tahim, 26, visiting associate professor of electrical engineering, was critically injured Tuesday night when the car he was driving sideswiped two bridge pillars about one mile east of the Bonner Springs exit on the Kansas Turnpike. His condition remained critical this morning.
Prof. Tahim was taken to St Margaret's hospital, Kansas City. Attendants at the hospital said he suffered massive chest injuries, possible nerve control damage, head injuries, collapsed lung and partially collapsed lung.
Prof. Tahim came to KU at the beginning of the spring semester. An Indian citizen, he has been in this country several years. He received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in January.
Group Takes SPU Challenge
By Harry Krause
"Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to debate?"
With this question, Charles Hook, Lawrence sophomore and president of the Student Peace Union, initiated what was to be an open two-hour discussion on United States policy in Viet Nam.
A SURPRISE VISITOR to last night's discussion in Dyche Auditorium was Frank Ortiz, from the European bureau of United States State Department. Ortiz was at KU to recruit students for the foreign service. He spoke briefly toward the end of the discussion with a group of 65 students and faculty members.
The SPU had issued a challenge Monday for anyone interested to debate the topic: "Resolved: that the United States should remain in Viet Nam."
No one answered Hook's challenge last night, but Brian Turner, Warrenburg, N.Y., graduate student, announced that a group he had organized would accept the challenge at a later date.
SPU agreed, and the debate was scheduled for 8 p.m., March 19, at a place to be determined later.
TURNER HAD been circulating a statement on campus this week asking for persons to join him in accepting SPU's challenge.
Hook said, "If these people do
not feel that they are qualified to debate without a lot of preparation, why do they write so vehemently in the University Daily Kansan?"
Hook proceeded to outline both personal and SPU beliefs on the Viet Nam situation.
He said, "There is a common bond between the United States and the Soviet Union in opposing war, because neither of them wants a nuclear holocaust.
"GUERRILLA WARFARE in South Viet Nam will not be victorious for the United States unless the people there support us, and they don't. Cuba and Viet Nam are to foreign policy what the 1929 stock market crash was to economic policy.
Hook was repeatedly questioned by the audience about facts and historical evidence, and he had an answer for most questions. Students continually asked him what U.S. policy in Viet Nam should be. He answered, "Negotiate, or get out."
"WE SUPPORT dictators who say they are anti-communist, give them aid, and they, in turn, oppress the people."
Hook criticized the former Dier regime, saying, "It was not democratic, opposed religious freedom, was nepotistic, and allowed no expression of differing political opinion. Those who differed were sent to reeducation camps."
those, 30 per cent joined the Viet Cong. They did not work for the betterment of the people economically, and also violated rules of the Geneva agreement, which stated that elections were to be held in 1956, and no more than 700 troops were to be allowed in the area."
REEB LAY NEAR DEATH in a Birmingham hospital. Three white men have been arrested on both state and federal charges in connection with the attack.
HE CONTINUED, "The Viet Cong as they exist today were founded in 1960, and the leadership then as now was communistic. They realized what the people wanted and promised it to them—religious freedom and a neutral South Viet Nam."
Contrasting this with United States policy, Hook said, "The United States says, you try something and we'll shoot you."
He especially noted General Maxwell Taylor's plan to utilize shrapnel bombs to wipe out resisting villages. "This," Hook said, "is like shooting unemployed workers in the Depression of 1929."
The demonstrators bivouacked in the street during the night, huddled against the chill in blankets and bed rolls. When dawn broke today the demonstrators sang "Ain't Nobody Going to Turn Us 'Round."
At this point, Charles Ortiz, of the State Department, said "The war in Viet Nam is a war of national liberation and a civil war."
ORTIZ CONTINUFED. "The Viet Cong is a type of formulated terrorist activity organized to bring down the existing government."
Later they sang the "Star Spangled Banner" while Public Safety Director Wilson Baker and other officers took their standing position before their ragged line.
Hook interjected, "The government of Viet Nam consists of the mayor of Saigon, and possibly not even that."
THE ATMOSPHERE WAS friendly, however, between police and demonstrators. When the crowd sang a verse that started "God Bless Mr. Baker," the top police official of the city walked over to the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and said with a grin, "Does this mean you are going to call off the demonstrations?"
"Oh no." Abernathy replied.
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The Negro leader told a reporter that Baker had been "a decent southern police official" throughout the trouble here.
Abernathy, using a football cheerlead-type megaphone, prayed:
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John Doar, assistant U.S. attorney general and head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, was one of the observers Wednesday night as the prayer vigil demonstration began.
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Dear Mom.
You won't believe what happened to me this week! As you know, I've been studying awfully hard all year, and I'm glad you and Dad understood that my grades would have been better if all my teachers hadn't had it in for me from the beginning.
Anyway, as I was saying, yesterday I went out with some friends and we went to a place named the Southern Pit B-B-Que (they just called it the "Pit"). Mom, it is the strangest restaurant you ever saw! Their service must be terrible, because hardly anybody was eating. They just sat around drinking and waiting for their food. I guess.
1 think some of them got tired of waiting and just got up and left without even eating. I noticed one group that sat there for three hours and never did get any food. When they left they were so mad they could hardly walk! They kept bumping into chairs and stuff.
About eleven o'clock this guy came in that almost everybody seemed to know, but it kind of puzzled me, because some people called him George and others called him Mac. He must be mentally retarded, because while everybody else was carrying on these real philosophic conversations, he just sat at the counter and read the "Weekly Reader" (you know Mom, that newspaper we used to get in grade school). Pretty soon three of his friends came in and they sat in a corner, drank out of big bottles and played Old Maid or something.
Well, that's all for now. Mom I'm getting hungry for some barb-que.
Your loving son,
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PIT PICK—This week the Pit Crew honors Andrea (Andy) Smith, Fine Arts senior.
NEXT WEEK'S Pit Crew column will be in the Tuesday UDK.