THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 19, 1972
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Northern offensive tests Vietnamizatk
QUANG TRI, Vietnam UP) _
The North Vietnamese tanks that
burst across the demilitarized
zone 20 nights ago have either
been knocked out or are in hid
ing.
The human-wave infantry at-
Foreman speaks
at Law Day
“It’s the same old story — As soon as
games
letter!’
and the big dances are over, I get a
the football
‘Dear John’
Kapp
ppa Delta Pi to
Mu Chi chapter at
install
A&M
Houston attorney Percy Fore
man will be guest speaker at the
Law Day USA Program May 1
at A&M.
Foreman, internationally known
defense attorney, will speak at
8 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom. The program is
sponsored by the Brazos County
Bar Association, Tom Giesen-
schlag, president.
A reception will follow Fore
man’s talk.
Mrs. Thelma van Overbeek of
Bryan is chairman of local Law
Day activities. Included is presen
tation of the annual Liberty Bell
Award, given to a community
member in recognition of out
standing service performed in
keeping with the spirit of the
U. S. Constitution.
Law Day was established by
presidential proclamation 15 years
ago to remind citizens of the
responsibilities to seek orderly
and constructive solutions to the
serious concerns of our times
Giesenschlag said.
Bulletin Board
Kappa Delta Pi, national honor
society for education students,
will install Mu Chi chapter at
A&M Thursday, April 27.
Dr. L. L. Ort, Kappa Delta Pi
president of Bowling Green State
University, will install 53 char
ter members and chapter officers.
He will present the charter to
President Jack K. Williams.
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice
president for academic affairs and
Dr. Frank Hubert, education dean,
are also expected to be present.
Thursday
The A&M Motorcycle Club will
meet in. the Memorial Student
Center at 7:30 p.m.
The Cepheid Variable Science
Fiction Club will elect officers
and hold an auction at a 7 p.m
meeting in the Physics Building,
room 305.
Plastic people
Students preregistering for fall classes will not find the procedure
much different. There’s an extended version of the vehicle registration
form, a couple less computer cards and they still take that lousy
two-second snapshot of you for the ID card.
They still herd the mob through this checkpoint and that one like
a semesterly cattle drive. It looks a lot like an induction center. It is
one, of sorts.
Students, you are all urged to take stock of the situation here.
Something very strange is happening, and most of us are unaware of it.
What do you do when you cash a check, check out a book or try to get
something to eat? You show that ID card.
That piece of plastic with the six-number sequence and several
holes punched in it IS you, for all the university knows. The picture
and the signature are for your benefit, to try and make you feel you
aren’t a walking computer card. They are of no use to the computer.
The Computer—people suddenly become very straight and
ponderous when the subject comes up. They know it controls their
fate, their fees, whether or not they’ll get credit in Basketweaving 408.
We are all numbers without names. What we need are names
without numbers.
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tacks that saw upward of a thou
sand enemy soldiers rushing the
guns of sandbagged government
base camps have ceased.
But in other ways, the North
Vietnamese general offensive in
this far north region grinds on.
Officially, the situation is called
a stalemate, but in the context of
the dramatic military events of
past weeks, stalemate means only
that the enemy forces have stop
ped moving forward.
They are staying in the same
positions they reached three days
after the attacks began. They
hold about 10 miles south of the
DMZ, and they don’t look as if
they are ready to leave.
“We keep killing them, but they
stay,” said the commander of the
northern region, Gen. Hoang
Xuan Lam, in an interview.
The general added, “Militarily,
they made a mistake. But we
know this is not a military war
but a political one. They seek
not statistics but politics.”
The North Vietnamese have
sent their troops into meatgrind-
er operations before. The political
aim this time seems to dramati
cally demonstrate that President
Nixon’s Vietnamization program
has failed.
But Hanoi also has settled for
something less than immediate
tactical goals in battles past. The
minimum the Communist planners
seem to be seeking in this north
ern front is the demoralization of
the regular South Vietnamese di
visions based here, with the con
sequent collapse of security
among the population and an in
crease in the inflluence of the
clandestine Viet Cong.
Hanoi’s goal of sending its in
fantrymen victoriously storming
Quang Tri City seems improbable
if assessmerits of allied officers
are valid. The official reading of
the situation is that most North
Vietnamese units are too bloodied
to launch anything but a token
attempt.
But while this maximum goal
may be unreachable, the North
Vietnamese remain in a strong
position to achieve the minimum
goal of demoralization.
The green South Vietnamese
3d Division literally ran from
its dozen fire bases and encamp
ments along the DMZ when Ha
noi’s forces attacked March 30.
Two regiments are unsteadily still
on line, but the brunt of the de
fense is being handled by Viet
namese marines and rangers.
Top American officials in the
north say Hanoi continues to push
supplies and equipment into the
South. “I know that he (Hanoi)
will not leave willingly. He will
have to be pushed right back,”
commented one American.
The problem is, who will do
the pushing?
With other fronts opened up
around the country, particularly
around An Loc, and potentially
in the central highlands, the Sai
gon government is known to be
reluctant to push a counteroffen
sive in this sector. Saigon does not
want to be fully committed to a
push in the north, and then to
find another enemy front opening
somwhere else.
This accounts for the painfully
slow rate of progress here. The
marines and rangers are pushing
only a mile or two over the bar
ren hills on either side of High
way I that snakes up i,
to embattled Dong Ha, I
The longer the Nortti’J
ese have to consolidate!
sitions, the harder ftejl
to push out, particuli'EASHI NT
the lack of helicopter:Hd ass is
northern zone. ■ffered
Hanoi’s forces oventStestim o
won back the territory iary Corr
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ingly carved out of therm;, api>
and the DMZ over thtifelock
American infantry anjlrd G.
The real test of VietiJfeeneral
seems to be whether tilut a W1
Vietnamese forces car jmptly
territory back. Hgainst.
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