Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-28-1970 The BG News April 28, 1970 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 28, 1970" (1970). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2452. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2452 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. An Bowling Green, Ohio Independent April 28, 1970 Student Voice ■me BG news Volume 54 Number 93 Nixon mum on aid to Cambodia area WASHINGTON (AP)-The White supply Cambodia with small arms for people with the Cambodian issue. House fended off yesterday questions on defensive weapons but no U.S. military Both Mansfield and Scott spoke out the dispatch of U.S. arms to beleaguered advisers. against sending any U.S. manpower to Cambodia and Americans to advise the "I am in no position to discuss with Cambodia, but Scott did not oppose Cambodian forces. you where the President stands in his weapons aid. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told decision," Ziegler said. Sen. Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, newsmen he was not in a position now to The implication was that the the assistant Republican leader, says say when President Nixon would reach a President has come to no firm con- shipment of some U.S. arms to Cambodia decision on what to do and said that "I do clusion. Ziegler said the chief executive could help shorten the war in Vietnam. not intend to establish a time frame." is conferring on the course of events in But Mansfield joined Sen. Edmund S. The press secretary was questioned Cambodia and of course is concerned Muskie i D-Maine) in opposing arms aid specifically about a New York Daily with them. But other than that, he said, to the beleaguered Cambodian govern- News report from Saigon that the ad- he was not going to characterize the ment. ministration has decided to principle to situation in Cambodia. Muskie said helping the Cambodians As Secretary of State William P. with arms would only result in getting Rogers prepared the Senate Foreign America "sucked in" another Vietnam- Cambodia bids Relations Committee at a closed af- style conflict. ternoon session, senators expressed Scott and Mansfield talked with varying viewpoints on what should be newsmen at the Capitol. Griffin and to equip army done. Muskie spoke out on Sunday radio- Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott television programs a day after of Pennsylvania said he would hate to see Secretary Rogers said the Cambodian with U.S. aid American military men sent into fighting results from a foreign invasion, Cambodia lest "we slide into a situation not a civil war. such as we slid into in Vietnam." Rogers urged other nations to con- WASHINGTON (AP)-Secretary of Aiionatcd Pr»if Wlr*phofO State William P. Rogers was quoted as The Democratic leader, Sen. Mike sider action against North Vietnam for telling the Senate Foreign Relations Mansfield of Montana said no U.S. violating international accords in the A CAMBODIAN SOLDIER plows through the located 18 miles south of Phnom Penh. Alrstrikes and Committee Monday that Cambodia is weapons should be sent either, but Scott increased Cambodian hostilities. smouldering ruins of what was once the town of Saang. artillery fire reduced the village to nibble last week. seeking enough U.S. military assistance indicated he thought some weapons to equip a large army with everything might be needed there. Vote on abolishment next week from trucks to planes. Ziegler did not rule out sending Chairman J.W. Fulbright (D-Ark.l American advisers to the far east nation said it appeared from Rogers's but gave no direct comment on this. testimony at a 2H hour closed session "When the President has a matter that the administration has not made a under consideration," he said, "I am decision on whether to give the Asian simply not going to respond to questions Students hold Council's fate nation assistance. Fulbright said Rogers that come forward." was told that the committee is firmly Asked whether Nixon regards the Cambodian situation as a crisis, Ziegler By Jim Smith "If the referendum calling for students that achieving needed change "Student Council sees no reason why against sending any aid to Cambodia. abolishment passes," remarked Rep. Art A White House spokesman em- said he was not going to characterize the Issue Editor involves great amounts of research, this earliest possible date cannot be situation except to say that of course Toalston, co-sponsor of the measure, "we persuasion, and positive actions." December 1, 1970." phasized meanwhile that the United may have officers, but they just won't States has an overriding interest in Nixon is concerned with the trend of Ijke a grant from the governor, "Student Council supports the When the question of abolishment was meet. Cambodia. events and conferring with his key ad- Student Council voted itself a stay of creation of a summer commission to first aired at last week's Council visers on them. execution last night. The final verdict is "It seems to me," he continued, "that draw up a working documented proposal meeting, Thatch-one of the proponants No one was saying definitely that this if we didn't have student government for foreshadowed a favorable presidential The President, Ziegler said, talked in the hands of the students. for a community council, and that such a of the move-emphasized that such an Sunday and again Monday with Rogers, At their meeting last night, Council a while, we could get all the other people community council be put into operation action would be the first step toward decision on the embattled Asian nation's working for something concrete." bid for U.S. arms. But that possibility Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird members voted 12-1 to place the question at the earliest possible date." achieving a community council. Student Council President Greg was not definitely foreclose* either. and Henry A. Kissinger, the President's of abolishment on a referendum ballot as I top foreign affairs aide. part of next week's student body election. Thatch also co-sponsor of the measure, Press secretary Ronald I.. Ziegler called the bill "an opportunity for was asked whether President Nixon Ziegler did give an affirmative an- The referendum will give students swer to one inquiry, whether the four choices from which to choose: Student Council to go out to the con- Mass arrests beginning regards the Cambodian situation as a stituents and find out what they need. crisis. Ziegler said he was not going to government has been in touch with other -Student government should continue nations on Cambodia in the last few days. to work as it does now. This would be more of a mandate than characterize it beyond saying that the any constitutional provision," he added. chief executive is concerned about the But he would not say what ones. Asked -Student government should be of new Russian purge? whether the United States is suggesting maintained, but with its primary em- Toalston refused to accept a course of events and is meeting with his suggested editorial change by a con- advisers regarding them." that other countries in the area help phasis on a community council. MOSCOW tAPI-Mass arrests by Moscow were arrested," indicating that stituent which would consider all Soviet secret police and trials Fulbright said Rogers also told the Cambodia, the press secretary replied -Student government should be some escaped the KBG net. students not voting in the referendum to reminiscent of the Stalin era were The bearers of the Samizdat also committee there was a "very tentative that "we certainly don't oppose that." abolished, and all efforts of participation And he replied with a straight-out should be channeled in a University have voted for abolishment. He insisted reported yesterday by Russian reported a number of trials and con- move" among some Asian nations to take that the referendum provided students some action among themselves regar- "no" to a question whether additional committee to establish a community dissidents. Some feared it was "the victions across the country. All the legal captured Soviet-made weapons have council. with am ample opportunity to voice their beginning of a widespread purge." proceedings occurred this month, and all ding Cambodia. opinions on the issue. In the biggest single arrest, 160 Fulbright told newsmen a number of been sent to Cambodia in the last 24 -Student government should be were interrupted for two days last week hours. abolished. The question was originally scheduled Tartars were rounded up by KGB plain- so they would not mar the Lenin an- committee members also expressed to go on this Thursday's primary slate, clothesmen in Moscow during last week's opposition to shipping captured Russian The White House spokesman was If students do, indeed vote for abolish- niversary. unwilling to relate a double post- ment, the election of officers and but was put off until next Thursday's Uiiin centennial celebrations. A university history teacher and three AK47 rifles from South Vietnam to primary ballot. Some members felt the The Tartars had come to Moscow to Cambodia, as was started by the Saigon ponement of National Security Council representatives will, in effect, be invalid; students who protested "the resurrection additional time was necessary to demonstrate in front of the I«nin Library of Stalinism" were sentenced for periods government last week with U.S.