Page Three Wednesday, February 12, 1969 I HE MICHIGAN DAILY N IU ' : ,. ZA& mob"m ots PEACE KEEPING CONTROVERSY '69 -N Interviews for the. Chairman of CONTROVERSY '69 UN:H UNITED. NATIONS, N.Y. - Soon after the United Nations was born it became clear that the heralded peacemaker could stop wars only when the super- powers wanted them stopped. Today, stalemated in the Middle East and reduced to a spectator's role in Vietnam and Czechoslovakia, the UN peace potential has hit a new low. The United Nations was launched 24 years ago on a wave of lofty pronouncements that brought new hope to war- weary millions around the world. Before a year had passed, however, the Soviet Union had Successes and Sign-up for an interview and pick-up a4 short form in the Michigan League, 3rd floor UAC Offices by Thursday, Feb. 13. HELD OVER WATE 8th WEEK.. Shows at 1 :00-3:00 Info: 662-6264 5:00,17:10 & 9:15. begun casting vetoes in the Sec- urity Council and the cold war had sent in. In the years that followed, scores of warsrerupted around the world, from Baghdad to Biafra, and many went un- checked. Usually the United Nations looked the other way or issued vague pronouncement§ while the fighting raged on. It served as an instrument for peace only in rare cases when the United States and the Soviet Union both found it advantageous to call off the shooting. In two cases, the United Na- tions succeeded in taking police LAST TIMES TODAY CI ft i I Program Information 686416 "EXPLOSIVELY FUNNY... DON'T MISSITR" - . ATies NOTHINO ILKE IT IN TOWN... ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!, I I t f -* :. I Thare bad cops and there? are good cops--and1 then there'~s . Qullitt. "Hollywood Reporter "DEVASTATING, SIDE-SPLITTING SATIRE..." College Times 1 1 "RIOTOUS...PENETRATING' LIVELY AND FRESH..." 'Variety xactly as presented LIVE on, tage in San Francisco and Los Angeles.- "THE COMMITTEE", action that the Communists did not want-in Korea and the Congo. In both cases, the Rus- sians were caught off guard. Vietnam was a classic exam- ple of UN impotence. In 1966, the United States tried to bring the war before the Security Council. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield charged that the United Nations had "yet to face up to the responsibilities" posed by Vietnam. The United States submitted a resolution asking for a new Geneva conference to decide the destiny of Vietnam. Russia, with French support, retorted that the United Nationsrhadno right 4 to consider the issue, a view- point shared by Hanoi. Secretary-General U Thant, who tried for years to make some headway toward settling the SoutheastAsian dispute, fi- nally admitted that Vietnam was a cold war conflict. He said it was futile to hope that the United Nations could overawe a nuclear power.. Because of a Soviet veto, the United Nations was unable to stop the 1948-49 Berlin blockade that threatened an East-West confrontation. The lingering civil war in Nigeria attracted little notice in the glass house beside the East River. When Red China swallowed up Tibet in 1959, El Salvador called on the peace organization to take action. The ensuing si- lence said louder than any words Fthat the United Nations could do nothing. The United Nations had its finest hour as peacemaker in 1950 when the Russians boycot- ted the Security Council just when the Communists in the Far East attacked South Korea. The result was the only major war ever fought under the UN banner, with the United States supplying the men and the Unit- ed. Nations largely loaning its name. A rare act of cooperation by the United States and the Soviet Union enabled the United Na- tions to halt the Suez war of 1956. It began as a fight between two Middle East powers when Israel invaded Suez, but took on major proportions when Britain iilures and France joined the Israelis. When the United States intro- duced a resolution in the Securi- ty Council calling on all parties to stop fighting, Britain and France angrily vetoed it. The council stood paralyzed until the Soviet Union supported the Americans in backing a res- olution invoking the famed Uniting for Peace resolution that threw the crisis into the General Assembly. As a result, Britain and France pulled back - their forces. The United Nations succeeded in halting the Indian-Pakistani clash over the princely state of Kashmir in 1965 because Russia and the United States both wanted the shooting stopped. The United Nations, with a Ex S1 I 7. _ II NATIONAL *~N!RAL CORPOftATIOM __ U POX EASTERN TEATRES{. FOR VILLAGE 375 No. MAPLE RD. -769-1300 HELD OVER 2nd WEEK SYrv[ IJcCUEEN ASE TUUJTECIE X001 Eff i m i ATuRI AUDIENCES . TECHNICOOR , ROM WARNER BROS.-SE WitARTS IE "DAZZLING! once you see it, you'll never again picture Romeo & Juliet' quite the way you did before!" - LIFE I I U Thant 3.500-man peace force on Cy- prus, has prevented an explo- sion between Greek and Turkish Cypriot forces on that volatile island. Both Russia and the United States prefer peace in that part of the Mediterranean. In June, 1967, when war broke out between Israel and the Arab states, the Security Council went into emergency session. But it was still talking fruitless- ly when the yar ended. . In a thrust at both Vietnam and Czechoslovakia, Thant re- cently deplored what he called the strong arm methods of the big powers to settle internation- al problems. 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He is reported to be a supporter of Walter Reuther who pulled the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO last year. Throughout Nar- ick's campaign he has praised Reuther's leadership, contend- ing the autoworkers have shown superior bargaining power to the steelworkers. MEMBERS OF THE U.S. DELEGATION to the Viet- nam peace talks are studying a group of articles in the official Hanoi press hinting at public impatience In North Vietnam for an end to wartime hostilities. The tone of the articles suggests that public knoedge that peace talks are in progress has generated an eagerness for an end to a state of war which has lasted over a quarter- century. Terms of the articles are obscure enough to prevent draw- ing solid conclusions, but some people are inclined to look on them as demonstrating that there are pressures working in Hanoi for some movement toward peace. f . . THE HOUSE HEARINGS on tax reform's first witness has tentatively been designated as Rep. 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CANADA'S MOVE toward 01plomatic recognition of Red China has caused m u c h concern for the United States. State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey gave this response yesterday upon the announcement that Canaa is proposing talks with the Peking regime about establishing diplomatic relations. The U.S. has long opposed recognition of Red China as long as the Peking regime holds to a militant international policy. MCloskey went on to say, "the U.S. is also concerned about the position of the Republic of Nationalist China which is a cooperative member of the international community and with which the government of Canada maintains diplomatic relations." "* 0 . A LEADER of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's presiden- tial campaign reported yesterday "a significant degree of resentment" among McCarthy backers over the makeup of two Democratic party reform commissions. Sen. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) heads one commission which will strive to make the delegate selection procedure more democratic. The other group, assigned to rewrite the rules for the 1972 convention is headed by Rep. James G. O'Hara (D-Mich.) Curtis B. Gans, past director of McCarthy's operations, noted that on McGovern's commission there is not one per- son who supported McCarthy before the assassination of Rob- ert Kennedy. PERRY RAYMOND RUSSO, prosecution witness, test- fied yesterday that he told a police sergeant in 1967 that he could not, truthfully say whether Clay Shaw was one of the trio he said he heard in 1963 plotting President John Kennedy's assassination. Russo's testimony at a 1967 preliminary hearing has been the core of Dist. Att. Jim Garrison's conspiracy investigation. Russo had testified then and again at Shaw's trial this week, that he heard Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald, and David W. Ferrie plotting to kill Kennedy. 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