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The nation's second National Student Symposium on U. S. Foreign Policy was called to order at PSU April10. It was a four day session with 100 Portland State students, 100 Oregon students , and 100 out-of– state students joined as delegates in composing 17 policy statements for Congress and the Nixon ad– ministration. It was speeches by Wayne Morse; Alex Campbell, the New Republic editor; Cove Oliver, U. S. career diplomat; and Governor Tom McCall. It was talk of change with hope for action. Ap– proximately 330 students attended seminars con– cerning such developments as post-war policy in Southeast Asia, disarmament, arms control in the Middle East, and settlement of the Vietnam War. Proceeding with informal debates , it ended with a formal plenary session where 12 resolutions passed and five failed. Resolutions advocated, among other things, a world legislature to enact statutes govern– ing the high seas and sea bottom, inner and outer space; a unilateral phase of arms reduction by the U. S. in Eastern Europe; an expansion of the Paris Peace Talks reinforced by the termination of all offensive U. S. maneuvers and the reduction of American troops now in combat and support facili– ties in Vietnam. The Symposium, sponsored by William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee, aimed to involve stu– dents of va~ied political backgrounds in formulating concrete solutions to future U. S. foreign policy. The result, a transcription of the plenary session, was published in May and forwarded to Capitol Hill. 127