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These tax dollars could be used for edu
cation, but the regents have other plans
which Ignore our welfare as they have had
In the past. In 1973 they took control of
student fees which had been levied and ap
propriated by the students since 1937 Last
year they severely restricted our freedom
of speech byv eliminating our right to select
and pay for Vpolitlcal speakers" with bur
own fees. . , , '
This time the regents plan to build an
outrageously expensive and uneconomical
stadium addition. They think they Will ap
prove a contract in July and begin con
struction this summer. But things aren't
over yet. Construction hasn't begun and
maybe it never will!
Ken Havelka
Graduate Student
Chair of the Commission
on Educational Quality
Chinese rights
On reading YAF advertisements in
Monday's Daily Nebraskan, one cannot but
think that Mr. Cannon and his friends have
run out of creditable slogans for their
membership drive. The accusations they
have made are gross exaggerations and half
truths at best.
It is true that the Chinese communists
are jgiiilty of mass killings, about one
million to iwp million landlords, between
1949 and 1951 when land was being redis
tributed. It is also true that lolling one is
just as bad as killing any greater number.
But, Mr Cannon, please keep everything
within the realm of rationality. Should you
not give the Chinese people more credit
than just idlinr-when one out of every
thirteen of 'them was killed by the
government?
Furthermore, the first eight years of
communist rule in China are regarded, by
western scholars, as a period of economic
recovery and growth of national unity and
''identity. Surely this cannot be if there are
32 to. 61 million being murdered in the
same .country. Evert in the chaos, of the
Cultural Revolution there were no reports
of mass killings.
The number provided for forced labor is
equally exaggerated. When has the Guiness
Book of World .Records become art
authority on China? China has been a
dosed country behind the "Bamboo Cur
tain" until the beginning of the 1970s. I
do not believe that the communist rulers
would make exceptions and provide the
Guiness Book of World Records with the
number of people they have killed and put
in forced labor camps. Sadly, despite
inflated figures, the charge remains valid.
China is no more, and no less, aggres
sive than any nation in a similar situation.
Taiwan and Tibet were parts of China be
fore they were invaded by Japan and Brit
ain In the 19th century. Any effort to re
cover lost territories cannot be regarded
as aggression. To do so will be like calling
President Lincoln an aggressor against the
"Old South" irt the . American Civil War.
Stretches of Siberia and Northeast Asia
were seized by the Tsars, and the Bol-
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China. Russian policy was changed by Sta
lin, and the border dispute began, Wouldn't
the Americans be fighting if the Mexicans
had suddenly put 46 mechanized divisions
in Texas? As for Korea, China entered the
war only after the existence of the latter
was threatened, the UN forces advanced
too close to the Chinese border and after
ample warning. The only count of aggres
sion against China that can stand up in a
debate is the Sino-Indian Border tres
passes. As for Cambodia, China needed an
ally to counter-balance pro-Soviet Viet
nam in the region, much like the United
States supporting the Shah of Iran.
The above belong to the past. So what
if the above accusations are true?
Finally, the Chinese communists have
turned away from such ideological arid po
litical absurdities and tried to improve the
lot of the cdmmdn people they rule. They
need technology and turn to the west for
oil refineries, fertilizer plants, Coca-Cola
factories, airplanes and combines.
What is wrong with that? The United
States'ls now feeding the Russians so thai
their rulers can devote more resources to
nuclear weapons. Why can the Chinese not
ask for some technology for peaceful pur
poses? Is the YAF afraid of the Chinese
overrunning the world tomorrow with
armored combines and fertilizer guns?
I am not a communist but I do not want
to see the Chinese being deprived of tech
nological assistance because of some false
allegations dated from the Cold War and
the McCarthy hearings.
Times have changed; leaderships In
Washington and Peking have changed. They
both recognize the benefits of reapproach
ment. 1 hope that the YAF will cdme to its
senses, too If .they. are in dire need of a
campaign plitformf try inflation, energy
crisis, baby seals, ecology , and unemploy
ment, just to name a few. I am sure that
these will all Work better than bad
mouthing others.
Gerald M. Woo
Junior Accounting Major
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