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Harding to Open Studies Program 1-/i1--76 nazette Staie Xews SrrylcA EATICV - Ralph de Tnle- - dano, u. poLil ie:al an:al)'lslt and col– ummst, il o·pen Ha.rdin,g Col– lege's 1976 Amel'l1can S~u,dJie·s pmgram at 7:30 p·m. Mondia.y on tJhe ca,llllpu,s he,re. To·ledano, formedy of News· week ma.g~a,zine, will speak on "In•s,ide Was~inglton." Tickets are available at the office of the AmeJili· '!l.n studies Program on th ca,mpps. Wa~ter Jl.l.flri, .a ~orme1r Min.ne' , ti<lta eongre. •man. will Slpeaj F bruar. 2 and Da· John Car– roll, a hl~>-iorian, with Troy State. ' olv rsily iD ·lnbruna, Wli!I spellk Fe-burary 10. Z. D. BoMt'l', pr "delll oC Gill( Oil COrpo..-aUon wi hl spea k to 1-h s;t.udenl budJy FQbl'\la.l"y 21i. Gen. Wlllia m C. Westrrl re· laud, 1lormcr Army Ch:iel of a~ and romm-a.nder or t.be Am-e-ri– can rorce•s U,. i£Lnam, will ,~;peak April 5. Th.e series wi!Jl qnd A,p.ril 8 wit~ a. &pee~ by G. Wauen Nutter, a historian Jlrom the Uni– versity Df Virginia . Arkansas Gazette Little Rock, Arkansas CBS CorrespQndent Fall A~l,~i~~~P.:.~iludies series Robert Pierpeiut. White .· ~ co.r e;spond~nt for CoJwiibf~ Broad~g S.)'lttr.m. WJ s at a presentatiob October 2, ~ by the American Stuctic:s Program. The program will be held · the Hal'ding College MaQI itorh.m at 7:30 p.m. 'ft'' .. As. CBS.Wiaite House ~~odent since 1957, ~inthas V.veled .moM than one million, .miles with -Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John· F;~Kentiedy, Lyndot\ Johnson and Richard ·,Nbcooi He has been an eye witness· fo ·every major:ilattonaJ iDd intern:ati~n~l ·event from the . 1960 Paris Summitt Con.– ference with Eisenhower ari(f:i»re~ident Kennedy's assassination to ~_nt ;iomestic and international hapPenings. An honor graduate in economics from~ .the University .of RecJlanc;l.s! Pierpoint· .·W~;a,-freelaRCe broadcastc:;r in Stpckholm.. .bmore, joiniQg G-P~ in 1949. H~ coyered the K-oreall Wa~~-and wis Far;£a.G,, Bureau chief fur . CBS before 'being appointed Whit¢ ~ouse con;espondent. · .--: -~' Pierpoint's presen~ation will be one of a series of nationally known speakers who will be brought to .the Harding campus this ·year. Other speakers already confirmed include Dr. Jack Evan'S, president of SoutllwesterQ Christian College in Terrell, Tex., Sept. 18, :and Bob Bleiberg, ·editor of Barron's National Ousin.ess and Financial Weekly, Sept; 22.. :.· On Sept. 23, Dr. ·Max Rafferty, a noted educator,· will speak· at the Harding campus in Memphis. Guest sneak.(·r~ l appearing- at lt~rc:_l~~ln . ~~]]~~~ Dr. Bi~1 Ray ~--~J~r of the American Studies Pragram of Harding College in Searcy has annotu1ced that an array of nationally known speakers, incl uding Genera l William · Westmoreland, will headline the Harding Bicentennial · Spring Lecture series. Harding College's American Studies program has been recognized nationwide for frank discussions of current problems facing the Federal government, and the lecture series should provide ample food for thought concerning formulation of governmental policy decisions in the past as well as in tht! present. · Nationally known political analyst and collllnnist, Ralph de Toledano, was the featured speaker as the series opened at the Harding cqrnpus in the American Heritage Center Monday, Jan. 19. The spring lectures, which began with Toledano's ap– pecrrances in early January and will end April 8, with a presentation from Warren G. :'~utter, a historian from the University of Virginia, are' a part of Harding's year-long emphasis on the Bicentennial celebration. Monday, Feb. 19, Dr. John Carroll, a historian with Troy State University in Alabama will present the program. Z. D. Bonner, president of Gulf Oil Corporation, will ad– dress the student body on Monday, February 26, and will be followed by General West– moreland on April 5. The for– mer Army chief of staff and ccmmunder of the U.S. Military Forces- in Vietnam, West– moreland is considered one of modern history's most out– spoken military figures.; Tickets are available at the office of the American Studies Program on the Harding campus. Searcy Daily Citizen Searcy, Arkansas f I ' ,/ k;·..................._.~--- GEN. WESHIIORELAND f).~·;,/;'fr 5 tl -:~(01 --~u. /v • t© ne me~~tYStreshmp An array of nationally knoWn speakers, including General William• Westmoreland, will headline the Harding College Bicentennial lecture series, Dr. Billy Ray Cox, director of the American Studies Program of rhe College, announced. , The spring lectures are part of rflarding 's year-long emphasis on :he Bicentennial celebration. Political analysis and former ·(National Reports) editor of ,Newsweek Ralph de Toledano of ·New York will open the series January 19. On January 23-24, management consultant and author Frank Goble of Pasadena, California will direct a seminar ' t " on ''Third Force Managemen . On February 2, former Min· nesota congressman and noted authority on Sino-Americ~n relations Dr. Walter Judd will speak. Dr. John Carroll, a historian with Troy State University in Alabama will present the February 19 program. Z. D. Bonner, president of Gulf Oil Corporation, will address the student body on February 26, to be followed by General West· moreland on April 5. The former Army chief of staff and com· mander of the U.S. Military :Forces in Vietnam, West· mcrel:lnd is considered one of rnodern history's most outspoken · military iigures. . The Bicentennial Spring Series will conclt:de with a presentation April 8 by G. Warren Nutter, a historian from the University of Virginia. · Page- i HARDING COLLEGE BULLETIN Gen. Westmoreland To Speak for A.S. General William C. Westmoreland will head a schedule of distinguished speakers for the American Studies Program spring lecture series. The former Army Chief of Staff and Commander ofthe U.S. Military Forces in Vietnam, wiiJ _speak in the main a•Jditorium April 5. General Westmoreland, considered one of modern history's most con– troversial military figures, will speak on the Memphis Harding campus April 6. · Political analyst Ralph de Tolendano v;ll open the spring series on ianuary 19. Dr. Billy Ray Cox, ,:irector of the American Studies ~1 rogram, has also announced a management seminar January 23-24 with Frank Goble, president of Thomas Jefferson Research Center, as the previously, is a contributing editor for Reader's Digest. speaker. Also spe~king. on the · Memphis campus April 20 will be Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio. Former Minnesota Congressman Dr. The fall series included addresses by Bob Bleibe~g, edit9r of Barron's Weekly, CBS. news . C9~f1spondent Robert Pierpoint, Bob Ande~son of the Foundation for Economic Education and attorney David Hale of Little Rock, president of the United States Jaycees. Walter Judd will address the students and guests February 2. Dr. Judd, who has spoken on the campus several times Harding to hold spring lecl¥;[!JS Sr:A HCY-Former Army Chief uf Staff c;en. William Westmoreland will be one of several nationally prominent <peakers for Harding Col– !t•ge·s "Bicentennial Lecture Series'' this spring. Wstoreland is scheduled to ,-;peak at the college April 5. The lecture series will begin at ; .10 p.m. Monday with an appearance by Ralph de I oledano of New York. politi– cal analyist and former ":\ationai.Heports" editor for 1\•'wsweek Magazine. (ln .Jan 23-24. the series will fPatu r·e a semi nar on "Third Fnrc·e Manajlemenl'"by l'ratik (;obi of Pa.saden~. Calif • wb is a J.ll:tna~:f'ment consultant andauthor. 1-'ormer 1\linne. ola Hep. IJr. Walter .J udd. will , peak f' b. 2. Ur. J ohn arroll. a h1stortan wHh Troy State t:nfvt'fsrt • in Alabama. will pre. enl Lhe program l'eb. !9. On Feb. 26. Z D. Bonner pre ·id nt of lllf CJlt Corp wlli hf' f atllred. The final pe~ker in the serie~ will be G. Warren ·ulh•r. a 'ni ers1tv of Vir– ~tma his torian. n Pril 8 Arkansas Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas '• I ' . . a
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• • CBS Correspondent Highlights F~ll 'American Studies- Series Robert Pierpoint, Whit~. House correspondent for the Colu_mbia Broadcasting System! will speak ~t a presentation October 2. sponsored by the American Studies-.l'rogram. The program will be held m the Harding College Main Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. As -CBS White House ~orrespondent since 1957, ·Pierpoint has traveled more than one million miles with Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson ·and Richard Nixon. He has been an eye witness to every major national and international event from the 1960 Paris Summitt Con– ference with Eisenhower and President Kennedy's. assassination to current domestic and international happenings. An honor graduate in economics from the University - of . Redlands, Pierpoint was a freelance broadcaster in Stockholm, before joining CBS in 1949. He covered the Korean War and was Far East Bureau chief for CBS before being appointed White House correspondent. Pierpoint's presentation will be one of a series of nationally known speakers who will be brought to the Harding campus ,·this ·year. -- Other speakers already- ·confirmed include Dr. ·Jack Evans,· president· of Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Tex., Sept 18, - and Bob Bleiberg, editor of Barron '·s l'fational Business - and Financial Weekly, Sept 22. On Sept. 23, Dr. Max Rafferty, a rioted educator, will speak at the Harding campus in Memphis. t ! - By WAYNE JOHDAt\' backward and roll the clock . Of the Gazette Staff ' -~ back to the 3C-s or even the 20s. SEARCY - ;t\.rkanS'as Senator And I personally don't think ?ale Bumpers c~ances ?f gam- lhat's p-ossible." ;_~~-~ t_he ~en:ocratJc ptcs!dentwl He said the two recent at– nommahon m 1976 are· slinimer tempts to assassinate 1Ir. Ford than_ even a dark horse's, ac- had caused the president to re– cotdmg to Ro~rt Pierpoint, sLnct his a.-~cessibility to voters CBS News White House corre- and l1ad caused the Secret Serv– spondent. icc to beef up its bodyguard Bumpers has been mentioned force along \Yith other police in some p-olitical circles. as beinu agencies that provide security a compromise Democratic can~ during Mr. Ford's trips. odidat·e if the 1976 convention - "The president. - and I'm ·caru1ot ·agree ·(m any of the an· happy to ~'ay. this - -has ~ut nounced c.andidate,s. ?own on the 1clea of plungl!Jg Pierpoint, who has covered ·;,nto ~rowels,'' Pierpoint said. the White House for CBS since .Th~,t s a very dangerous srtua1957, said here Thursday· "I twn. .think that we've "ot so n{any · · · presidential candid~tes that he's · 'Nuts A;e Coming got to stand in line. Since he :has Out of Woodwork' not yet announced and there are _ He said assassination at– a great_ many other~ who have, tempts appear to run in cycles that thts probably Is not Dale and cunently "All of the nuts :Bu,mpers_' ye.~r, or next year arc coming out of the woodwork 1s-n t hrs y-ear. r~ • ". All of us who cover the · Pierpoint, who was here to president think it's a good time :speak .at Hardin1g College about for the president to cool it. But h.r·s -expericnces with five presi- 1. ~ere .is no perfect answer." I' dents made the remarks .about Pwrpomt was asked whether 'Bum;crs at a dinner meeting ~Ir. F?rd was a liberal or a con- . 'Defore his s•pc•ech. He· also an· s.~rv~trv~. He re;ponded,. "He \1)wcred questions about Reprc- Cl!_dn t rntroduce~ any smglc . St~.tati\'e Wilbur D. .-Mills of J;_Icce of new lcc:Jshl!On the 20 ;Kensett and Presid:ent Ford. f - , On Bumpers, he ,s.aid the ~ , state's junior senator hadn't ~ been on the national scene long .\enough to he recogniz-ed -by the 'average voter in other states. :He said if voters in other states 1were as·ked "what do you think ; aoout Dale Bumpers, they'd ~say, 'Dale Who'?" I :'In the Future lie May Well Be' • P i e r p o i n t said Bumpers :·wasn't in the presidential -cate- .;., -.gory at this time, ''although in i i-i:, :the future he may v-ery well . be" · . f: "As far as Wilbur Mills is con- • ;cemea, my feeling is that there 'are a great many people who feel sorry for ?.Ir. Mills and wish all of this hadn't happened," ;I'ierpoint said. ' Moills was removed from the :-chairmanship of the House's •power-ful Ways ·and Means Com– 'mitt€e during his well publiciz,ed lbou:t w~th alcoholism ahd his as-· :sociation . with Fanne Foxe, a !South .4merican stripper who has said she loved the congress– ]n;on and hac, wrilccn a lJC :i t– sellin;:; book about their affair. During a question and answer sc~;sion after dinner, Pierpoint sairl h;:; Liggcslcrilicism of fiir. l'urr~L f:l.nd ~~is p,;lLcy aclvi;;.-:rs was "that they don't seem to hav(' iimovativc :ll1.'\\'crs to the proL,l·.:n15 lh<l~ this ccL!nt ry )faces. They seem to want to look ROBERT PIERPOINT years that he was in Congress. That would indicate to me that he doesn't have many new ideas • " ~-He probably likes the way things have been in the past. Tl1at means , in my view, he is fairly conservath·c." 1-Ic P .. l~o to~d the dir : I~~~:: C 1 .lldi· ence, which ill'cludcd · some of Harding's strongest " financial supporters, that reportcro wer– en't supposed to tell "what you want. to hear, but :t·c: l, ·,:th that they· see in the events lhcy re– port. ":\Ir. Fod i:< a I'C i·~- <lec~nt, fine human b~ing," Pierpoint said. "And I wonld also say - allows us to have a diaJogue and I think he would be in per- with t!1esc people, 1vhether we feet agreement with this- he is agree \iilh them or not," Pier– not very much of an intellectual point said. "It was probably human being. He was never one only Rich a r t1 Nixor1 who who particularly ·liked to stay could've opened that dialogue. U home in his room an1 reaci a a Dc:-nocrat had tried to do· it, position paper." he might have been h:ammer<'d He also said tha·t he thought out of office as being pro-Com– l>Ir. Ford's current campaign to muni.st. :1\obody could make ilia! gather support for next year's charge against Richard Nixon.' presid-ential race wasn't sue- However, during the five·plus cceding because "he's preach- years that Nixon was in office, ing to the alread.y converted. He .the "White House became ;;_ for– tells everyone what they want to ,tress,," Pierpoint said. "Richa•rd hear. He's not convincing any Nixon saw and trusted fewer ind£pendents and Democ:ra.ts.'' '· and fewer P,eaple the long.er he ·stayed in office.'' Intimate Episodes Recitedby Speaker Nixon ,Aides Cited During his speech to about 1,- For Situation 000 persons a.t Harding, Pier- Pierpont said this was "pa;·t– p-oint told the audience about ly the result" of efforts by Nix– several intimate episodes with on's two chief aides, H. R. (Bob) ihe presid£nts he had covered Haldeman_ and John D. Ehr– and_ his impression of thcr!l as J ichman. He s~aid Haldeman and prcs~dent? and a_s hun:an bemgs. ,Ehrlichman successfully shut _Pwrportll!t sard Rrcha:rd IlL oil accessibility to the president Nrxo~ ha? made sevNal historic and gained power. "Proximity contnbutwns to the country's to power is power itself'' he welfare despite his personal .aid. ' shortcomings and u l t i m a t e He s1aid Nixon allowed Halde– downfa·ll. He mentioned Nixon's man and Ehrlichman to cut out negotiations with llie Russians the outside world. and Chinese, revenue sharing "They played on his basic hos– and his and Secretary of State tility to pel)ple," Pierpoint s:aid. Henry A. Kissinger's mostly "Richard Nixon never felt com· successful attempts to settle the fortable with people and thev war in th€"11-riddle East. played on his tcnde~,cy toward "I think he <V,.·i!l receive high ·paranoia, until - in my view– marks in history for opening the they he1ped him destroy him– path to Moscow a-nd Peking -that self." Gazette Sfatr XE:'W~ Seiyipe SEARCY - Robcr.t Pierpcint, White House C<Hl'CSp0ndent for the Columbia Eroad-2a:sdng Sys– tem, v:ill socak at 7:30p.m. Oc· · •tober 2 in the Main Auditoriu,m at JiardJnR.Cilllc_ge here as part of the,.school's Ani-e,rkan Studi'es Progr.am lec-ture s·eries. Pierpoint ·has been a CBS W h i t c Hous-e corresp-ond-ent since 19.'>1 and 00vercd tl1c aci– minis.trations of the ].ate Pn;si– dents Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and former President Richard l\f. Nixon. He wa·s a freelance broadcaster at Stod:– holm, Sweden, before joining CBS in 1949 and wa·s· Far East bureau chief for the network be– fore !being <lppointcd ·1o the White House p0sit,ion. Dr. Billy Ray Cox, director_of t-he-"1\mer1ca-n Studios P<rogram, said reserved seat .tic-kets-wo-uld be iss.ued. For inform-ation, con– ta-ct Dr. Cox at the -college. · ' ... • f
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Pierpoint rates pre:Jidertts ort style, rap_llOrl tvith .reporters and substance 1\;~ K.\ THY SilOI\ ES In his "View from the White House Steps" last :1ight . CBS newscaster Robert Pierpoint said he rated highest Dwight D. Eisenhower's style, John F. Kennedy's rapport with repor– ters and Lyndon B. Johnson's substance. In describing each of the five Presidents whom he has covered to the American Studies Program audience in Harding College's main auditorium. Pierpoint applied the style– rapport-with -reporters– substance criteria. He illustrated what he called Eisenhower's ''high degree of m·oral integrity" with Ike's duty– bound constitutonal support ·o( the Supreme Court's 1954 in~ tegration decision although "the whole scene troubled him" . The military man combined this integrity with physical courage when he attended a NATO conference in Pa~is 10 days after suffering a stroke and then returned to hold a press conference on the trip although he had n(lt recovered from pronunciation problems and partial face paralysis induced by -the stroke. ; "He did it because he wanted to show the American peoole that he was capable o-f ~i~g their President by meeting with those heads of state and returning to report to them. He would ·have resigned if he could not have done that," Pierpoint stated · Tile veteran ~ewsman.said that K~nnedy 's "new sense of vi ::ah '' pervaded the · White H~use making it "a much more exciting place to work". Pierpoint said th~re was ··easy access to the administration 's policymakers" including the President who "liked the give-and-take of press conferences and intellectural discussions with reeorters about the na lion's problems". Even so, Pierpoint noted that he would leave a live, televised Kennedy press conference realizing that "he managed to tell me exactly what he wanted to and no more like any politician". He added that the moods of the 'Camelot era's" Firs! Lady 6•.ernated between warm charm · 4/Jd "dead silence" but that " this country owes Jackie Kennedy Onassis our united thanks for her actions after her husband's assassination ... If thatlady could stand up under all the pressure on her, then I felt I could too ... She kept the country going those three to four days when his body was lying in state". Lapsing into an imitation LBJ drawl, Pierpoint , a native Californian, stated that Johnson as a veteran Congressman "knew how to manipulate the government and the system to get things done". "No name will t be written in larger letters in our history than Lyndon Johnson who accomplished vast domestic reforms during the first half of his . presidency," the newsman said . Regrettably though, it was Johnson who. made "the tragic na tiona) error-of getting us into \'ietnam'' - -:a decision which divided the country and ruined the President's plans for a second full term, Pierpoint said. After telling a hilarious anecdote about his private luncheon and ensuing afternoon with LBJ. Pierpoint said the story's moral was, "Although we tend to think of our Presidents as lofty men. they are just plain folks . And I think Johnson was trying to show me that Presidents take off their pants and put on their pajamas just like the rest of us." Pierpoint noted a good omen at the beginning of Richard Nixon's first term when the "anti– intellectual, ordinate Reoublican was talking about Democrat Woodrow Wilson <c college professor l as his favorite President". "It was as if he no longer feared to say what he believed," he stated. But the newsman observed that Nixon's ''real problem was his own strange personality which instead of flowering in the White House retreated and he became almost like a fortress". Stating that "proximity to power is power itself", Pierpoint attributed Nixon's hermit ad– ministration to H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Nixon's convicted lieutenants . When asked when he first suspected that l\'ixon was in· valved in the Watergate breakin, QUESTI ONER QUESTIONE D - CBS newscaster Robert Pierpoint last night put himse lf in the reverse– position of questionee in an informal "press con– feren~e" after h's Ameri an Studies Pr~gram presentation. ( Photo by Mike James - Harding PR) Pierpoint rephrased the question The newscaster said he did not to when he first suspected Nixon believe in the "conspiracy theory was a crook and <Jnswered that of history or the conspiracy the man's first California theory behind the assassination campaigns were ugly smears. of John F . Kennedy and the Pierpoint added that when recent assassination attempts on press secretary Ron Ziegler the life of President Ford". All retorted to a Key Biscayne have been the work of "one assemblage of reporters that deranged individual", he stated. l"ixon did not comment on "thirdrate burglaries" there wasn't ·•a reporter in the room who did not suspect that President Nixon was.. behind it". Tagging Gerald Ford as a "decent, pleasant, moral, hardworking individual, the kind of guy you'd like to have for a neighbor or friend", Pierpoint opined that former California Governor Ronald Reagan would pose a great threat to Ford's possible Presidential nomination in 1976. Searcy Daily Citizen Searcy, Arkansas = Robert Pierpoint, CBSW~House corrapond.ent, will speak on '"l'be View from the White House step " during the Amepcu Studi tipOnSOI program Delrt Tbunday rugbt. i'~ /; Pierp "nt will addr~Ss students·;,Arkansan·s Robert'Pierpoint, White Bouse correspondent for CBS television will speak Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the main auditorium in a ~tation s~ by the American Studies Program. , As CBS White House correspondent since 1957, Pierpoint has traveled more than one Dilllion miles withPresidents Eisellbower, Kennedy, Jolmson Nixon andForc:l. He &as beeD an eye witness to every major national and international event from tbe 1960 Paris Summit Conference with Eisenhower, President Kennedy ' s assassination to this week's attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. An honor graduate in ecooomics from tbeUniversity~ Redlands, Pierpoint was a freelance broadcaster in Stockholm, Sweden before joining CBS in 1M9. He covered the Korean War and was Far East Bw-eauchief for CBS before be~ appointed White House eorrispo~Jdeol. Tickets fer Thursday nigbt's program are free and all seats are reserved. Tickets can be picked up at Vice-presiaent Billy Ray Cox's office ib American Studies 118 starting Mmday. Pierpoint's presentation· Will be one of a series of nationally known speakers who will be brought to cam(& this year in coonection wilb tbe American Studies Program. BobAnderson; from the Foundation fol' EConomic Education, will ad– dreas the group No.v. 3. Speakers sebeduled .for oext semester are Ralph de Tolando, national syndicated columnist; Dr. Walter Judd, intemational expert 011 China and Russia ; General WUHam Westmorelaod. Otben that are tentltlvely scheduled are Z. D. Bolmer, ,;Jresident of Gulf Oil Co.; Dr. W. Phillip Gram, professor or economics at Texas A & M University; John 'Gardner, chairman for the booklet "Common Cause;" .and Congressman John M. Ashbrook from·Ohio. · , ....
CORRESPONDENT INTERVIEWED- CBS White House correspondent Rober1 Pierpoint, (left) gives his impressions of past and present presidential ad– ministrations to Ron Fry, announcer for the Harding campus radio station, KH– CA. Pierpoint addressed the audience of approximately 750 in the Harding, College main auditorium. The address was part of the American Studies Lectures which schedules monthly speakers of national prominence. (Photo by Mike James - Harding PR) ~ Correspondent Visits Campus Robert Pierpoint, White House correspondent for CBS news, presented his "View from the White House Steps," as a part ofthe American Studies Program speaker series October 2. He told the Harding audience that the five presidents he has covered "have been in most respects vastly different men, each bringing his own style to the presidency; during the years that he occupies the White House each man leaving his own marks, both by what he does and does not do." Beginning with Eisenhower, Pierpoint noted experiences and episodes he had encountered with the presidents and gave his im– pressions of them as heads of state and as human beings. He pointed out the good qualities in the Nixon administration of ending the Vietnam war and "opening up the path Moscow and Peking." Revenue sharing and the Nixon-Kissinger handling of the Middle East situation were also plus-marks. In a question and answer session after the speech, Pierpoint commented on the Cuban Missile crisis during Kennedy's ad– ministration: "It was a serious crisis in terms of confrontation." In referring to the recent assassination attempts on the life of President Ford, the newscaster noted that America was in a cycle of violence, where "sick people are brought out of the woodwork and are challenged to bring attention t~ themselves." Pierpoint, a native of California, began his journalistic career as a free-lance broadcaster in Stockholm. He joined CBS in 1949 and covered the Korean War. He was a Far East bureau chief for CBS before being appointed White House correspondent, a position which he has held for more than 18 years. ' . .. , .. ~· .. • , · ~ ..
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,t:__ -14 ::iecreta ry of State Henry -21_,- t By KATHY SIIOfl.ES Kissinger, but because he wanted Syndicated columnist Ralph de to inform the presi.dent of Sovi• Toledano last nigl,t took his viola lions of the first Strate?• :· Harding College audience "In- Arms Limitation Talk and side Washington" whe:-e he said Kissinger did not in order t.'l President Ford acts as a protect detente. "product of his advisers ... men Toledano said that because of of mediocrity", the present the lessened defense ex– Congress "orates but cannot penditu'res and the USSR's legislate" and the Supreme Court "biggest military spending spree unconstitutionally legislates with in modern his tory", during the philosophy that the end serious confrontations "we can justifies the means. talk but they can rattle a saber." But he said he did not ir;tend t)l ''Sure, this money could be paint a gloomy picture, "I am spent on education and other one of the few optimists in things we need' domestically. If Washington." The former it's not spent on defense, then we Newsweek editor said he was not will not have schools or a "writing off this country" but country," he stated. that he would like to see issues The speaker said that the debated more in Congress and exposure of the Central In– ."then a higher quality of telligence Agency by Senator leadership will emerge." Frank Church's committee and Toledano compared the ex- the media has destroyed the posure of today's political• career ";',ork of m;~nv ae:ents ~~o problems to the. Revolutionary operate .slowly and carefully .m War era when anyone could have develo~mg cont~ct~. a~d. Ill~ pointed out that the farmers were forma t_wn ;, not m MISSion· selling their goods to the British Impossible ~tyle. . for gold rather than to the ~e explamed that no _m– colonial army for paper money, telhgence agency can function that "some of our generals were ~it~?ut "stepping over the legal stupid" and that many fighting hne and no other country ex– men were merely "summer pects it to function that way. He I soldiers". said the intelligence bureaus of 1 But the American states won both Britain and France dabbled their independence and formed in "wet business", assassina· ' "the political system closest to tions. . . perfection, that the mind of man He ~aid I.n order for the CI~ to has ever created," he said. remam VIable, the Amencan people must face the fact of _The power f?r change rests "Real Politiks" that the "free w1th the constituents who are ld . th f' · 1 . E . . wor IS on . e 1rmg me. very unhappy with their represen- . ld' "' , b t t t . • f ce 1·n man IS a so 1er. vve ve. een a a 1ves per orman . 1 · w 11 · t D c h ·d war smce the October Revo utwn as mg on, . ., e sm . <in Russia)." Toledano emphasized the ef- "Many countries through ficacy of wri_ting letters to h' t h ht ft ld d IS ory ave soug a er wor government lea ers. d . t' b t th USSR · th " . . , omma wn u e IS e The Inside Washmgton only country since the Roman author said President F~rd last Empire that seems to be month was. about_ to ~1gn U:e heading toward world common Site p1cketmg bill domination" Toledano warned. backed_ by labor; "whi~,h was "They can' be halted only with somethmg to worry about •when toughness. It's the only thing they he was bombarded with 600,000 understand." letters from Amer~cans con- On detente, the writer, "My cerned about the b11l and he view is simple in that there will vetoed il. ' . . be a lessening of tension only if "There must be several m11I~or both parties want it. If America's people then who are worne< goodwill is not matched by Soviet about our defense budget an< goodwill, then it's a one-way way career generals are pushe< street. If detente were real, there around on Capitol Hill, how thE would be no SALT violations by Pentagon is a dirty word in somE the Soviets, they would not be in circles," the columnist saic t.ngola or bchir.d ('Very terrorist encouraging letter-writing. organization in the world. To U1e Concerning the defense budget Communists, diplomacy is a and Defense Secretary .JameE substitute for war.'' Schlesinger's recent firing, h€ Another flaw in our foreign opined that Schlesinger waE policy, Toledano said was thE canned, not because of per· inclination (Jf the Slate Depart· sonali ty differences with ment's foreign desks toward WHAT IS INSIDE WASHINGTON? - Ralph de il'oledano, nationally syndicated columnist and politieal analyst, spok~ at the Ha,rding Col1 1ege American Studies Program last night and reJa,ted some of the insights from his magi( years of Washililgton D.C. (Photo by Mi1 ke IJames) "self-hatt-ed" in ''systematically engineering policy which always seems to favor our enemies and hurt our friends." He cited Taiwan and the U.S.'s drive for friendship with Red China. He said the country's foreign policy has moved far from Teddy Roosevelt's ad· monition to "Speak softly and carry a big stick" to today's apparent slogan of "Protest feebly l and appe<>.se." Toledano urged his 170 1 listeners in the American Bf'ritage auditorium to use the Bicentennial y1•ar as "lime to lake stock and see what is inside our government. inside W3shington, v. ;,y :1ncl wilal we can do about it.'' Searcy Daily Citizen Searcy, Arkansas Dr. Walter H. Judd, former . member of the House of Representatives, will speak at a ' dinner tonight - at Bill's Restaurant as a part of the American Studies lecture series at Harding College. The Min– nesota solon has spoken in the Harding AmericanStudie~.series on several occasions previously. Elected in 1942, Dr~. Judd served 20 years. In 1962 he was voted by his colleagues as one of its five most influential mem· bers. After working his way through medical school, .Judd went to South China as a missionary, surviving bandits, Commup.ists and repeated attacks o~malaria. Following his ca~ture and release by the Japanese at a North China missionary post, Dr. Judd spent two years speakin~ in, the United States warmng. against a build-up of Japa_n's military machine by selhng. essential war materials. Now a contributing editor for Reader's Digest, he continues to speak to college and university _groups around the country. FORMER CONGRESSMAN - Dr. Walter Judd, former Minnesota congr~ssman, spoke at a dinner last night at Bill's as a part of the Hardi11g College American- Studies lecture series. A capacity crowd heard the physician, who has _been- a part of the American Studfes-program for se'Y_eralyear.s:·{Photo by Mike James - Harding PR) · · -.? • • ,
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War colleges no match for propaganda: Judd West Point, Annapolis ;,;nd tiH:> t ands sL il. time aiways operates Air Force Academy at Colorado ,q the barbarians' side.' They've Springs cannot adequately equip ~o! a goal. We just say . 'Please the United States for the types of let· us stand still ," Dr. .Judd warfare being waged by th e :-:ta ted. Communists political , Judd said that the 15 times economic, psychological , be tween 1945 and the late 1960's educational, social, sports and when the U.S. stood up to its cultural propaganda, former i·nemies in the Cold War, the Minnesota Congressman Walter c·pposition 's reaction was not Judd told more than 200 persons nuclear war but "So sorry, we in Searcy last night. j;.:st wanted to know." Dr. Judd compared the Since American foreign policy inequity to the British General !ns followed detente or Braddock's dilemna with the · ·negotiation without con- ,\merican Indians who did not i"Gntation", the U.S.' s total know they were supposed to wear ~ ilitary superiority has dwin– uniforms to identify themselves c:ied while the Soviet Union. and to queue up along the set 11 hich had no navy during World battlefield lines. He said the Red \'ar Two, has built the world's Coats were being routed until a finest navy . colonial soldier. George Dr. Judd denounced detente as Washington. who knew Indian a "one-way str-eet" and said th warfare took the lead. ~:;, Jviets could prove their good He stated that although ' nith by taking down the Berlin .-\mericans are instructed in the '\\'all, allowing the people behind iatest air and sea attack ht• Iron Curtain to vote, stopping techniques, we seem to be losing support of world revolutionary 10 the Communists' struggle for Ftdel Castro or having Foreign world domination becausE- 1\iinister Andrei Gromyko recant democracy has no effective of· his country's announced goal of i"ensive machine. world domination. Judd suggested training in the The former missionary to promotion of the dynamics of China, who underwent Com– freedom and capitalism. ·'Wt' munist brainwashing after his need to send more than food and village was captured in 1930, said machinery to new governments. the Communist's dialogue is They need our ideas and op- appealing to idealistic youths portunities to release their own hecause the Communists say creativity in freedom . This op · !hey want world peace and portunity comes from our ideal c,f :o: ubjugation of the world and the the importance of each mall <J bolition of private property are which comes from Judaeo ~ lie only means available. Christian teachings " he said. "But their tactic is complete "1\lan was horn to be free and fluidity. They'll tell-you anything has' the urge to be free..The urge soyou'll come along with them," of man to be free is stirring i1e said. mightily behind the Iron Curtain. Judd concluded by urging the And it needs for us to recapture audience to study' the American this here at home. heritage and "our adversaries'' " (Historian- Arthur I Toynbee and then act during the Bicen– :;aid. ''Nhenever in history the iennial year. fi·ontier betwe'2J! lv:;, civiJ:zc.d.ion; Searcy Daily Citizen .Searcy. Arkansas ' ~ ....... • < u tl
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Westmoreland to speak here on Apri I 5 =r'zf General William C. West– moreland, former Army Chief of Staff and Commander of U.S. Military Forces in Vietnam, will speak at the Harding College American Studies Program April 5 on the Harding campus. Part of Harding's special Bicentennial Lectures series, Westmoreland's 7:30 p.m. ad– dress will be ''A Soldier Reports," according to Dr. Billy Ray Cox, director of the American Studies Program. Currently the chairman. of the Governor's Task Force for Economic Growth in his native South Carolina, Westmoreland has recently had a book published under the same title by the Doubleday Book Company. The General will autograph copies o.f his book following the presentation. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1936, Westmoreland embarked upon a brillant military career. By the time he was 42 years old, he was a major general and Secretary of the Army General Staff. In January, 1964, West– moreland reported for duty in Saigon, South Vietnam. A few months later he was promoted to full general and appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as Commander of the U.S. Armed Forces and Military Adviser to the Republic of Vietnam. In July, 1968, he was sworn in as Chief of Staff, the highest position in the Army. When he retired in 1972 upon completion of a four-year tour set by law for a Chief of Staff. Westmoreland had recorded 36 years in federal service and had earned 19 U.S. military decorations and 16 honor ribbons from 16 foreign countries. The day after his presentation on Harding's Searcy campus, he will go to Memphis to speak to Harding Academy and Harding Graduate . School communities and interested individuals in the 'vTe,l'l'lphis area. General's topic is 'A Soldier (0.'\\ _, . Reports' heret.\ .-~ General William C. West– •noreland, former Army Chief of :)taff and Commander of U.S. <\!Iilitary Forces in Vietnam, will speak at the Harding College cnain auditorium tonight. Part of Harding's special Bicentennial Lectures senes, Westemoreland's 7:30 p.m. address will be "A. Soldier Reports," according to Dr. Bitly Ray Cox, director of the American Studies Program. Currently the chairman of the Governor's Task Force for Economic Growth in his native South Carolina, Westmoreland has recently had a book published under the same title by the Doubleday Book Company. The General will autograph copies of his book following the presentation. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1936. Viestmoreland embarked upon a hnllant military career. By the time he was 42 years old, he was a major general and Secretary of the Army General StalL In January, 1964, West– moreland reported for duty in Saigon. South Vietnam. A few months later he was promoted to 1ull general and appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as Commander of the U.S. Armed Forces and Military Adviser to the Republic of Vietnam . In July, 1968, he was sworn in as Chief of Staff, the highest position in the Army. When he retired in 1972 upon completion of a four-year tour set l1y taw lor a Chief of Staff, Westmoreland had recorded 36 years in federal service and had c<Jrned 1\l U.S. military decoratirms and 16 honor ribbons from JG foreign countries. The day after his presentation on Harding's Searcy campus, he' will go to Memphis to speak to Harding Academy and Harding Graduate School communities and interested individuals in the , ....
& Bi-Centennial Lect11res Free reserved-seat tickets Harding Col1ege stands as a are now available in the Hard-· vocal and active participant in ing Development Office, 1000 the struggle to maintain our A– Cherry Road, for the April 6 merican heritage. ti"Centennial Lectutes fsatur- The Tuesday, April 6, 1976 ing General William C. West- program begins at 7:30 p.m. moreland, former Army Chief of with the famed Colonial Color Staff and Commander of the U. Guard and Special Flag Cere– S. Military Forces in Vietnam. mony presented by servicemen The American Studies Pro- from the Little Rock Air Force ~. r<~ ,·· :. of Harding College,· · l3~se, General Westmoreland's 'S·o:CJrcy , Arkansas, presents address; "A Soldier Reports", General Westmoreland to the· will follow. Memphians will public in Memphis as part of ·be privileged to hear personal an expanding program to main- · remarks that entered the new– tain our American he"ritage. ly published, "A soldier Re- ' The United States is today con- ports" by General Westmore– frontingsome of the most criti- land (Doubleday, $12.95). cal times in its existence. The Superintendent of \':lest Point nation has catapulted from the turbulent '60's into the comGeneral Westmoreland was named Secretary of the Army placent '70's. There is a ded . . 1 d f d General Staff, Washington, D. man 1ng nat10na nee or e u- . I 1955 d d 1 . . h" h . 11 C. 1n Ju y an promote cationa institutions w 1c Wl " • 1 . 1956 ' 'd - .h 1 d h" and . to major genera In at age prov1 e t e ea ers 1p · · · e sary to change 42. He commanded the 101st trammg nee s the direction of America to Airborne Division "Screaming mt""STATE CIIUSriAN OBSERVER Kentucky, from early 1958 to July 1960, when he was ap– point~d by President Eisen– hower as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. In July 1963, he was promoted to Lieutenant General and was given command of the XVIII Airborne Corps and the Army's Strategic Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Chief of Stttff In January 1964, General Westmoreland reported for duty in Saigon, South Vietnam. A few months later he was pro– moted to full general and ap– pointed by President Johnson as Commander of the U. S. ~.rmed Forces and Military Ad– visor to the. .Fepublic of Viet– ham. On July 1968, he was sworn in as Chief of Staff, the highest position in the Army. On July 1972, upon comple-– tion of the four year tour set by law for a Service Chief of Staff, he retired following 36 years of federal service. At the request of Governor John ! West, he is now serving his native state of South Carolina as Chairman of the Governor's Task Force for Economic Growth. Man of the Year General Westmoreland has 19 U. S. Military decorations and has received numerous civilian awards. The boy Scouts of America have pre;– sented him their highest award, theSilverBuffalo. In 1965,he was designated "South Caro– linianofthe Year"by INis TV– Radio, Columbia, South Caro– lina. He was selected as "Man of the Year" for 1966 by Time Magazine. The next Bi-Centennial speaker also appears in April. Two weeks later on April 20 in 0. 0. Emmons Auditorium atHardingAcademy Congress-; manJohnAshbrookof Ohio will appear. Aconsistant advocate of economy in government, John Ashbrook is becoming widely known for his outspok– •2:1 support of free enterprise. He speaks of "runaway feder– a1 .>pending'' and that changes musj be made by Congz:ess or 'else we "run the risk of slow– ly strangling Ameri_ca's busi– ness men to death." Harding College Bulletin APRIL, 1976 ·.. ,
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Special Bicentennial Presentation sponsored by the Harding College American Studies Program General William C. WESTMO ELAND FormerArmy Chief ofStaff Harding College · April5, 1976 7:30p.m. Main Auditoriurn Tickets may be obtained by contacting the Office of the American Studies Program on the Harding Campus. • I , .....
.. ... ,_ - - BICENTENNIAL FLAG CEREMONY In a special presentation before General William Westmoreland's speech, a 20-minute ceremony was conducted which included all the flags which have flown over our United States. A moving narration by Master Sergeant Clay Jenkins depicted the patriotic heritage built around our pride in the flag and was climaxed as the audience spontaneously joined in the singing of the National Anthem. The l22nd U.S. Army Reserve Command's Bicentennial Color Guard, a four-man unit, directed by Major Gary W. Weir, added a highlight to the presentation as they performed intricate, closeorder maneuvers while dressed in uniforms of the Revolutionary era .
-- Westmoreland, Ashbrook Highlight April Program General William C. Westmoreland, former Army Chief of Staff and Commander of U.S. Military Forces in Vietnam, and Congressman John M. Ashbrook of Ohio highlight the April schedule of the American Studies Program. Part of Harding's special Bicen– tennial Lecture series, Westmoreland spoke on the Searcy campus April S and on the Harding Academy at Memphis campus April 6. Ashbrooks's presentation will be made only in Memphis and is scheduied for April 20. Currently, the chairman of the Governor's Task Force for Economic Growth in his native South Carolina, Westmoreland has recently had a book published under the title ''A Soldier Reports" by Doubleday Book Co. His lectures deal with the same topic. In Janua~y; 1964 Westiit~~eland reported for duty 1in Saigon, 'South· Vietnam. A·· few'·;mo.Dihs tater he * ·as appointed by then P~ident Lyndon B. Johnson as Commander of tlte U.S. · Forces in that , In July, 1%8, he was sworn in b ·ef of Staff, the highest position iri the Army. When he retired in 1972 upon completion of a four-year tour set by law for a Chief of Staff, Westmoreland had recorded 36 years in federal service and had earned 19 U.S. military decorations and 16 honor ribbons froin as many foreign countries. Ashbrook began his political career in 1956 when he was elected to the 102nd Ohio General Assembly. In 1960 Ashbrook stepped into the national spotlight by winning a seat in the U.S. House of Rttpresentatives. He has been re-elected seven times since. Also the director of the American Conservative Union, Ashbrook's presentation will deal with his ex– periences in Congress and aspects of domestic and international affairs. In March the American Studies students made a nine-day field trip to Washington, D.C. and other historical places near the capital. The 55-member group also traveled the famous Freedom Trail. Special highlights of the trip were visits to the White House, the Capitol Bu~ldjng, FBI headquarters, the State Department and the U.S. Supreme Court. The students were able to talk wit~ members of the Arkansas congressional delegation while in Washington. Accompanying the students were Dr. Billy Ray Cox.. director of the American Studies Program, Dr. Mike O'Neal, Dr. Fred Jewell, Dr. David Burks and Dr. Joe Segraves. ' • • 't ... • .! ......
I ·' April9, 1976 DIE HARDING BISON, Searcy, Ark. . 3 U.:S. arms sales to Israel, Egypt to stabilize Mideast: Westmorelan Former general believes arms agreement awaits election By_Keith.~renton . "Isolationism must be ruled out He warned that the adThere Will be no progress m because of economic reality." ministration in Panama was the SAL~ II talks ~til .~fter the He em~hasized that in order untrustworthy, and that the canal next national election, General for Amenca to protect her in- should be modernized and left in William Westmoreland (retired) terests, her citizens must decide the protectorship of the U.S. told an audience of 800 Tuesday "where they are going" or Cuba's importation of guerrilla By KATHY SHORES In taking his 1,000-person Harding College audienc on a global tour of international hot spots, retired General WUliam . Westmoreland last nigh alled the Middle East the '"hottest"' theorizing, ··rt we can control the ·al of ann and spare parts to both l lsra I and Egyp ), w can be a ·tablili'lling force there." H continued, "lf we an keep the confidence of boQl , perhaps a t nuowopeace can pre a11. But if we pull the r ug out from under t S c.r et<Jry of tatel Henr KU;singer on lhls sale ol fighter plane to Egypt, Egyp~i'an President Anwar! adal will lose face and may have to crawl back to Moscow." Westmoreland called "patient diplomacy" the United States' forte in solving the Mideast situation noting that "this tur– moil suits Russia." The former Army Chief of Staff said Northeast Asia was the nat ion's second strategic priority. He noted that negotiation on the Korean situation was at a standstill because the North Koreans refuse to sit down with the South Koreans. Westmoreland opined that .Japan's dependency on the U.S. for a "nuclear umbrella'' is becoming difficult to sustain. The e.'I:·COmmander of U.. Military FQrces in Vietnam s.aid llanoi's win by America's default may have trea ted a " Franken~tein " which' by the ar 2.000 may mak the price of !he .s. pullout clear. The general pointed out that hi$ ror e WC'r e not defeated militarily inVietnam but lbat the · los t politica lly and JJ!\yohOiog ica ll• . Obv ious ly pcakin on his favorite suo .Jccl, General Westmoreland listed six mistakes which if rectified could have resulted in winning the Vietnam war: -- As a party to the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh l)icm <pronounce( Zlem >, the U. became ·'obligated to ptek up the pieces. t locked us in morally. •· - The gradual rather than sudden escalation ot" bombing. - President Lyndon Johnson's "Guns and Buuer" policy which did not hike taxes to ~Y for the ' ar effortand plunged the nation farther into debt. ..The only sacrifice \\ BS made by those dying on the battlefield and their loved ones." --The low key approach of 196465 used to pacify the govern mcnt's ''hawks" who might have fought for confrontation with Red China. -·The "inequitable and unfair" college deferment policy. -The lack of statesmen who should have seen the growing breach between the executive and l~gislative branches which resulted in the Case - Church Amendment of 1971. He said the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave J~hnson permission to send troops to Vietnam, should have been reaffirmed each year by Congre; . Westmoreland, whq was here to promot his new book .. A Soldier Heports". said he felt c:ompelled to write his viewpoint of Vietnam for histor y because 'it's a l-ti.ory tha t had to be told ." The memoirs a lso include his uccounl of lWP olhl!r wa r ·. Ge neral Wes tmor e land 's a ddress concluded Ha rding 's l!t75-76 :er ies of Amerlea Studies !)l)e&k s. Searcy Daily Citizen Searcy, Arkansas night here. . whether they're. ' 1bein' took." warriors to warring nations Westmoreland, a form.er The general Cited the fact that merits a reply, be said, similar to Secretary of the Army a11:d Chief there are only 29 democratic Kennedy's blockade of nuclear of Sta~f, addressed an audience of governments represented in the weapons. Hardmg students a~d staff, United Nations, concluding that Searcy and surroundmg area free countries are in the citizens as part of the last minority. American Studies program for Westmoreland recently this school year. returned from a to~r of Europe, "Our planet has become so summarized the United States' interloc~ed that the interests of relations with several foreign all nations must become in- nations, beginning with Latin terrelated," Westmoreland said. America. Brazil is pressuring their free press, Westmoreland said; Venezuela has nationalized its oil industry; Argentina suffers from 400 per cent annual inflation. Of Europe, he noted the problems of Portugal's com– munist faction, France retiring from NATO, the 33 per cent communist vote in Italy's last major election, England's economic slump, religious warfare in Ireland, and pressure from domestic sources in the U.S. to disarm NATO. Westmoreland reported on several aspects of conflict in Mrica. He commended the co– dominium of Morrocco and Mauretania over territory for– merly called Spanish Sahara, an area rich in phosphates. The wealth of oil, diamonds in coffee in Angola made it a tragedy that the free world lost its influence there, he said. A faction called the MLA, supplied with Russian weapons, took control there several months ago. Gen. William Westmoreland, seated, talks with Harding's professor of Christian Doctrine, J. D. Bales about some of the books each has written. General William C. Westmoreland, .flanked by American Studies Program Director Billy Ray Cox. autographs one of his books for an admirer, following his recent speech at the college. (Photo by David Hogan) Mozambique's blockadge of Rhodesia and the problem of government in Rhodesia were also mentioned. The general also discussed territorial disputes in the Middle East between-Israel and the Arab states and civil war in Lebanon, saying that the most dangerous possibility that American diplomats face is the outbread of Syrian-Israeli war in Lebanon. Southeast Asia's problems also concern us, he maintained. India, no longer democratic, is forming close ties with Russia, he said. North Korea will not negotiate if South Korean representatives are present. Japan successfully rebuffed the U.S.S.R. for ownership of three islands north of Japan, but Westmoreland recommended a larger native defense force than the present police-army there now. Westmoreland stated that many things were learned when Vietnam was lost to com– munism: the no-worth of a no-win AUTOGI-(APH PARTY - General William West– moreland signs his name to the.frontpiece of his new book "A Soldier Reports" durtng last night's autograph party that followed his American Studies presentation. (Photo by Oave Hogan) ·. . ,. policy, influence of news media, and the problem of a two-party administration. He concluded that Americans must decide where to go, instead of ·"bein' took." A color guard from the Little Rock Air Force Base at Jacksonville presented historical flags of the U.S. in a brief ceremony before the general's speech. The master sergeant of the guard told the audience that · they were the first to sing the "Star-Spangled Banner" along with the taped music when the guard presented the flag. , .
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