WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1969
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THE DAILY jslEBRASKAN
Vietnam insight
The president nobody
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Our lost love is a leaf,
budding in the spring,
green in the summer,
withered and fallen in autumn.
Ah, but autumn is the most
beautiful time of year
and in the winter the tree only sleeps.
photo and poem by Daniel Ladely
By Andrew Alexander
College Press Service
Can Tho, Vietnam he
may be their president, but
to many South Vietnamese
Nguyen Van Thieu is
literally a nobody.
They don't even know he
exists.
A recent CPS survey taken
throughout South Vietnam is
evidence of the tremendous
public relations job ahead of
Thieu and his year-old Saigon
regime.
The survey was conducted
in eight major population
centers: Saigon, DaNang,
Nha Trang, Pleiku, Hue Qui
Nhon, Cam Ranh, and Can
Tho. In each city through
" an interpreter 50 Viet
namese civilians were asked
two questions:
Who is the president of
South Vietnam?
Who is the leader of North
Vietnam?
Of the 400 surveyed, only
133 could name Thieu as
their president. Yet 357 of the
same 400 correctly named Ho
Chi Minh as the leader of
North Vietnam. (The survey
was completed shortly before
Ho's death.)
The survey showed Thieu
is well-known in the southern
cities of Saigon and Can Tho,
but in the northern cities only
a very small per centage had
even heard of him.
The results of the survey
are not surprising. On the
surface they simply confirm
that South Vietnamese do not
identify Thieu as a natonal
leader, as they did Ho Chi
Minh
But the results also hit at a
question U.S. and Viet
namese government officials
in Saigon have been ponder
ing for a long time. Will this
lack of identity endanger the
long-range stability of the
Thieu regime?
No doubt many of the of
ficials privately feel it could.
They know that to most
Vietnamese the "govern
ment" refers to their local
government in their pro
vince, city or hamlet. And
they also know that it is here
on the local level where
the Viet Cong political
machinery works best.
Thieu, aware of this threat,
embarked on a cautious pro
gram early this year to
ensure that the Viet Cong
not gain control of the local
governments. His program
worked basically on the
theory that before South
Vietnam can expect to have
a stable national government
with every one holding faith
in one president and one
central agency, it must first
have stable, non-communist
local governments.
Thieu's theory seemed to
work for awhile. Bu, ac
cording to U.S. intelligence
officers at both the Joint U.S.
Public Affairs Office and the
US. Embassy in Saigon, the
plan is backfiring The Viet
Cong are taking over the
local governments and hold
ing their own elections.
(Thieu has held local elec
tions throughout 80 per cent
of South Vietnam's provinces
Singers and dancers
needed at Howell
Tryouts for "The Rose and
The Ring," a William
Makepeace Thackeray crea
tion will begin Wednesday at
Howell Theatre, 12th and R
on the University of
Nebraska campus.
Tryouts will be held from
2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Director
Andy Backer will be looking
for singers, dancers, actors
and actresses ranging from
age 15 to 50 There are 30
roles available.
The University Theatre In
cooperation with the Lincoln
Recreation Department will
foe presenting the production,
set for opening Dec. 10.
Other tryouts at Howell
Theatre are Thursday and
Friday also from 2:30 to 5:30
p.m., Saturday from 9 to 12
a.m and Sunday from 1 to 5
and 7 to 10 p.m.
in recent months.)
The U.S. officials contend
that ths takeover of local
governments is the main
thrust of a political offensive
during the combat lull.
South Vietnamese legisla
tors, particularly have been
openly critical of Thieu'g
theory for gaining a stable
central government.
They argue that it is
ridiculous to expect South
Vietnamese to grasp the
concepts of a democracy on a
local level after decades of
un-democratic rule. They ask
how Thieu can expect the
people to accept his national
government as stable when
they have not seen a stable
central government in nearly
a century.
They contend, Instead, that
Thieu should be launching an
all-out effort using every
propaganda means possible
to educate and convince the
people of the stability of the
national government. They
think the people should learn
to identify directly with the
Saigon government rather
than working through their
local governments. And they
think that if nothing else
Thieu himself should make
personal appearances
throughout the country so
people can begin . to Identify
with him
But regardless of the re
cent Viet Cong takeovers at
the local level and the
criticism from within his own
government, Thieu seems
determined not to change.
How to eliminate
obscene mail
Ann Arbor, Mich. - (CPS)
Roger Staples got fed up
with junk mail cluttering his
mailbox. So he took it to the
post office, labeled it "ob
scene," and requested the
post office not to deliver any
more mail from the offend
ing advertisers.
Though the local postmas
ter found this quite strange
and refused to do what Sta
ples asked, the Post Office
Department's assistant gen
eral counsel ruleu that the
obscene mail law leaves tho
defining of "obscenity"
squarely in the hands of the
recipient.
Said he: "Under the law,
they (recipients) can declare
that an ad for a sack of po
tatoes looks sexy to them.
And if they do, we're obliged
to act." (i.e., refuse to de
liver the mail.)
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Let's Get It Straight
"I LOVE YOU"
If the riiih! person snyi them, thove nre the most hrniitlful
words ill ny lungUHKe. Lovers have quoted rdeiit passant- from
Sonnets from the Porttiimrie for yearst but you may be sure no
one ever read tlem with deeper emotion than Robert Browninss,
to whom they were addrested. Sticky sentimentality? To others,
maybe, but not to Robert and Elizabeth. Other people's declara
tions of affection may embarass list thoe from the ones we love
seldom do.
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AMI UPt!
Well, despite the fttct that it
mny embarrass you, I want to
quote declaration of love di
rected very personally to you.
"Greater love has no man than
this, that man lay down bis
life for his friends. You are my
friend, if you do what I com
mend you."
Yes, that's Cod's Son speak
ing. And the point I'm making
is that He would say that to you
if you were the only person liv
ing. Christ would have died on
the cross for you if you were
the only sinner in the world.
You can confidently quote John
3il8 as saying, "Cod so loved
me that be gave his only Son.
that if 1 believe in him I shall
not perish, but have everlasting
life."
And if you ask why Cod
of love would let sorrow, pain,
and bereavement enter your
life, He'll tell you very trnitly
that "Just m a father pities his
children, so the Lord pities those
that stand in awe of him . , ,
but the Lord disciplines those
whom he loves. No true son
ever grows up uncorrected of
his father." In fact, "Cod is
love . . end b this we tnow
love, that he laid down his life
for us."
It's great to have another hu
man being love you. But to
have Cod love you with a deep
and personal love, love that
made Him willing to die for
you, that promises you His
close friendship here, and heav
en with Him forever, can be
the greatest Joy of aiL
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fall prey to
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THE CONQUEROR.
The Romans conquered an empire with it Go out and conquer yours.
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