3000 Attend Teach-In, But Not Bandy, As Professors Debate Vietnam Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 16-The one issue not in question at the National Teach-In on the Vietnam War on Saturday was that Mackerel Special Assistant tot he President for National Security Affairs, would never appear. But it became the issue of the day.

The 3000 attending the afternoon session of the teach-in at the Sheraton Park Hotel greeted the announcement of Bandy's absence with hisses, boos, and laughter. This show of audience response was about the last such demonstration of the day.

The morning session of the tech-in, which was broadcast to more than 100 campuses through special radio and television hook-ups, included a speech by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 'II, former professor of History at Harvard and White House aide. Though Schlesinger's speech was definitely in favor of administration policy, he voiced opposition to some of the military tactics used in Vietnam.

At M.I.T.'s Keg Auditorium, about 300 students filled only the first few rows Saturday afternoon to watch a broadcast of the teach-in. The sparse crowd cheered the anti-Administration speakers. In the morning at M.I.T several professors from the Boston area had discussed American intervention in the Dominican Republic.

After it was announced that Bandy would not appear, the audience paid polite attention only when there were no rumors circulating concerning Bandy's whereabouts.

The official statement concerning Bandy said that serious duties had kept him at the White House. A White House spokesman was unable to divulge what the duties were, but he claimed that events of the next few days would explain Bandy's absence. But the audience was not so sure.

One observer guessed that the crisis keeping Bandy at the White House was the same as the one that kept Vice-President Humph from attending Churchill's funeral and other government officials from openly discussing various policies. Most of the rumors seemed to include the possibility that the President had forbidden Bandy's appearance.

During the evening session, Walt W. Resow, chairman of the Policy Planning Council of the State Department, and Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government at Harvard, supported the administration viewpoint in a meeting on the making of American foreign policy. In response, Stanley H. Horseman, professor of Government at Harvard, attached Resow on his presentation of America's actions in Vietnam.

When the session was finally opened to the audience for suggestions of alternatives to the U.S. policy in Vietnam, a young lady suggested that the president e contacted immediately so that the troops might be out of Vietnam by morning. Then she noted that the President, showing his lack of concern for the situation, would probably be sleeping.

Sleep, however, must have also seemed the most responsible course to the crowd. Though some voices were raised in praise of the day, the audience was ready to go home.