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As they receive no financial backing from the church they’re free to have loosely-organized get-togethers.

However, they’re hoping to expand their center’s operation to an additional three afternoons a week and in consequence need a larger staff.

If you like playing with kids or think you can learn something from them, then phone Lizz Peddle at 742-5527.

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In the future, however, funding campaigns will likely be for particular needs rather than for a general slush fund.

The course consists of ten 1 l/2 - hour weekly lectures. Two classes will be offered.

May 28 Class 1 begins 4:30 p.m. Thursday May 28 Class 2 begins 7:00 p.m. Thursday Both classes will be held in Engineering II, Room 1313.

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Up to now, the government has paid 95 percent if the university could raise 5 percent. It now will pay the entire cost on a fixed amount per square footage basis where the footage allowable depends on the enrollment .

The fixed amount per square foot is not exnected to cover all building expenses as the rate was

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Agape Incorporated is not, as might seem from the name, an aluminum siding company, or anything along that line. The weird name is derived from a greek word meaning the highest form of love.

One division of this is a group of students aged seventeen to twenty one running a recreation and crafts programme in St. Matthew’s Church (Benton and Charles), from 9:30 to 12: 00 on Saturdays for children in the downtown area. A ‘year ago they announced themselves by putting

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Instrumentalists are also needed. If you play any kind of instrument then get in touch, they’ll find something for you to do.

A library has become the latest innovation at the campus center.

The project, initiated by campus will involve center turnkeys, mainly purchasing books published no earlier than 1970 and from soliciting other volumes any students, staff or faculty who might wish to be donors. The books will be free for use in the reading lounge or on a loan

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This summer for the first time there will be a music program on campus.

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Pollution probe at the University of Waterloo has had their first encounter with local government officials. At the last two meetings of Kitchener city council, members of probe presented briefs concerning water pollution in the K-W area. The briefs came in response to calls to the pollution probe office on april 16.

Two citizens informed probe that a, coloured effluent was running into Schneider’s creek from a storm sewer near manitou drive, south of fairway road.

Investigators took two samples which were sent to Ontario water resourses commission laboratory

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in Toronto and to the city of Kitchener industrial waste analysis laboratory.

Colour photographs were also taken.

According to the Kiichener department of sanitation the sample contained .09 parts per million of cyanide.

Their analysis also indicated 2.7 parts per million chromium.

Chromium is known to cause severe gastric problems even when ingested in small amounts. The sewer samples also contained over seven times the legal level of suspended solids.

A local bylaw (No. 5634) prohibits discharge of any cyanide in storm sewers and also stipulates a

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maximum of 20 parts per million of suspended solids in storm sewers.

Council’s reaction to the brief was generally apathetic, with the exeption of two members.

Council members did not appear any more responsive when it was pointed out that a city well was located within twelve hundred feet of this open sewer.

This has been a long-standing pollution problem. As early as june 1967 the city sanitation engineer M.G. Thompson reported the company to be non-compliant with sanitation department requests, and were continually violating exist-

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ing water pollution bylaws.

Thompson indicated that the sanitary sewer system was in danger of collapsing as a result of erosion by industrial wastes. He recommended that the company be given until august 1 to find means of treating their waste products.

Early this spring the sanitary sewer collapsed, costing the city an estimated 31 thousand in property damage. The city is at present attempting to sue for property damages, and still the city has not seen fit to enforce bylaw 5634.

Waste material from the collapsed sewer system was diverted into the storm sewer system. The. storm sewers are meant to carry off storm water, surface water, and drainage, but not sewage.

The city engineer, Bradley informed council on monday night that the sanitary sewer system has been repaired.

It seems that at this point, the city fathers are willing to fight for monetary remuneration but lack any noticable zeal to attack the underlying source of the issue.

Council first placed a deadline of january 1 1970 for the company

to provide plans for adequate treatment of wastes.

The electroplating company asked for and received an extention of this deadline until may 1. A deadline of august 1 for installation had been extended until march of 1971.

The sanitation department has also indicated to council that a number of other industrial companies are disregarding their corporate responsibilities in treatment of industrial pollutants.

Pollution probe is planning a survey of ‘each of the local companies cited in the sanitation department report.

In order to make their influence felt at city hall, pollution probe is sponsoring a membership drive _ throughout the summer months.

Members of pollution probe will be speaking to local and district service organizations when requested. . Literature will be diseminated on various aspects of the polluThe membership tion problem. committee is comprised of university students hired for the summer, on a commission basis.

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It’s not really all that surprising, but the coverage by the national media of last Saturday’s demonstration in Toronto changed or omitted certain pieces of information which put the whole incident in a different light. +

“Pobtw to the people ” became test turned toward the police,

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On april 27 the federation received a written notice from adpresident Howard ministration Petch that the administration will cease collecting the FofS activities fee from grades until a final decision has been made concerning their membership in the federation.

The letter is in response to various objections to grad membership in the federation in the past year. _ Opposition to grad membership

The rents on the married student housing residence have now been finalized at 130 dollars a month for a one bedroom ‘apartment and 150 dollars a month for a two bedroom apartment on a twelve month lease. The rent is higher on shorter leases.

The applicants initially understood that the rents would be 125 and 145 dollars, but they were notified in march that the rents would have to be increased 10 dollars.

Recently, the provincial government has decided to allot each university 25 dollars per student in order to pay taxes to the city municipality. .

This comes to 218 thousand for this year. The allotment will likely increase in coming years.

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At that time, there were. 250 graduate students of whom 20 voted in favor of membership and 10 against.

The grad student union was then formed after several grads felt that the referendum had not obtained a majority opinion from the graduate students.

As a result, the university expects to be able to use this sum in the payment of property taxes on the married student housing and thus be able to lower the rent by 5 dollars a month.

Because of the high rents, there was initially speculation that there would be difficulty in filling the 300 apartments this fall, but at present, 200 people have already paid their 50 dollar deposit and 89 others are expected to do so.

Other applicants will be approached concerning the vacant apartments and if they are not filled by june 15, Waterloo Lutheran will be asked if they have married students looking for housing. After that, any remaining apartments will be available to single students but it is not likely to happen.

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on by a horse, was trampled again because she didn’t move when the police told her to. She ended up with a broken ankle.

People react against things, and the demonstrators reacted against the cops and their horses. Being on by a horse doesn’t All the media hailed the city r’s- stomped exactly bring to mind thoughts of for the peep/e held at the city hall love and peace. as an anti-protest protest.

What they neglected to mention was Two Toronto newspapers reported that the demonstrators that when the march to the U.S. consulate began, over 90 percent of pulled the cops’ badges off their uniforms.

That’s a blatent lie. the people participating in the city is for the people went to the consulNone of the cops present were wearing badges at all. They took ate to demonstrate.

Both crowds, one damned by the media while them off so that any demonstratthe other was praised, were comors beaten or assaulted by police posed of the same people. (and most of the 91 people arrested were beaten after their arrest ) The cops were stupid.

They would be unable to identify their could have prevented all the rock assailent. throwing and window smashing An important thing that perhaps simply by blocking the traffic from the national media failed to realUniversity Avenue.

Then they ize was that Saturday’s demonwouldn’t have had to bring out the stration became much more than horses to clear the streets. That’s an anti-war protest.

Many of the what provoked the crowds.. The demonstrators have come to realpolice should have realized that it ize that the war in Indochina did wasn’t physically possible to put not fall from the sky, but there that many people on the sidewalks. are certain things inherent in the They should have realized it, but capitalist system that runs the they didn’t. After they managed to United States, and Canada, and clear the streets, they decided to many other countries, that create use the horses to clear the sidethese wars. They have come to walks as well. This time, however, realize that to stop wars of imthe demonstrators weren’t able to perialism, the power to make deget out of the way as easily, and cisions must be put in the hands many were trampled by the horof the people. ses.-

A poorly attended general meeting of graduate students in march cast 60 votes in favor of withdrawal and 30 against out of about 16 hundred grad students. A second motion to transfer fees to the grad student union was almost defeated.

A letter from GSU president Gerald Fuller to the administration dated april 7 requested that the administration collect, the fee and keep it until October 31 when hopefully the wishes of the grad majority will be made known. In One girl on the sidewalk, who response to this and the past grievencesexpressed by some couldn’t walk after being stepped grads prompted Petch to cease collection of the activities fee untill it could be ascertained which organization it was for. This action was taken since the adminisAccompanying Phlegm, the notration could not legally collect torious satire by Maudie which rean unappropriated fee, and accordturns to the chevron this term, will ing to Petch, “This should provide be a new column by Radio Watan incentive for them to consider erloo mogul Bruce Steele. the question and get it settled.”

In the past, the federation policy Steele, who has worked with has been not to permit any minprofessional radio and entertainority within the federation spec- ment in both North Bay and Lonial status. The graduate student don has developed campus radio union wishes to determine the here from a fledgling beginning wishes of the graduate majority two years ago into a modern closbefore taking further action, someed-circuit. operation serving stuthing no one has been able to do dents on and off-campus. for five years.

Says Steele about the column, Meanwhile, if the matter is not “it will deal with my interpretasettled before fall registration, tions of the media game in north grad students will not be paying america. . . newspapers, TV and for activities from which they radio. There will be little or no exbenefit and even the GSU agrees planation of it. It just is.” that they should help pay for.

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This is the first issue of volume 11, The chevron will be publishing each friday throughout the summer until july 24. There will be one further issue august 14 before regular publication resumes in September.

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Well, well, ;oo~who’s back to haunt you all again. Being without a summer job, I am forced to write this stuff so I can live off the Chevron freepizza every week. Of course I’ve been busy gathering goodies all spring and I hope that these new anecdotes will be kept by you for fond memories in scrap. books and junk boxes.

My first _scathing attack. is directed at the other “paper” on campus, and particularily their eager reporter who excused the repair work in front of the physics building before it even started. It will cost nothing, you see, because it was guaranteed so the contractor will fix it out of the goodness of his heart. Of course the profit he made on the original construction has nothing to do with covering repair costs, and even if it did, it still won’t cost anything because the whole useless mess didn’t.

The government paid for it, not the university.

So it doesn’t matter if the money is burned because its free.

I am forced to conclude that whoever it was that decided to build up that area as is is, is perhaps being irresponsible, (remember the cost), or the other “paper” on campus is being irresponsible by waiving the university’s onus of spending the taxpayer’s money wisely.

Shame. * * * Secondly, I recently received my invitation from Shell Oil for a credit card with a few pages of lies and half truths about credit cards.

If you are a private pro-

for gifts showing it’s the thought that counts

perty buff, then Shell thieved my address from the directory (Fonebook).

If you think private property is bad, as Shell apparently does, then I think we should have a bonfire somewhere in the middle of I the refinery, and maybe some fire works. Shell wouldn’t mind, its not their’s. * * * I was talking to a person recently who has hired by a police force in Canada and was given no training into Canada’s laws (as opposed to the country he had been a cop in) and was given no pistol training.

They didn’t even ask him if he knew how to shoot one!

(He didn’t). He was simply accepted, and asked to report for work when he would be given his’ uniform, AND HIS GUN, and go out on his first patrol. Fortunately, he never made it to work for them.

And while we’re at it, how come Kampus Kops get $3.25 an hour for working at pubs, and city cops (with pistols) get $5.00 an hour?

Who would you rather have stop trouble, a stern voice with some understanding behind it, or a stern voice, judo, and a jail cell. If pub attendants and organizers are going to have to pay $5 an hour for a cop, why can’t they have that go to the Kampus Kops? Why, Al? * * * Finally, the movie to see this week, if its still on in town, is Antonioni’s Zabriski Point.

Its beautiful, surrealistic, and better than Antonioni’s Blow Up; come to think of it Zabriski Point could be called Blow Up TOO (OR TWO).

TODAY Licensed Dance with the Town Choir.

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out of this one thinking. the BOYS in is definitely not a musical, in fact it is .one of the heaviest pieces of cinema I’ve seen since the Band

B/o wup.

The flick starts out very innocuously, even for a film about faggots, but rather heavy hand of Mart Crowley quickly and too obviously transforms it into a ‘medium is the message’ film which is a little hard to handle at times.

For all intents and purposes the boys in the band are fellows from down the hall and across the street who happen to have slightly different attitudes towards sex than might be considered the norm. The setting is a birthday party for Harold.

Harold, and the people at the party, are without a doubt the most insecure people in New York City.

The language is in colour by shockappeal, and this, with the subject matter, is the main box-office draw. The language may, I suppose, be offensive to some people, but I can’t think who, except perhaps a few grandmothers and spinster aunts.

The humour of the first half centers around the language and “perversion” and is typical of most

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is a record with Disposable many short-comings, and for some these would perhaps outweigh those compensating good qualities with which it is endowed, when it actually comes down to laying out bread to pay for it. Nonetheless, because it is an unusual album, in some respects, it is difficult to assess according to those criteria which would normally apply in a judgement of that nature.

The band responsible for itThe Deviants-consists of, I think, eighteen members, more or less. Only a small number of these perform on any one cut, with considerable variation throughout, and thus a corresponding variation in quality.

Many of the songs are chanted more or less in a monotone rather than sung. The lyrics also tend to be rather weak and often pretty superficial.

Thus it is left up to the music itself to be the making of the album.

In certain cuts they succeed especially on the admirably, first side. The instrumental sec-

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tion on Somewhere to go and the harp solo on You’ve got to hold on are the best examples of this. In some of the other songs, unfortunately, the instrumentals are little more than wasted album space. I Three other cuts deserve particular mention.

Let’s loot the on the first side is supermarket a really horrible song, recorded in practically the same vien as the Montreal version of Giv& peace a chance, except not so professional.

At the end of the second side is a rather long chant about the last man on earth called, .appropriately, f8Sf man, featuring banal lyrics to a background of tasteless instrumental effects.

-And then, also on the second side, is the only cut with anything really resembling a tune, called Guaranteed to b/e& It also benefits from fairly intelligent words and reasonable instrumentation.

While this is scarcely a brilliant song it is one of the better on the album.

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men’s washroom walls. “Who do you have to fuck are.und here to get a drink?”

“You’ve .had dirtier things than that in your mouth.” etc.

Even these occasional chuckles deteriorate into a rather contrived attempt at character analysis lay gutted and via a party ‘game. Personalities bleeding on the broadloom and no holds are barred.

Here the movie ceases to be one about queers in New York, and begins to analyse life in Home-Town N.A. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work too well, primarily because the laughs of the first half contrast too vividly with the Virginia Woolf ending.

The acting, of course, is superb. The people of the movie were also the people of the play and had plenty of time to rehearse. The direction leaves lots to be desired. The movement on the screen is often contrived, and the half in, half out of focus camera is a useless distraction.

Special effects are non-existent except for a rain-storm (events in nature parallelling the social situation, you know) which provides a highly symbolic scene of destruction at Try as I would I couldn’t the end of the movie. find any Christ imagery, although I’m sure there must have been some there somewhere.

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Last term, ancillary enterprises director Jack Brown released The new draft, which will likely a draft bookings policy that the become policy, gives federafederation feared would severely tion priority over four events per limit their sandbox activities on month, rather than limiting it to campus.

Their urgency concerntwo events per month without ing the draft was magnified by any priorities, as was previously the proposed effective date of suggested. may 1 and that the draft did not seem to be subject to further negotiation with the parties affected.

On april 20 a new draft was released with the introduction exdispaining” any problems, putes, or changes with regard to this policy will be referred for settlement to a committee consisting of at the minimum of the president of the Federation of Students and the faculty societies plus a representative from the bookings office . . .”

The first draft gave bookings priority to the federation only for its four major weekends, which would mean that the federation would no longer be able to assume its role as organiser of events for students on campus who could in turn farm out the organizational work to enterpreneurs.

Previously the federation and the bookings office were under a working agreement that federation. would receive priority on bookings after which facilities

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HE PRESENT UNITED STATES INTERVENTION into Cambodia must be understood as a continuation and, perhaps, culmination of american policies in southeast Asia which have rbeen-in varying degrees-in effect since the middle 1950s. In no sense does the invasion and its attendant “justification” mark the birth of any drastically new asian policy. In april of 1954, the french colonial forces in Indo-China found themselves facing a grave crisis. The plan to break the back of the forces of liberation in Vietnam by the end of the 1955 fighting season was proving to be a failure on the grand scale. In a type of war where experts ’ hold that the defending force must hold a 10-l superiority of force in order to “win”, the french edge of 1.2-1 spelled anything but impending victory.

This, coupled with economic trouble and extensive dissent at home, forced the French to look to the United States for direct military aid (the U.S. had, by this time, contributed $2 billion to the french effort).

The appeal found zealous adherents in Washington, namely vice president Nixon, chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff Radford, and John Foster Dulles. These men agreed with France that it would be a disaster if the effort in Indo-China were not continued. ” ’ _ 1,/_ , ,>‘:’f,_,A? i , /, I/:‘lr,:’ 7 ,),,,‘ . ‘.A L“1s’r Sk j <‘ ~.,” ’ .,d Eisenhower, in his memoirs, defines in traditional american terms what “disaster” means: “The loss of all Vietnam, together with Laos on the .west and Cambodia on the southwest, would have meant the surrender to communist enslavement of millions. On the material side, it would have spelled the loss of valuable deposits of tin and prodigious supplies of rubber and rice.” a The U.S. government, anxious as always to prevent disasters of any* sort, agreed to intervene (with bombers and troops) provided the intervention would be an allied one. Churchill and Anthony Eden, to their lasting credit, refused to support any such intervention on the grounds that it might well lead to a third world war. Thus the “disaster” was not forestalled-at least for the French. The fall of Dien Bien Phu on may 8, I954 hastened acceptance of the accords of the Geneva Conference and the end of the french phase of the Indo-China war.

The terms of the Geneva accords provided for, among other things, a general election to be held in July, 1956 for the purpose of uniting the provisional zones of north and south Vietnam and to be supervised by an international control commission.

In addition, the conference forbade th.e establishment of any military alliances with, or bases under the control of any foreign state. The aftermath of the conference is well known; again we find the freedom-loving government of the U.S. trying to avoid “disaster”.

They could do this only by attempting to undermine the provisions of the Geneva accords. allow the 1956 elections to take place.

In his memoirs, Dwight Eisenhower pointed out that he had “never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in indo-Chinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 percent would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh And Wa// Street Journal on as their leader.”

July 23, 1954 reported that “The U.S. is in no hurry for elections to unite Vietnam; we fear Red leader Ho Chi Minh would win. So Dulles plans first to make the southern half a showplacewith American aid. ” Showplace indeed!

This “showplace”, which has now cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, first took the form of the government of the courageous Vietnamese freedom fighter, Ngo Dinh Diem-a catholic member to Vietnam’s feudal aristocracy, a member of the french colonial civil service, and a vicious anti-communist who was groomed (from 1950-1953) for his new position by progressive american forces such as cardinal Spellman, Joseph Kennedy, general Lansdsdale, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. By the time july, ,1956 arrived, Diem, who had consolidated his hold on the south through the use of massive aid from the Americans (by this time he had received $500 million) and a policy of indefinitely detaining in concentration camps all those who, to use Diem’s words, “are considered dangerous for national defense and public security”, was in a secure enough position to refuse to allow the elections.

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ward democratic reforms and rationalization of the largely feudal economy, led to the rise of an indigenous, broadly based guerilla movement in South Vietnam.

By 1961, the guerilla movement had become a serious threat (i.e., “disaster” was threatened again) to the U.S. and massive american interwith vention was begun. We are all familiar what ha,s followed.

The showplace is shattered every day in the headlines of our newspapers and

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After Dulles, Nixon and their associates were forced to abandon their 1954 plans for direct military intervention in southeast Asia, they drafted a new proposal, namely the creation of the socalled Southeast Asia treaty organization (SEATO). The United States government, from 1955 to the present, has insisted that SEATO covers Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

It should be pointed out, however, that representatives of none of these countries signed the treaty and, ‘in fact, were expressly forbidden to do so by the terms of the Geneva accords. The treaty provides a basis for intervention in any state or territory in the region which is attacked by an external force or whose “political independence” is threatened by internal strife. ln

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brief, and it has become increasingly evident in the last fifteen years, SEATO serves as, in spite of its patent illegality, a potential rationalization for any american intervention that might take place in Southeast Asia.

“SEATO”, wrote Walter Lippmann in 1954, “is the first formal instrument in modern times which is designed to license international intervention in internal affairs. ” This license has served the U.S. well; the U.S. now has control of the “official” governments in South Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.

Cambodia, however, faced the United States with a problem that their license could not readily and quietly deal with, namely the deeply entrenched neutralism of the kingdom of Cambodia.

In the early 1950s secretary of state Dulles branded the concept of neutrality as “dangerous and immoral”.

And by refusing to participate in SEATO prince Sihanouk of Cambodia faced the possibility of having the purifying fires of american intervention brought down upon his “immoral” head. United States Ambassador McClintock, after failing in his attempt to convince Sihanouk that membership in SEATO was for his own good, became more blunt: “If Cambodia goes back on her desire to participate in the war against Communism, it can provoke congress into refusing to Cambodia not only military aid but economic aid as well.” The United States understood quite well the obvious fact that without U.S. military “aid” solidly entrenched in Cambodia SEATO would prove ineffective as an instrument of american domination in Southeast Asia; even neutralism spelled “disaster” for the U.S. But even the categorical “proofs” offered Sihanouk by Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, of impending, massive communist aggression failed to move him.

Let us see why. ) .’_jA..‘ ._,Ii : t .’ ^ ‘., -< . ;i : i 1 .‘~) +,LI Prince Sihanouk’s reasons for.rejeLting all forms of U.S. aid are best summed up in Robert Scheer’s interview with him in 1965. His reflections are quite revealing so ’ he will be quoted at some length : “our decision to reject United States aid in all its forms must be placed in a general context: repeated aggressions by the South Vietnamese; permanent and insufferable hostility of the South Vietnamese and Thai people, United States allies, who give wide support to our own rebels, the so-called “Free Khmers” of Son Ngoc Thanh and Sam Sary; the fanatic campaign against Cambodia and her regime of almost all of the american press that speaks of us as ingrates, pocketing the United States’ money while serving Red China”, etc.

“In passing I would call it to your attention that if Cambodia is not able to offer herself the luxury of a Capitalist economy (which would put her under the fist of several rich businessmen and foreign powers), she has not on the other hand adopted the Communist system. Private interests still control a large sector, notably in the realm of agriculture and small and medium industry.

If they are able to prove their capacities in these areas, the State will not wish to assume any new control. In taking over the control of the banks, of the import-export trade and insurance, the government has assured itself of a revenue that the foreigner had in the past counted on for his own profit.”

Not a particularly immoral stand. The United States, however, saw things in a quite different

light. Dulles’ analysis of neutralism as “immoral and dangerous” proved to be only half correct.

For danger%us it proved to be; dangerous, that is, to Sihanouk’s government.

The pressures promised

by Ambassador McClintock began to be applied by late 1955. Under strong U.S. pressure South Vietnam and Thailand closed their borders with Cambodia and began an extensive economic blockade.

“Free Khmer” troops trained in Thailand with american aid began regular raids into Cambodia.

“Accidental” american ’ bombing runs and defoliations began to grow geometrically.

At the same time the Cambodian minority in South Vietnam came under severe repression.

Diem suspected the Khmer (Cambodian) minority of being contaminated with the “ideology of peace and neutrality”, an ideology they must have gotten from the immoral Sihanouk. For this reason and also, perhaps, because of the personal grudge born by Diem against Sihanouk because of his refusal to recognize the legalitv of the South‘ Vietnamese government, Diem launched a campaign to “assimilate” the 400,000 Vietnamese Khmers.

Diem’s campaign consisted of prohibiting the teaching of the Cambodian language in their schools, persecuting the politically influential buddhist monks, prohibiting communication between Cambodian-born Vietnamese and Cambodians, and forcing the Viet Khmers to adopt vietnamese names. By 1957 the repressive measures of Diem led to spontaneous demonstrations by the Viet Khmers.

These demonstrations were ended by the government slaughter of hundreds of members of the minority. .

FI “’ - j I by * ” &J! buppet .&^ &;..“.,.,;re’s;s;;e w;;p;ession gime in Saigon continued and grew through the 1960s and led to a crisis in may of 1965 when Sihanouk broke off diplomatic relations with the United States. This followed repeated wa’rnings that U.S.-south Vietnamese interventions into the territories of Cambodia would lead to severance of diplomatic relations.

Prince Sihanouk outlined the conditions that would have to be met if relations were to be again normalized between the two countries: “The day when the planes supplied by the United States (and piloted

by Americans) no longer bomb our territory, when the american tanks, accompanied

by South Vietnamese troops, directed by american advisors, no longer penetrate our frontier villages carrying death-the day when A merica will have recalled her troops from our lndo-China, then our relations will inevitably relax. I’

American intervention went on, as was to be expected, unabated.

In 1969 Cambodia’s delegate to the United Nations general assembly presented a list of 7000 violations of Cambodian territory

by United States-Saigon forces. These violations were reported to have led to the deaths of 300 Cambodians and the wounding of 700. No violations were attributed to north Vietnamese or National liberation front

troops. In any case, : what the consequent immorality” might b terioration of the pol of the United States matic relations with to respect the sovereig It is interesting to U.S. government senl bassy was composed and CIA personnel.

J engineered the overt1 ment in Guatemala, dor in Bangkoi.

Immediately after t “accidental” chemica .against Cambodian rp in april.

Several months aftf the Cambodian press ious, racist attacks o in Cambodia (coincic are-said to have rece.

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being secretly guided from a computer center in Trinidad!

Immediately one might reply that it would be insane for Nixon to continue the war and, clearly, the troop withdrawals must be indicative of peaceful intentions.

Hopefully such an analysis is correct, but there are many reasons for thinking otherwise.

Agreed, the consequences of continuing the war become more familiar and increasingly repulsive every day: uprisings on the campuses and in the ghettos; increasing disequilibrium in the balance of payments which triggers “dollar crises”‘; bigger budget deficits and more inflation with its attendant unemployment; to say nothing of the increasingly unacceptable accumulation of american war dead.

But these disasters must be seen’as minor in comparison to the disaster that would be faced by the U.S. if it withdrew from Asia, namely, the loss of its control over what it so lewdly calls the “free world”.

And it appears that Nixon understands this quite well.

As was indicated briefly above, american leaders defined their early interest in Vietnam largely in economic terms. That economic motivation is still, at least to some extent, onerative in american policy formation re southeast Asia was indicated quite nicely by the vice president of the Chase Manhattan bank when he wrotein 1965: “In the past, foreign investors have been somewhat wary of the over-all political prospect for the (southeast Asia) region. I must say, though, that the U.S. actions in Vietnam this year-which have demonstrated that the U.S. will continue to give effective protection to the free nations of the region-have considerably reassured both Asian and Western investors.”

To insist, however, that the U.S. is in southeast Asia only because of its natural resources and the opportunity it affords for investment would be to invite ridicule; the cost of America’s adventure in southeast Asia far outweighs the direct economic advantages to be obtained there.

But it would be even more ridiculous to separate analysis of the american intervention in Asia from the broader context of U.S. foreign policy in general, which remains fundamentally linked to economic motivations.

To make such a separation would

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full well his “government of the progressive dend military position lam, resumed diplo. with their promise ‘ambodia. at the new staff the n its re-opened emof military attaches lrifoy, the man who the Arbenz govern: the new ambassa.6‘i tj” . *b;;, .. rican return, a huge re attack toqk place lantations.

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various members of a campaign of vicsietnamese minority r, these newspapers sidies from, the U.S.) ctober, 1969, Wilfred nalist, was informed Cambodia economic uk made the country id and improved his Id”. that the ground was larch, 1970 in which w-n.

Vietnam, Inside rk, reports seeing a ts captured in 1963 ont at the Hiep Hoa Vietnam. These docuexposed the operatraitors (“Free Khon South Vietnamese s and instructors to bvernment of prince troops

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bodia in j969 in ,the guise of “defectors” from Thailand, defectors who were immediately given sizable cash awards.

Interestingly, the credit for these mysterious, large-scale defections was givento general Lon Nol, the leader of the march coup. Evidence is beginning to point to the conclusion that these defectors formed the bulk of the forces used by Lon No1 for the coup.

The march coup was presented to the world as an attempt to make Cambodia into a government neutralist.

The Lon No1 re-. that was really gime repeatedly emphasized (and indeed is still emphasizing) that Cambodia under Sihanouk had not been a neutralist country but had been a haven for north Vietnamese and NLF troops. Interestingly, the International control commission (with a zealous Canadian member) had not been able to turn up any evidence showing an NLF presence in Cambodia.

In addition; during the last several weeks the french press-who learned in a rather painful manner the realities of southeast asian politics -emphasized that the decisive role being played in the fighting against the Lon No1 regime is by the National United front (i.e., Cambodian guerillas) and not by the “VC.“.

Given the immense popular support enjoyed by Sihanouk and his government, such accounts seem wholly plausible.

What seems to have happened in Cambodia is a repeat performance of the old Diem show in loving I* reactionary governwhich a “‘freedom ment is set up by ihe United States in order to es“independence I* and ‘self-determination -’ tablish for its people.

The immorality that Dulles attributed to Cambodia has now been purged from the body politic of southeast Asia. The-“new morality”, which is the illicit product of the wedding of the mutual needs of the Lon No1 regime and its U.S.-Saigon mentor, is not, however, particularly encouraging.

Premier Pham Van Dong of North Vietnam in a recent interview (cf. “New York Review of

Books”, Jan. 29, 1970) proposed that the policy of “Vietnamization” of the Vietnam war with its attendant troop withdrawals is in fact a grand, american design to win the war.

He sees this policy as an indication that the U. S. is prepared to outlast the NLF and the North Vietnamese in a long war of attrition by reducing the troops to a level palatable to the american public, by using fewer draftees and more volunteers, by raising the specter of a bloodbath if U.S. troops withdraw, and by moving american troops into largely defensive enclaves while increasing the number and force of indiscriminate bombing raids. When Richard J. Barnet, director of the Institute for policy studies, related Pham’s assertions to “a high state department official” he replied, “Well, they got the message.”

The U.S.-supported coup in Cambodia is well geared toward a lengthy continuation of the war in Vietnam. The U.S. understands clearly that actively pro-U.S. regimes must be ensured in the countries around Vietnam if its massive intervenl tions are to continue and enjoy the possibility of success: The U.S. invasion of Cambodia is an attempt to shore up the Lon No1 regime which is now finding itself facing what appears to be the embryonic form of a people’s war not unlike that which arose in Vietnam. under Diem. Nixon’s assertion that once’the haven for Communists in Cambodia is “cleaned out” the war in Vietnam will come quickly to an end must be seen as patently absurd. Hopefully such nonsense is a tactical smokescreen rather than an indication that the president has begun to believe his own empty rhetoric.

In any case, a quick look at the map will show that the bases in South Vietnam hardest hit by recent NLF attacks are those which are farthest from the alleged Cambodian sanctuaries.

Even the most minimal understanding of guerilla warfare would point out that this mystical “central base camp” for operations in South Vietnam, which the U.S. is now attempting to find, is a phantom, ,a phantom not unlike those pursued by the U.S. military command in Vietnam for the last ten years. Perhaps the Liberation Front -is . . .

be to preclude any significant understanding of the meaning of the american presence in Asia.

The economic structure of the United States has become so large and so extremely complex and diversified that removal of even a small quantity of any. important raw material from prqductive processes could prove to be disastrous.

Around 1930 the United States began to suffer from quite an extensive annual deficit of raw materials.

This situation forced the U.S. to increasingly rely on imports from other, mineral abundant regions. By 1960, America was importing 32% of its iron ore, 98% of its bauxite, 35% of its lead, 60% of its zinc, and 100% of its cobalt and chromium.

That such, a situation calls for rigid control through foreign policy measures was expressed in 1954 in a report by the. president’s commission on -foreign economic policy: “Both from the viewpoint of our long-term economic growth and the viewpoint of our national defense, the shift of the United States from the position of a net exporter of metals and minerals to that of a net importer is of overshadowing significance in shaping our foreign economic policies . . . ‘.:

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In brief, many industtries central to the “well-being” of the american economy must have plentiful supplies of these scarce materials or “go under”.

The underdeveloped countries of the world have become the chief dependable source of scarce raw materials for the United States. The integration of these Third World economics into’ the sphere of the monopoly capitalism of the United States repeatedly results in the loss of economic self-sufficiency for the supplying countries.

Insofar as their economic structures become nothing but vehicles for the supply of raw materials to the U.S. at prices agreeable to the buyers, the flexibility of productive structures necessary for economic and cultural growth is stunted or, in many cases, completely lost.

The Third World countries are, in brief, not backward because of any genetic stupidity or * continued

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Scott Arnold, originally from Chicago, is a. University of Waterloo student preparing his MA. thesis in philosophy. lllustrations are from the New York Review of books, december 69 and march 70. Desjgn: Alex Smith.

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. feedback Mathews overstates case; what’s his game anyway?

It is a pity that in his recent Waterloo talk about the canadianization of universities professor Mathews over-stated his case.

Nearly everyone in his audience agreed that it is vital to nurture Canadian culture, that it is natural for foreigners to hire other foreigners, and therefore that a strong effort should be made to find Canadians for faculty positions. Yet he alienated many Canadians as well as sympathetic foreign-born listeners with his over-emotive language.

What he said about foreign-that is, american-domination of our country is probably correct, but he shouldn’t have said it the way he did. It is difficult to escape the

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feeling that if professor Mathews had been born in Quebec he would be a Separatist, or further, that if he had been a german academic thirty-five years ago he would have endorsed “german physics, ” “german chemistry,” or “german mathematics.”

Certainly the fire had to be lit; statistics such as those quoted by professor Steele do not incite action, but Mathews demonstrated that while the issue is serious, he is not. Because he must know by now what effect he is having. He is purposely using bad political tactics in a political issue. Why? What is his first priority?

What is his game anyway?

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laziness on the part of their inhabitants - or because they lack raw materials. for industrialization.

Rather, they are impoverished because their natural resources are, in effect, stolen american imperialism for the satisfaction of immense needs of its own industrial base.

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What has been presented here largely as an assertion is extensively explored, supported, and greatly expanded by economists such as H. Magdoff, Pierre Jalee, and Andre Gunder Frank; the . interested or sceptical reader is urged to consult the works of these authors.

Although economically weak and, often, socially backward, the countries of the Third World are, at least in one important respect, in a position of great strength vis-a-vis the United States: their hands control the tap regulating the flow of essential materials into the U.S. The U.S. government knows this, and this awareness forms the central core of its policies regarding anti-imperialist liberation movements-or; as we have seen, even regarding strategic neutral governments -in the Third.World.

Revolution in the developing countries means, most basically, the will to control their own development.

This entails breaking the stranglehold of the exploitive advantages now enjoyed by the U.S. In this context the american presence in Asia can be understood.

The fact that southeast Asia, when compared to the cost of the war there, is not particularly valuable for the U.S. indicates all the more clearly its commitment against and understanding of revolutionary movements.

The american government understands full well that Vietnam and,indeed, all of southeast Asia must be made an example to other emerging nations of what will happen to them if they attempt to cast off the imperial yoke. For this object lesson no costs (or, apparently, lives) will be spared; the U.S. cannot afford to withdraw from southeast Asia. That the U.S. cannot afford a defeat in Asia does not mean that they will not be defeated. They, providing nuclear weapons are not used, will be thrown out of Asia.

The war in Asia marks the. beginning of the end of american control of the Third World. Wars of liberation are political wars, wars that cannot be won by military means alone. The United States, insofar as its interests are dia*metrically opposed to those of the people of the emerging nations, is forced to fight a strictly military war, the inadequacies of which have become increasingly evident in southeast Asia.

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Reply to article hits big business and farm scene I’d like to add a few comments to Ron Sauve’s report about Mr. Miller’s lecture on farm economics. I don’t recall Mr. Miller criticizing big business for trying to keep farmers on the farm. Perhaps Ron could tell us why they are setting up their own commercial farms. It’s sort of like keeping money in the family. Certainly the feed companies urge the farmer to produce more. But who owns most of them.

I’d like to give a couple of examples which control the market to a large extent.

Canada Packers owns 24 feed plants in Canada and the US under the name ‘Shurgain’ and ‘Lethbridge Feed Mills’ in the west.

They also happen to own 11 meat processing plants with 17 branches under Canada Packers Ltd. and 6 other names. They also like to keep their fingers on Australia.

They own Feathers Industries Ltd., creameries and poultry stations, canneries, a couple of leather companies (Acton & Aurora).

They don’t own the shit on the farm yet, so they had a company to sell some to the farmer. Canada Packers also owns a few farmers not worth mentioning.

How about Maple Leaf Mills.

I’ll briefly list what they own: -seed and vegetable oil companies -flour mills, Master Feed, Quaker Oats, Monarch, Purity.

-bakeries, cereal -transport companies elevators, total storage capacity 9.4 million bushels -feed companies -farms, individual poultry farms, hatcheries Skyline Farms Ltd. and Quaker Oats Farms If Ron Sauve ever heard of the Barker Corn-mission report he would know that it’s cheaper to buy a tractor overseas and import it than to buy the same one here.

No use telling where the difference disappeared (roughly $1,000 more or less, mostly more). The methods the machinery companies use to prevent this would make an article in itself.

Sure the government is thinking about giving $140 million for summer fallow. If that is all the farmer has to show for his income then he probably wouldn’t have enough to live on. What about the labor market, if all these farmers had to look for jobs? (Didn’t want to bring politics in.). What about a huge windstorm while the prairies are all bare with nothing to keep the soil down? Sounds like something from the thirties.

We’re already giving food to some countries.

Scientists were figuring out how to make wheat taste like rice because some of the people in the far east didn’t like it. Don’t laugh. It’s like Canada having to eat rice for a couple of months.

I’d complain too. The farmer cannot afford to give anything away, even if the prices he now gets are none too impressive.

The government has to do this so that everyone shares in the task and foots the bill. Have you ever heard of the corporations giving anything away out of the goodness of their hearts. Even Peter Jackson has to cry about $lO,OpO. Also the idea of giving the under: developed countries the tools to produce their own food is not at

all threatening to the Canadian farmer.

It’s threatening to big business.

Why give it away if you can sell it? We’ve sent farmers and scientists to other countries to improve their agricultural production.* It was on behalf of the Canadian government and not big business.

What would happen, Ron, if some of the profit that the big companies make (and don’t say they don’t) was reduced so that prices were the same but the farmer received more so that his standard of living could increase to almost minimum standards.

There certainly isn’t any sense in the chairman of GM receiving a nominal salary of $800,000 plus a year.

I’m sure he wouldn’t be in the poorhouse if he made about $20,000 (just an arbitrary figure so that he could remain in the upper income bracket).

There is no way a farmer can increase efficiency if he is exploited. He pays so much for machinery, interest, parts, fertilizer and seed that he doesn’t have enough to maintain a decent standard of living. If you’ve lived on a farm and understood its workings (I don’t know if both apply to you), then you’ll know what the;farmer’s problems are. Your article sure made it sound like the farmer was at fault. (You’re not partial to big business, are you?) Your ideas about efficiency are ridiculous It’s like the bookstore charging you a fortune for books, the government lending you money at high interest, the landlord soaking you for room and board and me telling you that you “are in a competitive field and those who cannot compete must leave.” (university).

Put yourself in a farmer’s shoes and don’t walk where the ground is wet.

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An open letter to the university credit manager.

J .S . Philips Credit Manager University of Waterloo Dear sir: I am somewhat puzzled and offended by the rather abrupt form letter which I received this morning concerning an alleged outstanding account of $63.35. I was under the impression that all my financial obligations to the university had been cleared up. I am, however, willing to remit the !$63.35 if the following problems can be explained to my satisfaction.

(1) For what do I owe $63.35?

(2) Why, in spite of the contention in your recent form letter (enclosed) was I never informed of this debt?

(3) Several months ago I was informed by the business office that I owed the university $20.00; a sum which I paid in order to have my marks released. At this time I was led to believe that all my debts were clear. Now I am told that I owe another $63.35. Do you have two accounting departments?

(4) Why are you using a yearold address when you were officially informed 8 months ago of a change of address? Especially when the Registrar’s office, the Business office, and the English department all use my new address.

(5) Why have I never received a T-4 form for the period of Jan.-

May 1969 during which I was employed as a teaching assistant at u. of W.?

I still retain some hope that this awkward situation can be cleared up to everyone’s satisfaction, however. To ‘accomplish this, I make the following proposal: you have the courtesy to answer the five questions listed above, before referring the account to your collection agency; and for my part I will refrain from referring the matter of the missing T-4 form to the Department of National Revenue, to which, according to section 2173 of the Canadian Master Tax Guide, (enclosed for your Convenience) you now owe $600.00 in penalty fines.

I trust I will hear from you soon so that we can clear this matter up as quickly as possible.

In order to prevent this letter falling into a computer and disappearing forever I have sent copies to people who I know exist in the flesh.

Yours truly, Doug Gaukroger

lnternationalizm another word for Americanization .

So nationalism disgusts Brian Hendley. It must have been hell for him, growing up in the -U.S. with all that nationalism.

No wonder he sought asylum in Canada.

Since the canadinization campaign is aimed at curbing that disgusting nationalism from taking over Canada, I would expect to find Brian in ‘the vanguard of the movement.

But Brian is a true blue internationalist (or anti-nationalist, or ‘something) who won’t touch any kind of nationalism, even one that just tries to protect itself from someone else’s nationalism.

The U.S. has an iron grip on its own culture and economy as well as a good share of everyone else’s.

Now Americans want to chuck all that ugly nationalistic stuff that secured their own position and develop a nice internationalism.

Bullshit!

It’s nationalistic imperialism like it’s always been and Canada is about to be the first \ modern nation to give up her independence through hard work and develop into a colony.

In this country, internationalism is just another word for Americanization, an extension of nationalistic american expansion, so when the Brian Hendleys talk of internationalism and ugly nationalism they’re talking about american imperialism and ugly Canadian independence.

There’s no such thing as true internationalism, educational or otherwise, between two countries who are not economically, politically and culturally independent of one another and on a near level of equality in these areas so that the smaller nation isn’t overwhelmed by the larger.

This hardly applies to Canada and the U.S. Canada’s whole history is a resistance to an american takeover by “continentalists” both in Canada and the U.S. Pro-. fessor Hendley was right on one score though. Nationalism makes us emotional-for a change.

And so Brian Hendley, you’re guilty of having your stars and stripes showing. Our Un-Canadian Activities Committee could get you for that.

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ectoral system did little’to emphasize the UEBEC’S RECENT VENTURE into fact in terms of popular support, the Parti the realm of electoral politics proQucbecois must be termed the official opvided some disappointments, yet relposition. atively few surprises.

As a result o.f the blatant inequities of The Liberal landslide in, the Quebec elthe electoral map, the Liberals, under the ection may be explained largely in terms leadership of Robert Bourassa, gained of a conglomeration of political and socioseventy-two seats in the provincial legeconomic factors. islature with only forty-five per-cent of the ‘The Liberals were regarded by many on the eve of the election as a safety valve , popular vote while the Parti Quebecois, with almost one quarter of the popular for the aspirations of many traditionallyvote, managed to capture only seven Z conservative voters, however the scattered support given to the inept and in- - seats. Such instances of the futility of the Quebec electoral system were by no cumbent government of the Union Nationmeans irregular, however. , ale, as well as-the right wing Credi@stes.

Approximately three-hundred thousand contributed substantially to. the complexyouthful voters were left off the voting ity-of political loyalties which were manierror which fested on the eve of the recent election. ’ lists for various reasons-an cost the Parti Quebecois dearly in the The Parti Quebecois, under the leaderlong-run. ship of Rene Levesque, had considerable , Many P.Q. supporters are seemingly right to be enraged as to the results of theunlikely as well, to forget instances of election . electoral irregularities strangely reminThe archaic nature of the Quebec el-

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HE ENVIRONMENT MAY WELL ‘. BE the gut issue that can unify a polarized nation in the 1970’s, writes Time magazine. The Hearst Press sees it . as a movement “that could unite- the generations.”

And the * New York Times solemly predicts that ecology, “will replace Vietnam as the major is* sue with students”. : tablishment?

Perhaps. But the organizers of the officially-sanctioned april 22 teachin movement are doing their best to give life to the-media’s daydream about the coj optive potential of ecology. Thousands of. young people across the country have engaged in. a series of environmental extravaganzas, embellished to capture, the ’ excitement of the original Vietnam teachins, but structured to encourage the young to forsake the “less important issues” and enlist in a crusade to save the earth. , We think that any analogy between what happened around april 22 and the organization of the Vietnam teach-ins is obscene.

We think that the environmental teachin apparatus is. the first step. in a con game that will do ‘little more than abuse the environment even further. We do not think it will succeed.

The originators of the Vietnam teachins worked at great odds and against the lies and opposition of government, university administrations and the media.

They raised their own money and had offices in student apartments or small storefronts. “Earth Day” came to life in the offices of senator Gaylord Nelson, received blessings from Nixon’s <Department of + health, education and welfare, was fund-

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ed by foundations, and has worked out of facilities leht by the Urban coalition. , Vietnam protestors had to create their own reading lists, fact sheets and white papers ; they had to work against the l‘exp&is&’ of southeast Asia scholars. The environmental teach-in comes pre-packaged ; a well-paid and well-staffed national office sends local organizers an official brochure which avoids mentioning the social and economic environment with which mother nature has to cope. Friends of the “earth (FOE) provides, through Ballantine books, a semi-official “Environmental Handbook,” which insists that saving the environment “transcends the other issues” and that we should in nonpartisan fashion “support a man from any political party if he is a true friend of the earth.”

Never mind if he’s a racist. Don’t worry about whether or not he supports amer-‘ ican imperialism.

This spring the Nixon administration is busy undoing I5 years of struggle for school integration; the police continue to murder black people in .the streets; the american judicial system is disintegrating and, in the eyes of the state every radical has become a conspirator; the war machine in Washington has made clear its intention to stay in Vietnam indefinitely and to spread its war to Laos.

All this-and the teach-in organizers want to banish everything but environment to the back pages of our minds. They must be blind, or perverse, or both.

How can anyone in this dark springtime believe kind words - about environment or anything ‘else - from the men in

iscent of the. Duplessis era: the stuffing of ballot boxes, wanton destruction of ballots and electoral lists, as well as the longestablished phenomenon of electionday coercion.

The Liberal victory in Quebec has been termed a victory for federalism by many narrow-minded federalists while at the same time, it has been termed a profound victory for the future economic aspirations of -Quebec by the English-speaking bourgeoisie of Montreal.

The removal of an undisclosed quantity of securities from Montreal to Toronto in armored trucks resembled a carefullyplanned propaganda hype designed to ilicit mass hysteria on the part of the electorate as to the eventual economic stability of the province.

Such actions were, in fact, quite in line with the image conveyed by Bourassa.

Provocations of, impending economic disaster if the P.Q. gained substantial support, as well as Bourassa’s Harvard and Oxford credentials, which were used (effectively on the colonial mentality, were instrumental in conveying an atmosphere of economic stability which the liberals sought to maintain.

The defeat of the P.Q. was not a victory for federalism, nor for a renewal in fidelity of the potentialities of the Quebec economy. It was however a defeat for the system of electoral politics in Quebec; i.e. a defeat for the parliamentary system as an effective means for radical social reform in Quebec society.

The immediate vanguard of the P.Q. represented a call for moderation-an attempt at bringing under a common banner the extremist elements of Quebec society, such as the Front de Liberation * ” Populaire and the Rassemblement pour I

power? Once we might have been able to believe that because a president had embraced the civil rights issue, apartheid in the deep south was dead. But such illusions can hardly be sustained any longer.

The open housing act, the chief legislative victory of those years, finds use this season only for its “H. Rap Brown Amendment” - the interstate travel ban on which the justice department hung the Chicago 7.

Lyndon Johnson promised that “we Nixon shall overcome. ” Now Richard promises to clean up America. Even TV’s “Laugh-In’: knows the punch-line: “lf Nixon’s war on pollution is as successful as Johnson’s war on poverty, we’re going to ‘have an awful lot of dirty people around. ” Haven’t we learned after a decade of

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To the extent that the P.Q. failed to achieve its goals through the channels to which it had access, such a collective effort must be deemed a failure.

Quebec has thus embarked upon a potentially dangerous yet productive path toward radical social reform. The failure of radical elements to achieve their ends in a traditional political perspective will necessitate the adoption of extra-legal means to attain fundamental goals. Thus, violent street demonstrations will most likely be the order of the day in the immediate future.

In any case, the goals of the radical elements of Quebec society are the .goals of expediency and ultimacy in an increasingly colonial-minded province which has succeeded in oppressing the vast major-. ity of its citizens, not only culturally but economically.

In the context of electoral politics, the Parti Quebecois sought to be considered as an effective safety-valve for social protest.

Such a dream however, was as hollow and banal as the campaign of economic hysteria which was undertaken by the Liberals under their businessmanleader Robert ‘Bourassa.

Jacques Parizeau, the economic expert of the now seemingly defunct Parti Quebecois seemed to sum up .the genesis. of Quebec’s economic and social future rather well.

“There are too many reasons to be optimistic in Quebec today. . . the Liberals won the election by’ inspiring fear in the people. But fear is a knife that can cut both ways.”

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social struggle that major problems like Vietnam, race, poverty - now environment - can’t be packaged separately, each protected from contamination ‘by “other issues”?

Even the Kerner commission realized that white racism was systematic, structural and linked to economic and social institutions.

Even the most determined skeptic has now been shown by. the Nixon administration that the Vietnam _ war was no honest mistake, but the result of a long history of american expansion into Asia and a long-term’ policy of sub-\ jetting poor nations to the imperatives of american investors. To understand why Washington has persisted, in its genocidal war in Indo-China, don’t look at the politicians who come and go; look at the structures of power and interest ‘that remain.

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Sliced thin the truths of h,is master, lined with foam rubMarter’s demi-document falls to split on ber, marked fragile and “heavy stuff”, “Helpless, Helpless, Helpless”... and the mace of justice.

A cry rings singing laughter rings the song of actors adeptly adlibing alternate adaged axioms, eh!

Manny‘Flippant, Jew in exile and perpetuator of mother’s gentle gentile gut germination, dies of drowning’.

I remember him, I do. I do remember him.

Philonious P. Marter picks up the split pages, now lying shaped in the line stops in memory of the Cape Cod afternoon of Manny Flippant’s late forehead, which removed Manny, licks his fingers and makes the sign of the cross on the minister’s stomach.

The council breaths in unison (divided according to party the right exiles, the left defiles, the lines. . . the left inhales, the right exhales, left defumes, the right exhumes) and heads bow in widespread fatigue.

M;l,nny vwas a tiring lad.

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Rolling up his shirt sleeves he begins, “we mu$t destroy every human with poor eyesight!”

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member: Canadian university press (CUP) and underground press syndicate (UPS): subscriber: liberation news service (LNS) and chevron international news service (GINS): published fiftytwo times a year (1970-71) on tuesdays and fridays by the publications board of the federation of students, incorporated, university of Waterloo. Content is the responsibility of the chevron staff, independent of the federation and the university administration; offices in the people’s campus center; phone (519) 578-7070 or university local 3443; telex 0295-748; summer circulation 8,500; Alex Smith, editor.

Here we are for the first issue of volume 11, eager to leave the cheesecake and the bulletin boa’rd histrionics to the Gazette, which is doing a great job looking like the Punkeydoodle Corners Afternoon Tea And Petit-Fours Society Almanac And Social Calendar? but ah, that’s institutionalized PR journalims for you.. . oh well,back to the business at hand in which we make note of the fact that one-time jockcum-society editor w. ross taylor, B.A. is out of it out west for a few weeks, latter-day phenomenologist Cyril levitt has just returned from david black’s farm in Ottawa; marie and trudie are driving out west next week; and overheard at the Waterloo copshop on Wednesday: “I don’t know what the hell he’s trying to do, We don’t tell him how to run the fire department; why should he be concerned with the police department,” Or words to that effect. m.hmmmmm.

And what about the staff? There was, needles to say, a pointed lack of bodies for this paper, although everything seemed to go reasonably well, However, if anyone wants to participate in the fun, by all means come to the chevron office and have a chat with us; unless a few more people do, there won’t be a paper for very long, And a special note, before we announce the celebrity winners this week, to suggest that fred’spizza is highly recommended at 7444446.

Following than, are la creme de la creme for 11 :I, may 15 (f), 1970: news: r’obert epp

entertainment: ross bell features: rats with a little help from our friends gary robins, p,>il elsworthy, Steve izma, dane charboneau, Scott arnold, eleanor peavoy, larry Caesar and stan simister. And where are you ken toe, john nelson and persimmia dalnleish?

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Lucia Perry: I was there.

I was mainly curious. I heard about the rally and I wanted to find out what was going on, because like helicopters had been buzzing in my dorm all night, and everywhere you went there were National Guard. I wasn’t particularly interested in throwing any rocks or anything like that.

But I was very much against what he (President Richard Nixon) did in Cambodia and I was’hoping the rally would produce something, you know, really true. _ Anyway, I soon realized that maybe this wasn’t, you know, just a rally. It may sound corny, but I promised my mother that I wouldn’t get involved. S.o I thought, well ‘I better get home instead of getting stuck in it. And then I was walking past and there was a,hilf with trees on it. And there was a kid standing in the trees with his legs spread apart and he threw a rock at one of the Guardsmen. And the guy was so mad-he had a mask on, but you could tell from the way he acted, he was infuriated-that he shot at this boy.‘ And missed the boy- . and hit a tree. It nearly hit it.

Q. This was with what?

Lucia: With a rifle. With a real bullet. Cause I saw the ’ bullet when it ricocheted off the tree. There was an entrance on the other side of the building, and I went out and was standing on the veranda when the shooting took place.

So I saw everything. I saw the men firing, and I saw the kids fall, and I looked out at the crowd and there were people carrying, you know, people with blood all over them down the hill, and I just couldn’t believe it. I’ve never seen people so mad and so horrified.

Ellen Glass: There was nobody on campus in the morning. It was a relatively quiet campus. And then what they did was they let the kids get into a huge group. And the kids were really unenthusiastic anyway, because they couldn’t even keep up a chant more than a couple of seconds. You know, they would have gotten hungry and something would have happened, and they would have all left, if the Guard had stayed where they were. Instead, they made this big play, started throwing tear gas, and the movement of the crowd was mostly out of fear.

Q. Has all this shaken your sense of your future?

Jeff: I’ll have to ramble ‘on here a second. Sunday night they changed the curfew from 1 to 11 and a friend of my younger brother-a very average Kent student-got arrested at 10 after 11. They handcuffed him‘ and took his money and they held a .45 to his head, cocked it and said, “If you move one inch we’re going to kill you.” Then they took him to jail, mugged him, printed him and everything, took his shoelaces and his belts and told him he had no rights under martial law.

Then with about 15 other kids they shoved him in a sevenby-seven cell and left him there for 28 hours. Now this is a typical, average American kid. He’s no rebel. He!s in the reserves the whole lot. And he an’d his friends are bringing guns back to school because they said if a guardsman comes after them, they’ll kill him. And I’m not talking about a Jerry Rubin.

I’m not talking about a nut.

I’m talking about a kid who’s afraid for his own life. These are-average kids but they are so mad.

Q. Now relate that to the question.

Jeff: Okay. I still believe in working through the system and I still believe that the only way you can do something is through the law. And I personally feel that if we can show what I am sure is true, that a commander of the National Guard gave that order to fire, then that guy should be prosecuted and can be prosecuted under the law.

And I will personally push to the fullest extent to see that he is prosecuted.

Q. What if you felt it was * being whitewashed?

Jeff: They aren’t going to be able to whitewash this. The kids will never stop until they settle this. ’

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Lucia: My feeling is that authority will do anything it can to cover up/its mistakes.

Authority just doesn’t care.

They really don ‘t .

Ron : Like in the Calley case, they find some second lieutenant and blame him. Well, that’s what’s going to happen here. They’ll get some buck sergeant or some one, two or three people and hang them for the whole rap.

Q. What makes you think that?

Tom: It’s the way the political system works. What choices did we have in the Democratic primary in Ohio?

A spaceman and a millionaire.

Ellen: I think that a basic problem with this country is that it’s a world power and sees itself as a policeman of the world. And I think this country has to be reduced to something other than a world power.

Q. President Nixon said he would rather be a one-term President than see this country become a second-rate power.

Tom: We shouldn’t care whether our flag flies from the highest pole at the-united Nations.

Q. What’s the solution?

Wayne: If we made our system work here, we wouldn’t have to go around forcing it down other people’s throats because they’d steal it, they’d just take it away from us.

Q. President Nixon j also talked about anarchy in the universities. Is that a real menace?

Michael: I think that’s a reaction to the coming police state. If kids are arming themselves with helmets and training in street fighting, it’s a reaction to the frustration they feel in a police state.

Q. Then what can you do about Cambodia?

Lucia: I really am dead set against violence. That’s a cop-out. But it’s the only way to get the- Government’s attention. What you’re doing is drawing their attention to you by using the same methods they use. I really am against that. It’s horrible that the only way you can get people to listen is to have four kids killed. There -was no big blowup over Cambodia until four kids were killed. You could have all the peace marches that were peaceful and quiet and everyone would pat you on the back and say, “Good little kids. You keep it quiet.

Good for you.” But .nobody would do anything.

Q. I’m curious as to whether what has happened generally in the country and specifically at Kent State has shaken up your sense of your own personal future? Do you have a sense of doom?

Jeff Tetreault: I’m not particularly worried about what I’ll be able to do I think I’m strong in my own self.

I’ve made one decision already. I’m planning to go to Canada, British Columbia, and go to school there and then try to get into agriculture or botany of some kind.

Tom Difloure: I’ve seen other demonstrations where people were hurt but I’ve never seen anyone killed before. And you walk around, you know, seeing bits’ and pieces of people’s skin laying on the pavement and the blood and all that. But I made up my mind a long time ago that I’m leaving.

Q. One last question. Will ‘it happen again? Was this an aberration or the start of a trend?

Tom Dilfoure: The Governor of Kentucky ordered a curfew on the school down there. He told the troops to use live ammo and bayonets. Now that’s kindof foolish following what happened at Kent.

But that’s what he told them.

And you know they’ve got the Guard at Ohio State University and they’ve got the Guard at the University of Maryland and they’ve got the Guard at Illinois and Wisconsin.

Michael: You can’t re-educate all the National Guardsmen onto campuses. And unless you have a frontal lobotomy on Nixon, you’re not going to re-educate him. But until you do those things it’s bound to happen.