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to permit double voting and
denied transportation to his
opponents. The army then
supervised the voting. Thieu's
membership in the Free World
is now attested by his having
won a plurality-34 of the
vote-in that election. But with
that kind of help, Stokely
Carmichael could have been
elected governor of South
Carolina.
AMBASSADOR
Ellsworth Bunker has
already moved to support
Thieu's re-election campaign.
Sen. Stevenson, who really
believes that a United States
goal is to let the South
Vietnamese decide their own
future, wants Congress to
affirm that goal, publicly, and
to get that message to our
allies, loud and clear. .
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SAN FRANCISCO.-The
Kids are flexing their muscles,
and every now and again you
will run into one of them who
will ask you, shyly, "How're
we doing?" The student who
asked the question had
traveled, with two friends, four
hours from his campus to
participate in the
demonstration in San
Francisco over the weekend.
Ke and his companions were
full pf praise and blame. They
did not think highly of
Congressman Burton, who had
taken the better part of a half
hour trying to raise money
from the participants. It wasn't
only that he had given a rather
material aspect to the
demonstration - by going on
and on about the $35,000 it
had cost to arrange the
facilities for the
demonstration. It was that he
had threatened the crowd.
Used, in fact, the highest
sanction: until the crowd came
through with the necessary
money, said Burton, he
wouldn't permit the rock band
to return to entertain them.
This was twice painful. The
students had, many of them,
come a very long way. Here
they were listening to someone
talk about money. And if
money wasn't forthcoming,
they wouldn't be permitted
their music. Hardly a way to
acknowledge the gravity of the
occasion.
, Then there was this Chicano
leader. They didn't like him
much, but for different
reasons. He was very militant.
In fact, using unpleasant
language, he had ordered the
musicians off the stage, so as
not to distract from his
message. But then the Chicano
leader had gone on and on not
about the Vietnam War, which
after all was the reason for the
protest, but about other things
- many other things - and it
was the judgment of the
students that he had diffused
the gravamen of the protest.
It was very badly arranged,
the students said. There was no
planned climax. The rally
ended in a rather inconclusive
way. There was no Martin
Luther King there to dream a
dream that would send the
participants home dizzy with
pride and resolution. It simply
petered out.
There was a high point, they
agreed. It was Dick Gregory,
who turned in a dramatic
pledge. He would not again eat
solid food, he said, until the
Vietnam War was over. Several
years ago Mr. Gregory gave up
meat, in protest against the
Jcilling of animals. He is now
escalating, and he greatly
moved the crowd.
Congressman Pete
McCloskey, who is the
anointed leader of the anti-war
group during this season, was
present. But there is
disagreement about why he did
not actually speak. And some
disagreement, even, about the
exact circumstances of his
disappearance. Suddenly,
according to one student, he
simply walked off the stage:
and was not seen again. There
are those who interpreted his
walkout as in protest against
the obscenities being uttered by
the man who had the
microphone at the moment.
It was then that the
question was blurted out: did I
think that the demonstrations
had any effect on Mr. Nixon? I
replied I did not know, adding
that I am qualified only to say
what are the demonstrations
that affect me. I was affected, I
said," by the White
House-sponsored Youth
Conference which just now
finished meeting in Colorado
Springs. The newspapers
inform us the students voted
for three things, and very
nearly unanimously: 1) a
fixed-date retreat from
Vietnam, 2) legalized pot, and
3) legalized sex in any variety
between, or for that matter I
suppose among, consenting
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adults. What is interesting is
that the participants of this
congress were picked as nearly
as possible by scientific means.
It isn't just the bellicose doves,
who swarm in to any scheduled
demonstration.- It was young
America, the same young
America that Mr. Nixon and
Mr. Agnew and so many of the
rest of us have assumed is in
silent, but acquiescent,
equilibrium.
That - I venture - is news,
in the sense that 300,000
students in Washington or San
Francisco to hear the
300,000th speech by Coretta
King, is not news. If it is, we
finally have fully representative
expressions of student opinion.
At any rate, the sap is
running. We shall know soon
whether the bustle is merely a
seasonal imperative, or whether
the students are prepared to
heighten their manifestations
of dissatisfaction to correspond
with Mr. Nixon's deceleration
of the Cold War.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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