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Show -L 4 ill ,V , . r 1 T; 1 1 . ; : 1 n n i -Li ( . V-tf - 4 I ! ' ' J i vN v F ' ! , 1 ,v K f , ; .. - ! ;; ; UM f -l .. I "If 1 i " ' T - y (Student Action for Social Justice) informs passers-by of I govenunent Viet Nam policy during their Protest Days. Most student come to the booth to argue, not to seek information, infor-mation, states Mike McKain, SASJ president on our campus. SASJ Protests U.S. Policies On Viet Nam Student Action Group Leads 'Get Out of Viet Nam9 Protests By SUE PRATT Senior Editor "The more people who know what is going on in Viet Nam, the more people who will be against it, we feel," stated Mike McKain, president of the Student Action for Social Justice (SASJ), the campus group sponsoring the current "Get Out of Viet Nam" International Days of Protests, March 25-26 at the University. "Our main point is to upset apathy at the University," McKain continued. "However, our campus is not unusual. There seems to be a blind acceptance of government policy among college students stu-dents throughout the nation." The SASJ president emphasized that although economics is a major reason for U.S. involvement, the war is not wholly economic. "The United States is not so much interested in controlling con-trolling Southeast Asia as in stopping Red China. If we can prevent pre-vent them from controlling the area we can slow down their industrial progress." DISCUSSING ANOTHER economic aspect, Mckain stated, "The U.S. needed a little war to help the economy. A little war would absorb surpluses but not cut into resources," However, he emphasized, one? a war movement is built up it is hard to stop. And the little war has become a big war that is cutting into U.S. resources and taking material. DISCUSSING COMMUNISM today, he emphasized 'that the population has gradually been taught since 1917 to hate the Soviet Union. "Now, although the Communists have made some maior changes, the hysteria has not changed. Instead, the hatred it has been transferred to Red China." People, he continued, forget that there are no Red Chinese in Viet Nam. One student came to the booth, advocated complete destruction of Red China. "When you have someone to hate, you lose sight of them as people, with aspirations similar to our own." "WHAT STUDENTS seldom realize," the SASJ president remarked, re-marked, "is that the United States often intervenes on a narrow-based narrow-based side whose only claim is being anti-Communist." Few of the students who appear at the booth seek information. Most come to argue and tell the committee what should be done, according to McKain. The group is trying to avoid violent arguments argu-ments that attract crowds for 15 minutes only. Instead, the SASJ committee talks to two or three people at a time who are seriously serious-ly interested in the group's views. ON A SHEET circulated by the SASJ, is cited as feeling that unless American public opinion forces the U.S. to withdraw from South Viet Nam, there must be a war between China and the United States. After a long non-nuclear war, Peking believes that the American people will get tired and the U.S. will leave Asia. If this is true, then according to SASJ, three courses are open to the U.S.: TO CONTINUE fighting in S.E. Asia along China's peri-, peri-, phery, while the war would spread to more areas, resulting in a long land war in small Asian countries and a consequent atomic j holocaust within one or two decades. ; To make all out war on China's 700 million, with or without with-out nucleaT bombing, resulting in a weakened America with a challenge for dominance over the Chinese power vacuum and for supremacy in the rest of the world. To seek solutions through direct high level negotiations with China, instead of military "victory" in Viet Nam, declaring a ceasefire there, calling for an Asian peace conference within the framework of the United Nations, agreeing to China's entry into it and supporting these moves with 100 billion dollars over 10 to 20 years for rehabilitating Asia. According to SASJ, the results should restore good will to America and assure world wide prosperity. |
