Cbe Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1966
Number . 355
Hottelet Notes Difficult UN
Position
GUEST SPEAKER
Kenneth S. Armstrong (left), guest speaker night, is shown here chatting with a couple
for the Great Issues Series presentation to- of helicopter pilots in South Viet Nam.
Armstrong, Asian Observer
To Narrate Viet Nam Film
W orld Organization
Worn But Hopeful
South Viet Nam will be the
subject of correspondent Kenneth
S. Armstrong 1 in a Great Issues
Series presentation tonight.
Armstrong, an expert on South
east Asia, will show a document-
A college “drop-in” raccoon
got dropped out of circulation re
cently during an impromptu
“coon hunt” by several occupants
of Hart Hall.
THE YOUNG RACCOON
was first spotted near the back
door of B ramp of Hart by Bill
Pechanec, a mechanical engineer
ing major from Houston.
It quickly eluded Pechanec by
racing across the Nagle parking
lot and became “treed” just out
side the west door of the Physics
Building.
Pechanec’s story brought out
several Hart residents, 1 e d by
Bill Brumley with a burlap sack.
It quickly eluded Pechanec by
racing across the Nagle parking
ary color film and lecture at 8
p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
GREAT ISSUES CHAIRMAN
Steve Kovich said the specialist in
world affairs has spent more
lot and became “treed” just out
side the west door of the Physics
Building.
Pechanec’s story brought out
several Hart residents, led by
Bill Brumley with a burlap sack.
WITH THE HELP of several
of the 15 to 20 spectators, whose
arsenal included a flash light, a
mop, and much enthusiasm and
noise, Brumley soon had the ani
mal in his sack.
The raccoon turned out to be
more hungry than shaken by the
episode and soon settled down to
enjoying a dime pack of cookies.
The “bandit” was later given
to the Wildlife Department for
keeping.
than a year traveling throughout
South Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia
and Thailand since 1962.
Armstrong’s visit to A&M last
year was a highlight of the Great
Issues Series, Kovich pointed out.
Several hundred persons attended
Armstrong’s film-lecture.
Since 1960, Armstrong has shot
11 miles of film footage in South
east Asia.
HIS ARTICLES in the Cleve
land Plain Dealer indicate that
only through deeper knowledge
of the people, their history, re
ligion and customs, can one under
stand the events in South Viet
Nam.
Armstrong is a 1948 graduate
of Michigan University. For 13
years he was news and public
affairs director for WJW-TV,
Cleveland. His sphere of inter
est from 1956 to 1960 was Eur
ope, where he concentrated on
Russia and the satellite nations.
THE SPEAKER’S citations in
clude the Press Club of Cleveland
Award for outstanding reporting.
Tickets are available at the
Student Program Office and at
the door. A&M students with
activity cards are admitted free.
By JOHN FULLER
Batt News Editor
The United Nations is in grave
trouble, in a world that is in
grave trouble; but if there were
no UN today, one would have
to be invented.
This was the paradoxical con
clusion reached last night as
Richard C. Hottelet, Columbia
Broadcasting System U.N. Cor
respondent, offered the first pres
entation of this year’s Great Is
sues series in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
HOTTELET, who has served
in his present post for the past
six years, spoke on “The United
Nations on its 21st Anniversary.”
The organization takes Oct. 24,
1945 as its birthdate, he explain
ed, because the member nations
ratified the charter on that day.
Hottelet turned early in his
remarks to point out the contro
versial nature of the U.N. today,
particularly in the United States.
“THERE ARE people who say
the meeting in San Francisco
which produced the U.N. char
ter was the most important meet
ing since the Last Supper,” he
noted.
“On the other hand, there are
those who will inevitably attempt
to draw up a sort of scorecard
based on the accomplishments of
the last 21 years and call the
U.N. a dismal failure.”
HOTTELET ATTACKED those
he termed “cynics, who don’t
realize the destructive difference
between healthy skepticism and
cynicism,” adding that “this is
no time for wishful thinking or
flippant generalization.”
He emphasized the importance
of objective thinking where the
U.N. is concerned, warning again
st “illusions, escapism, and the
cave of fanaticism,” which are
Attorney General Waggoner
Carr, Democratic nominee for
United States senator, arrived in
College Station Wednesday after
noon on the Central Texas leg of
his campaign tour.
CARR WAS greeted by local
dignitaries including State Sena
tor Bill Moore, County Judge
William Davis, former Speaker
of the Texas House of Represent
ative Judge W. S. Barron, Brazos
County Sheriff J. W. Hamilton,
and local business executive Cecil
Culpepper.
Accompanying Carr to College
Station was State Senator Dr.
H. J. Blanchard of Lubbock.
CAR AND his party went to
the local television station, KBTX,
where he made a broadcast in
support of his candidacy for sen
ator.
able to influence opinions.
“The U.N. was never meant
to be a fairy godmother, to pull
people out of their individual
messes,” he asserted.
“Neither is it a world govern
ment, greater than the sum of
of its parts. A much stronger
organization would be needed to
impose a set of standards on the
world, and thus the standards
set forth in the charter have been
accepted by the nations of the
world in name only.”
BUT HOTTELET went on to
describe the accomplishments of
the past 21 years, pointing out
that “given the proper frame of
reference, the U.N. has func
tioned well.”
The Congo crisis of 1960 il
lustrated one important facet of
the U.N.'s capabilities, Hottelet
said.
This “vacuum-filling” ability
helped prevent a direct confront
ation between American and
Soviet forces in Africa, he assert
ed.
’’PREMIER Khrushchev was
the great gambler of the Krem
lin at that time,” Hottelet ex
plained. “He saw Patrice Lum
umba as the perfect vehicle to
run interference for him on the
international scene.”
The United States warned the
Russians that no open or covert
intrusion into Africa would be
tolerated, Hottelet went on, and
the stage was set for an open
collision when Russia threatened
to send in “volunteers.”
“BUT THE U.N. stepped in
and prevented a great war,” he
concluded, adding that the im
provised U.N. force sent in by
the late Dag Hammarskjold re
mains in the Congo today.
“The situation there today is
anything but perfect,” he noted,
Wednesday night Carr attend
ed a $10-a-plate dinner at the
Ramada Inn in College Station
given by the local members of
the Democratic party.
AN AUDIENCE of 350 at the
dinner listened to the candidate’s
comments on, among other things,
Viet Nam.
“We have shown patience, and
we seek an honorable peace,”
said Carr.
“But if all of President John
son’s effort for such a peace
are ignored, then it’s time to take
off the gloves and begin using
both hands and end this war,”
Carr said.
“OUR CAMPAIGN has really
caught fire these last two weeks.”
said Carr, “just like the Texas
Aggie football team.”
Raccoon ‘Drop-In’ Finally ‘Treed’
By Impromptu Dorm Coon Hunt
B-CS Carr Dinner Spearheads
Central Texas Senatorial Race
United Chest
1 50% To Goal
WHOOPING IT UP FOR UF
“Red Feather” Indians Kathy Robinette and Fritz, a dachs
hund, powwow in favor of the United Chest drive now
underway. Kathy, 7, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
Robinette, 3210 Green, Bryan. Fritz is one of the family,
too.
The College Station United
Chest fund drive is 47 per cent
complete with two days to go,
officials announced Wednesday.
Drive Director James E. (Joc
ko) Roberts said about $10,000
has been donated, with several
large departments at Texas A&M
still to report.
“One called me yesterday for
more envelopes and material, so
we may get some unexpected
boosts when they report,” he said.
The Oct. 10-21 drive has a
$21,000 goal.
“Though some people are not
personally solicitor, we expect
them to contribute,” Roberts add
ed.
Associate Director George
Taack estimated contributions
“are coming in a little slower than
last year, though the rate has
been pretty steady.” The 1965
United Chest drive reached its
goal in eight days, one over the
allotted time.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
OPEN WIDE CADET
Capt. Charles Lewis, M. D. checks cadet Thomas D. Faver
of 703 Eagle Pass, Bryan, as Air Force physicals for sopho
mores continue at the University Hospital. The doctors,
from Bergstron AFB, handle approximately 60 cadets a day
to check physical qualifications for the Air Force contract
program,
RICHARD C. HOTTELET
“but the Congo is no worse off
than the other African nations
and Africa was not the scene
of World War III.”
Another function of the organ
ization has been as a “shock ab
sorber,” as in the Korean Con
flict, Hottelet said.
“FOR THE U.S. to go into the
Asian mainland so soon after a
world war would have been high
ly inadvisable to say the least,”
he asserted. “The U.N. forces,
though largely American troops,
were able to go in without bring
ing about such an awkward inter
national situation.”
Furthermore, the U.N. played a
“modest but very useful role”
in the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis,
as a “third party,” through which,
according to Hottelet, most of the
negotiations that led to a peace
ful settlement were carried out.
As a “center for aid and de
velopment,” the organization has
helped new countries become ac
cepted as equals, Hottelet added.
Finnally, the U.N.’s “forum”
function has seen its application
in setting up a “Court of World
Opinion,” in the late Adlai Ste
venson’s phrase, during the mis
sile crisis.
One of the biggest difficul
ties faced during the 21 troubled
years since the founding of the
U.N. has been its own internal
problem, Hottelet said.
He discussed the Soviet pres
sure on Secretary-General U
Thant and the organization’s fin
ancial problems, noting that nei
ther problem has a readily-visible
solution.
“U Thant has never indicated
definitely whether he will seek
election to another five-year
term,” Hottelet pointed out, “and
who his successor might be is
currently the $64 million ques
tion.”
He said the only candidate be
ing mentioned prominently is the
current General Assembly presi
dent, a Pakistani delegate.
Hottelet termed the 1964 de
cision to shelve the debt claims
against the U.S.S.R. as a “phony
and feeble deal,” adding that
when the situation comes up
again, he feels the U.S. will not
take a similar stand.
SUMMING UP his remarks,
Hottelet said the main function
of the U.N. during the past 21
years has been to “buy time until
man comes to his senses” — and,
he added, “There is already much
to indicate that we have begun
to face reality in respect to
large-scale conflicts.”
Hottelet emphasized his convic
tion that the U.S. must not aban
don the U. N. Quoting former
President Harry Thurman’s say
ing, “If you can’t stand the heat,
get out of the kitchen,” he said
there are only two alternatives
in our present situation.
“EITHER WE CAN face up to
our responsibilities as a world
power,” he concluded, “or we can
get out of the kitchen — but we’ll
be carried out in the garbage
pail of history.”
Storm Provides
Cruise Research
By JAMES PLAKE
Battallion Special Writer
Hurricane Inez forced the A&M
research vessel “Alaminos” to
change course and seek refuge in
Vera Cruz, Mexico, it was re
vealed this week.
OFFICIALLY labeled Cruise
14, the expedition remained in the
Mexican port about 36 hours, then
went back into the western part
of the Gulf of Mexico along the
same stopping points it had
visited before the storm.
This was the first time any
where in the world biologists have
been able to compare the water
masses before, and immediately
after the effects of a full force
hurricane.
IN ADDITION to the record
set by the biological research ex
pedition in investigating the ef
fects of the hurricane, A&M set
another record: For the first
time, three Mexican scientists
were on board the “Alaminos”
participating in the research.
DOCTORS Guillermo Saledo
Chavez, Hector Romero, and
Jesus Macias Ortiz used their
experience from past work at the
marine biology station in Vera
Cruz and the biology station at
Tampico in the research con
ducted on the cruise.
Dr. Sayed Z. El-Sayed, chief
scientist, explained the presence
of the visitors on the ship.
“WE WANT TO foster future
cooperation between Texas A&M
and Mexico in the field of Bio
logical Oceanography.”
Cruise 14 set out from Galves
ton October 3. It traveled to the
western part of the Gulf along a
route connecting predetermined
points.
“The overall objective of the
cruise was to study the biological
productivity of the western Gulf
of Mexico and how it was affected
by the continental shelf in that
area,” Dr. El-Sayed said.
“WE WANTED to make an
assessment of the production
potential of plants in that region.
Many tests were run using the
relatively new Carbon 14 testing
technique.
Chemical aspects of the sea
were also observed. The scientists
took specimens along the route
to investigate the effects of tem
perature, salinity, and light on
the productivity of the area of the
western Gulf.
“WE ALSO hoped to continue
our research on the chemical
constituents of water, with spe
cial emphasis on the distribution
and concentration of nutrient
salts such as phosphates, silicates,
and nitrates,” Dr. El-Sayed said.
“We also measured the depths
to which light penetrated the sea
with a submarine photo-meter.”
IN ADDITION to the three
visitors, the crew of scientific
personnel consisted of Dr. Sayed
Z. El-Sayed, chief scientist; Wil-
(See Storm, Page 5)