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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1966)
National Phone Call Criticizes U.S. By VANCE WELTY SUIT Writer "Santo Domingo: One Year After the Invasion,” was the top ic of a nationwide telephone re view and informal discussion pre sented Wednesday night by the Faculty-Student Committee to Stop the War in Viet Nam. The main part of the program was taken up by a national tele phone hook-up which was heard simultaneously on 40 campuses. Several speakers were heard, all protesting U.S. intervention in Campus... (Continued from page 1) lems of higher education,” he added. He pointed to several accom plishments this year, including the establishment of an ASUO curriculum committee and the fact that two students have been admitted to faculty meetings. “This year we have establish ed a trend that students are go ing to be involved in the educa tional decision-making of the University,” Drummonds said. He called for a "limited pass-or fail" program which would allow students to take up to 36 hours of pass-or-fail classes in any courses they wish. Students are now allow ed to take up to 36 hours pass-or fail but the classes which have that type of grading are limited and students have little choice. Drummonds said the plan had been tried at Princeton and work ed there. Bollinger called for a revision in courses numbered in the 100 series to accommodate the in creasingly better freshmen. Bollinger also attacked Han sell and his running mate, Sen ate Governing Committee Chair man Mike Donahue. He noted that “We’ve only had an ASUO Constitution now for a year and already our opponents are talking about a change.” He was referring to Hansell and Donahue’s proposal for political parties in student government. "Political parties is not a new idea,” Bollinger said, “but par ties must grow from an ideology. “We want a student govern ment that accomplishes things,” Bollinger summed up, “and we feel the most important area for accomplishment is educational reform. Drummonds said he and Bol linger hope to be at the Free Speech Platform every day dur ing the campaign. the Dominican Republic in 1965, and offering various solutions to the country’s present problems. The program was held in con junction with a “Hemispheric day of protest against North American intervention in the Dominican Re public” sponsored by the Union of University Federations of Chile, and the Student Federation of Chile. Before the actual telephone program began, Dan Goldrich, professor of political science, gave a short speech outlining the background of the Dominican cri sis. He announced that there is a call by the Chilean students for an international day of protest today, the first anniversary of the U.S. intervention to put down Dominican revolution. He said the Chileans were the only Latin American country with enough independence to refuse to back the U.S. intervention and to side with the military led by Wessen y Wessen. In ChUe in April Goldrich was in Chile last April and witnessed the Chilean reac tion to American armed interven tion in the Dominican Republic. “I had nothing but respect for their position,” he stated. In No vember he visited the Dominican Republic, where he spoke to Juan Bosch, American representatives, and others. "I was appalled,” he said, "at the level of brutality and need for vengeance in the country.” Pedro Alfonso, a senior in ar chitecture from the Dominican Republic, predicted that Bosch will run for president in the up coming election, and probably win. He added the June 14 move ment is backing Bosch, but only unofficially, “Because they arc labeled ’communist’ due to their strong nationalist feelings.” After some difficulty making connections, the telephone pro gram got under way. First to speak was Theodore Draper, an authority on Latin American affairs and author of “Castroism: Theory and Practice” as well as of numerous articles on the Dominican Republic. He said that the Dominican crisis is an American crisis as well, and that the Dominican people rose against a military government to establish a constitutional govern ment, only to be put down by the U S. "The revolution had won an al most bloodless victory,” Draper said, “until the Dominican Air Force turned it into a civil war at the direction of the military under Wessen y Wessen.” He stated the American inter vention was not, as alleged, to protect American lives, but to put down a feared communist take over. “On April 25, 1965,” he said, "there was no danger of a com munist takeover." Draper claimed that the U.S. intervention was a clear case of “political obscenity” and that the administration's distorated re lease had poisoned the Ameri can’s minds against the Domini can constitutional movement. He added that some of the worst of fenders were members of the U.S. House of Representatives who read gross falsehoods into the Congressional Record. He concluded by saying, “If we are going to fight communist domination, let us at least fight it fairly and openly. This kind of anti-communism can only end up by making anti-communism a mockery. The second speaker was Allard Lowenstein, a lawyer and author PL-3 Program THURSDAY. APRIL 2S 6:30—HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT 7:00—ENGLISH FILM: “T • * c h 1 n ( Shakespeare. Henry IV Pert I." (Repeat) 7:30—STUDIES IN DISCRIMINA TION: “A Day in the Life o! Jonathan Mole" portraye the fan taay dream of a bigoted man. 6:00—MUSIC FROM MICHIGAN STATE: Pianist Joae Rambaldt i perform* work* of Haydn and Chopin. S:30—ARTS. 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"When the elec tions are over," he said, “the U.S.. which stopped the instilling of a constitutional government, must give the newly elected gov ernment a chance to function." Lowenstein concluded by stat ing that belief in free elections is not enough "In addition, we must never again tolerate the overthrow of a freely elected gov ernment, by the U.S. or anyone else." The next speaker was Richard Shull, professor of Christian So cial ethics at Princeton Theolo gical Seminary. He held that the U.S., having stopped what it thought was extremism, wound up by creating a perfect climate for it. He felt that the longer we delay at securing a peaceful solu tion, the greater the danger of renewed violence becomes "While U.S. Government representatives seem optimistic of a peaceful so lution," he said, “the Dominicans consider us responsible for their troubles. Stopped Revolution "Our intervention stopped a revolution which had already suc ceeded,” he continued, “the pres ent imbalance of power is di rectly related to our intervention Why should they trust us to protest them from military pow r cr plays when we have already supported one?" Shull expressed belief thnt the Dominicans can provide the lead ership to have n free government, but was doubtful that the US. is capable of providing effective leadership to help them. Havard Rustin, director of the A Philip Randolph Institute, got off to a slow start when the loud speaker faded out. but came back in time to encourage American observation of the forthcoming Dominican elections. “That way,” More Immoral he said, "at least some Americans can see that other people are capable of operating in spite of our having ‘bigger sticks’ than they have.” He added that while our action in the Dominican Republic is not as tragic as Viet Nam. It is in finitely more immoral. 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