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The Peace Warriors .V - . J ii" I II 1 St I' V Last night in the UMHE chapel over ninety people met to decide the direction for Saturday's anti-war demonstration to take place at the Army football game. The demon stration was sparked by the announcement earlier this week that General William West moreland will attend the game. Mrs. Betty Munson led the discussion and outlined four purposes for the rally: 1) Westmoreland is an ideal symbolic target be cause he led the war effort during the terms of two presidents; 2) Vietnamization is an ef fort to prolong the war, not end it, and it is an effort to take the fire out of the protest movement; 3) people are still frustrated and indignant that the war is continuing and ex panding; and 4) a protest effort will show the rest of the nation that there is dissention in "Nixon territory," a painfully absent fact when President Nixon visited Kansas State last week. The sentiment throughout the hour-and-a-half long meeting was that the demonstra tion must be peaceful . . . that violence would only play into the hands of those who support the war and would like to repress dissent. It's doubtful that anyone's mind will be changed by the protest. University football is a mania in this state which easily outranks in-, volvement in political action take as evi dence the fact that the spring varsity game drew three times the crowd that the peace rally attracted last May. Predicting the reactions of the 66,000 who will attend the game is not an easy mat ter. Undoubtedly there will be many students and adults who sympathize with the protest ors and share their sense of despair. There , will probably be an even larger group of men and women who have prejudged the protest ors and any protest action will serve to rein force their prejudices. Optomistically there will be a third group who will be impressed by the fact that dissent is being expressed in a non-violent manner. Too many people equate protest at Nebraska University with the violence and bombings occuring on other campuses. This false impression is dangerous be cause it is conducive to the use of police or na tional guard troops when they are not needed. And one of the main factors that kept last May's occupation of the ROTC building non violent was the fact that the students were not confronted with either the city police or the national guard. Hopefully, most of the fans will leave the game with the understanding that at Ne braska the violence takes place on the foot ball field and not on the rest of the campus. THE NEBRASKAN telephone!: Editors 472-2588, Business: 47J-25, Newt: J7J J590. Second class, poslaga paid at Lincoln. Neb. Subscription rates are $5 per semester or S8.50 per year. Published Monday, Wdnesday, Thursday and Friday during the school year exceot during vaca tions and exam periods. Member of the IntercolleBlale Press, National Educa tional Advertising Service. The Nebraskan l a student publication, Independent of the University of Neb raska's administration, faculty and student government. Address: The Nobraskan 34 Nebraska Union ' University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska 6850S Editorial Staff tdllor: Kelley Baker; Managing Editor: Connie Winkler; Newt Editor: Bill Smi, Herman S( ! Editors: Jim Johnston and Roger Rlfet Nebraskan - Staff Writers: C-' " John Dvorak, Mick Morlarty, Bruce Wlmmer, Dave Brnk, Sieve !...- . Schater, Steve Kadel, Pat McTee. Carol Goetschlusi Pholoyrupliers: Dan kaoely. Mint Haymani Entertainment Editor: Fred Elsen- . h.irt; Literary Editor: Alan Bove; News Assistant: Marsha Bangert; Copy Editors: Laura Partsch, Jim Cray, Warren Obr, Blythe Erlcksoni Nioht News Editor: Tom Lansworthi Night News Assistant: Merrill Bandlow. &Mm mi k "No, it's not chicken soup . . . but you're getting warm." Some pertinent questions for Vice President Ky . by FRANK MANKIEWICZ and TOM BRA DEN Unless he experiences a last minute change of heart, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam will be in our midst within the week, to speak at a far-right "victory" rally at the Washington Monument grounds. The rally is sponsored by the Rev. Carl Mclntyre,. a fun damentalist radio pitchman who has characterized the Nixon Administration this year as "soft on communism" and has termed the President's Vietnamization policy a "sellout." In Saigon, officials close to President Thieu are writing their American friends that Ky's motives In speaking here are "to undermine both presidents, Nixon and Thieu." If Ky makes himself available to U.S. journalists, here is a suggested list of questions that might be asked, all based on material previously made public, either in the U.S. or Vietnamese press: 1. Mr. Vice President, how do you account for the $15,000 per week you personally receive from the receipts of the Saigon race track? You have told us your people are fully mobilized for this war; if that is the case, just who goes to the races every day so as to enable the track to show a profit suf ficient to pay you? (In 1967, Ky THE NEBRASKAN admitted he was receiving this money and said he used it from time to time to pay disabled veterans. He had, up to that time, paid out the total sum of $65 for this purpose.) 2. Your protege, Gen. Do Cao Tri, has been much praised this year as the "Tiger of Cambodia" for his leadership of your troops there. What was his final explanation fo rthe puckage he sent to Hong Kong earlier this year which was unexpectedly opened in customs and found to contain 71 million piasters in cash ( ficlal U.S. equivalent: $600,000)? Why would anyone want to send that many piasters out of the country, where they were practically worthless, unless to be used il legally or by the enemy for purchases back in South Vietnam? 3. Mr. Vice President, your old comrade, Gen. Dang Van Quang, Is back in office as chief of intelligence. When you and he shared power as members of the "Military Revolutionary Council," he was the commander of IV Corps until dismissed for corruption. Did he ever make restitution for the money he took from his own soldiers? 4. What about your other colleague from the old days of the council, Gen Cao Van Vicn, now the South Vietnamese chief of staff? Do he and his wire still lease government-owned real estate to Americans? Do they still own bordello hotels at the recreation center at Nha, Trang? 5. Mr. Vice President, why was your mother-in-law, Mme Hoang, who owns a string of "resorts" in Saigon, permitted to be the sole bidder on a con struction contract at an air base to be used by the United States? . - Finally, Mr. Vice President, what about that old smuggling rap? Back in 1964, when the CIA had set you up as me "commander" of a fic titious airline to fiy South Vietnamese agents into the North, you were fired for using the planes to smuggle opium and gold from Laos. Whatever happened to the 250 pounds of gold and the 450 pounds of opium which were seized? And your collaborator, Gen. Loc, who was fired as a result of the exposure from his post as director-general of customs in Saigon did he ever get his old job back? These questions may seem lighthearted, but Gen. Ky'is rot. He has grown rich and powerful from this war, not from plundering his own people whom he has mere than once betrayed but ours. He will stand in the shadow of the monuments to Lincoln and Washington, and lecture us on our responsibilities. Americans, to our shame, will applaud him. . PAGE 4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1970