The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 27

PAGE 27 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1970 fNow II You Wr A Military IMclatorhip, You Could llitvo Plants, I'ilolN, Troops, COMMENTARY (' IfsTothepg See Itj TankN, Money '7 dmipprmti of uhut yvu say, but uill defend to the death your right to nay to Helvelius Loan To Greece Stirs Question On World Bank By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK (Publishers-Hall Syndicate) Washington A flagrant effort by the military dictatorship of Greece to exploit a new World Bank loan as evidence of rising international support for the junta has been categorically denounced in a private letter from an official the bank. 'Dennis The Menace9 Cartoonist Goes Back To Drawing Board On the contrary, Jackson ap- that I draw his playmates as peared on Jan. 6, 1970, and caricatures as well? his introduction brought many Dennis' friend, Jackson, is favorable comments from black. I drew him black, feel-across the nation and around ing confident that in cartooning the world. So encouraeina was as in life, black is beautiful.

To tht Editor of Tht Star: It is with great dismay that I have learned of the adverse reaction to the "Dennis the Men-ace" cartoon of May 13, featuring Dennis' new playmate, Jackson. Surely, if I had dreamed it possible that anyone would have, been offended, I would have never drawn the cartoon. I don't wish to give you the impression that drawing Jackson in this style was a hasty decision. As you know, the success of Dennis has been built on his ability to amuse people, not to hurt feelings. He's a caricature, yes, but so are all my cartoon characters.

1 It has not been my intention to offend anyone. Evidently in my effort to improve my design of Jackson, I was mistaken in reading the public heart and mind. Now, it's back to the drawing board to create a new playmate for Dennis who will be as appealing as the first Jackson that everyone loved. HANK KETCHAM Notwithstanding this letter, however, the loan of $20 million to the a i a 1 Investment Bank for Industrial Development of Greece has raised new questions about lending policies of the world bank, particularly in Western Europe where the military junta is under sharp and rising criticism. THE APRIL 8 loan was an-nounced routinely here by World Bank officials, with no allusions to possible interna-t i a 1 political implications.

In fact, top World Bank officials specifically sought and gained a pledge from the military junta in Athens that no effort would be made to exploit the loan as indicating approval of internal Greek government policies. That pledge was given to Mu- nir P. Benjenk, a regional director of the World Bank, by no less a figure than Col. George Papadopoulos, prime minister of Greece and chief of the ruling junta. Despite the pledge, the information office of the Greek consulate in New York issued a public statement in mid-April that placed the loan in a bla-tantly political framework.

L. S. Palma Thanks President Sutton For Keeping I.U. Open this response that I decided to work up a new design concept for Jackson, more in keeping with the caricatures of Dennis and others in the strip. Dennis and Jackson are cartoon characters.

They are not drawn to look like people, but symbols of people a convention that goes back to the dawn of history. If I am to draw Dennis and his parents as caricatures, doesn't it make sense Fleming of the U. of even common courtesy was totally absent from these speeches, to add to the inflammatory content of what they wore saying. This vocal minority and I must believe it is a minority, or we would have had total anarchy by now is not seeking to right social and economic wrongs through the democratic process. They are calling for revolution and making na bones about using that word.

We who are paying the bills are vilified as being completely decadent. I object to having my tax (Washington Post) Harvard Student Writes Good Book On Protests By JOHN P. ROCHE (King Features Syndicate) Some years ago the New Leader, that remarkable and too often overlooked magazine of opinion, had an article on young radicals that was extremely impressive. The author was a senior in high school on Long Island who was entering Harvard Mrs. Hoff Irked By Headline On Picture Of Flag Rippers To tht Editor of Tht Star: Thanks to President Joseph L.

1 1 for his strong stand in keeping I.U. open for those serious students who are attending the university for an education and not for social and economic disruption. This family supports him entirely in this effort, and we want to say so, not only to him, but to our elected representatives to the Indiana legislature and in Congress. Tht charge Is often made that we older people are not listening to the younger generation. Believe me, I did, and was absolutely horrified at what I heard.

I travel in my business, and last week I covered the states of Ohio and Michigan, and kept my Car radio tuned to the FM stations of the various colleges and universities, beginning with the FM station at Kent State, the night of Sunday, May 3d. And what I heard spewed out over the air by so-called both students and faculty, was nothing less than And I heard a live broadcast from the University of Michigan of the memorial service held there on Thursday, May 7, for the students killed at Kent State, and could hardly believe what I was hearing from a young man and a young woman who spoke at that service. My ears burned for Mayor Harris of Ann Arbor, and President That announcement stated that J. Burke Knapp, World Bank vice-president and chairman of its loan committee, had said during the loan-signing ceremony that he was "particularly happy" about the loan because it "constitutes an indication of possible co-operation between the World Bank and Greece which had been delayed for reasons unconnected with the will of both parties." FURTHER, said the Greek a information office, Knapp expressed "particular satisfaction with the economic progress that is taking place in Greece" and looked forward to more World Bank aid to Greece. A leader of the anti-junta Greek resistance movement in this country, Elias P.

Demetra- in the fall. There was general agreement that he was a wunderkind and the hope was expressed that Harvard would not do him too much damage. The last sentiment was, of course, the bias of City College graduates, who always looked on the Ivy League universities as essentially rest homes. But nobody could fault Steven Kelman's timing. Whatever Harvard may have been like in the past, the years 1966-70 brought incredible changes and Steve was rieht there in the middle of the scene keeping tabs on radical activities, watching the nuts ripen, and working in behalf of democratic Socialism.

Evans Novak association with the a "must be" reconsidered because of their failure to adopt democratic procedures. Several members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are preparing an attack on the junta for the NATO meeting at Rome next week. HERE AT HOME, Republican Representative Paul Fin-dley of Illinois has just sent a letter to President Nixon warning that full-scale resumption of U.S. military aid to the colonels (cut off three years ago when the junta seized the government) "would be viewed by the Greek people as accomodation to the junta." Findley recommends that the head of the U.S. arms mission in Athens be downgraded from major general to colonel to reduce the junta's prestige.

But neither the Nixon administration nor the World Bank draw the political conclusions of these critics. Large-scale U.S. arms aid to Greece is now tentatively approved, with announcement set for after the Rome NATO meeting. And the World Bank, despite disavowals of any intent to help the junta, will not change its lending policies unless its European critics get much noisier. Referendum On War? To tht Editor of Tht Stan As a concerned citizen, I am, together with tens of millions of Americans, dismayed and saddened by the dissension that permeates our nation.

The war in 1 a and sumed office. I think it is difficult for any President to have a feel as to what most Americans really think about the war all he hears is the vehemence of the pro and con groups who in themselves represent a small percentage of this nation's population. I would propose that in the next 10 days, or perhaps a week later if that would be more feasible, we have a national referendum on the issue as to whether we should withdraw from Vietnam and Cambodia. I would further suggest that the congressmen and senators who are for and against the proposition would engage in a national debate on television time furnished by the major networks so that our people can be fully informed as to the issues, and draw their own conclusions as the result of the spirited debates which they would be privileged to hear. A further suggestion is that all groups disengage from organized activity during this period for reflection and please note that I said "organized activity" for no proposal it seems to me would have merit that would restrict an individual's activities.

The wording on the issue to be considered in the referendum would have to be agreed upoii by the Congress. BERNARD RAPOPORT Indianapolis. By DAVE GERARD copoulos, bitterly complained Cambodia is not President Nix-to Knapp about these words at- on's war; much of it was in full tributed to him by the Greek force and effect when he as- Cut Off War Funds! money wasted by the destructive antics of these Irresponsible idiots. And they are idiots, no matter how learned, or what their intellectual capacity. The battle for our society has been joined.

There are those who would overthrow it by force, and then there are thore of us who admit wrongs, but who want to cure them by peaceful, democratic methods-We must resist any and all of those who would destroy the democratic process in this nation. LUMIR S. PALMA 5359 Mark Lane. And the President seems Incapable of taking any action that does not aggravate the situation. Granted, the young people who committed the action were foolish, perhaps even blasphemous, descrating a 1 mahy people hold sacred.

But why stoop to their level? Are you no wiser than to use this foolish action to create more hatred and 1 1 1 Where is the spirit of Christ and Lincoln? Let them thrive in you, for the sake of all of us. MRS. PAMULA HOFF Bloomington. Praise To tht Editor of Tht Stan To California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who had the wisdom, the courage, and the foresight to close the colleges throughout his state Hurrah! To President Nixon who addressed the hippies, yippies, militants and tyrannical spoiled brats as "bums" Bravo! To the part of the silent majority who can no longer tolerate silence Hallelujah 1 BONNIE HENDRICKS PEAVLER Indianapolis. On Russ Israel's population of 2.5 million is a droplet in a sea of 70 million bloodthirsty Arabs.

Along the Suez alone, Egypt has some 800 Russian medium and heavy artillery pieces whose vast diapason submerges by several orders of magnitude anything Israel has. Thus the superiority of Israel in the air is the one force which up to now has kept the Arab-Israeli balance level. At any moment, when the Arabs feci that this balance has shifted in their favor, they will attack. The credibility of Israel's de torrent strength against Egypt and Syria is, therefore, the only realistic guarantee the world has against a fourth full-scale round of the Middle East war. Air superiority is tho central, vital clement of Israel's defensive credibility.

It was this air superiority, brilliantly applied in the systematic neutralization of Egypt's alr-dcfcnse system during the past year, and in equally effective -neutralizing attacks against the Russian guns along the Suez, that only a few months ago hatted Col. Nasser's proclaimed war of attrition "to exhaust and bleed Israel." NOW NASSER has again been reinforced from (he arsenals of Russia. More than 20 Dally World (A Communist newspaper) The support given by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to a measure which would cut off funds for further U.S. escalation in Cambodia deserves energetic support. The measure, an amendment to the foreign military sales bill, may reach the Senate floor soon.

An impressive Senate majority vote can be the first step Kelman's observations can be found in "Push Comes to Shove: The Escalation of Student Protest" (Houghton-Mifflin), which is the sharpest chronicle of student unrest that has yet appeared from the student side. Kelman begins the story with his arrival in Cambridge four years ago and takes it through the seizure of Massachusetts Hall and the police bust last year. FOR MANY READERS his perspective will be both perplexing and intriguing. While his critique of his fellow students of the SDA persuasion makes Vice President Spiro Agnew sound gentle and compassionate, Kelman attacks from the left, that is, from the tradition of responsible radicalism. The gist of his indictment of the extremists is not that they are radicals threatening the status quo but the contrary: they are psychotics who de Pilots In SA-3 sites are operative.

These missiles have a relatively Bhort range against low-flying targets (about 12 miles) but are accurate and sophisticated. Because of their sophistication (and also because the Russians do not want to lose them to Israeli raiders), the SA-3s are manned and guarded by Soviet troops. To date, none have been cm- placed in the Suez forward areas a development which are determined not to communicate in any real situation of give-and-take: their objective is to demolish, not to improve. MY HEART GOES out to Kelman because I know from my own experience about 30 years ago what a blow it is to learn that most radical intellectuals despise people, that they resent the privileges of the rich far more than the degradations of the poor, that a significant percentage of them would set up a police state in 10 minutes if they had the power. (And that they would shoot me and probably find a job for George Wallace!) After a while, one builds up his defenses, though initial exposure to these harsh realities is sickening if one.

cares. Kelman has come out at the other end of this dark tunnel. He understands that to be without illusions is quite different from being disillusioned. His book should be requred read- sne for those concerned with 'student revolution," par ticularly for the apologists who, every time a bomb goes off or a building gets burned down, announce piously, "They are trying to tell us something." Sniper At Kent? To tht Editor of Tht Star: April 10, 1970, "Yippie" Jerry Rubin, convicted member of the "Chicago 7," told over 500 students at Kent State University, Ohio, to burn their books, kill their parents, and burn down the suburbs. "Quit being students," he urged, "and become criminals." We have to disrupt every institution and break every law." While he spoke, money enough to fill two of his flight bags was collected for Rubin in paper buckets.

You can buy Rubin's book here at newsstands and read plans to destroy our country. Monday, May 4, 1970, the greatly outnumbered 1 1 n-gent of about 100 a 1 1 a 1 Guardsmen were vilified, cursed and attacked by a considerably larger mob of "students" accompanied by many curious and misguided students. Early reports mentioned sniper fire proceeding the defensive fire of the guardsmen, loot's not jump to conclusions. The public was supposed to have been stampeded into be lieving that a "right wing extremist" assassinated Prcsi- dent Kennedy. The public is now supposed to react powerfully against the National Guard, against law enforcement officers and against the Governor of Ohio.

Could it be that a sniper or two, purposely taking head shots at a few relatively innocent, more decent looking students, under the cover of the provoked defensive low fire of the Guard, did the killing? You may never know unless we get the whole story. I hope the police and FBI ballistics experts give us the answers and the news media report the whole true story. HUGH S. RAMSEY, M.D. Bloomington.

information office. In a letter to Knapp, Demetracopoulos saked whether he had been correctly quoted. Knapp replied on May 15 that the statement attributed to him was filled with "serious misrepresentations." Furthermore, Knapp indicated that a formal protest bad been made to the Greek government. MOREOVER, William Clark, the bank's director of information and public affairs, wrote a seperate denial of his own. Clark's denial went to the Greek-language newspaper National Herald in New York, which had published the statement of the Greek consulate verbatim.

Wrote Clark: "Since this ceremony was a private occasion I do not know the source of your misinformation, but it seems obvious to me that your account was intended to convey the impression that in extending this loan, the bank was making political judgements and indorsing the policies of the Greek government. Any such implication was erroneous and unjustified." This swift World Bank reaction shows the sensitivity of all international organizations to the growing hostility in Western European parliaments and the U.S. Congress to the Greek junta. The colonels were rcpri-maded last month in an unprecedented political resolution of the European Common Market, which warned that their Citizen Smith TIME TO FACE REALITY To tht Editor of Tht Star: For God's sake, stop it: I picked up The Star on May 6 and I was apalled. Do you call that comment about the flag (caption on pictures showing protestors tearing flag and fighting men advancing under flag: "Rioters' 'Rag' Is Real Men's objective news? I'm frightened.

It seems to me almost every person in this country with any power, from the President on down, is doing all he can to divide this country against itself. How can we presume to help another country fight its war with such critical problems here at home? in cutting funds from the war-makers, but heavy public pressure will be required to win House support for the bill. And still greater pressure will be needed to prevent the administration from escalating the war, for this bill would only ban funds for escalation undertaken after June 30. Passage of this bill by a big majority is a most Important first step. Make certain your senator votes for it.

Hclnl major strategic, economic and political interests of the United States in that region. The USSR whose policies (unlike many of ours) Invariably result from careful calculation would not have conceivably have taken such steps In the era before Former Defense Secretary Robert MeNamara allowed Russia to overtake us In ICBM strength. At the time of the Cuban crisis, we had a 5-to-l ICBM preponderance. This year, Russln has more ICBMs than we have, THE MAIN FORCE for pence (or, mora accurately, against all-out war) In the Middle East is Israel's air force, Liberals Mum Roche stroy the credibility of authentic radicalism. Kelman, in other words, believes that the United States is anything but Utopia.

He is dedicated to achieving basic structural changes in our society, and is totally committed to de- a as the non-violent i I 1 Al rouie 10 flis oojecuves. nuuve all, he cherishes reason. One gets a real sense of pathos in reading his accounts of patient ally with his extremist peers. This is important stuff for faculties and administrations that are confronted by extremist demands. When the howl goes up for "student power," most administrations are shocked.

American colleges are the freest institutions on this planet yet the consensus of decadent academic folk is that there is a "failure in communication" with the students. Rarely is this the case. On the contrary, student extremists Egypt aim is to maintain controlled tension in the Mideast. ISRAEL'S original request to purchase American F-4 Phantoms, which are the mainstay of her air strength, was made in 19C9. It was based on projections of the Mideast aerial balance as it then existed, that is, on having to contend only against Egyptians and Syrians.

By the end of this summer, our last Phantom will have been delivered toms, he did so as a gesture of conciliation toward Russia. The Russian reply (as might have been predicted) was to treat conciliation as weakness. They deployed their SA-3s and their pilots to Egypt. Now there arc hints Russian actions have reopened the question of further Phantoms fur Israel. If our distracted liberals and apocalypse r- leftists on the street and in Congress would lower their voices over Cambodia and raise them a few decibels over isslan pilots In the Mideast, perhaps President Nixon would then feel able to sell-not give-Israel the Phantoms she needs to fight her battle, which, as it happens, is also ours and civilization's.

By COL. R. D. IIEINL, JR. (North American Newspaper Alliance) Washington The uproar over Cambodia, which peaked in a Childrcns Crusade on Washington, has almost completely obscured the somber implications for American interests of Russia's commitment of regular air force units to the Arab jihad (holy war) against Israel.

Crossing an invisible junglo border in a low-risk, carefully limited operation to attack the logistic system of the North Vietnamese in Cambodia has been an important (and overdue) tactical development, and only that. What Russia has done, by sending its pilots nd new SA-3 missiles to Egypt, is to alter the Mideast balance of power against Israel high Israeli sources say will WhPn, earlier this year, Pre i-not be permitted even it dent Njxon deferred action on means direct attack on Russian fl)P mnre Phan. and against the United States. THE RUSSIAN ACTION is not a matter of a handful of installations. By committing its own pilots and MIG-21S to the Mideast, Russia obviously hopes to In hibit and partially neutralize the Israeli Air Force.

Based on this expectation, the Egyptians have predictably resumed offensive action In the air by bombing El Arish, near Israel's southern border, on tho ground by raids and bombardment along the Suez. Once again, by Its actions, Russia is encouraging the Arabs to believe they have a chance to trounce Israel. So long as they believe they can prevail, somehow, In battle, the Arabs will never think of peace, and thus they will con tinue their role in Russia ma levolent conflict strategy whose volunteers" or a few more USSR advisers. Russian aviation Is present in Egypt in or-JanUed squadrons. More than 3.000 Soviet alr-dcfcnso artillerymen, in units, together with security troops, arrived with the SA-3s.

The commitment of these units to Egypt Is the largest overseas deployment of Russian troops since Cuba in 1962. 1 Russia's decision to escalate die Middle East situation at fill moment represents brinkmanship approaching that of he Cuban adventure. It gravely and directly menaces the survival of Israel. It douses the faintest prospects for pence In the Mideast. It threatens the "We always wanted to live by the side of the road and watch the world go by but this Is getting ridiculous!".