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a tA 4 dear editor ft ft a: f 8-V 1 (V ' ,i . h. 1 - V., M 'A i "A, 3 ; F.WTW Ditrihutd hv I.. "NOW, AS YOU WERE SAVING; MR. ROGERS. A William F. Buckley, Jr . Allende tells us how The (London) Sunday Times has an interview with Salvador Allende, given to Regis Debray, which is on the order of publishing an interview given by Krushchev to Adzhubei, his son-in-law. Regis Debray is the young French revolutionary who tagged along with the Che Guevara, got himself caught, and was sentenced to a great many years in the cooler, in which he served for only three years because the vicissitudes of Bolivian politics churned up as president the self same general who had tracked down and killed Guevara. Instead of taking advantage of his new-found power to order Debray executed, the general released him, and he headed -where else? - to Chile, where the revolutionary action is. The interview reflects the interviewer's desire to get into the act. Allende is quite willing to play. But the interview is more than merely a lovers' duet, it is an adumbration of how Allende proposes to accumulate the power necessary to impose "Marxism" on his country. Listen. The Resistance Debray. If they (the Resistance) go outside the law, will you also go outside the law? If they hit out, will you hit back? Allende. If they deal us an illegal blow? We'll return it a hundredfold, you can be sure of that. In order to flavor that, imagine the following exchange. Associated Press. If the Black Panthers go outside the law, will you also go outside the law? If they hit out, will you hit back? J. Edgar Hoover. If the Panthers deal us an illegal blow; We'll return it a hundredfold, you can be sure of that. And then, Debray. The estate owners in Cautin are armed, and are provoking violent confrontations with the workers on the land. There is a serious amount of arms smuggling from abroad; dangerous plots are being organized. How do you intend to cope with sedition? Reactionary violence Allende. To begin with, we are going to contain it with their own laws. Then we shall meet reactionary violence with revolutionary violence, because we know that they are going to break the rules. For the time being, to stay within the bounds of legality, I shall say this: the situation in Chile is such that the Constitution can be changed within the Constitution, by means of plebiscites. Now that, under the circumstances, is Reichstag-Fire talk pure and simple. It is a very old device, developed by Stalin in his government's lifestyle. Mao Tse-tung thrives on it. Consider the episode to which Debray alluded. In Cautin province in the THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Dear editor: All students interested in their education may now join a task force. P.urpose: to define and pinpoint what we (students) see as ways in which education at the University can be improved. Many of us have complaints, questions, suggestions. Some of these have been heard. They need to be heard again. And even more than that, students together must discover what areas of concern arc most important to them. We must seek out ways to change the University for the better. There are many possible alternatives and approaches. The temporary steering committee, now trying to organize this task force, consists of several students who have been continaully interested in education this year, and students who have been working for the past year on various University committees: Academic Planning Committee, Teaching Council, ASUN Fducation Committee, Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, and student advisory boards in the colleges. Recently this group has been meeting to try and pool ideas and problems, to seek solutions. They know that there are many other students in the University who have been trying to improve education or have been thinking of ways to improve it. They may be taking surveys, reading books on educational reform, working with TTT (Training Teachers of Teachers), thinking about possible solutions on their own, talking or writing to faculty and administrators, talking with friends about needs for change, etc. All these efforts need to be combined. This will be a chance for you to make sure that your ideas are heard. It will also be a chance for you to hear other ideas on university education. The temporary steering committee cannot promise you sweeping change, it can promise you an interesting discussion, a summary of problems, a synthesis of ideas for student improvement. So join the task force on University Fducation, and get your mind to work. This task force is intended to bring together student ideas on education. We will first meet at 9 p.m., Thursday, March 25, in Nebraska Union (room will be posted). We plan to meet weekly after that. Also, we plan to publish weekly reports of task force meetings in the Daily Nvbraskan to help get your ideas back to other students and to faculty. Robin West. Elections Dear editor: The ASUN elections wiii soon be upon us again. How unfortunate it is that our own elections have resembled so closely those of our Nation, in that: 1 (most of the officials are elected by a minority of those elibible to vote; 2) once elected the officials forget to represent us and instead vote as they please. I would hope this year, we are the student body will be able to begin improving the system by electing people who will make sure we are aware of what is happening and will seek our opinion of various important matters before them. With the right representatives the ASUN can become a powerful tool for us, the student body. This year lets not settle for mediocre officials. Jim Schriner 505-70-7149 Telephones: editor: 472-2588, news: 2589, advertising: 2 590. Second class postage rates paid at Lincoln, Nebr. Subscription rates are $5 per semester or $8.50 per year. Published Monday through l riday during the school year except during vacation and exam periods. Member of the Intercollegiate I'ress, National Educational Avertising Service, College I'ress Service. The Daily Ncbraskan is a student publication, independent of the University of Nebraska's administration, faculty and student government. Address: The laily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508. south, revolutionary bandits led by members of the MIR (a left -revolutionary sect which might be compared to our own SDS) have in recent weeks swashbuckled their way into farms large and small, ordering the owners out of their own living rooms, distributing the land there and then to the "peasants," and sitting down and loving it all. There is not a trace of legality in what they have done, not a hint of it. Allende's responsibility as chief executive is to enforce the law, but he is afraid of the MIRistas, whose support he desires for the upcoming municipal elections. So. . .the story is propagated that the farmers are in revolt against the law, and are being put down by brave defenders of the law. Plebiscite That is how Allende has charted it. He still has a bourgeois' attachment for the law, so that he is indisposed to flout it directlv. Better to set fire to the Reichstag, and pretend that the resistance did it, which then becomes grounds for going out and hanging them: and, in Allende's words, hitting them back "a hundredfold." Granted, one can always override the Constitution by plebiscite. "If we put forward a bill and Congress rejects it, we invoke the plebiscite. I'll give you an example: we proposed that there should no longer be two houses in Congress, the proposal was rejected by Congress, we held a referendum and won. We now have a single house." Mr. Allende is in the great tradition of Stalin's Vishinsky, who had never left the Soviet Union-except on the one occasion when he travelled to Lithuania during the thirties, went to sleep that night at the principal hotel, and - as he liked to put it, with a heavy wink "when I woke up, suddenly I discovered I was in Russia!" During the midnight hours he had organized the annexation of the Baltic states. When the Chileans wake up, suddenly they are going to discover that they're in Russia. PAGE 2 TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1971