Ylewpolnt Awareness

The day of awareness here Friday, housmg, etc., with the $30 billion left - and demonstrations thro\U!hout the this would result in the greatest nat1on both Friday and Saturday, rearrangement of spending priorities have never, in the past, been since Franklin D. Roosevelt. That is enough to steer the Nixon why I believe the Party Bosses would Administration off course of policy. never upport McGovern. Only the Vietnamization : the idea that the South future will tell who the Democratic Vietnamese will ultimately be able to candidate for President will be. Cer­ handle themselves in a ground war tainly, voting cannot hurt us if we are with their much stronger and dedicated aware of the ends, not particularly the foe, the Viet Cong and the North candidate, we hope to see ac­ Vietnamese, is clearly a Nixonite complished. The two party system may dream. ultimately teach us that all Democracy The Associated Press has reported is in reality, a choice between which numerous accounts of South Viet­ candidate we think is going to oppress namese fleeing from battle conflict and us the least. Let's hope not. maintains, "The U.S. Command is As a University community, we have concerned because South Vietnamese a committment to make against human units are more inclined to stay in one exploitation and destruction. To place than to move into field against shatter the propaganda the Nixon the enemy." Nixon's idea, that the Machine puts out, to splinter and South Vietnamese are willing to die for fragment the American people, should the undemocratic Thieu regime, is a be the first part of our campaign. We cruel hoax on the American People, yet must get off our tired asses, stung with an even crueler one on the Vietnamese disillusionment , and begin to unite themselves, forced, through con­ ourselves. scription, to fight their countrymen in a war that has been continued only May 4 there is planned national through American control. demonstrations and rallies to com­ Obviously, the Thieu army simply merate Kent State and to tell Nixon does not have the popular support it that the American people will not allow needs to engage in effective battle. Yet him to destroy Vietnam. ln Baltimore a Nixon has committed himself to sup­ rally will take place at the Federal porting the Thieu regime. Building. So Nixon's next step will be more and Many of us are so tired of marching, more the actions of a desperate man. so disillusioned that we feel there is Most American people know we must nothing we can do and so we do just end our bloody involvement in Viet­ that; nothing. A self-fullfilling nam. Will Nixon's next step lead to a prophecy. True, students alone as with nuclear confrontation with Russia faculty, marching, won't pressure and/ or China If so, must we watch Nixon to end the war. We must 'And in the beginning •.. there was pre-registration.' ourselves be destroyed? pressure our Congressman. We must We cannot wait until the Presidential organize in our community, all of us election rolls around -- for by then, concerned with human life, throwing Nixon may totally annihilate the any other differences out the door. Vietnamese people. When we are together we must reach Fil111 No doubt the Nixon Administration out to those outside of these university The Nightcomers wants the war over with, for it is walls - the American People. clearly a sticky thorn in its political McGovern, doing so well in the future. Yet at the same time, it cannot primary races, in fact is now the front Audiences all over the country have to keep her at their cottage, Call in­ allow National Liberation Movements runner, because the American people been so deeply involved with The nocently and with good intent), and in Indochina to succeed. It's alliance realize this country must be changed Godfather that we have barely had then kill Quint so that he can remeet his with business is far too strong. Cor­ drastica1ly. time to look around us to see what else lover after death. porate entanglements like I. T. T. , Bank The working class of America is far is new. Critics and other avid movie Perhaps we are being told to beware of America, Standard Oil, General from being as ignorant or reactionary goers are tempted to concede next of the minds and thoughts of children. Electric and others have far too much as many portray it to be. All of us, year's Oscars for Best Picture to They are too trusting and fragile. capitol invested in Indochina. To allow except a rare few, will ourselves, or are Godfather and Best Actor to Marlon The children Cplayed by Verna third world peoples self determination now, working class people. Prices are Brando. Harvey and Christopher Ellis) are an would be a risk to their profits, profits rising, wages remain constant, While all of this attention has been isolated twosome who, through watch· obtained from the laboring classes who unemployment is growing - and it focused on Brando in this film, he has ing the strange love making of Quint get paid barely enough to stay alive. becomes harder to find a secure in­ been busy putting out another film--The ana Jessal, pr;tc ice the techmques on To a close observer of American come. If we attempt to change this Nightcomers. The film , adaped from each other. The frightening part of this history, Vietnam is not an isolated country without going outside Henry James The Turn Of The Screw, incestual play is that they believe it is mistake in American foreign policy but university walls we will be reliving the is presented as 2 plots bound together all real and natural. a recurrent theme. It was nothing for past and getting nothing accomplished. by people and places. Peter Quint, A second plot is woven around the any past administration to send If we treat the common people with played by Brando in a similar scratch­ sadistic love affair of Quint and the American troops into other nations to neglect or hostility, Nixon will turn the ing and pulling style as Stanley governess, Jessal. She submits to his quell local uprisings there. The Bay of common people against us. He's done Kowalski, is an Irish valet to a wealthy beatings and torture but always feels Pigs fiasco, later the invasion of the so before. man who lives on a huge estate deep in rotten afterwards. But for them, that is Dominican Republic, opened my eyes If Vietnam is destroyed by our Cambridge, England. love. It is hopelessly confined to the to the truth about American overseas government all of us, regardless of The two children are charged to the grounds of the estate and never has any relations. Our military incursions into position. share the responsibility for care and upbringing of their nanny, real chance of success. Brando and foreign markets were nothing more allowing it to happen. It is time to Miss Jessal (Stephanie Beacham) on Beacham are an excellent couple who than invasions against the peoples of speak the truth about the their the sudden death of their parents. But perform intensely on the screen. Their those nations themselves, threatening government. It is time to organize and they take more easily to the mumbling meetings are selaom but always insure them with U.S. might if they dared leaflet outside the university com­ Quint. Quint is a sensitive and profound an awakening of the plot. create a society unfavorable to the munity. To reach the workers- to show man who loves life, telling the children. Towards the middle to the film, the interests of the American Corporate them what 70 billion dollars spent on his philosophies Cthat they take too action begins to drag and temporary dollar. defense does to their wallets and literally), and Miss Jessal, with whom boredom sets in. But it is so temporary Thus the recent discovery of a plan pocketbooks - to show them that he shares a most masochistic sexual that it hardly gives us time for a short between I.T.T. and the C.I.A. to without a lot of money America's relationship. The housekeeper (Thora nap. Brando's presence on the screen is overthrow the elected President of hospital will almost let you bleed to HirdJ hates, and is hated, by Quint. so exciting that the character he plays Chile comes as no great shock. death - smog, pollution, smokestacks - The first plot of The Nightcomers is liable to get lost. But Peter Quint is Third world peoples struggling for cars built, to scrunch on impact - is the relationship of the adolescent portrayed with great emotion by national liberation know the link inadequate transportation - sub­ children and Quint. They cling Brando, as a man who only wants the between the C.I.A., the American standard, over-expensive housing - to him at every available second love of Jessal and the friendship of the Military, and American Corporations. Need 1 go on. Let's get off our desks and in an effort to learn about the children. But his method of educatinc Our society must undergo basic chairs people, showing them foremost real world. He is crude and frank with them leads to his death and the changes if peoples of the world in­ the love they deserve. Effete Snobs - them, speaking to them on as if they children tragic miscomprehensions on cluding ourselves, are to be able to' live isn't that what we all have been. Empty were adults. love and We. a secure, happy life. Yet how can this intellects, all of us. That's why we are He fails to explain to them that when The Nlgbtcomers will never be a social change be brought about. Voting as weak and as powerless as we are. he says, "if you love someone, classic film, but it is an enjoyable one, for a candidate like McGovern if Let us go to the working people and we sometimes you can kill them" he is and if it weren't for Brando, the ftlm elected by his party, who says he ~ill shall find the strength we've never being over emphatic and figurative. would fall lazily to the carpet of the cut the defense budget alrnPJt jn half, known before. This, taken literally by the children, theatre. cnatinc healtb insuranc,, better ·--Alan Schniderman• leads them to kill Mfss