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Teach-ins at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in
MU 109D, 210 and 211.
Has the United States government secretly
engineered the overthrow of the Cambodian
Prince Norodon Sihanouk-a.nd created the
current Cambodian crisis?
General meeting in MU Quad at noon.
DscussiOflS in all living groups at
7p.m.
This may well be what has happened. The
new Cambodian government could have been
pilt in by the United States since the U.
S. was the first to recognize this government.
This is the feeling of millions of
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Candle Memorial Parade at 8:30 p.m.
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prolonged rapping in and out of the
classroom, the lab, the office.
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riins who question the validity of officAsia, in particular two ex-Peace Corps
-ilftbddia last summer.
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Dick and Beth Myers were both in Cambodia during part of June and
July 1969 at the
time that the U.S. bad no relations with Cambodia at all.
Dick,
26, worked with
the Pe
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primarily in Malaysia and is now a graduate student- at Oregon
state, His wife Beth graduated
from the University of Utah and worked in the
Phillpines. They met in Cambodia, both
en-route to the States.
According to Dick there was then a deep concern of foreigners
coming into Cambodia by Cambodians although it was not then
difficult; to obtain a ten-day visa.
All foreigners had to stay in special hotels arid
the Cambodian government wa very
strict about obtaining Arnerin currency rather
than tourists spending it.
However, the Carabodianpeopleseerned
very interested in the U.S. and Americans.
Beth stated that as she rode into Phnom-Penh, capital
of Cambodia, from the airport
her driver pointed out all the Russian-built
buildings
such as hospitals and the
university.
It seemed that Prince Sihanouk played the neutrality
role as much as possible.
Beth pointed out an example of this by siting the
names of some streets in PhnomPwnh: Krushchev St., Mao Tse-tung
St. and Kennedy, after Jackie Kennedy Onassis
visited Camboida.
In a recent Newsweek magazine
articlethere were pictures of.slogans in English
concerning Viet Nain written on walls in Cambodian towns.
Nhose writing was this
since the Cambodians only write in their native
language and some French? This
question should be put before the magazines whose
photographers took t'nese pictures..
Beth and Dick told about the Viet Cong control of
many of the roads leading out
of Phnoxn-Penh. They pointed out that
after dark the V.C. patroled these roads
not to harm travellers but to charge them
for travelling it to finance their
cause.
It seemed that Prince Sihanouk was aware of the
Viet Cong control but no one was
getting killed. And Nixon says he's
bringing peace? He sends troors into Cambodia to kill so there will be a real peace?
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Dick pointed out that evOn' before the U.S.
came into Cambodia last week that the
Cambodians were receiving aid from Indonesia,
which in turn receives its aid from the U.S.,
therefore meaning the same as the United
States giving aid to Cambodia.
In Phnom-Penh, Beth and a girlfriend rented a tri-shaw with a South Vietnamese
refugee driver. He offered to take the
girls on a tour of the sights and Beth
asked him why he had left Saigon, where
he said he was from. His answer was that
he wanted to live in peace.
For a bitof'thehuman element,Dick
As this refugee was taking the gir3,s' around.
he took them to the favorite place of al
Cambodians--their monument. It was. a public park on the banks of the Mekong iver
with manicured lawns, flowers and benches
and in the center were three American jets
which had been shot down over Cambodian
territory by the Cambodians. The man went
ihicIa had
on to explain that these jet
been going after Viet Cofig strongholds
ànd.thetCambodians didn't need this.
There jets had to be shot d.Qwn before June
1969 when Dick and Beth were,there.
was sitting next to 'a math professor of
the university on a bus who was Cambodian
and whose father had -died that morning
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he was going into town to buy flowets.
He was very sad. .., Think how sad he was then
and then think of all the deaths that are
occuring now.
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Think of all the faceless and nameless people who are dying and for what? The peace
the Cambodians did have before the U.S.
intervened?
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HAS THE' U.S. FAILED
To support Sihano3ik s neutrality, when
Beth was boarding a plane to leave Cambodia, a delegation of..Viet Cong were arriving to meet with the prince frr some
sort of violation they committed. Their
sole purpose there was of apologizing.
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By sending troops (american and South Vietnamese puppet forces) into Cambodia, 'NixOn
has alienated the people of the world. Soviet
Premier Kosygin. has, stated that PresidOht
tn speaking abOut the people of Cambodia
Beth Described them as peaceful with little
sidewalk cafes along the streets with people sitting drinking tea and talking.
Dick said he was never bothered by the
Cambodians. He went onto say that there
was a lot of French influence there. The
educated spoke French apd; all medical supplies were French. And yet the U.S. is
making such a big deal out of the .cbnfis+
cating of French supplies to Cambodians.
Everything's French.
Nixon has 'betrayed the American people."
The importance .of this statement is that the
nmerican people, The People, You People, have
not been blamed for this aggression yet.
Have you been..epreserted; did yu-warit the.:
U.S. to become involved in
invasion of
Cambodia, which will fail as surely as thO
sneaking esOalatin in Viet Nan has failed.
These failures are 100% predictable. 'Our
overall involvement in Southeast Asia closely
parallels that of the French in many ways, and...
we shall be driyen out just as they were.,
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Dick went on to tell about a small town
dance just like any other high school'
dance here where a bunc of kids gathered
together. They had their own style of
dance and were dancing on a platform about
a foot off the ground. They were serving
pop and there was tJe local town policemen watching. Durin.onesong.the cids
started stomping on the floor and got the
policeman angry'. He came over, yelled at
The colonization of md i-China by the Freegh
failed for on reason the people of South-east
Aa'irnply do not want foreigners on their
soil.
Nixon's attack on the "privileged
sanctuaries" in Cambodia will he no more
effective in changing.this 'fact than the
'bombing of North Vietnam 6 th
'rehdh attempt
to militarily control the population. Time
and again we have seen the unwillingness
the Southeast Esians to support our miltiary
them to s'top and started .,walking away.
"'puppets. No amoung of milita'aid to the
When he turned his back"ona, boy stomped
elite minority government which we suport
his foot. The kids began çlancing again
will now convince the Southeast Asianpeoand again they started stomping, this
pies That we are their "true friends." We
time louder and louder, This resulted in
are now expanding the'area of the war, 'much
a foot through the platform and halin'g
as the French, did and.'just as th; see no
out by the officer. ,Soinds'a bit like
definite end i sgh to thO conflict. In
home huh?
fact there can be non until' all foreign
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An example of the friendliness and openess
of these people could be when Beth and
her girlfriend were waiting to. ride a
ferry across the river and little kids
came around to cars selling various things.
Before the ferry arrived Beth had been
taught how to count' to ten in Cambodian by
these children. There was no hostility
at all. 'They were very helpful.
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Though there is an intense fedilngdf nation-,.
alism, it is the nature of S.E'. Athiáñs'o
resist the invasion of their privacy by a
national government, let alone by white
Christian foreigners., As long as'the U.S.
continues to support the power elite of
S..E. Asia, and ignores the-blight and wishes
of the S.E. Asian peoples, we will continue
to sow nothing but hatred in Asia and reap
nothing hut disgust from around the world.
PEACE NOW
W000STOC±( THREATENING
With the spirit of' Woodstock threatening,
some 1500 individuals amassed in the M.
In order to give equal tIme -to the dison-..-
U. tunge at 11:00 o'clock May fifth,
1970, to listen to a "Modest Proposal
for Life." The threat of a student
strike was absent' by majority and
administration consensus, waiting on
responses to the "measures of peace and
dissent." The feeling of community
effort, manifeEting itself in the form
of initial committees such as food,
sanity, safety, and communication,
permeated the group immediately. The
diverity in the community is shown in
the mhools, classes, and interests
represented. After reading the bill,
passed earlier by the senate, President
minority, I might say they were -.concerne,d
Doug Sweet, a phenomanal man .of,-actjon
arid genuine concern, introduced' committee
coordinators, then guided the dialogue
f' the more vociferous student's. The
community thn me'rged, meeting and
discussing'the issues at hand.
certed, which amounted, in my contact, to a
about the- alienation occourring in the
builsing.
It turned out, however, these
few, people were unwilling to contribute
their ideas- to others. Unfortunate,
One negative- vibration inflicted on my
sensitive --he'a:d was: "I hope the whole thing
really blows causel want to see this, school
get screwed."
So any way', a more complete involvement
of the harmonious nature has descended
upon this institution, "finally." Respect
for the sanctity of life was, and is, the,
plea, the prime mover in this effort.
"Let uC-not underestimate the power of,the
student,1' suggested one gentleman.
I agree,
but 1e us-not misuse -this power.
e':us
share the responsibility of-our actions,
for when their -purpose is understood and
acted upon, we have contributed to the
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future hope of theplanet.
'x-iousness of the topic, primarily
one Of initiating
student1s 'to voice
theli vey-'va1jd opinions pertaining
to the issues ox Cambodia and a defense
of-the voice Of hange.,..'wasnot.orgotten.
But the air of involvement, and 'he
pleasurable. effects:of cooperation
procured 'from-:it, allowed most concerned
iridividuals to '-sugge:st, contribute,.
take action, -and be involved in the
going ons.
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KENT 1970
In Fire Town
Five youths lay down
.ig .a :sEng of dying,
And sang while thy"-wèr-e,:
So much for the overall- look at the
evening's first activities. This
reporter went-out-among, the lively
throngs for. first reactions to these
rbposals.
I-'noticed upon the-first
contact that there was in actuality
little sensationalism. The people were
dOminated by sincere motives toeffct
positive, and a much stressed peaceful, resolutions to the problems
confronted.
"I am devoted to any kind
of action consistent- with the cOnscjOUSness -of the people," commented one
participant.
"I would, however, offer
a warning to t1e people to be aware of'
short range consequences in terms of the
ultimate purpose of the revolution," the,
student cautioned. Perhaps it is well
to remember that a proverbial defeating
of purposes is a possibility 'where and
when common sense is not fully utilized.
Another
versity
against
out for
suggested we learn prom the tJniof Oregon.
"They came out
someththg. Oregon State has cOme
something." One student hinted'
that' the reason this ,has never happened
before was that "people are afraid of
people. Here they're not." He then
proceded -to mix with the closest
conglomerate of people, courteously
introducing himself, arid smiling.a A
great number of those I interviewed
were planning on staying, some a night,
some three.
"Stay, work, win" became
a usual response.
"We'll :all com&own'
To see you fall,
We'll come down
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To change'- you. all.
We'll all -come. down
To toll -yOur. rusty bell,,
We'll all come downTo hear the hollow sound."
In Fire Town,
While streets belched flames,
Five -youths passed on,
And left their names.
L.B.J.
Value Systems Conflict
Early in the seventh decade 'of the '18th
centuuiy, in Boston, inthe Commonwealth of
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Massachussettes; British troops fired intO
a dissenting crowd, eight civilians died,
for protesting against irreponsible'
'leadership of a distant government, the
waging of,a -foreign way by that'distant
governient., .invQluntary conscription, the
co1lec:tiig.o-taxes against the interests
of th :o2-3onists and
host of othr -atroc i-ties by the then reignin Government
of George III.- The culmination of these
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political acts was the American Revolution.
The Revolution was Lost. Revolution is' not
physical violence oer se
Revolution is the
confrontation of different value systems;
a revolution succeeds if the value system
succeeds. The value system of the revolution
called for aconcern with the goals, rights
duties and aspirations of the individual
and the possibility of their fullfillment in
a body rolitic. The value system prevailing
established a new facsade of governmental
apparatus-, a new landed aristocracy exchanged
after the industrial revolution for a monied
aristocxacv, more foreign wars against the
British in 1812, the Spanish; in the Sranish
American, the American Indian over two
centuries - the German nation twice in the
last century, in Korea in 1950, in Viet
Nam since 1964, and now in Viet Names
neighbor 'Cambodia. The prevailing vaLe
system following, the American revolution
favored exn1oitaton of the majority by the
minority, in government by the minority, in
irresponsib1e nyoric, distant, government.
Reproaching the secoii centennial of the
revolutio, and the founding of theUnited
States the Revolution remains Undecided.
The ills of government in relation to its
body politic yet prevail in the United States
subdued by widespread. gluttinous. affluence,
but accented by the mahnification of the
P-mrl'ems--of technocratic inefficiency and the
sheermagnitude and cornnlexity of our society
The conflict between the value systems of the
British
stabllshment as nurtured by the
American monied aristocrats, the political
favor seekers, the industri. technocrats,
and the organizationbureacrts' and cul
tivated among generations of fearful, insecur
Americans b' the American version of newspek
with the idealistic, huaanistic values and
goals of the AmerIcan Revolution is today
accentuated in the colleges and universities
of America, where the educated young and
old realize the shar'- distinctions between
The American: Dream and the American reality.
The goals of the revolution remain
unchanged, only updated to fit the evo-iution of society and sciende
The established
values remain unchanges likewise updated to
fit science than society in the interests
of wealthy and status for the minority. Two
hundred years after the revolution is still
being fought, the Boston hassacre is repeated at Kent State University .RaTher than
Red--Coats on one hand panicking and firing
into the crowd, we have the National Guard
eanicking and firing into the crowd, rather
than the citizens of doston. Concord,and
Lexington, we have th5 citizens of Berkeley,'
Santa Earbar ,Yale ', and in a thousand places
in the' United S'tates
Rather than the hat-'
tles of Lexinkon Green and th Concord
bridge we hae' 'riots the length and breadth
of the American mainland
Rather than the
Sons of Liberty we have Anti-establishment
groups ranging from the peaceful NOBE to
the .mj1jtant'ie&therman,= The RvoLution is T
Two indedras' old_au this continent, the
issues are the 'same; foreign war, irres-
ponsiblegovernmént 'exploitation of the
maj oity unjust: taxation, limits on our
human r±hts, àompulsory conscription,
inefficient deaf government, suppression of
theinclividual rights' (first the suPpression
6f the rights to liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, and now at Kent State; the right
tQLIFE) The revolution is the conflict
between value systems, get yours"together
its 1970 andits our baby.
Eric Carty
Senate mOves ..... in the right direction
After two futile attempts, theASOSU
Senate finally passed a bill proclaiming
student govntnment support for a now
already mation-wide peace and dissent
movement. Using technicalities and bureacratics techniques, the first vicePresident and a few senators stifles passage
of the bill successfully for a short time.
Yet en a third attempt the conscience of the
senators prevailined and the bill passed
by a vote of 13 for, 4 against and 6 abstaining.
At the bill7s critical outset, Charlie
Larson, Sophomore Senator moved for a
suspension of the Senate rules to allow
the bill onto the floor. If this was not
done the bill would have traveled into a
committee, where it would stay for two
weeks.
The motion f or suspension passed,
but thevalso had to suspend Senate rules again
tobring it to a vote, The suspension
was defeated.
OREGON BROTHERS RESPOND
Portland
P.S.U. at last report
(3am) was making signs. Lewis andClark
has called for a strike' without class shutdown.
i'ionmouth:
0:C.E,
students are partocinating in a strike.
Eugene
2500 students participated
in a candlelight 2arade to the National
Guard Armory Tuesday night in their own ex-ression against U.S. involvement in the
Cambodian escalation and as a memorial for
the five students slain at Kent State.
Severa students rapred about these and
related isses while at the Armory. After
the sneeches, wreaths were laid &t the
Armory and the. studentsswalked back to
campus with incident. One window of the
Firts National Bank was broken but it was
not known who was responsible. A i-mmber of, people went to the Eugene hotel
where NcCall was staying 'for the night, but
he had ducked out the back way and was
not available for coiment.
The Student
Union remained open on the Oregon campus..
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BLOODBJTH AT
NT STATE
by Al Brown, Jr.
Why the shooting? Who got killed and who got
injured? Whats this have to do with OSU Students?
Ralph Nader held a news conference before the
Nay 5th Convocation which was carried over
the news on KOAC radio. He stated that some
6 weeks ago, when he was talking at the Kent
State University campus, he saw the KSU campus as a "typically" conservative and apathetic.
And yet some 1200 (probably more) students
had become so aware of the situation that
President Nixon has put this country into
that they demonstrated their beliefs last
Saturday against this aggressive policy by an
assault on the ROTC facilities.
All the news reports On television have implied that the shooting by the Ohio National
Guard were "acts of passion" on the part of
the guardsmen. The sniper report has been
called into question by the Ohio Highway
Patrol. The guard said a Highway Patrol helicopter radioed a report of a sniper on a rooftop, but highway patrol officials say the
logbook does not show this to he the case.
There were no direct orders to hcot but- the
shoLs have been fired.
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Who are they? Three boys and two girls are
dead, and three are on the critical list.
One boy was a KSU ROTC cadet; another of the
boys was only a spectator. There is not currently information on the thjrd boy. . One of
the girls was a spectator, and the other
girls, whose father gave a plea on network
television to fu1lrinvetigate this massacre, was so "violently involved" in the demonstration that she put a flower in a guardsman's rifle.
Another student stated from his hospital bed
that he was not involved, escept as an observer, but he saw guardsmen kneel to aboot.
Other observers saw guardsmen turn all in a
body, as if o ncosmand, and open fire on the
students.
Miss Allison Krause - 19
Miss Sandy Schewer..
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Science
pithhed into a corner.
ground left.
There is no middle
President Nixon discounted student activity in his decision to invade Canlodia.
He thought he had bought off the student
radicals in the ecology movement. He made
a tragic mistake; one that was accurately
foreseen by his non-military advisors.
The killing abroad (and here at home) has
got to stop--flow!' As Dick Gregory has
said (in another context, but even more
applicable to this situation), we students
have a committment to point out hypocrisy
in this nation--the heaviest responsibility
perhaps of any generation that has ever
lived on this spcship earth.The governmenL has declared war on the
students. Are we going to accept the challerige and do what we can to stop the government-sanctioned war on foreign nations,
or are we going to melt iflto the suburbs
forever, and by default allow ourselves
to be moved as pawns in an international
power struggle that we have absolutely no
pwer to keep under control?
It is no longer a fight of the radical
leftist faction. It is now a declared war
on all student youth everywhere.
No longer
can we think that by standing physically
(or intellectually) on the sidelines will
we be safe. Five students at Kent State
University thought so and are dead now.
It is every citizen's responsibility to
confront the issues head on! Debate them
openly!
If you are gling to be shot down
as an "effete snob," don't be caught in
the position of being an innocent bystander.
Students everywhere --cast off your intellectual rationalizations! Become informed
and be counted amoung your brothers and
sisters across the nation in a constant
confrontation of our repressive governments
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Jeffrey Miller - 20
William Schroeder
19
The fifth, a boy, is unknown at this tim.
Students everywhere--your values are on the
firing line! The merican police state has
opcned fire cr1 us--each one of us!
If you are one of the many students
across the
nation who have not allowed yourself to be
distracted from your studies to follow closely
(or even distantly) the activities within the
so-called radical activities across the nation,
this one fact is clear. Whether you as a
student are an activist or not, your life is
in danger for the set of values the students
across the nation are trying to develop in
building a new society.
Whether you wish to remain apart from "the
movement or not is clearly not the question
now.
None of the four identified students
were activists (nothing is known about the
fifth at this time)
All of us are being
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The following colleges and universities
are
participating in protest activities:
Kent State. . .University of Idaho.. .University of Utah.. .Boise State.. .Idaho State...
College of Idaho. . .Northwest Nazareth...
Southern Oregon College. . -University of
Maryland. . .Universitv of California at
Berkley. . .U.C.L.A. . . .0 of Wisconsin...
Harvard.. .Princeton. . .Coluinbia.. -Brandies...
Case Western Reserve University. . .0 Of Cal.
at San Diego.. .Claremont Men's College.
U of Washington. Boston U. . .Brown. . -Tufts...
Harvard Law School.. .Washington State U...
New Mexico State U. . .0 of New Nexico.. .0 of
Ohio. . .TJ of Standford., .U.C. Davis..
tucky.. .Eastern Washington State College...
Southern Illinois,. .Seaton Hall., .New
York
.University of Oregon...
Lewis and Clark College. . .Reed College...
Oregon College of Education. . . Linfield.,.
U. . .Portland State.
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