FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1967
Page 4
The Doily Nebraskan
No Winner In Vietnam Crow's Foot War
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The
following is the sixth in
stallment of series on the
war in Vietnam written by
Howard Moffett, Collegiate
Press Service correspon
dent in Saigon. The Daily
Nebraskan last semester
ran another series by Mof
fett, who was former editor
of the Yale Daily News.)
SAIGON, South Vietnam
(CPS) Who's winning the
war in the Crow's Foot? I
don't know.
The 1st Cavalry Division
has searched and destroyed
it some five times in the
past year. American opera
tions have become almost
as big a joke as ARVN oc
cupations. Operation Thayer II rep
resented a new answer to
the problem of pacifying
areas hostile to the central
government
Crew's Foot Plan
The plan-s it developed
in the Crow's Foot cam
paignwas to declare the
area a war zone and move
the whole population out
Deprived of their popular
sapport, the guerillas
would be forced to stand
and fight by themselves
with no friendly communi
ties to mett into or dis
perse and withdraw, giving
up the Crow's Foot.
-American officers believ
March 6, 16, 23 . . .
NFU Co-Sponsors Program
On Man's Role In World
l By Cheryl Tritt
Senior Staff Writer
" Nebraska Free Univer
lity and the YWCA-YMCA
fill co-sponsor a series of
programs entitled 'M a n
in Tomorrow's World" be
ginning March 9 at 8:30
Out Of The Past . . .
Gannon Balls, Crockery
Sparked Demonstrations
7 (ACP) If college ad
ministrators think they
have it rough dealing with
today's demonstration-happy
students, a look at some
"demonstrations" in the
early 1880'g might convince
them that they don't have it
to bad after all, comments
the University of Maryland
Diamondback.
In those days students
were fined, suspended or ex
pelled for such offenses as
billiards, associating with
"idle or dissolute persons,"
traveling more than two
miles from campus or at
tending the theater.
Reacting to such harsh
discipline, students at Hob
art College heated cannon
balls till they were red-hot
and rolled them down a
dormitory corridor, serious
ly injuring a faculty mem
ber. In 1807 Princeton ex
pelled more than 80 per cent
(125 of an enrollment of
200) of its student body for
rioting. Seven years later
aome pyrotechnically - in
clined Princeton Tigers con
structed a giant firecrack
er out of a hollow log
packed with two pounds oi
gunpowder and nearly blew
up a campus building.
(Side Of Johnson Administration
Speak$ On Latin America Monday
. A noted critic of the John
ton Administration's poli
cies will t peak at the small
auditorium of the Nebras
ka Union Monday at 3:30
pas.
'.Sidney Lens, author and
lecturer, will speak on the
question "Are there New
Vietnams in Latin Ameri
ca?" His speech is spon
sored by the History Club.
"Lens is the author of nine
backs including, "Left,
Right and Center," "The
Counterfeit Revolution," "A
World in Revolution," "The
Crisis of American Labor,"
"Working Men," "Africa
Awakening Giant" and the
futile Crusade: Anti
Cemmunism as American
Credo."
He also wrote "Revolution
and Cold War," one of the
American Friends Service
Committee's "Beyond De
terrence" aeries which has
attracted national interest.
. .He has travelled exten
sively, visiting 17 countries
en a round-the-world trip in
184. In the summer of 1966
hs revisited Latin America.
Thomas Meesner, presi
!!:
ed that whichever they did,
the 1st Cav. could effecive
ly clear and hold the area.
Once the Viet Cong had
been cleaned out of the war
zone, government Revolu
tionary Development teams
were to move into the area,
establish local security in
conjunction with nearby
ARVN units, and welcome
the returning refugees
such as would be consider
ed safe risks and allowed
to return to their homes.
Work With People
The RD teams would then
work side by side with the
people, and life would re
turn to normal, except that
government control would
have been substituted whole
cloth for that of the Viet
Cong.
(We shall note in pass
ing that using Revolution
ary Development teams to
secure an unpopulated area
runs counter to the whole
theory of Revolutionary De
velopment. But if it works
in this case, the textbooks
will probably be adapted to
make room for it)
The new theory wheth
er it meets its limited ob
jectives or not leaves oth
er questions unanswered.
Foreign Troops
Can a central government
which uses foreign troops
to clear and hold a hostile
area, expect that its own
p.m. in the Nebraska Un
ion. Three programs, based
on a series of tape record
ings narrated by American
economist, Robert Theo
bald, have been scheduled,
according to Gene Pokorny,
Not to be outdone by
Princeton, students in 1827
set off powder charges un
der several tutors' chairs.
Three students were ex
pelled and 20 more were
disciplined.
Smashing things was in
vogue at several colleges.
At Harvard it was crock
ery. In 1817 freshmen and
sophomores demolished ev
ery piece of china the col
lege owned.
At Princeton, students,
for some Teason, felt the
windows had to go. Prince
ton students did it with
rocks but North Carolina
students got in some target
practice by shooting out ev
ery window in sight.
But today's faculty and
administrators will perhaps
be most thankful that they
don't feel student anger as
directly as many of their
predecessors in the 1800's
did.
For example, University
of Virginia students, upset
over what they considered
excessive classroom work,
horsewhipped several fac
ulty with wine bottles and
firewood. And just before
graduation in 1824, Dart
mouth students stoned a
professor.
dent of the KiEtory Club,
termed Lens "a very out
spoken critic of the admin
istration and a very contro
versial figure."
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army too weak to do the
first job will be able to
maintain order when the
Americans have gone?
Could a new insurgent
battalion, perhaps from the
North, reestablish a base
in the Crow's Foot after
"pacification" has been
achieved?
What will keep the 1.500
refugees, resettled in Hoai
An, from hating even more
the authorities who have
moved them off their land
in order to hunt down their
sons and uncles? What will
keep them in Hoai An?
How will it be determined
whether a 14-or 18-year-old
boy is a safe risk, or wheth
er he should be detained
as a confirmed guerilla?
Move Population?
Should the population be
moved out of an area in
order to establish military
control over it? A number
of high-ranking U.S. gener
als, including the command
er of the 1st Cav. Major
General John Norton, think
so. The current Crow's Foot
campaign apparently came
from higher up.
Finally, will "pacification
schedules" and other poli
tical pressures be held off
long enough for the RD
teams to establish rapport
with the people and win a
hearing for the govern-
member of the Coordinating
Committee for a Free Uni
versity. Mao And Environment
The first tape is a dis
cussion of man's increasing
power over his environ
ment Pokorny said, and
explains the new policies
which will be needed to pre
serve human values when
technology replaces a
natural environment
Guest speakers "will
dialogue with the tape," he
said, and explain the ideas
presented in the tapes.
Dr. Campbell McConnell,
University economic profes
sor; Dr. Alan Bates, head
of the University psychol
ogy department; and Dr.
Robert Sittig, political
science professor, will be
guest speakers for the first
program. A free discussion
period will follow the tapes.
Computers
"What Can Computers
Do?" is the topic for the
second program series
March 6. Robert Davis bead
of the learning service at
Michigan State University
narrates the tape with
Theobald.
The tape will discuss the
areas where the computer
is taking over jobs from
man, Pokorny said, and
study the computer's poten
tial for the future.
Man's Knowledge
The third program March
23 concerns "Man's Knowl
edge of Himself."
Pokorny said this tape
explores the limits which
should be placed on activ
ities to "improve man," in
terms of psychology and
biology.
The tape series "Man
in Tomorrow's World," was
first aired on the nationa
ized Canadian FM radio
network, he said, "and was
widely acclaimed." The
original series contained 13
thirty-minute recordings.
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ment? How long will it take
for the wounds to heal, how
long for the development of
popular government pro
grams which might make
the guerillas forget why
they fought? Given their
history, will these people
be allowed to govern them
selves in the forseeable fu
ture? No one I know has ready
answers to these.
Though the battle for the
Crow's Foot is dramatic
and bitter, it is not typical
of anything except one sec
tion of the Central High
lands. There is no typical
battle in Vietnam.
Unlike Korea, this is not
a war for territory.
Strickly speaking, it
seems to make little differ
ence how much of the popu
lation either side controls:
the government now admin
isters roughly two-thirds of
South Vietnam's 15,000,000
people, the s a m e percent
age as a year ago yet in
surgent armed strength has
increased markedly, 350,000
American troops have been
imported, and the war in
every respect is a much
bigger one than it was then.
Economic Base
In other wars, the enemy
could be crippled by strik
ing at his economic base.
Here neither side will try
too hard to do this, for each
actually depends on the
other's supplies.
Nor is the final goal sim
ply to kill large numbers
of people, though some
American officers think it
is.
MEET DENNIS BARK.
He read all these texts the first
15 days of the semester, with
excellent compreliension . . . and,
HE STILL HAD TTMS F02
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In fact, it is very difficult
to state precisely what the
goal is.
In a sense, though the
Crow's Foot is one of those
things multiplied a thou
sand times that the Viet
nam war is all about. It is
a local complex of land,
people and institutions, in
separable from each other,
reinforcing each other.
To Win Area
To win the Crow's Foot,
one side or the other will
have to: (1) clear the area
and hold it; (2) destroy the
enemy troops that use or
dominate it; and (3) as
sert its control over each
small community of farm
ers who make up its popu
lation. The last requirement will
involve, as a minimum: (a)
demonstrating that it can
defend and keep order in
the area; (b) giving the
people a vested interest in
itself, through representa
tive institutions capable of
and wants; and (c) a num
ber of years.
To win the Vietnam war,
one side or the other will
have to do this in a thou
sand areas the size of the
Crow's Foot but with
widely different terrain, cli
mate, and food supply, and
in communities whose ori
gins, customs and sympath
ies vary so dramatically
that many have despaired,
of trying to make of them
one nation.
Does Lyndon really think
he's going to WTap it up
in time for the 1968 elections?
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Lew Diskin Might
On Communist Forty Hole
April 6 is the tentative
date for a possible speaking
appearance by Lew Diskin
of the American Communist
(All meetings are at the
Nebraska Union unless
otherwise noted)
ENGLISH Department,
12 p.m.
PLACEMENT Lunch
eon, 12:30 p.m.
ALPHA "Jim Putnam",
1:30 p.m.
HILLEL Candle-lighting,
4:45 p.m., Sigma Delta
Tau.
KOS.MET KLUB Re
hearsal, 6 p.m.
UNIVERSITY of Ne
braska Soccer Club. 7 p.m.
PALLADIAN Literary
Society. 8 p.m.
JR. IFC BALL. 8:30 p.m.
Bill To Preserve
JFK's Birthplace
A bill has been intro
duced in the House to make
the Brookline, Mass., birth
place of President John F.
Kennedy a national his
toric site.
Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill
Jr. filed the measure
Wednesday. The late Pres
ident was born in the frame
house at 83 Beals St in the
Boston suburb, 50 years ago
this May 29.
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Party of Illinois, according
to George Olivarri, pres
ident of the University SDS.
Diskin, who wrote asking
if he could come and speak,
would finance his own visit.
No subsidation of his trip
would come from SDS, Oli
varri said.
New Plan'
The party member's
speech would allow the stu
dent and the people of Ne
braska to s e e what the
American Communist
Party stands for, Olivarri
explained. Should Diskin
come, Olivarri thought he
would speak on what he
termed the party's "new
plan."
It would be up to Diskin
where and when he would
speak, Olivarri said. He
said the SDS group would
allow him to speak on cam
pus under its name.
Action is also underway
by University SDS to hold
a draft teach-in at the Uni
versity, probably the last
weekend in April, according
to Olivarri.
Replies
Positive replies of partici
pation have been received
from the Nebraska Selective
Service, the Student Peace
Union ( a New York city
organization of concientious
objectors, and peace pro
moters, Olivarri said); in
vitations have also been
sent to the W.E.B. DuBois
Club, the John Birch So
ciety and the Blacks
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Against Needless Dying
(BAND), (a group of mil
itant Negroes against the
draft, Olivarri said).
Regional, SDS groups in
the Midwest have expressed
interest in attending the
proposed teach-in, Olivarri
said. The possibility of a
regional conference is being
considered.
Carl Davidson, former
University student and na
tional vice-president of SDS,
is being contacted to speak.
Olivarri said he hoped to
bring the regional SDS or
ganizer to the teach-in, but
said he had been indicted in
Topeka for refusing to be
inducted.
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