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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 9, 1968
Kennedy suggests compromise for Vietnam
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— For a change, Sen. Rohbert F. Kennedy had the wind with him—smoky from battle and blowing out of Saligon.
His sweeping new attack on President Johnson's Vietnam policy with its emphasis on military victory was prompted and underlined by the Viet Cong assaults on Saigon and many other South Vietnamese cities.
The New York senator's call for a "political compromise" in Vietnam came in a speech in Chicago Thursday, after weeks of silence on the subject. He rejected both the premise of Johnson's Vietnam
The Screw to continue
Two beards, three or four nonstudent activists, a reporter, a high school boy, and six other people sat in a circle on the floor of the Abington Bookstore last night. They had met to reorganize the Screw, KU's underground campus newspaper.
Editor Kent Andrews, Poplar Bluff, Mo., senior, led a discussion during which the group decided to continue publishing the paper. Andrews stressed a need for "human resources."
"We need a staff with brains besides brawn," Andrews said.
In six issues published last semester there was a heavy reliance on reprinted articles. This semester the group has decided to expand local coverage and commentary.
Plans for the semester include two special editions—one on the local drug problem and one on student politics.
"We want to inform the people what's happening in the Lawrence community and on the national level about news that they aren't able to read in other papers, said a Screw staff member who refused to give his real name but writes in the Screw under the pen name of Ralph Sullivan.
Viet Cong effort called ordinary
policy and any hope that it would produce U.S. military victory.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UPI)—Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman Thursday termed the recent Viet Cong offensive as nothing "particularly extraordinary," but added that it could be a month before the U.S. is able to evaluate the Vietnam situation.
response to repeated U.S. calls for improvement.
Freeman, who urged the re-election of President Johnson said he was looking forward to the campaign with "great anticipation" and said the President "has an outstanding record."
He said he did not think the entry of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace in the race as a third party candidate would make "a whole lot of difference."
Kennedy said that the new Communist attacks had "finally shattered the mask of official illusion" about Vietnam. He said that U.S. military victory is "probably beyond our grasp" and that a political compromise with the Communists is the "only path to peace."
The United States continues to draft 18-year-olds while the South Vietnamese do not, Hart and Percy noted, and President Johnson's request for higher taxes to help pay for the war is not matched in Saigon.
On the Vietnam issue, Freeman said, "The Viet Cong has used a great deal of its resources. It has suffered very heavy casualties and exposed its underground.
"There is a problem of morale and confidence of the South Vietnamese people and we should know more in a month."
Settling down to farm problems, the secretary said, "I'm deeply worried about the overall dairy situation."
"Without the efforts of American arms that government would not last a day," he declared, adding it is "time for the truth."
There are others in the Senate who share Kennedy's concern and shock at the Viet Cong successes
He urged dairy groups to support a production payment program and pointed out that so far they have not supported such a plan.
In separate news conferences here Thursday, Senators Charles H. Percy, R-Ill., and Philip A. Hart, D-Mich., noted that the South Vietnamese effort falls far short of the United States, that corruption is widespread in that beleagured country, and that there has been little evidence of
ed, is "not necessary to our national interest and is even damaging that interest." And he charged that the Saigon government is "unwilling or incapable of being an effective ally" and is ridden with corruption and not worthy of American sacrifice.
Pursuit of such victory, he add-
Nobody—even Kennedy—called for withdrawal. But all are uneasy.
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