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78th Year, No. 83 LAWRENCE, KANSAS Friday, February 23 1968
A Red victory in Vietnam inevitable: MU professor
There is nothing the United States can do to prevent an ultimate Communist takeover of all Vietnam, David Wurfel, political science professor from the University of Missouri, said Thursday night as guest speaker of the KU Minority Opinions Forum
Wurfel, who observed the 1967 Vietnamese elections, is a frequent visitor to Southeast Asia.
"Even a Super-President or even Anti-President Johnson cannot stop the Communists from taking over," Wurfel said to a crowd of about 150 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Wurfel's talk, entitled "Vietnam-The Inevitability of Withdrawal," did not dwell on the immoral theme so often applied to the war by its opponents. Nor did Wurfel say the United States was likely to suffer defeat at the hands of the Viet Cong.
"What I see happening is very
simple," Wurfel said. "Sooner or later we are going to get out of Vietnam. When we are going to get out is a good question.
"Americans fall into three categories: 1, those who favor getting out tomorrow before breakfast; 2, those who say we can get out after we have defeated the Viet Cong; and 3, those who want a settlement."
Wurfel then evaluated each of these three positions.
"We will not get out tomorrow before breakfast. There is no chance of this happening. This is evident by the policy taken by the T.V. cowboy who lives in the White House."
Wurfelt went on to say there can be no U.S. victory in Vietnam. He said if the American people cannot see there is no chance for victory around the corner, then there is little hope for us.
"If we bomb the Vietnamese
people into the stone age, they will just throw rocks at us," Wurfel said.
Wurfel said the only way to stop what is happening in Vietnam is to arrive at some sort of settlement—preferably a settlement reached by the two countries concerned: North and South Vietnam.
"Secretary of State Dean Rusk says he wants negotiations," Wurful said, "but he wants a totally noncommunist government in Vietnam. It is obvious Rusk lives in a world of "doublethink."
"The longer we fight, the less chance for negotiations," Wurfel said. "Time is not on our side as the United States thinks. When I was in Vietnam, I did not find any educated Vietnamese who, speaking outside his official capacity, thought time was on the anti-Communist side."
See Red Victory, page 10
Long wait futile for some
Early risers buy K-State tickets
By George Longenecker Kansan Staff Reporter
Warmed by paper bonfires and togetherness students waited up to two hours at Allen Field House this morning to buy the 500 single game tickets for Saturdays' KUK-State game.
When the ticket window opened at 8 a.m. 250 students were in line. Those at the front had waited since 6:45 a.m. Bill Fisher, Overland Park sophomore, said, Fisher and 10 fellow members of Kappa Sigma fraternity had been among the first to arrive.
Early arrival did not assure the purchase of a ticket. Nick Ronch,
ticket manager, said he was turning away one out of ten students who attempted to buy tickets. Those turned down included students who had already bought season tickets and men presenting girls' students I.D.'s.
One zealous sophomore was refused a ticket after a two-hour wait when he presented a student ID. and claimed his first name was Sharon.
Roach said he expected a crowd, since student single game tickets are never sold until the day before the game. He said that last Friday before the Nebraska game
students could have walked up to the window at 10:15 to buy tickets. At 8:15 this morning ticket sales were moving rapidly.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies today and Saturday with warmer temperatures and a chance of snow. The low tonight will be in the teens.
KU actors see fame from 'In Cold Blood'
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
Four KU graduates and a senior hope their roles in the movie version of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" will lead to auditions with casting agents and producers.
Capote's book, a detailed account of the 1959 murders of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kan., has been adapted into a movie, which is now showing in Kansas City. Lawrence theaters hope to show "In Cold Blood" in about two months.
Brenda Currin and Mary Linda Rapalye who played the murdered Nancy Clutter, and one of Nancy's girlfriends, are 1967 KU graduates in theater currently making the rounds of New York agents and producers.
When director Richard Brooks held auditions at KU last fall, he chose two students, Miss Currin and Paul Hough, for parts in the movie. They resembled the murdered teenagers, Nancy and Kenyan Clutter, and impressed Brooks with improvisations at the audition. Three other KU students were chosen for bit parts.
When "In Cold Blood" premiered in New York, Miss Currin said she called the studio and asked for tickets for friends, but was turned down.
"It was hard to believe that something so important to me as being in 'Cold Blood' could mean so little to others in New York," she said. "Actually I guess the ticket agents did Mary Linda and me a service. It brought us down to earth."
Both girls have been in New York since September seeing press agents while holding down "the dreary jobs of selling cologne in a department store and smiling prettily behind a receptionist's desk."
See Actors, page 10
McNamara disputed
Tonkin incident 'sparked by U.S.'
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The Senate Foreign Relations Committee claims it has a secret Navy message suggesting that the two U.S. destroyers involved in the 1934 Tonkin Gulf incident were trying to decoy Communist patrol boats away from a South Vietnamese bombardment mission when attacked.
A spokesman for the committee said Thursday that its staff report on the incident included a classified Navy cable implying that the mission of the destroyers, the Maddox and the Turner Joy, was to lure Red vessels away electronically while South Vietnamese torpedo boats shelled radar stations on two North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore,
told the Senate Wednesday that
the Maddox was a "spy ship" that provoked a North Vietnamese attack on it and its sister ship on the night of Aug. 4, 1964. He disputed Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's contention that the ships were on a routine, nonhostile patrol.
Bulletin
WASHINGTON — (UFI)—The Joint Chiefs of Staff he, recommended mobilizing nearly 50,000 reservoirs and National Guardsmen if President Johnson decides on a further Vietnam buildup. It was also learned today the Marines Corps will draft men in April for the first time in two years.
JAYHAWK ROOTERS BAND TOGETHER TO POPP THE WILDCATS' WINTER PRIDE
Proudly wearing their POPP buttons, these Gamma Phi Betas are confident the Jayhawk basketballers will win their rematch with K-State in Allen Field House Saturday night. The Cats
Photo by Bruce Patterson
won an earlier game in Manhattan 71-56. The Gamma Phis, from left, are Connie Carney, Matoon, Ill., junior; Pam Castor, Kansas City sophomore; Christy Bell, Kansas City sophomore;
Patsi Murphy, Conway Springs sophomore; Jan Wilkerson, Shawnee Mission sophomore; Dana Smith, Shawnee Mission sophomore; and Brenda Miller, Leavenworth sophomore. See story, page 6.