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Volume 64, Number 72 Duke University, Durham, N. C. Friday, January 31, 1969 Laird asks continued nuclear build-up in U S

By William Beecher Johnson Administration's sentinel one, he said, and pointed out that it (C) 1969 N.Y. Times News Service deployment decision, he suggested, was first used by a Republican, would put American arms control WASHINGTON-Defense then Air Force Secretary Donald negotiators in a "weak position." Quarles, during the Eisenhower Secretary Melvin R. Laird said Laird said he favored missile today that the American bargaining Administration. superiority for the United States, But, he quickly added: "I am position would be stronger if the but that he was perfectly willing to nation moved ahead with the not giving up the idea of describe this as nuclear maintaining a superior force in the controversial sentinel anti-ballistic "sufficiency." President Nixon, missile system as it prepared for United States." earlier this week, said that military Asked whether he felt the possible talks soon with the Soviet "sufficiency" was perhaps a better Union on-limiting missiles. country has such superiority today, term "than either superiority or he answered in the affirmative. But "I do not want to be in a parity." Laird said there was no position when we go into these he said the Russians were rapidly essential difference between their building up their strategic nuclear United States Chief Delegate to the Paris Peace Talks, Ambassador talks, if we do, with one hand tied positions. behind'our back," he said. forces and their Navy, and that Henry Cabot Lodge, turns from the conference table during the first round At his first news conference co u Id cause "serious" problems of the peace talks January 25. To unilaterally reverse the since taking over as Defense over the next two or three years. Secretary, Laird ranged over a wide He inferred that the U.S. should variety of activities by the new move head rapidly on devylopment Pentagon team They included: programs to counter the Soviet Paris peace conference —A high level study, to be military buildup in the future if headed by Deputy Defense arms control talks failed to halt the Secretary David Packard, of the arms race. circumstances under which the spy The high level Pueblo study. produces 'no progress' ship Pueblo was seized by North Laird said, will focus on "the kind Korean gunboats last January and of protection given to these ships, of the adequacy of Navy to see that incidents like this By Paul Hofmann proposal to restore the progress. No . breakthrough," the procedures to insure that any cannot happen again, to see that we (C) 1969 N.Y. Times News Service Demilitarized Zone between North U.S. spokesman, William J. Jorden future piracy attempts fail. are in a position where the rights of PARIS-North Vietnam and the and South Vietnam as a first step said at a news conference late last —Laird's plans to visit Vietnam all individuals are protected at all National Liberation Front, cr toward peace. night. He said that language used at "in the not too distant future" to times and to see that they are and Vietcong, yesterday told the United Yesterday's session lasted 7 yesterday's session was at times assess progress in the War. Although have been in this case." States and South Vietnam that hours 25 minutes. Most of the vituperative, "but there was no North Vietnamese infiltration has The Defense Department, he military deescalation of the wir in proceedings were filled with table thumping. No raised voices." , increased during the last six to eight said, will "study the whole matter Vietnam must be tied to a political propaganda, recriminations and Earlier, Hanoi's chief spokesman weeks, he said, he does not believe of the role of this kind of settlement there. occasionally strong language. here, Nguyen Thanh Le, had a major enemy offensive in the near craft..and the protection of this At the second plenary meeting At the end of tl i four-way remarked at another news future would succeed. kind of ship if such a role is of the expanded Vietnam talks meeting, there was full agreement conference: "the conference has —A detailed review of a number necessary at any time in the future here, the heads of the tvo only that no progress in the not been able to progress a single of decisions by the previous so that we will not have these Communist negotiating laaris discussions was made today. step." He blamed the U.S. and its administration on weapons, force incidents again." formally rejected the allied "There .was certainly no South Vietnam "puppets" for the levels and military pay to see The Defense Secretary said allied deadlock. Before yesterd.-.y's whether some budget adjustments, forces would continue to "keep session broke up, the North either up or down, are called for. sufficient pressure" on the enemy Vietnamese Delegation, backed by Among programs singled out for in Vietnam to ensure that friendly Yale ROTC loses the Vietcong representatives, scrutiny, he noted the C—5 forces are not overrun. proposed to hold the next plenary Supertransport, which has been Precisely one year ago. North meeting Thursday, Feb. 6. The criticized in Congress because of, Vietnamese and Vietcong forces academic status U.S. d South Vietnam agreed rising costs; the Navy's F-14 fighter, lauched a massive, country-wide at once. plan contract, which was recently' offensive in South Vietnam Laird By William Borders associated with a professorship," The chief U.S. Negotiator, awarded to Grumman Aircraft said that despite increased (C) 1969 N.Y. Times News Service the resolution said. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, in Engineering Corp.; the $5 to $6 infiltration in recent weeks Gen. NEW HAVEN-The faculty of "ROTC is like singing in the a brief prepared statement billion Sentinel Missile Defense Creighton W. Abrams, Commander Yale College voted today to strip whiffenpoofs—a perfectly fine yesterday, urged the other side, to System; the Navy shipbuilding of American Troops in Vietnam, the Reserve Officers Training Corps activity, but one that we don't "move forward" by considering the program, and the army program to was "confident" that a similar (ROTC) of its academic standing think merits any academic allied proposal to establish a "true" develop a new battle tank, which effort would not be allowed to here and to relegate it to the status standing," said Dr. Arthur W. Demilitarized Buffer Zone between has run into technical difficulties. unfold. of an extracurricular activity. Galston, chairman of the faculty's North and South Vietnam. — (Continued on Page 2) Lodge admonished North During the Presidential The move, similar to action course of study committee. campaign, Nixon talked of the being considered on other Although Galston, a biologist, Vietnam and the Vietcong: "Let us get down to the serious business danger of a "security gap" campuses, reflects a growing conceded that "it's the temper of developing vis-a-vis the Soviet disaffection with the military the times to take a close look at of finding a road to peace. Let us begin today." Union and called for a program of programs, which train college ROTC," he said that the Yale move maintaining nuclear superority over Forum students to be officers in the Army, had been based "exclusively on The leaders of both Communist the Russians. He criticized the the Navy and the Air Force. academic consideration." negotiating teams, who spoke after Johnson Administration's policy of At the Pentagon, where the "Look at the military science the allied delegation leaders, nuclear parity, which he said would asserted that the proposal to restore today trend is a source of deep concern, it course the juniors now take for allow the Russians to achieve is seen as what one naval official credit," he said, reading from the the proper status of the near-equality in the number of Nearly 15% of the black called "an unfortunate chipping offical course description, Demilitarized Zone, as established strategic missiles. away" at the program that provides "leadership, drill, and command; in the 1954 Geneva agreements on students attending Duke, a Vietnam, was only camouflaging At his first news conference great majority of them a major portion of America's pre-camp orientation; small unit Monday, Nixon acknowledged that military officers. tactics and communications; "American aggressive designs." freshmen, have been forced Hanoi's chief delegate, Zuan the term "superiority" tended to to withdraw. Besides voting to take away the counter-insurgency operations." press the Russians to a race in degree credit that undergraduates ''Is that course academically Thuy, accused the U.S. of "We feel that this is a attempting to "force the South nuclear arms. He agreed with the direct result of environmental here receive for some of their hours worthy of credit toward a degree as thrust of a reporter's question, that of military training, the part of a Yale education," Galston Vietnamese population to lay down factors," said Afro-American their arms, and the North nuclear "sufficiency" was perhaps a Society member Stef faculty—virtually autonomous in asked, emphasizing that the faculty better term in that it conveyed the curricular matters—voted to take had stopped far short of Vietnamese population to renounce McLeod. their right to help Their brethren in notion that the U.S. would At 12:30 p.m. today on away the title of "Professor" from recommending that the ROTC be maintain enough nuclear weapons military officers who run the abolished altogether. their fight against aggression." the main quad, there will be a to deter nuclear war and protect discussion led by program. The two-hour Yale faculty This was said to be about as itself in the event of war. close as Hanoi has ever come to Afro-American Society "The commanding officers of meeting today was closed, but the Laird was frankly uncomfortable these units should be designated by vote was reported to have been implying North members on this problem and Vietnamese military intervention about getting tied down by a its implications. a title indicating that they do not about 4 to 1 in favor of the semantic argument. The term have the academic authority usually resolution. (Continued on Page 2) "sufficiency" is a perfectly good Page Two • The Duke Chronicle Friday, January 31, 1969 Paris Peace Talks

(Continued from Page 1) agreed mutual troop withdrawal however, the spokesman said. and an early exchange of prisoners. The session was again held in in the south. Jorden said at last night's news the French government's North Vietnam has never conference: "Our clear impression International Conference Center on admitted that it has regular Army is that they (Hanoi and the Front) the Avenue Kleber near the Arc de troops fighting in South Vietnam. rejected all our proposals." A Triomphe. In a rebuttal near the end of spokesman for Saigon, Nguyen The U.S. spokesman declined to yesterday's session, Lodge Thieu Dan, put it this way: "They comment whether another round of explained that the allies had rejected the entire allied package." private talks was envisaged, or presented the status of the possibly had already started. Jorden Demilitarized Zone, "because it is Allied delegates appeared to be declined to answer the question. an important problem which bracing themselves for another The invective used in yesterday's readily lends itself to a solution." lengthy conference deadlock before discussions did not appear to be The U.S. Chief Delegate added: any serious negotiation on issues conducive to a climate for "Our present problem is to find a of substance could begin. productive confidential contacts. practical point of departure for During a 25-minute recess early The chief delegate for Saigon, making some progress." yesterday afternoon, reporters were Pham Dang Lam, who spoke for 2 The question of tho told by a delegation spokesman, the hours and 20 minutes, with demilitarized zone, Lodge two sides withdrew to their translations, described North, concluded, "will be, in effect, a separate working areas for Vietnamese Communist regime as a pilot project which will enable us to consultation and refreshments. totalitarian dictatorship guilty of forn a pattern for constructive There was no mingling between aggression against the South and work together." Allied and Communist participants, "barbarous" atrocities. y'_ In their rejoinders, the GLENDORA, CALIF: Abandoned car is stuck in mud on football field representatives of Hanoi and the Publisfted every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of the at Pacific College 1/24. Over 2.5 million dollars damage has been estimated Vietcong again rejected discussion' University year except during University holiday and exam periods by the students of Duke University, Durham, N.C Second class postage paid at Durham, in the Giendora-Azusa area from storm which has caused heavy rains and of the Demilitarized Zone. They N.C. Delivered by mail at $10.00 per year- Subscriptions, letters, and other flooding over the last five days. Residents of Glendora neighborhoods, also turned down allied suggestions, inquiries should be mailed to Box 4696, Duke Station, Durham, N.C. 27706. already crippled by flooding waters and mud, evacuated in the face of new submitted in the first plenary flooding. session last Saturday, for an -Laird- (Continued from Page 1) Pentagon sources said that the infiltration rate increased to about 10,000 men in December, up from the 6,000 to 7,000 a month in October and November. Another 30,000 are believed on the way toward South Vietnam through the North Vietnamese Panhandle and the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. The Pentagon's budget review is part of an administration-wide review called for by Nixon, he said. Packard will be in charge of the effort in the Denfese Department. Ourpill. "We are carefully going over (the previous, administration's $79 billion budget) to see that the priorities which have been Does it really work? established.,_are correct," LaVd said. If you've ever resorted to NoDoz* at 4 a.m. NoDoz when you can get caffeine in a In its final days, he said, the Johnson Administration decided the night before an exam, you've probably cup of coffee? against going ahead with a revision been disappointed. Very simple. You take NoDoz all at of the military pay system that would eliminate military fringe NoDoz, after all, is no substitute for once instead of sipping coffee for 10 min­ benefits such as free medical service sleep. Neither is anything else we can utes. And if you take two NoDoz tablets, and, instead, increase military salaries to reflect current non-pay think of. the recommended dosage, you get twice benefits. What NoDoz is is a very strong stim­ the caffeine in a cup of coffee. The budget review would ulant. In fact, NoDoz has the strongest Two tablets—isn't that likely to be consider moving to the new pay stimulantyou can buy withouta prescrip­ habit forming? Definitely not. NoDoz is system, he said, and added: "I believe that if we are ever going to tion:- completely non-habit forming. move in the direction of volunteer Caffeine. Which means it's safe to take forces in the United States, that a modernization of our compensation What's so strong about that? whether you're cramming at night. Or pUn is absolutely needed and If we may cite The Pharmacological about to walk into an 8 o'clock class. Or necessary." Laird also announced these four Basis of Therapeutics: Caffeine is a driving somewhere (even though you're new Navy executive appointments: powerful central nervous stimulant. Caf­ rested) and the monotony of the road feine excites all portions of the central makes you drowsy. John W. Warner, 41, to be Undersecretary of the Navy. A nervous system. Caffeine stimulates all One last thing you should know partner in the Washington Law portions of the cortex, but its main action about NoDoz. It now comes.in two forms. Firm of Hogan & Hartson, Warner has served in the Navy and Marine is on the psychic and sensory functions. Those familiar white pills you take with corps. It produces a more rapid and clearer flow water. And a chewable tablet called Frank Sanders, 49, to be Assistant Navy Secretary for of thought and allays drowsiness and NoDoz Action Aids'. It tastes like a choc­ installations and logistics. He has fatigue. After taking caffeine, one is ca­ olate mint, but it does everything regular been for 16 years a staff assistant on the House Appropriations pable of more sustained intellectual ef­ NoDoz does. Committee, specializing in military fort and a more perfect association of And if you've manag affairs. ideas. There is also a keener apprecia­ to stay awake this Forbet A. Frosch, 40, to tion of sensory stimuli. long, you know continue as Assistant Secretary of Very interesting. But why take that's quite a lot. £""' iSi the Navy for Research and Development, a post he has held since July 1, 1966. And, Charles A. Bowsher, 37, to continue as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management He has held that position since December, 1967. Friday, January 31, 1969 The Duke Chronicle Page Three . At North Pole Soviets see intrigue in mystery note

(C) 1969 N.V. Times News Service has been the excavation, from ice that the expedition failed because were made. and 30 long-haired Siberian ponies. A note seemingly indicative of covering the island, of women's of "animosity" among its The finding was reported It was financed by William Ziegler, defection in an American- shoes, top hats, tail coats and false members? recently by Novosti, the Soviet a millionaire who founded the expedition during the race for the shirt fronts. The note that was found, in a Feature Agency. The report was Royal Baking Powder Company North Pole at the start of this In the cabin of the American state of partial decay, would seem made on the basis of a finding by a and made another fortune in century has been found by Russian leader, the Russians say, was "an to indicate such dissension. Soviet wintering party. real estate. explorers 031 Rudolf Island, infernal machine, the wire of which According to the Soviet account, it Writer's search "Abortive attempts" northernmost point in Soviet extended to the dynamic charge in said: In an effort to elucidate the territory. Fiala had taken part in an earlier the food storage." "We, the opposition, are leaving account, a search has been made by expedition, also financed by Adding to the mystery, Animosity? the camp on Saturday, July 2, this writer of the records of the Ziegler, that failed to achieve the according to the Soviet account, Did this mean, the Russians ask, 1904, having 18 dogs, two ponies American expedition and of an pole. In March, 1904, from his base and an Indian boat." Italian party previously based at the on Rudolf Island, Fiala made two It was signed, the report said, by same site. abortive attempts to start for the "Tess, Veddy and Ralliet." The account written by the Pole. In both cases he was turned Telephone links leader of the American venture, back by bad conditions and a needs you! Also exacavated at the site were Anthony Fiala, a Brooklyn variety of mishaps. "crystal and procelain dishes photographer, made no mention of He decided to remain a second covered with gilt" as well as a small telephones—or "infernal devices." winter and try once more in 1905. The Duke Chronicle needs freshmen and upperclass writers to barrel of rum. All buildings of the However, he said, the camp was join the Feature Staff in its endless pursuit of the humorous, However, according to his accounts, station, the report said, were linked wired for electric lights, powered he allowed all who wished to go colorful, personal, but craftily hidden aspects of "life at Duke." by telephone. by a mile-long wire from the If you're interested, irregardless of writing talents, drop by the home to retreat south to an agreed The base was that used by the expedition ship, which eventually upon rendezvous with a rescue ship. Chronicle office any evening, phone 6588, or visit us this Sunday Ziegler-Fiala expedition of was crushed by ice. at 3 p.m. After the homeward bound 1903-1906. From it three abortive Fiala's expedition was a major party had left, two other men efforts to reach the N«rth Pole enterprise, with 39 men, 218 dogs "made no secret of the fact that they had grown discouraged with the outlook." They took off after the retreating group. However, the ship Terra Nova, assigned to rescue them, was unable to breach the ice and the entire Professionalism at Grumman expedition had to remain another winter. Russian-found note ...is personal development programs The note found by the Russians dates from the time when most of As a graduating engineer, how can you position yourself so that your career chances are con­ Fiala's men, temporarily under his stantly optimized? Answer—get with an aerospace company where the optimum conditions are leadership, had marched south to . . . Grumman. Here we take a keen interest in seeing that our engineers and scientists develop await resuce. personally. We are sincerely interested in their personal progress within the company . . . that While the names given in the Soviet account are garbled, it is they keep abreast of the sweeping advances in technology, not because they can contribute more clear that the note was signed by: (although this is true), but more because it makes for greater individual progress and well-being. Peter L. Tessem, the Norwegian Job satisfaction, if you will. Let's look at these personal development programs. ship's carpenter; Charles E. Rilliet of St. Louis, Mo., quartermaster in Tuition Reimbursement Program Professional Development Programs charge of equipment, and one of Directly applicable to their work, these programs offer Lasting for 2 years, participants are given, in 4 six-months' engineers and scientists financial assistance for graduate terms, an exposure to Grumman operations which broadens the two Vedoes on the'expedition both were from Boston and studies ai ihe many institutions in the Long Island-New their technical knowledge, sharpens ability to make sound 3 1 ; York area. decisions, and raises their career potential. Separate programs probably were brothers.* ' ' serve individuals in Business Systems. Engineering and The episode that gave rise to the In-Plant Courses Manufacturing- Engineering courses, particularly those not available at Senior Engineers' Program note is not described in Fiala's neighboring institutions, to deepen technical knowledge to Intended to overcome the threat of technological obso­ account. He was absent from the the specific needs of the engineering sections. lescence, individual disciplines are updated with regard to camp at the time. When he returned College-Industry Courses new scientific discoveries, new or expanded applications of the three men had apparently Selective attendance for rapid technical updating on funda­ long existing knowledge, and compute:- applications to prob­ ended their defection. mentals, theoretical methods and design information. {One lem solving. From Fiala's account he seems to two weeks' duration.) Senior Management Development Selected individuals within Grumman junior and middle to have remained on good terms Engineering Masters Fellowship Program management groups are nominated to attend management with Rilliet and the two Vedoes, To enhance creative design capability, one-year fellowships, development programs such as the MIT Executive De elop- but he virtually ignores Tessem. renewable for a second year, arc awarded to new engineering ment Program, the Program for Management Development or Bachelor of Science graduates and engineers with a year or Ihe Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. The Soviet report of finery is more company service. Thc program combines two days of puzzling since photographs of the graduate school study with three days of in-plant engineering Basic Principles of Supervisory Management (in fixed or rotating assignments) and covers payment of full A series of discussion sessions provide a course in manage­ expedition at Christmas dinners tuition, books, fees, a stipend, and a salary at engineering hourly ment principles to group leaders who show technical manage­ show no elaborate clothing. rates for the hours worked. ment ability. The Duke It is possible that the Russians, who now maintain a station on Here then is a real opportunity for graduating engineers in AE, CE, EE, ME, IE, Physics and Chemical Rudolf Island, dup up material'left Engineering ... to take their place in the continuum of technology that is Grumman. Grumman representatives will be by L-iigi Amadeo, Duke of -fee On Campus Tuesday Feb. 4 Abruzzi, several years earlier. The Duke, a mountaineer, explorer and a dashing national nterview is not convenient at this time, send com pre hen si a to: Mr. Richard N. Haug. Administrator of College Relations. hero of Italy, made his camp at the Engineering Employment. Dept. GR-ZS1 same site in 1889. His men marched across the pack of ice to within 300 miles of the Pole. ^GRUMMAN The Duke, in his account, told how he and his companions AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING CORPORATION celebrated the birthday of Queen Bethpage • Long Island • , 11714 An Equil Opportunity Employer [M/FJ Marguerita of Italy by opening her gifts. They had been delivered to the expedition when the ship called at Archangel. Feature Staff Don't forget the vital meeting for all Chronicle Feature Staff writers this Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Chronicle office. Don't forget tRje JBuke Chronicle 'ABOUT THIS PRESENT JOHNSON LEFT IN MY OFFICE . The Student Press of Duke University Founded in 1905

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By Mark Pinsky - Realizing that you owe your categorical imperative and you have place of the parent;" political consciousness to Duke and a Liberal for life. And we know a place where Durham would be something of a It all sounds very reasonable as community pressure is manifested cultural shock to most of us here long as you believe that that's the internally by idiotic concern with who regularly talk and play at way it works everywhere. But we four-letter words, by voting down revolution. know a place where it doesn't work the Segregated Facilities Act and Nevertheless, traveling to some that way, don't we gang? NSA affiliation and, externally, by of the more celebrated universities We know a place that not only the crowd at the Wallace rally in of the Northeast tends to indicate freely permits on-campus recruiting the Police Department parking lot; just that. by the Dow War Crimes and Living in such a community for For the last two weeks I visited Atrocity Company, but also owns any period of time, conscious of old friends, high school mates, several thousand shares of stock in any number or these conditions, newspaper editors and "student that company—and has no naturally creates stoics, emigres leaders," (whatever that means) at intention whatever of liquidating or—here it comes,—radicals. Harvard, Yale, Columbia and those holdings. In a community where power is Brandeis—and for a time it seemed We know about a place that divided between an administration impossible to take a step with out owns considerable shares in the which speaks with the garbled bumping into Liberals. Listening to Kodak Corporation and other duplicity of a Richard Nixon and their reasoning was quite companies with significant acts with the stubborn recalcitrance convincing. As far as they were investments in South Africa—and of a Grayson Kirk—and a faculty concerned, things at their schools sees no reason why it has a moral preoccupied with career—building were moving along quite rapidly. In obligation to divest itself of those and institutionalizing mediocrity—it some areas, the faculties and holdings; is not suprising that a radical administrations were moving on We know about a place that political consciousness develops. their own initiatives rather than gives academic credit for R.O.T.C. Beyond the confines of the waiting for the prodding of courses with no hesitation, which University campus there is the students. The concrete examples educates active duty professional effect of the Durham area on all of they gave were difficult to refute: military men, which accepts the newcomers, Northern and By liquidating investments in defense grants and which hosts a Southern. South African concerns, and regional military research For Southerners coming from defense industries, not renewing facility—with no intention whatever rural or small town backgrounds, defense contracts, actively opposing of discontinuing any of these Durham is their first prolonged the Selective Service process, services; "urban experience." They moving corporate interviews off We know about a place that does re-evaluate, from the perspective of campus and stripping R.O.T.C. of not recognize the right of its the campus, their previous attitudes academic credit, they demonstrate workers to organize and bargain about race. Before long, they learn that they are learning the meaning collectively—and does not ever to keep their thoughts on the of the word complicity; intend to recognize these rights—in subject to themselves during visits By establishing Black Studies the year 1969; back home. Eventually, some feel programs, by actively recruiting We know about a place with a totally cut off from their previous black students and faculty and by faculty of over six hundred that existences, as they reject, one by becoming actively involved in has, to date, found and engaged the one, the beliefs on which they cooperative and ambitious services of but one "qualified" rested. programs in the poor and black black man—and isn't bothered Such a process is usually communities, they demonstrate enough by it to do anything about irreversible. Soon they see through that they are learning the meaning it; all that 'New South' crap about of the concept of social obligation; We know about a place that, Durham. Schooled as they have By instituting social regulations within two or three years, may be been in the way of the region, they contemporaneous with this decade, hard put to find anyone under see through the shallowness and they demonstrate that they are thirty-five teaching in the area of cruelty of Durham and the people learning the value of foresight; the social sciences—by a who run in far in advance of their Ail of this may be but window combination of design and Northern classmates. dressing. To most students at these ineptitude; Northerners usually arrive colleges, though, the v.'indow We know about a place that paranoid, if not paralyzed. They dressing-when added to clearly feels, in a time when it appears that come half expecting one of the worded public statements of the nation demands committment n u merous Klansman to mistake intention by the University to if it is to survive, that to say in them for a Jew and lynch them, speak with both action and alacrity public that it stands with the poor, which would make dreadful to the grave issues which face the black and the young—is too reading, even in an obituary, in the America—are usually enough to controversial a statement to make; New Canaan newspaper. keep the students rather optimistic. We know a place where they More or less liberal or And if their University should believe that an institution has a moderately conservative, they are do a no-no, one editor explained to right to tell men who and when still quite unprepared for the overt me, all that is needed is to expose they may have visitors in their and covert racism of the Durham the wrong and community pressure rooms and what time adult women community—from the daily is sufficient enough to force its's have to be in—while maintaining rectification. Just add the that they do not wish to act "in the (Continued on Page 5) Friday, January 31,.^969 The Duke Chronicle Page Five By Bob Entman An open letter to Dr. Knight

Duke University is critically ill. Dr. Knight, is something no one have to act decisively and Each of theje crises, and others research-oriented, status-minded On all fronts it is beseiged by wants: the quite literal destruction courageously. You will have to which you are too familiar with, I of this university as a viable, faculty that Duke's reputation will threats to its quality, its integrity, make an unequivocal committment am sure, cry out for leadership to never rise above mediocrity if its and indeed its very existence. As constructive national institute of to the needs of the blacks of Duke, correct intolerable situations. In higher learning. undergraduate colleges remain President of this institution, the Durham, and American society. each, you will have to fight to intellectually bankrupt; then you ultimate responsibility both for Is it necessary to catalog all of And as yet little discussed overcome one of those forces which must ask them to re-examine their ameliorating, and yes, for allowing these troubles? Perhaps just a few problem is going to surface you have allowed to hinder you in entire professional outlook and the occurence of these conditions, examples might outline the forcefully soon: the academic ethos the past. You must bear this remind them that they are rests with you. dimension of what you, and all of and the intellectual experience burden, because you are the teachers—not just authors or To be fair, in many cases you this academic community too, are which Duke offers its students. president, you are at the top, you lecturers or consultants. have been constrained by forces facing. Someday soon, more than a few are above the selfish interest or You will have to take on, then, difficult to control. Certainly the Duke's financial situation is a concerns of any of these groups or curse of every administrator is the crisis of tremendous proportion. students will perceive the crass, Dr. Knight, three powerful oppressive power of the senior forces. countervailing groups in the excruciating dichotomy between Someone is going to wonder about You will have to say to our priorities in this troubled time, and faculty here, and will awake from university structure. But do not responsibility and authority. At sports-loving alumni that money is forget the fourth, and the most Duke, where the winds of change they are going to question why, for their work induced stupor to ask themselves, and then you, why they tight and that first responsibilities important. Students are involved blow the more rapid because of the instance, half a million dollars is of a university are in the realm of also. They asked you for a genuine school's former backwardness your being used to finance an athletic have spent a year or two or three here, learning NOTHING. the intellect. You will have to committment in at least one area handicaps are further intensified. program. explain to our Board of Trustees last April, and you failed them. This same money could be used They are going to affirm that the But regardless of antecedant university should exist first for that regional and national And the University went on. causes and past mistakes, the to hire perhaps fifty assistant students and their intellectual leadership, and most importantly They will demand this time, question of prime importance now professors to teach 150 new courses morality, require a massive, or sections, or to pay the full advancement, and then they are they will want much more, and if is how to lead Duke out of the going to demand solutions, albeit non-paternalistic committment on you fail again, Duke University is morass of decay, and retrogression, expenses of 150 underprivileged Duke's part to the blacks. beyond salvation. And perhaps then students. People are going to assert new and even radical ones, and ultimate extinction. For the democratically arrived at. Most difficult of all, you will it will not be worth the saving. only alternative, to such leadership, that priorities at a university in this have to persuade our era should lie in the latter direction, and you will have to set them right. "IN THEIR ZEAL to dethrone re­ vealed religion as base supersti­ Another, related, crisis which Words tion and to substitute for it the you soon will have to deal with -Radical- goddess Reason, the philosophies forcefully is that of the University's (Continued from Page 4) who feel that the only problem sometimes went to outrageous relation to Afro-Americans within lengths, denouncing Jews with newspaper down to the between the Good Guys and the such vile slanders that they and without. You would be wise to counterman. And the more they see Bad Guys is one of communication. of shocked the sensibilities of Chris­ count it as good fortune and not of how the system works, the tians of the time. Simultaneously At Duke they're identifiable by administrative legerdemain which power it has to resist any change their game smiles and ulcers. And they were building their own mon­ has so far prevented any major ument for posterity, to be remem­ and what the code words are, the they're all "really nice guys" in bered for their _ confrontation between white Duke more they grow to hate it. much the same way that Hubert r a fre and black Duke. wisdom 'tolerance; (these | ^ m ? ^P/ of One of the good things about Humphrey supporters all seemed to You still have time to prevent four or five or six years at Duke be "really nice guys." of men)." VIEw/w^ D^pV such an incident, with the damaging M, 150 E. 35 Street, and in Durham is that at' least the \ N. Y. 10016. reverberations it must have, lines are clearly drawn. It doesn't Brought into consciousness by whatever the outcome. But you will take too much time or effort to this great institution, and having figure out which side you're on. invested so much of our time ^nd "If it don't fit, don't force our parents money here we are, I So among those who care suppose, compelled to play out our Moms Mabley enough to fight at Duke, there are roles as "constant critics and loyal the Good Guys, the Bad Guys and partners" of Duke University. the Deluded. The Deluded, for Caveat emptor.Let the buyer purposes of elucidation are those beware. Tonight's "I'd rather be stoned in a straight world than straight in a stoned one." FOISTER'S CAMERA STORE Arlo Guthrie easy pick-up Hie Largest Camera Store Leica in Durham-Chapel Hill Kodak Nikon Also featuring Sony tape recorders, "There are a lot of Hasselblad minature TVs, transistor radios processed minds walking around under a lot of natural Complete Photo Supplies Picture Framing haircuts." 161 East Franklin St. Chapel Hill Eldridge Cleaver

We've stretched the weekend. Piedmont Airlines has a plan 00 ^ that can stretch your fun and your funds. The Piedmont Weekend-Plus Plan. 0 You take off on Saturday, and return Sunday or up until noon Monday. Piedmont takes off 2/3 on the return part of your round trip ticket. Take it from the Colonel. .. "it's finger Mckin' Next time you plan a weekend good!'.' Take home Kentucky Fried C n tonight. All you do is pick it up. The •>*.- ;e away, remember our plan. It's got a + in it. is sudden. COLONEL SANDERS' RECIPE Rmtiteky fried -f/kidctK* 7 COLONEL'S TAKE HOMES Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hili- Carrboro PIEDMONT (jMfc AIRLINES 75 LOCATIONS IN 17 Locations We've put regional service All Aiound N ew Jersey, Delaware, on a new plane. Washington. D C Pennsylvania, Maryland Page Six The Duke Chronicle Friday, January 31, 1969

Splendor regained in 'Journey' RIALTO THEATER "Faces" By Charles Poore the traveler. We might call him the something no right-minded diety detailed conversations scattered (that's the way my typewriter likes "Journey into the Mind's Eye," Scarlet Pimpernel of the Russian across crowded decades. She by By Lesley Blanch. 376 pages. Revolution if he didn't have so to spell deity, too) would consider intricately processes data on the Atheneum. $6.95 many mythic—not to say conferring. O God, send me Mamai, novelists, warriors, prelates, John Cassavetes bibliographic—guises. And if he the Tartar, I prayed, grant me an potentates, and condottieri who starring (C) 1969 N.Y. Time; News Service didn't look as though he were Uzberg lover!" made the scene and perished in it. The sense of splendor atrophies about to be played by Yul Brynner. The traveler has vanished. His Don't think a Samovar bubbles Gina Rowland in our age of literary scruffiness. In He was twice her age. He loved to memory makes a short story long. on every page of "Journey into the Seymour Cassel today's book, Lesley Blanch does kiss and tell. There is a liaison with one of the Mind's Eye," by any means. It just her best to revive it. Above all, he peculiarly loved to traveler's natural sons. She becomes seems that way. Nor are all the 2:25, 4:47, 6:50, 9:03 If only for variety, one wishes impress a small girl. One wonders an honorary member of Russian feasts fantastic, and all the whether there wasn't fairer game in exile groups everywhere. amenities splendid. But I must say I her well as one reads her "Journey Voted one of the year's ten into the Mind's Eye." The book the London of that era. Anyway, The computeristic aspects of haven't encountered such a love of he got her family to let her go to Miss Blanch's story are formidable. intrigue combined with such a love best by 21 newspapers in­ promises a change from the current cluding the New York Times standardizations of hard-breath ing Paris under ineffectual Her memory bank retrieves of luxuries since I last read a novel depravity. It's a wash with glittering chaperonage. In France he seduced verbatim records of immensely about James Bond. panoply. her, or vice versa. But the richest action is offstage. A little later, they had a QUADRANGLE PICTURES What happens before our eyes has a Corsican interlude. It sounds, I'm Page Aud. Sat. and Sunday, afraid, like something scribbled by second-hand luster. The fare is 7:05 and 9:00 p.m. called "fragments of an Byron in a fallow season. Or, autobiography," and many of its remembering Coleridge's bit about shards seem to have been gathered a woman wailing for her demon in libraries bulging with volumes on lover, hear this representative DR. FAUSTUS Russia under the 19th-century czars. "While Marie Bashkirtseff, being with Miss Blanch's infatuation with Russian, saw- romance in that land began in a London Anglo-Saxon terms, and invoked Richard Burton The nursery, long before World War I. heaven for an English nobleman, I There, a galvamcally exotic Russian aspired to some wilder image, and Elizabeth Taylor friend of her shadowy family told her tales of grand dukes, Stereo revolutionists, peasants, princesses, 286-7761 politics, battles, caviar and "Richard Burton has stamped champagne. Faustus with a swirl of Color, Mood, and Intensity!" She never calls him anything but William Wolf-Cue Suitcase "Burton's performance burns with a demonic fire and soars with the magic of his voice!" 2414 ERWIN RD. Arthur Knight-Sat Review lTHHE KLH* Model Eleven stereo By D-afc* Uotvority I phonograph is the first portable •*- you can take with you and take seriously. QUADRANGLE n The Model Eleven lets you take PICTURES Beefeaters 'Haven' high-performance stereo wherever there is an AC outlet. It will fill a dorm room, a "Dr. Faustus" summer cottage, or the living room back home Raleigh-Durham an-aas with the kind of sound once available only from a Highway massive and expensive Ph. 787-3505 sound-system. RIALTO Basil Built around a remark­ ."Faces" able pair of miniature KLH speakers, the Model

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RC/1 Read and Dee Classified Ads! Page Eight The Duke Chronicle Friday, January 31, 1969 L.A. hit by massive mudslides; losses high

By Gladwin Hill things have been taken care of Expert or not, the seller's hands, such as vegetation, at least one year against settling or C) 1969 N.Y. Times News Service forever by somebody. But where investigator is in the pay of the and subsequent uphill residential landslide damage. there's so much hillside building builder rather than the city. And if and street development. Even the The city council spend 16 LOS ANGELES-"In five and grading going on, you can't findings don't meet legal post-construction installation of a months discussing the minutes we had two feet of mud all always predict." specifications, builders get swimming pool can upset the recommendations, and only last over the house," said Mrs. John A scientist described the Los "variance" permits by the original builder's stability July enacted some of the less Caulfield, a Glendora housewife. Angeles basin, rimmed with hills thousands from an appeals board calculations. forceful points. "It came in first through the dining and mountains up to 8,000 feet, as whose members are drawn often In March, 1967 an ad hoc The net result has been that room windows, then burst in the "a geological junk pile." The from the building and engineering committee of experts and citizens insurance companies generally front door. I don't think the house ground may range, within a few fields. appointed by Mayor Samuel Yorty won't touch landslide, mud-slide or issalvagable." hundred yards, from firm granite to Penalties for ordinance to study the landslide problem flood damage coverage on hillside The grim scene was repeated slippery clay strata which, when violations are in the misdeamor turned in a report with 50 homes. Victims generally have to "scores of times in Los Angeles' saturated, ooze sheets of mud or bracket—six months in jail or a recommendations. One of them was console themselves simply with the recent 10-day seige of rain. The lubricate massive shifts in topsoil $1,000 fine—and no one can that builders be required to provide fact that they are still around to Caulfield family consider overburden. remember anyone's going to jail. insurance or bonding of homes for start over again. themselves lucky—relatively. Los Angeles geological Even when some hillside home Mudslide's and landslides killed at peculiarities made little difference builders are scrupulous, they are least a dozen people, smothering until after World War II, when seldom if ever in a position to give a some in their beds. millions of new residents streamed buyer an iron-clad guarantee. The ^mty-v^c^^^^s^^^^^ Why? in. Until 1952, there were virtually long-term stability of hillsides may When nature bevels the hillsides no restraints on hillside grading. In depend on factors outside the 'rimming Los Angeles, it stabilizes 1963, over an avalanche of them at an average angle of about lamentations from from builders 20 degrees. Los Angeles city and home financers, the city MILTON'S ordinances countenance man-made adopted a 2-1 slope limit, meaning Need A Date? slopes of a steeper 30 degrees. And a maximum one-foot drop in a thousands of homes have gone up distance of two feet horizontally. Find that ipacial on hillsides ranging upward of 45 But this and a bookful of other guy or gal exactly FEBRUARY degrees. regulations have been widely These circumstances are one neutralized by expediency. Builders suited for you. factor in the metropolis's recurrent are supposed to get expert scourges of small landslides. Other geological sounding as a basis for Computa-Dat* factors are unusual geology, their plans. But under state law, FROGSTRANGLER inadequate laws, unscrupulous any civil engineer can call himself a Corp. developers, at least tacit corruption "soil engineer," whether he has This is the deal of deals that has made and human wrecklessness. studied soil mechanics or not. Milton's famous through the years. Or­ "People buy houses more casually than they do an ganized pandemonium prevails—the ser­ automobile," a real estate agent AU Roads Durham Laad to Fha Points and-.. vice will be lousy but the buys great! remarked this week. "They like the This is the fight everybody wins and view, or the kitchen, or the George's Pizza Pa/ace comes out ahead except Milton's! closets—but they give no thought to fundamentals like drainage and TeL 682-5160 erosion. They assume these Grqup dacron/cotton twill spring sport coats cut from $45.00 to HALF PRICE!

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