On resettlement
Did you know that more than two million South Vietnamese have been placed in re-settlement camps?
What are those, you ask? A resettlement camp is a place where the Allies take people who have been living in areas dominated by the Viet Cong. In such camps these people can no longer be exploited by the enemy and can live in peace.
After the peasants are removed to resettlement camps, their villages are burned, thus preventing the Viet Cong from deriving sustenance from the villages.
Often the old area is then declared a free-fire zone. Anything that moves in the area is considered a Viet Cong and is fired upon by Allied fliers.
Resettlement and free-fire zones call for serious rethinking on our part.
Just what are we in Vietnam for anyway? Originally we entered the war to assure the South Vietnamese of their right to independence and security from aggression. Now if we cleared everyone out of the country and then killed everything there that moved we might even win the war. But would we attain our true objectives? It would be equivalent to burning a forest to kill some weeds.
A war such as this one will undoubtedly prod us into some unorthodox practices in our search for a quick solution. Nevertheless, we must not completely subvert our ends as we pursue the means. Two million people have already been resettled. If we continue using this method of warfare we may someday find that we have defeated the Viet Cong but have made the entire South Vietnamese nation our enemy in the process.
—Ivan Goldman
The people say—
To The Editor:
In his recent letter David Pugh gave a onesided review of the situation in the middle east as seen through Arab eyes. Let me make the following remarks:
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was ratified by the League of Nations, which found it moral and made it a binding legal document and an integral part of the British Mandate to Palestine. No such ratification was ever given to the McMahon promises of 1915, which, according to British sources, never included Palestine. Because of their promises to Shereef Hussein of Hedjas (the present Saudi-Arabia), the British made one of his sons the king of Iraq and another son the Emir of Transjordan, both previously Turkish territories conquered by the British.
In 1947 the population of Palestine was about 650,000 Jews and 900,000 Arabs (and not 8-1 Arab!!!). The UN partition plan was supported by more than the two-thirds required, including USA, USSR, France and numerous other countries. Both USA and USSR recognized the state of Israel at almost the same time and this was the only common grounds of agreement between the two super-powers at the time. Immediately the new state was attacked by the regular armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, with Sir J. H. Glubb Phasha as the commander in chief of the Transjordanian army (and not a mere "British military representative"). His evidence is therefore by no means impartial.
THE SYRIAN terrorist raids and constant bombardment of Israeli settlements and the loss of life incurred have been condemned by the majority of the UN Security Council during the past few months. However, Syria was not censured because of an automatic Russian veto, which was used to help its Syrian satellite.
It should be pointed out that the reason for the recent war in the middle cast was an act of aggression by President Nasser of Egypt: The blockade of one of Israel's main seaports at the straits
of Tyan, where a UN peacekeeping force was situated during the past 10 years until its recent expulsion. A glance at the map will show that no UN forces in Israeli territory could keep this international waterway free for shipping and prevent Egypt from blockading the gulf of Aqaba.
Direct negotiations and permanent peace treaties between Israel and each of its Arab neighbors are the only way to solve the problems of the near east (everything else has been tried and failed). On one hand this will give Israel the security it lacked during the past 20 years and on the other hand it will give its Arab neighbors back their recently lost territories as well as a guarantee against any Israeli future "aggression." The Arab nations' previous aggressive policy of annihilation of Israel has backfired. Hopefully, they will have the statesmanship to review and revise their policy towards peaceful coexistence with Israel for the benefit of all the nations in the near east.
A. Zachs Graduate Student
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Summer Kansan editorial page Tuesday, July 18, 1967
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b. s. (the editor)
Well, Bob Stevens (the editor) is suped up with Stp, so again he can dish out this humorous, witty, intelligent garbage for yet another week.
Crazy bumper stickers have been the rage for quite some time. But one in particular located on the rear window of a car parked quite often in downtown Lawrence is catching everybody's eye. It reads:
WIN THE WAR
Send an Israel to Vietnam
University students from Parsons are fortunate this year. If they finish their finals a day early they can still make it to the annual fireworks display scheduled Aug. 3. It seems someone stole the fire-works for the fanfare planned on Independence Day and they have been rescheduled.
The last week has been unseasonably cool. Bikini wearers at the local pools may be wishing that the manufacturers had favored mini-skirt swim wear this year instead of the abbreviated abbreviated models.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp has cancelled its annual trip to Starlight Theatre for the concert Thursday with Skitch Henderson, Doc Severinsen and Robert Rosengarden. Just think that mighty trio is filling in for "Superman" or other such nonsense which has tripped off broadway onto the Kansas City stage this summer.
With cheaper and cheaper car construction maybe they should replace the metal with good solid wood. It seems a KU patrol car involved in a high speed chase last Monday missed the corner in front of Carruth-O'Leary, jumped a curb and hit a tree. The damage to the police car was $250—the tree was unharmed.
There is less than two weeks left for band campers. Then they return home where again they can stay out to midnight, sneak a few nips of booze, leave their rooms a total mess, and be seen with their date at less than a 45-degree angle.
"Up the Down Staircase" is now showing in downtown Lawrence. It was interesting to note how actress Sandy Dennis could change roles from that of a drunk young thing in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" to a first year school teacher seared to death in a slum school. Maybe there is some correlation?
The band camp formal is this Saturday. This is where fair young wolves turn to gentlemen when their date puts on a full hoop. The skirt chasers must finally decide which girls are their favorite. The shy campers will finally ask a girl for a date on Saturday morning. And the camp staff will pull out their hair trying to keep track of all the bushes.