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RAINY DAY ROMANCE—Thunder showers soaked the campus and washed the smog from the sky yesterday, providing clever students with an opportunity to use the old "Want to share my umbrella?" trick. DT photo by Will Hertzberg.
Board named to study ASSC election fairness
Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, appointed two faculty members yesterday to join Robert Mannes, dean for student life, on a committee assigned to study the question of fairness in the ASSC primary elections.
Francis Jones, professor oflaw. and Alvin McLean, newly appointed chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department, will review affidavits and formal appeals and hear testimony regarding the fairness of the spring election process, said Nowak. Mannes was appointed chairman of the committee on Monday following an indefinite postponement of elections.
Nowak said the election review board’s study will include an analysis of all the factors which may have influenced the election in a manner contrary to the governing statements of the ASSC and the university.
He said that upon completion of its study, the board will make recommendations concerning areas of university rules and regulations which may have been violated in the election process.
“The proceedings should be completed with all due speed, but not to the detriment of whatever time schedule this matter dictates to ensure an adequate examination of the issues involved.” Nowak said.
Expert says China has no policy of aggression
By MIKE REVZIN Staff Writer
The three million man army on mainland China is not a major threat to world peace, nor is it being directed toward a policy of agression, a China expert said here Wednesday.
Allen Whiting, a political science professor from the University of Michigan, was one of five of the nation s leading experts on China who spoke at the daylong conference on China and the world, at Edison Auditorium in Hoffman Hall.
This Institute of World Affairs Conference was sponsored by the school of politics and International Relations.
Later in the program. Alfred Jenkins, a State Department expert who accompanied President Nixon and Henry Kissinger on their recent trips to China, discussed the significance of the new interaction with China. He spoke from a historical perspective on U.S.-China relationships since China became communist in 1949.
Although China hasgreat manpower, its army is not modernized or mobilized, said Whiting. The army’s inadequate logistics and transportation system cannot support it, and many of its men are tied up in civilian projects such as construction.
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China is confronted with hostile forces at many of its borders, and its navy and air force are far below the capabilities of any major power, Whiting continued.
The Chinese see the United States as unpredictable and, as a result, would not attempt territorial expansion if the United States was to withdraw from Vietnam, he said.
For example, the United States originally stated it would not give military protection to Taiwan, and later spent billions of dollars there. Therefore, the Chinese would not see a withdrawal from Vietnam as a definite sign that the United States would not again intervene.
Even China’s efforts to become a nuclear power can be seen as defensive measures, said Whiting. During and after the Korean War, the United States directly threatened China with nuclear weapons. Should China decide not to go the nuclear route under these circumstances, it would be truly amazing, he said.
“I know it’s difficult to see the Chinese in a deterrence posture, because we're accustomed to looking at ourselves in the deterrence posture,” said Whiting.	(Continued	on page 6)
By PETER WONG News Editor
The antiwar demonstrations Saturday in Los Angeles and New York will show the public that contrary to President Nixon’s pledges, the war in Southeast Asia is not winding down, an organizer of the demonstrations said Wednesday.
“President Nixon is caught in a contradiction of his own mak-ing. He ran in 1968 pledging peace in Vietnam, yet he wants to win the war. too,” Jim Gotesky, regional coordinator for the Student Mobilization Committee, said in an interview. The Student Mobilization committee is one of the groups in the April
22	West-National Peace Action Coalition, which is sponsoring the demonstrations.
Gotesky said the latest military actions in Southeast Asia and increased U.S. support for the South Vietnamese (including air strikes on Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam) prove the antiwar movement’s basic claim that Vietnamization is not working.
“Nixon’s rhetoric is now so obvious to the American public. Vietnamization is a military policy, one that depends on U.S. technological force to back up
the South Vietnamese,” Gotesky said.
“The Nixon administration will not permit the Saigon government to fall, nor will it let the South Vietnamese economy free of its ties with the United States.”
Because of the increased military action in Southeast Asia, attention has been refocused on the war, and the nationwide demonstrations Saturday will help the antiwar movement’s cause, Gotesky said.
In Los Angeles, the demonstration will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at Bronson Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard and finish at MacArthur Park, where at 1 p.m., a rally will take place.
Among the speakers will be the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, chairman ofthe Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Carole Feraci, a member of the Ray Conniff Singers who displayed an antiwar sign at a White House gala; and Anthony Russo, codefendant (with Daniel Ellsberg) in the Pentagon Papers case concerning U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Presidential candidates have also been invited to speak.
Such demonstrations, Gotesky said, have been effective in the past in influencing President
New governance plan to be released soon
By LOREN LEDIN
A plan for university governance is currently under study by the university’s lawyers, the governance committee chairman told a University Senate meeting yesterday.
Henry Reining, dean of Von KleinSmid Center and chairman of the second governance committee. said the lawyers will review the plan for possible problems, after which the complete plan will be made public.
Reining outlined the plan, in which an all-university assembly will be the key decisionmaking agency. President John Hubbard is known to favor such an assembly.
The assembly plan is an alternative to the plan in the original Articles of Governance first issued in October, 1970, in which a 15-member council of students, faculty and deans would have been the key decision-making agency. Hubbard appointed a second committee in September to come up with something other than the council as a model.
In other senate business, Z.A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research, said the Carnegie Foundation has given the university an opportunity to start an accelerated degree program, in which students may obtain their
degrees in three years. Many colleges have begun such programs.
The foundation will fund such a program here if it approves a plan submitted to it by the university.
Kaprielian also said that 100 students with marginal academic records will be admitted to the university this fall under an experimental program. A supervisor will review the students’ progress and rate the program’s success.
President Hubbard briefly spoke about the 1972-73 budget of $104 million, approved April
5	by the Board of Trustees, saying he was pleased with the efforts to make every dollar count, but was not pleased about the continuing financial problems.
Amid howls of laughter by some members, the senate adopted a resolution by Frederic Coonradt, associate professor of journalism, that directs Campus Security officers to restrict stray dogs on campus.
The resolution instructs the officers to enforce two sections of the Municipal Code—one prohibiting stray dogs and cats from running loose in public areas of the university, and the other requiring owners to keep their dogs on leashes not exceeding six feet.
DT editor forms available
Applications for the fall editorship of the Daily Trojan are now available in the School of Journalism office in Student Union 404.
The deadline for returning the applications is April 28.
Any student who will be a senior or graduate student in the fall is eligible to apply.
Candidates will be interviewed May 2 by the Journalism Council, a panel consisting of Daily Trojan editors, journalism faculty members, the university editor and two ASSC representatives. The council will recommend a candidate to President John Hubbard, who .will make the final decision.
Nixon’s actions in Southeast Asia.
“We drove Lyndon Johnson out of office in 1968.” he said in reference to the ex-President’s withdrawal from the 1968 presidential race. It has been attributed in part by some to the strong showing of then Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) as an antiwar candidate in the 1968
A training session for student monitors for Saturday's anti-Vietnam war demonstrations will be held today at noon in Student Activities Center 205.
Monitors are demonstrators who help make sure that the demonstration is kept orderly, a spokesman explained.
New Hampshire primary.
“We forced Nixon to limit the U.S. military invasion of Cambodia in 1970 to two months, and we also forced him not to send U.S. troops into Laos in early 1971.”
No matter what the President does, Gotesky said, he is not taking the one action the antiwar movement has urged him to take—an immediate, total, unconditional withdrawal from Vietnam.
Any other course for the United States “is like trying to negotiate with someone from whom you have just taken $20.” he said.
“The President is moving on to our turf with his rhetoric and saying the war is winding down, but in truth, the people must put the pressure on those who can move to end the war—to simply end the war.”
Some Democratic presidential candidates—ex-Sen. McCarthy, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota. Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York —have endorsed the planned antiwar demonstrations.
“This is not to say that political affiliation has a bearing on the movement; we feel people can work for the movement and candidates at the same time, but the movement must remain independent,” said Gotesky. a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in political science.
“But the President’s political actions do have a bearing on us—he has used the prisoner-of-war issue, his eight-point peace plan presented secretly in Paris to the North Vietnamese (and broadcast in a White House address Jan. 25), and Vietnamization to try to convince the public that the war’s not an issue.
“Even the President’s trip to China was an attempt by the greatest public relations machine in the world to make people think the war is being settled,” he said in reference to the U.S. communications facilities that were installed in China for the news media’s coverage of the trip.
Gotesky said additional antiwar activities are planned after Saturday’s marches—on Armed Services Day (May 1); Memorial Day (May 29); the anniversaries of U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II (Aug. 6 and 9); as well as the National Antiwar Conference in Los Angeles in late July.