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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)