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|178 No. 136 USPS 0453110 14 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 20, 1984
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By KATHY WIESEPAPE
and REBECA ZIMMERMANN
Editors
As termer Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger acknowledged in his
opening remarks, this year’s MSC
Endowed Lecture Series Thursdays
night represented every point of
view on U.S. foreign policy “from A
to B.”
The program featured a dis
cussion of foreign policy by Kissinger
and former Secretary of State Alex
ander Haig, moderated by NBC
News Chief Diplomatic Correspon
dent Marvin Kalb. It was less of a dis
cussion than a double dose of conser
vatism, as Haig and Kissinger are
almost identical in their diplomatic
philosophies.
“Neither of us has what you would
call a retiring personality,” Kissinger
said. “If we did not agree with each
other, one of us wouldn’t be here.”
The two diplomats, who have acti
vely shaped U.S. foreign policy for
the past two decades, agreed that a
major problem in American diplo
macy is lack of continuity. Haig
called it a “lurching four-year cycle”
that confuses U.S. enemies and
makes it hard to establish credibility
with our allies.
Although both former diplomats
criticized some aspects of the Reagan
administration, they agreed that in
creased military spending and
tougher stances on foreign policy
have enhanced the United State’s
reputation.
“I agree the U.S. is better off today
than it was when the president came
into office,” Kissinger said.
Kissinger and Haig basically
agreed that the United States should
allow a cooling off period for the
Middle East, strengthen diplomatic
ties with China and increase credibil
ity in Central America and with allies
in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation.
They were both adamant in their
insistence that the Soviet Union, if
not the cause of the world’s prob
lems, certainly encourages situations
which threaten American security.
In a press conference Thursday
afternoon, Haig and Kissinger both
predicted a major offensive in El Sal
vador sometime next year if mem
bers of Congress continue their emo
tional rhetoric.
Bipartisanship in foreign policy,
Kissinger said, gives U.S. enemies an
impression of weakness.
“Our main problem in Central
America,” Haig said, “is that we have
not made it clear to Castro that he
better butt out or we’re going to do
something he’s not going to like.”
Kissinger said the American public
needs to realize the magnitude of the
threat in Central America.
“We can’t wait until foreign forces
are crossing the Rio Grande, for
God’s sake,” he said.
In the Mideast, Haig and Kissin
ger advocate a cooling off period of
little or no involvement in those
countries. Haig said he believes the
moderate Arab states will eventually
see that their only hope is through
the United States.
Haig supported the 1982 Israeli
invasion of Lebanon.
“When Israel did move into Leb
anon, it was in the interests of the
United States and moderate Arabs,”
he said.
Dr. Henry Kissinger, left, Marvin Kalb, center,
and Gen. Alexander Haig, right, discuss for-
Photo by BILL HUGHES
eign policy Thursday night in Rudder Audito
rium.
Kissinger said he was opposed to
the original deployment of Marines
in Lebanon, but once they were there
it was a mistake to withdraw them.
“I didn’t want them there, but hav
ing them run out of the country by
not even major opponents is bad for
credibility,” Kissinger said.
The only area of disagreement be
tween the two was diplomacy toward
member nations of the North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization — which
both recognized as a potential hotbed
of future problems.
Both cited the “schizophrenia” of
the western European nations as a
partial cause of the problem. The
Europeans are terrified that U.S.
policies will lead to nuclear war, Kis
singer said, buis at the same time
aren’t willing to make the sacrifices to
ensure their capability of conducting
a conventional war.
As far as the intermediate nuclear
weapons installations in Western Eu
rope are concerned, Kissinger said
they aren’t being deployed to sup
port solely American aims.
“If we want to defend ourselves,
we don’t need missiles in Europe.
Those missiles are there to link their
defense to the defense of the United
States,” he said.
Kissinger’s solution to the misun-
derstanding between allies is to force
Europeans to assume a greater share
of their own ground defense. He also
proposed that the Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe, responsible
for integrating military forces of the
13 member nations of NATO, be a
European. Haig disagreed with both
these solutions.
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ibit their charges against Dr.
ry Kissinger.
issinger appeared with another
ner secretary of state, Alexander
Jig, and NBC chief diplomatic cor-
fcondent Marvin Kalb, as part of
■ Endowed Lecture Series’ (ELS)
Isentation of perspectives on U.S.
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Serious-looking men in dark suits
could be seen scoping out the sur
roundings as early as noon, and by
around 6 p.m. a paddy wagon was
stationed conveniently near a Rud
der Auditorium exit.
Kissinger and Haig arrived at Eas-
terwood Airport in separate planes
and amid heavy security, especially
Kissinger, who was bustled immedi
ately from the plane into a waiting
car. •
Haig was a little more sociable, tak
ing lime to review one of the Corps
of Cadets outfits and chatting with a
few of the cadets before heading for
campus.
Once on campus, Haig, Kalb and
Kissinger spoke at student seminars
coordinated by the ELS.
As the speakers spoke and the se
curity was beefed up, the media ar
rived handfuls at a time.
Just about dark the “trouble”
started.
The three LaRouche members,
two full-time men from Houston and
one Texas A&M student, Brian Wil
son, quietly set up a table near Rud
der Fountain, donned sandwich
boards with anti-Kissinger insignia,
and passed out LaRouche newslet
ters and other anti-Kissinger litera
ture.
The signs they sported touted
such information as “NO MORE
KISSINGER SELLOUTS TO SOVI
ETS — BUILD LASERS.”
After a few curious onlookers and
several eager press representatives
had gathered, Houston member Bob
Trout picked up a megaphone and
began informing the crowd of their
various allegations against Kissinger,
including, among other things, that
the former secretary of state was in
volved with the KGB.
More and more people stopped to
gape at the unusual sight — of all
things — of ciemonstrators on the
Texas A&M campus.
One man in a dark business suit —
on his way to the ELS presentation
became somewhat agitated at the va
rious insults the protestors were
shouting about Kissinger and began
to heckle the trio.
“They come up with this tripe, and
it’sjust swill,” he said. “Just Swill!
“Kissinger is probably one of the
greatest statesmen we’ve ever had
and they’re here running him
down.”
But, after about an hour, the
crowd and the reporters tired of the
protestors’ attempt, and people wan
dered off to more important things.
Not long after that, the three un
ceremoniously folded up their table,
took off their signs, boxed up what
was left of their literature, and faded
off into the night.
Photo by PETER ROCHA
LaRouche supporters protest against Henry Kissinger.
In Today’s Battalion
Khadafy demands back down
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• Two Texas A&M students will make a bicycle trip
from here to Ontario, Canada to raise funds for the Ameri
can Heart Association. See story page 3.
• When Dan Kubiak failed to show up for a debate
with opponent Hugh Parmer, the “debate” turned into a
Parmer press conference. See story page 5.
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can adopt-a-pet in Bryan- College Station. See story page 4.
United Press International
LONDON — Col. Moammar Kha
dafy demanded Thursday that Brit
ain lift its police siege of his embassy
in London and demonstrators in Tri
poli warned that an estimated 8,500
British citizens in Libya were being
treated as “prisoners.”
Khadafy, in an interview broadcast
by the British Broadcast Corp., and
NBC television in the United States,
also made veiled threats against Bri
tons living in Libya. He said that so
far they were in good condition but
added “Our people are very, very an
gry and we hope we can control this
situation.”
The latest moves by Libya came
three days after an unidentified per
son fired a machine gun from the
Arab nation’s embassy in London,
killing a British policewoman and
wounding anti-Khadafy Libyan dem
onstrators in the street outside.
In the broadcast interview, Kha
dafy blamed Britain for the shooting
and said, “British police forces and
helicopters and armored forces must
withdraw immediately and release
our people there, nothing else.”
Khadafy’s demands came as a^slap
to the British government which had
been waiting since Wednesday night
for response to a formal request for
permission to enter the Libyan em
bassy, question about 25 radicals in
side and search for guns and bombs.
But the government insisted it
could wait out the Libyans.
“The police are showing steadi
ness, patience and resolve,” said
Leon Briitan, the British minister in
charge of internal security.
There had been rumors that Brit
ain was readying aircraft to fly out
the Libyans but when asked to con
firm this, the minister said “That’s
news to me.”
In the Libyan capital of Tripoli,
several hundred demonstrators
marched outside the British embassy
for two hours and carried a banner
that read in English “Libya, love it or
leave it.”
“We treat British subjects as pris
oners as a response to the suffering
and torture dealt to (Libyan) stu
dents and citizens who were jailed
without probable cause,” the demon
strators said in a protest note refer
ring to an estimated 8,500 British ci
vilians who work in Libya.
A British diplomat at the embassy
told reporters embassy personnel
were allowed to leave the building af
ter the Libyan demonstration.
As the stalemate continued be
tween the two governments, the
tense face off between British police
and those inside the Libyan embassy
in London continued.
Six trays of food and Arabic news
papers were sent in at midday to the
20 to 30 people inside the fashiona
ble four-story townhouse.
Under international law, the em
bassy is considered sovereign terri
tory and British police cannot enter it
without Libyan permission.