Page Eight
November 20, 1970
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tommy Bello
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Tom Gooding, Editor
Cambodians Want
American lotte
Two representatives of the ruling
military government of Cambodia
will attempt to eonvinee UNC
students today the Cambodian
government's neutrality is seriously
threatened.
The two Cambodians,
representatives of a congress of
intellectuals who met in Phnom
Penh May 12, have released an
advance press release intended to
"draw the attention of informed
people throughout the world to the
serious threat to Cambodia's
independence, neutrality and
territorial integrity, resulting from
the invasion of that country by
North Vietnamese and VieHCong
communist military forces."
We ask these Cambodians what
integrity exists in a government
whose only claim to power is that it
78 Years of Editorial Freedom
Tom Gooding, Editor
Rod Waldorf Managing Ed.
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Rick Gray , Associate Ed.
Harry Bryan Associate Ed.
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Rick Gray
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Luther is getting tired of waiting for
Christmas.
It happens to him every year. He starts
watching the kid shows on television and
they start talking about Christmas toys in
September so by the time November gets
here he's been waiting for more than a
month.
Most people get tired of waiting for
Christmas because they want to get gifts,
get out of school or fly to London and
Paris on a cheap charter flight.
But Luther is waiting for the grocery
stores to start selling Christmas trees.
Luther, you see, collects Christmas
trees. He goes to the grocery stores, picks
up the best trees he can find and carries
Tony Lentz
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Oh, beautiful bright yellow skies,
For amber concrete lanes,
For purple smokestack's majesty
Above polluted plains.
America! (Hack!) America! (Cough!),
God spread his DDT,
And douse thy loam
With phosphate foam
From sea to dead salt sea.
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rity
had the military strength to
overthrow the existing government
when the head of that government
was out of the country?
The current Cambodian
government, headed by General
Lon Nol, came into existence by
overthrowing the government of
Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The
coup occurred with the covert if
not overt assistance of the U.S
CIA.
The military junta could not
have maintained even minimal
support from the Cambodian
pebple. In fact, the military
government would have fallen and
Prince Sihanouk would have been
restored to power had it not been
for the massive ground and ariel
invasions by both the U.S. and
South Vietnamese military forces. .
We also wonder if these
Cambodians remember that the'
American and South Vietnamese
invasions came as a complete
surprise even to the Cambodian
military?
According to the New York
Times News Service on May 2,
1970, ''Premier Lon sNol said
Friday, that Cambodia had not been
consulted in advance about the U.S.
and South Vietnamese military
operations on its territory.
. "Nol,. said Cambodia was
considering whether to lodge a
protest. He said the operation was a
violation of Cambodian integrity..."
Now these two Cambodians are
issuing an "appeal for moral and
material support" , for the military
junta. -
Even Lon Nol had some concern
for Cambodian territorial integrity
if n6t for the Cambodian
Governments last May.
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them home. Sometimes Luther pays for
the trees he takes trom the grocery stores,
but most of the time he's a block away
by the time the manager can get the cops
to come arrest the thief that's stealing his
best Christmas trees.
Last year was an especially bad year
for Christmas trees, Luther said the other
day.
"They keep getting skinnier every
year," he said. "I think DDT has
something to do with it, but I'm not sure.
It may just be that the really good
Christmas trees just aren't in demand
anymore."
Luther's theory is that the trees are
getting ugly because the people who used
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It's
If you are twenty years old or older
(horn before 151) and have a lottery
number over 15. you should
immediately drop your 2-S deferment
and get a 1-A rating. You can do this by
writing your local draft board.
Selective Service Director Curtis W.
Tarr on October 30 said that no one
above 195 at any draft board will be
ordered into service this year. In fact,
many local draft boards will not reach
195 before January I. 1971. It is
important to realize that no minimum
exposure to the draft is required. If you
give up your deferment anytime in 1970.
anytime including now, your exposure to
the draft will end December 31, 1970.
If you have questions, write, call or go
see your local, draft board. Closer to
home, drop by Suite C of the Student
Union Monday through Thursday
afternoon and talk to the Draft
Counseling people. Act now. All students
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to buy the really big, beautiful Christmas
trees aren't buying trees anymore, c,
"The rich people started buying
aluminum trees a couple of years ago," he
said, "and they just don't buy the real
thing anymore. They'd rather have a
silver tree, or a pink one, or maybe one
that's plastic and painted green to look
like the real thing.
"It's getting so if I want to have really
good trees for niy collection I have to go
the small towns where the Jaycees or
Rotary operate a lot and take one there."
The small towns are harder to get trees
in, though, Luther said. He ends up
paying for at least half of the trees he gets
there because the guy selling the trees is
able to bring today's historic event to
your home.
ANNOUNCER: Now to Wally
Crankcase in California.
CRANKCASE: Good afternoon, ladies
and gentlemen. '
We're standing here on the side of an
obscure mountain in California's Lassen
Volcanic National Park, about 15 miles
from the City of Chester.
About forty miles to the Northeast of
us here, -you can see the foam-covered
waters of old Shasta Dam project.
We have a beautiful view of the bare
countryside for miles in every direction
In the distance we can see the U.S. Army
burning the remains of the last green
forest in the country, the beautiful black
smoke streaming up toward the pale
yellow sky in a mafnificent display of
environmental destruction.
President Arnt I. Noxius arrived at the
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with deferments should request I -A
status no later than Thanksgiving Day.
November 26. That day i one week
away.
Long ago. Leo Tolstoy expressed
still-valid criticism of the individual who
"knew that there was an obligatory law
of God:. 'Thou shall not kill. knew that
there was an obligatory military service,
but had never considered the
contradiction between the two.
Personally, I have never been able to
understand why this country' has felt it to
be in its and my best interest to express
my love of country be killing my fellow
man. Patriotism cannot be built by the
forced service of the draft through which
a government tells an individual when to
serve and in what manner, regardless of
that individual's own talents and
interests. Such is not freedom.
Yet I will not plague you with an
impassioned appeal about the horrors of
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often the local cop, too, so the salesman
doesn't have to wait for the cops to get
there to put the pinch on Luther.
"It's getting so expensive to collect
trees, at least good trees," Luther said,
"that 'I'm beginning to wondr if I'm not
going to have to find another hobby.
"I really hate to give this one up,
though," he said, "I've been in this racket
for 15 years, and I've sort of gotten
attached to the smell of Christmas trees,,
at least real Christmas trees. I tried those
plastic things one year, just after they
first came out, but they aren't any good.
They just don't smell like the real thing."
But even with the grim prospects for a
lucrative season with the trees, Luther is
getting tired of waiting for Christmas.
The Wor
speaker's platform minutes ago, and he's
now greeting personally the
representatives of the other nations in the
western hemisphere.
In a moment he will personally fire the
last tree in our hemisphere.
Mr. Noxiusr is wearing a grey business
air suit with one of the new artificial air
generators in the small of the back. Many
of the other representatives and
congressmen are wearing tuxedo airsuits
for the occasion, but Mr. Noxius told his
advisers that a plain suit was good enough
for him.
Unusual humility for a man who is
about to culminate a long and tiring
struggle against the radical
environmentalists. Just yesterday a group
of students and revolutionaries threw
containers of naturally grown algae at the
Presidential aircar in San Francisco,
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the draft. Simply, the national draft ha
been a national disaster. And I will quote
from the dispassionate. undfrpuMicizcd
PresidentioJ Commission's report on an
all-volunteer army.
Released in February. H70. the Gates
report said that the draft "h"f been a
costly, inequitable and divisive procedure
for recruiting men for the armed forces.
It has imposed heavy burdens on small
minority of young men while easing
slightly the tax burden of the rest of us.
It has introduced needless uncertainty
into the lives of all our young men... It has
weakened the political fabric of our
society and impaired the delicate web of
shared values that alone enables a free
society to exist."
We have probably seen the last of the
large anti-draft marches, demonstrations,
and card burnings. This is probably good.
Too many people attended these large
gatherings, purged their souls, and then
Letters
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Appear Non-Existent
To the Editor:
"Man is willing to accept woman as an
equal ;...the only thing he won't accept
her as is a human being, a real human
being of the female sex."
-D.H. Lawrence
Grover Proctor's column illustrates
Lawrence's statement all too well.
Despite the fact that he tries to base his
statements on sociological reasons, saying
that "established roles in society have
values and, also, valuable places in our
culture, none the least of which is the
male-female role division"; he still clings
io sentiments and myths which
sociology textbook would support.
no
, Men who feel that women are "more
compassionate, more emotional" etc.,
etc. continue to use episodes such as the
door-holding incident which had upset
Mr. Proctor to obscure larger issues. By
making the incident the focal point of his
column he admitted he had left himself
no space to deal with the real questions
confronting society.
This seems to be a common problem
of our time-too much romanticism and
not enough space to deal with inequitable
salaries, the difficulties of getting legal
abortions (and the risks of illegal ones),
the high costs of adequate day
care problems women face every day.
Little wonder why some of us express our
anger and frustration as did the woman
Mr. Proctor wrote about.
"I can't wait," he said. "The trees
might not be good this year, but I'm
anxious just the same. I guess it's a habit
I've had ever since I was a little kid. I
always used to get so excited the day
school got out for vacation that I wet my
pants twice that day just thinking about
going home and helping Mother pick out
the tree."
Luther said that if the trees aren't any
good this year he may go to work for the
town this Christmas.
He says they're looking for people to
work as part-time cops to arrest all the
people who run red lights on Franklin
Street because they can't tell the traffic
lights from the Christmas decorations.
shouting slogans like "Green Power" and
"Green is Beautiful."
Two demonstrators were arrested and
the algae was confiscated by the FBI's
special Anti-Plant Squad, but the
President appears to have taken the
incident extremely well.
Now to Roger Dirt at the speaker's
platform.
DIRT: You're right, Wally. The
President seems to have taken the
algae-throwing incident in stride. although
there are unusual security precautions in
effect here today.
There are Secret Servicemen in plain
airsuits at every stairway leading to the
platform, and... Wait! Wally. something's
happened to the President. He's dropped
put of view...no. I can see now. A trap
door...under the President. About half of
nis body is in view...hes
through his facemask!
screaming
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cave
the matter no further consideration
This luxury
still goes on
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is ours no longer. I he
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w.ir
o. one ha to rely on himself, has to
respond individual!. There are draff
counselors and campus ministers u ho are
willing to help, but ou have to make
your own decision and reach your own
answers. You can do it.
I am not asking for vam-g!orio;:s
heroics but for a deepened consciousness
to realize there might be a higher law
than the national draft and to nuke every
effort to obey that law. I oppose those
individuals who demand -through the
draft pain, mutilation and death as
initiation rites into manhood.
Rather, to be a man is to avoid h a;;
means possible a law that would place
you in a situation where ou might have
to take a life of a fellow man.
Think about it.
If she helped shake Mr. Proctor's faith
in the image of us which he has cherished
so long, then good for her. Women want
to be regarded as human beings -human
beings get what are called human rights.
, So far the rights of goddesses on pedestals
have not been defined by our society and
appear to be pretty non-existant.
Carolyn Kotlas
137-B Purefoy Rd.
Humanity In War
Incongruent Term
To the Editor:
I would like to bestow the "What
if.. .Award" upon Nelson Drew for his
"Humanity Needed in War" article. Just
look at his fifth paragraph.
What really disturbs me the most . is
Mr. Drew's statement that, "Obviously, if
the war is unjust, he (Tom Gooding)
considers it fair if the other side treats its
prisoners unjustly." Here, Mr. Drew is
dealing in generalities. While I consider
the Vietnam War unjust and immoral. I
would like to see POWs fairly treated;
however, let's be realistic. How can one
possibly demand humanity in war?
Humanity and war are incongruent terms.
I would hope that we would treat
prisoners fairly since we are supposedly a
civilized nation, -Aren't civilized and war
incongruent also?-but to demand
(Remember Geneva?) or expect if of
North Vietnam is absurd. Why should
they listen to these demands? I find it a
little ridiculous to say "You may kill our
soldiers on the field but not in your
prisons."
Also, both Jane Fonda and Rennie
Davis seem to point out that our
prisoners are not being treated fairly.
Interesting, huh?
Stop dreaming, Mr. Drew!
C.L. Lassiter
P.O. Box 728
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It's hard to tell what's happening,
Wally, but it appears some radicals have
made an attempt on the President's life.
Secret Servicemen are dragging someone
out from under the platform...
The President isn't moving, Wally and
there's a yellow gas of some sort beneath
his face-plate! My God! My God! Wally
the environmentalists have killed the'
president. They've pulled his body out of
the trap door, and I can see some sort of
gas generator attached to his airpump
The man the police have beside the
Platform has pulled open his face-plate in
an obvious attempt at suicide
It's clear that the man is dying from
gasping
something...!
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can almost make it
outsomething about "Death
to the
piant-killin piss"
ANNOUNTHR: W, take you ow ,
Ann-Han, Squa.l" already in progress.