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College iStat'ion, Texas Tuesday, February 20, 1968CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle

Mistake To Leave Out South Korea

An Aggie joke swept the campus yesterday was that the USS Pueblo had been released by the North Koreans . . . two Aggies had exchanged it for the carrier Enterprise.

Of doubtful humor, it did point out the continuing concern students and all Americans have for that ship and its crew of 83, which have been detained since Jan. 23.

Until the focus of attention had been drawn away from Vietnam, few people realized that 15 years after the Korean “conflict” this country still had 50,000 men poised below Korea's demilitarized zone.

It is common knowledge that since the Pueblo was seized American representatives have met with North Ko­rean representatives at the truce village of Panmunjom.

Although no details have been made public, both sides have met privately at least seven times to seek a settlement.

Most officials, including the President, felt that the ship and crew would be released in return for some type of appology and admission of tresspass on North Korean ter­ritorial waters by the U. S.

But the United States forgot to consult South Korea, whose problems of guerrilla infiltration into its country is much more important to them than the Pueblo.

While we were saber rattling with ships off the North Korean coast we had not raised a voice against constant and more ominous North Korean raids across the DMZ.

South Korean President Park Chung-hee rightfully questioned our priority judgement.

To deter another Korean War he said the South Korean government would arm one million reservists by the end of the year as part of its efforts to strengthen defenses against the Communists.

Unready for such a reaction and not desiring another international political problem, the President dispatched his number one Red Cross worker and trouble-shooter, Cyrus Vance, to patch up differences.

South Korean Foreign Minister Choi Kyu-hah said Saturday that an agreement had been reached that any further Communist terrorist raids would be considered “acts of agression” by both the United States and South Korea.

In the event of such raids, Choi said there would be immediate consultation between the U. S. and S. Korea to determine what action would be taken under their mutual defense pact.

For now that would seem to placate the South Korean government, but United States bad manners during the Pueblo crisis will have left its mark.

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The United States has become very pushy and defen­sive in thinking about its own problems in Southeast Asia. We may be able to get by with such an attitude in Vietnam where the government is corrupt and we have such an over­whelming influence and importance.

But we cannot expect the same head bowing from South Korea. They are in a better bargaining position, have tasted war, and an uneasy truce, and back their statements with a little bit more meaningful manpower. (We salute the South Korean “Tiger” division helping us in South Vietnam and their effective and lethal

Editor,The Battalion:

In regard to the article in last Friday’s Battalion concerning the Senate’s refusal to add the cloth­ing opinion poll in its present form to the spring ballot, I would like to clarify two points:

First, the opinion poll is not “ . . . a referendum on clothing regulations ...” It was designed to be an opinion poll, and so it states at the top of the poll. In order to change any university regulation, a proposal must be submitted to the President, then to the Executive Committee, and then to the Academic Council composed of all the deans.

The intent of the Civilian Stu­dent Council was to poll the en­tire student body before making any proposal if one should be necessary.

Second, I believe that the sec­ond portion of the poll, which was not printed by The Battalion, was very specific in regard to exactly what clothing regulations the student felt just or unjust.

I personally feel that Texas A&M should have clothing regu­lations; however, I believe that the students should have the right to express their own views.

The opinion poll would have accomplished this end. I am sorry that the Student Senate did not feel this way.

David M. Wilks ’69 ★ ★ ★

Editor,The Battalion:

This letter concerns a Texas

A&M tradition I don’t want to see dead. On most other campuses, students pass each other on side­walks and in halls and don’t say a word to one another. Students speaking to students is one thing which has helped gain for A&M the reputation it has for being outwardly friendly to others.

I have noticed more and more the tendency of A&M students not to speak to each other on campus. The big, friendly “HOW­DY” that used to be just isn’t any more. I see every day civilian students passing each other in silence. Corps members are many times just as guilty as the ci­vilians about not speaking to other students. I have also no­ticed that a large percentage of civilians will not respond even when greeted by a cadet or an­other gung-ho civilian. These things tend to remind one of the habits and practices of a certain institution over in Austin.

In short, let’s respond with a big “HOWDY” when greeted by another student. But don’t wait for the other guy to speak first; YOU do it. I think the big “HOW­DY” is one of the finest tradi­tions Texas A&M has. Let’s keep it alive.

Merrell B. Richardson ’70

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