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
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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
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of "The Brutal Mandate." He of
fered suggestions to insure a free,
non-violent, and meaningful elec
tion in the Dominican Republic.
We cautioned against the lmbal
ancc of power which now exists
in the country. "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.
After the telephone program
had ended, an informal discussion
was held on the Dominican prob
lem Goldrich suggested the pos
sibility of sending an FSC spon
sored student who is both articu
late and politically mature to the
Dominican Republic to talk to
the people. No definite plans
were made to do so. however
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