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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 23 1968
GOP averts split, Demos woo votes
By United Press International
By United Press International Republican leaders sidestepped an internal party struggle Thursday as GOP and Democratic presidential hopefuls focused their attention on the voters of New Hampshire.
Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen appeared to be the victor in a dispute with the nation's 26 GOP governors over who should head the platform-writing committee for the 1968 national convention in August at Miami Beach.
The 54-member convention arrangements committee voted to let GOP National Chairman Ray Bliss decide the issue. Bliss made it clear he opposed a dual chairmanship of the platform committee. The governors had proposed that Gov. Raymond P. Shafer be cochairman with Dirksen.
Bliss said, "You couldn't run a business with two positions of equal power. . . . You couldn't run any organization."
In New Hampshire, site of the nation's first presidential primary on March 12, Gov. George Romney of Michigan questioned U.S. motives for involvement in Vietnam and proposed a standing, 10,000-man peacekeeping force under the primary jurisdiction of the U.N. Security Council.
Romney told students at Mt. St.
Mary's women's college at Hook-sett, N.H., that the United States was guilty of "one of the greatest acts of duplicity in the history of the world" if it went into Vietnam simply to protect its selfish national interests.
Romney then flew to Portland, Ore., as Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy arrived in New Hampshire for a skiing weekend and the start of a 14-day campaign tour as the "peace" candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
He later said he meant the interest to contain Red China. He added that "we were told originally that we were going in there to help the South Vietnamese work out their own destiny."
Former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, another Republican candidate, is expected in New Hampshire Friday.
In Madison, Wis., Harold Stassen, who is seeking the GOP nomination as a peace candidate, said not even the use of nuclear bombs "can establish a military solution in the bloody, bottomless quagmire of Vietnam."
"Nuclear bombs would only deepen the tragic situation in Vietnam which has been caused in these past three years by the terrible mistake of the Johnson-Nixon policy of turning the Vietnamese struggle into an American war," Stassen said.
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Continued from page 1 Wurfel said if the present U.S. policy toward Vietnam is continued, the United States could drive the non-Communist people in Southeast Asia into the Communist camp.
"Fifty thousand Vietnamese have died this past month by weapons you and I have paid for," Wurfel concluded. This, he said, is more than enough to alienate Southeast Asians against the United States.
"It stimulates it against us" Wurfel answered, "as American military presence in any country always does."
Wurfel then offered to answer questions. One of the first put to him was what effect U.S. presence in South Vietnam has on South Vietnamese nationalism.
Another question asked him was how he accounted for chronic American stupidity in dealing with Southeast Asian countries.
"Our policies are very appropriate—for the 19th century," Wurfel said. "Our government works the State Department into a position where its employees do
not understand the people they are working with. Sometimes the government will even re-assign a person to a country where he has learned the language," Wurfel said sarcastically.
"What about the credibility gap," someone asked. "How do you feel about it?"
"The credibility gap is nothing more than a modern euphemism for an old-time lie." Wurfel said. "I do feel, however, that the press is doing a good job in informing the public as to what is happening in Vietnam in spite of the opposition it receives from American military officials."
Someone asked Wurfel if he would classify the morale of American and Australian troops in Vietnam.
"I did not have time to talk to any troops while I was there," Wurfel said. "I was, however, greatly impressed by a newsclip I recently saw of a platoon of U.S. Marines on the front lines singing 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone'—and they knew what the song meant."
UPI Briefs
WASHINGTON—The Joint Chiefs of Staff has proposed mobilizing up to 50,000 Army, Marine, Navy and Air reservists, informed sources said today. Administration sources said, however, the White House has not yet made any decision to order the reserve callup. The callup proposed by the Joint Chiefs would include National Guardsmen as well as reservists of all the services.
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Lurleen B. Wallace, the nation's only woman governor, underwent her third operation for cancer Thursday. She was rushed to St. Margaret's Catholic Hospital before dawn Thursday and seven hours later a "malignant," pecan-sized tumor was removed from her pelvis. The operation, prompted by intestinal obstruction, was the governor's third in two years.
KU actors -p. m. Joel Fort, lecturer for the School of Criminology at the University of California at Davis, will speak on "The Mind Altering Drug World" March 11 at 7:30 p.m.
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Miss Currin and Miss Rapalye said they aren't coming back to Kansas until they become known actresses.
"I know something will happen to me in New York, maybe not tomorrow, but in the future. I'm not going to give up," Miss Currin said.
Another 1967 KU graduate, Paul Hough, who played the other murdered Clutter teenager, is in Hollywood hoping his "Cold Blood" credit will lead to success as a movie actor.
Hough has appeared recently in commercials and acts in minor roles in Hollywood films. He has written syndicated articles about his experiences in "In Cold Blood." Before going to Hollywood, Hough appeared two seasons at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City.
K-State to hold drug conference
A scholarly analysis of a psychedelic freak-out will take place Feb. 26 to March 15 at Kansas State University.
The Drugs and Society Conference is to educate the university community on the consequences to the individual and society and other aspects of drug use.
"LSD-25," a film produced by the Federal Drug Administration, will be shown Feb. 26-28 in the K-State Union Little Theater.
The conference is sponsored by the Student Government Association, the Union Program Council News and Views Committee, the Student Health Department, the Religious Council and the K-State Residence Hall Association.
Two addresses will be presented during the conference at K-State's Ahearn Field House. Allen Cohen, counseling psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak on "LSD, an inside Story" March 4 at 7:30
A panel will discuss "Drugs and Society" March 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the K-State Union Ballroom. Members of the panel will be B. B. Ashcraft, assistant director of the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control in the Federal Drug Administration in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Kenneth Godfrey, assistant chief of the West Service Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka; Roger Irwin, from the State Training School in Parsons; John Ciele, director of the Human Resources Project Office of Economic Opportunity in Kansas City, Mo.; and C. E. Peters, vice president for student affairs at K-State.
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