The_Rambler_1965-08-11

              STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L. I., N. Y.
VOLUME II NO. 2 AUGUST 11, 1965
VIET NAM
DAN TYLER MORE
Spy Authority Extraordinary
On Thursday, August 12 at 11:00 A.M., Dan
Tyler Moore, speaking on ''The Terrible Game
of Spies and Spy Warfare*' will appear in the
Allard Field House. This i s the second attraction
in the Distinguished Speakers and Artists Series.
Generally recognized as one of the top three
convention and after dinner speakers in the country,
in a poll conducted among program chairmen by
the International Platform Association, Dan Tyler
Moore has been established as America's most
popular adventure speaker and won him the coveted
IPA award.
At the outbreak of World War H, General "Wild
Bill Donovan, the head of the O.S.S., America's
spy service, recognizing the similarity between
tracking down complex types of criminals and in-ternational
spy warfare, asked Moore to join his
"secretariat." Acting f i r s t as liaison between the
O.S.S., the White House, the F.B.I., the Navy Cryp-tographic
Bureau, and the serviqe intelligence agen-cies,
Moore, a paratroop officer, was later made
chief of the O.S.S. spy-catching apparatus in the
spy capital of the world, Cairo, Egypt.
Given the five-letter code name, Tivel (Devil),
by General Donovan, Moore headed the massive spy
catching apparatus that helped win the spy war in the
Middle East. The startling realismof his speeches
stems largely from the fact that they draw heavily
on his actual personal experiences on the firing
lines of the spy war. Dan Moore i s in fact the only
man on the American lecture platform who has
actually headed a massive counter-intelligence
operation in an important foreign area.
After the war, Dan Moore formed The Middle East
Company with Elliot Ness ( of Untouchable fame)
and General Claire Chennault, and became its
president. Although still active as a consultant
on Middle Eastern Affairs, Moore, the spy that
came in from the heat of the Middle East, is now
primarily a story teller. His audience-stopping
lectures have delighted and informed hundreds
of thousands in audiences all over the United States.
A master of tension and humor in both the written
and spoken work, he has become one of the nation's
greatest "repeat speakers," and has addressed
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Cops are human beings, Just
like the rest of us.
They come in both sexes, most-ly
males. They also come in
various sizes. This sometimes
depends pn whether you're look-ing
for one or trying to hide
something.
Cops deliver lectures, babies
and bad news. They're the ones
who ring the doorbell, swallow
hard, and announce the passing
of a loved one: then spend the
rest of the day wondering why
they ever took such a crummy
job. On T.V. a cop is depict-ed
as an oaf who couldn't find
a bull fiddle in a telephone boath.
In real life he's expected to find
a little blond boy "about so
high" in a crowd of half a mil-lion
people.
He works around the clock,
split shifts, Sundays and holi-days,
and it always kills him
when some Joker says, "Hey,
tomorrow is election day, I'm
off, let's go fishing," Lots
of cops have homes. Some are
covered with theavy mortgages,
A cop's credit is good. This
i s helpful because his salary
isn't. Cops raise lots of kids-most
of them belonging to other
people.
A cop sees m o r e m i s e r y,
bloodshed, trouble than the aver-age
person. He must be im-partial,
c o u r t e o u s , always re-member
the slogan: "At Your
Service." This is sometimes
hard, especially when some char-acter
reminds him superfluous-ly:
"I'm a ta35)ayer, I pay
your salary,"
Cops get medals for saving
lives, stopping runaway horses,
and shooting it out with bandits,
(Once in a while his widow gets
the medal). But sometimes the
most rewarding moment comes
when after some small kindness
to an older person, a c(9 feels
a warm handclasp, looks into
g r a t e f u l e y e s , and h e a r s,
"Thank You and God bless you
son,"
Conrad S, Jensen
Captain, 23rd Precinct
PJD.City ofNew York
The Laurels
Many people who attend class-es
during the summer term com-plain
about ttie lack of social
activities. The class of Feb-ruary
<66 is sponsoring a one
day outing to the Lurels Hotel
and Country Club to help remedy
this situation.
On August 22, at 8 a.m,, coach
busses will take us to the coun-try
club. Each student will
pack a box lunch and we will
be provided with free soft drinks
at the picnic area. The activit-i
e s available Include: swimming
(in-door and outdoor pools), a
calypso band, b o a t i n g , tennis,
goU, horse-back riding, and a
full course dinner In the dining
hall. Dress for the trip is
strictly casual, but no shorts
will be allowed in the dining
haU, After dinner there wiU
be dancing In the beautiful Ba-vanda
Lounge, This affair is
open to everyone so Invite your
friends.
by Prof, Irving Levine
An Imaginary Brief Prepared by our Secretary
of State for Presentation to the President of the
United States at a Meeting of the National Security
Council in Anticipation of the Geneva Conference,
1965.
Mr. President: We Americans are a rather ideal-istic
people. Especially when it comes to interna-tional
relations, we f e e l that moral principles should
govern international policies, and that American
morals are among the highest in the world. We be-lieve
in the peaceful pursuit of national aims, and
we are dismayed when other countries do not follow
our prescribed paths.
We suspect the overt use of power. In a sense,
as a nation, we are a little ashamed to acknowledge
openly to the world that, with our enormous econ-omic
and military strength, we liare the greatest
power on earth. We can be likened, in some re-spects,
to an adolescent athlete who discovers he
can run the mile in l e s s than a minute, but f e e ls
guilty in displaying his prowess in competition with
mature athletes. We have used power in the past,
we have resorted to war, but our explanation,
acceptable to the American public generally, has
been that we resort to violence only to end the use
of violence.
Now the public i s disturbed and anxious about our
sending troops to Viet Nam to support a diplomatic
position. And as the situation there has assumed
dangerous proportions, and as no easy and quick
victory is in sight, the Nation is experiencing a
sense of frustration as evidenced by newspaper
comment, congressional criticisms, and the uproar
in the academic world.
What is it that the United States really wants in
Viet Nam? Let me briefly reiterate our position:
First, we want to observe our commitments to
Viet Nam, established at the Geneva Conference
in 1954, and to which North Viet Nam was a signa-tory
power. This means we are obliged to pro-mote
a free, self-governing South Viet Nam, and to
promote with all our efforts the stability and s e -
curity of the area.
Second, we realize that total withdrawal from Viet
Nam will have serious consequences - territorial,
psychological, and political - throughout Asia and
the world. We wish to maintain our image as a
dependable friend, without territorial or imperial-istic
designs of our own. We cannot in good con-science
withdraw without being tarred a "paper
tiger.»»
Finally, we are committed to thwart Communist
expansion. We think the Viet Nam episode i s another
phase of the Marxist theory of protracted conflict.
It is quite logical to assume that a victory for the
Viet Cong forces here will embolden the Commun-i
s t s in their subversive efforts elsewhere.
What are our alternatives? We can withdraw
completely; we can engage in a limited-conventional
war against the Viet Cong; or we can continue
exerting economic-military pressure against the
North until they -feel it will be to their benefit
to negotiate with us. ( The alternative of a nuclear
strike i s unthinkable, and I am sure no one here is
considering that possibility,)
Mr, President, You have said that we can*t go
North, we can't go South, and we can't rope anyone
with whom to negotiate. May I suggest another