University of Southern California
DAILY @ TROJAN
VOL. LXIV
NO. 114
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1972
ANTIWAR MESSAGE—David Harris, antiwar activist, stood at the foot of Tommy Trojan and protested against what he called the massacre in Asia. Harris
DAVID HARRIS SPEECH
is trying to get an antiwar initiative on the November ballot. Harris spoke in front of approximately 350 students. DT photo by Will Hertzberg.
War termed massacre
“Richard Nixon is right that there is not a war in Southeast Asia—not in any way, shape or form. That is a massacre!” said David Harris, antiwar activist. Monday.
Speaking at noon in front of Tommy Trojan, he discussed the escalation of the Southeast Asia air war.
Harris, who spent 20 months in LaTuna Federal Prison for draft evasion, termed the Vietnam situation the “war that’s supposed to be over.”
He said that the war is by far not over but there have merely been changes resulting from the political conditions that now exist.
“People have become sick and tired of their husbands, fathers, brothers, and cousins coming home in plastic sacks, so the foot soldier has now been replaced by machines,” he said.
“So now it’s a war without American foot soldiers because foot soldiers do the dying and dead Americans are obvious to the people of Chicago and Cincinnati. It’s a war where Asians die. And that’s very hard for Americans to see. Asia is a long way away.
“For all their lives Americans have understood war as something that happens to someone they love in a trench with a rifle in his hand.
“The government no longer wages war that way, and if that is the only thing you know to be war, the war is over. And that’s what the government continues to say. The new offensive is called a withdrawal.”
Harris said that there are three basic types of machines that are now used. The first is the drone, a mechanism which flies by radio signal and explodes when it hits the ground.
Second are the B52’s. They can carry 30 tons of high explosives and a group of six can level an area V2 mile by 3 miles long, he said. Last, there are the aircraft carriers. They carry 5,000 men, 85 planes and cost $2 million a day to run, he said. There are now five off the coast of Asia and two more on the way.
Complimenting the great machines are electronic sensors which are dropped all over Vietnam, he said. Their purpose is to detect life on the ground and to relay the information to computers in Thailand and California, he continued.
There are three types of weapons used in bombardment, he said. The first is the explosive that is dropped from the B52 and explodes upon ground contact.
Harris claims, though, that most bombing is done using the two other types of bombs—burning and the fragmentations.
There are two burning types—phosphorus, which ignites upon contact with oxygen, and napalm, which ignites when it hits the ground, said Harris.
Both are extremely deadly since they are made so that the flames stick to the skin, making it impossible to knock off, he said.
The anti-personnel fragmentation bombs are about the size
Princeton prof to talk
Walter Kaufmann, professor of philosophy at Princeton University, will speak on “The New Integrity” at noon today in the Student Activities Center. The speech is sponsored by Great Issues Forum.
Kaufmann is an author, educator and translator. He has been teaching philosophy at Princeton University since 1947. In addition to his lecture courses and graduate seminars at Princeton, he is acting director of the Gausse Seminars in Criticism.
In 1962 Kaufmann was awarded the Leo Baeck Prize for his achievements in the humanities. He has translated ten of Nietzsche’s major works as well as Goethe’s “Faust.”
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of a volleyball. They are dropped in clusters and explode 10 to 15 feet off the ground with each sending shrapnel flying to cover the area of a football field.
“They are made of fiberglass, which has its advantages because you can’t find fiberglass with an x-ray,” Harrison sa d.
Harris added “We have dropped more bomb tonnage in this war than was ever dropped in the total history of the world before.”
Ill Vietnam, a Vietnamese con-script army with an annual desertion rate of 40% is used, he said.
“Only the American people can stop the war because they own the machines that are leveling those people into jelly and melting their chins into their chests and cutting their legs and arms to stumps,” Harris said.
“After 10 years of telling us that it was going to end I don’t believe those people anymore.”
Because he doesn’t. Harris is starting a petition to get the folio wing initiative on the November California ballot:
“Be it resolved the people of the State of California are opposed to the further bombardment of South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, by American military personnel, planes and equipment and that they call for the immediate withdrawal of all LT.S. military and logistical support and presence from these countries. The elected officials of the State of California shall do all in their power to prevent the utilization of the manpower to prevent the utilization of the manpower, tax monies, and other resources of the state for the prosecution of U.S. military and logistical support and presence in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.”
To qualify for the November ballot the petition needs 500.000 signatures by the third week of June.
Spock to talk on radicalism
By RICHARD SIMON Staff Writer
Dr. Benjamin Spock, 1972 presidential candidate and critic of the U.S. military-industrial complex, will discuss “A Radical Political Alternative for 1972” today at 2 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. The speech is sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness.
In 1968, as a member ofthe Boston Five, Dr. Spock was convicted on charges of conspiring to counsel draft evaders and sentenced to two years in prison. An appeals court later overturned the conviction.
Dr. Spock. author of several medical books on child care, first became involved in the peace and disarmament movement in 1962. He said Americans are at the mercy of the military-industrial complex and its auxiliaries—Congress, labor and the press.
“I recognized that the war in Vietnam is only one episode in the tireless effort of American industry and government to increase their control over other parts of the earth,” he said.
“I decided that we are not likely to save the world by attempting to reform the old parties, which are financially so indebted to business, but must build a new political movement that will be unambiguously anti-imperialist and responsive to human needs,” said Dr. Spock.
Last November. Dr. Spock was nominated for president by the founding convention of the People’s Party. A second convention will be held this summer in order to confirm Dr. Spock’s candidacy.
Dr. Spock said Vietnam is not an isolated mistake in American foreign policy. “American foreign policy has always been as aggressive as it had the power to be. Our Mexican War in 1848 was a deliberate effort to steal two-fifths of Mexico.”
Dr. Spock also said the Spanish-American War was provoked by Americans for a combination of strategic, financial and journalistic reasons.
“Our Monroe Doctrine was not for the protection of Latin America, as we were taught in school,” Dr. Spock said. “It was a notice to European nations that we alone would dominate the Western Hemisphere, which, by and large, we have succeeded in doing, industrially and politically.”
Election board hears impassioned charges
The hearings on the ASSC elections opened with impassioned charges concerning mainly the Student Court. Charges were also made against Kent Clemence, former ASSC president, Michael Lance Trope, candidate for vice-president of academic affairs, and the Daily Trojan.
Larry Platt, a candidate for junior representative, testified to the board that as he was about to file for office, Kent Clemence took him to a private office and said, “I know you want a position on the court. If you want it you can get it.” Platt said Clemence wanted him to drop out of the race and become campaign manager for a friend of Clemence who was running for junior representative.
Joel Jacobs, former Associated Men Students president, said that in February or March he had said he probably wouldn’t run for office because he couldn’t afford it. “Trope reached in his pocket and pulled out a roll of bills,” Jacobs said. “He took two $100 bills and put them in my hand and said, ‘Now you can run your campaign.’ ”
Jacobs also testified that Trope had once said to him. “Don’t raise your voice to me. If you ever do this to me again I’ll have you done in. I’ll have you run through.”
“There is a common joke on the third floor of the student union,” Jacobs said, “that you weren't anybody until Mike had threatened your life.”
Trope admitted to financing some people’s campaigns and said he was “proud ofthe fact.” He said he had financed Laura
Kotsiris’ campaign for vice-president of academic affairs. Kotsiris withdrew from the race and Trope said it was because she felt she might become his puppet.
Trope said to the board, “You realize that I am easy to badger, I anger easily.” He said students resent the fact that he can afford to finance other people’s campaigns.
The action of the Student Court in throwing out write-in votes in the election was defended by justice Peter Clinko, who said the court was following a strict interpretation ofthe Elections Code. But Clinko said he felt the court would have been more susceptible to criticism if it had tried to interpret the spirit of the code, as some have demanded.
Bernard Beck, a journalism junior, told the court that throughout the election he had seen Clemence, Trope and Steven Knowles, chief justice of the Student Court, in deep conversation. “They could have been talking about the weather but come now,” said Beck. “It won’t hold up in court but neither did 1.242 write-in votes.”
James Booker a write-in can
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Noon singer to ’ play own music
A folksy sound will be heard at the noon ASSC concert behind the Student Activities Center today.
Tret Furie. who played two weeks ago in the Bitter Ashtray, will play and sing Uier own music._______________