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Show Yy rwwwwiiiwwinwiiiiii mm huj u n iuimuuitommiiiwm - i '' , 1 ; t . if ... . r' '" I ' ' Si . 4 , X . ..;.,,, J I. o Former NBC newsman, Chet Huntley told the Challenge Week audience Thursday night that the nation's priorities were racism, war, Mid-East, youth and ecology. He also said that President Nixon's interaction in the Calley case was undermining the system of jurisprudence in the military. -Photos by Jim Bleak E-3urrtley examines priorities: y Racism, war, youth, ecology nature of the war and what it is doing to our country" A third priority .outlined by Mr. Huntley was the Middle East problem which he said was "more dangerous than Berlin, because again it brings us into confrontation with the Soviet Union." Cool Down He said the U.S. must persuade the parties in the Middle East to back off and cool down. "Also in the list of priorities, in coming years, our children will be talked about," said Mr. Huntley. "They are demanding reform." "Frustrated by the complexity of our society, youth proposes to simplify it. Some want to tear it down," he said. "And there are frustrated adults who would fix it by taking away some of our basic freedoms." He called on "oldsters" to listen and take note of what youth is saying, and told youth "not to write us off. You may need allies." Another priority Mr. Huntley spoke of was the threat to the environment. "Five years ago this would not have been high on the list of priorities," he said and added he thought all was not lost in cleaning up the environment. "The technology that has made the mess can be turned 180 degrees about-can be used to clean up the mess," he said. However, he warned against zealists and "90-day ecologists" who only make the problem worse, by demanding that industry indus-try shut down immediately. "It is going to take the cooperation of government, business, industry and everybody every-body else to save the environment," he said. "We need a combination of zeal and knowledge." Resort Development Mr. Huntley, who left NBC to head up the "Big Sky" resort development in Montana, Mon-tana, said one of the goals of the Big Sky project was to demonstrate to business that a large resort could be built in the wilderness without doing damage to the ecology, that would still turn a modest profit. Mr. Huntley said that "unrest and problems prob-lems in society are not produced by the press." "Journalists are not suppose to be cheerleaders," he added. He said contrary to contemporary criticism, criti-cism, broadcasters were not accepted by the people as fountains of all knowledge. "We have problems and dislocations in our society," he concluded, "not because we do nothing, but because we try to do something about them and because we try to do many somethings all at once. BY PETER GILLINS Senior Editor Former NBC news broadcaster Chet Huntley told a Challenge Week audience in the Union Ballroom Thursday night that "Journalism forever must seek out the extraordinary, the unusual, the aberration." aberra-tion." "Journalism pursues the ideal that man ' is fundamentally good," he said. "When is not-it is the irregularity that must be reported." Huntley gave a roundup of the nation's priority problems and told the audience that when "someone starts making happy news we will broadcast it." In the question and answer period following fol-lowing his address he discussed the Calley case and said, "How dare we Americans yield any indication to the rest of the world that we condone what Lt. Calley did." Brutalizing War He said, however, that the country must consider what the anti-guerilla war in Vietnam is doing to the military establishment. establish-ment. . Is it so brutalizing out young men that it destroys them?" he asked. He also said he wished that President Nixon had not intervened and freed Calley Pending his appeal. He charged the President's Presi-dent's action undermined the system of ;, jurisprudence in the military. Mr. Huntley said the most serious prior-! prior-! j'y facing the nation was the racial prob- km which he preferred to call the "white Problem." White America must claanse and rid itself of racial bigotry," he said. "Once we d0 that, the blacks will have a better chance at equality." What the black man seeks is dignity," he said. ' He called the Vietnam War another I Parity and warned the audience to be- W!re of anyone who tries to oversimplify t issue. He said he believed there was something to our motives for entering that Ljoutthc time had come to "weigh the |