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Show Ray Cromley Asians Must Get Own Red Curbs THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1966 are hesitantly moving forward. ‘4 Japanese has taken the presVietnam, Japan, the Philippines idency of the new East Asian and Laos makeone thing clear: Development Bank. Japanese East Asia now has within it- businessmen are moving into self the resources fo develop in joint ventures in India, Tiiaitime a bloc of nations with the land, the Philippines,Australia economic, political and military and NewZealand. They're lookstrength to hold back Commu- ing hopefully at Indonesia. nist subversion with a minimum ‘But Japanese agricultural exof outside help. perts could make a major com This would cut down the likeli- tribution in South Vietnam, hood of newVietnam and Korea- Thailand, Burma, and in the type wars in the area. free areas of Laos. Japanes€ Japan has ‘the ability to sup- bankers have the know-how to ply in considerable amount the radically improve farm-area financial, technieal, organiza- banking practices in these same tional and developmental leader. lands. This would ‘bring help to ship needed to get this bloc farmers atiracted to the Communists becalse they're never started {This reporter found many men able to get out of debt to money in Southeast Asia looking to Tenders, Japan for this leadership. Japanese mariufacturers have ‘The tragedy is that Japan has - know-how in the type of small been emotidnally’ uncertain industry hat Vietnam, Thalaboutifs ability to assume that land, Laos, the Philippines, BurJeadership role, ma, India and Pakistan must The Japanese lack self-confi- now develop if they-are-to-atdence. In the era after the Span- tain the economic stability neish-American War the United cessary to block Communist subStates had the same doubts and education system and men with hesitancy, though for different versive reasons. . » Japan has developed a mass The Japanese have special the ability to help other Asians reasons for their doubts, They develop.their schools, recall World War II when JapMost “important ,of all Japananese troops occupied consid- se have shown a capacity for erable Asians areas, Resent- organization. scarce in many TOKYO {NEA) — Talks with key Asians in Thailand, Today’s Editorials DeeperInto the Vietnam War <Not a new escalation but a new phase in the Vietnam war appears likely to be ushered in-by the new year, , According to the most “auth- “oritative rumors” available, the ____south of Soiith Vietnam has virbeen decided upon for somewary. There, in the rice basket of the Orient where 40 per cent of South Vietnam's rural population lives,is where the Viet started its war and where it still remains most “firmly entrenched. There the war-can still be viewed ‘as it was before the massive U.S. intervention of 1965-66. American servicemen in the area, presently numbering about 7,000, are still classified as military advisors to the South Vietnamese. American impatience with South Vietnam’s lackadaisical efforts in the Delta has long been a friction we can only go in deeper — and cess, of which Buss speaks, will come the sooner because of it. Quick-Aging At WarFront The inscrutable Oriental is not always so. A Viet Cong guerrilla was captured by the 8rd Brigade Task Force of the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. He told his interrogators: “Our morale is very good in new men but very bad in old men.” Asked what he means by “old men,” the prisonext replied: “Anybody who lias been in one battle.” s Just What We Would Guess! A bridge foursome in Hollywood, Fia., was recently dealt 13 clubs.in mentbuilt up against the Japan. one hand and 12 each of hearts, war. of American initiative into the area would, in the view of some, presage com- plete American take-over of responsibility for the fighting. According to one observer ~on the scene, historian Claude A, spades and diamondsin the other three hands. The, mathematics department at Browgrd Junior College was asked to calculate the odds of sucha ese, Therefore, top Japanese about how Southeast would react now to Japanese leadership. The Global View ~ 1967: The Year for World Peace? Many Japanese also .do-not want to become involved. They fear involvement’ might lead to thing ever happening. An old-fashioned precomputer sia for reasons of her own se "broadly that it By LEON DENNEN device known as a professor was curity, is urging Ho Chi Minh sia’s interest Foreign News Analyst rushed into action and back came to agree to a truce. Newspaper Enterprise Assn. the answer: ; Ei urope What are the prospects for Conditions in Europe are 508, 600,000, 000,000, 000, 000,- peace in 19672 “even more favorable for peace. 000 to 1 The year 1966 ends on the One more qquestion, professor, same note of uncertainty’ which that would not embarrass Rus- Russia’s military strategists lease :” has afflicted the U.S. foreign sia in maintaining her image never relished the idea of fightHow do you figure the odds of policy since the escalation of as the !eader of. anticolonialism ing on two fronts. Increasing: wired giving you an argument the war in Vietnam. Yet for- and national liberation move- -ly threatened by China in the eign aifairs prognosticators and ments,” one influential East East, they are more than ever on it eager to maintain the status erystal ball gazers foresee 1967 European diplomat said, More important is the fact quo in the West. % as a more peaceful year. This does not mean that RusThey predict a truce, if not that the Communist parties of sia, by courting French Presipeace,.in Vietnam in the next Ttaly and France—the two larg“The good feeling of brotherhood ‘12 months. They also see fur- est Red organizations in the dent De Gaulle and the new you get from the church service ther relaxation in East - West West that usually act as Mos- rulers of West Germany, will is quite lasting —if some stupid tension in Europe and a con- cow’s spokesmen — are now not use every trick in the dipblockhead doesn’t get in your way tinued decline in Communist openly urging peace negotia- lomatic bag to weaken NATO and drive the United States tions in Vietnam. when you're pulling your car out influence in Latin America. Nor is this mere wishful out of Europe. of the church parking lot. — In the view of specialists on thinking onthe part of the ItalBut. the Kremlin leaders, in Healthways. communism, the mounting conaddition to their fears of China, Did you ever hear of the guy. flict between Russia and Réd jan ard French Reds, There are Iso beset by economic and who crossed a homing pigeon with China will do much to deter is no longer any doubt that Rus- political troubles in Russia and a woodpecker? He: produced & in satellite East Europe. bird that knocks: before delivering They are not likely to enthe message—Rotary in Chapel gage in any ‘millitary advenHill (N. C.) tures in the West in the fore The no longer wealthy playboy * seeable future, : Here is how things shape bed asked by a friend what he had America Where are the’ professional lone with’ all his money, He in Vietnam, Europe and. Lat answered: “Part of it went for America: NEW YORK (UPI) Colby & pessimists who predicted that Vietnam _ Latin- America was destined to liquor and fast automobijjes, and There is increasing evidence Co. says an attempt at 70 the way of Fidel Castro's part of it went for women. The penetrating the 820 level of the ba? The fact is that since rest I spent foolishly.” — Rough that North Vietnam is begin-“ Dow Jones industrial average ning to suffer from war exthe Johnson administration sucNotes. haustion.. Ho Chi Minh is fac- seems likely —but riot without a cessfully challenged Communist struggle, jing an increasingly disgruntled subversion in the The ly says the stock ‘and restless population. market now is marking time in Red China, herself in state! a consolidation period that of political and economic dis- should have a favorable impact tries below the Rio Grande, array, is engaged in a bitter - on the market trend sometime The Latin-American Commuconflict with Russia which is during 1967. It says the most nists, like Reds everywhere, likely to become more intense vague -aspect of the basic are badly split between the folin 1967. ‘Mao Tse-tung would undertone evolves from the lowers of Russia and Red like to continue the conflict in uncertainty” concerning first China. Thus, all- their-attempts Vietnam to the last Vietnamese. quarter results. in-recent-monthsto-mount guerS But he is not in a position to Tilla action in Venezuela, Peru, Standard & Poor’s says an Ecuador, Coiombia and Guateanticipated slowdown in the mala ended in total failure, The economy is underway but the guerrilla groups have been all despite strong internal opposi- market has gone a long way in but wiped out, tion of pro-Chinese elements, discounting -it. It therefore This, again, is beginning to move closer to expects more sporadic rallies Russia. His two Asian partners, but the underlying pattern will the Communists of North Korea probably encompass a further and Japan, have already aban- period of consolidation, Present a major threat to demdoned Peking in favor of Mosocracy in Latin America, cow. Thomas & McKinnon says the The year 1967, accordin to Diplomats from Communist dominant question gone the prognosticators, be East Europe make po secret of the market is that a possible Tore peaceful. But no one their belief thas North Vietngm tax hike but the market seems . Predicts that peace will finally & more and more passive role ess and int ie go usual, would argue = a high time that it was. or get out, Getting out, however, would carry far more risks than the al- BS ze & & 2 ae e s So They Say... @ i FgereHalfgt z# é if Wall Street Chatter Holmes Alexander | That Ancient Right-Wing war. They have had enough of war, The Japanese did not attend the Manila Summit Conference or send ah observer (though leading Japanese did ask friends to bring them private reports on conference results), . The Japanese, nevertheless | WASHINGTON, D.C, —it must be fF nit that Plato was the first “conservative eeeeeet win war States and F BERRY’S “/ORLD _ technically capable of achieving: Teign.oni -this earth. stetcters ‘There still will be the sporadic coups, border incidents new recov in the a future. one oT BY JAMES O. BERRY and palace revolutions in the Middle East and Africa, These are not expected to alter the course of events set Top U. §. officials are convinced it is in the United ‘States’ interest that Asians themselves take the lead in developing a free bloc to develop free Asia’s econdmic, military and political Far East leadership, U.S. of- icials believe, will attract coun tries reluctant to" join a U. S~ Jed_ grouping. An Asian-led bloc would encourage each.Asian na- tion: to do more for itself and:for~| its neighbors, American experts hope there wotild be less “let the United States do it” feeling. Vietnam Need: Feeling Of Responsiblity to Society By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In the port city of Vung Tau, some 40 miles south of Saigon on the Saigon River, an an, young American offered to that not more than 25 per cent of the American dollars intend- ed_for-the aid of the South Vietnamese peasant reaches its. proper destination, From the usual South Vietnemese soldier, on up through and beyond the underpaid district chief, it is a quality most Nguyen Cao Ky conducts at Vung Tau a school for the training: of the 59-man*vadres which are supposed to carry the fundamentals of to “It gives the Viet Cong their the villages. But in dalle it best argument,”he said. ~*semploys. another tactic equally after day they hammer Tepugnant to a democracy, on the corruption in governCensus Grievance ment, which there is, In bureaucratic language this “Byerybody gets his take, is called ‘‘census grievance.” In ! from the on down, practice it is the big brother act “Free pigs aren’tfree. which encourages anonymous deposit charges “Py tion cadres frequentTy aren’t used as inttended. against a neighbor or village “A district chief is pald about chief in a “people’s letter box.” For a democracy,it is indeed 1,800 piasters “(about $15 a moni a limping start. In South Vietnam, the U.S. Army bujlds schools ‘and whole new villages, The South Koreans dams. Australians and New Zealanders provide medicine. Such examples are rare_among the ARVN, Army of South Viet Nam. A Vietnamese constitutional assembly stalls until it gets automobiles for its individual « members for reasons of person- al fe, ‘herb in South Vietnam a minority which understands its elec the herd South Vietnam is at least 10 years away, auae S—— Smokestack on BYU Cienpus Contributes to Air Pollution g rs 8z S8e¢ the United allies. They hint parts of Asia. Foreign News Commentary Duo: Plato and Socrates & 3 ef by read. Plato,, like to write ais fee eh apatsty pieeteat al FORUM RULES I r : movement of U.S. troops on. a large scale for the first time into the Mekong Delta region in the ternative. In this deep, it seems hope that the reversal of the, pro- Editor Herald: . There has been a great deal written and spoken in recent weeks on air contamination. ’ The Mormon Church, by: its emphasis on health, is no doubt vitally concerned with ever. incre: of the air other organizations, businesses, etc, blow all around. So, powers-that-be, please stop it. If I want"sick lungs T'll inhale something that has _ been atleast ‘filtered through a ‘cocvaaut —charcole tip,” and blended for flavor. | |