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Show TV War Closeup Stars Newsmen I' , . ; ...! i "i i KUED, channel 7, in cooperation with the National Educational Television Tele-vision Network, will broadcast the first in a series of programs explaining ex-plaining Viet Nam Sunday at 5:30 p.m. "NET Journal-Warfront '68" will present, from Saigon, four leading correspondents discussing Viet Nam's battles and bulletins. Participating Par-ticipating in this program are Robert Rob-ert Shaplen, of The New Yorker; Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Arnett of the Associated Press; William Touhy of The Los Angeles Times; R. W. Apple, Jr., of the New York Times, A. H. Pormutter, the program's pro-gram's executive producer, will also act as moderator. The men will focus on various aspects of the information war, such as alleged efforts of the administration ad-ministration to discredit the widespread wide-spread pessimism of press reports. Shaplen contends that the President Presi-dent has "painted himself into a corner" by refusing to acknowledge the extent of this country's com mittment throughout Southeast Asia. Other topics include pacification, the recent Vietnamese elections, growing anti-Americanism in South Viet Nam, and the difficulty of molding national spirit in a "non-nation" "non-nation" where corruption is common. com-mon. Touhy notes, "The great horror hor-ror is that posed against this government gov-ernment milieu of corruption and unresponsive government, you have the Viet Cong, and one of their hallmarks hall-marks is that they, by and large, are not corrupt." An assessment of the battlefield, where General William Westmorland Westmor-land and his command are "mistakenly "mis-takenly looking at Viet Nam, at the war, in conventional terms" will be discussed. Arnett explains that one Viet Cong objective, as evidenced in the recent Dak To battle, is to "pull Americans out of populated areas, and get them into a no-man's land where ... it was. just pure fighting and no pacification." One of the most ambitious opera productions ever attempted in Utah Richard Wagner's famous "The Flying Dutchman" will be performed per-formed Jan. 24, 25, and 27 in Kingsbury Hall. Here cast members Cohleen Bischoff, Thomas A. East and Don E. Watts prepare for reheadsal in front of the Dutchman's huge ghost ship. The production will include a 60-voice chorus and the entire Utah Symphony Sym-phony Orchestra. Tickets are $2, $3 and $4 and may now be obtained at the Kingsbury Hall Ticket Office. Tickets are half-price for students with activity cards. |