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Visitors subjected to propaganda by Harrison E. Sal isbury

(c) 1972 New York Times News Service (PYONGYANG, N. KOREA)- Americans and a l l other foreign v i s i t o r s 'to t h i s country are subjected t o a vigorous, a1 1 -pervasive pro= paganda l i n e from t h e i r moment of en t ry i n - t o the country through each day.

It i s implacable and re f lec ts the fre- quent ly expressed des i re f o r revenge . a- ga ins t the perpetrators of the "outrages" t h a t are depicted i n museums, songs,plays, ch i ld ren 's pageants and posters. This correspondent, a long-term veteran o f cold- !.Par days, has never seen i t s equal.

Nowhere, i n fact, i s the world viewed as i t i s from Pyongyang. North Korea's spe- c i a l viewpoint, one i n which the United States i s depicted as a hawk-beaked, claw- f ingered predator "aggressor," w i t h North Korea as i t s special target, \ a s presented w i t h extraordinary v i r t u o s i t y a t a mass spectable staged recen t l y f o r Maj. Ge-n. Mohammed Siad Barre, President o f Somalia, i n the presence o f Premier Kim I 1 Sung.

The scene was Pyongyang Staddum and the medium was a k ind of mass pageant i n which possibly 60,000 Koreans ,mostly 'foung people down t o the age of 5,participated. The f i e l d was f i l l e d w i t h a constant ly s h i f t i n g ser ies o f gymnastic b a l l e t and pageant1 i ke manuevers, inc lud ing a rea l - i s t i c f i e l d a t tack o f armed and uniformed

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m i 1 i t a r y u n i t s performing an explosion- f i l l e d version o f the Korean War i n which the United States i s sa id t o have been forced t o i t s knees and signed a capi tu- l a t i o n .

While about 45,000 youngsters i n re lays performed the manuevers i n the foreground, a backdrop was provided by 1 5,000 youngsters equipped w i t h co lor cards. Looking on were about 60,000 Pyongyang residents wearing co lo r fu l clothes and carry ing bouquets o f p ink paper flowers.

The two-'.our performance included a ser ies of near ly 200 mosaics. Not only d i d the cards spe l l out the Koreans' spe- c i a l version of the United States. They a lso depicted events from the l i f e of Pre- mier Kim, the achievements and asp i ra t ions o f North Korea and, i n the f inale, sought t o ca r ry Korea's revo lu t ionary message t o a l l oppressed peoples of the world, p a r t i - c u l a r l y those i n Asia and Afr ica. Through- out the ceremony the Premier watched s e r i - ously and solemnly f o r the most part, ap- plauding each spectacle and smi l ing and waving w i t h p a r t i c u l a r enthusiasm a t the smallest chi ldren.

The impact of the Korean version o f h i s - t o r y i s great because i t i s imparted con- c t a n t l y and through every possible medium, from kindergarten songs t o museum exh ib i t s . Some of them are chambers o f horrors t h a t ascr ibe a t r o c i t i e s t o "American imper ia l - i s t aggressors. "

The Americans are depicted as having begun nefarious schemes and p l o t s against Korea even before the American' C i v i 1 War. ;hey are portrayed as having conqu

conspired w i t h Japan dur ing the Japanese occupation of Korea and then t o have achieved the f u l l f lower o f v i l l i a n y dur ing the postwar and Korean War periods. And, according t o thepropaganda, theAmericanshave no t stopped ye t .

One Korean j a u r n a l i s t sa id a f t e r the spectacle, " I t ' s necessary t o i n s p i r e our youth ."

There i s not much danger t h a t the young- s ters w i l l f a i l t o ge t the message. It i s presented t o the people from the cradle t o the grave. They begin t o learn about the revo lu t ionary 1 i f e and exp lo i t s o f Premier K i m a t the age o f 3 and his' 1 i f e i s used as a repos i tory fo r countless t e l l i n g anec dotes and admonitions designed t o s tee l t h e i r revo lu t ionary s p i r i t and implacable hatred for the enemy.

Sometimes the v i s i t o r t o Pyongyang f e e l s he i s l i v i n g i n a constant ly s h i f t i n g sha- dow p lay i n which, day by day and hour by hour, the same essent ia l message i s being conveyed i n every form o f graphic and verbal a r t , t o re in fo rce i t s message.

A l l of t h i s i s orchestrated under the personal d i r e c t i o n and guidance o f the premier ..

Fears,, feelings and facts ... by Anthony Lewis

(C) 1972 New York Times News Service (HANOI)- Wr i t ing from North Vietnam i s a strange experience. A repor ter seldom goes t o a country w i t h which h i s own i s a c t i v e l y a t war. But i t i s not only the emotions t h a t are confusing. There i s the problem of facts.

' r d i n a r i l y i t i s tedious and self- impor- t a n t for newspapermen t o w r i t e about t h e i r own concerns. L i ke pol i ti cians, they asked for the job and deserve no sympathy.But the d i f f i c u l t y of forming accurate judg- ments about North Vietnam i s no t j u s t a newspaper problem; i t has been a t the heart of the whole American entanglement i n t h i s war for seven years.

Consider the question o f fear . ! have been i n North Vietnam a week now and during a considerable p a r t o f t h a t time I have been afraid. Other Europeans here say the same--French, Swedish, Russian, TtaTian, B r i t i s h , East German. It i s no fun being i n a small country whi le the most powerful on ear th i s bombing s i t .

But i n the bomb she1 ters, v h i l e the Europeans 1 ook especia l ry pa le, the Vietnamese chat ter and laugh. .Does t h i s mean they are not a f ra id? O f course any- th ing may become more bearable over time, !,ut they c l e a r l y s t i l l now fear. They ex- ; l a i n t h a t they have no choice except t o f i g h t u n t i l the Americans go away. When a young g i r l says that, does i t represent some general t r u t h about Vietnamese a t t i - tudes?

That leads t o the cent ra l question o f t h i s country'; determination. It i s sim- p l y impossible f o r an outs ider t o f i n d anyone who expresses fee l ings other than a conf ident sto ic ism about the war. One asks a f r a i l e l d e r l y man, a h i s t o r i a n and poet, whether Nortt i Vietnam would f i g h t on i f America escalated the bombing fu r the r . He rep1 i es :

" I n 1945 and '46 we had a famine i n .which two m i l l i o n people died. The war has done nothing l i k e that , so you see , t h a t we can stand much worse."

I s . that a t t i t u d e a r e s u l t of Communist i ndoc t r ina t ion and repression? O r does i t spring genuinely from Vietnamese h is tory , from the thousands o f years o f f i g h t i n g against Chinese and other invaders? One can only o f fe r the judgment--supported by the Western diplomats and other observers here--that i s i s genuine. .

Propaganda i s incessant, natura l ly . The newspapers are f u l l of s to r ies o f great v i c t o r i e s i n the South and the shooting down o f American planes. There i s no i m - mediate way t o judge the accuracy o f a c la im unless one happens t o see w i t h one's own eyes.

When American bombers h i t c i v i l i a n t a r - gets i n Hanoi, correspondents are taken t o see the damage. But sometimes a f t e r a r a i d o f f i c i a l s refuse t o say what has been h i t ; the l i k e l y conclusion i s t a h t i t was m i 1 i tary. targets.

Rest r ic t ions and propaganda are hard ly unusual i n wartime, i n any country. The curious th ing i s t h a t the North Vietnamese have a1 lowed repor ts on some m i l i t a r y mat- t ers t o go ou t uncensored when a correspondent happened t o see something--for example the observation t h a t the bombers had succeeded i n c u t t i n g a br idge here.

The other day i n Haiphong o f f i c i a l s t o l d t h i s correspondent t h a t they were sweeping and defusing American mines and t h a t ships were going i n and ou t o f the port . The Pentagon dedounced the claim, saying r e - connaissance showed no ships enter ing o r leaving. The on ly way t o be c e r t a i n would be extended inves t iga t ion o r observation o f the harbor which the North Vietnamese would not a1 low. So the c la im could be mere bravado.

On the other hand, propaganda i s not a l l on one side. The same American reconnais- sance system t h a t watches Haiphong a lso selects bombing targets. The announce- ents i n Saigon and Washington always speak

o f at tacks on m i l i t a r y targets. How does i t happen, then, t h a t a la rge hosp i ta l standing alone i n the middle o f r i c e f i e l d s has been h i t not once bu t twice i n the l a s t s i x months?

A f t e r seven years o f t h i s war most Ameri- cans recognize t h a t t r u t h i s d i f f i c u l t t o es tab l ish i n Vietnam. For both newspaper- ien and the pub l i c the r i g h t - a t t i t u d e i s skepticism toward a1 1 o f f i c i a l claims.

Senators against w a r The I 1 1 i nofs %mate Executive comni t t e e

has recormended .Sense passage o f a resolu- t i o n which depolores the i n d u c t ~ s n o f I 1 - l i n o i s C i t izens i n the armed forces u n t l l a1 1 troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.

On a par ty 1 i n e vote, Senate Democrats forced passage of a reso lu t ion introduced by Sen. Thomas Lyons a t the suggestion o f students a t Western I l l i n o i s Univers i ty .

A s i m i l a r reso lu t ion was defeated i n the House Executive committee Tuesday.

Students from the l l n i ve rs i t y came t o Spr ing f ie ld two weeks ago t o press the 1 e- g i s l a t u r e f o r passage o f a reso lu t ions a-

a i n s t the war. Their t r i p fol lowed Pres- i den t Richard Nixon's announcement t h a t he was mining Haiphon harbor and miaht take

f u r t h e r measures i f the ~ T t h Vietnamese d i d not q u i t i n f i l t r a t i n g South Vietnam.

During t h e i r v i s i t , a spokesman,Richard Chaffee was i h v i t e d t o speak t o the Senate. Wednecd;iv Chaffee also t e s t i f i e d a t the hearing .

" I n the seven years hatwpen 1965 and 1971, the U.S. m i l i t a r y forces ~ x ~ l o d e d 26 m i l l i o n pounds - - tha t ' s 13 m i l l i o n tbhs= -of munitions i n Indochina, h a l f from the a i r and h a l f from weapons on the ground." he t e s t i f i e d . "This staggering weight of ordinance amounts4to the energy of 450 Hiroshima nuclear bombs."

Chaffee showed the Senators p ic tures of c r a t t e r i n g t h a t had resu l ted from bombs dropped by the U . S .

o or the area and people of Indochina as a whole," he continued, ";t represents an average of 142 pounds of explosive per acre of land and 584 pounds per person. It means tha t over the seven years t h e average r a t e of detonation was 118 pounds per second. "

The reso lu t ion b las ts the Nixon admini- s t r a t i o n for i t s handling o f the war. Not- ing the loss of 50,000 1 ives and what i t c a l l s " the exhaustion o f an unrecoverable quant i ty o f American economic and human r d sources", the reso lu t ion c a l l s the deci- : J J ~ Q * the admin is t ra t ion t o mine the har kr " T a n t a m ~ u ~ a .t r i s k i n g nuclear holo- caust and cer ta inyy or~w5+,ous to hopes of a diplomat ic settlement.

"It i s apparent t h a t the U.S. invol,v&- ment has served on ly t o increase the suf- f e r i n g and bloodshed i n Indochina." i t continues.

SCIENCE

MAY 31, 1972 PAGE THREE

W a l l a c e ~ s Injury Especia I l y Severe

by Lawrence E. Altman ( C ) 1972 New York Times News Service

(NEW Y0RK)- Spinal cord i n j u r i e s such as t ha t suffered by Gov. George Wallace are among the most d i f f i c u l t condit ions f o r doctors t o t r e a t because the body cannot e f fec t ive ly repa i r severe damage t o the cord--the cy l inder o f nerves t ha t run up and down the back between the bra in and lower spine.

A1 though f o r centuries doctors have t r i e d v i r t u a l l y every possible way t o re- p a i r a damaged spinal cord, they have not succeeded. But i n recent years, r r ima r i l y as a spin-off of i n j u r i e s t reated i n World War I1 and l a t e r conf l ic ts , doctors have developed therapies t ha t have added many productive years t o the l i v e s o f such pa- t ients .

A t l eas t 100,000 paralyzed Americans are l i v i n g w i t h spinal cord in ju r ies . Each year more than 5,000 Americans become paraplegic from spinal cord i n j u r i e s suffered, for examples, - i n automobile and airplane crashes, f a l l s from roofs and other heights, Knife-stabbings and wounds from bul lets.

Last week, GIal lace became temporarily-- if not permanently--paraplegic from an asassin's b u l l e t tha t severely in ju red h i s spinal cord.

Wallace's neurosurgeon, Dr. J . Garber Gal brai th, gave a bleak prognosis f o r h i s pat ient 's a b i l i t y t o walk again. But Gal- b ra i t h emphasized t h a t on ly nature, time and possibly another operation t o remove the b u l l e t would determine the extent o f the A1 abama Governor ' s recovery from paraplegia.

His paraplegia, o r paralysis o f both legs, apparently i s due t o the e f fec ts o f a b u l l e t tha t i s lodged i n h i s spinal column between a bony vertebra and the nerves o f the spinal cord.

The spinal column, o r backbone, i s com- pr ised o f 33 vertebrae, the t h i c k segments of bone t h a t house and protect the spinal cord. The neck vertebrae are ca l led cer- . t ical, those i n the r i b cage thoracic and those behind the abdomen, lumbar and sa- ~ r a l .

The b ra in and spinal cord are continu- ous through a hole i n the base of the sku l l . The spinal cord extends f o r about 20 inches before i t tapers t o a po in t i n the small o f the back about two-thirds down the spinal column a t the leve l of the second 1 umbar vertebra.

As the s ~ i n a l cord passes between the vertebrae, the cord sends off 31 pa i rs o f spinal nerves t o t ransmit e l e c t r i c a l signals t o and from the b ra in throughout the l e f t and r i g h t sides of the body.

Each p a i r o f nerves serves a par t i cu la r area t h a t can be mapped on the body's ana- tomy. ' f any such spinal nerve i s damaged a t a po in t a f t e r i t emerges from the sp i - rial cord, then j u s t the area served by t ha t nerve i s af fected.

Bruises o f the spinal cord my cause temporary paralysis. But i f the f r ag i l e sp i na l cord i s transsected, o r cu t i n half- - a y g+me fear the b u l l e t may have done t o Wallace--t?tM &he body loses a l l spinal nerve function beTw the po in t where the t ranssect i on occured.

I n such cases, the pa t ien t cam lnove h i s limp, paralyzed legs. The pa t i en t a lso loses the a b i l i t y t o f ee l sensations such as the sharp po in t o f a p i n when h i s doctor pr icks h i s skin. Generally, there are no re f lexes when the neurologist taps h i s pat ient 'c knee or ankle. Further,such pat ients lose normal cont ro l over the bladder and bowel.

Paraplegic pat ients who can on ly invo l - un ta r i l y and incompletely evacuate the bladder need drains t o help prevent u r i - , a ry in fect ions t h a t can damage the k id- . ey. Experts a lso stress t ha t meticu- lous sk in car be given t o prevent bed, o r pressure sores. These ugly sores,call- ed decubi t i , can develop qu ick ly but re- qu i re months t o heal.

Richard Sherei k is , l e f t , and DAvid Everson, facu l t y members and col leagues Sangamon State University, are managers o f Spr ingf ie ld Khoury Leaque Atom teams (7-8 year olds) involved i n a 12-game schedule. Their teams met twice i n pre-season play, w i th Everson's Bisch Cubbies shadding Sherei k i s ' Hdrace Mann Educators i n both contests.

Singles flock to suburbia by Andrew H. Malcolm

-(C) 1972 New York Times News Service (SCHAUMBURG, ILL.)- Substantial numbers o f thenat ion 'syoungsingles , those l i v e l y swingers who t r a d i t i o n a l l y f lock t o the central c i t i e s f o r fame, fortune, and f r o - 1 ic,. are on the move t o the suburbs.

Drawn by be t te r working, l i v i n g and play- ing opportunities, not necessari ly i n t h a t order, unattached males and females across the country are packing thCi r stereos, loading t h e i r sporty cars and moving out t o suburban areas once f i nanc ia l l y 1 imi ted t o fami l ies.

Not every c i t y has been affected yet, and some, l i k e Chicago, have been h i t harder than others, l i k e New York, which i s only now feel ing the f i r s t twinges. Nor d o o f f i c i a l s y e t h a v e f i g u r e s f r o m the 1970 census on the s ize o f the move. But, says Paul Glick, a population expert f o r the Census Bureau: "There's no doubt a- bout it. There de f i n i t e l y are more suburban singles these days."

The nat ion's increasing numbers o f s in - g les are not the f i r s t t o leave the c i t y and they appear t o be departing f o r much the same reason as the middle class mar- r ieds did: a search f o r a bet ter l i f e i n open, clean a i r f ree o f such urban draw- backs as, fear, expensive apartments, and constant crowds.

Moreover, suburban job opportuni t ies have grown substant ia l ly i n recent years- thereby el fminat ing f o r many the vexations o f commuting--and so has the number o f a- partments, once an unimaginable s igh t i n suburbia.

Some date the migrat ion from the urban r i o t s of the mid-60's, whj le others say i t began only around 1970. But here i n Schaumburg , a fast-growi ng suburb where today's co rn f ie ld i s tomorrow's apartment complex, the singles boom i s we1 1 under way.

I n t h i s area about 30 mi les northwest of Chicago's Loop, restaurants, and bars l i k e the Th i rs ty Whale and Butch McBuIres, where suburban businessmen sedately munch

Doctors have pointed out t h a t even if Wallace should remain permanently paralyzed, 'le might learn t o get about as other paraplegics do. He could, for example, learn t o use the muscles of h i s arms, chest, and abdomen t o th rus t his. feet on- to the f loo r of an automobile, then swing h i s body t o the seat.

Ion lunches, now o f f e r loud rock, f o l k s i n g i n g a n d h a l f - p r i c e d r i n k s t o women a f t e r 8 p.m. when, as one bartender put it, i t ' s wall-to-wall singles."

Many suburban apartment houses now spe- c i f y "singles welcome" i n t h e i r newspaper ads whi le a new publication, ca l led "Out's In," p r i n t s news o f suburban entertainment and eat ing f a c i l i t i e s . Even computer dat- i ng services now d i s t r i b u t e forms out here. But peyhaps most rfmpressive i s the development across the country o f suburban a- partment complexes designed pr imari ly, though not exclusively, for the ac t i ve young singles.

Typical l y , they o f f e r one and &-bed- room apartments where the monthly rent, a t times approaching $300, includes u t i l - i t i s, parking, and the unl imited use o f i suc recreat ional f a c i l i t i e s as swimning ppol, exercise room, sauna, tennis courts, and f i rep lace lounge.

"You j u s t can ' t beat i t out here," said Larry V ih te l ic , a 29-year-old American A i r l i nes co -p i lo t who deserted h i s downtown Chicago apartment a few months ago. He continued:

"You don ' t have the noise, the fear, the costs, the bad a i r , the parking problems o r the r a t race. You j u s t have a nice qu ie t country place w i t h access t o an in - f i n i t e number o f a c t i v i t i e s . " V ih te l i c ' s i s one o f the 732 apartments i n In ternat iona l Vi l lage, a sprawling complex where the average tenant i s 28 and about three-quarters o f them are single.

The three-stbry bui ld ings belong t o Nor- man J . Ackerberg , a M i nneapol i s developer w i t h s im i la r singles complexes i n Bloom- ington, Minn., near Minneapdis, i n Lom- bard, I 1 I . , j u s t south o f here, and i n For t Lauderdale, Fla. Two other projects are planned f o r t h i s area.

But such developments are not confined t o the Chicago area.

I n Columbia, Md., the new c i t y near .Baltimore, renta l agents were surprised i n recent months by numerous singles buying small tnwnhouses or seeking apartments.

I n Sari Matas, near San Francisco, Mrs. Eleanor Mumf ord , re+% I d i rec to r for wdod- lake Apartments, said f u l l y h a l f of her 1,600 tenants were single. I n fWbnd a Dallas suburb, Mrs. P a t t i Monro, a r e d estate agent, has notices a growing number o f sing1 e men buying homes recent ly. "They want pr ivacy and some investment f o r a tax break,'' she said.

MAY 31, 1972 PAGE FOUR

Victory! I t m a y seema.smal1 v ic tory , b u t a n y

s ign t h a t SSU i s n ' t the t r ad i t i ona l place many th ink i t i s becoming, i s welcome.

What we are c a l l i n g a v i c t o r y i s the new sidewalk connecting the -doors o f "K" bu i ld ing d i r e c t l y w i th the wal k t o the L i - brary and the other classroom bui ld ing.

A new sidewalk a "v ic tory?" you ask. For those not fami lar w i t h SSU, a path

was worn i n the qrass between these two points-- for i t seems, the archi tect , in h i s i n f i n i t e wisdom, had seen f it t o pu t the sidewal k 1 i ke the branches -o f a tree.

Therefore, anyone coming t o K bu i ld ing from the L ib ra ry or the Academic bui ld ing, would have t o walk around three sides o f a rectangle i f he wanted t o stay on a sidewalk. Obviously, many d idn ' t , and a bare path was worn i n the sod.

SSU's f i r s t react ion was t o place some wooden barricades across the path, t r y i n g t o force those misguided souls back on the n ice sidewal k. A f t e r reason, in t rospect ion and a SPECTRUM e d i t o r i a l on the r id icu lous- ness of t h i s posi t ion, someone recanted.

We had suggested t h a t a t a supposedly innovative school, some innovat ive sol u- t i o n could surely be found t o the problem of worn paths i n the grass. We suggested the Washington Univers i ty plan, where they pave any paths which are used enough t o wear the grass down.

Lo and behold, t ha t i s what SSU has done. Miraculously (considering the usual speed o f the physical p lan t ) a sidewalk i s appearing i n the place under discussion!

We don't wish t o j u s t r e s t on our ach- ;vements, though. The second p a r t o f our e d i t o r i a l asked t h a t more thought be given t o those t h a t use the sidewalks; t ha t they be placed a t w m e v e r i s the shortest l i n e between buildings; and t ha t u t i l i t y be con-

A t i t s meeting l a s t week, the Uni- vers i t y Assernbl y ca l led fo r a referendum on a non-instructional f a c i l i t i e s fee o f four do l l a rs , to be used to f inance a dining h a l l , kitchens, and a snack bar f a c i l i t y i n the Pub1 i c A f f a i r s Center o f the permanent campus. I n the next two weeks, Sangamon State students, f acu l ty and s ta f f w i l l be asked to approve o r disappr6ve the levying of the fee on a mail-out b a l l o t .

- 1 be1 ieve that the f a c i l i t i e s proposed a re necessary t o ensure a sense

'of community a t the school and t o serve some o f the basic animal desires o f those-of us who ea t . Since the State o f I l l i n o i s w i l l not fund the facilities,

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Dear Editor: Your recent a r t i c l e about the L inco ln

Land closed session board meeting which involved, amoung other things, the re- h i r i n g i f i r i n g o f my mother, Mrs. Marion McGeath, from her pos i t i on as a Psychol- ogy ins t ructor , c l ea r l y shows the inade- wac ies o f the LLCC admin is t ra t ive body.

I t s members have in jec ted t h e i r -pol i- t i c a l b e l i e f s and pe t ty jealousies i n t o the s i tuat ion, t o t a l l y disregardingtheir jobs: g i v ing the students o f LLCC the best education possible.

The a r t i c l e . s t a t e s t h a t ou t of some seven and one-half hours o f the meeting less than one hour was "held before the pub l i c eye."

Robert Louis Stevenson once said, "The crue lest l i e s are o f ten t o l d i n silence." This would appear t o be the case i n the r esu l t s o f the recent board meeting. As long as the picayune Lincol-n Land Admin- i s t r a t i o n has i t s way, tha t ' s the way things w i l l be.

Silence on Vietnam Sincerly, Dick McGeath

by dames Reston (C) 1972 New York Times 'News Service

(WASHINGTON)- The North Vietnamese should be ge t t ing the message by now. Their main por ts are closed by American mines. There are now s i x U.S. a i r c r a f t ca r r ie rs o f f t h e i r coast, bombing them n igh t and day. The ra i l r oad l i nes from China t o Hanoi are now under constant-attack, and the weather and American a i r power have slowed down t h e i r offensive against Hue and Danang i n the north, Kontum City i n the cent ra l high- lands, and Anloc, nor th o f Saigon.

Moreover, the U .S . counteroffensive i n the a i r \ i s no t only ba t te r ing t h e i r l i n e s o f communication and supply, but h r n i n g t o t h e i r e l e c t r i c power plants, and they are on not ice t h a t t h e i r i ndus t r i a l fac- t.rr ies w i l l be next and t ha t even the des- tructW+n o f the Red River dikes i s no t ru led out.

Meanwhile, the Cblnese diplomats almost seem t o be going out of t h e i r way these days t o be pleasant t o Americans i n the cap i ta l s of the world, and the Soviets are s igning an agreement a day w i t h President Nixon on issues which are more important t o Moscow than Vietnam.

It i s popular among the f r iends o f Han- o i , t o say t ha t a i r power never se t t l e s anything, p a r t i c u l a r l y when the North Vietnamese can always break o f f the b a t t l e and r e t r e a t i n t o Laos and Cambodia, and carry on a protracted g u e r r i l l a war from there, and t h i s may very wel l be true, Gut the human cost o f t h i s bat t le , - Matever the safe am-chai r s t r a teg i s t s say, i s ap- pa l l ing.

This war could eas i l y t u rn i n t o a massa- cre and end up by destroying everything Hanoi, Saigon, :lashington, Moscow, and Pe- !:ing say they are t r y i n g t o save, I n Sucn a s i tuat ion, the so-cal l ed "great powers," if the phrase means anything, might be expected t o pu t a1 1 t h e i r peace- lov in~ Dro-

clamations i n t o pract ice and .give a l i t t l e t o encourage a cease-fire.

There i s l i t t l e po in t now i n rak ing over the arguments of the past, o r counting on a new American President t o introduce a new American po l icy . :;y the time o f the elect ion, the way things are going, there w i l l be very l i t t l e l e f t t o save, and i t i s no favor t o Hanoi o r anybody else t o cheer them on t o disaster.,

The p l a i n f a c t i s t h a t President d i x o n now has no incent ive t o stop the. bombing and l i f t the blockade, other than the human tragedy, which does no t seem t o move him. Moscow and Peking have turned away from h i s challenge--at l eas t so far - - and unless they can break h i s blockade, which does no t seem l i ke l y , they e i the r have t o watch the slaughter go on, o r f ly i n new long-range rockets which can h i t the car- r i r s and the South Vietnamese c i t i e s . And 5 tha would only add t o the carnage.

Maybe Hanoi i s s t i 4 1 hoping t o take the o l d imperial cap i ta l o f Hue and then c a l l for a cease-fire, w i t h both sides holding the ground they have captured, Eut they are not l i k e l y t o do even t h a t wi thout a 1 i t t l e more pressure from Moscow and Pe- k ing than they've had so far .

President Nixon has asked f o r two-things: To get h i s prisoners out, and t o have an in ternat iona l l y .supervised cease-fire. He has offered two things: To ge t a l l h i s ftmes out @f Vie- Ujfhin four months

o f the re tu rn o f the pr isoners and the i n 2 :reduction o f the cease-fire, and then t o leave the p o l i t i c a l settlement t o the North and South Vietnamese themselves.

This was not pu t forward on a take-i.t- nr - leave- i t basis bu t as a basis for$discussion. Obviously many other th ings have t o be sett led, including what aid, if any, Washington and Moscow and Peking would con- t inue sending t o t h e i r respect ive a1 l i e s . :;ut even i f there were a cease-f ire on Nixon's terms, Hanoi would s t i l l . be i n possession o f much o f the nor th o f the country, and could c la im t ha t i t had ex- pel l ed the French, fought the Americans t o a compromise, and f i n a l l y got a l l fo re ign troops out o f the country a f t e r over a hundred years.

A t the very least, the President could send Ambassador Porter o r John Connally back t o the negot iat ing tab le i n Paris.The argument against doing so i s t h a t Le Duc Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator,mere- l y uses the negotiat ions f o r propaganda. But the absence o f _the Americans gives him the argument t h a t we won't even ta lk , and besides, Le Duc Tho doesn't need the t a l k s t o pu t out h i s propaganda. A1 1 he has t o do hotel. i s c a l l a press coderence from h i s

The immediate problem i s t o stop the k i l l i n g . There i s l i t t l e evidence t h a t e i the r the enemy's ground of fens ive . o r the U.S. ae r i a l counteroffensive w i l l ac- t u a l l y be decis ive f o r one side o r the

- other, but a prolonged s t ruggle along the present l i nes could be disastrous f o r both the N w t h and the South.

Presumably these things were discussed b y the President and Chairman - Brezhnev a t the dacha outside Ete§€Ow, ht s? fa r the world has heard nothing t@ ~ n d l c a t e t ha t the ndw Moscow "atmospher@ ~f .peacen ~ n d the "acknowledged respons ib i l i t i e s OF the great powers" are being brought t o bear on t h i s unspeakable human tragedy i n Vietnam.

MY 31, 1972 PAGE FIVE

'Target cont rol' b i l l

'Conservative a s critic'

by Tom Wicker (C) 1972 New York Times News Service

(SOUTH BEN, 1ND.)- Any astute comnencement speaker knows t ha t he o r she cannot expect today's col lege seniors t o s i t s t i l l fo r the 01 d-fashioned insp i ra t iona l b i l g e t h a t used t o be pumped from every gradua- t i o n platform i n the land. , Yet, a t the Univers i ty of Notre Dame ' s comnencement exercises Sunday, the seniors gave a standing ovation t o t h e i r valedictor ian, Wil l iam G. McElroy, Jr., o f S i l ve r Spring, Md., !.hen he sa-id t ha t he had "a f ee l i ng of hope" t ha t he and h i s classmates would f i n d i n the search f o r honor "a spark i n our l i ves " and i n the struggle against eve i l a "profound duty."

McElroy--one o f four seniors t o achieve a remarkable 4.0 grade leve l f o r h i s years a t Notre Dame--was no t o f course being merely insp i ra t iona l ; he said he had re- s isted f acu l t y advice t o spr ink le h i s speech w i t h " g l i t t e r i n g matter" and "empty slogans." He was, i n fact, condemning con- temporary America f o r "abandonment o f the pursu i t f o r honor," f o r "self-regard" ra- ther than "self-giving," and f o r using i t s technological power not for the ad- vancement of mankind, but d make war,pol- l u t e the atmosphere and render i t s c i t i e s unl ivable.

Nevertheless, these remarks--heard i n r a p t s i lence and thunderously applauded-- were ce r t a i n l y no t revolutionary, i n the p o l i t i c a l sense. McElroy spoke o f a fu- t u re i n which he and h i s classmates would be "lawyers, doctors, businessmen; " and i t was i n t h a t mundane prospect--not i n some mil lenium--that he defined t h e i r task: " s t r i v i ng f o r j u s t i c e and honor i n a world t h a t i s e v i l ." Tradi t iona l American i- dealism r ings i n those words; they are a sumnons t o o l d but s l ighted values, no t t o some new system o r concept.

I n fact, i t i s not necessari ly t r ue t h a t the sharpest c r i t i c s o f modern American 1 i f e are the strongest advocates o f change, i n contrast t o the super-satisf i ed who advised them v i a bumper s t ickers t o " love i t (presumably as i t i s ) o r leave it.' On closer examination, some o f these defend- ers of the status quo appeared t o support the greatest changes from h i s t o r i ca l o r fundamental concepts, whi le the c r i t i c s more near ly proclaim old, i f hal f - forgotten val ues.

This phenomenon o f the c r i t i c as ,conservative--as guardian ra ther than evan- g e l i s t o f the new--was equally evident i n the comnencement address of Kingman Brew- ster, the presidknt o f Yale. Rrewster has been a strong c r i t i c of many recent developments, and so he was a t Notre Dame -- raking President Nixon, for example, f o r a po l i cy of "avoiding defeat a t any, cost i n t h i s misguided war" and f o r proclaiming, :n effect, "If you are not f o r me you are against our country. "

But-'krewster1s rea l message was the nec- ess i t y f o r preserving "const i tu t iona l values," which he said could not be done by the executive, the l e g i s l a t i v e o r even the j u d i c i a l branches, but u l t ima te ly only by "a pub1 i c const i tu t iona l conscience and a popular capacity f o r const i tu t iona l out- rage. "

Thus. Brewster urqed upon h i s l i s teners a constant concern f o r two precepts--both o f which are o f the warp and woof o f Amer- ican t rad i t i on : "F i rs t , the presumption o f innocence; second, the accountabi 1 i ty o f power." Both, he said, "Rest u l t ima te ly upon a moral convict ion t ha t the i n d i v i - dual human being i s endowed w i t h a d i gn i t y which must be protected from unfairness, and i s e n t i t l e d t o have a say i n h i s own destiny. Authority, even the- author i ty sf the major i ty, must no t be allowed t o r i s e above t h i s !11 t imate moral concern."

by Russell Baker (C) 1972 New York Times News Service

(WASHINGTON)- Congress should q u i t t r y i n g t o enact gun controls and pass a law tha t w i l l ge t the candidates o f f the streets.

The law would be very simple. Any Presi- dent ia l candidate caught i n publ ic would immediately have t o go t o j a i l f o r s i x months.

Ba i l would be forbidden. Sentence could no t be suspended. Mercy could not be- granted. Le t t ing these people move about f ree ly

i n ~ u b l i c i s too danaerpus f o r us t o l e t l e g a l i s t i c n icet ies deter us from taking the handcuffs o f f the police.

1. I f we do no t get them o f f the s t reets we w i l l wake up some President ia l e lec t ion morning w i t h nobody t o vote f o r because a1 1 the candidates w i l l have been shot before and no others w i l l have been found brave enough t o take t h e i r places.

2. This i s not because we are a p a r t i - cu l a r l y v i o l en t people, as comnentators always i n s i s t i m e d i a t e l y a f t e r one of our great s ta te shooti ngs. To the contrary.We are remarkably peaceable compared wi th the people o f most Lat in-her ican, Asian,Arab, Bal kan and Mediterranean countries. Com- pare the even-tempered sereni ty of our behavior i n t r a f f i c w i t h the aggressive hyster ia o f motor ists i n such supposedly c i v i l i z e d states as France and I t a l y . Traf- f i c i s the t rue t e s t o f the mass, tempera- ment.

3. The pleni tude o f guns--guns f o r e- verybody--is one o f the fac tors t ha t make condit ions d i f f e r e n t here. I f other coun- t r i e s l e t everybody run about armed t o the teeth as we do there wouldn't be enough po l i t i c i ans l e f t i n the world some years t o get a quorum a t the United Nations.

4. We cannot take the guns away from our c i t i zens because the Const i tut ion gua- rantees everybody "the r i g h t t o bear arms." The Const i tut ion says nothing about candidates - having the r i g h t t o use the streets.

5. Even if we changed the Constitut ion, i t would not help. This i s because guns do no t k i l l people; people k i l l people --

So, he t o l d the Notre Dame graduates,"As y o u g o f o r w a r d f r o m t h i s p l a c e , m a k e i t your job t o remind the republ ic o f i t s or ig in , and t o i n s i s t t ha t f a l l i b l e men must no t Judge each other qu ick ly o r i m - pa t ien t l y . I n s i s t a lso tha t those who do, and must, have the au thor i t y o f govern-

ment sha l l remember t h a t they do der ive t h e i r j u s t powers from the consent o f 5% governed. "

That i s the t rue voice o f the American cons ti tu t iona l conscience; :ret, somehow, those who say such things today are apt t o be labeled "dissidents" o r even "radi- ca ls" o r charged w i th a id ing an enemy -- l f h i l e those who want t o shortcut the law o r " turn loose' the po l i ce t o pu t more people i n j a i l , and those who i n s i s t t ha t pat r io t ism requires t o t a l support f o r any- th ing President Johnson o r President Nixon might do as comnander-in-chief, proclaim themselves most concerned for t h e i r coun- '-ry and advise others t o love i t o r leave it.

Therefore, i t i s no t always t r ue t h a t the sharpest c r i t i c advocates the greatest change--not, a t least, if the s ta r t i ng po in t i s the Const i tu t ion lof the United States and the context i s t ha t o f the t r ad i t i ona l American values . These may always have been honored mostly i n the breach, but they once gave the nat ion an ideal ~f itsel f - -an idea! t o which i t i s necessary, not revolutionary, t o c: $!!go

:ccording t o the National R i f l e Associa- t i on . Thus, f o r example, i n Britain,vlhere guns are forbidden t o the man i n the street, p o l i t i c a l assassins can s t i l l es- say t h e i r e v i l intent. They MY, for ex- amp iesh i r e a t a x i and o f f e r the d r i ve r a t e n - s h i l l i n g t i p i f h e w i l l f a t a l l y run

'down the Prime Min is ter crossing Whitehall. Simi lar weapons are ava i lab le here, as the gun lobby cor rec t l y notes. 6. i n t r u l y v i o l en t countries, o f

course, important p o l i t i c i a n s do no t walk across busy s t reets i n t h e i r shirtsleeves. They rea l i ze t ha t h i red t ax i s may be aimed a t them, and they stay under cover. Ameri- can po l i t i c i ans cannot do t h i s a t present, f o r various reasons, some o f which fol low:

(A) Andrew Jackson campaigned by stand- i ng i n f r o n t o f a general store, shaking hands w i th the shoppers and asking them t o "help me now, you hear?" Ever since then, campaigners have been expected t o walk around shaking hands and asking people for help, which i s exceedingly f oo l i sh because even i f he shook ten hands a minute, ten hours a day, f o r an en t i r e year, a candidate could shake hands w i t h only 2.2 m i l l i o n people, or about one per cent of the population.

(B) This absurdity i s forced upon candidates because mingling w i t h the people i s supposed t o improve t h e i r c m o n touch, which i s another absurdity. The people who press i n a t campaign r a l l i e s t o shake hands--leaving assassins out o f it-- are almost always devoted fol lowers who want t o assure the candidate t ha t he i s not common a t a l l , but qu i te possibly divine.

(C) A sensible candidate who wants t o avoid the s t reets can ' t do i t under present circumstances. Somebody would s t a r t a rumor t ha t he was a f r a i d o f being shot; a whispering campaign would be s tar ted w i t h the question, "Who wants a chicken President?" The day a f t e r the shooting o f Governor Wallace, President Nixon f e l t ob- l i ged t o d isp lay h i s courage by exposing , himself t o crowds outside the White House.

7. A new law w i t h an automatic s ix - month j a i l sentence f o r any candidate caught on the s t reets solves the problem. Gunmen w i l l have t o s e t t l e f o r less sa t i s - f y ing targets, but the Const i tut ion w i l l have been served, the candidate's courage w i l l no longer be i n question, and candi- (lates w i l l no t have t o behave absurdly by pretending t o be Andrew Jackson.

To guarantee s t r i c t observance o f the law, perhaps i t should a lso f o rb i d te le- v i s ion appearances from j a i l ce l l s .

Should SSU go into

T h e restaurant game?

A t the l a s t meeting o f the SSU Assembly the body voted t o pu t t o a referendum o f the SSU comnunity ( facul ty, s t a f f and students) the question o f whether food , serv- i c e f a c i l i t i e s should be b u i l t and p - a i . 'd for ou t o f an addi t ional $4,00 per quarter "Non-instructional f a c i l i t y fee". A1 though f acu l t y and s t a f f as wel l as -students w i 11 pay t h i s fee, i f passed, i t w i l l be the students who bear the brunt of the cost, as they present ly make up about 85% of the overa l l un ive rs i t y c m u n i t y .

As a member o f the Assembly, t h i s w r i t e r voted against the proposal, as d i d student member Ted Dmey . 1 *el t t h a t there was not enough proof t h a t t h i s addft ional cost was the only way t o get dining fat;~'iiifties on the SSU campus. The question of ofTer- ing revenue an t i c ipa t ion bonds, f o r example, was not ra ised durinn the debate.

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I f e l t tha t there had not been enough i n i t i a l , debate on whether we !real l y l wanted a restaurant on- campus--just some admin is t rat ion and facu l ty decided the issue and tha t was that. There were vague ref- erences t o what a "bargain" t h i s would be t o SSU, without concrete figures; and the para1 l e l o f c i t i zens without chi ldren who have t o pay school taxes was raised, seem- i ng l y t o suggest t ha t i f we don't get a restaurant on campus, some w i l l go hungry.

My feel ing i s t ha t there are enough good restaurants near SSU (and proposed i n the future) t ha t bui ld ing an exclusive S S U restaurant i s not necessary. I n addit ion i t taxes a l l regardless o f t h e i r a b i l i t y t o payc-the $20,000+ administrator w i 1 1 pay the same as a student on j u s t the G I . b i l l , f o r instance.

I n addition, the administration and the faculty, while paying a proport ionately smaller part, w i l l reap the greatest advan- tage. Many students, especial ly those a t - tending SSU a t night, w i l l never use the restaurant. However, Deans and Vice Pres- -;dents, on campus every day, w i l l benef i t from having a f ine restaurant t o take the i r fellow potentates to. I also disagreed wi th the referendum, es-

pecial l y i tstbeing held spring quarter. Since many are graduating, there w i l l be a tendancy t o say, "It won't cost me anything" and go ahead, vote for i t ,*and t i e future generations of students t o a cost tha t they had no voice i n determining.

Lastly, I feel t ha t there was no e f fec t - i v e student input i n t o the decision-making which decided how t h i s restaurant i s t o be. We are t o l d tha t a contract w i th the arch- . i t e c t has been signed, t o design the whole publ ic a f fa i rs center, inchd ing the dining. -! What student input, except t ha t which agrees w i th the administration, has gone i n t o the decision?

What t h i s is, I feel, i s another "good idea" proposed by the administration for SSU, but t h i s time, asks the students "' pick up the tab. We are ask 4 L' pay $ I6 per year (forever, as Faxes have a way of being p e r d a t ~ a l f for a restaurant which 1 psobably be as expensive o r mnre expensive as surrounding places.

Are students w i l l i n g t o go i n t o the restaurant business while attending SSU? I don't th ink so, and tha t i s why I voted against the proposal. And i f you do not want t o pay $16 a y-for restaurant fac- i l i t i e s which probably would be arranged some other way $f the referendum f a i l s , then vote no f o r the "Non-insti tut ional f a c i 1 i t i e s fee" when you get the !xi: l ~ t . (SPECTRUX scl f cf t s a1 1 v i ewpoi n ts ,and w i 1 1 make space avai lable for-publicgtion.)

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and as one who eats regu lar ly , I hope the fee i s approved.

The argument has been made. tha t the students now here w i l l not be able t o use the new f a c i l i t i e s , since they w i l l not be f in ished u n t i l 1976, While t ha t i s t rue, i t i s a very s e l f i s h view. We are now using a ca fe te r i a financed before we came t o SSU, and I be l ieve tha t we have some responsi b i 1 i t y t o provide f o r those who come a f t e r us.

The fee would be i n force f o r twenty years t o amortize the cost o f the area t o be bu i 1 t . The average student who attends f o r s i x quarters w i l l pay twenty four do l l a r s if the fee passes. For h i s twenty four do l l a r s he w i l l receive the use of a one m i l l i o n d o l l a r d in ing f a c i l i t y . That sounds t o me l i k e a good investment.

If we j u s t want t o be narrow, short sighted and parsimonioys, we can vote t h i s fee down. The taxpayers i n the c i t y of Spr ing f ie ld have set such an example i n t h e i r response t o school bond issues.

If, however, we be l ieve i n what we are doing here, c reat ing a.?new s ta te un ive rs i t y , and if we-take p r ide i n the i n s t i t u t i o n which we are crea- t i ng , we should vote "Yes" so t ha t fu ture students w i l l benef i t from a well-planned, permanent campus which serves the needs o f the Univers i ty community.

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A long hol*i:day weekend, L i t t l e news comes to the burecratic surface i n time f o r todays dead1 ine. Perhaps i t s time t o blow some steam. Hard t o pick a good place t o s tar t .

Graduation seems t o be a l i k e l y target ... f o r i n the way the event i s being handled seems t o serve as a good i l l u s - s t ra t i on .of how more and more things are bei ns "taken care o f f o r -a around here." -

An univers i ty assembly comnittee i s formed. They choose as chairman as 1 i kely a person a< any t o serve as chairman-

Chris V l ahopl US. F~rmer press secreD tary t o Former governor Otto Kerner* I t s said universi ty president Robert Spencer doesn't go t o the bathroom without con- sul t i n g Ylaboplus . True? Who knows.

~ t s not long before i t becomes p la in tha t the committee i s not r e a l l y i n charge o f the events. For one thing thede- c is ion comes down tha t THE b ig thing w i l l not be graduation but instead most o f the planning i s t o go i n t o the inauguration o f S-pencer. A nfce enough th ing t o have happen t o any president 1 suppose. But the whole th ing i s going t o be a far c ry from the $14.50 inaugur-

.at ion of President Berl o a t 11 1 Tnofs Sta t e ear ly on t h i s year. O r was iit $19.50?

The state of I 1 l i n o i s (taxpayers) w i l l w i l l have the Old -.State Capitol l ight-up and open for the president and, incidev- t l y , for the f i r s t graduates o f SSU.

But not everything i s going through. The plan t o serve champake on t h a t b i t of s tate property was side-tracked by I l l i n o i s law. (No l iquor on s tate pro - property . )

Despite a l l the research pourea i n t o t r y ing t o f ind a legal loophole t o tha t prohib i t ion the univers i ty could f i n d no (almost) t o demon s p i r i t s . I say almost since i t s now been decided t o pro vide a champagne "punch" a t the reception t o which a l l faculty and s t a f f are r e - portedly t o be invited. Only not a l l o f the students w i l l be inv i ted , of course. .... and i t w i l l be real champagne being poured i n t o the punch. One can only guess where the champagne i s coming from since Vlahoplus has thus f a r refused a d i rec t answer to inquir ies.

When i t was suggested tha t perhaps the students would 1 i ke "picnic wi th a type of champagne .they know best "- beer , (on the campus o r a park) Vlahoplus qui- ck l y said if the students weren't happy l e t them plan t h e i r own picnic.

fortunately tha t i s happening. One of the Assembly Councils has-appropriated money t o the SSU Vet's club f o r a p i c - nic. ..with beer ob the Navy club grounds. The beer w i l l be col d.

The comnittee, wi th i t s various con- s t i tuec ies i s cal led t o session only i n - frequently by Vlahoplus. One ear ly meet- comes up w i th a l i s t o f people l i k e for- UN Secretary - General U Thant, former Supreme Court jus t i ce EArl Warren, Wal -. t e r Cronkite, and Er ic Severied.

Vlahoplus suggests tha t maybe Spencer would l i k e to look a t the l i s t . Weeks st retch i n to months and there i s si lence on whats happening wi th speakers. U Thant who has some re la t i ves here i n town can't be persuaded.to come, i t i s said.

Suddenly i t i s the president, who Is termed a very busy man, who i s not only looking arer tfie l i s t , but, instead of the comnittee, also now i n charge of ar- ranging f o r a speaker.

Last week members - of the graduation - i t tee hear a press release that there i s t o be no featured speaker a t the cere- monies .

One member o f the comnittee says tha t he received no formal word through the ?'

, "committee" tha t no one i s t o be the cen- t r a 1 speaker .

Two express the b e l i e f t ha t the admin f t r a t i o n never had much, i f any, i n t e n t i on o f seeking out a speaker. Less pot - en t i a l controversy--besides they are now i n the process o f i n v i t i n g a f l ock o f s tate po l i t i c i ans f o r cameo appearances before the assembled mu1 t i tudes.

It w i l l be in terest ing t o see how many students. . .who have been mumbl ing about the whole formal graduation a f f a i r refuse t o e i ther turn up for the th ing or t o wear the caps :. and gowns.

By the way, the school colors are now blue and white. The Comi t te heard tha t the baseball team had chosen tha t as t h e i r colors and besides, s t ree t signs i ns ta l led around the campus are blue and white.

AROUND CAMPUSAssembly speaker Phi 1 Brad1 ey i s reportedly seeking a job a t PU as an assistant dean. . .or d id you know (every- -one does) tha t Bradley's very competent assistant i n the Assembly o f f i ce , Becky Groff has her b id i n f o r an administra- t i o n post toor The company tha t has made those p las t i c I D cards f o r LLCC and SSU has gone bankrupt.

THE CITY Enterprising motorcycl i sts and dr ivers have been e i ther going through o r around barracades set across s i x th s t ree t the l a s t week. The idea i s t o cu t down the noise f o r thgater goers s i t t i n g out on the ma1 1 watching Guy R,omans product ions f o r the c i t y ' s higher class. F i r s t n igh t attendence, made up pr imar i l y of play backers, f a i l e d t o f i l l up the avai lable seating. Other nights, reports indicate only a sparse turnout.

Another play gets underway ton i te. It w i 11 be in terest ing t o see how the money dominated downtown & TV media cover the event. I t s been obvious - tha t reporters assigned t o review the events are under orders t o not pan the events. The coverage on TV - 20 could only be de - scribed as propaganda.

Reporter John R a t l i f f , f o r whom I usually have only great admiration, 1 it- era1 l y gushed i n t o h i s microphone about the "overf 1 ow" crowds. I N FACT, there were empty seats even a t the s t a r t o f the play and s t i l l more a t the f i r s t break.

Where there were reports of a standing ovation a t the end i t was not mentioned the obvious in te res t the people remainig had i n seeing a success- f u l l event.

One can only feel' sorry for the repor t ers for the way they were apparently t o l d how t o wr i t e t h e i r reviews.. .and even sor r ie r f o r Guy Romar who has prbVbd h i s n b i l l t y a t producing plays. How can he be expected t o en - joy reading o r l i s t - ening t d those kinds O F put-up jobs from the media?

From the scant attendence a t the plays i t seems clear the

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