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. .... .i-r -I Saturday, September 24, 1966 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Page 2 In Our Opinion . . . Edward P. Morgan DTH Awards Of The Week YiettMlWese' MeCOMStFllflCt!! tart Lizard of the Week: Collective award to the members of the N.C. State University football team, cheerleaders, fans and Lobo III, the lizard-skin wolf. Political Analyst of the Week: Louisiana Gov. John J .McKeith en who lost his struggle against Gov. Dan K. Moore to host the 1967 Southern Governors Conference in his home state next year's con ference will be held in Asheville. Gov. McKeithen remarked, "I have been out-politicked by Gov. Moore and his beautiful wife. I can understand how this governor was elected. He's an operator." Loser of the Week: Harlem Rep Adam Clayton Powell who was damned by congressional col leagues as a legislative obstruc tionist, a spendthrift of federal ex pense accounts and a chronic ab sentee from his duties; denounced by union officials; scorned by some Negro leaders as a traitor to his race; accused unsuccess fully by the IRS of evading his income taxes; accused by his third wife of having her put on the federal pay roll, then deposit ing her salary checks in his own bank account; and sued for libel by a Harlem constituent. Sly, Silvery-Tongued Devil of the Week: ECC President Leo Jenkins, who, in the face of state wide speculation that the special report on the college had killed all chances of East Carolina's having a two-year medical school, said, "I think on the whole the re port was rather favorable." Mad Hatter of the W e e k: Chapel Hill policemen, whose of ficial uniform now includes crash helmets. Drug User of the Week: A Wake County man who was re leased in Superior Court Thursday on grounds the State failed to show he knew the drugs (dexa mil) he had taken were stimulat ing when he got them. The police man who arrested him said his at tention was drawn to the man be cause he was wearing pink lounge pajamas, a red .wig, lipstick, wo men's shoes and earrings. Baby of the Week: Phoenix Zoo's female oryx the only one of its kind in captivity outside Saudi Arabia born Wednesday. Her name is Annie. Frat Man of the Week: DTH As sistant Sports Editor Bob Orr, a KA, who told the truth about the frats and school spirit. No matter how hopeful or discouraging post-election de- : velopments turn out actually to be in nurturing the thinly but bravely planted seed of of representative government in South Vietnam, there is an . immediate job ahead for American and South Vietna mese forces, military and civ ilian. ' It is staggeringly complicat ed. Indeed it is well-nigh "impossible, but it must some how be done if this tortuous struggle is not to fail. It may fail anyway.. It will surely fail if the key job is not done. - The job is almost unique in . the history of military and political warfare except that, paradoxically enough, the .Communists themselves have , clone it, not here, but with 'some qualified success in North Viet Nam and e 1 s e where in the unsolid bloc of so - called peoples' democra cies. The assignment, in brief, is to combine the combat on the civilian and military fronts into one integrated bat tle. This has long been the theory. It has never yet be come the practice, all the pious declarations, including the hearty hullabaloo of last February's Honolulu summit 'Oh, Goody, Goody For Home Football Games!' No One Under 21 Admitted Judging from the nicknames that are tagged onto our fair city from time to time Chapel Still, Whiskey Hill one might guess that -some students do drink alco holic beverages. And, judging from the date of birth of the average UNC student, one might guess that most student alcoholic beverage drinkers do so illegally. So, one might further guess,, students do find a way to beat the system. Although state ABC laws prohibit the purchase or consump tion of liquor by persons under 21 , ears of ae, 'there always seem ; Jo be "older students" who- are willing to lay their neck on the chopping block by "making a run tb Eastgate" for their under-age friends. A couple of weeks ago, how ever, there were two freshmen who needed a drink so badly they couldn't wait for someone to get it for them. They proceeded to the ABC store and waited in the park ing lot until a man came along with whom they "made a deal." The man went into the store, bought the boys a bottle, and brought it back to them. When they received their preci ous parcel, they found themselves in the company of some uninvited guests the Chapel Hill Police. We won't presume to call for a dry weekend. We do, however, re mind you all of the state's regula-'t- tions concerning the public dis- play and consumption of alcohol and, above all, the booze-buying rule. Don't take a chance. g er's 'Tfasli Hit B Greenbacker s Brantley; yiet War Supported Court Rule On Crime, Court DTH Hard Vp i Reports Hurts Public Most The News of Orange County ; It's been disheartening to see the reaction to the clamp-down on crime and court information in Wake County. We haven't seen one report of what John Q. Public thinks about the restrictions on in formation about confessions, evi dence, tests and even protesta tions of innocence. We're afraid the public will get the notion that this is simply a squabble between newspaper editors and lawyers. ' It t may appear that newsmen $re hollering simply because they have been crimped in their work. Indeed, some of the editorialists' fears have already come to pass, there is this quote from an Asso ciated Press dispatch: J "Raleigh reporters were imme diately confronted with the im pact of the order when Wake County sheriff's deputies express ed reluctance to give out ANY (our capital italics) information about their activities during the past 24 hours. They said they feared they might inadvertently release some - of the prohibited material." But newsmen aren't the only persons who should be alarmed at the restrictions ordered by Su perior Court Judges Raymond B. JVIallard and'E. Maurice Braswell. It is a matter of concern to every member of the public. ' The very root reason for any newspaper's existence is the prac tical inability of the public to get, the news it wants of business, government, politics, education or whatever. For example, a person iust can't attend all the meetings of public bodies to see how his public officials are conducting the community's business. What has evolved is a system of transmit ting information that has a rough analogy to representative govern ment. In a similar fashion, news papers and radio and TV are the public's stand-ins. It seems to us that there should be some discussion from the pub lic on the merits of the judges' or der. And we would hope that the public would view the restrictions with as much alarm as we do. fc Sattg Star 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed. Kerry Sipe Feature Editor Bill Amlong News Editor Ernest Robl Asst. News Editor Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor Bob Orr Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer Photo Editor Steve Bennett Staff Writer Lytt Stamps Staff Writer Lynne Harvel ... .; Staff Writer Judy Sipe .. Staff Writer The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. Offices on the second floor of Gra ham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, news 933-1011; bus iness, circulation, advertising 933 1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill N. C. 27514. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel HOI, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. The Associated Press is entitled ex clusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this news paper as well as all AP news dispatches. Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: What in God's name is going on in your offices? Isn't; it a little early in the year to be printing trash like John Breenbacker's column today? Everybody already knows that certain Carolina Gentlemen can be impossibly foul at times; is it worth thirty-six inches to repeat their vile and certainly none-too-rare activities? If you're really that hard up for material, would you like a nice human interest story about the trials and tribulations of cleaning my gold-fish bowl? A well-mannered fish flopping around in. a teacup is just as interesting as the revolting antics of a fraternity's drunks. Come on -now you can do better than that! Brantley Claris LSD Dangerous 1 cause of the many articles -a$d reports I have read con cerning the war in Vietnam. Apparently, the American peo ple are very apathetic towards the war; and the cause itself. ; I can not be too specific, for th;e schedule here does not leave very much time for. trie reading of magazines and v pipers. The general attitude . that the papers convey does give me this impression, how ever, i: U do know that the average college student is not as aware of, or concerned with t h e ; war as, he should be. Per haps fraternity parties and, football games seem more im portant at this time of the year. They did to me. Beingl an American soldier, S it is now my Avar. This war can not be effectively fought without the support of the American people. Perhaps pa triotism is a better word. It does not seem to be used very often in todays modern world, but it can be as power ful as the people make it. " I am not a scholar, and un doubtedly there are many learned men who will laugh at this letter, and return to more important business. To them let me say that it is time to face the facts that exist. Gentlemen, we are in the midst of a war. We are not fighting solely for the freedom of a small Asian nation. We are fighting - for our very lives. We either win - there, or fight the commu nists on our own soil. Support the men who are dying for your freedom. Frank C. Cloyes, Jr. Army Armor School Fort Knox, Ky. Customers Fooled conference between President Johnson and Premier Ky, not withstanding. Today there is slivery evi dence that efforts are moving in that direction. Great ob stacles still lie in the path, not the least of which is negative psychology, a paralyzing re flex action which says: "but we've never done it that way before." The Communist have. It is an article of Faith of Mao Tse-tung's Chinese - Marxist philosophy that the army is not, as one American China watcher puts it, merely a knife blade but a can-opener and a corkscrew. The army not only fights but it organi zes, administers and polices civilian institutions behind the front, at the same time. The classic western ap proach to warfare is : de struction of the enemy first, reconstruction of the country later. This order of priority simply has not worked in South Vietnam. It has failed. But out of that failure may come success if both Ameri can and South Vietnamese leadership recognize the ur gency of ordering, executing and adapting to major change. Perhaps the hardest change of all involves almost the total restructuring of the South Vietnamese armed forces. Today t h e military brass is the only power struc ture in this country: O f f i cers not only command troops in the field, they are the pro vince chiefs and the district chiefs controlling the civilian population where the Viet Cong is not in control. And the marshals and the generals in Saigon are the government itself. The time must come, sooner rather than later, when military units are assigned to and controlled by a civilian province chief who would be roughly the equivalent of the governor of an American state, with contingents of the national guard at his com mand. This, obviously, would not ' apply where police action is necessary. At the moment the idea of a Vietnamese of ficer taking orders from a civilian is not only impossible but unthinkable. Today even Vietnamese military police on routine patrol ignore the or ders of a policeman directing ' traffic at a busy Saigon inter section. Yet there is a pilot project already in operation that may be the base on which to build these needed changes, to ce ment the blocks of civilian quthority and military func tion with the mortar of police protection. In Birih Dinh, one of the largest and most populous John Greenbacker South Vietnamese provinces, which lies on the coast of the South China Sea between Sai gon and Danang, three dis tricts (or counties) are now in a state of "control." That means that some 125,000 citi zensnearly 15 percent of the total provincial population live in comparative security day and night. It Is an actual fact that in the past year the Viet Cong have managed to assassinate only five Vietnam mese officials in this area-4 less than the number of peo pie killed by military trans port on the roads. The recipe for this extraor dinary operation cannot be cooked up into a solution for the whole cmntry overnight. It has taken 13 months to "pacify" even this tiny area, 20 kilometers square. It is hugely expensive. It has tak en months of training of Viet namese regional forces, popu lar forces and "revolutionary development" cadres, which are a kind of military-civilian overnment, police-force com bination operating on differ ent echelons. It has tied down one whole South Korean division as a tough but effi cient screen fanned out to prevent major guerrilla pene tration. Behind them the Vietnamese regional forces operate. Be hind them in the villages are the popular forces, indigenous, if possible, to the area. Be hind them, in the hamlets, are the 59-man revolutionary development teams. The major assignment of virtually all the armed forces in South Viet Nam today is to search out and destroy the enemy. But anouther function is emerging, "to clear and pacify." Though some exper ienced observers are dubious of the effectiveness of Vietna mese soldiers in units smaller than 100 men, it is learned that top-level plans are now at least experimentally in the works to detach elements of this army from combat as signment to "pacification" duty. Even some American units might be assigned even tually to similar duty al though this is now only in the amorphous and controversial stage of future planning. - This over-all Binh Dinh con cept would not mean the Americans would "do all the fighting" while the South Viet namese forces simply did se curity and military govern ment chores. Nor would it mean static warfare of the so called enclave theory. Noth ing can remain static in South Viet Nam if we're going to get anywhere. And the Binh Ding experiment, with refinements, may point the way. Vu Van Thai Is A Man Without Mate Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I question the good judg ment of the Tar Heel in ac centing frankly partisan ad vertising about a legally re stricted and potentially dan gerous substance such as LSD. The overwhelming weight of scientific evidence about t h is drug indicates a serious ha zard for those who are most prone to use it. The mystical and quasi -religious fervor with which Leary and his partisans pro mote its indiscriminate use should be of serious concern to responsible individuals. I feel that the Daily Tar Heel could have served the student body much better with factual ar ticles than by promotional and biased advertising. E. McG. Hedgpeth, M.D. Director, UNC Health Service freedom Fight Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: As a former student of the University, I am naturally quite interested in the Uni versity and its students. It has been eight months since I left Chapel Hill, and I am presently an Officer Candidate at Fort Knox, Kentucky. I am writing this letter be- ' . : From The Wall Street Journal I A number of Brian Miller's customers are angry with him, and Mr. Miller can't understand it. The misfortune of the Tiverton, England, -hopkeeper, however, would be plain enough in the politi cal arena. UTo draw the public's atten tion, Mr. Miller placed a bowl 0f . water in his shop window; nearby-was a sign promising passersby that the bowl con tained "transparent Chinese dragon fighting fish." Every thing went, well, swimmingly: crowds gathered and several people wanted to buy some of the fish. The trouble began when Mr. Miller finally owned up that the bowl' contained nothing but water. Some of his regu lar . customers especially those who were sure they had seen the fish fighting did not like his fish story at all. - Promises certainly c a n be attention-getting, but as the politicians could tell Mr. Mil ler, it doesn't pay to admit the promises are airy or watery, as the case may be. Not until after the votes are counted anyway. f7 ( June It comes on the crest of despair. I've been running again and not known where. Relationship! Shrink, you're right But with whom? This one's neurotic, that one psychotic, And not one erotic. Too late for Mom And I never dug dad scenes; I'll just wander on, Living at guilt edged play-dreams. Mark Steinberg Vu Van Thai, the ambassa dor from South Viet Nam, boarded a plane for Washing ton Thursday after smiling at his hosts and waving a good by. "You know something," one said to the other as they left the airport, "he was real ly a nice guy." The other merely nodded his head and reflected over the past eve nings' events. In the dress ing room of Memorial Hall shortly before 8 p.m., the ur brane Viet namese o f f i cial calmly waited out the last few min utes before go ing on stage. He was informed that there were about 30 pickets and counter pickets marching out side the hall. That was noth ing new to him, for he had met them often on the West Coast. A slight wave of irritation and sadness passed over his placid features when he was handed a yellow sheet that labeled him "Ambassador of Infamy." Members of Students for a Democratic Society had been handing them out all day, he was told. He had been called worse names before by college students. Before stepping onto the stage, he was asked if he wanted the moderator to "run interference" for him should the audience get ugly, and he laughed before shak ing his head. He had heard all of their quotations and questions before, and he knew what to expect. He probably also knew that the opponents of the Viet Nam war had created an image for him to fill. They expected him to parrot the language of the U. S. State a department and General Ky. They were fondly awaiting unilateral defense of the Diem government, and maybe out landish claims that the aver age South Vietnamese peasant wanted to fight for democracy and was not interested in peace at just about any price. They heard him defend only the defensible. They were surprised when he told them he was a native of Hanoi and an early follow er of Ho -Chi Minn. He tried to describe the disillusionment he felt that night in Paris shortly after World War Two when he heard Ho had signed an agreement with the French which allowed French colo nial forces to destroy the non communist nationalist forces of Viet Nam. With those' patriots and countrymen out of the way, Ho would have a clear hand in forming a na-! tionalist force that was com-: pletely communist controled. : They would have been even; more surprised if they knew; the Diem government gave: him three days to leave the country after he resigned from his government post in 1961. Thai was aware of all the difficulties of his country in wartime, but he had resolved himself long before that end ing the conflict at the price of the freedom to dissent in a communist society was too great to pay. As they sped back to Chap el Hill one of the Ambassa dor's hosts turned to the other and recounted the words of one girl during Wednesday night's reception: "It's very strange," she said. "He doesn't hate."
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