Page 4-Thursday, May 4, 1978-The Michigan Daily ~michigan DAILY Eighty-eight Years of Editorial Freedom 4204Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI.48109 Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 2-S News Phone: 764-0552 Thursday, May 4, 1978 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Kent State: Eight years after T/ENT STATE University. Eight years ago to- day, an angry battery of national guardsmen called in by Ohio Governor James Rhodes quashed a student protest leaving four dead and eleven others wounded. The killings sparked another round of national demonstrations against the war in Indochina. Protesters called for President Nixon to halt the bombing of Cambodia; which he promised to do, but he also argued that the Kent State shootings should "remind us once again that when dissent turns to violence, it invites tragedy." Many of the national guardsmen involved in the Kent atrocity reacted with a similar unsym- pathetic rigidity. One guardsman said the violen- ce was inevitable. "Maybe it'll make these people wake up," he charged. KENT STATE today faces a subtler, yet still effective clamp on certain outlets for cam- pus dissent. In September, the University trustees hired a new President - Birage Golding - who has taken a tough stance against left-of-center political groups. Golding embarked on a campaign earlier this fall to rid the campus of political leafletting. And on Tuesday, one student who had been arraigned by the student kangaroo court for leafletting on cam- pus, was expelled when he disrupted his own hearing. President Golding declared today a University. Day of Observance. But he also called off classes- to clear the campus while the May 4 Task Force stages an all-night vigil, lectures and a march around campus to remember the shootings. So, after eight years, the campus at Kent State University is still cloaked by an atmosphere or repression. The repression is certainly not as startling as it was eight years ago, but it is every bit as reprehensible. TERRORISM A viable political weapon By Michael Arkush The mighty blow of terrorism has struck again in Western Europe, this time with the kidnap of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro and demand for an exchange of 13 political prisoners for his release. fo The Red Brigades, an Italian terrorist group dedicated to Communism and a return to original Leninist revolutionary aims, abducted the former Christian Democrat Party leader on March 16. And, after holding a "people's trial," they sentenced him to death and announced they would execute him unless the government released the prisoners. The Red Brigades threatened to kill Moro last week but have kept him alive to increase their already bloated claims on world attention. MORO'S FAMILY and close friends pleaded to the government, still led precariously by the Christian Democrats, to release the 13 prisoners and save the former leader's life but the gover- nment has refused. The Christian Democrats and all other parties from the Communists to the Neo- Fascists have rejected any suggestions of a deal with the Red Brigades. The Socialist Party is the only major political force that is advocating a "humanitarian approach" toward the Red Brigades to free Moro. They have suggested that the gover- nment ease conditions for political prisoners, in- cluding members of the Red Brigades, and even an- nouncing pardons for some of them. Moro has accused the government of "ratifying the death sentence" by not dealing with the terrorists. He denies he is being coerced to plead for his release and claims all states have acted positively when dealing with terrorists except for Israel and Germany. The truth is that only Israel and Germany have responded in the logical and sensible manner when dealing with terrorists. These twd countries have suffered the majority of terrorist attacks in the last decade and have refused to yield to their wild demands. The Israelis, in July, 1976, 'flew into the heart of Africa and rescued more than so0 hostages from terrorists in Uganda. The Germans have repeatedly refused to comply with any terrorist demands and have 'intensified their nationwide search to "clean up the terrorist problem." BY REFUSING the terrorists' demands, the Italian government has followed the only right course of action. If they were to yield to the Red Brigades, they would be accepting terrorism as a valuable political weapon in Italy. Pope Paul and U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim have already "played in the terrorist's hands" by begging for Moro's release. Slowly in Italy, as well as in Israel and several Western European countries, terrorism is gaining legitimacy and recognition because of continuing violent and treacherous actions. The Palestinian Liberation Organization, a group whose doctrine calls for terrorist actions, has become an integral part in the Mideast peace process. Kidnappings, hijackings, murders and other terrorist actions have been termed by the various terrorists as "political actions" necessary to achieve their aims. In February 1975, Peter Lorenz, the leader of West Berlin's Christian Democratic Party was kid- napped by German terrorists. Lorenz was held for- five days, then exchanged for five members of the terrorist group who were in jail. Manfred Gan- schow, Chief of State Security in the West Berlin Police Department, thinks that the exchange was a mistake and might have encouraged the terrorists to continue their program of violence in the rest of the country. Fearing the same consequences, the Italian Christian Democratic Party has refused to budge on their determined resistance. Italians should respect and applaud their governient's decision. ALDO MORO: "ratifying the death sentence" THlE GOALS OF terrorism depend more on the reactions of the world's governments to the actions than the actions themselves. Israel and Germany, by forced resistance to terrorism, have prevented the terrorists from achieving their goals. Therefore, the terrorists will think twice before they initiate their next action. Though there is no guarantee they will cease their actions, government resistance to the terrorists lessens the chance of them striking again. Logically, if the government gives in to the terrorists it would be ridiculous for the terrorists to change their tactics. The best way is to avoid their demands and search for their members. Unfor- tunately, some innocent people might get killed but the alternative is constant terrorism and widespread panic. It's a difficult decision to make but one which is necessary. Michael Arkush is a Daily staff writer. - T Ei N. FM fi vo AR AO AR ',tV uTr I C rrue ?fecw, 0T IOT6et A fcA C ........ LETTERS TO THE DAILY: Fetuses are human beings To The Daily:r i Feeney, Filler and Gibson state human lives. The number of In their letter of April 4, writers "There has been no definitive an- human lives destroyed by abor- swer to ... when a fetus becomes tion in this country each year now Lit& WTo 76 a human being." How so? If a equals the population of the city T p X *t fetus is produced by the union of of Detroit. COMMOo human sperm and ovum, it is a human fetus and if it is alive, it SINCE WE WORK so hard to has being. If it isn't alive and save babies' lives, where is the human, it presents no problem so logicnaccusing pro-life people far as abortion is concerned. If of considering pregnancy and there is doubt in the minds of the motherhood a punishment? We pro-abortionists as to the value of are well aware of the problems the living, human fetus, shouldn't that pregnancy can cause. the doubt be resolved in favor of Women do have limitless thecdo fetus since life destroyed freedom to control reproduction - wanot fe restored? through the most safe, effective .Q3 t c oes dcontraception known to date: ab- By what authority do the stinence. It is also the one method writers speak for "anti-abor- of contraception that puts an tionists?" I assure them we have equal burden and responsibility - - no desire to punish anybody. Our on both sexes. concern is with saving dives -' ''' ' ' I -Pat Rose _® .. t