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.THE Da Tr y TAR HEEL
, - Friday; February 2, 1253
Bill Amlon
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75 Years of Editorial Freedom
Bill Arnlong, Editor
Don Walton, Business Manager
Garrison Vs.
The State ' Of The
Remember the second
Liston Paterson title fight? Poor
little Floyd hit the deck in the first
.round of the first fight, and had
come back for more punishment
from the Bear a year later.
' Remember how practically
everyone wanted to see Patterson
'avenge himself? But again Liston
prevailed, and,again in the first
round. Though few were honestly
surprised, most felt justice had not
. been done.
Wednesday night another title
'fight was fought and justice has
'. finally been done.
The televised bout was held
.. rather late, to a rather limited au
, dience, but the results were still
.fairly conclusive.
u The crowned "Prince" of mass
r media went down in the 11:30
I round before a modern Man
I Without a Country.
; Johnny Carson, who at 42-years-
I old remains a assumed the
Socratic dialectic and lost a
; brilliantly one-sided battle with
; New Orleans District Attorney Jim '
t Garrison.
When the smoke cleared and the
; blood was clotting, it was clear to
' everyone, including the usually
foppish studio audience, that the
decision would be carried home by
' Garrison.
: Now, there were two significant
details which grew out of the great
: debate. The first concerned the
: personality Carson, who has . set
: himself up as the demigod of the
late night T.V. world, is in a posi
tion where he cannot afford to drop
the ball. It is paramount that the
public believe in the infallibility of
the Carson wit.
Until Wednesday night Johnny .
was undisputedly the "Prince" and
he appeared to really enjoy his lit
tle digs at the succession of wierdie
band leaders he has had and the
s t o o ge-turned-numero-two, Ed
McMahon.
The High Cost
Of High Costs
To Education
From The Raleigh Times
The action of the University at
Chapel Hill in raising dormitory
room rents for next year is un
derstandable but regrettable. The
legislature raised salaries of those
; who operate and maintain the
dorms, but didn't raise ap
propriations to pay them, and that
means the additional money must
; come from the parents of students
: living in the dormitories.
Education at Chapel Hill still
. will be the biggest bargain in North
;. Carolina, even with the higher
I room rents. For what they pay, the
: students get a wonderful education,
and the costs are still very low
when compared with charges at
comparable private universities
across the nation.
Unfortunately, many students at
Chapel Hill are there on real finan
cial shoestrings. Additioial costs,
even relatively slight ones, could
well break some of those shoestr
ings, and needy students would
have to drop out of school. For that
reason, it is vital that costs at
State-supported institutions be kept
to the very lowest possible level.
Higher education is expensive.
It does take a large share of the
State's budget. But, nothing is
more important to the future of all
North Carolina than a fine system
of higher education at the lowest
possible set of fees to the students.
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Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Fred Huebner, Managing Editor
Wayne Hurder, News Editor
June Orr, Assistant News Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
Carson:
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District Attorney Garrison
. . . won't let U.S. forget
But Johnny, who- has been
described as the "only male burles
que artist on television" finally lost
a Pasty.
THE OTHER POINT which
sticks out and the more important
one is the fact that Jim Garrison
has ) challenged the United States
government.
Garrison claims that President
Kennedy was shot by the CIA. He
discredits the Warren Report as a
"fairy tale" expect for the portion
alleging that Ruby shot Oswald.
And Garrison made some pretty
good points Wednesday night. :
. Granted fit. seemed as if it was r ,
child's" play to outmaneuver the
provincial political thinking of
Carson, but anyone who watched
the show realizes that Garrison
really pulled no punches and at the
same time leveled many thought
provoking charges.
He was also legally lirnited as to
what he could say and smart
' enough to say only what he should
say.
If Garrison ever is able to get
is case to trial, and there is some
doubt that this will happen, there
should be a bag-full of goodies
unlike anything mother ever used
to bake.
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SUPPOSED HE IS wrong? If
so, why has a man in such an
eminent position chosen to
jeopardize his career by accusing
the U. S. government of com
mitting, and then covering up, a
political assassination?
It would seem that both the FBI
and CIA would see little humor in
the nature of such accusations, and
would treat men accordingly it
would further seem that a
distinguished attorney such as Gar
rison would have enough horse
sense to pick on someone his own
size, or would at least be sure he
had enough ammunition to fight the
government smear campaign
which ensued.
But supposed he is right.
This might indicate that the
refusal by the Johnson
Administration to reveal certain
documents to the public might be
more than respect for the dead.
And by what right can facts of
so public a person's murder be
held so privately, for the eyes only
of the Kennedy family? And why
until the year 2039, the earliest
time at which the facts will be
released?
Why were the coroner's autopsy
notes burned?
These are questions which
neither the official silence of the
Administration, nor the late night
sophistry of Johnny Carson have
been able to erase from the
American conscience.
And they probably never
will as long as Jim Garrison stays
around anyway.
Chester, whose understanding of world
economics comes mainly from being at
the bottom of it, was analysing the world
situation.
"Man," he said, "you just can't fight
three wars. You -can't fight one war in
Viet Nam, another one in Korea and a .
racial war at home, too."
That was Chester's summary plain, ;
simple, straight-forward and cynical, :
which is also pretty much like Chester is -in
general since he has never had the -money
necessary to acquire sophistica
tion, subtlety and optimism.
It was after midnight when Chester
was talking, and he maybe wasn't at his ..
best as a political economist since he was
beginning to get very tired from having
worked that day's share of his 100-hour
SRlt "mf Hri-
'The helmet does sort
Letters To The Editor
Paleilffiie MM MmSei WromlecL
To The Editor:
As a British graduate student who has
lived in 4he Middle East for over four
years, I must comment on recent letters
which Wave ajppeared on this matter. I
am not anti-Jewish, nor do I wish (to drive
anyone into the sea; I top would like to
see the parties concerned solve their pro
blems iround the conference table. But
because the Palestine refugees have been
grievously wronged by (the Western
Powers, by the U.N., and above all by
Israel, I am anti-Zaonist. The Palestinians
were largely peaceful land!o(wners and
farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen, who
lived on excellent terms with their Jewish
neighbors before the mass immigrations
of the 1940s (evidence taped by writer
with Palestinian students at Beirut,
1964). .
I assert that the legend of the
Palestine refugees leaving their homes on
orders from the Arab League in. 1948 is
false. The British writer ErsMne Chldres
wrote that while in Israel in 1958,' he ask
ed for, and was promised, documentary
evidence of ttMs ML story. He is still
waiting. He wrote; "I next decided to test
the undocumented charge that the Arab
evacuation orders were broadcast by
Arab radio, which could be done
thoroughly, because the BBC monitored,
all Middle Eastern broadcasts throughout
1948. The records can be seen at the
British Museum, There was not a single
order or appeal or suggestion about
evacuation from Palestine from any Arab
radio station an 1948." (Spectator, May
12, 1961). Arab broadcasts Sn fact ap
pealed to Attabs to remain in their
homes.
No; the Palestinians fled for one
reason and one reason alone; they fled
for fear of their Mves. Dder Yassm was no
mere reprisal "raid; it was the planned
slaughter of a community, done to ter
rorise other Alab communities into
fleeing. (The Naiis were the first to ao
ply these techniques in modern war). The
planner was Menachem Begin, leader of
the Zionist terrorist army, the Irgun He
has described how (tales of his massacre
of women and children in Dier Yassin
caused the exodus of 635,000 Arabs out of
Palestine (Menachem Begin, "The
Revolt", p 614 ).There were responsible
Jews in Israel who condemned him but
he was elected to. the Knesset, and his
deeds were thus officially honored.
General Glubb has recorded that
". . .the majority of the refugees leH in
panic flight, to escape
Jnassacre. . '.others' were encouraged to
move by blows or by indecent acts'' ("a
Soldier with the Arabs", p 251). In most
cases the good relations between Arab
and Jew in the town of Palestine were
destroyed by Zionist outsiders (tape
recording, of above). An original settler
week. But Chester knows enough about
his kind of economics that it really
doesn't matter that he was tired, because
there are some things you just don't
forget even when you are very tired.
And Chester, who wears green
coveralls during his impromptu lectures
on economics, unlike most of the political
scientists and economists in this town,
who are alwas impeccable in their cats
and tie does not forget late at night
about the meals he has made of 19-cent
neck bone stew, or about the times he has
gotten evil drunk off a bottle of very
cheap whisky.
He does not forget these things, evtn
when he is very worn down by his 100
hour work week, because being poor is
something that one always remembers.
of detract from the masculinity of the thing.9
A " Kp ; ' :z.t ,1 I r! V-f
and a Jewish pioneer in Palestine,
Nathan Chofshi wrote in the Jewish
Newsletter, (Feb. 9, 1959), "We old
Jewish settlers in Palestine who wit
nessed the fight could te31 how we, Jews,
iforced the Arabs to lave cities and
villages- ... In stead of being deeply
ashamed of what we did, and of trying to
undo some of the evil we committed by
helping these unfortunate refugees, we
justify our terrible acts and even attempt
to glorify them".
If anyone criticises me for harping On
the past, I emifoasise that the above
events constitute the heart of present ill
feeing. What had they done to deserve
losing their homes? Nothing. And Why
should they not have free exercise of the
choice to return? News accounts during
the recent war fafled to focus on this
(issue. Big bad Egypt, too poor to absorb
so many, was blamed for keeping the
refugees bottled up in Gaza, irather than
Israel, who drove Ithem out in the first
place, and has refused annual U.N.
resolutions calling on her to allow them
to return home.
A second myth is that of the
humanitarian Israel. All Arabs in Israel
have second-class citizenship, and are not
proportionately represented in the
Knesset. They can have, and have had
itheir lands confiscated, even if they leave
ithesm temporarily, say lor refuge during
fighting, on the grounds of "absen
teeism", and even if they later return to
their land. TMs is one of many unciviliz
ed acts of land seizure in Israel (Land
Acquisition Law, 10th March, 1S53). The
authorities can declare any Arab town to
be an "abandoned area", whether the
area bias been abandoned by its in
habitants or not, and it then becomes
State Property (Abandoned Areas
Ordinance, 1948). The Israeli writer
Moshe Keren described (these laws as
'wholesale robbery with a legal coating"
(Haaretz, Tel-Avia, 14 Jan. 1955).
Many notable Jews have opposed
Zionism vehemently, because they resent
being told that their political allegiance,
as well as their spitirual allegiance is to
Zion. Zionists outside Isarel have had
their duties clearly defined as "neither
friendship nor sympathy, but the love of
Israel, of the Sate of Israel. . It must be
an unconditional love. There must be
completed solidarity with the State and
the people of Israel" (Ben-Gurion, April
25th, 1950).
Those who opposed this included Dr.
Albert Einstein, Yehudi Menuhin, and
Alfred E. liiienthal, whose book "What
Price Israel?" describes the blunderings
of American policy and dishonest lob
bying to persuade the nations to partition
Palestine.- He attacks the political
dangers in Zionism, and students of
Chester is no home-grown poor boy,
either. He has been around and studied
poverty, first hand, by being poor in both
Cfucago and New York City, as well as in
Chapel Hill.
"My brother, he still lives in New
York," Chester was saying, "and he's
always calling down here, telling what it
like up there. Man, those folks up there
are in bad shape.
'That's why you have "them riots up
there, because those folks are so poor,"
Chester said.
The folks up in New York City
wouldn't be so poor and there wouldn't
be so many riots, Chester said, if the
government would start spending money
there instead of in Viet Nam.
"Why should we be spending money
political science as Sarver would do well
to read his book and correct the un
balanced picture of the Middle East given
in this country. Sarver should know bet
ter than to make sweeping statements
without any references. IiMenthal's book
has been suppressed in parts of the couo
try, because lit has been written by a Jew
courageous enough to speak out against
Zionism. He has written, "Israel must,
achieve complete national normalcy by
ceasing to be the Jewish and becoming
the Israeli state. . . must solemnly
withdraw all claims of fealty of anybody
Iii Defense
To The Editor:
I Med to make some sense of George
A. Sheets' letter of Jan. 10, but the
strains of the "Stars arid Stripes
Forever" and the binding flashes of red-white-blue
distracted me from ac
complishing this. I dad manage to glean
some errors, however, such as his ad
dressing a member of the faculty as
"Mr." when, after all, he Ss a "Dr." or
"Professor," or his tmdsue of the Latin
term "cf." (confer), which does not
mean "for example" but, as the dic
tionary will tell you, ''compare" ("e.g."
or exempli gratia).
af Professor Lipsitz's dieas were
dumsy and encumbered," Sheets' were
outdone only by Mr. Walsh (DTH, Jan. 5)
. by their hyperbole and rambling quality.
One example will suffice. He calls Prof.
Lipsitz a "disease," then proceed to
characterize tiis dissent as, not the pro
duct of 'misguided protest" but
loverconcession to a sprawling and
.frightful malcontent." I presume he
means by this assuming he meant
anything at all, save a release of the
"paranoia" of which Richard Hofstadter
speaks) that the Federal Government has
been -too lenient with anti-war
demonstrators and the Eke. Perhaps he
has forgotten that the, Constitution
guarantees certain basic ifreedoms, in
cluding the freedom of expression and the
right of peaceable assembly? Some
miscellaneous candidate for Congress ap
parently could afford to review this docu
ment. After expressing his prayerful hope
for "healmy conclusion" to the "misery"
in Vietnam, he goes on to affirm con
fidently that the datives of this land (or
should I say, these lands?) were "after
all, our original concern." Is this a latter
day s proclamation of Manifest Destiny,
Mr. Sheets? By what god-given right does
the U.S. declare itself the big brother of
every smaller country in the world?
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over there the money you and I pay in
for taxes when there so many poor
folks riit here? And why should we be
fighting a war over there when those pe
ople won't even fig& it themselves?"
Those are the questions which Chester
thinks are central to the whole of the
United States' involvement in Southeast
Asia. They, like Chester and the rest of
his thinking, are simple, plain,
straihtforwsrd and cynical.
Chester thinks he has the answers,
too:
"That whole thing over there is spen
ding your money and my money so a few
people up in Washington can get rich."
Plain, simple, straightforward and
cynical. "This whole country's being
run just for the benefit of a few people,
Chester said.
Then somebody said something about
how Chester was right, and that there's a
big computer up in Washington that has
all the information about almost
everything in the world and is supposed
to help the leaders make decisions, but
that only about 20 persons are allowed
anywhere near the computer, and that is
what is wrong with this country, that
nobody below Cabinet level knows what is
going on.
Chester said he didn't know anything
about any computer, but he did know that
some people up in Washington were get
ting rich off all the poor people paying
for the war, and fighting the war, and cot
getting anything out of it
"But if things don't get better,
Chester said, "then everything's gonna
go. The whole sky will be aflame. Your
house will be on fire, my house will be on
fire, my little grVs bouse will be on fire.
The whole country's gonna be on fire.
"We're going to have three wars," he
said. "We're going to have those two
wars over there, then we're going to have
one over here, and everything's gonna be
on fire." Chester looked up at one of
the while guys he'd been ta'.king to.
"I may even get a gun and shoot you
then," he said, "because I'm cot sure I
can trust you."
"Oh," the white guy said, MI don't
think it's coming to Bat'
"Yeah it is," Chester said. "If
something idont happen St is.
Everything's gonna be on fire."
but its own citizens" ("What Price
Israel", p 240). V
I would Eke to see the Palestine
refugees return to their homes. To her ef
ficiency, hard work, and success in
economic development, Israel would add
generosity which would earn the respect
of the civilized world. As soon as any in
dication is made on her part to get this
done, I feel sure that we may see a peace
conf erence at last.
Campbell B. Read
Dept. of Statistics
Of Liuife
Wasn't the slogan, "Keep the World Safe
for (American-style) Democracy" proved
somehwat in error, after 1945? May I say
in closing, Mr. Sheets, that should a
vacancy turn up in the House Un
American Activities Committee, you
would make a most piromising candidate.
Your definition of that awe4nspir!ng
term, "Americanism," would have a
definite appeal for Rep. Joe PooL
Peter C. Gerdine,
311 Purefoy Rd.
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