Seventy-FifthYear EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNiVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS EMERGING NATIONS THREATEN: Old Nuclear Monopoly Crumbles rWhet OpininPrel!420 MAYNARD $T., ANN ARBO, Mic. NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 By LEONARD PRATT Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN MEREDITH Youth Must Oppose U.S. Policies To Prevent Holocaust RITING IN THE UNITED STATES to- namese situation, like the Cuban situa- day has about itself something of the tion or the Laotian situation before it, was aura of the occult. It seems strange and something that would pass' quickly, and inconceivable that all the various things leave us in peace. going on about us-the Vietnamese war, undeclared by anyone's standards; the ALL THAT IS PAST NOW. The President draft call-up; the general apathy, "the of the United States-with or with- Grand Consensus"-that these things are out the largely irrelevant consent of Con- really happening. gress-now proposes to engage this coun- Social scientists, of -course, have been try in a long and costly war. The Ameri- telling us for a long time that the sores can people-that long dormant "if"- festering within thebody of American life have remained inactive. The myth of the wotld find an outlet-that all the var- "good sense" of the American people is ious chance combinations would fall into now dead. And we may all, singly or to- line with one another and bring about , gether, follow it. violence in our social life. The comment most often encountered But somehow even this was unreal. We among members of the present college have known, of course, that, at root, the generation relates to personal security: "I myth of the "good sense" of the American intend to avoid the draft.. ." in thus and people was, in a limited sense, false: that such a way. the majority of Americans subscribed This is on the one hand a rather dan- to one party allegiance or another on the gerous approach, while on the other, a basis of their parents' beliefs, not "com- rather naive one. mon sense." To those of us interested in social re- But even this has lacked concision: to form within the United States, a war at all but the most aware of us, the Viet- this time means an end. War both under- - ----mines the social bases of society and de- moralizes the proponents of social action. W hy Not'P THOSE OF US interested in further- ing the cause of human knowledge, Ask Students? this war means an end: war imposes its own values on a society. These both con- tradict and oppose those of the intellec- ALTHOUGH IT IS EDIFYING to know tual life. that University . President Harlan To those of us, too, who seek, in any Hatcher has consulted with the faculty in form, a saner mode of living, war means his quest for a new vice-president for aca- an end. War is, in itself, the institution- demic affairs, it is equally deprecating alization of unreason-it is insanity as that he has not conferred with members an image of social man. The lies, the vili- of the student body about the appoint- fication, and the cliches which we have ment. suffered up until this point are but the One of the lessons learned from the beginning: when Lyndon Johnson says Berkeley demonstrations is that the im- "let us continue" this is what he intends position of administrators who do not to continue. take into consideration the attitudes of What is the answer to all this? What is the student body can lead to disastrous the way out? consequences. The only alternative to peaceful sub- To get into office a man whose policies mission to evil is opposition. Substantive- would not alienate the student body it ly, it is the duty of the younger genera- would seem logical to let knowledgeable tion today to forcefully assert its opposi- student representatives have at least a tion to the slaughter. It must make it consultative voice in administrative ap- clear ,to those who wield power that it will pointments. not simply docilely accepts its role as can- The administration has nothing to lose nonfodder in the Great Society's wars for in student consultation on major appoint- moral uplift. ments since student advice, like that of the'faculty, would not be binding, and has WE, AS A GENERATION, are faced now something to gain since such consulta- with the choice that the intellectuals tion might create more campus harmony, of Germany faced before us. This admin- istration seems determined to make STUDENTS DESERVE a voice in the ap- America the tyrant of the world-using pointment of the man whose policies the threat of Bolshevism as its excuse will have a major effect on their Univer- for the exercise of unprecedented power. sity careers. We must stop it now, or we-like our -BRUCE WASSERSTEIN German predecessors-will die within the '__stomach of the beast. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor. Mie -STEPHEN BERKOWITZ Published daily Tuesday through Saturday morning. I 'I p4I I Y 0~INIAtJ/ ky) If, Isr..,' 1,L S 4,?'ft1. . }L ..n /" First of Three Articles E NGLAND'S proposal to create a Geneva treaty which would slow or halt the international spread of nuclear weapons again brings up the issue of nuclear pro- liferation. This particular proposal may or may not be successful; if its re- ception by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's permanent council is any reliable indicator at all, it is certainly all but a hopeless case. But whether or not it is accepted in any form, its proposal raises several questions about the world's nuclear situa- tion and the United States' posi- tion in it that should be consid- ered. First, a key question: why, spe- cifically, eare the world's three major nuclear powers interested in an antiproliferation treaty? What are the trouble spots they are concerned with? IT MUST occur to almost everyone that China is the first example of such a trouble spot for several reasons. Its great and growing political influence in East Asia is a clear fact. Immense economic and mil- itary potential stand out as two other dominant factors. But overriding, them all must be China's seemingly boundless Com- munist-oriented sense of national- ism. At the base of China's nuc- lear efforts has always been the support of a nationalism deter- mined to establish China as the equal toany Western threat. Add an atomic capability to that combination and it is easy to see why the Big Three are concerned. Of course, China's im m e d i a t e nuclear potential should not be overestimated. The Arabs, meanwhile, cannot be expected to sit by idly. The UAR must possess a wealth of technical information and mis- siles gleaned from the Soviet Un- ion. And her economy, poor as it may be, would merely choke a bit while producing the five or so bombs needed to lay Israel waste. WHATEVER the differing rea- sons, atomic proliferation and the use of the weapons looks more than likely in the cases men- tioned. Once it has been accom- plished, there seems little reason why other small countries like Pakistan or Sweden might not consider it profitable to begin atomic programs of theirown. Almost overnight, the basic na- ture of atomic war seems to have altered. What used to be the ulti- mate instrument of disagreement between the world's two halves has become, through thetprocess of proliferation, available to settle the many petty struggles among the splinters from those blocs. In fact, proliferation may not be proceeding as fast as many may imagine, though it could easily snowballsbyameans of tech- nological loans among smaller sympathetic nations. But how bad must things get before they be- come obvious? THE WORLD is already saddled with two nuclear powers suffer- ing from varying degrees of na- tionalist irresponsibility. To ask whether one more or two more would be too many is to miss the point. The two already in exist- ence are more than enough to un- leash a holocaust. More should not be permitted. TOMORROW: The inability of the United States to recognize Communist China and the impli- cations this has for the future of atomic proliferation. THIS MISSILE, BELONGING to the United States Army is just one of a giant nuclear force. At one time, only the U.S. and Russia had such weapons but atomic weaponry and knowledge is prolif- erating throughout the emerging nations. GAMAL ABDEL NASSER Double Bill: Split Rating At the Campus Theatre BETWEEN THE Old Wave and the New Wave Cinema there was the Calm. During this latter period, "The Liars" was filmed. But placidity is not the uniform expression that all members of the French cast carry. It's close to an unhappy melange of chagrin and ennui. "The Liars"i is de trop-a con- trivance. A financier returns from fifteen years in the African bush. He moves into a country manor complete but for one accountre- ment-a woman. No problem. He puts an ad in the newspaper: "Wanted. One wife. Cultured, etc. . . . No one under age of forty need apply." Small wonder that. it attracts a couple of Left Bank baddies, bent on breaking the middle-aged fool's banque roll. What happens to him and them shouldn't have happened to Na- poleon. But, then, the producer of this insult must also have had delusions of grandeur. If you have the sense to skip "The Liars," or- pace back and forth in the theatre's lobby after seeing its first reel, you can enter the theatre refreshed and ready for a cinematic experience so in contrast to the disgust which "The Liars" engenders that you'll won- der how the two films got on the same bill. "The Steppe" is adapted (faith- fully, at least in spirit) from a Checkov tale. It is an allegory of "coming of age," something not necessarily limited to adolescent experience. A child makes the arduous journey from the warmth of his cottage birthplace to the village and school. He fravels with peas- ants transporting wool across the Yugoslav steppes. In a series of anecdotes, the innocent witnesses lust, death and barbarism with human coun- terpoints of emotion: pride, ob- sequiousness, viciousness, despair and love. But abstractions won't convey the technical mastery with which Checkov's story has been relocat- ed filmed and acted One scene Technologically, China is years from the successful development of either a deliverable bomb or of something to deliver it with. Such development projects are not cheap, especially for a nation with a small industrial establish- ment, and the Chinese economy is strained enough as is. More- over, with every atomic advance, China suffers a diplomatic setback in the intensely anti-atomic Asian nations. China's danger is thus two fold. First, though she faces intense difficulties, most experts believe that in five or ten years China will have between 50 and 100 de- liverable atomic bombs and the means to use them. The second danger is the guid- in, principle of atomic prolifera- tion, the principle which cannot help but put pressure on China's enemies in an attempt to obtain atomic weapons to defend them- selves. IF CHINA is the action, India seems the most likely reaction. Indian experts have boasted that they have the abilityto turn out a usable atomic bomb in 18 months. What is more they have the plutonium and the purifica- tion plants to make many Wash- ington experts believe they are not boasting idly. Making Indian response to Chinese armaments all the worse is the fact that, unlike China, India has advanced planes quite capable to delivering nuclear bombs. The Indian gov- ernment would probably consider building a bomb quite defensible if a Chinese invasion became im- minent. Yet here too, as in China's case, there are, internal difficulties which mitigate against the, pro- duction of a bomb in the near future. The economy is, if any- thing, worse off than the Chinese in many respects. There has also been a good deal of pacifist sent- iment attacking atomic produc- tion. Though there are certainly great proliferation problems in Asia, for the most part they ap- pear distant. A place where they are not so distant is the Middle East. ISRAEL AND her declared Arab foes are moving closer to a war footing than many realize. Nas- ser has recently increased the size of the United Arab Republic's army by one-half; Jordan's King Hussein has just increased his forces by over 20 per cent. Behind the situation, of course, is Israel's determination not to give an inch to her declared Arab enemies.I The frightening thing about it all is that it seems as though the only thing preventing Israel from producing an atomic bomb is her belief that she does not really need one. In this sense, it is prob- ably just as well for the Arab nations that they are so dis- united for as soon as Israel be- gins to feel herself pressed upon by threats of a united Arab com- mand, an atomic bomb cannot lag far behind. ISRAEL IS ALL the more dan- gerous because she is not bothered by whatever technological defici- encies may be bothering China and India. Her economy is strong and growing to the extent that an atomic program would make only a small dent in it. It need not be much of a pro- gram-10 or 15 bombs would be more than enough to neutralize the Arab nations completely, as opposed to India, which would need about a hundred to think of taking on China. And, like India, Israel possesses the. delivery sys- tems already. 40 ANN ARBOR'S OWN ROCK 'N ROLL sensation, The Rationals, above, are on the road to musical success with the release of their first record and forthcoming personal appearances. Rock 'n Roll --Race to The Top By MARK SLOBIN A LOT OF lively rock 'n' roll of 1965 never made the Top Ten, and some of it got lost in the scramble toward hit ratings. Many fine songs keep getting tucked away in those albums that every group makes once they get one or two big hits. The general category of under- played and little-mentioned rock/ includes songs from both poles of the pop-sound world: the one next door-Detroit-and the one across the ever-narrower Atlantic-Eng- land. Perhaps the best of the neg- lected American albums was Mary 'MR. MOSES' 'And It Came To Pass': Soon, We Hope At the State Theatre AND IT CAME to pass that, during the time of the celebration of Christmas, Robert Mitchum (Mr. Moses) was found entangled in the bull rushes of a stream in Africa. And when Carroll Baker (Julie) revived him, he explained, "Moses is my name. Joe Moses." Now this is a switch., "But what we need is Noah and his ark," Julie said, looking a gift horse in the mouth. "The Government has erected a dam, which will cause the water to back up over the African native village where my father is a missionary," she added, spilling the entire plot. "What we must do is wait for an hour, until your only hope lies in my helping you, because that is more theatrically suspenseful. In the meantime, I can give you sexy looks and you can coyly persuade me to give aid," replied Moses. AND IT ALSO came to pass that Moses led the Israelites (oops, natives) to the promised land, the land of milk and honey. And just to prove that an old story could be improved, he rode an elephant and used a Chinese robe that emitted fire. Wells' 1965 LP. Mary's power of projection keeps on growing, and people who know the "My Guy" sound-which is just about every- body-will be surprised by "Time .After Time," on the recent LP. It's a real Streisand-nightclub soul song, if nothing else. But mainly it is her slightly modified, highly personalized De- troit sound that really carries. Mary's Motown training sneaks in everywhere like in the beautiful female gospel response to "Now, Ain't It The Truth, Baby", but it is no longer the open, early sound of piano and drums, but some rather elegent orchestral effects that accompany her buoyant voice. "Now Ain't It The Truth," "Good Enough for Me," and "Stop Tak- ing Me For Granted" are classic Wells, and "Let Yourself Go" sets Mary's high on the seductive rat- ings. EVEN CLOSER to home, Ann Arbor's own Rationals must be mentioned. They are slowly mak- ing the climb to fame and fortune (t w o "Teentown" appearances forthcoming), and if all their discs are as professionally engineered and performed as their single of "Gave My Love" and "Look What You're Doin' (to me, baby), you can imagine a single hit with a fresh sound shooting their for- tunes higher within a few months. Crossing the Atlantic - which seems to be the new English Channel-you run into a wealth of inventiveness among such groups as The Zombies and Them. I would include The Kinks if they weren't so consistently careful- at least, on their "Kinks-Size" '65 album - about staying homo- genized. "The Zombies" clearly are the symphonists of rock 'n' roll. The fine sound they get on the Parrot "THEM" (THAT ungrammatical group that confuses almost any sentence) hit it big here with the off-beat "Here Comes, the Night." Strictly speaking, they are not exactly English, since four out of five of "Them" come from Ire- land ((at least it's Northern Ire- land). "Mystic Eyes," a swinging instrumental number, and a nice version of "Route 66" are also on the album. A fine study of folk music--real or imagined-turned rock is furnished by "I'm Gonna Dress in Black," in which lead singer, Van Morrison, almost sounds like he knows what it's like to live "out in the hills of Georgia in an old tin shack." How- ever, Morrison tries a little too hard on some of the other songs. Over and beyond the hustle- bustle of such little groups reign the grand and glorious Beatles. Their "Beatles '65" album, like most of their LP's, spotlights some interesting group features that most of the top singles pass over. The Beatles seem to be most pop- ular when they are not being American (apart from the early hits), but they spend a lot of time on the first '65 album (like on the flip side of the "Something New" album) showing their un- English colors. "Honey Don't" is a somewhat ineffective bit of Americana. "Rock and Roll Music" is a sly jest, moving smoothly from rock to ,cha-cha-cha beats. "Baby's in Black" is a far, far cry from "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be," and doesn't quite make it, for my taste. The openings of "I Feel Fine" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" are beautiful ex- amples of one of the Beatles' sec- rets of success-a willingness to play with all kinds of recording techniques. 4 9' vlakw-.,w -1 qlffw& Il /11-11w,