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J DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ":::::: ";:.r. :^.::.",".": .;.;r,.;r:.".:{,:"{:}"tiff?: To the Editor: SEVERAL ARTICLES by Joshua Barlev (Daily, March 23, 24, 25) represent an effort to distort the historical facts and events which led to the existing Arab- Israeli conflict. Barlev ... abetted by Zionist/Israeli special interests, had better wake up to the fact that his misleading analysis can only lead to the destruction of the most vital interests of the United States in the world. A great power like the U.S. can- not afford the luxury of acting out of pique. The Arab world, lost to the West, would almost surely guarantee the eventual dominance of the earth by the enemy who intends to bury American ideals of freedom, justice and equal op- portunity. In all history, whoever has con- trolled the Near East has con- trolled the world. Today, no one controls the Near East. The West might have had the Arab world as its ally, but the West, faced with a choice in 1947, chose Israel for an ally and began the process of alienating the Arabs. ZIONIST PRESSURES succeed- ed in getting the U.S. government to refuse arms to Egypt in 1955, while abetting Zionist pressure on West Germany to provide the funds with which Israel could buy arms from other Western nations. The Zionist goal of an Israel (7800 square miles and 2.2 million population) as well armed as the Arab states (4,154,000 square miles and over 100 million population) became official U.S. policy. Presi- dent Nasser, bitterly regretting the necessity, was forced to turn to Russia for arms. John Foster Du- les, acting from pique, brusquely r abrogated the American contract to build the Aswan high dam. More recently, the American po- sition in regard to Israel's diver- sion of the Jordan Valley waters has confirmed the Arabs in their conviction that whenever Arab and Israeli interests conflict, the U.S. sides with Israel. Add to this the constant stream of abuse poured out against Arabs generally, the United Arab Repub- lic in particular and President Nasser personally, on the floors of the Senate and House; the better than 50:1 ratio (on a per capita basis) in American aid and philanthropy as between Arab and Israeli governments and institu- tions; the billions in profits being taken from the underdeveloped Arab world by American oil com- panies-add up all these griev- ances and it is not difficult to understand the critical state of current Arab-American relations, created by roosting Zionist chick- ens. Posit the fact that, despite the fairly successful Department of State theory that America can deal bilaterally with each one of the Arab countries and give the barest lip service to the existence of an Arab nation striving for unity, despite this there is an Arab nation and Gamal Abdel Nasser is a hero-leader to many millions of its people. Put all of these together and the wonder of it is that until the Arab summit conference in January, 1964, the U.S. was getting along pretty well in the area. BUT ISRAEL wanted to divert water considered their own to open up new settlements in ter- ritory the Arabs still claim. The U.S. supported Israel. The Arabs acted to protect what they believe to be their rights. The U.S. let it be known it was not in favor of the Arab action, even though the plan, worked out under Nasser's guidance, proposed a peaceful re- sisting instead of long-threatened armed intervention. F The Arabs felt themselves block- ed in almost every policy direction by the U.S. If they had a plan for r protection of Arab property rights in Israel (where 92 per cent of the property still belongs to them), the US. was against it. If, goaded by cleverly-devised and armed Is- raeli maneuvering along their boundaries, they finally became embroiled in an incident and Is- h rael retaliated by brutal bombing of defenseless Arab towns. The U.S. wanted to lecture both as though equally guilty. Hope that the U.S. really meant its votes at the UN year after year calling for repatriation and for compen- sation for the Palestinian refugees had dimmed. Arabs had come to believe that this was just another cynical gimmick. The Arabs knew they were ex- pected to be grateful for American aid, given here and there to the more needy states. But they also knew that the Arab nation-the reality of which they never doubt- ed and the U.S. never recognized --was purchasing $700 million an- nually from American manufac- turers. They knew, too, that the aid given was a token return compared to the approximately $2.5 billion in profits American business bring back home each year. This was in the mind and emo- Arab oil for both industry and de- fense. The U.S. is deeply embattled in the Arab world as in Viet Nam, only the weapons are different. But in Viet Nam the stake is not as great. Losing out there would be a serious blow to pride and prestige, but hardly decisive in the struggle between the Com- munist World and the Free World. To lost out in the Arab World would imperil, if not doom, the supremacy of the Free World. Americans are not all happy about U.S. policy in Viet Nam, yet most accept and support the government's policy. Those who disagree do so not because they support the ersatz state of North Viet Nam. Their opposition is open and overboard. They have no ethnic ties to create a special in- terest. They have no highly- financed 'propaganda apparatus. They are not organized to admin- ister political reprisals. THE DOMESTIC situation in regard to the Communist-Free World struggle in the Arab World is very different. With much more at stake and with far better pros- pects for success, Americans are losing the battle for the Arab World. A Trojan horse has been built within their bounds. If Americans lose to the Com- munists in Viet Nam, it will be because they could not win. If they lose in the Arab World, it will be because a small, wealthy, willful minority-the Zionists-defeated America from within. America can win in the Arab World, indeed in all the Muslim World. The prospect has not been help- ed by efforts to ban UAR aid. Nor will it be helped by passage of some scores of resolutions spon- sored by the Zionists already in the 89th Congressional hopper. INDEED, Barlev has joined the ranks of those who wish to see America lose to the Communists in the Arab World, or is he one of those Zionist chickens which came home to roost? -Salah El Dareer Medical school Viet Nam Myths To the Editor: IT IS DISTURBING to see the immense amount of misrepre- sentation being perpetrated on the public by those who seek virtually unconditional disengagement in Viet Nam. These myths have lead to a clouding of some of the fun- damental problems and advan- tages oftour past and present policies there. First of all, it is claimed that the Geneva Agreement ending the Indo China war provided for elec- tions in 1956. Bernard Fall, noted authority on Viet Nam, stated in Pacific Affairs in 1961: It is a common error of even specialists in the field to believe that the July 20, 1954, Geneva Agreement on the Indo China cease fire "provided" for a ple- bicite to be held by both zones on or before July 1956. This plebicite was mentioned only in the unsigned Final Declaration and the reference to it there constituted merely an expression of hope by the signatories (which did not include the U.S. and Viet Nam but included France who was pressured into it) but not a binding commit- ment upon anyone. The Final Declaration was a temporary face saving device given by the West to the Communists but little else. P. J. Honey, noted British au- thority on North Viet Nam, in his book "Communism in North Viet- Nam," points out further that no one really expected elections ihcluding the North Vietnamese. Though there are certain vague references to elections and reuni- fication in the July 20 agreement, it is clear that even those were concessions to the Communists to help them save face. What the Vietnamese Commun- ists -expected to happen was that Diem's regime would fall because of internal problems, and they would fill the vacuum. However, by the 1956 mythical election date Diem had made some progress- due in good measure to American aid-so that it is not clear that he would have lost, even if elec- tions were held precisely as pro- posed. THIS BRINGS US to the second myth, which is that Eisenhower said that if elections were held, Ho Chi Minh would get 80 per cent of the vote. People who per- vert this statement try to make it mean that Eisenhower meant Ho vs. Diem in 1956. What Ike really said was "that had elections been held as of the time of fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the popu- lation would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than Chief of State Bao Dai. Indeed, the lack of lead- ership and drive on the part of Bao Dai was a factor in the feel- Diem from 1954 to 1956 and later assistant to the Secretary of De- fense from 1957 to 1963, stated in the October, 1964, Foreign Af- fairs: After this election (Diem's election in 1955), the Soviet Union sent representatives to London to meet with the repre- sentatives of the other co- sponsor of the Geneva Accords, Great Britain. The two spon- soring parties agreed to call off the plebicite which the Accords (here he means the unsigned Final Declaration) had sched- ules in 1956. An internationally supervised secret ballot in Viet Nam might well have gone heavily against the Communists at that time. Hence even if we say there was supposed to be elections, they were called off. One of the reasons the elections were called off is because Diem said the elections in the North would not be free unless they were supervised by the United Na- tions. To this the Communists would not accede. Bernard Fall points out in his Pacific Affairs article that they do not use secret ballots in North Viet Nam. In fact, he noted there were aides standing around to "help the com- rade who had difficulty making out their ballot." And most had difficulty? ANOTHER MYTH which is per- petrated is that if there is any North Vietnamese infiltration or control it has just come about lately. Fall, writing again in Pa- cific Affairs, correlated complaints by the Communists to the ISCC of alleged invasion of civil rights of "Former Resistance Members" and terrorist acts. He states: A perusal of the complaints shows that they are sufficiently precise in their details to have been based upon information given to the Communist North Vietnamese authorities by Viet Minh agents who have remained behind in the South after the armistice or who have been in- filtrated into the area since .. . The conclusion is inescapable that there must be some coor- dination between the rebels and the North Vietnamese govern- ment. This was based on 1954-58 figures. Hence it is clear that long before the Lao Dong Party Con- gress' declaration of open support for the Viet Cong and long before other statements by influential North Vietnamese leaders declar- ing support and assistancen to the Viet Cong, the North Vietnamese government had linked itself to the rebels. MY POINT here is two fold. First, that those people who com- plain the loudest about the pres- ent administration misleading the people about Viet Nam are them- selves guilty of misleading their converts and marchers about cer- tain important aspects of the past in Viet Nam. Secondly, by mis- representing what has happened, they are clouding the problem and making it difficult to ascertain how we can adequately prevent another Viet Nam in the future and find out where our policy went wrong in the past. -Alan M. Sager, '65L Course Booklet To the Editor: T AM WRITING about your spe- cial supplement of March 28, in which you reviewed 53 University courses. I feel it is appropriate for me to comment on your review of courses because on the one hand, my own courses are not reviewed and, on the other, because I have some professional experience in taking surveys of this type. Let me state first of all that I agree in principle with the idea of students sharing their evalua- tions of courses with one another. It is one good source of informa- tion about a course, and so I often urge students asking permission to take one of my courses to con- sult with students who have taken it. I agree, too, that students' eval- uations are also helpful to an in- structor; my department and my college routinely solicit students' course evaluations, and I regularly solicit mid-term evaluations as well. Not only do I approve in prin- ciple with the aims of your proj - ect, but I found the tone of the reporting agreeably sober and ob- jective and your forthrightness about the sources of your basic data commendable. WHICH BRINGS me to the essential flaw: your data are lousy. It is especially unfortunate that your samples of students should be so bad because there are sampling experts on campus who I'm sure would be happy to help you to do an adequate job, and it would be The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan, for which The Michigan Daiy assumes no editor- ial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TPWHAITTEN form to Room 3564 Administration Bldg. be- fore 2 p.m. of the day preceding publication, and by 2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sunday. General Notices may be published a maxi- mum of two times on request; Day Calendar items appear once only. Student organization notices are not accepted for punlication. THURSDAY, APRIL 15 Day Calendar Otorhinolaryngology Dept. Postgrad- uate Conference-Registration, W5610 Hospital, 8:30 a.m. Arson Control Seminar-Registration, Michigan Union, 9 a.m. School of Music, Physics Dept. Lec- ture-Fritz Kuttner, "Acoustical Skills and Techniques in Ancient China": Lane Hall Aud., 4:15 p.m. School of Music Degree Recital - Elaine Scott, flutist: Recital Hall, School of Music, 8:30 p.m. Doctoral Examination for Lun Han Tang, Nuclear Engineering thesis: "Theory of the Influence of the En- vironment on Gamma Angular Cor- relation and Its Rotational Depend- ence," today, 315 Auto. Lab., N. Cam- pus, 9 a.m. Chairman, R. K. Osborn. Applied Mathematics Seminar: Prof. J. Brown, U-M Dearborn Extension. "Boas and Buck Generating Functions." today at 4 p.m., 229 W. Engineering. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m., 350 W. En- gineering. Physical Chemistry Thesis Colloquium -John Goodenow, Chem. Dept., U. of M., will speak on "Charge Transfer Spectra in the Vapor Phase," 5 p.m. in Rm. 1200 of the Chemistry Bldg. American Chemical Society Lecture- "Proposed Water-Protein Interaction and Application to Protein Structure and Biological Reactions," by Dr. D. T. Warner, The Upjohn Co., 8 p.m., Room 1300 of the Chemistry Bldg. General Notices Recommendations for Departmental Honors: Teaching departments wishing to recommend tentative May graduates from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, for honors or high honors should recommend such stu- dents by forwarding a letter to the Director, Honors Council, 1210 Angell Hall, before noon, Thurs., April 29, 1965. Teaching departments in the School of Education should forward letters di. rectly to the Office of Registration and Records, Room 1513 Administra- tion Bldg., by noon, Thursday, April 29, 1965. Attention Faculty Members Of: Col- lege of Literature, Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health, and School of Business Administration: Students expecting degrees May 1, 1965, are advised not to request grades of I or X. When such grades are abso- 1.I've been weighing the possibility of becoming a perpetual student. Last week you said you were considering the merits of mink farming. 8.I must admit the thought did enter my mind. Has the thought ever entered your mind that you might get a job and make a career for yourself? 5. You mean earn while learning? Right. And you can do it at Equitable. They'll pay 100% of lutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to allow you to re- port the make-up grade not later than noon, Thurs., April 29, 1965. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES May 1, 1965 Graduates Assemble at 9:30 a.m. Procession Enters Field at 10 a.m. Program Begins at 10:30 a.m. Exercises to be held at 10:30 a.m either in the Stadium or Yost Field House, depending on the weather. Ex- ercises will conclude about 12:30. All graduates as of May 1965 are eligible to participate. Tickets: For Yost Field House: Two to each prospective graduate, to be distributed from Mon., April 19. to 5 p.m., Fri., April 30, at Diploma Office, 555 Ad- ministration Bldg. Office will be closed Sat., April 24. For Stadium: No tickets necessary Children not admitted unless accom- panied by adults. Academic Costume: Can be rented at Moe Sport Shop, 711 North University Ave., Ann Arbor. Orders should be placed immediately. Assembly for Graduates: At 9:30 a.m. in area east of Stadium. Marshals will direct graduates to proper sta- tions. If siren indicates (at intervals from 8:50 to 9 a.m.) that exercises are to be held in Yost Field House, graduates should go directly there and be seated by marshals. Spectators: Stadium: Enter by Main St. gate- only. All should be seated by 10 a.m. when procession enters field. Yost Field House: Owing to lack of space only those holding tickets can be admitted. Enter on State St., opposite McKinley Ave. Graduation Announcements, Invita- tions, etc.: Inquire at Office of Stu- dent Affairs. Commencement Programs: To be dis- tributed at Stadium or Yost Field House. Distribution of Diplomas: DiplomaF conferred as of Commencement Day May 1, and Dental School diplomas conferred as of May 15, may be called for at the Student Activities Bldg. from May 17 through May 21. Medical School diplomas will be distributed at Senior Class Night Exercises on June 4; Flint College diplomas will be dis- tributed at the Flint College Convoca- tion on June 4; Dearborn Campus diplomas will be distributed at the Dearborn Campus Graduation Exercises on June 13. Law. School diplomas may be called for after May 25 at Room 555 Administration Bldg. Doctoral degree candidates who qual- ify for the PhD degree or a simila! degree from the Graduate School and WHO ATTEND THE COMMENCEMEN'l EXERCISES will be given a hood by the University. Office of Student Affairs: The stu- dent automobile regulations will be lift- ed for the Winter Term from 5 p.m., Sat., April 17, until further notice, Summer Term Registration Assistants: Anyone interested in working for the Summer Term registration June 24-25 should come to 1513 Administration Bldg. and fill out an application. PLANS FOR COMMENCEMENT Commencement - Saturday, May 1, 1965, 10 a.m. WEATHER FAIR Time of Assembly-9:30 a.m. (ex- cept as noted). Places of Assembly: Members of the Faculties at 9:'15 a.m. in the Lobby, first floor, Ad- ministration Bldg., where they may robe. (Transportation to Stadium or Yost Field House will be provided.) Regents, Ex-Regents, Members of Deans' Conference and other Admin- istrative Officials at 9:15 a.m. in Ad- ministration Bldg., Room 2549, where they may robe. (Transportat ionto Sta- dium or Yost Field House will be pro- vided.) Students of the various Schools and Colleges on paved roadway and grassy field, 7ast of East Gate (Gate 1- Tunnel) to Stadium in four columns of two in the following order: Section A-North side of pavement. - -Medicine (in front). -Law (behind Medicine). -Dentistry (behind Law), -Pharmacy (behind Dentistry). -Engineering (behind Pharmacy). -Music (behind Engineering). Section C-On grass field in a line about 300 South of East -Graduate School Doctors (in front). -Graduate School Masters (behind Doctors). -Architecture (behind Masters). -Education (behind Architecture). Section D-On grass field in a line about 450 South of East. -Natural Resources (in front). -Nursing (behind Natural Resources) -Business Administration (behind Nursing). -Public Health (behind Business Ad- ministration). -Social Work (behind Public Health). -Flint (behind Social Work). -Dearborn (behind Flint). Schedules of Assembly will be post- ed on bulletin boards of appropriate buildings. Markers will be placed at the assembling places on Commence- ment Day. March into Stadium-10 a.nm. WEATHER RAINY In case of rainy weather, the Uni- versity fire siren will be blown at in- tervals between 8:50 and 9 a.m. indi- cating the exercises in the Stadium will be abandoned. Members of the Faculties, Regents, Deans, etc., will assemble at the same places as for the fair weather program. Graduates will go directly to Yost Field House at 10 a.m. and enter by the South door. Faculty Members and University Em- p~loyes: The Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics of the University of Micnigan extends to the Faculty and to full-time University employes the priv- ilege of purchasing Athletic Cards. Those Eligible to Purchase . 1) University Faculty and AdminIs- trative Officers. 2) Faculty members who have been re- tired, but still retain faculty privileges. 3) Employes on the University payroll who have appointments or contracts on a full-time yearly basis; or, if on an hourly basis, are full-time employes and have been employed by the University for a period of not less than twelve (Continued on Page 10) FRIENDLY TREAT ICE CREAM CO. LOOKING FOR YOUNG MEN who would like a summer job selling ice cream novelties with truck. STATE-WIDE SERVICE INTERVIEW: Michigan Union, Rm. 3B 7:00-10:00 P.M... . 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