S. Vietnamese Ambassador Will Speak at Teach-In

In an attempt to combat the overwhelming prevalence of "force-fed" antiwar feeling at Harvard, the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Just Peace will sponsor a "Counter-Teach-In" at 8 p. m. Friday at Sanders Theatre, according to Laszlo Pasztor Jr. '73, chairman of the group.

Pasztor, also chairman of H-R YAF, said yesterday that the ad-hoc group is composed of members of the H-R Young Republicans and the University Centers for Rational Alternatives (UCRA), a group which concerns itself solely with the issue of University disturbances, in addition to members of Harvard YAF.

Despite the overlapping membership of the groups, Pasztor said that no group had officially sanctioned the conservative-oriented teach-in.

The list of speakers is headed by Bui Diem, South Vietnamese Ambassador to the U. S.; Anan Sandering Ham, Royal Thai Ambassador to the U. S.; and Dolph Droge, chief White House advisor on Vietnam.

I. Milton Sacks, outspoken pro-South Vietnamese professor of Government at Brandeis, and Dan Teodoru, Eastern regional director for the National Student Co-Ordinating Committee for Freedom in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, will also speak.

Radical groups at Harvard are planning to take actions against the teach-in. Amy Brodkey '71 said last night that the H-R Liberation Alliance would "not prevent anyone from speaking" but would probably meet at 7 p. m. in an attempt to pack the meeting.

Picket Proposed

Alan Garfinkel, a third-year graduate student, said that the University Action Group was "calling on all members of the antiwar movement to come to Sanders an hour early to prevent these people from speaking." He said that an obstructive picket line was among the actions UAG was considering.

When asked about the possibility of disruption, Pasztor said it was the University's responsibility to "take all the necessary precautions of security." If there are any disruptions, Pasztor said, there were individuals in the group whowould not only file charges with the CRR but would also "press charges in court against any action with criminal intent."

When asked about the ostensible futility of having such obvious prewar speakers at Harvard, Pasztor asserted that "the facts will speak for themselves." He said that he had come to this conclusion after visiting South Vietnam for nine days over Christmas vacation.

Sponsored Sightseeing

Pasztor's trip was sponsored by Teodoru's organization which Pasztor said paid for all of his transportation and lodging and most of his meals while he was in Vietnam.

Teodoru's wife said last night in a telephone interview from New York that three groups under the Committee's sponsorship had gone to South Vietnam from the end of the summer until Pasztor's trip last December. Teodoru himself could not be reached for comment.

Both Pasztor and Mrs. Teodoru agreed that the trips had been sponsored by the Committee for Freedom in Vietnam, and that the non-profit organization - which according to Pasztor acts only as an "information-providing and trip-sponsoring organization"-had not paid for the trips.

But they disagreed on the source of the money. Pasztor said that he understood the South Vietnamese World Affairs Council had defrayed the costs of the trip from donations the group received. He did however admit that he was not really sure where the money for his trip came from.

Mrs. Teodoru claimed that the Vietnam Council of Foreign Relations had paid for the trip that she and her husband had taken along with seven other people earlier in 1970. She described the Council as "a literature-disseminating and information group," and was unsure as to where they were getting their money.