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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, August 2, 1966
Asiafuture is linked to Japan
WASHINGTON —(UFI) — It is Japan, not Red China, that will have the greatest impact on the future of Asia, retiring U.S. diplomat Edwin O. Reischauer says.
Reischauer, who is returning to Harvard after five years as U.S. ambassador to Japan, said the Japanese, 20 years after their devastating defeat in World War II, are now moving into "a role as the great economic and political power in Asia."
IN AN INTERVIEW with the magazine U.S. News & World Report, Reischauer said;
"China's influence is negative and recognized as such by everybody, whereas the positive role Japan can play is not so widely understood as yet. But for the last year or so, Japan has been showing signs of getting ready to assume a new position of leadership."
He said it was inevitable that Japan assume some of the U.S. burden in the Pacific, and said the United States is glad about it.
BUT, HE SAID, he would "assume that Japan will continue to look to us for nuclear defense," one reason being that the pacifist tendency in Japan "will remain strong among a large part of the Japanese public for some time into the future."
The Japanese public generally is critical of U.S. policies in Viet Nam, Reischauer said, but indicated this feeling appears to be moderating.
"The Japanese are not as prone to all-out condemnation of the U.S. as they were last year," he said. "There is greater realization that Viet Nam is a very complex problem with no easy solutions.
Minister hits Dirksen plan
WASHINGTON —(UFI)— Sen. Everett M. Dirksen's proposal to amend the Constitution to permit "voluntary" prayer in public schools has been strongly opposed by a spokesman for the National Council of Churches.
The Rev. Dr. David R. Hunter, the council's deputy general secretary, said the Constitution's First Amendment provides excellent protection for American religious liberties as it now stands, and it would be a mistake to tamper with it.
He made the statement in testimony prepared for the Senate constitutional amendments subcommittee, which opened eight days of hearings on the Illinois Republican's proposed amendment.
Dirksen feels an amendment is necessary to "clarify" Supreme Court rulings on religious exercises in public schools.
Electrical group makes three awards
Three scholarships, sponsored by the Kansas Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association, Inc., have been awarded for 1966-67.
Recipients are Edwin W. Coleman, Kansas City, Kan; Carl F. Pieper, Tulsa, and Theodore H. McFarlane, Wichita.
The scholarships are offered to outstanding freshman and sophomore students majoring in electrical engineering, and are awarded on a basis of academic achievement, financial need, and character.
Indonesian capital: city of contrasts
By Phil Newsom
JAKARTA — (UPI) — Jakarta is a city of contradictions and you need be in the Indonesian capital only a short time before you feel you're viewing reality through the distorted reflection of a fun house mirror.
I arrived during the "dry" season. My plane landed in the midst of a tropical storm. It rained every day that week.
A newsboy was selling American magazines for three times their regular price.
"They're the latest editions, sir," he explained. To be exact, the editions were about two months late.
THE FIRST IMPRESSION of Jakarta is not the best. As in many other cities of the world, the drive from the airport to your hotel takes you through the city's back door.
A part of the road runs alongside a canal which is used simultaneously as a recreation area, a bath, laundry and sanitation facility by Indonesians living along its banks.
But at the end of the ride is an oasis of modern comfort—the government owned Hotel Indonesia. Within the confines of this large, air conditioned fortress of luxury, one need never set foot outside the swimming pool court—and many visitors don't.
The facilities rival those of any hotel in Asia, yet a majority of the rooms are unoccupied. The hotel is equipped to cater to the tourist, but the nation's political turmoil is keeping the tourist away.
DISTANCES ARE difficult to judge in Jakarta. Travel time from one point to another may be 10 minutes one day and an hour the next, depending on the flow of traffic, which in turn depends on the mechanical condition of the engines that often break down.
Roads in this city of 3 million persons are fairly good for Asia, but congested with cars, trucks, buses, military vehicles, pedicabs, bicycles, scooters and pedestrians.
Traffic lights don't exist here Traffic, when it starts moving, is hell-for-leather. When it jams up, vehicles back up for miles with no alternate routes available.
Pavements often buckle from heavy rainfall and poor drainage.
Taxis are scarce and are hired by the hour or usually by the day, if you can afford the price, which fluctuates with the current value of the local currency.
But a few steps ahead you will notice the muzzle of a machine gun held at the ready as a fatigue-uniformed Indonesian soldier scans the passing crowd in front of a government building he is guarding.
THE SLIGHTEST gesture of friendliness will win you a warm Javanese smile.
After a while you become accustomed to the sight of automatic weapons, troops in combat fatigues and even light tanks clattering by.
You sit in a shaded pavilion and sample the spicy flavor of satay—bite-size chunks of meat and vegetables barbecued on
Kennedys arrive at Cape Cod home
HYANISN PORT, Mass.—(UPI)
—Mrs. John F. Kennedy and her two children have arrived to spend the rest of the summer at the Kennedy family compound.
Mrs. Kennedy was driven to this Cape Cod community Sunday with Caroline and John Jr., after all three attended the wedding of Mrs. Kennedy's half sister Saturday in Newport, R.I.
small wooden sticks—and watch bathers on the beaches and other colorful activity of Jakarta's sprawling harbor.
After watching the smiling faces about you and breathing the fragrance of the spices which fill the air,you begin to feel at peace with yourself and the rest of the world.
But on the way back to the hotel, a cyclist pulls alongside
your taxi and reaches into the open window in an attempt to snatch your watch or sun glasses. In spite of the heat, you learn there are parts of Jakarta where it is better to keep your windows up.
PICKPOCKETS AND watchsnatchers are a hazard of the port area. Many people are hungry because their currency is almost valueless on the world
market. They cannot get enough money to keep up with this inflation. And when people are hungry, they steal.
But signs of the potential might of this city and nation are everywhere.
One wonders if the steel skeletons of buildings started long ago will ever be filled with the flesh of concrete and the blood of commerce.
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