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Apollo 16 astronauts land on moon tient lent PACE CENTER, Houston Two American astronauts ed safely on the moon Thurs- ay night to begin an expedition was temporarily threatened failure in the main engine he Apollo 16 command ship, [per. W landing was only possible, said, because engineers rapidly mobilized on “the and west coasts and points in between” to study and solve the engine problem in less than six hours. “Orion is finally here, Hous ton,” exclaimed Charles M. Duke Jr. moments after he and John W. Young achieved man’s fifth landing on the moon and began a scientific exploration of a plateau high in the lunar moun tains. They became the 9th and 10th Americans to make the lunar landing. The six-hour delay of the land ing caused a likely cancellation of the third moon walk, origi nally scheduled for Saturday, and forced postponement of the first walk until Friday afternoon at 12:22 p.m., EST. Apollo program director Rocco Petrone said it was necessary to rapidly review studies, tests and spaceflight results within a very short time to determine whether it was, in fact, safe to proceed with the landing. James McDivitt, the program manager at the space center here, said that at one point “I thought we had lost the mission,” but that a study of data, in telephone con ferences, showed the malfunction could be corrected. As a result, Young and Duke were given a go-ahead and they College Station, Texas guided their moon lander, Orion, in a long curving descent from orbit and brought it to rest among the Descartes Mountains. The astronauts did not land precisely on target, but they were delighted with thir final landing site. “We don’t have to walk far to pick up rocks,” said Young, the commander. “We’re among ’em.” Flight director Jerry Griffin said the landing appeared to be about 650 feet way from the targeted point. “Hats off and a case of beer to Fido. Targeting just beauti ful!” Duke exclaimed. “You guys put us right in there. That was superb.” Fido referred to the flight dy namics officer at Mission Control. The third Apollo 16 astronaut, Thomas K. Mattingly II, re- Cloudy and warm mained in lunar orbit aboard the command ship, Casper. It was aboard Mattingly’s ship that a mysterious little compo nent almost canceled the moon landing on the $475 million mis sion. The component is part of the electrical - mechanical system which controls a back-up steer ing system on Casper. It mal- (See Apollo, page 3) SATURDAY — Cloudy morn, partly cloudy afternoon. Wind north 10-15 m.p.h. High 76, low 57. SUNDAY—Party cloudy. Wind easterly 5-10 m.p.h. High 79, low 61. Friday, April 21, 1972 845-2226 Paine elected senior class president in runoff vote Hank Paine nudged out Bill Darkoch by 47 votes in the gen eral election runoff Thursday to take over the office of senior class president. His vice-president will be Jim Green, who defeated Russell Phil lips by a 30-vote margin. Results for the other positions are as follows: Senior Class Officers President Hank Paine—220 Bill Darkoch—173 Vice President Jim Green—180 Russell Phillips—150 Secretary-Treasurer Robert Lee—235 Robert Grady—120 MSC Representative Jerry Elmer—199 Juan Gonzalez—181 Junior Class Officers President David Carpenter—303 Ray Huffines—262 Vice President Mike Turner—261 Gary Sauer—257 MSC Representative John Pledger—311 Ray Marshall—213 Sophomore Class Officers President Louie Gohmert—412 Terry Brown—172 Vice President Dan Anderson—408 Jess Bowman—153 Civilian Student Council Second Vice President Paul Gugenheim—409 Roland Love—342 Secretary Bill Suter—402 Ralph Houy—279 Keathley-Hughes Tom Locke^—81 Bill Kemp—61 Chet Edwards—60 College of Business Graduate Paul Ammons—23 Ken Walsh—7 College of Education Senior Bill White—21 Robert Lee—21 College of Vet Medicine Pre-Vet Mike Klem—45 Carol Silverthorne—38 Robert Olmstead—12 TV. Vietnam demand to withdraws stop bombing of many events that comprises Civilian Week. McGregor won $10 by defeating his opponents. (Photo by Mike Rice) hits U of Maryland imt .OR' * rOMTE S HUGS' , HE ASSOCIATED PRESS National Guardsmen were or- red to the University of Mary- campus Thursday after fee consecutive nights of vio- nt student protest against the ped bombing of North Viet- m. The commander of the Mary- I National Guard said 140 ions were taken into custody n they failed to observe a 9 to 7 a.m. curfew enacted as , Marvin Mandel declared a !e of emergency and sent the to the College Park cam- (cross the nation, there were ar demonstrations at more n a dozen campuses. No violence was reported on e Maryland campus Thursday [lit as 200 guardsmen, working >th two floodlight-equipped >ps and a helicopter, moved Foss campus to enforce the cur- lout 1,000 students, part of earlier candlelight march for te that had attracted between |o and 3,000 participants at its were sitting on the grass le university’s main mall. Maryland Adjutant Gen. Ed win Warfield III used a bull horn to urge students to leave the area. “I have no choice but to arrest you if you don’t leave, and I don’t want to do that,” he said. Most of the students then dis persed. In Washington, three Episcopal bishops conducted an hour-long mass inside the Pentagon Thurs day to protest the war. It was the first antiwar protest permit ted inside the building. under a recent court order barring the government from interfering with public meetings that oppose its policies. Vandalism broke out in Madi son, Wis., again Thursday fol lowing an antiwar rally at the University of Wisconsin. Au thorities reported an occasional broken window and said they used tear gas to disperse crowds in the streets near the campus. Police estimated 4,000 persons attended the rally. In Cambridge, Mass., some 2,- 000 Harvard University students voted Thursday night to stay away from classes and suspend other normal campus activities for an indefinite period. Earlier in the day Friday classes were cancelled at Columbia University. The Harvard vote came as sev eral black students occupied the administration building to dram atize demands that Harvard get rid of nearly $19 million worth of Gulf Oil Corp. stock. They de manded the university divest it self of the stock as a means of withdrawing support of Portu guese colonialism in Angola. Gulf Room assignment changes may be asked Apr. 25-28 Students who are dissatisfied with their fall semester room as signment may request a different room or hall at the Housing Of fice, room 101, YMCA, from 1 p.m. April 25 through April 28. “Requests for change will be given full consideration, depend ing upon the housing requirements for incoming freshman,” Housing Manager Allan Madeley said. has investments in the Portu guese colony. Before ordering the National Guard onto the Maryland cam pus, Gov. Mandel said, “Pm fed up with this violence and de struction of public and private property, and I fully intend to see that it ends.” He blamed “a handful” of the university’s 35,- 000 students for the disorders. PARIS (AP)—North Vietnam withdrew on Thursday its demand that the United States cease bombing the North before regular and secret sessions of the Vietnam peace conference resume. At the same time, North Vietnam made public its hitherto secret record of 1968 negotiations with the United States under which bombing of the North ceased, leading to the start of the peace conference in early 1969. The United States has always contended that the bombing halt was conditioned on reduction of military activity by the North Vietnamese and that this was laid down in an understanding. The North Vietnamese have said the United States agreed to stop the bombing unconditionally. Until now, no written account of the 1968 negotia tions has been made public. The eased conditions for resumption of the talks and the revival of the old dispute over the bombing halt were discussed at a news conference by Xuan Thuy, head of the North Vietnamese delegation to the peace talks. The United States broke off the talks nearly a month ago. Three days ago, Thuy had told newsmen that North Vietnam demanded a simultaneous halt in the bombing of the North and attendance by the United States at regular weekly semipublic sessions of the peace talks. Then, Thuy said, there would be a possibility for new secret talks and Politburo member Le Due Tho would return to Paris. Thuy also told reporters he wouldn’t go to a new session if the bombing continued. Thuy varied the scenario for fresh talks. He told reporters: “The United States must participate in the Paris conference April 27. If the bombing continues, we will continue to protest.” Asked whether Tho would return to Paris and resume secret talks with President Nixon’s national security adviser Henry A. Kissinger, Thuy replied: “We must wait for the U.S. response.” There was no immediate comment from the U.S. delegation. Dr. Noyes claims U.S. is committing war crimes LOCAL -ner :15PJL S” (R) otorcycle races planned uring Civilian Weekend otorcycle races are sched- Saturday at A&M in con- ction with Civilian Student ik. anctioned by the American tircycle Association, the 12 n event on the east side of TAMU campus will feature Ifessional riders of Fort irth, Dallas, San Antonio and iston, as well as 20 local en- ,ce coordinator Randy Rich- ls said spectators are invited iew the races free of charge. niversity National Bank n the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. A 20-lay race over a 1.3-mile course will be run for each of four classes. Richards noted spectators are asked to sit on the TAMU Sys tem Building lawn or along the east entrance boulevard. “Spectators may not cross the street either to get to the Sys tem building lawn or leave it once a race has b e g u n,” he warned. Ample opportunity will be provided between races. The race official also noted that the east entrance to the campus will be closed, with a patrolman blockading it at Texas Hwy. 6, until about 2:45 p.m. “Drivers going to the Maroon- White spring football game (3 p.m.) should plan to use another route,” he emphasized. The race course will start and end near Parking Lot 50, across Bizzell Street from the Zachry Engineering Center. Cyclists will run south on Bizzell behind the System building, turn east at Bizzell and Lamar between the golf course and Teague building and take the wide curve to the east boulevard. Racers will make a 180-degree turn near Highway 6 and curve around the north side of the System building to return on Bizzell to the starting point. The competition will be for $150 in trophies and other prizes, Richards said. Scientists are responsible not only for seeing that their work does not contribute to war crimes, but that technology-produced power serves all people rather than the elite-ruling class. “If science and technology is aimed to reside power in a ruling elite, then people have a right to suspect it,” Dr. H. Pierre Noyes said in a Political Forum address Thursday at A&M. The Stanford nuclear physicist has attacked war technology and the Vietnam war as illegal by def inition of the United Nations charter to which the United States agreed. “Once it is clear the govern ment is committing war crimes —and the evidence is ample—we must refuse to cooperate with agencies promoting it,” Noyes said. “Those who fail to resist or resign in protest are themselves guilty of the same crimes.” - Noyes believes most of Amer ica’s current and recent leaders, if tried on the same basis as war criminals at Nuremberg, could be convicted and executed for v/ar crimes in Southeast Asia. He favors the representative democratic form of government, but says it no longer exists in the United States. Ours has be come a class-oriented, pluralistic society with power held by small elite groups, he claimed. A Noyes suit, pending in a Palo Alto, Calif., federal appeals court, charges Americans are being forced to pay taxes to support illegal war activities. “Only by the people exercising their residual rights can we have a representative government in this country,” Noyes stated. He said he chose to work through the court “because I am older and more conservative than some in the system.” Noyes said that “what Gold- water and Wallace say about re turning power to the people coin cides with what I say, strange as it may seem.” He told a Political Forum audi ence of 141 students and faculty that lack of concern by people has led to the situation in which a clearly unpopular war can be con tinued. Part of the problem, he maintained, is that Congress has allowed the executive branch to usurp its powers, particularly in terms of defining war. He said archaeological finds show no record of war until man became a cooperative, tool-using species and began food produc tion. “Men and ants make Avar for the same reason,” the TAMU speaker said, “because they store food. Morality is relative to social classes and institutions.” “But we have reached the point where these historically-develop ed institutions are against the survival of the human species and the surface of the earth,” Noyes added. Dr. H. Pierre Noyes