Wednesday, February 14, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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'Citadel' opens; Rumanian visits
Justin Liuba, a member of the Rumanian desk of Radio Free Europe, will attend the opening performance of "The Crumbling Citadel" at KU. The play by Horia Lovinescu was a hit behind the Iron Curtain and begins at 8:20 p.m. tonight in the Experimental Theatre.
"Basically, the drama shows us a self-satisfied, bourgeois family
CHOICE'68 pellets LBJ with queries
Student leaders of CHOICE '68, a national student presidential referendum which will be conducted April 24 on more than 1,000 college campuses, including KU, questioned President Johnson on U.S. foreign and domestic policy Monday.
Asked the standard questions about his Vietnam policy and the rising crime problem in U.S. cities, Johnson reiterated his standard answers. In short: Yes, he wants peace in Vietnam and No, he does not like crime.
Johnson said the San Antonio formula for getting talks started in Vietnam still stands. The formula provides that the Communists must not "take advantage" of a bombing pause and step up their infiltration of supplies while talks are under way.
At the same time, Johnson emphasized that "we will not surrender." The United States has "gone just as far as honorable, decent people can go" in seeking negotiations, he added.
The President also predicted further turmoil in the cities and "several bad summers" before the nation's urban problems are resolved. He called upon Congress to make a "dent into some of the causes of unrest" by appropriating the funds requested for anti-poverty, model cities, health, education, jobs and other programs.
Jack Rowe, Kansas City, Mo., junior and KU committee chairman of CHOICE '88, said all KU students are eligible to vote in the elections. "The election will be run just as an ASC contest, with three polling places," Rowe said.
in Rumania during World War II and after the Communist takeover," said Miles Coiner, teaching assistant of speech and drama and director of the play. "It is primarily through the family's attempt at reconciling itself to this new situation that the author makes his point; the capitalistic father goes mad while an idealistic son decides to do his part in working toward a brotherhood of man."
Although "The Crumbling Citadel" was praised by the Communist party, Coliner does not feel it is highly successful piece of propaganda.
"First of all, it is too honest to sway the beliefs of a Western audience," he said. "Although the characters are somewhat stereotyped, such as an aristocratic aunt and her ineffectual son who consider themselves above the masses, Lovinescu doesn't mask the way in which individuality is destroyed by communism. Matesi, a brilliant philosopher in the play, kills himself when he finally realizes the state has no use for thinkers."
Coiner, who is writing his doctoral dissertation on post-World War II Rumanian theater, classifies the play as "socialist realism."
"Socialist realism is actually a combination of realism and romanticism," he said. It just doesn't depict the society around its characters, but predicts a happy future. It's always optimistic. In a way it is like Chekov, especially in the satiric ways in which it handles aristocratic characters.
Department sets German institute
The German department will accept 33 to 36 lower division students for the Summer Language Institute in Holzkirchen, Germany. Besides traveling through Europe, these students will complete German 3 and 4, earning credit hours.
Total travel and living expenses for the student will be $1,000. Fees for tuition will be extra.
Holzkiirchen is a Bavarian village 30 minutes away from Munich, Germany. The summer program will include organized travel to Austria and Switzerland and cultural opportunities in Munich.
PANMUNJOM, South Korea—(UPI)—U.S. and North Korean representatives exchanged charges of truce line violations today and American Rear Adm. John V. Smith offered to return the bodies of 27 slain Communist infiltrators.
Talks center on violations
A few miles away in Seoul U.S. envoy Cyrus R. Vance held his third round of meetings with South Korean leaders to talk over their complaints against the U.S. handling of the Korean crisis.
Maj. Gen. Pak Chung Kuk, the North Korean representative, made no reciprocal offer at the Pamunjom session to return any of the crewmen from the USS Pueblo in exchange for the slain infiltrators. The infiltrators tried to assassinate President Chung Hee Park of South Korea Jan. 21. Four were captured.
There are 62 U.S. crewmen held captive, three of them wounded. Another sailor was reported killed when the Pueblo was boarded Jan. 23.
The talks centered on charges that North Korea had repeatedly violated the armistice agreement setting up the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that keeps the two Koreas separated.
Pakistanians to meet
The KU Pakistan Students' Association will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Two movies will be shown. One will be on former President Eisenhower's visit to Pakistan in the 1950's; the other will concern Pakistaniian President Ayub's visit to the United States.
Sirtaj Ahmed, Pakistanian graduate student and president of the organization, said there would be no admission charge.
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Girl lives with U.S. troops in 'top secret' barracks
LAKENHEATH. England — (UPI)—The U.S. Air Force said today a 22-year-old English girl was so fond of American airmen she lived three weeks in a barracks at the top secret nuclear bomber base here.
"She was like a mother to us," said one of her former barracks mates.
Airmen quoted her as saying she had gone to the base to be with her boyfriend.
"The other boys in the block were very sporting," she said. "They all kept our secret."
The airmen said they brought her food from the mess hall and in return she was "like a mother" to them, ironing and mending their clothes and generally cleaning up after the 28 men.
Finally security police at the base arrived for a surprise drug search. They found the girl instead.
Officials insisted there was no security violation since the barracks was not inside the fenced area where the Air Force keeps planes loaded with nuclear weapons.
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