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.