s rot me gxntrq cant snoot
or do anything to keep him in.
Vfh.cn they run him down they are
not allowed to punish him, or I
have been told something wrong. It
has gotten so wc men are afraid to
leave our wives at home by
themselves even for a few
minutes.
I hope there will be something
done about this. I think all should
think about this when they go to
polls to vote.
W. I. ARMSTRONG
COUNCIL AND ALCOHOL
To the Editor: Reference has
been made in your paper and
through this forum that the National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the U. S. A. has endorsed
the government-sponsored study
entitled, "Alcohol Problems — A
'ower
other day doubting that we could
wage wars like Vietnam and an effective war on poverty at the same
time, but he too came to the same
question about the national will.
He thought it would take generations and "trillions" of dollars to
deal with our poverty and race pro.
blems. "What is more serious," he
said, "is the fact that the Congress
is much more willing to spend
tions than on needed improvements
at home — noUo speak of what wc
should do in order to aid under
developed countries. ... In the
world as a whole, most people are
colored and poor, while the minority who are well off arc mostly
wliite. What I fear more than
anything else is the infusion of the
race issue in the international class
struggle . . ."
The even more serious fact, he
added, "is that Congress apparently reflects how the American
electorate feel toward this question of national priorities."
If this
a>,
~ both
McNamara and Myrdal imply, then
we have a problem much more
serious in scope and cost than
anything the President has put
before the people so far. The House
is not creating the problem but
merely reflecting it, and it is likely
to go on even after the war is over
in Vietnam.
ARCH/VE COLLECTIOH
UNC-G LIBRARY
NOT 'USED'
To the Editor: As an incipient
journalist, it was some w hat
surprising for me to read a recent
editorial in which you slated that
'the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro had allowed itself to be
"used" as a Black Power platform.
Perhaps it is pardon-able that The
News and Observer wrote a critical
editorial evidently based solely on
reports from the Greensboro Daily
News. Perhaps the fact that the
editorial appeared without previous
significant coverage of the events
in question is just one of those
journalistic happenstances. Perhaps, also, I am to be forgiven
for suspecting your journalistic integrity at times.
. o men to
(protect them.
To hold the DMZ so the barrier
can be erected, the Marines have
■also been ordered to hold fixed
(positions within range of North
'Vietnam's big guns across the
border. The bombardments have
•caused heavy casualties. Yet little
progress has been made on an
obstacle system that Westmoreland
still insists will be ineffective.
Meanwhile, as a result of the ice
that has been forming on ho
Washington-Saigon military line,
McNamara is expected to replace
■ ■:; roland with General
Creighton Abrams, the able former
Deputy Chief of Staff, who has
been in Vietnam for some time.
ONLY THE diplomats knew it,
but there was some significant
behind -the-scenes competition
•between lovely Jacqueline Kennedy
■and ugly Mao Tse-tung for the
favor of Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia.
The State Department had encouraged Jackie to accept the invitation from Sihanouk to attend a-
ccremony dedicating a boulevard
in honor of her late husband,
because at that time the pink
prince had shown positive signs of
intment with his Chinese
Communist neighbors. He had accused them of infiltrating his country and interfering in its domestic
affairs. Delivering a bristling attack upon Red China, he ordered
Ms ambassador home from Peking,
and kicked two Communist sympathizers out of his cabinet.
§fl i!o jj
couraged to believe ho might bo
Raleigh news and observe£ady t0 rcsume diplomatic rela-
It is truly regrettable that one of
your several fine interpretive
journalists was not sent to cover
the scene, since the Greensboro
Daily News reports sadly lacked a
sense of the nuances of the Black
Power situation. Perhaps then the
public would have been given an
impression other than that of emotionalism and "pop rally" festivity.
Perhaps then it would have become
known that the lack of UNC-G
students at the forum indicated
apathy, and not misuse.
There is simply no question of
the University being "used." You
were.
ROWENA MORRISON
News Editor, The Carolinian
UNC-G
Greensboro
^oitftn-fFa
rson
"Being able to cam a living
without thinking doesn't free a
man jrom the responsibility to
think."
tions with the United Slates.
Then, surprisingly, Peking turned
the other cheek. Premier Chou En-
lai personally called in the prince's
son, who was attending school in
Peking, and handed him a conciliatory note to give to his father.
The polite language contained a
hint, of course, that Sihanouk
might face a Communist uprising
in Cambodia if he continued his anti-Communist activities. But the effect of the letter and other Chinese
overtures was to heal the
diplomatic I
It was too la.,o
Sihanouk to witib .
of Mrs. Kennedy, who slvv
Cambodia on schedi' -. The prince
treated M aciously,
'but even as he dci!
K. Kennedy Boulevard" b e
repeated his preference for nearby
Peking over faraway Washington.
Jackie did her best, but the proximity of a nation of 700 million
peope was too much.
