Monday, March 11, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Publications call for peace; ask U.S. strategy change
NEW YORK—(UPI) —Newsweek magazine and the New York Times Monday called for an end to present U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War.
Newsweek, in its March 18 issue, blamed President Johnson for failing to provide "the firm, clear leadership expected of the man in the White House" and advocated reaching a military stalemate in Vietnam in which "both Washington and Hanoi are willing to make substantial compromises."
It marked the second time in the magazine's 35-year history that it has taken a position of advocacy.
The Times in its lead editorial questioned Gen. William C. Westmoreland's reported request for 100,000 to 200,000 additional troops, "Old soldiers' illusions, it appears, never cie," the editorial headlined "Suicidal Escalation" said.
"Time and again, General Westmoreland and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have asked for and received additional men and resources, each time with the promises that there was 'light at the end of the tunnel,'" the Times said.
"Time and again they have been proved wrong. The tunnel has
turned out to be a bottomless pit,
going down toward nowhere."
Newsweek said that "after three years of gradual escalation, President Johnson's strategy has run into a dead end . . . the Tet offensive . . . has exposed the utter inadequacy of the administration's war policy."
WSU head may resign
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WICHITA, Kan. — (UPP) — The resignation of Dr. Emory Lindquist as president of Wichita State University is expected to be announced later today by the State Board of Regents office in Topeka, the Wichita Eagle said today.
Newsweek called for a cessation of large scale search-and-destroy operations and a troop withdrawal from South Vietnam's borders, especially from the area just below the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where the Marine outpost of Khe Sanh now is surrounded.
Lindquist, who is 60, has headed Wichita State since 1963, when he succeeded Henry Corbin at the close of a heated fight for Wichita University's admittance to the state system. Corbin became a member of the teaching staff with a rank of professor but is now on leave.
The magazine said this would show the U.S. is fighting a political war and would ease pressure to bomb North Vietnam.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, declined to confirm or deny the report, as did Lindquist himself.
The films include documentaries, experimental films and cartoons. They cover such subjects as a Christmas with colored trees and a Rent-a-Santa operation, a series of black and white abstractions to a sitar soundtrack, and the tale of an Indian boy in Harlem.
Eight short films made by university students across the country will be shown in the second National Student Film Festival at 7 and 9 p.m. Tuesday in 303 Bailey Hall.
Rumors have been current the past several months that Lindquist would resign. He has said in the past that he wanted to return to teaching.
stead of victory, each escalation has produced a new stand-off at a higher level of death, destruction and despair for the Vietnamese people and at a mounting cost in lives, money and respect for the United States.
Short films by students to be shown
Admitting that such a strategy would not bring about the original U.S. aims of a stable, independent non-Communist South Vietnam, it said "the political fate of South Vietnam must ultimately be decided by the South Vietnamese themselves."
"The time has come to abandon this bankrupt policy. The American people have been pushed beyond the limits of gullibility."
The Times editorial said "in-
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