Thailand ambassador questions a Viet win
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
The Thai ambassador to the United States, Bunchana Atthakor, Thursday said he is not certain the United States can win a military victory in Vietnam.
"It has been the policy of the United States to contain communism. We in Thailand support that policy and I do not believe that either the U.S. or Thailand will change that policy," he said.
Atthakor does admit, however, that he is concerned about the recent successes scored by anti-war candidates in the 1938 presidential race.
"At times I think the North Vietnamese will be willing to negotiate," he said, "but they know what is going on in the United
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"Already Thailand has sent 25,000 men to Vietnam, and we will soon send 10,000 more. We have reached the point where our literacy rate is 70 per cent. There are only 2,300 communists in Thailand. It is my hope that other nations in Asia will be able to attain such economic and political stability so that they will be able to stand on their own against communism."
Buchana Atthakor
"One good thing is that no matter who wins, it will take a while before any major policy change can take place. America realizes that such a change affects not only Vietnam but the entire free world."
States and they will not negotiate if they think that a candidate who will stop the war can be elected in November.
The ambassador said he feels the U.S. involvement in Vietnam is giving Asian nations a chance to build up economic and military capabilities so they can eventually fight communism themselves.
Attakor, addressing the KU-Y Model United Nations, told the 200 delegates that Thailand supports the United States' policy in Vietnam.
"The winning of the war is, to me, just containing the communists and not allowing them to spread to all of Asia," he said. "Whether or not the war can be really won I do not know."
--co-chairman of "Students for Rockefeller," said he was surprised and shocked to learn of Rockefeller's action.
KU coach Ted Owens discusses his team's victory over St. Peter's in the NIT Thursday. Story on page 6.
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KU supporters surprised as Rockefeller bows out
Some KU supporters of Nelson Rockefeller now are looking at Senators Robert Kennedy of New York and Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota as possible presidential alternatives after the New York governor announced Thursday he would not seek the Republican nomination.
Instead, he said he must speak out on national and world issues and to try to influence the writing of the 1988 GOP campaign platform.
Rockefeller told a stunned news conference at the New York Hilton that it would be "illogical and unreasonable" to try to arouse support for his candidacy when the latest samplings of sentiment indicated that a majority of party leaders favored Nixon.
While Rockefeller left the track for Nixon to run alone, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., rejected President Johnson's call for unity as an attempt to suppress criticism of policies which he said pose a greater danger to America than its enemies.
Dan Austin, Salina senior and
Austin said he thought this would almost assure Richard Nixon of the nomination, and he definitely would not support Nixon. "He's not quite my type," he said, "Right now I'm torn between Kennedy and McCarthy."
Austin said he thought Rockefeller's advisors in New York gave him some bad advice. "I don't think he realizes the potential support he has," he said.
The other co-chairman of "Students for Rockefeller," Scott Nunley, Ashland, Kentucky, graduate student, experienced "deep despair" when he heard the announcement.
Rocky's action wrecks the plans of this group to try for a Rockefeller landslide in Choice 68. a nationwide student presidential preference primary, Nunley said.
Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and student body president, said he felt that Rockefeller was the
best man, and he was sorry to hear the announcement. Craig is on the steering committee for the national "Choice Rockefeller" organization.
Craig said he isn't sure who he'll support now, but he would support Richard Nixon over President Lyndon Johnson. "But," he said, "I would have to hear more about Nixon's war stand if he were to face Kennedy."
Few KU Rockefeller supporters feel there is much chance of a Rockefeller draft at the Miami convention.
"There would have to be some real dissatisfaction with Nixon or a tremendous write-in campaign for Rockefeller" to stop Nixon now, Craig said.
Paul Steeves, St. Louis, Mo., graduate student and KU student co-ordinator of "Kansans for Alternatives," said he feels that Rockefeller's move will have little effect on McCarthy - Kennedy backing.
"We may get a few Republi-
cans," he said, "but not many."
Five arrested at KU, Wichita, face federal LSD sales charges
Three KU students were arrested Thursday on federal charges of possession and sale of LSD and conspiracy to sell the halucinatory drug.
A Wichita man was arrested Thursday afternoon and another Wichita man was arrested Friday morning in Wichita.
Charged in an 11-count information were William E. Benson, 24, Topeka junior; Michael A. Butel, Wichita freshman, and his wife, Susan P. Butel, Garden City, N.Y., freshman. Arrested in Wichita was Gregory Barnes, 20, Wichita, Glen E. Smith Jr., reportedly walked into the Sedgwick County (Wichita) jail and turned himself over to authorities.
The Butels and Benson appeared before U.S. Commissioner Milton P. Allen Thursday afternoon.
Allen fixed their bond at $1,000 each and set arraignment for Monday, March 25, at 1:30 p.m. before District Court Judge Wesley E. Brown in Wichita. They were released after posting bond.
The information charged that sales of LSD in Lawrence and Wichita occurred in January and February.
The federal warrants were issued in Wichita from the U.S. District Court. Apparently, most of the investigation had been conducted by the Federal Bureau of Drug Abuse and Control's
office in Wichita. Accompanying the agents in the arrest were officers from the Douglas County Sheriff's office, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and Lawrence detectives.
Sale of LSD is a misdemeanor under federal statute, but possession is a felony under Kansas statute.
Federal charges probably came about because federal agents did most investigation and compilation of evidence. However, if probated in Wichita, the Douglas County attorney could file charges under Kansas law, said Allen.
The Butels told a Kansas reporter they have not decided how they would plea in the case, and have not yet retained a lawyer.
Reagan is not running—for or from
(Editor's note: This article is part of a series dealing with the 1968 presidential race and the election process.)
By Don Westerhaus Kansan Staff Reporter
During the past year, Reagan has made several speaking tours to many sections of the United States, feeling out his influence in the nation. The trips, outwardly acknowledged as Republican fund raising drives, also have served to increase his national prominence.
Gov. Ronald Reagan of California may not be actively running for the Republican presidential nomination, but, apparently, neither is he running away from it.
Because of his speaking tours.
Reagan will be a favorite son candidate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 5, leading the 86-vote California delegation, but he said he will do no active preconvention campaigning for the nomination.
he has become the most effective fund raiser for the Republican party since former President Eisenhower. Reagan insists he is not running for President, but says that shouldn't deter him from working for the party.
At the same time, he said, although he asked that his name be left off the New Hampshire primary ballot, he will not submit a written disclaimer to be left off the ballots in Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Oregon. Those states require the names of all "prominently mentioned prospects" to be included on the ballot. Reagan said taking his name off the ballot in those states would impair his status as a favorite son in California.
After the recent New Hampshire primary Nixon seemed to have an almost unassailable lead in the Republican race. Reagan and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller were far behind, although neither was on the ballot and gained only write-in support.
As the scenes of the primaries move westward, Reagan could draw considerable support. In Oregon he may be the man to beat. In California he very probably will be.
The Nov. 22 issue of Newsweek magazine reported that a Republican party leader said, "Reagan
would add a lot of color and box office attraction to the Republican ticket. He would carry the most populous state in the nation, and he would help a lot in other states where George Wallace might be a threat."
From the beginning of his term as Governor of California, Reagan has held weekly televised press conferences telling the people what is being done to improve their state, revealing a knack for putting his ideas across to his viewers and listeners in a language they can understand.
"The first thing I would do is close Haiphong harbor. It would
Reagan has said the war could have been over by now if the amount of escalation we have had in the last three years had been spread over a shorter time period.
stop about 85 per cent of the supplies that are making the war possible," he said.
Secondly, "if we don't invade, certainly at least we should pose the threat of invasion of North Vietnam to the point where they've got to pin down some of their forces up there on a defensive basis, instead of turning everything loose with our guarantee that they don't have to guard the store at home, Reagan said.
"I don't think anyone should ever attempt to fight a war while giving the other guy freedom to move, with no threat to his base of operations."
Reagan also is against violent civil disobedience.
"I think we should stiffen our
See Reagan, page 12