'Formosan resistance to Chiang grows'
By ERIC MORGENTHALER
A Formosan scholar told a mixed group of 100 American and Formosan students here Friday that underground resistance to Chiang Kai Shek is increasing on Formosa and could come alive at the slightest provocation.
Peter P. C. Cheng, assistant professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, who spoke of the resistance movement, was one of a two-member panel in the Kansas Union Forum Room discussing Formosa. The other speaker was Edgar B. Wickberg, KU associate professor of history.
CHENG, A NATIVE Formosan,
said. "The movement to overthrow Chiang is growing day by day. There is an underground movement in Formosa, and there are other movements (anti-Chiang) throughout the world."
"Formosa today is a timebomb," Cheng continued, "and any little incident could set it off."
Saying that native Formosan scholars question the legality of the Chinese claim that Formosa is a province of China, Cheng pointed to mistreatment of native Formosans by the Chinese as the reason for the Formosan's bitterness.
CURRENTLY, there are about ten million native Formosans and two million Chinese on the island.
Supporting Cheng's claim of native unrest, Wickberg, who has spent some time on Formosa, dated Formosan resentment to Chiang from February. 1947, when one of Chiang's generals slaughtered an estimated 20,000 native Formosans.
Cheng said the anti-Chiang movement on Formosa is plotting a violent overthrow of the generalissimo. Resistance groups in Tokyo, the U.S., Canada and Europe are also plotting Chiang's downfall, but through less violent means, he continued.
THE ANTI-CHIANG groups outside Formosa hope the United Nations will enter into the situation, Cheng said.
Supporting UN intervention himself, Cheng advocated a policy of self-determination for the Formosan people. He also said that the U.S. would have to change its present policy of supporting Chiang.
Wickberg, however, indicated that such a change in American policy would be unlikely.
"WE APPEAL to the United States to help us by resolving the legal status of Formosa," Cheng replied, "We want the United States to adopt a one China, one Formosa policy and stop supporting the fiction of a nationalist return to the mainland."
Wickberg said the main reason the U.S. will not change its policy
towards Taiwan is that such a change would require a complete revamping of U.S. China policy.
"It seems unlikely to me," he said, "that U.S. policy will change unless we change our policy of containing Red China."
WICKBERG ALSO pointed to the sound economic status of Formosa and the feeling among some Americans that Formosa should remain Chinese in character as other factors that would hinder a U.S. policy change.
"Many Americans feel that Taiwan is the lost citadel of Chinese government," Wickberg said. "Americans who like Chinese culture want a place where this cul-
Nine marks fall in 42nd Relays
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Bu CHIP ROUSE
A 3:54.7 mile, a 7-0 high jump, and a 16-7 performance in the pole vault were just three of the nine records established Saturday in the 42nd annual Kansas Relays.
A record-setting crowd of 23.
Russia's orbiter is dead
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Kemarev was killed today when the straps of his spaceship parachute became entangled as it was landing from a space flight and the space capsule crashed to earth.
It was the first time the Russians had ever reported the loss of one of their spacemen and it marked the first fatal accident involving a space man during an actual flight.
KOMAROV, 40. A VETERAN of a three-man space bus flight in 1964, had taken off Sunday morning in Soyuz 1 Union-1, the biggest spacecraft ever launched. Something went wrong and he was forced to return to earth.
He had accomplished the scorching re-entry successfully usually the most dangerous part of the flight. But the parachute fouled and the big space craft plummeted to the earth.
THE BRIEF OFFICIAL description indicated that Komarov's death resulted from a freak accident.
The official announcement said Komarov "completely fulfilled the set program" of his flight and had been ordered to return.
Komarov's death was announced by Tass after nearly 12 hours of silence on his fate.
INFORMED SOURCES in Moscow had expected the flight to be the first part of a huge space spectacular involving at least two space ships and a number of passengers. An exchange of crews in orbit was spoken of.
Komarov's fate was learned hours after Tass and Moscow television and radio fell silent on his space voyage after giving him a triumphal send off.
The first hint of trouble came early this morning when a second space craft expected to rendezvous with Komarov's orbiting craft failed to take off from the central Asian launching grounds at Baikonur.
700 watched KU sophomore Jim Ryun turn in splits of 58.6, 59.8, 60.2, and 56.1 on his way to a 3.54.7 mile. Ryun's time was the eighth fastest ever recorded, and the best ever by a varsity collegian.
Ryun was pleased with his time. "I'm right where I want to be," he said. "I want to run later in the summer. I want to go to Europe, and they don't start until August there."
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We'll Do It Exposition sees future
Would it be too preposterous to imagine an underground transit system where you drive off a highway into 100 m.p.h roadway? Are the structural designs of
Are the structural designs of the future "way-out"?
Exhibits at the 47th annual Engineering Exposition, held Friday and Saturday, make the possibility seem more likely.
Many of the exhibits featured future happenings. The theme of the Exposition was "We'll Do It."
ABOUT 9,000 PEOPLE toured the Exposition, viewing the 24 exhibits. Angel Flight members served as hostesses, showing visitors around.
Three awards were given for the best exhibits. First place went to the American Society of Civil Engineers. Their exhibit predicted transit systems of the future. Bruce McCollum, Topeka sophomore, was in charge of the exhibit.
Structures of the future was the name of the second place winner, Architectural Engineering, supervised by Gary Nichols, Leavenworth senior.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers exhibited micro-wave and laser beam setups for third place. Marvin Beadnall, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, supervised the exhibit.
Two special awards were also awarded. The Phillips Petroleum Award, for an outstanding senior in the School of Engineering, went to Sam Love, Pittsburg.
SIGMA TAU, honorary engineering fraternity, presented a special award to the Department of Architectural Engineering for the best overall presentation. Nichols accepted the award for the department.
An award presented for excel-
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77th Year, No.120
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, April 24, 1967
SIGHTS FOR ALL TO SEE
The 42nd Annual Kansas Relays, the Engineering Exposition, and the KU Rodeo Club's first rodeo offered a variety of entertainment this weekend. For more on the Relays see page 6. For the rodeo story see page 5.