New trustee named to board, member reelected
William M. Keck II, president of the Coalinga Corp. of Long Beach, has been elected to the university's Board of Trustees, and Charles B. Thorton, lifetime trustee, has been elected to a new, three-year term on the board.
Keck earned both his B.A. and M.B.A. from the university in 1964 and 1966, respectively, before becoming president of the Coalinga Corp., which manufactures equipment for the petroleum industry.
He also served as the national co-chairman of the annual giving program for the university from 1978 to 1979, raising $5.8 million for the university.
Following the death of Keck's father in 1964, the university was willed 3,000 shares of stock, valued at $4,755,000. As a result, the university was to receive an annual income of $22,500.
Thorton is the founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Litton Industries, and served as a trustee from 1963 to 1975 before being appointed a lifetime trustee.
Having earned his bachelor of commercial science degree from Texas Technological College in 1937 and his doctor of commeri-cal science degree from George Washington University, Thorton received honorary doctor of law- degrees from this university and Pepperdine University.
In 1979, Thorton contributed funds to establish the Charles B. Thorton Professorship in the university's Graduate School of Business Administration.
Earlier this year, Kenneth T. Norris, chairman of the board of Norris Industries, Inc., w'as also elected to a three-year term on the board.
‘Good faith’ aids in negotiations
Researcher hopeful on hostage talks
By Rhanda Kahawaii
Staff Writer
A pattern of negotiations has been established that will aid in the release of the some 42 hostages in the Dominican Republic Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, according to Frederick Hacker, director of the university's Psychopolitics and Conflict Research program.
Hacker played a role in the release of the Austrian ambassador, Edgar Karl Selzer, on March 6.
"I think the release of the Austrian ambassador was sort of a fringe benefit of the pattern of negotiations between the Colombian government and the leftist rebels," he said. ‘
The Austrian-born psychologist said the release came about because Numero Uno, the leader of the leftist guerillas who took over the embassy on Feb. 27, had "good faith" in the negotiating team and believed in them.
"It was represented to them that his wife was seriously ill and that it would be a good thing if they would release the ambassador," Hacker said.
He said the rebels acted in a "chivalrous manner" as they did not receive any other compensation because of their action.
Invited by the Colombian government to work on its crisis staff, Hacker said he worked closely
with the Austrian government in obtaining Sel-zer's freedom.
Representatives of the Colombian president and the Colombian military and other officials from the country made up the crisis staff, which helped to establish a pattern of negotiations.
Asked about the negotiating procedures being followed by the United States in efforts to secure the release of American hostages being held in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Hacker said, "I believe the general principles of negotiation will hold true in Iran."
He would not comment about specific negotiations with the Iranian militant students.
Prior to his position as director of the Psychopolitics and Conflict Research program, Hacker had been a professor in the university's School of Medicine and the Law Center.
Psychopolitics and conflict research is an interdisciplinary’ program which deals with the contemporary and historical problems of conformism and dissatisfaction, obedience and dissent, peaceful evolution and violent revolution, terrorism and aggressive behavior directed against individuals, institutions and authorities.
The university professor has been called on in the past to assist authorities with psychological advice in several terrorist activities, including the Patty Hearst kidnapping case.
Professor says U.S. emotionally unprepared for war
By Natalie Perlin
Staff Writer
The United States is not ready emotionally, politically, or militarily for war, said Roger Dingman, a history professor.
"We are not ready politically in terms of allies, and militarily we have not had enough time to rethink the new types of war we might encounter," Dingman said.
Emotional preparedness is important in deciding w'hether or not to go to war. "We have to ask ourselves if we are at a state where we feel an issue is so demanding it is
worth a war," Dingman said. "That is the basic question for any war."
Dingman has mixed feelings about the United States' emotional readiness for war. "If you had asked me in November, for a week or so I would have said yes," he said. "But now', as a consequence of the hostage crisis, patience is stronger. Emotions are less intense. But the country is unpredictable, so anything could trigger a war."
Politically, Dingman questions whether the United States will be able to gain the support of allies in the event
of war. The problem is that U.S. allies, like Western Europe, want to go their own way and are reluctant to help the United States unless they can profit from it, he said.
"Relatively speaking, our general position in relation to friends and foes w'as stronger 20 or 30 years ago. People were with us."
For example, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor during World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew Britain and France would back the United States, he said. "Now' the support is not as clear. It is not likely to be as strong.
A crucial factor in any decision for war is support of other countries."
Dingman feels the United States is readv militarily in
paredness must be considered. "We must consider where we are in raw' hardware and militarv manpower in relation to Vietnam," he
']Ne have to ask ourselves if we are at a state where we feel an issue is so demanding it is worth war.'
some ways for war and not in others. "We are basically ready for a thermonuclear war with Russia," he said. "But with ships and planes and men, there are some problems."
Two kinds of military pre-
said. "In Vietnam our strength was a backlog of equipment and militarily experienced people from World War II and Korea. We had large reserves of men.
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Thieves take video recording equipment
By Debbie Latish
Staff Writer
Thieves who apparently had knowledge of the broadcasting department's complex security system stole approximately $20,000 worth of sophisticated editing equipment from a studio in the Allan Hancock Foundation building last weekend.
Los Angeles Police Department detectives who began investigating the case this morning said they believe the thieves either worked in the broadcasting department or had access to the kevs of the building because they did not forcibly break into any of the rooms and they locked the doors when they left.
At least seven broadcasting classes and students working on special production projects regularly used the equipment and will be temporarily affected bv the loss.
Warren Olney, a KNBC newsman who teaches a broadcast reporting class, said that tw’o-thirds of the classwork involves shooting and editing news reports.
Olney said he could still teach the class without the equipment but "the students would profit less if thev could not edit."
Stuart Brower, who teaches a broadcast production class, said the loss of the editing equipment would force him to shift his class projects because a large part of the course involves editing.
"The class won't be as good without the equipment," he said.
All of the equipment was insured and should be quickly replaced, said Richard Zielinski, broadcast production coordinator.
"The equipment can be delivered four days from the purchase order," he said.
The order will be sent out today, said Edward P. Bassett, director of the School of Journalism.
The theft occurred sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday.
When a teaching assistant came to work Saturday morning he found two videotape recording machines, two television monitors, a computer control unit and a microphone mixer missing.
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Staff photo by Michael Yada
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNING — John Ehrlichman, a former Nixon aide, spoke to students in Bovard Auditorium Thursday. Ehrlichman’s lecture was entitled “Running for President,” but he also spent much time discussing Watergate. Now residing in New Mexico. Ehrlichman is a full-time writer. See story page 5.
Volume LXXXVIII, Number 28
University of Southern California
Friday March 14, 1980