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Bill Amlong, Editor
Don Walton, Business Manager
0 Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
fifeu Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor
felllOrJ Rebel Good' News Editor
June Orr, Assistant News Editor
NvgJy Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
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Bie In Viet Nam
In case you haven't noticed that
there's a war going on, take a look
at your room-mate. He might not
be here next semester.
Because he'll be drafted?
Perhaps, but not necessarily.
It's just that if he is one of the
1,492 students attending this
University with the help of federal
fluids, he may not have the money
to come back.
Prof. William Geer, director of
student aid, made this point at a
reception for Fourth District
Congressman Nick Galifinakis Sun
day. He said the University has
been told that funds provided
through the National Defense
Education Loan program on the
Educational Opportunity Grants
program "may be cut drastically
to finance the war in Viet Nam."
'To the extent that this occurs,"
said Geer, "it. -will deny educa
tional opportunity to students at the
University and elsewhere. Many
students couldn't attend the
University without the federal
loans and grants."
SO NOW IT becomes apparent
that the Viet Nam war is cutting
even deeper into the United States
resources than previously had been
thought. 1 , . , s v W - ;.;;.;
Already, cuts in domestic spen
ding have been made to provide
more money for the war, cuts
which have drastically hindered
such programs as. the War on
Poverty.
These cuts have been credited
with the emasculation of the pover
ty war to the extent that it has
become nearly an ineffective
weapon against urban blight a
condition which has been blamed ..
for most of the racial unrest and
violence in the nation.
And now the cuts are hitting
education again. Already it was an- .
nounced that graduate school
i:i fellowships were being tightened
f 4 because of the domestic cuts. And
now the war costs are reaching
down to the undergraduate level.
The high price tag of the United
States' involvement in Viet Nam,
' in effect, is lowering the standard
" of life in America. It is hampering
' efforts to eradicate poverty. It is
' putting a cost-and-draft-enforced
j ceiling on higher education for
I those who can afford to begin col
J lege without government aid in the
first place.
AND ALL for what?
The Johnson Administration's
favorite fairy tale is that this crum
my war is to aid the South Viet
namese people to maintain their
democratic form of government as
a bulwark against communism in
Southeast Asia.
Help them, hell!
The United States is fighting
this war, and the neo-fascist
government of South Viet Nam is
doing precious little if anything at
all to aid the American military
effort.
A United Press International
dispatch from Saigon this week
reported that the Viet Cong of
fensive last week the biggest of
the war "caught much of the
South Vietnamese army with can
non covered, tanks parked, officers
on holidays at beaches and moun
tain resorts, and enlisted men on
furlough with their families."
The dispatch continued:
"Despite warnings from the U.S.
Military Command that large-scale
attacks were imminent, up to 50
per cent of the men in many units
ght
had left their posts to spend the
lunar new year holiday, Tet, with
their wives and children in
Saigon."
Further, President Nguyen Van
Thieu was at home, 25 miles from
Saigon, when the firing began, and
did not return to Saigon" until 12
hours later. -
Meanwhile, American GI's were
dying to protect South Vietnamese
democracy.
Meanwhile, American poverty
and education were being
neglected because American tax
dollars were being spent to protect
South Vietnamese democracy.
Meanwhile, the Viet Cong were
at least doing their own fighting.
Is this any way for the United
States' to run eithef a foreign or a
domestic policy?
You bet it's not.
Caution
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Caution
- A student 1 should not try "to
change things' at the expense of Jiis
own study time." Dean of Men
James O. Cansler toid a group of
student politicians Sunday night.
These remarks, and others, by
an important member of the ad
ministration are .disturbing,
particularly at such a time in the
University's history as now.
Students now are beginning to
doubt the. worth of the education
they are receiving here. They are
spending their money and efforts to
improve the quality and relevance
of the education they receive. And
now, this member of the
Administration , is telling students
they should differentiate in their
goals between "constructive in--novations
and irresponsible
claims," and make sure they cast
a true image on the state.
For a student who is interested
in educational reform and has been
seeking it as quietly and
responsibly as the ones here have,
these remarks by the dean of men
must make them feel very
frustrated with their methods.
When , the student using con
servative means is met in his ef
forts by more requests that he be
conservative and slow, he can feel
awfully discouraged.
Cansler asks that students cast
a true image, but what he seems to
be doing is asking them to cast
merely a more conservative one,
one which will necessitate their
channelling their strong feelings
about change into a method of at
tack which because of its con
servatismwould tend to distort
the true strength of their opinion.
Rather than trying to contain
student enthusiasm the Dean
should try to explain to the people
outside the University that the
students' interest in change is ge
nuine, that it comes after much
thought, and that it is con
structive. ,
Students would feel much more
content with their present methods
of working within the University
system if they knew the
Administration was working with
them to get their point across to the
state-rather than urgine them to
be more cautious than they already
are.
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Letters To The Editor
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To The Editor:
I read with interest and care the
responses to my letter which appeared in
the Daily Tar Heel on Dec. 12; 1967.
Those responses were , significant
because I meant for my letter to initiate
a scientific and free exchange of facts
end opinions aimed sat clarifying the pasic
aspects of the Middle East situation, and
it always adds to the value of such an ex- ,
change to have all sides represented. .
One thing disappointed me, however,
which is the fact that most of the "other
side responses" were not as scientific as
I had hoped for them to be. ;.'
I do not intend to comment on every
remark or counter every charge that was
made in any one of these responses, but I
would like to make, some general
remarks that would express my opinions
and take care of the above mentioned
responses as a whole.
I AM NOT A war advocate; like most
Arabs, I am a firm believer in love and a-,
lover of peace. I also cherish a cardinal
principle4ionored by maiiy g r e a tH
Americanos that there can Wjio peacer
without justice. : " J j ' s
WE BELIEVE IN prophetic Judaism.
I have some Jewish friends whom I
esteem and respect.
I am not trying to provoke a conflict
between Jews and non-Jews in
America.
But i am certainly 'aiming at t in
dicating what Zionism is. Zionism is com
pletely distinct from Judaism.
SJudaism is a Divine religion and
Zionism is a political ideology that makes
use of certain ideas prevalent among
Jews.
Zionism objectives of domination, its
strategies and tactics asv laid down in
the "Zionist Protocols" in August, 1897 in
Switzerland-are in c dm p 1 e t e con
tradiction with the teachings o f
Judaism.
These were the main reason for the
imthinkable and inhuman crimes com
mitted by the Nazis against European
Jews, for they were in conflict with
Hitler's own objectives of the dominance
, of the Arian race.
They led Ralbbi Moshe Menuhin a
born Jewish American citizen to write
in The Los Gatos Times, Saratoga
Observer, Aug. 31, 1967:. . .'Jewish na
tionalism. . .the 'Jewish na
tionaliststhe new specimen of fighting
Jews are not Jews as far as I am con
cerned, but Jewish Nazis who have lost
all sense of Jewish morality and humani
ty. Anti-Zionism is not Anit-Semitism.
THE STATEMENTS ABOUT the "evil
deeds committed by Ihe Zionists against
the. Arabs of Palestine that are com-;
parable to the crimes committed by the
Nazis against Jews are a part of
history.
They were not mine, they are excerpts
from writings by noted historians and
honest men some of whom are Jews
THE STATUS-QUO argument: Isnt it
ironic that some people deny the Palsti
nean Arabs their rights to return and be
compensated in full simply because
Israel has existed in the area for almost
20 years and at the same time argue
that the Jews had the right to establish a
national homeland in Palestine even on
the ruins of the State of
Palestine because they lived in the area
some 1400 years ago?
ISRAEL'S EXPANSIONIST Policy
The following quotation appeared in
Newsweek, Dec. 25, 1867:
. "Last summers Arab-Israeli war was
hardly two hours old when Israeli
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan took to
the radio to proclaim "we have no aims
of tentorial conquest. -
But in the six days that followed 26 000
square miles of Arab territory fell under
Israeli control. .
In the first flush of victory Israeli
press referred to the conquests' as the
"captured territories."
That phrase, however, soon gave wav
to "occupied territories" which in turn
was replaced by: "liberated territories"
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and, more recently, Israeli Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol has begun to talk
blandly of "Greater Israel." Israel went
ahead and annexed the Holy city of
Jerusalem in definance to a unanimous
U.N. resolution.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS of Israel: It is
never mentioned that those achievements
would have been impossible without the
massive economic aid to Israel by the
western countries--and the U.S. in
particular for which no Arab country is
elligible. The per capita share in Israel
from American aid averages to 60 dollars
per year and reached in one year
$150 while it did not exceed $3 in African
and Latin American countries.
Furthermore, some Arab countries have
notable achievements in the field of
economic development; for example, the
U. A.R. has finished building the High
Dam which is one of the four largest
dams in the world and has parallel ac
complishments in industry.
ISRAEL IS NOT assimilating the Arab
refugees or it simply would. not JbeA :
Jewish! sifeate'anymore and has even put
restrictions on the return of those who
fled 'after the last war.
WHY IS IT ALWAYS the Arab
military build-up that threatens peace in
the Middle East but not the Israeli?
MR. E. saRVERS letter con
tained among 0 1 her distortions an
assertion that 1 can only, in all respect,
call it 'a lie; namely that radio broadcasts
from Cairo urged the total annihilation of
all Jews. I am an Egyptian who has
listened to Radio Cairo for more than 20
years and have never heard of such
nonsense. What Radio Cairo always urg
ed is the restoration of the rights. of the
Palestinean Arabs. I deeply regret it that
someone, who identifies himself with the
Department of Political Science, would
use such an approach in a discussion that
Pass-
By MIKE McGEE
Theres one thing that really turns me
on at this school now. Its the pass-fail
system. I took one course under the new
system' last semester, and it was just
beautiful. Made me see that half the
sweating over tests and exams is
psychological. I found myself doing the
work because it was there rather than .
through absolute necessity, and learning
just as much as I have in any course. No
regrets or unpleasant memories about
that course. It was really a load off my
fear mechanism for the whole
semester. .
There's no need to brown-nose or but
ter up the instructor, either, because
theres none of that "maybe he'll give me
an A instead of a B if I do this or that.
Its god for the integrity of students and
professors alike. As a matter of fact, all'
those little tricks become immediately
obsolete. .. .
Also professors should be able to
grade more quickly at the end of the
semester. If 50 of the class is on pass
fail he can just read over the final ex- .
ams and if they look ok give a P No
deep mulling or soul-searching except in -horder-line
cases.
NottI can take Political Science,
which I like but inevitably make Cs m,
and still keep my average up. Hm
mm. ! .-maybe next semester 111 take
differential calculus.
HEART TRANSPLANTS are on their
way to becoming a fad, as soon as they
ZZ out all the bugs. Just like the old
hula hoop. No self-respecting sorority girl
allow herself to get through another
.LstT without a heart transplant
semester wm f
Ttnl l hearts for old!
ouim?l , JTwiil come equipped with
Chuoreuvu Rmi Casey wm
Casey
removaoie
ransfer from neurology
to heart
SlffLove will be revolutionized. No longer
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was meant to be scientific.
TO RECAPITULATE, was it not a
grave mistake to relieve the troubled
Jews Of Europe only by inflicting the
same kind of misery and suffering on a
larger number of human beings who were
living in the State of Palestine? This sad
and grave mistake resulted in the
tragedy of the Arab refugees, and their
miserable state of affairs is in my opi
nionthe basic issue. Nothing whatsoever
of significant consequenses was done to
alleviate the problem and Israel has
brazenly flouted a U.N. resolution in
1948 that has been affirmed more than
once since then which gives to every
refugee the right to return to his
Homeland and be compensated for his
lost property.
Nader Fergany
Umstead Drive
Letters Old Hat
To The .Editor:. . .."3 -7
Would it be possible to register a mild
protest at the somewhat extensive and
extended proportion of space your
newspaper has given the exchange
between the two brands of Semitic truth
in the long very long) immediate past 2
If the disputants wish to continue their
fling in an equally constructive manner,
perhaps the N.R.O.T.C. could be prevail
ed upon to issue arms to both sides and a
march arranged at Emerson Field. If
their mar kmans ship is anything like their
letter writing ithey will be shooting past
each other so that no great harm should
ensue, while relieving the rest of us of an
ever growing sense of ennui toward
things mid-eastern.
Richard French
105 Johnson St.
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will boys and girls going steady exchange
high shool rings. They'll change hearts
to prove their love. . .Then the sur
geons will have to work the bugs out of
the yearly transplant.
A South African court will rule that a
white man who has the heart of 'a Negro
also has the soul of a Negro, so he must
live in the Colored section of town.
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EVERYBODY THESE days is yelling
for negotiations between Washington and
Hanoi. I think we ought to look closer to
.home for the first step. Lets have some
preliminary, practice negotiations here in
the US. Sort of like the regional playoffs
in the national basketball cham
pionship. On one team would be the President,
the State Department, and the Defense
Department. On the other side would be
intellectuals and the war policy
dissenters. It seems to me that if you
can't have rational discussions in this
country, where we're not even shooting
at each other, how can you expect to
have them between the beliigerant pow
ers? All the screaming and hollering
just generates deeper hostilities on both
sides.
We could select a neutral site, such as
Camp David or Chapel Hill, and put
Johnson and Rusk and Clifford, plus their
administrative assistants and un
dersecretaries, on one side of a table, and
Dr. Spock and his boys, Martin Luther
King, and Lou Lipsitzon the other side on
the table, and just let them talk, talk,
talk. At the end of the conference a joint
statement of policy would be issued.
I'll bet you would get tons of diatribe
and polemic from both sides. Maybe
though, at the end each side would be
more ready to make concessions to the
other.
Its funny, the obstacles to rational
discussion.
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THE PARKING problem on this cam
pus for those who drive to class is really
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To The Editor:
Obviously the author of the editorial in
the "Tar Heel" of Feb. 2 failed to make a
careful analysis of the possibilities for
Johnny Carson's attitude towards Jim
Garrison a few nights ago. Of course, the
editors view of the fall of the "Prince"
may be well founded. It could be that
Carson really did "blow his cool by dog
gedly contradicting Garrison when it was
plain that Carson was in the worng.
In view of this possibility, I would pro
pose another. I am of the opinion that
Carson deliberately made himself an ass.
I am not presuming that Carson could
come out on top in a debate with Gar
rison anyway, but I do think Carson took
his stand in an effort to portray the ma
jority ofpeople in America who don't
really Toiow anything about. Garrisons in
vestigation of Kennedy's assassination. In
taking an argumentative stand against
Garrison, Carson made Garrison bring
his evidence to light much more clearly
and convincingly: thereby making the in
terview more interesting. By acting the
'fool, Carson actually helped Garrison,
and made the interview more revealing
also.
In refuting the possibility of the
editor's article, I would present the
following as reasons. First, Johnny
Carson is obviously a very smart man
and knows his business well, "llow else
could he become the f 'demigod of the late
T.V. world. . . ?" It seems reasonable
that such a man would not take a plainly
ignorant stand which would endanger his
prestige without a reason. Secondly, it is
the job of an impressario such as Carson
to make bis interviews not only in
teresting, but also revealing and in-
formative. Jim Garrison and his case are
not a combination to be dealt with in the
jovial manner characteristic of the
"Tonight Show." .
I am not taking away from Garrison's
argument at all in this letter. His case is
clearly a significant and well-substantiated
one. T do, however, disagree with
the editors view of 'Mr. Carson's at
tempted W.F. Buckley techniques. Mr.
Carson definitely had the idea of getting
Garrison to review his case from the
lawyer's standpoint, in order to make the
evidence presented clearer and more in
formative. Tommy Minor
Charlotte, N.C.
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insane. Have you ever been driving to
campus, all ready for your ten o'clock
class, only to discover to your horror that
there IS NO PARKING PALCE: What do
you do? Either give up and go home, or
park illegaly. The only way to get a park
ing place less than thirty minutes walk
for your class is to get there before eight
o'clock. That's just in time for your ten
o'clock class.
What this town needs is a good bus
service. Lots of towns in North Carolina
with less than 15,000 people have a city
bus service. And here we are a big city of
30,000, with an effective radius stretching
from West Carrboro to Eastgate. I guess
the city fathers are too busy working out
new ways to give parking tickets and
charge ten cents an hour for meters to
think of feat. Buses might cost them a
few dollars, and they are engaged only in
schemes productive of revenue..
An alterative might be for the
University to request the state to buy
them some yellow schoolbuses. Even the
most backwater public secondary school
has a whole fleet of schoolbuses. Why
shouldn't the public instiutions of higher
education have the same privilege? They
could get student drivers, and run about
a dozen different routes hourly in the
mornings and evenings. Even if they had
to buy the schoolbuses, and they could
probably get them secondhand, it would
be cheaper than a multilevel parking
garage.
AFTER READING the above section
my roommate commented that Duke,
almost completely a residential college,
has free, ah say free bus service between
their East Campus and West Campus.
They have about a dozen buses that do
nothing but go back and forth over, the
mile or two stretch.
He said that when he first went there
six years ago they had the same buses,
but charged a dime a trip. It seems that
it was solely through student pressure
that they stopped charging for the ride.
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