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The Dignity of Man in Action
Principles Dictate Viet Course
WASHINGTON (NEA)
It is essential at this time that we get our values straight.
What we are concerned with as human beings is not
death. We all die. More Americans afe killed in automo
bile accidents than will die in Vietnam. We regularly eat
so much or drink and smoke things that shorten our lives,
as any doctor will tell us.
What we are concerned with is the dignity and respect
for men. How a man dies. And for what he dies.
Many Vietnamese have taken jobs as hamlet chiefs when
they knew it meant almost certain death for themselves
and for their wives or children. This reporter once was in a
hamlet where in the eight previous months five hamlet
chiefs had been selected and four kidnaped and killed. Yet
new men came forward. Death was less important to these
men than the right of their hamlet to govern itself.
We know that in Russia, in mainland China, in Nazi Ger
many many men voluntarily persisted in acting and writ
ing in ways that meant certain death because truth to them
was more important than being assured of breathing an
other few years.
But we don’t need to go to our history books to know that
men and women will die for what they believe. We all of
us have seen it in the lives of our neighbors, our friends
and our families.
All of us, when we think of it, are willing to give our
lives. We are not that afraid of death.
At the time of World War 11, this reporter, who is cer
tainly no hero, had Japanese friends so close that for some,
as individuals, he would have been willing to die. He re
spected the Japanese people. He was deferred in the draft.
Tech-Atlanta 11.
Tops Expectation
By JO Ann Hitman
ATLANTA (UPI)—A coopera
tive program between Georgia
Tech and predominantly Negro
Atlanta University Center to
train black engineers has “gone
beyond anyone’s expectation” in
less than a year.
Dr. William Shutz, assistant
to the dean of engineering at
Tech and coordinator for the so
called dual degree programs,
said, “Our fondest dream was
to get 25 (Negroes) in the pro
gram. There are now 47 en
rolled. We would have been
happy with 12.”
For more than 10 years, Tech
has been conducting a program
in which students attend anoth
er institution for three years,
taking basic mathematics, sci
ence and humanities before
they tackle engineering.
After three years, they enroll
at Tech for two years and grad-
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uate with two degrees, a bache
lor’s in engineering from Tech
and a bachelor of arts or bach
elor of science from the other
school.
Negroes Involved
The ‘ ‘three-two’ ’ program was
extended to the Atlanta Univer
sity Center last January, with
the Negro college group’s par
ticipation underwritten by a
$265,000 scholarship grant from
the Olin-Mathieson Trust. In
most cases it supplements other
scholarships.
Schools from the university
center taking part are More
house, Spelman, Clark and Mor
ris Brown colleges. There are
about 4,000 undergraduates at
the center.
Dr. Charles Meredith, coordi
nator of the program for the
university center, said five Ne
gro students plan to attend
Georgia Tech part-time begin
ning with the winter quarter.
Shutz said the splitting of
classes between the two cam
puses would probably become
the pattern for third-year stu
dents.
Few Black Engineers
“The program has just gone
beyond anyone’s expectations,”
Shutz said. “This is one of the
largest groups of blacks enter
ing engineering in the United
He had to sign a physical waiver to get in, but he volun
teered for the war to fight the Japanese enemy. Because,
along with many other men, he believed a principle at stake
was more important than life. He still loves those Japanese
friends and they him.
So it is with Vietnam. If we believe, as this reporter does,
that the right of a people not to be taken by force is at
issue, then we must be there.
If you believe the contrary, that this is a war to further
selfish interests, then you must hold that we should not be
in Vietnam and that the war is wrong.
What matters then is something more than death or life.
What matters is that we carry out our beliefs.
This reporter keeps thinking of the people he knows in
Vietnam who, even as you and I, want to rear their chil
dren, hoping that they will have a better education and a
better chance than their parents. They are tired of war as
only a people can be who have been in war all their lives,
so that sometimes they wonder if it will ever end. But still
they go on because they have learned there is no other
way if a man is to live by what he believes for his family,
himself and his children.
Picture the thoughts of the father who saw his five-year
old daughter come back to his village, walking slowly down
the road, with her hands cut off and a warning sign on her
chest that worse would happen unless he co-operated. Yet
he stood his ground, through what agony no man will ever
know.
As one man has said, somebody has got to do something.
We have got to try.
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States. If half of the 47 actually
get to Tech and through the
course it will greatly increase
the number of black engineers.”
He said there were indications
the number of Negroes entering
the program might grow to 75
or 85 annually. Even now,
blacks represent the largest sin
gle group under the dual degree
program.
“We at Tech had been con-
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cerned about minority groups in
engineering a good while before
the program started,” Shutz
said. “It was under develop
ment before the funds came
along. It really started with an
approach from Morehouse Col
lege in March of 1968 and be
came official the following Jan
uary.
“To cut academic red tape
that fast is a miracle.”
Steeplechase
To Benefit
M.S. Society
ATLANTA (PRN)— The
fifth annual running of the
Atlanta Hunt Meeting &
Steeplechase will be held on
Saturday, March 14, with the
Multiple Sclerosis Society
benefit again offering around
SII,OOO in purse money to
horses from all over the East.
John A. Wayt, Jr.,
chairman, said the National
Steeplechase and Hunt
Association had approved the
March 14 date and the card of
six races over hurdles, timber
and on the flat.
Again, the Atlanta event
will kick off the eastern hunt
meeting circuit with horses
and jockeys moving from here
to Aiken and Camden, S.C.,
and then up the eastern
Seaboard to New York, where
summer jump racing is held at
Aqueduct, Belmont and
Saratoga.
The Atlanta event has
annually attracted crowds as
large as 18,000 to the
picturesque Seven Branches
Course near Roswell.
Feature event will be the
Atlanta Cup, a race of one and
3 /i miles over hurdles with a
purse of $3,500. Other
established fixtures of the
Atlanta Steeplechase are the
Midlands Fox Hounds Cup, a
gruelling three-mile timber
race; The Spring Maiden,
hurdles at a mile and a half;
The Right Tag, another mile
and six furlong event for
hurdle horses; and two flat
races--the Georgia
Thoroughbred Association
Plate and The Roswell Plate.
Mr. Wayt said the SII,OOO
in purse money offered by the
Atlanta event makes it among
the most rewarding
steeplechase events in the
country.
With all proceeds going to
Multiple Sclerosis Society, the
March 14 Steeplechase will
again be directed by Chairman
Wayt, and an executive
committee made up of W.
Cothran Campbell, George E.
Chase, John W. Lundeen and
Robert H. Welsh
Vice PmMent Agnew
Agnew Will
Visit Georgia
Atlanta (PRN)— State
Republican Chairman Wiley
Wasden, Jr., announced today
plans for a fund-raising dinner
and reception featuring Vice
President Spiro Agnew on
Saturday, February 21, 1970.
Chairman Wasden said that
the Republican Party of
Georgia was honored to be
able to have the Vice President
help kick off campaign events
for 1970.
Wasden said it is
anticipated that the event will
be held in Atlanta and the
dinner committee members
will be announced at a later
date.
Wasden said that Spiro
Agnew has emerged as one of
the greatest Vice Presidents in
history and as a friend of the
“great silent majority.” He
said the Spiro Agnew is now a
hero to many Americans
because they appreciate a
leader who “tells it like it is.”
Wasden also remarked that
the Administration accepts
Georgia and all other Southern
states as full-fledged members
of the team and that the
acceptance by Vice President
Agnew of the invitation by
Georgia Republicans is a good
example of the relationship
between the White House and
all Georgians.
Dinner tickets are SIOO per
person for the dinner and
reception. Wasden anticipates
that over 1000 people will
attend the event.
County Republican
organizations will participate
in the financial proceeds from
the event. Wasden said this
will substantially aid local
Party organizations in
financing 1970 campaigns.
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Pink Shirt Gunman
Hijacks Jetliner
By STANLEY M. BROWN
MIAMI (UPI)—A gunman
dressed in a pin-striped, double
breasted suit and pink shirt
hijacked a New York-to-Chicago
jet airliner with 29 persons
aboard Friday night and forced
it to fly to Cuba.
It was the 59th hijacking of a
commercial airliner this year,
an escapade that ended safely .
when the plane returned to the
Miami airport early today
without the gunman.
The aircraft was a United Air
Lines Boeing 727, a three
engined jet costing $4 million
that has a capacity of 96. On
Friday, however, it was carry
ing a crew of six and only 23
passengers because the after-
Christmas slack in air travel.
After changing crews here,
the plane continued with its
passengers to Chicago.
United spokesmen identified
the gunman only as “M.
Martinez.”
About 10 minutes out of New
York, he pulled a snub-nosed
.38 caliber revolver from a
brief case and told stewardess
Sheila Sneed of East Orange,
N.J., “We’re going to Cuba. Sit
down.”
“Very Nice”
Sharon Brodak of New York
City, another of three stewar
desses on the plane, described
the hijacker, as “tall, stocky,
dark-haired and very nice.”
“He had a Spanish accent
and appeared to be well
educated,” she said.
Capt. Axel Paulsen of New
York said the gunman never
attempted to enter the cockpit
“although we asked him if he
wanted to. He said ‘no’ and that
was fine with us because it
made it easier.”
Paulsen said he at first told
I lie hijacker that they would
have to stop at Atlanta for fuel.
Non-Stop
“But he said there would be
no fuel stops,” Paulsen added.
“I figured we wouldn’t need
any fuel so we didn’t try to talk
him into a fuel stop in Atlanta.
“He gave no reason for
wanting to go to Cuba. He was
very rational and nice and
spoke good English.
“He said he had come to
America from Cuba five years
ago.”
Paulsen said the airplane was
over Wilkes-Barre, Pa., when
the gunman seized the aircraft.
I he first piece of inoon stud
ied in detail was identified as
“an igneous rock peppered with
glass-lined pits.”
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Second officer Robert Morton
of Middletown, N.Y., said that
when the plane landed in
Havana, the hijacker “showed
no apprehension whatsoever.
“He mumbled something to
the Cuban official, handed over
his gun and walked out smiling.
It was like he knew what to
expect.”
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crew but asked no questions of
the passengers who deplaned
here, went through customs,
reboarded and flew on to
Chicago.
To stewardess Linda Bren
nan, the hijacking was exciting.
“It was my 21st birthday and
I spent it in Cuba,” said the
New York stewardess, who has
been married one month.