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®ttonal fag? PAGE TWO THE CLARION April 11, 1968 Coexistence Or No Existence Are God and country dead? No, but it seems that both are seriously ill. Our Lord is disturbingly neglected and our America is stifled by a disease, a domestic cancer. In this world wide political chess game there is TTiuch to be considered about the present situation of the United States of America. For a supposedly “God chosen” country, the United States has reach ed a crisis, a crisis of such proportion it seems im possible to cope with. Could it be because our nation, comparatively speaking, was prematurely thrown in to the lime light of world power, not knowing from 'past experience how to cope with ever arousing prob lems, domestic and foreign. April 1, 1968, marks the end of the beginning to the racial turmoil that has played havoc in our land since before the Civil War. We have taken a ■step, not knowing in which direction, that will mark a decisive change of racial discrepancies. Will one race succumb to the other? Or will America be a land for both iblack and white men alike? N'ow, not only must our political leaders unite on the never ending problems of peace, economics, national and international health and justice, but al so on the more pressing question of domestic racial tranquillity. Take a look! Do our political leaders appear united in an effort to solve these problems? Are our finest political minds working in unison on such problems? Or are these same minds divided, work ing to outguess the political minds of their American brothers and su(pposed cohorts? An easy and attractive solution for a college person would be to take a degree and leave such a T>roblem ridden land, seek refuge in a neutralist country and there live life unmomolested by tur moil. Educated people are well received abroad. Understandably, one would seek a place to make a decent home for mate and children. One wouldn’t have to worry about being stabbed or shot by a racial fanatic. As solutions go, this might not be a bad one — except America wasn’t built on run ning. The United States wasn’t constructed for leav ing. No-t so attractive a solution is to stay here in America. Stay because of an undying belief in the principles on which this country was founded. Yes, that old cliche “life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap piness,” we have heard it a thousand times. It might be time to listen. Is patriotism a lot of senti mental garbage, or something that is worth instilling in oneself? How can we begin to help our country? we as insignificant as we feel? The Clarion EDITOR - IN - CHIEF Steve Huggins NEWS EDITOR Wayne Morton FEATURE EDITOR Jackie Griffith, Peggy Mizzell SPORTS EDITOR Mike Bumgardner REPORTERS Louise Bruster, Orion Holen, Jean Wilkinson, Susan Zehrung ADVERTISING Jo Ann Pace, Jean Wilkinson PHOTOGRAPHY Don Kirkendall SPONSOR Mrs. Ena Kate Sigmon W'i: ^ % m ,v, }j! Are NIXON STATES POLICY — — New York, New York, April 2, 1968 — in an C* exclusive statement of policy delivered to the Execu- ^tUuCill ^UppOri tive Offices of CHOICE 68, former Vice President Richard Nixon presented a strategic blueprint that Ic differed little from the Administration’s policy prior rOl IxUCIvy Id to President Johnson’s withdrawl from the 1968 campaign. StrOnO Nixon’s view the war is one of aggres- North — a separate state — and he discounts those critics who see the struggle in terms Nelson RockefeUer’s an- of internal civil war. Nixon’s^cenario to nouncement tliat he would not the characterization of the North as aggressors actively seek the Republican and the South as “invaded territory, presidential nomination has not The United States is therefore obligated to resulted in a wholesale deser- “maintain a sufficient level of military activity to tion by students to the camp of convince the enemy first, that he cannot win the Richard Nixon. In fact, two -^^-ar, and second, that for him to continue pursuing a separate polls t^en last week jj,ilitary victory is not worth the cost.” Nixon felt A^frpd Unf when the communists realize that their verity in Alfred, New York' fight i« hopeless should our militai^ have indicated that support On no account, Mr. Nixon continued, should our for Rockefeller remains extrem- strategy of bombing the North be abandoned or tem- ely strong. porarily halted because of rumored peace feelers or The results to the question hysteria on the home front. On the contrary, the con- “Who do you feel should be the ditions for cessation of bombing should be rigid and Republican Presidential nomi- gubject only to the halt of hostilities by the North, f ^lloA^*-^ November? were as supfport for the aggression in the South diminish- ' ° r'of Texas Law School ^^en the bombing can diminish. _ Rockefeller 293 the North ceases to fuel the war in the bourn, Nixon 170 then the bombing can cease.” Nixon refused to^ ac- Lindsay __ 105 cept anything short of a conventional military vic- Reagan 45 tory” in Vietnam, as a negotiated settlement involv- Percy 39 ing concessions to the North appears to be unaccept- U. Of Alfred able to him Rockefeller 167 jjg however, feel that those who are Nixon clamoring for the utilization of nuclear weapons Percr^__"III-I_- 24 should be catered to. “I do not forsee,” he state j^eagan 16 emphatically “any need for the use of either tactica Hatfield 6 or strategic atomic weapons, and I think their em- The polls also demonstrated ployment would be a dangerous mistake.” . that Lyndon Johnson does not Nixon’s statement to CHOICE 68 on domesti possess anywhere near the affairs was even more detailed. He saw the current support on college campuses “urban crisis”, for instance, as “the crisis of povfty that Eugene McCarthy and Rob- ^nd the crisis of crime,” and suggests that to fi^ht "Wle ignoring “'“^ 5 in fact, aibso^lutely obliterated , . has in the past been widely pviine the President’s tally in both 'oemg more specific and energetic in his anti - u cases. The question put to the campaigns and messages than in his recomrn^ students was “Who do you tions for eliminating poverty in American daily • feel should be the Democratic But in his CHOICE 68 statement, he came out sfro^- —Tnm to Page Foni —Turn To Page T"**
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