Policies presented to Model UN
By VIKI HYSTEN Kansan Staff Writer
Policy statements of seven major nations were presented yesterday in the General Assembly of the ninth annual session of the KU Model United Nations.
The Model UN, in which about 350 high school and college students from nine schools in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are participating, began Wednesday and will conclude tomorrow.
In the morning session of the General Assembly yesterday, policy statements were given by student delegates representing the United Kingdom, the United States, USSR, France, Africa, Israel and the United Arab Republic.
Concerning the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the United Kingdom, the United States delegation and French condemned the act and called for a withdrawal of Soviet troops. The USSR delegate, Mark Scott, Topeka junior, in his statement declared, "There was nothing abrupt in the measure of self-defense taken by the socialist countries against imperialist intrigues.
"The socialist states cannot and will not allow a
situation where the vital interests of socialism are infringed upon," he said.
The USSR also called for a complete and unconditional end to U.S. bombings and other acts of war against North Vietnam. The U.S. supported its occupation of North Vietnam. France suggested that the People's Republic of China be represented in the UN as a means of a speedy peace settlement.
Speaking on the Arab-Israeli crisis, the United Arab Republic denounced Israel for "a mad exercise of force in which every rule of law has been systematically violated and every right of man violently denied."
The United States stated its views on the crisis in a resolution involving concessions for both the Arab and Israeli sides.
The African delegation said that some progress toward a peaceful settlement had to be made in the near future, lest any aggravation of the present situation not only bring the danger of renewed Arab-Israeli hostilities, but also precipitate a crisis of unpredictable proportions. The African delegation called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied territories; a just settlement of the refugee problem; restoration of the international status of
Jerusalem and freedom of navigation in international waterways of the region.
Concerning Southern Rhodesia, the African delegation stated:
"The ascendance of the Smith regime in Southern Rhodesia represents a violation of the principles of justice and morality and a negation of the values that the United Nations holds supreme. The state of emergency enacted in Southern Rhodesia before the illegal declaration of independence has continued to be extended, giving the rebels wide powers, including censorship, imprisonment without trial and economic control."
Most delegations agreed that the arms race should be slowed or completely halted.
The Model UN, said a KU-Y spokesman, is trying tocreate an interest in international affairs and provide an opportunity to participate in an atmosphere similar to the UN "in which knowledge of a country's policy is essential and diplomacy and compromises are vital."
The concluding session of the General Assembly will be tomorrow from 9 tonoon and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Docking to speak at law banquet
Gov. Robert Docking will speak about "Student's Rights," at a banquet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Holiday Inn Skyline Room. The dinner will be hosted by the 10th Circuit Conference of the law student division of the American Bar Association.
Novel by KU man is being published
A short novel by a KU staff member has just been published in a science fiction magazine.
The story, "Witch Hunt," by James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor for University relations, and an instructor in English, appears in the April issue of Galaxy magazine. It is the sequel to a short novel, "Trial by Fire," which appeared in the February issue of World's of If magazine.
Together with a short novel entitled "Witches Must Burn," which appeared in magazine form more than a dozen years ago, it completes a book called "The Burning." The book deals with the problem of communication between scientist and layman.
"The central theme of the first two stories is my feeling that science has become so complex and so difficult to practice that it is, to the layman, a kind of magic," Gunn said.
'Witch Hunt,' on the other hand, is about a world not too far in the future, created by the events in the first two stories, in which science is practiced as if it were magic."
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Velvel and Martin Dickinson, assistant professors of law, on the topic "Student's Rights," he said. Arthur H. Travers, associate professor of law, will moderate the discussion to be held in Dyche Auditorium.
Robert Woody, Bartlesville, Okla., law student and president of the Student Bar Association, said the dinner will be the culmination of a two day convention hosted by the KU Student Bar Association. He said delegates from the University of Nebraska, the University of Oklahoma, the University of New Mexico, the University of Colorado and KU will attend.
The convention will begin 4 p.m. today with a panel discussion, between Lawrence
Later tonight at a dinner for delegates, Benjamin Franklin, U.S. District Attorney for Kansas will speak, Woody said.
Afterward, he said, officers will be elected.
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