Strikes at HUAC
The House Un-American Activities Committee was criticized Thursday by Frank Wilkinson, recently banned from speaking on campuses throughout the United States and sentenced to one year in prison for contempt of Congress.
Wilkinson predicted that the new Congress in January may make a rule to rescind the committee. "If we want a democracy in America the House committee must be kept out," he said.
"IWOULD LIKE to stir the citizens of Kansas so that at least one Kansas representative in Washington will speak out, one way or another, on the abolishment of the committee. There seems to be an intellectual and moral vacuum in this state," he said at the Minority Opinions Forum in the Kansas Union.
He urged students to write letters to their Kansas representatives on this issue, urged debates on the topic and support for the national committee for the abolishment of the House committee, for which he is chairman.
Speaking at the fifth forum this year, Wilkinson explained that his cause has the backing of 94 congressmen from 27 states and the Kansas congressmen were still undecided on the issue. He spoke at Kansas State University and Wichita State earlier this week.
Wilkinson drew an analogy between the students of today and himself at the University of California at Los Angeles. As student body president there in his senior year, the 51-year-old speaker said his ideas and opinions were
many times the opposite of today. He emphasized the fact that students should be concerned with matters such as this and should mention their opinions to their congressmen.
"The House on Un-American Activities is also in direct violation of the First Amendment. What we need are laws and legal reforms and these can only and best be carried out through the House Judiciary Committee," he said.
WILKINSON LISTED examples concerning persons who allegedly were paid to testify falsely before the House committee and then use this testimony as fact. "Any information repeated from these hearings is not held liable," he said.
"In certain areas the FBI is as guilty as the House committee. I have heard that they are questioning students at Wichita and other campuses for having minority ideas," he said.
Wilkinson said that he found it difficult to imagine an Un-French or Un-Italian Committee. "I hold as unconstitutional the House committee and if I was subpoenaed before it I would go to jail," he said.
"This is a rotten situation. I do not feel that the government should have the power to check ideas and opinions, and I further feel that opinions of even the Communist Party in the United States should not be restricted," he said.
He also criticized the hypocrisy of the American people in religion, and emphasized the need for a rebellion in this area.
Hanoi Sends in Regulars
U. S. HOLDS AIR
By United Press International Communist troop strength in South Viet Nam now stands at 237,000 men and is being augmented by the infiltration of 1,800 regulars from North Viet Nam each month, a U.S. military spokesman said today.
American intelligence estimates that the Communists have 80,000 full-time soldiers in South Viet Nam, including the North Vietnamese troops. The remainder of the force consists of 100,000 guerrillas, 40,000 political agents and 17,000 support troops, the spokesman said.
U. S. Air Force and Navy planes are systematically destroying 12 prime targets in the 100 square-mile region surrounding historic Dien Bien Phu in the heart of Communist North Viet Nam, an American military spokesman said today.
The spokesman said the targets include single-story barracks, huge storage buildings, administrative centers and the 10 squaremile Dien Bien Phu airfield, barracks and storage area itself 145 miles west of Hanoi.
A TOTAL OF 103 U.S. service-
men were killed in action in Viet
Nam in the week that ended last Monday, according to the Defense Department.
The figure brings to 2,108 the total of American combat deaths in the war. The tabulation listed 160 men as missing in action, compared with 161 men the previous week. Fatalities not attributed to hostile action rose from 551 to 567.
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Friday, February 18, 1966
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Centennial Honor Open to Nominees
An Honor Roll paying tribute to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional vision in the past century will be part of the KU Centennial program, the Centennial Program Committee said today.
The Honor Roll will be announced during the Inter-Century Seminar on Man and the Future, April 11-14. The theme of "Man and the Future" makes it appropriate to honor men and women whose far-sightedness and perceptive prophecies gave civilization the opportunity to meet the demands of the present, a spokesman for the committee said.
The committee invites faculty
and student nominations for the list not later than March 1. Candidates are not restricted to KU or Kansas. Suggestions should be sent to Program Committee members.
- title or position
Nominations should include the following data:
Nominees may be living or dead, American or foreign, drawn from any occupation. The one requirement is that the individual has shown a special gift for predicting the future shape of the world.
- name of person nominated
- address
- field or profession
special prophetic contributions
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