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Ditti eckt: i P>‘ etca': ! Che Battalion Pro- Or- nso! ueiiu ’ubli- luild- Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1966 Number 380 Keynoter Defines NATO’s Mission REVIEW A&M Corps of Cadets passes in review be fore SCONA XII delegates Wednesday. National Draft Conference Calls For Volunteer Army By SEYMOUR M. HERSH CHICAGO UP> — A national conference completed its four-day examination of the military draft Wednesday with a call, in effect, for a far-reaching shake-up of the Selective Service System and a strong endorsement of an all volunteer army as a leading alternative. Under rules adopted before the final session, no specific recom mendations or agreements were Showdown Seen In Red Chinese Power Struggle BELGRADE, Yugoslavia <•£*> — Peng Chen, once a powerful mem ber of Red China’s Politburo, has been arested in Peking, Tanjug news agency of Yugoslavia re ported Wednesday. This might mean a showdowwn is near in the struggle for power among Chin ese Communist leaders. As far as is known, Peng, the former mayor of Peking, is the first to be arrested of those leaders singled out for attack for not hewing to the line of par ty Chairman Mao Tse-tung. In a dispatch from Peking, Tanjug said Red Guards began announcing through loudspeak ers: “Peng Chen was arrested three days ago, and upon first meeting Red Guards he proved to be a paper tiger.” The Red Guards are teen-ag ers mobilized by Mao and his heir apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao, to push the purge which is called “the great proletarian cultural revolution.” Peng was ousted as mayor of Peking and chief of the Peking Communist party last spring in the opening stages of the cur rent purge. Tanjug said Peng’s arrest was believed to be a new form of threat for other leaders follow ing what their critics inside the party call “that reactionary line.” reported by the conferees—but the wide areas of consensus were apparent: —The existing draft system is unfair and arbitrary and must be drastically revised or elimi nated. —Student and occupational de ferments must end. —Congress should undertake next year an intensive study of the feasibility of an all-volunteer professional army, estimated to cost between $4 billion and $17 billion above present costs. If a study proves the professional army is feasible, Congress should replace the draft with a “transi tional system” designed to bring more volunteers into the military. More than 100 scholars, gov ernment specialists and students took part in the conference, organized by the University of Chicago because of increasing public concern. The case against the draft was summarized by Prof. Roger W. Little of the University of Illinois at Chicago, who recommended a complete reorganization of the functions of the local draft boards to “make them more com patible with reality.” Local autonomy of draft boards has been criticized as fostering varying standards that are ap plied capriciously. Little, whose presentation re ceived near-unanimous applause —one indication of the confer ence’s feelings—called for the elimination of student and occu pational deferments, enlarged registration pools to encourage uniformity in draft calls, and a selective service-initiated public education program to alert 18- year-olds to all facets of the pro gram. Col. Dee Ingold, a Selective Service official who represented its director, Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, at the meeting, praised the session and said he would take a number of new ideas back to Washington. As originally envisioned, the draft conference would have pre pared a list of specific recom mendations for the National Commission on Selective Service, a special panel appointed by President Johnson to report on the nation’s draft laws by next month. Because parts of the present laws will expire in June, Johnson is expected to make a sweeping proposal to Congress early next session. The national commission was represented at the conference by its executive director, Bradley H. Patterson, who told the conferees his agency would carefully con sider the results of the session. There have been published re ports that the commission already has made its decisions, but Pat terson assured the conference “the commission’s ears are still open.” The overwhelming sentiment in favor of an all-volunteer army, chiefly advocated by economist Milton Friedman of the Univers ity of Chicago, emerged as the most surprising development of the meeting. An informal survey conducted by other boosters of the program, including Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, R.-Ill., showed 64 of the conferees in favor and four against. About 40 panel members, many of them government employees, did not vote. By JERRY GRISHAM Battalion Staff Writer John T. McNaughton said Wed nesday that Europe is in a state of dynamic evolution, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion is a vital driving force be hind the changing Continent. McNaughton, assistant U. S. Secretary of Defense for Inter national Security Affairs, pre sented the keynote address to 150 delegates to the 12th Stu dent Conference on National Af fairs in the ballroom of the Me morial Student Center. He set as the goal of this evo lution a Europe unified and in complete harmony and coopera tion with the rest of the world. According to McNaughton, a pos sible result could be the elimina tion of the Iron Curtain in Europe. “NATO CAN PLAY a vital role in the European evolution now under way,” McNaughton said. “It is the alliance which has kept the Federal Republic of Germany free, and it is the alli ance which has bound up the wounds of war.” McNaughton said that through NATO the United States has be come as much a part of Europe as France or Great Britain. The U. S. is vital to the NATO na tions, and according to McNaugh ton, no political leader in Europe has asked the U. S. to relinquish such important responsibilities as the veto of nuclear weapons. He emphasized that while Statistics Staff Receives $16,000 Research Grant Texas A&M’s Graduate Insti tute of Statistics has been award ed a one-year $16,000 research grant by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Dr. H. O. Hartley, institute |lirector, said the Burteau of Census project is concerned with development of statistical meth ods for automated data editing. Project supervisor is Dr. R. J. Freund, associate director of the institute. He said the research is a sequel to an earlier project in the same area successfully completed by the institute. Berkeley Protest Ends With A Truce Firfer To Discuss Dominican Project Alexander Firfer, director of AIR-Pominican Republic, will meet with Texas officials Mon day to discuss the university’s contract for technical assistance in the Caribbean country. Planning, development and re view of the program will be car ried out, announced Dr. Jack D. Gray, International Programs director. The International Pro grams office administers the Agency for International De velopment contract at A&M. During the one-day visit, Fir fer will confer with Agriculture Dean R. E. Patterson, Animal Science Department Head Dr. O. D. Butler on livestock programs, Price Hopgood, head of agricul tural engineering on grain stor age, and Dr. Earl Knebel, Agricultural Education Depart ment head. President Earl Rudder hosts a dinner for Firfer Monday even ing. Dr. Jarvis Miller, party chief in the Republic, will attend ses sions with Firfers and A&M of ficials. A&M’s AID-Dominican Repub lic contract was set up to intro duce modem agriculture methods in the country. It specifies 33 positions for instructors, special ists and administrators. Under a participant training program, 36 Dominican Republic students are studying in various agricul ture majors at A&M. A&M has been involved in the institution-building program in the Republic 18 months, Dr. Gray said. By LEIF ERICKSON BERKELEY, Calif. <AP) _ An unhappy truce prevailed Wed nesday on the University of Cailfornia’s revolt-tom campus with the ending of a five-day classroom boycott. But rebel leaders insisted the protest will be renewed in the new School term after Christ mas. The Board of Regents on Tues day night ordered the firing of all teachers staying on strike. The decree, issued after an emer gency regents’ session, had quick effect. Teaching assistant members of the AFL-CIO American Fed eration of Teachers — specific target of the regents’ decree — voted a “conditional suspension” of their strike. ABOUT 600 striking students then voted a “temporary recess” in their walkout protesting a clash of noncampus police and demonstrators in the Student Union building one week ago. Sheriff’s deputies arrested three students and six nonstu dents. A sit-in and fight had started over the presence of a Navy recruiting team. Campus police had blocked the attempt of an antidraft group to set up a propaganda table alongside the Navy recruiters. An angry regents’ minority led by Edwin W. Pauley, Los Angeles oil man, demanded the firing of all teachers who had participated in the classroom boy cott since Nov. 30. PAULEY’S PROPOSAL for re- NATO is a definite part of the structure of European and Amer ican unity, it is not the end re sult of the European evolution. THE BOUNDARIES of the na tions of Europe today are more like those between the states in this country, and that cooperation among the European nations like the Common Market are steps along the road to forming a loose ly confederated “United States of Europe,” he continued. Eastern Europe was not being excluded from plans of a united Europe, he pointed out. “We cannot speak any longer of the nations of East Europe as Soviet Satellites but rather as Soviet allies,” he said. He said that the U. S. would welcome any form of cooperation between the two Europes. The end result of such cooperation he said could be the dissolving of the Iron Cur tain. Freshman Voting To Close At 5:30 Balloting continues until 5:30 p.m. today in the freshman elec tions being conducted in the base ment of the Memorial Student Center. Election Commission Chair man Jack Myers has urged fresh men to meet or exceed last year’s voting turnout, proportionally the largest of any campus election. Freshmen will elect a persi- dent, vice-president, secretary- treasurer, social secretary, three Student Senate posts, and five Election Commission positions from a list of 36 candidates. McNAUGHTON PROPOSED six steps in attaining European unit: the continuing growth and prosperity of West Europe; the removal of the East European nations from the rule of the So viet Union; harmony and friend ship throughout all of Europe and the reunification of , Ger many; a partnership including the United States, Europe, and possibly the Soviet Union; a workable arms control; and the elimination of nuclear weapons. He predicted that the next 10 years could see the realization of a unified Europe. Tonight’s presentation will be a panel discussion, “NATO—Re vise or Abandon?” It will be in the MSC Ballroom at 8:00 p.m. Yves Rodrigues, British consul general for Texas, and Gen. Rob ert J. Smith, former board chair man of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, will make up the panel. KEYNOTE SPEAKER John T. McNaughton, assistant secretary of defense speaks to SCONA XII delegation in keynote address Wednesday. SCONA Keynote Speaker Shorted By Landing Strip troactive firing was rejected 13- 4. Total amnesty remained a key demand of the teaching as sistants — graduate students paid for classroom teaching while they work for doctorate degrees. Mario Savio, a leader as a stu dent in the 1964 Free Speech Movement sit-in resulting in 755 arrests, was a nonstudent lead er in the just-ended boycott. His application to erturn as a grad uate student has been rejected. Scholarship, Grant Given By Mobil Oil A Mobil Oil Foundation grant of $1,300 has been made to Texas A&M University for a chemical engineering scholarship to Danny M. Clifton and a departmental grant, announced Engineering Dean Fred J. Benson. Clifton, senior chemical engi neering major from Valley View, was awarded an $800 scholarship for the 1966-67 school year. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Clifton, Valley View, a distin guished student, member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and recipient of other awards, among them A&M’s Op portunity Award. The $500 unrestricted grant may be used as the department deems necessary, noted Dr. C. D. Holland, chemical engineering head. Kevin Rinard of San Antonio, transportation chairman for the 12th Student Conference on Na tional Affairs at Texas A&M University, got more than he bar gained for Wednesday. Keynote speaker John T. Mc Naughton, assistant U. S. Secre tary of Defense, flew in from Washington at 12:45 p.m. to make a 1:15 p.m. address. He needed to be in the air again by 2:30 to fill a speaking engage ment at a Foreign Relations Council Banquet Wednesday eve ning in New York. Problems began to mushroom quickly. McNaughton was to fly to Easterwood Airport on a Jet Star VC-140. No problems were expected on landing the aircraft, but government officials were concerned about the length of the runway for the refueled craft. Guy Smith, airport manager, said Easterwood Airport has a 5,150-foot runway. To solve the problem of the “short” runway, arrangements were made for the Jet Star to ■■■I take off immediately after de livering McNaughton. The plane was to fly to Waco, presumably Connally Air Force Base, for re fueling. A Fourth Army airplane, a U8F, was dispatched from San Antonio to fly McNaughton to Waco where he was to reboard the Jet Star. It was Rinard’s task also to arrange a police escort for Mc- Naughton’s speedy trip from A&M’s Memorial Student Center to Easterwood Airport following the address. Power Failure Hits Campus Electricity was the exception rather than the rule Tuesday afternoon as a switch failure caused all but the west side of the campus to go dead. The switch, a four-inch piece of wire with a small plastic con nection, failed, and the automatic controls caused the main boiler to shut off. This ended the steam to one of the two large generators and power was cut by two-thirds. “A 3000-kilowatt generator was always in service, but the larger one was out. We had to tie into the Bryan system for extra pow er,” Charles S. Skillman, assist ant director of maintenance and facilities, said. If it is possible, the west side of the campus is always supplied with power because of the needs of the hospital. There are 10 other circuits that would be cut before the hospital’s power is cut. The power was not fully re stored for two hours but much of the power was in service with in minutes. “It is very unusual to have a part of this nature fail and we are going to investigate further into this matter,” Skillman said. YOU’D BETTER WATCH HIM Fred Waring and two of his Pennsylvanian performance at G. Rollie White. (Batt. troupe provide a comic moment during their photo by Russell Autrey)