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Ogle To Discuss Paris Talks
As Spring Offensive Begins

By Chris Donart
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Bud Ogle, former Student Council
President and a member of a delegation
to the Paris Peace Talks, will speak
Wednesday on "Criminals or Good
Germans?", a discussion of the Indochina
War. The speech is being sponsored by
the Council and the Student Mobilization
Committee, which is currently organizing
a National Spring Offensive.

Mr. Ogle's speech will be held at 8
p.m. in Newcomb Hall ballroom.

"It is tragic," Mr. Ogle stated after
returning from Paris, "that the American
people have been able to accept the role of
being "good Germans" in the face of
destruction in Indochina equal to the ravages of
Hitler."

As a member of the 171-member Citizen's
Conference on Ending the War in Indochina,
Mr. Ogle spoke with Madame Binh of the
Provisional Revolutionary Government and
David Bruce of the United States delegation
about the American withdrawal program and
the POW issue. As a Presbyterian minister
presently completing work on his Ph.D. in
American diplomatic history, Mr. Ogle
represented the Council and the Charlottesville
chapter of Clergy and Laymen Concerned
about Vietnam.

Ken Lewis of the Student Mobilization
Committee stated that Mr. Ogle's speech was
his "first major public speech since his return."

"The speech is one of a series of events
sponsored by the Student Mobilization
Committee," Mr. Lewis continued "Activities
will include the April 17 anti-military weekend,
which is scheduled in conjunction with the
military weekend for the University's ROTC
programs.

"Disruptive activities for the weekend," Mr.
Lewis stated, are now being planned by the
Committee." A public meeting will be held
next Wednesday to plan future Student
Mobilization Committee activities at the
University.

A National Spring Offensive will be
co-sponsored by the National Peace Action
Coalition and the People's Coalition for Peace
and Justice. Activities for the Spring Offensive
include local actions against "hunger, war, and
repression," on April 1 through April 4, and a
massive Anti-War Assembly in Washington, D.C.
on April 24. The activities on April 1-4 are
being held as a tribute to Martin Luther King,
Jr. The assembly near the White House and the
march on the Capitol on April 24 are being held
as a united action of the entire anti-war
movement.

One week of activities will be held on May 1
through 6, focusing on a massive non-violent
civil disobedience demonstration on May 3.
This action, under regional leadership, is said to
be aimed at stopping the government from
operating and will include sit-ins, rallies,
marches, and moratoriums.