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MIKE MOYLE, Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Pat Evans; Copy Editor, Dave Fineman; Wire Editor, Matt Podbe
sek; Assistants, Lyrn Ward, Mike Maxwell, Ralph Manna, Roberta Levine, Linda Segar, Judy Berko
witz, Torn Beadling, Ellen Oosterling.
Nasser Sees Many Problems
Time magazine, last week, published an ar
ticle which gave an interpretation of the motives
of Egypt's General Nasser which has been in
corporated in this article.
Nasser started out with great ideas of liberal
izing Egypt from the tyranny of King Farouk
and Mohammed Naguib. Then, getting more
ambitious, Nasser has been working for "the
Arab nation," as he calls it. Not only did Nasser
want a nation state composed of the present
Arab stales, but he seemingly indicated that he
wanted to be the leader of the new state.
Nasser started out as a fairly progressive
leader, and the United States hoped that he
would be of real value in solving the Middle
East problem. Accordjngly, the U.S. gave Egypt
a large amount of money for development and
helped him get the French and English out
after the Suez Canal episode.
Name: didn't find it convenient to play fair
with the U.S. so he started playing the West
against the East in his effort to gain power and
%prestige for the Middle East. He received a U.S.
promise for ever a billion dollars for the Aswan
Darn project, but when he started buying arms
from the Russians the U.S. withdrew support.
The fact that Nasser could get arms from
Russia gave him more freedom and made him
less dependent upon the U.S. He then started
a policy. which he called neutrality, in which
he was antagonistic toward the West and hostile
toward Israel.
When the U.S. got Britain and France to with
draw their troops from Egypt after the Suez
attack, it seemed as though Nasser had more
prestige than ever. However, although Nasser
is still leading the nationalistic movement in the
Middle East and is still fighting any U.S. aid
in the area, he now finds himself in a delicate
position.
Nasser has had difficulty in getting direct aid
from Russia although he can buy arms from
them. They are not able to give aid on the
same scale that the U.S. and furthermore Nas
ser is not anxious to sell his people into com
munism which he would have to do to get aid.
Nasser has gotten himself in a position where
the U.S. is unwilling to give him aid unless
`Senior Slump'
It seems the rapidly spreading disease senior
itis, a general apathy - towards everything, has
markedly affected the voting turnout of the
senior class. As of five o'clock yesterday ap
proximately 80 seniors had managed to find
their way to the card room of the Hetzel Union
Building to cast ballots for the All-University
and Athletic Association offices.
Some seniors were not aware they were eli
gible to vote this semester, but by now that
point should be clear.
Seventh and eighth semester students are
eligible to vote for the All-University presi
dent. vice president. and secretary-treasurer.
Senior men may also vote for the Athletic As
sociation president and secretary-treasurer.
The turnout for voting in all the other classes
has shown the seniors up. A senior's nearness
to graduation doesn't release him from the
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she -knows to what purpose it will be put.
There are also problems within the Middle
East which Nasser must face. One of these is
the fact that many of the other Arab nations
are not pleased with the length of time that the
Suez has been closed. Although such countries
as Saudi Arabia. Jordan and Syria seem to be
for Arab nationalism they have been sadly hurt
by the loss of revenue caused by the closing
of the canal. Futhermore several of the other
Arab leaders are envious and afraid of Nasser's
power.
Israel presents another aggravation for Nas
ser since Egypt must constantly fear attack from
Israel in retaliation to the nationalistic actions
of the Arabs against the Israelis. Egypt's troops
have beer considerably weakened by Israel.
Nasser also faces internal problems where
the country has been having difficulty recover
ing from the battle with the French. English
and Israelis. It has not had too much an effect
on the poor who couldn't go much lower, but
the Western-minded professional and business
people of the middleclass have become quite
discontented.
On the basis of these ideas proposed by Time
we feel that Nasser is mainly faced with a time
proposition. He can stir up a good deal of
trouble in the Middle East; he can continue to
play the East against the West; and he can
continue his policy for Arab nationalism. But
economically he cannot last indefinitely with
out aid from either Russia or the U.S.
Nasser does not seem willing to turn the
Egyptian population over to communism very
soon at least, so perhaps there is hope that he
will have to turn to the U.S. for aid. Without
the backing of his own business class or the
profit from the Suez Canal Nasser cannot hope
to hold out.
We hope the tide soon turns so that Nasser
becomes less of a hindrance to U.S. aid pro
grams. Arab nationalism led by Nasser may be
fine for the Arab rulers, but it helps little toward
economic progress or raising the standard of
living for the masses in Arab countries.
Voting
responsibility of voting; it makes it even more
necessary for him to become interested in gov
ernment. In this case it happens to be student
government.
If a senior has any regard for the welfare
of his university, we should think he would
want to leave student government in the hands
of capable student leaders: voting is the way
to insure this.
If seniors were not permitted to vote in this
election, they would probably be the first to
complain.
They would claim that they, as the most ma
ture students on campus, are more aware of
the qualities of a good candidate and could
recognize better the potentialities of the student
leaders. This may be very true, but why don't
they show a little initiative and at least vote?
—Lynn Ward
David Allen. Marian Bush, William Bush. Joan Canan,
Mary Clark. Macario Corales, Diane Davis. James Durham,
Francis Cause, Donald Gordon, Harland Grossman. Robert
Guilt), Dana Harrison, _Edward Headington. William Holland,
Donald Horan. Jeannette Kohl, Arnold Kravatz, John Lange,
Sondra Levitt, Heather Lohrentz, Charles McNair, Patricia
Miernicki, Robert Neff, David Profio, Larry Rehrig, Jeanne
Ripley, Robert Roan. Richard Rost, John Showalter, Frank
Simon. Charles Skopic, Anne Smith. Joseph Smith, Ira
Starer, Ario Sweet, William Texter, Marilynn Turki, Sally
Wenner, Lowell Williams.
Edltartate reprseeat the
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of the paper, the etadeat
body .or the University
tho set of llarcb I. 1371.
—Sue Conklin
MR=
Little Man on Campus
"Good grief, we'll never get a seat—the gang's tak
Community Leaders .
Seen in Key Role
Associated Press News Analyst
Representatives of government are meeting in London to
study disarmament. Representatives of society are meeting
in Washington to study the human roadblocks on the *ay
to peace.
And it seems probable that in the span of history, if there
is to be any peace, it will come more from the efforts of such
community leaders than from dip
lomats
In Washington ministers, edu
cators and other Civic leaders are
discussing with public officials
the relationship of moral force to
physical force. The meeting was
arranged by the National Confer
ence on Spiritual Foundations and
paid for by the Ford Foundation.
It is part of a worldwide
movement operating in various
fields under various guises
which usually comes back to the
thesis that peace will be made
not by governments but by
peoples.
Yet peoples hardly understand
what peace is all about. Their his
tory is to move from war to war.
Governments are addicted to
the old tenet that leaders cannot
risk the fates of their - nations on
fallible human judgments. With
few exceptions, governments be
gin their intercourse in an atmo
sphere of openly expressed dis
trust.
Peoples are told that by this
means the security of the nation
is protected, and they have little
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or no means of knowing different
ly.
In a real peace, people will
overreach their governments in
an atmosphere of mutual under
standing.
Peoples will be so well informed
about each other that demagogues
will not be able to convince them
that they should become enemies.
Men who preach hate, and that
man's end is to make war on
other men, will be classified with
the men who curse beCause they
lack vocabulary.
People have learned to live
peacefully in their local commun
ities. Peoples have not learned to
do so in the world community.
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