May 23 1975 Page 4 i Viewpoint- - Patriotic Blindness -- There is more to the Mayaguez incident than meets the eye and before those blinded by the darkness of patriotic ignorance completely distort the events I would like to offer another view The Mayaguez incident must be seen as one element in a world historical is that running counter to process the foreign policy interests of Ford Kissinger Rockefeller and other less visible members and servants of the US ruling class With the help of the American people through their participation in the American antiwar movement the Vietnamese people were able to end their civil war and to defeat the foreign policy aims of the US government Vietnam and Cambodia continuing acheived their in- is JJ Platt in- - quite possible my view and history may bear this out that the whole incident was a consciously planned provocation with the specific purpose of allowing Ford the Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff to demonstrate their willingness to use force to implement their brand of foreign policy Just as LBJ and his advisors decided to send 500000 GIs into Vietnam and then created the Gulf of Tonkin incident so with the Mayaguez incident The people who make and give the orders for carrying out US foreign policy think nothing of wasting the lives of American enlisted men after all they wasted $150 billion dollars worth of our national resources and 55000 American lives in Viet- nam There are strong in- dications that the Mayaguez and its crew could have been released peacefully and that the exercise of military force was so hastily bargo) Ford For Kissinger arranged that it led to the deaths of both Rockefeller and the Pentagon needless and Cambodians Americans most with generals along of in fact took Much of thefighting members Congress Democrats and Republicans place after the crew had been alike this is a serious pair of released! The other people of the world setbacks It encourages oppressed people all over the world who feel more directly the effects to intensify their struggles for of US foreign policy and its 2 raids American bombing political anti-wa- r sentiment causes them assasinations CIA activities to think twice about what they etc’ have had enough they are can get away with fighting back and they are Ford and the Security Council winning The tide is running were clearly searching for some against the Fords Kissingers what they and Rockefellers of the world way to It took a long bloody and wishfully claim to be the foreign to teach policy interests of the American costly war in Vietnam there is that the American people people' their a in between difference fact the was The Mayaguez incident of the the interests and interests pretext in of Restrict ASUSU spending An ASUSU executive senate resolution is in com- B-5- mittee which would restrict minority groups trom acspending ASUSU money on social or club-relate- d tivities The resolution written by Doug Brady executive allows minority groups to spend their ASUSU money tor educational purposes Why shouldn't the rest ot the groups receiving ASUSU money be restricted? All groups funded by ASUSU should be restricted from spending money on social vice-preside- national dependence and are beginning to rebuild their countries along socialist lines (Made more difficult by a US trade em- It by nt activities It is not valid for ASUSU groups to spend their money forrefreshments and banquets As of March ASUSU people in positions Within Rights What Ford labeled “an act of piracy” was in the fact under international law perfectly within the rights of the Cambodian government to carry out The Mayaguez was well within had spent $441375 for food Nolan Johnson ASUSU president said students wouldn't stop working on ASUSU committees if no refreshments were given (in a previous interview) Anyone interested in working for an ASUSU committee wouldn't work all year for one free dinner at the end of the year Drop the useless waste of ASUSU food costs from the budget If the executive senate is to keep the minority groups from spending its money on social activities the remainding groups funded by ASUSU must have the same restriction money-eliminat- e I by Ken Sink the internationally recognized territorial limit of 12 miles In fact it was within eight miles! The US Coast Guard routinely exercises this legal right off the shores of the United States and would surely do so if an unfriendly nation sent a ship within carrying military arms ight miles of Seattle US Out of SE Asia Now! Disarm the war makers! Rlatt by phi! frank FRANKLY SPEAKING In power Washington DC The foreign interests of the US government mean more war more death more military spending more inflation more destruction And our rulers are not above creating incidents by which they can hope to whip the uninformed into a patriotic fervor Don’t be suckered!! 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