University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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CONTENTS Color Photo Essay Academics . . . Student Life Athletics Students Common Interest Indexes and Advertising TYEE STAFF Editor Business Manager Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Layout Manager Copy Editor Office Manager Managing Editor Photography Manager Jean Purcell Joan Zimmerman Bobbie Hiscock Margaret Lewis Marilyn McMeekin Bill Powers Harold Winther Kirsten Wedin Ginger Marvin Penny Ginther Audris Skuja

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T The World In Relation . . . 1962 The Cold War which has created at the same time unprece- dented hopes for progress and fears of total destruction con- tinued to impose its strange paradoxical nature on the world This ideological struggle is the underlying if not the direct cause of the major events of this period. 1961 and the early part of 1962 if anything produced worsening relations be- tween the Free Nations and the Communist Bloc. The Berlin situation represented the low point in these rela- tions. Berlin was the only place where East and West could meet freely. A city of dramatic contrast between two con- flicting economic and political systems, it was the only Western offensive position within the Iron Curtain. But this became history on August 13, 1961— a day when East Ger- many, unable to stand the crippling exodus of refugees, divided the city with a barbed-wire barricade. The Western powers vowed to protect their rights in West Berlin at any cost . . . the East Germans insisted that Berlin be made a free city. President Kennedy called several National Guard and reserve units to active duty, and the nation prepared to face the possibility of war. On October 27, 1961, American and Russian military power faced each other for the first time in history. But in time, and amid the ultimatums, vows, and provocations, the situation cooled and finally stalemated— leaving a permanent cinder wall between East and West. Berlin showed something else besides East-West strife— the satellite countries now have leverage in the Kremlin. Khrushchev apparently did not want to risk war over Berlin. East Germany could not afford to continue losing its labor force to the West. The East Germans were able to pressure Khrushchev into allowing the border closing, but the Germans —not the Kremlin— strung the barbed wire. Russian military forces remained outside the city until the move seemed successful. Some Western second-guessers feel that the Com- munists were not ready to defend their move, that the West could have knocked down the barricade as if it were merely a traffic restriction. . Another highly signlficanf ' ffdndm ' fhe Commuhist WSl for the first time, discussed openly in 1961-62: there is a growing ideological rift between the Soviet Union and Red China. The Red Chinese— faced with the need to develop industrial power and feed a sizable portion of the world ' s population— are more Stalinistic ' more aggressive, and per- haps more importantly, less worried about the effects of a nuclear war. The Soviet Union has conversely developed an industrial economy and is now ready to turn to consumer