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Army
SFEMEMBeR THE GOOD OL' ZAYS WHFN OUR PLAN WAS
To bacx our or indochina With guns blazing-? '
Mankiewicz and Braden
cover-up
guns and simply shot them down. No army
that is any good can tolerate such a thing,
and that is why this My Lai case has come to
tn3AND SAM STRATTON also wants to
know why Gen. Koster could "tolerate such
a thing" and why Secretary Resor permitted
the Army to drop all charges against him.
The Army says Secretary Resor had no
authority to act in the decision to drop
charges aginst Koster, that it would have
been "undue influence" if he had, but that is
palpable nonsense.
Stratton says that Koster "covered
up." He cites facts which the Army has not
denied: That Koster was in the air over My
Lai on the day of the massacre; that he was
informed of it; that he countermanded an
order to investigate it, and that a report that
Koster says he ordered "appears to be a
figment of his imagination."
IT IS A DAMNING indictment of the
former West Point commandant; but except
for Stratton, no one has raised much of a
hue and cry.
Stanley Resor who is a civilian and not a
member- of what Stratton calls the West
Point Protective Association, might raise
such a cry. He might restore the reputation
of the United States Army which, as Gen.
Douglas MacArthur once said, "is charged
with the protection of the weak and
unarmed."
True he would thus begin a process which
might lead all the way to Army Chief of
Staff William Westmoreland and would
certainly provoke a good deal of possibly
extraneous argument about the morality of
war, and of the war in particular, and of
"free fire zones" and bombing of civilians.
BUT SAM STRATTON isn't after that.
He said, "There is a rule and policy of a
civilized army and My Lai violated that rule
and the United States Army is covering up
the violation, and it will never be the same
army until it restores its self-respect."
THE DAILYNEBRASKAN
WASHINGTON-If Stanley Resor were
not secretary of the army he would surely be
a leader In another capacity, and in addition
to his business he would, it is easy to
imagine, take on other civic duties..
Stanley Resor, in other words, is a
duty-honor-country man and that makes the
case of Maj. Gen. Samuel W. Koster, another
duty-honor-country man, the more
troublesome. Why did Secretary Resor
permit the Army to drop all charges against
Gen. Koster who is guilty at least of crimes
for which the American Army in the name
of the American people once hanged a
Japanese general named Yamashita?
REP. SAMUEL STRATTON (D-N.Y.)
says he doesn't "go for this Yamashita
stuff." Says Stratton, "I've read all about
Nuremberg, but I'm not a lawyer, and 1
don't want to argue about war crimes. AH I
want to know is why Gen. Koster covered
up and why he was the least co-operative of
all the witnesses before the Rep. F. E.
Hebert committee investigating My Lai and
why it appears that he did not tell the truth
to our committee."
Sam Stratton is an all-out supporter of
the military and the war. "I supported
Johnson and I support Nixon and I think
search-and-destroy missions are almost
impossible to avoid, given the kind of war
we are fighting.
"But there is a confusion in the minds 01
many people about what this My Lai
situation is all about," Stratton said on the
House floor the other day. "This is a case
where a unit went into a village and searched
it and encountered no resistance, and
women, children and old people were herded
up and searched; if they were hard-core Viet
Cong or North Vietnamese soldiers the rule
and policy of any civilized army would be to
take them off to the stockade, but instead of
that, while they were standing there, herded
together, somebody came in with machine
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dear editor
WAG condemns window art
SnSyt'tryfng tomake them understand why using women,
as sex objects was offensive and exphtaUve
Aooarently there are some people who either are not aoie
to compSd this idea or simply refuse to make any move to
haZsX "on tnfwindows of the Delta Upsilon fraternity
house ae painted pictures of naked women in various
suggestive posL They are advertising for a party whose theme
" aGFivLfth?Ss the benefit of the doubt that they did
not understand that they were, commiting an extremely
offensive act I will attempt to explain why they were.
Regarding a woman as a sex object means to ignore or deny
her humanity. It means that she is only a shell a body with no
Smodons and no mind. It means that she i.e.hei body) ex.s s
only to be used for the gratification of males, and when she is
no longer useful for that purpose, discarded.
Sexism is rampant in all phases of society. But two very
blatant sexist activities carried out by fraternities on this
campus are cited here and many others have been reported to
us Women's Action Group, therefore, calls on Interfraternity
Council to take responsible action to (1) ban fraternities from
overt sexist activities such as these, and (2) educate fraternity
members about sexism that they may develop more mature
attitudes. University Women's Action Group.
Male blasts degradation
Dear editor,
This is a copy of a letter I sent to Delta Upsilon.
As a member of the University community I feel it
necessary to publicly condemn your current sexist affront to
the community. In particular I refer to the disgraceful
degradation of female human being which now covers your
Vine St windows. Your paintings and the contest in which
they are utilized serve to show the gamut of chauvanistic
behavior.
Your pseudo-females are of course fully endowed with a
figure a-la-Playbov. You are successful in giving them an
expression of excessively low intelligence. Perhaps of more
importance is the quality of total expression your
pseudo-females convey.
You would probably think of this quality as being a
complete lack of inhibition but it can be more aptly described
as self-contempt. Your motives for the use of these paintings
to advertise your Gaslight Party can only be speculated upon.
Perhaps it is your wish that self-hating women will come to
your party and giggle and dance (or is it grovel?) and writhe
before their male masters.
Jack F. Mason.
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