European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday april 13, Europe s students on by Dennis Redmont Rome a he flings chair Sand swings clubs. He stops trains. He Burns cars and spit sat politicians. From the Chilly capitals of Eastern Europe to the sunny Esplanade of Spain from Mel Low Rome to foggy London and divided Berlin he paralyse traffic and clashes with police. He is Europe s new Ang Yyoung Man. He is neither Hooli Gan nor disgruntled worker but the University student. In his own terms he is out for revolution. For the new Breed of euro Pean student activist violence has become the chosen Way tonight for better teachers and classrooms More scholarships cheaper housing the end of the Vietnam War and for a smattering of other goals that Range from allowing boys in girls dormitories to the Reform of society itself. Since the beginning of the year the protest movement has mushroomed with incredible Speed on both sides of the Iron curtain. Ironically in some Way sit seems that Western youth wants what Eastern youth has and vice versa. At Western universities Stu dents carry portraits of Mao tse Tung Che Guevara and to chiming. In Eastern Europe the students demand More Freedom of speech and Assembly. In Many cases the Basic gripes really the same outrage against establishments that want to keep youth in line and per Mit antiquated teaching system Sand customs to continue against the wishes of the students them selves. In the general mood of rebel lion the soviet Union is no More acceptable than the United states. President Johnson an soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin Are equally sneered at As conservative sellouts. The Viet Cong Are  is hardly a difference Between a student demonstration in Rome or Warsaw says Nghiem Broekman Secretary of Amsterdam s general students association. Students in several countries Are fighting for a num Ber of fundamental freedoms. Income they Are fighting Feudal ism and in Warsaw they Are fighting autocratic conditions the student s frustrations apparently Stem from their in ability to influence events or policies which affect their daily  people Are now reach ing maturity much earlier explains French economics pro Fessor Alfred grosser. But University studying gets longer and longer. The time when Stu dents attain any social responsibility is continually being postponed. Violence is their Way to fight this contradiction. " for the first time in 50years," echoes Giacomo Devoto Rector of the italian University at Florence there is a generation of University students with out any tragic memories no wars no famine no concentration Camps. Their energies have been channelled into Reform  in Italy where youth has traditionally been Meek and com pliant under the Stern authority of family and Church the craze for student Power has swept nationwide through the ranks  school and College Stu  universities have been occupied. Schedules and stud programs at nearly All of the country s 33 state run universities Are chaotic. For Many the entire academic year May have to be written off the communist and fascist parties have moved in to exploit the situation providing propaganda and older partisans to fight in student  March alone Moro than 400 persons were injured and a Many More arrested in two major riots at the University of Rome. In Warsaw students chanted Freedom Freedom to de Mand the reinstatement of two schoolmates who had been expelled for antigovernment activities. They ripped up Park benches barricaded a Street and battled police with bricks from a nearby construction  England students vowed to throw Home Secretary Jame Callaghan into a fishpond to protest restrictive immigration policies. Defense minister Den is Healey was splattered with eggs and jostled at Cambridge  Bremen Germany students Lay across Streetcar tracks to protest High fares. Though a sprinkling fright Wing students or anarchists gets involved with at tempts at counter protests most of the demonstrating students Are avowedly leftists of a sort. West Germany s newspaper 111t blrallllbi6iblibp Jujj a Mim of Reform b1baibjbaiiigfcmjj_ijl firebrand Germany s leading angry Young Man of the left,28-year-old Rudl Dutschke fell to gunshots one week after the assassination of or Martin Luther King. A photo die Zelt defined their ideology As a confused condemnation of the prosperous self satisfied society represented by the govern ing political parties business clergy and the entrenched University system. Die Zeit define their Doctrin ate Asma mama ism a mixture of Marx Mao and German born philosophy professor Herbert Marcuse of the University of California. Shaggy haired red Rudl Dutschke one of the German student leaders shouted our Vietnam is Here As he led his cohorts sometimes numbering most unusual capital sees children rarely editor s note William , editor of the Miami news has made a second trip to North Vietnam. This is the third of his reports on his find Ings. A by William c. Baggs Hanoi a this old City Isth most unusual capital in the  is a City without children. Except on weekends. It is communist capital where the Young and the old enthusiastic ally crowd the Cathedral of the roman Catholic Church. The prevailing religion is Buddhist but the ancient pagodas Are More the gathering places of spiders than believers. The shops open before the Sun at 5 . They close three hours later and not until five inthe afternoon do they open again. There Are no houses of prostitution. There Are no hard liquor bars. And at the Beer Garden sin the City most of the custom ers order Tea or a Cool drink uninspired by alcohol. And finally this is a Cit where private Enterprise still coexists with the communist Economy. You can Purchase extra food which is rationed atthe private markets flourishing on the sides of the roads. Or atthe other extreme from the necessities of life you can buy French or asian Antiques from private shops. These non government enterprises operate without any cloak of subterfuge and must be approved. You just walk in and do  the strangest aspect of life in Hanoi is the absence of the Young. Soon after you arrive in the City you realize that whats missing Are the children. More than 300,000 children have been evacuated to schools in the Countryside. Then on the weekends i seems As if All of them suddenly reappear and the City is filled with the wonderful clattering noises of children until monday noon when they emigrate on the weary old buses Back into the Countryside. One gentleman of Catholic persuasion said he had a difficult time getting into the Cathe dral during the Christmas holi Days. He also reported that mass was said in five languages. Vietnamese French chinese German and English. But the pagodas Are a differ ent Story. Buddhism must still be the dominant religion i North Vietnam but you never would guess it by the frequency of worshippers in the pagodas. Old women and old men Are the lonely caretakers of these ancient temples and few other people Are seen inside them. One theory is that the North vietnamese in an evolving accommodation of their religion to communist life Are developing a personal approach to Buddha which does not require their presence in the pagodas. This sounds like an Asiatic version of the Standard theory in the United states. That you Don t have to show up in the Church or the synagogue to be a religious person. In any event the folks Are not showing up in the pagodas the Way they used Todo. One million catholics fled tothe South of Vietnam when the revolutionaries began to establish their marxist Leninist society in the North. The Virgin has gone South an archbishop , there Are Only native priests in the North no foreign ers but there is no apparent scheme by the state to discourage Catholic worship. One minister of the govern ment an old communist revolutionary with impressive credentials of loyalty to Brothers under the red Flag said i am first a Patriot and Thena  doubtless so but the visitor swell advised to know that he is both. A Patriot and a communist. The greater question about the North vietnamese affection for marxist leninism is whether it remains an economic practice within the boundaries of the country or emerges Intima As an item for Export to the other countries of Southe Astasia. As a communist state tucked into Southeast Asia it i obvious that North Vietnam has special problems. Intelligence from the Days when France governed Here and . Intelligence in recent years and All the Evi Dence a visitor can gather Indi Cate that the ideological heart of Hanoi beats in tune with that of Moscow. It believes in the More pliable application of what we Call communism and an accommodation with Western nations. Thia indication is demonstrate Din the history of the state and is reinforced in the conversations with leaders Here. However China angry and pouting is so very near. You cannot get a North vietnamese Leader to discuss China. He nods and changes the subject. You hear reports that there Are thou Sands of chinese in the country Side North of Hanoi present Here As labourers to replace Vietnam Ese diverted to some Active Mili tary service. Hanoi leaders deftly turn All questions into the Lar Ger proposition that person from Many fraternal and socialist countries give assistance  this is undoubtedly True and it also serves As a nifty Way to avoid any mention of China. Thus North Vietnam supplied both by the soviet Union and China in this War tiptoe around any pronounced Alle Giance to either country. You finally get the idea that at the Bottom of All this is not primarily an ideology at All. It is the primary business of  a truly fierce intoxication of nationalism. 20,000in Berlin in demonstrations. He became one of the first Radical student leaders to fall victim to a violent reaction when he was shot on Berlin spam Street thursday. In Italy Marisa Malagoli the adopted daughter of the late communist Boss Palmiro tog Hatti goads Rome students to fight italian capitalists an America s presence in Vietnam. Another student Leader rec Cardo Didonato of Pisa rejected catholicism to Lead the local student Power move ment. Left is never far enough foursome students. French editor Jean Jacques Servan Schroc Berof the socialist leaning weekly l express was shouted Dowland stoned by a crowd of Madrid students. Leftist writer Alberto Moravia joined the Rome University demonstrators to express  the youths drove him off with shouts of Mao Simo Ravia  in Poland or Czechoslovakia the target is also the establish ment. Polish students erupted into protest in 10 cities after the government closed a  passed resolutions condemning police repression amid cries of Gestapo  Czechoslovakia s 100,000 Stu dents spearheaded the liberalization movement in the govern ment. The time has already Lon passed when the agitation was dismissed Ashi Jinks or High spirits a lot of older people Are afraid. Pope Paul i recently deplored student violence and said there were More constructive ways to achieve change. Utopian coition ool. James w. Camppell a  it Cou. If. T. Miharu jr., u4ap Deputy editor in chief mint ski Ochtow. Manas no editor Elmer d. Frank i. Production manager a softy ept till. .,.,.,., circulation a Nir an unofficial no paper of and for the . Arm forces fib Lethad by the commander in chief . European command and printed Dally at oar Nuutt Germany. Military Ltd Dreeli the Star and str Lea Apo m17b. 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