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Thursday, December 4, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Prof says terrorism is warfare
By BILL RAYNOLDS
Staff writer
The United States and the U.S. military must view terrorism as warfare in order to understand its underlying causes and implications, a KU professor said yesterday.
"For the military to look at terrorism as something criminal and unlawful to me seems the height of irrationality, because terrorism is the war that's going to be with us for a long time," said Felix Moos, professor of anthropology and East Asian languages and cultures.
"We operate culturally in a simplistic way and we live in a litigious culture where confrontation is valued more than cooperation." Moog
Moos spoke to about 40 people at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries University Forum at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave.
He said one of the causes of world terrorism was the rapid change in technology that had displaced people in society.
"Terrorism is the warfare of masses of weak people who successfully challenge strong governments, like our own, doing all kinds of things that some consider really outside of their interests." Moos said.
He presently teaches a course at the University of Kansas on terrorism, Violence, Aggression and Terrorism in the Modern World.
Moos also has taught at the Com-
mand and General Staff College at
Buffalo.
"Terrorism is the warfare of the future," Moos said. "It's cheap and efficient." It is the warfare all sides tolerate because not too many people get killed.
"Terrorism achieves its goals incrementally. It uses violence to humiliate, intimidate and in many cases to neutralize U.S. influence abroad.
"That is one of the reasons why terrorism has been terribly successful, because it has affected our country's ability to act in a logical way."
Moos said that terrorism in different countries could not be analyzed through a generalized, simplistic approach.
For example, Moos said that Japan's terrorist Red Army group used a high-technology tactic last year that brought Tokyo to a standstill.
"They blew up the fuse boxes of the Tokyo transportation system, and for a while they were the worst."
Moos said that the Vietnam War and the abolition of the draft had crippled the United States and that the country had become ambivalent in fighting against unconventional violence such as terrorism.
"It itse to me that the experience in Southeast Asia, the elimination of the draft and the creation of the all volunteer force have meant that today in the United States we tend to negate all possibilities of the U.S. committing troops to fight in the Third World for more than a brief action," Moos said.
TV actor portrays Einstein on stage
By RIC ANDERSON
Metzger, who will be portraying Einstein at 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Ottawa Municipal Auditorium, played many seamy characters on television before taking on the Einstein role. Metzger was on campus yesterday promoting the show.
Ed Metzger does more than admire one of his heroes. For eight years, he has been his own hero in the one-man show "Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian."
"I just got tired of playing gangsters, rapists, pimps and drug dealers, so I decided to try a one-man show," he said. Metzger said he thought of playing Harry S Truman. Dwight E. Dienbower was a member, but did not think he had a resemblance to the former presidents.
"I was running out of presidents," he said. "And then one day, Albert Einstein kind of just popped into my mind."
Metzger said the role was a perfect idea because of Einstein's combination of genius and humanity.
"Here was a guy who was at the most prestigious university in this country, Princeton, where the people had the button-down collars
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
Ed Metzger, who travels across the country portraying Albert Einstein in a one-man show, says he learns something new about Einstein every day. Metzger will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Municipal Auditorium in Ottawa.
and the charcoal slacks and the ties," he said. "And he walked around in sneakers with no socks and a sweater with holes in it."
Behind the eccentric interior, Metzger said, Einstein was a very warm and prophetic man.
"You get a morality out of the man," he said. "He touched all of us as a being human being."
Besides Einstein's greatness, Metzger said, the scientist's popularity also encouraged him to portray him.
"I'm sure there isn't a dorm room somewhere on a college campus, or a newsroom in a metropolitan area, that doesn't have a picture of Albert on the wall." he said.
In 1978, Metzger decided he had struck on the perfect plan and began doing the show in California, his home state. After he received good reviews, he said, he took the show to New York.
Reviewers in New York also praised the show, he said, so he
decided to take the show on the路. Metzger said he slowed down a bit this year to guest star on "St. Elsewhere" and "Hill Street Blues."
Metzger said he had visited many college campuses over the years, but had never played at KU.
"I just hope that the next time we're in Kansas, we can have the opportunity to play at KU," he said.
Metzger said his show concentrated on the personal side of Einstein and was not a physics lecture.
"What you'll see is a humorous man talking about his family life," he said. "He'll talk about the stars and planets a little bit. Maybe he'll throw in a little romance."
Metzger said Einstein was different from the stereotypical scientist who lives in the laboratory.
On Campus
The Department of Geography will sponsor a seminar on "Landscapes of the South Pacific" at 4 p.m. today in 412 Lindsey Hall.
The SUA Champions Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
The KU Chapter of the National Organization for Women will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
The Glass Onion, 624 W. 12th St. will sponsor an open poetry reading at 8 p.m. today.
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