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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Tuesday, February 9, 197'*

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SENATE RESPONSE:
Vietnamese invasion
of Laos criticized.

Speakers emphasize need for
unity during treaty conference

(Continued from Page 1)
American people was difficut to1
measure, but NBC News reported
last night that a poll taken by the
Opinion Research Corporation ofI
Princeton, N.J., indicated that 46
per cent of more than 1,000 peo-
ple questioned believed that there
are American ground troops in
Laos despite government denials.
Furthermore, only 14 per cent
of those polled believed the cur-
rent invasion of Laos would help:
reduce American involvement in
the Indochina War.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-
Mass.) told newsmen the Laos{
drive "violates the spirit if not the
letter of the amendments that
passed the Senate."
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-
Minn.) said the implications "are
enormously dangerous for both the
United States and South Vietnam
as well as for the Kingdom of
Laos and other countries of South-
east Asia."
13 allies
killed in
offensive
(Continued from Page 1)
The seven helicopters were either
carrying South Vietnamese troops
into battle or were flying ginship
support.
U.S. officials promised that no
American ground troops would par-
ticipate in the Laotian attack but
have said the South Vietnamese
would receive full air support rm
American helicopters and fighter
bombers.
South Vietnamese headquarters
reported three soldiers killed and
20 wounded in skirmishes along
Route 9 in Laos on their drive to-
ward Sepone. It said 14 North Viet-
namese were slain.
Saigon spokesmen said the South
Vietnamese had pushed six miles
into Laos. Field reports, which are
often more up to date, said the
troops had traveled 10 miles and
set up a fire base to provide artil-
lery support as the force headed
west toward Sepone.
Bomb battered Sepone, 30 miles
west of the border, is believed to
be a key depot on the Ho Chi Minh
trail.
North Vietnam, in a broadcast
monitored in Tokyo, said the new
operation "conducted under the
U.S. Command is an open armed
aggression against Laos" and a
"very dangerous act of war."
Radio Hanoi said the Laotian
neutralist premier, Prince Souvan-
na Phouma, "must also bear re-
sponsibility partially for the mili-
tary invasion because he did not
take any step to stop the invasion
although he was aware .of it."
Sources in Washington said yes-
terday that the drive into Laos was
discussed as long ago as Novem-
ber but the operation crystallized
last month.
U.S. helicopter gunships crews
reported destroying rice and other
supplies as well as antiaircraft
weapons in the Laotian drive.
About 14 U.S. helicopters took
part in the initial assault.
The incursion, called Operation
Lam Son 719, brought North-
South Vietnamese hostilities into
the third of the Indochinese coun-
tries little more than nine months
after the allied drives into Cam-
bodia.

Humphrey said "this invasion
represents a stepping up instead
of a toning down of the war."
In contrast to last spring, the
Laos incursion generated virtually
no debate on the Senate floor,
with most senators commenting
in prepared statements or inter-
views with newsmen.
Sen. Harold Hughes (D-Iowa)
termed the Laos incursion a des->
perate act and called for renewed
congressional action "to stop such
escalations of the war." {
Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.),
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, described the push in-
to Laos as "a very dangerous and
costly operation" which, if it fails,
might tempt allied commanders to
move on into North Vietnam. He
said Secretary of State William P.
Rogers has agreed to appear be-
fore the committee today in closed
session.
French President Georges Pom
pidou, on an African tour, said in
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, "I deplore
the events in Laos and I condemn'
them and with me so does France."
A statement by the Communist
Chinese Foreign Ministry, distri-
buted in England in a broadcast
dispatch of the official Hsinhua
news agency from Peking, said:
"The large scale invasion of Laos
by U.S. imperialism is a grave White Panther representative D
provocation not only against the Pun Plamondon, Jack Forrest an
three peoples of Indochina but conspiring to bomb the Ann A
against the Chinese people of the
whole world as well."
However, the British Foreign ASKS REVIEW :
Office issued a statement saying
the Laotian move "seems likely to
insure continued progress" of the M em b er
Vietnamization policy. It added, I
"Her Majesty's government sup-
ports this policy."
A statement issued in Paris by +] el bs
the Viet Cong delegation to the
peace talks quoted the Communist P
Pathet Lao as saying, "The United (Continued from Page 1)
States is not only using its aerial here, they'd be enraged," he said.
forces but also its infantry and ''Especially, if they realized how
armored units who . . . are ravag- much this research contributes to
ing the territory and massacring the war effort in Asia and how it
the Lao people." is being used in the Laos invas-
In Washington, several antiwar ion."
groups called for demonstrations He said he hopes the letter will
Wednesday to protest the incursion. have some effect because he has
David Dellinger, an antiwar ac- "a great deal of faith in the facul-
tivist, said: "The people of the na- ty and feel they'll take some ac-
tion must express their outrage at tion after examining the facts
the invasion." about war research."
Among those groups across the University researchers, espec-
nation calling for demonstrations ially at Willow Run Labora-
were the Student and Youth Con- tories in Ypsilanti, are heavily in-
ference on People's Peace, the Na- volved in military projects in a
tional Student Association, the variety of fields dealing with sur-
New University Conference, Lay- veillance, target-acquisition and
men Clergy Concerned and the countermeasures.
People's Coalition for Peace and Remote sensing with infrared,
Justice. or heat-measuring instruments
Ask peaceful march
to finish at Ciy Hall
(Continued from Page 1) that Mayor Robert Harris be ask-
feated, the latter being tabled for ed to request businesses to close
meetings to be held after the. for an hour to show opposition to
march. the Laotian invasion. Finally the
Closely following the end of the 4:30 time was selected, because
People's Peace Treaty conference, that time would give the protest
which attracted participants from the most exposure and would
throughout the country the march come during the city's peak traf-
is hoped to create enthusiasm for fic hour.
a proposed May 1 demonstration While the march is intended to
throughout the country protesting mobilize public opinion against
the Indochina war. American support of the Laotian
Last night's discussion, after de- invasion, most of those present
ciding on the march, spent most of last night felt it would take pro-
the time arguing over what time tests the magnitude of the 1969
it should be held. Some felt the November Moratorium in order
march should take place in the to have any effect on President
early afternoon, and proposed Nixon's policies.

-Daily-Tom Gottieb
Dave Sinclair asks students at a Fishbowl rally yesterday to support
d John Sinclair. The three Panther leaders are on trial in Detroit for
rbor CIA office.

(Continued from Page 1)
proved, calling for the establish-
ment of GI solidarity committees
to mobilize support for anti-warj
efforts inside the armed forces.
The Sunday plenary session ap-
proved a proposal by the Seattle
Caucus calling for massive demon-
strations in Washington D.C. on
May 3 or May 4 with the aim
of shutting down government op-
erations if the peace treaty is not
accepted by the government.
The proposal also calls for strik-
es in all major cities and on col-
lege campuses to support the
Washington action.
The conference also approved
a proposal to establish a national
ratification day on April 14 when
treaty supporters will seek ac-
ceptance of the treaty through re-
ferendums by cities, campuses and
organizations throughout the
country. A two-week period to
focus on the implementation of
the treaty by these various groups
is scheduled to follow.
During the Sunday session,
speakers from Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) and
the Progressive Labor Party (PL)
continually criticized the confer-
ence for ignoring racism and not
focusing enough attention on the
role of workers in the treaty.
Many people in the audience,
however, said that the views of
members of SDS should not be
considered as representative of the
conference.
A member of the Workers' Cau-
cus also told the audience that
"power lies on the production
lines." "If you want to end the
empire you have to end the capi-
talist structure the empire is built
on," he said.
The delegate claimed the "only
two groups who can end this war
are the GIs and the workers." In
order to mobilize these groups, na-
tionally linked organizations be-
tween students, workers and GIs
must be created, he said.
Many speakers at the plenary
stressed the need for unity, criti-
cizing the factionalism they said
had occurred earlier in the con-
ference.
Rick Thorngate. a Vietnam vet-
eran and a participant in the
Winter Soldier Investigation last
week, urged conference members
to support every action against the
war, regardless of its sponsors.
Robert F. Williams, a b l a c k
nationalist leader also emphasized
the need for unity in the peace
movement. He asked the partici-
pants in the plenary to "forget
sectarianism, forget dogmatism,
and get down to the business of
peace." Williams said the peace
movement is facing the most cruc-
ial time in its history.
Rennis Davis of the Chicago 7,
told the audience that in the face
of mounting U.S. aggression, the

Vietnamese have lost the patience North Vietnam. Davis said WPAX
to wage a protracted struggle would afford the peace movement

against U.S. imperialism. "They
can no longer tolerate the equiva-{
lent of two and one half Hiro-I
shimas a week being dropped on
Indochina." Davis said.
Davis also told the plenary of a
new radio station. WPAX, that
will broadcast to U.S. soldiers in
Indochina through transmitters in

its first opportunity to communi-
cate directly with troops in Indo-
china.
A demonstration in New HaveiW
on March 13 in support of Black
Panther Chairman Bobby Seale
and his co-defendant Ericka Hug-
gins was also announced at the
meeting.

-Associated Press
N.Y.C. blackout
Part of the Times Square area in midtown Manhattan is blacked
out Sunday night after a disruption at a local generating station
caused a power failure in scattered areas of the city. See News
Briefs, Page 3.

)f classified research
its U' military work

Parsons convicted in G.E.
recruiter lock-iun incident

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was largely developed here, and
Willow Run researchers are using
the devices to measure the h e a t
characteristics (signatures) of
missile plumes, vehicles and other
military targets.
The Defense Department is us-
ing infrared devices similar to
those developed here in Vietnam to
pinpoint troops and supplies at
night and in rainy weather. They
can pick up even small cooking
fires.
University researchers are also
developing advanced radar sys-
tems to track moving ground tar-
gets from the air to map in
detail large areas of enemy ter-
ritory without flying over them.

Reconnaissance and some tac-
tical aircraft in Southeast Asia are
Sequippedwith these devices.
In addition, University scien-
tists and engineers are workingI
on automatic acoustic and seismic;
surveillance instruments to pick
up and identify the sound and
earth vibrations of military forces.
U.S. aircraft in Vietnam drop
these detectors from the air along
the borders of South Vietnam
and the Ho Chi Minh trail to find
troops and convoys which are then
bombed.
Researchers are also developing
advanced countermeasures tech-
niques to protect military a i r-
craft from attack.
"Remote sensing, countermeas-
ures techniques, target signa-
tures, infrared surveillance and
countermeasures - all of these
seemingly innocuous research
areas are, in reality, sophisticated
weaponry enhancing destructive
GOODHEW

capabilities in Vietnam, Cambodia
and Laos," Knox says.
In the letter, Knox criticizes ar-
guments which seek to validate
much of this research by citing its
applications for peaceful purposes.
"Research funded by military
agencies is used by the military for
it's own purposes; when data and
reports are classified they are not
generally available for peaceful
and humane applications," he says.
Adding that researchers should
be free to conduct investigations
in any area as long as they do
not endanger others, Knox claims
much of the military research here
"does not fall under the umbrella
of academic freedom because its
results will be used by the fund-
ing sources to kill and injure peo-
ple."
He points out that many other
universities including Yale, Prince-
ton, Michigan State and the Uni-
versity of Minnesota have ban-
ned classified research as inap-
propriate for a university.
Knox said his letter was "gen-
eral" because, according to the
committee's rules, only the chair-
man of the group can talk about
the work of the committee. In any
case, committee members are not
allowed to divulge information
about specific projects.

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Dental Prof. Gerald Charbeneau,
chairman of the committee, said
last night he had not yet received
a copy of the letter and declined
to comment on the matter.
The prosecution claimed that
Olson, who was dressed in plain-
clothes, identified himself as a
police officer a9nd ordered Par-
sons to move away from the dis-
turbance. When he did not move,
Olson said he informed Parsons
that he was under arrest.
Parsons contended that Olson
never identified himself or told
him he was under arrest.
The defense presented witnesses
who re-affirmed Parsons' conten-
tion, and testified that Parsons

swung at Bunten in self-defense
after he was beaten by policemen
with nightsticks.
Parsons will be sentenced at 9:30
a.m. Feb. 19 by Circuit Court
Judge Ross W. Campbell.
Parsons was convicted last June
of assaulting engineering school
Placement Director John Young
during the lock-in. He served 15
days in jail on the assault an
battery conviction, and paid a $50
fine, court costs and $50 "restitu-
tion" to Young for breaking his
glasses.
Parsons also has a charge of
contention pending against him
which stems from the same dem-
onstration. No trial date has bee*
set on this charge.

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