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Show Page 3 June 30 1967 COLLEGIATE WEEKLY by Cheryl Lorenc 2 The ancient chant that has ended Passover and Yom Kippur for centuries "Next Year In Jerusalem!" was realized in part by the United Nations, in 1948. This year the Jews were in all of Jerusalem much to the chagrin of Russian armed, trained and motivated Arabs. There was a lot of back-patting in Washington for our marvelous capacity to remain neutral. (Afterall it would almost seem against policy to be on a winning side.) So we firmly placed both feet on either side of the Wailing Wall and pledged the protection of all territorial boundaries with free access for all traveling in international waters and our undying support to the United Nations as peace keeper of the world. And in the U.N. the real issue of the Middle bast conflict came out. The Arab countries simply do not really recognize Israel. Perhaps the same way we simply do not recognize Red China. There are interesting similarities between the current Israeli Flare-up and the continuing Viet Nam, Field Manuevers, maybe not so much similarities as similar difference. The question of nationhood is raised about both nations. Is South Viet Nam really a country? Do the Viet Namese people really feel they are a nation? If our foreign policy in Viet Nam is to maintain the soverignity of the South Viet Nam nation then what is that soverignity? The state of Israel existed in the minds of Jewish people for a thousand years before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire which led to the initial agreement that began to provide land and soverignity for Jews. The history of the Jewish people is marked by their feeling for Jerusalem and the land of their Fathers. It could validly be argued that their cultural religious sense of country has held them together these many centuries. Historically, Viet Nam or Indo China or Southeast Asia have been governed by somebody else, mostly China. Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and France have grouped the different tribes and religious ideals together with one form of ruling elite or another. But the Tonkinese of North Viet Nam, the Annamites of the center who both scorn the southern branch of the family are very much like the American Jews who mingle with the African and Indo-European Jews in Israel. The differences aside we are committed to both countries. In our commitment lies the fundamental crisis of the Near and Far East, for Americans. Just what does American commitment mean? In the far East it means bombing North Viet Nam even though it really isn't doing any good economically or psychologically. It means refusing to recognize Red China and at the same time branding her as the aggressor and instigator of most Far East problems. In the middle East our commitment means that the Arabs recognize Israel. It means that we will sell arms to Israel and Jordan. It means that even though we promised Israel in 1957 that we would guarantee access to the Gulf of Aqaba we really meant that our Jewish Mr. Goldberg would express sadness that fighting had broken out, and relief when the Bar Blitzkrieg was over. A Viet Cong jungle fighter killed in battle wrote: I began to look around and wondered what there was to liberate. That night, my eyes were filled with tears and my sleep with nightmares. And in the words of the ancient Psalms: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its cunnins! And just what is our commitment to these people? In many ways our foreign policy commits us to a Holy war in Viet Nam and nervous nuetrality in the Middle East. It is an absolute necessity that the college quit dwadling in easy propaganda from the left, the right or the P asident and through classes, invited speakers and more active awareness find out what's going on in this dynamic world and why. And most of all students have the obligation not to be content with a national policy that is infantile and expressionless. Neutrality won us nothing but raised eyebrows in Israel. Open warfare in Viet Nam is not winning us any greater understanding of the Far East or allowing the people of Asia any greater understanding of us. We are committed to fighting communism if the Reds support the Viet-Namese but not if they support the Arabs. Next Year in the United Nations, what? Weber State College's dean of men resigned this week to accept a new position in Salt Lake City working with students. Rolfe Kerr joined the Weber State staff in 1966 as co-ordinator of veteran's activities. He was named dean of men fall quarter, replacing AlanDayley who became dean of students. "I have enjoyed working with the students very much during the past year," Kerr said, "it has proved to have reaped success and respect from the students." 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Kerr received both his bach- i 'A Rolfe Kerr Has the Lowest Prices in town-. 3303 Grant Ave. -392-0851 Start thinking about insurance now. The longer you wait, the higher the rate! Today's smart college student begins his program of life Insurance now when rates are lower for him than they'll ever be. I have specialized in the problems of students for New York Life. Let me discuss with you the opportunities we offer. P3 Hugh I. Gates SPECIAL AGENT NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 455 - 24th St. Bus: 394-5713 Res: 392-8276 elor's and master's degree from the Logan school. Dr. William P. Miller, WSC president, said no replacement for the dean of men would be made at this time. Dayley will be acting dear of students beginning July 1, Mi ier said, until further plans coulc be made. Curtis Smout, WSC student government coordinator, has been named as advisor to the Senate. Smout will also be advisor to executive council, Miller said. Show Stars Singing Group The Good Time Singers, stars of the Andy Williams Show, will appear at Lagoon on Saturday, July 1, 1967. Organized on a weekend, they rehearsed together for the first time on the followingMonday; auditioned for a producer on Thursday; and by the following Monday, they were signed to a contract by NBC -TV to appear as regulars on The Andy Williams Show. It happened so fast that the pace since then has seemed normal. They are now into their third season with Andy, have a couple of record albums on the market, and have established themselves as popular concert and night club performers all over the land. They have toured with people like Mitzi Gaynor, Phyllis Diller, TonyMar-tin, and the Beverly Hillbillies. They have done television specials with Gordon and Sheila Mc-Crae, worked concert with stars like Roger Miller, and Bob New-hart. They have headlined such clubs as the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles and the Cork Club in Houston. 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