Page 4-Friday, May 11 1979-The MichiganbDaily HMichigan Daily World policies propel Eighty-nine Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109 us t ward rd wa I Vol. LXXXIX, No. 8-S Edited and m at the Univ News Phone: 764-0552 nanaged by students ersity of Michigan By the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade Project Outreach unjustly crippled BY FORCING Project Outreach to make tre- mendous structural changes in its program, the LSA Executive Committee has not only reduced the number of available experiential learning opportunities at the University, it may have also endangered the future existence of the program. Outreach can no longer allow undergraduates to supervise other undergraduates in the course as the course has traditionally been run. Executive Committee members have said it violates University policy to permit un- dergraduate teaching, claiming it exploits the students. This argument loses validity when the program is viewed in practical terms. A committee from the Psychology Department reviewed Outreach and concluded it was an ef- ficiently run program whose experiential benefits are invaluable to students. Students who have worked their way up through the program to assume supervisory roles have staunchly defen- ded the undergraduate teaching structure saying teaching assistants (TAs) would probably be unable to perform as well as students with years of project experience. Therefore, Outreach does not exploit students, but rather gives them unique opportunities for leadership which are not available elsewhere in the University. In addition, this mandate forces the Psychology department to hire additional TAs to supervise Outreach projects. Because of financial con- straints, it would be difficult to hire enough TAs to oversee all the projects currently offered, and many will have to be cut. This seriously jeopar- dizes the existence of Outreach, and will seriously injure many community programs which depend on Outreach for assistance. Also, many students will no longer be able to opt for Psychology 201 in the future, since fewer sections will be offered. The Executive Committee also decided to chop the credits allowed from 12 to six hours, even though the LSA curriculum committee voted against taking such action. The Executive committee has committed a grevious error by dealing experimental learning a crippling blow. We can only hope the Psychology Department will be able to keep this valuable program alive-without sacrificing the unique opportunities that have long been made available to University students. SPRING EDITORIAL STAFF ELIZABETH SLOWIK Editor-in-CheI JUDY RAOWSKY Editorial Director JOSHUA PECK Arts Director MAUREENO'MALLEY LISA UDELSON Photographers STAFF WRITERS: Sara Anspach, Amy Diamond, Julie Engebrecht John Goyer, Patricia Hagen, Vicki Henderson, Adrienne Lyons, Beth Persky, John Sink- evmTim Yagle. Subject to Congressional ap- proval, a House Committee rein- states military registration for those 18 years and older. The government says "full speed ahead" with the construction of nukes despite massive protests and an obvious danger to the public. A new SALT agreement is on the verge of being signed-one that, rather than promoting peace, merely sets the terms for continued growth in the arms race. Why are these things hap- pening? Are they merely for- tuitous events? No, they are not. In fact, if one digs beneath the mountain of rhetoric, these even- ts begin to make sense only in the context of growing preparations by the two superpowers for a new world war. Why else are they bringing back the draft? A recent article by a columnist for the New York Times points out that all the talk about a shortage of manpower, and about the "in- ferior" quality of the volunteer army is a hoax! The real thrust of the reinstitution of the draft lies in the ability, by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to mobilize enough man- power for a major military con- flict! Or take the nukes. Carter says that . "Our national strength is dangerously independent on a thin line of oil tankers stretching half-way around the earth." What if oil supplies were to be disrupted in the event of war? The capitalists are clearly coun- ting on being able to depend on nuclear reactors for their source of energy, not to mention the fact that one of the main products of these reactors is plutonium-the stuff nuclear bombs are made of ! OR TAKE THE inernational situation. Every "local" conflict is increasingly taking on the character of a proxy war between the two superpowers. The Shah of Iran falls, and immediately Secretary of Defense Harold Brown issues a statement saying that the U.S. will fight the Soviets before it will allow the Saudi Arabian oilfields to fall into "un- friendly" hands. China invades vietnam seven days after the visit to the U.S. by vice-premier Deng xiaoping. The U.S. feigns neutrality, but when the Soviets send a 'contingent of warships, the U.S. responds by sending a contingent of its own, and the two fleets face off in the South China - Sea. Civil war breaks out between North and South Yemen. The for- ces of the Soviet-backed South are led by Cuban and East European advisors. The U.S. sends in 200)?) "advisors" of its own, and offers to men the Saudi Arabian air force in exchange for Saudi bombing runs wver South Yemen. Even the recent take over of Soviet-backed Uganda by Tanzanian-led forces takes on the character of a proxy war with the Amin regime giving way to one that openly declares its intention of establishing "close ties with the U.S." As was the case prior to the two world wars, countries in every corner of the globe can be seen lining up on one side or the other-either "voluntarily" or by means of "external assistance" (as with the recent pro-Soviet coup in Afghanistan.) The rulers of the U.S. and those of the equally capitalist Soviet Union need and want to be able to expand thir economic, military, and political spheres of influence, and such expansion, sooner or later, can only result in the total undermining of one or the other of these empires. In the face of such events, the superpowers are no longer able to confine them- selves to third-party maneuvering, but must employ the method of direct intervention in order to prevent a situation in which, they would lose everything. It is in this context that the Mi dIe East acquires its singular ir portance-not only as a crucil source of oil with which to wag war itself, but also as the jugula vein of oil-dependent Europe as Japan. As Business Week recei tly noted, in its issue on "Tb Decline of U.S. Power," "Tb danger, illuminated with start clarity by the explosion in Iran,i that a vast global shift in politiea alignments would occur if contr. of the Persian Gulf's oil weret fall into hostile (read: Sovie hands." As James Schlesinge put it, "Given their dependent; on that part of the world, Japa and Western Europe would ha to change their orientation." I other words, the U.S.'s stronge allies, might leapfrog over to t Soviet aide and turn their gun around toward the U.S. ALL OF THIS highlights wh the U.S. ruling class caann longer content itself with mere: working from behind th scenes-the stakes are too hig Sooner or later, the conflict eimpre between the two sop powers can only be resolved means of all-out war! This i TAKE THE MIDDLE EAST, what underlies all the propagaD for example. In the aftermath of da (as with the ten-part series a the fall of the Shah, the U.S. ABC) about military prepared ruling class is summing up the ness. There is even a book ou "Nixon Doctrine" as a failure. written by a top British genera (The Nixon Doctrine, developed (with assistance from U.S. ar in the aftermath of Vietnam, NATO military experts) thn amounted to a policy of building postulates such a war will brea up and relying on regional gen- out in 1982! This question of worl darmes for the suppression of war is no idle nightmare-it is liberation movements, and for reality staring us in the face. "containing" Soviet expansion). They cite their own studies, such Whatever plans we might has as the one produced by the had for our lives don't amount) Brookings Institute, as demonst- a hill of beans unless we face thi rating that nothing has proven so question squarely. Faced wit effective in the past for the this prospect, we need to be cla protection of U.S. intereststas on what the situation is, who i sending in "the good, old responsible, what we can d Marines." They clamour for the about it, and who to fight establishment Sf new military Brothers and sisters, it is time t bases and the stationing of per- open our eyes, to delve deeply in manent military forces in the to these questions. As Ma Middle East. And of course, this ZeDong once said, "The bom merely increases the likelihood of will not destroy mankind a major direct U.S.-Soviet con-. mankind will destroy the bomb! frontation. But, in order to make this hap But many people say, "how pen, we have to be prepared, bot could they, after the Vietnam in terms of our understandin fiasco, be so brazen as to send the and in terms of what course of ac Marines into a country like, say, tion we should take. Iran or Saudi Arabia?" It's not a question of could they, but rather The capitalists are making that they must. The heart of their their plans around this question global strategy is one of retaining it's time that we make ours. and expanding those sections of Europe already in orbit. Europe is the area of the world most coveted by both superpowers. Interested persons can at- Outside the superpowers them- tend the conference on World selves, it represents the greatest War: "World War III: Is it concentration of capital, coming, and what should we markets, and technology do about it?" Saturday, May anywhere in the world (and it is 12 from 10:30 a. m. to 4 p.m. also the place where the U.S. has r over 50 per cent of its overseas in conference rooms 1, 2, and investments). The alignment of 3 of the Michigan Union. Fof Europe's military forces could more information, call 662 prove crucial in a new world war. 16165.