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Mao's Teachings Used in SE Asia
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Mao Tse-Tung, Red China's leader and chief strategist, once wrote;
"When the situation is serious, the guerrillas must move with the fluidity of water and the ease of blowing wind. Their tactics must deceive, tempt and confuse the enemy. They must lead the enemy to believe that they will attack him from the east and north, and they must then strike from the west and south."
This would suggest that the Red Chinese and Communist North Viet Nam Peiping-Hanoi Axis regards Thailand, Laos and South Vietnam as a single theater of action.
THESE TACTICS, OUTLINED by Mao in 1937, may very well be the ones being followed by the Communists in Southeast Asia today.
Political boundaries become meaningless from a military point of view in an area of jungle and mountain.
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has threatened to picket a San Francisco high school if the school does not call off the scheduled performance of a musical based on "Huckleberry Finn."
NAACP Threatens To Picket Musical
Terry Francois, president of the San Francisco NAACP chapter, said he would ask the membership to authorize picketing because the production uses Negro students in the roles of slaves.
The play is an original musical adapted from the Mark Twain novel by Andrew Belling, a student at George Washington High School. It is scheduled to be performed June 1-2.
Friday, May 18, 1962
New Magazine Is Released
Professors are constantly trying to force incentive into their students and feel victorious even when a few students show response. But seldom are professors fortunate enough to have two students in their classes who attempt to inspire their fellow students.
Breon Mitchell, Salina sophmore, and Philip Kimball, Derby junior, are two such students. Mitchell and Kimball are co-editors of the new German literary magazine "Versuch." With the help of the German department professors, Mitchell and Kimball released the first issue of "Versuch" last Tuesday.
"Versuch," which in German means trial or attempt, is designed to give students enrolled in German a chance to learn more about the German language through the publication of their own creative writing. Mitchell and Kimball hope
"Versuch" will encourage students to continue to study the German outside of the classroom.
"Language is something more that just words in a book to be studied," said Kimball. "We are presenting this magazine in an attempt to encourage students to do more with language than just writing and translating in class."
Students contributing creative writings or translations to the first issue of "Versuch" are Grant Fults, Lawrence sophomore; Nadine Prouty, Newton junior; Jeanne Martini, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman; William Slayton, Independence, Mo., sophomore; Willhelm Schaefer, Shawnee Mission sophomore; Lawrence Beard, Meade sophomore; and Jennifer Liebmitz, Lawrence graduate student.
THUS, AS THE United States steps up its aid to South Viet Nam and the Communists are threatened with a military setback there, they are able to shift their emphasis rapidly to Northern Laos, creating a consequent threat to Thailand.
"Versuch" will be published only once this spring, but it is planned to be continued next fall.
Western observers around the perimeter of Red China say the lightning capture of Nam Tha by Communist Pathet Lao forces is a prestige victory for Peiping over Moscow.
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The Red Chinese oppose Moscow's peaceful co-existence policy and have no liking for any understanding between Russia and the United States, especially if it concerns what they call a "national liberation movement."
Their basic contention has been that "the victory goes to those who fight the imperialists, not to those who negotiate with them."
THEY WILL USE the capture of Nam Tha as proof of the validity of their position.
From Hong Kong comes two other bits of interesting speculation.
The Asian Communist parties have shown great attention to significant anniversaries.
For six months the Communists had been threatening Nam Tha and it therefore may be significant that they chose last week for their attack.
MAY 6 WAS THE EIGHTH anniversary of the decisive onslaught at Dien Bien Phu. In the literature of North Vietnamese communists, the victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu marked the high point of their military history.
The question of timing also is linked to the recent visit to Southeast Asia of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a frequent target of Peiping propaganda.
McNamara arrived in Thailand on May 8, just as the Pathet Lao sealed their hold on Nam Tha and began moving toward the Thai border.
A comparison was made to former President Eisenhower's visit to Taipei in June, 1960, which was a signal to the Red Chinese to step up their artillery bombardment of the Nationalist Chinese offshore island of Quemoy.
YRs Elect New Officers
Reuben McCornack, Abilene sophomore, was elected chairman of the KU Young Republicans Wednesday.
Other officers are: first vice-chairman, Bob Tieszen, McPherson sophomore; second vice-chairman, Sam Evans, Salina freshman; third vice-chairman, Jan Shelley, Wichita junior; treasurer, John Grothusen, Elsworth sophomore, and secretary, Marilyn Cromb, Shawnee-Mission junior.
As his first job in office, McCormack made the following committee appointments: Sorority membership chairman, Sally Chandler, Holton junior; Fraternity membership chairman, Dan Bostwick, Augusta freshman; opinion poll chairman, Pete Wellington, Kansas City, Mo. freshman; opinion poll secretary, Debby Galbraith, Wichita freshman, and campaign committee chairman, Dave Seay, Kingman freshman.
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