Wednesday, March 27, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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More discussion needed on Viet alternatives
The United States needs more discussion about alternatives to the present policies concerning Vietnam and Asia, a history professor said at the KU for Alternatives meeting Tuesday night.
Edgar Wickberg, associate professor of history and acting chairman of oriental languages and literature, was speaking to the group about the alternatives for
Negro poet, Hill to speak in Union
Roy L. Hill, a Negro poet and biographer, will speak at a poetry forum at 4:30 p.m. today in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
The theme of poems he plans to read is "Poetry from Two Worlds."
Hill, who has been a student of Robert Frost and John Clardi, is poet-in-residence at K-State this year.
He has taught at Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University, South Carolina State College and has also been poet-in-residence at Chadron State College in Nebraska.
Hill drew attention in 1957 with his poem "Sad People," which was included in the National Anthropology of Poetry. He has published "Two Ways," "Corrie J. Carroll and Other Poems," "Who's Who in the American Negro Press," "Rhetoric of Racial Revolt" and "Rhetoric of Racial Hope."
American policy in Vietnam and Asia.
Wickberg said there are no alternatives recognized by the administration for the present situation in Vietnam. The present administration sees a person supporting the present policy or as being isolation, he said.
Wickberg said the United States has allowed Vietnam and China to dictate its present policy.
"We have lost our initiative," he said, "and it is high time we regained it. We should be able to decide if we want to intervene and where and how we wish to do so."
Wickberg suggested four possible alternatives for the war in Vietnam: escalation, continuing the present policy, a holding strategy or negotiations.
He said if North Vietnam were invaded, China might enter the war.
"We have already bombed all possible targets," Wickberg said.
Escalation is not the best solution, Wickberg said. It would mean more bombing or invading North Vietnam.
Wickberg said he did not favor continuing the present policy because it was not effective.
Instituting a holding policy would mean withdrawal to coastal enclaves, Wickberg said.
"This is only a temporary tactic," Wickberg said. "It is what you do while you are waiting to negotiate."
If we try negotiations, he said, the United States would have to stop bombing Hanoi. Then the United States should open negotiations with Hanoi and hope it still has enough influence with the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam to persuade to them to negotiate also, he said.
Negotiations are difficult to carry out, Wickberg said, because Asian countries have the idea that "what's theirs is theirs and what's yours is negotiable."
Wickberg said democracy in South Vietnam is a "precarious business." He said the intellectual vote in the cities, but in the rural areas the people vote for the strongest candidate because they think he will win anyway.
Concerning the United States policy in Asia, Wickberg said we need to decide if we want to
contain China and why we want to do so. He added that we must consider the best means for containment.
The United States must realize three things when considering Chinese containment, Wickberg said.
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