AP News Analysis
Russia Won’t Rock The Boat
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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, November 8, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Special Correspondent
Russian officialdom has not
made a secret of its dislike and
distrust of Richard M. Nixon,
but there seems implicit in the
signals this week that Moscow
recognizes it must live with him
four years, at least.
With some qualifications, they
seem to be indicating they will
avoid rocking the boat too much
in a quest for lessened tensions.
In his speech marking the an
niversary of the Bolshevik take
over of Russia, Defense Minister,
Andrei A. Crechko omitted the
usual ceremonial attack on the
United States and even avoided
mentioning Vietnam.
IN THE anniversary eve speech,
Politburo member Kirill T. Mazu
rov’s speech attached “great im-
Aftermath
Election Day 1968 is gone but far from forgotten, as
the news analyses today and in many days to come would
indicate. There just wasn't any way, during the past three
months, to escape that all-pervading awareness that we were
about to elect a whole batch of Our Nation’s Leaders. A
couple of times there, we caught ourselves singing “The
Spiro of Agnewland”; presumably, that means the vice
president-elect succeeded in that “household-word” effort
after all.
At any rate, there’s not a lot we can say editorially
about the election that won’t be, or hasn’t been, said analyt
ically. One observation seems in order, though: A&M
didn’t necessarily “hibernate” through another election, as
we gloomily predicted during October. The Political Forum’s
Student Presidential Preference Poll produced a near-record
turnout, indicating a surprising absence of apathy here, as
in the rest of the nation. The whopping majority given Paul
Eggers in the gubernatorial portion of the poll, coupled with
similar returns from other Texas schools, demonstrates a
trend toward two-party politics in Texas. The strong vote
for Pat Paulsen (who finished just one vote out of fourth
place among the tickets, right behind Eugene McCarthy)
was gratifying to the Political Science 439 students studying
Marshall McLuhan. And last, but most emphatically not
least, the two presidential write-in votes for Gene Stallings
were a dramatic indication of the power of the bumper
sticker.
By MONTY STANLEY
Residents of Bowyer Hall at
Southern Illinois University re
cently set the record for NCAA
“John - stuffing - ” when they
crammed 36 female bodies into
a bathroom five feet wide, seven
feet long, and seven and one-half
feet high. Said Texas Tech’s
newspaper, which got the origi
nal scoop, the residents of SIU’s
Pierce Hall hold the male record
of 35 in the same space. There
are some freshmen here who
might contest the worthiness of
these records since the contest
ants had neither to sleep in the
room nor to cold-shower in it.
★★★
At Texas Tech, Derby Day is
the big Greek event of the sea
son, featuring musical washtubs
for coeds and a contest for the
Best Dressed Rabbit at the pro
ceedings. Highlight for the more
adventurous is the fact that thir
teen frat guys wear derbies
marked with a white cross on top
—as long as they can hold onto
them. Sorority members earn 20
points for their sorority for each
derby they bring to the event.
Says the University Daily:
“There are no rules concerning
the procurement of the derbies.”
★★★
At the University of Okla
homa, all students under 24 are
required by regulations to live
in the university dormitories.
Also at OU, a Halloween celebra
tion was interrupted when a bevy
of armed and warranted city and
university police came looking
for a student who had failed to
pay a $5 traffic fine. The dan
gerous criminal lammed it and
has not been seen since.
★★★
The height of total involve
ment was reached last week at
Washington State University by
the head photographer for their
paper, the Evergreen. In their
game against Oregon State, he
lost track of the play while try
ing for a super closeup, and was
wiped out on the sideline. He
is presently in the hospital with
a broken leg.
★★★
A graduate student at the Uni
versity of Minnesota was invited
to a church by one of the par
ish’s couples to “carry on a dia
logue during the sermon,” ap
parently a common practice to
some at the school. He carried
on a dialogue all right. He said
the priest “gave a bad st non”
so he remained standing to talk
about the hypocrisy of religion
until he was forcibly removed
from the church and charged
with breach of peace.
★★★
But the really big fruit was
on the line at the University of
Texas (the one in Austin). The
event was the second annual
Texas Ranger Pie-Flinging Con
test. Awaiting the grand prize
winners, announced the Daily
Texan, were a pedigreed arma
dillo from the Armadillo Breed
ers’ Association International,
membership in the ABAI, and a
free trip for two to Cherry Creek
Ranch, ABAI headquarters. Just
the thought of events such as
this catching on across Texas,
across the world, is enough to
give inner strength to the most
downhearted armadillo lover who
feels the world is against his
cause. Pardon the editorializing
for a moment, but in this present
lack of events such as this lies
the biggest obstacle in the way
of the ABAI—that’s right, apa
thy. Sure, you say, I like arma
dillos (it’s a recognized fact—
very few people really will say
they don’t like armadillos). But
when was the last time you real
ly thought something nice about
an armadillo? Be honest with
yourse’f. The ABAI has a big
job cut out for them, and they
need our support. This week,
take a moment from your busy
day to think a loving thought
for a needy armadillo.
★★★
People may not really believe
this final item. It concerns an
advertisement in tu’s Daily Tex
an, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1968.
The advertisement is for color
photos of “Miss Aggieland
1968.” Under the caption “big
gest Aggie joke of all” is the
address “Aggie Den, College
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portance to the normalization
of relations between the Soviet
Union and the United States,”
though it added that U. S. policy
had created obstacles on the road
to peace.
There will be a two-month
hiatus for the transition to take
place between the Johnson ad
ministration and the Nixon re
gime. What the Russians may be
indicating with their pointed
omissions and hints is that they
are in a position to collaborate
up to a certain point, possibly
even on the question of Vietnam,
but that it depends on Washing
ton.
EVER SINCE Nixon visited
Russia in 1959 and had his fa
mous “kitchen debate” with Ni
kita Khruschev, Russian official
dom has displayed distrust of
him. Khrushchev last year, re
calling that visit, called Nixon a
“good-for-nothing, an unprinci
pled puppet.”
Russia has plenty of worries
to keep it occupied, internally
and in foreign affairs.
Traditionally, under tsars and
commissars, Russia has disliked
juggling too much at once, watch
ing too many dangerous fronts
simultaneously.
THE MIDDLE East and Eur
ope have fuses for potential ex
plosions. Vietnam is an added
worry at the Russian back, par
ticularly if Red China is unstable.
Recently, North Vietnam seem
ed to have turned away from Red
China and to take its lead from
Moscow. The change has been
developing slowly since late 1964
when North Vietnam first sent
troops in force into the South
and thenceforth became depen
dent on Russia for sophisticated
military hardware.
Statements by the Soviet lead
ership at October Revolution cere
monies invariably have been re
garded in the West as a baro
meter for judging the Soviet
temper. The speeches of Grechko
and Mazurov will be carefully
studied in Western capitals.
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Daley Loses Connections
With White House, Capitol
By F. RICHARD CICCONE
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO CD—Illinois voters
cut Mayor Richard J. Daley’s
close ties with the White House
and Capitol Tuesday but in his
home state and county he scored
several impressive victories.
The 64-year-old Chicago may
or wasn’t running for office but
this year attracted to him more
national publicity, controversy
and criticism than any other in
his 14 years as a power in na-
nal Democratic politics.
Richard M. Nixon won the
W te House for the Republicans,
and the state that put him over
the top was Illinois—the state
which Daley delivered to John
F. Kennedy in I960 by fewer
than 5,000 ''s.
THIS TIM ixon’s edge was
slightly bette :n 100,000 out
of more than 4 million votes cast.
He captured 1,966,579 votes to
Hubert H. Humphrey’s 1,879,453.
George C. Wallace received 348,-
926 ballots. The bulk of Humph
rey’s vote came from Cook Coun
ty (Chicago), where his total
was 1,118,340. Nixon received
912,511 Cook County votes and
Wallace 169,516.
The 1960 returns and the tar
dy Chicago returns which helped
Kennedy win it also piled criti-
Kiesinger Slapped
By French Wife
For Nazi Past
BERLIN (A*)—A red-haired, 29-
year-old woman came up behind
Chancellor Kurt George Kiesinger
as he was signing autographs at
the close of a political convention
Thursday and swatted him in the
eye. She was sentenced nine hours
later to a year in jail.
Mrs. Beate Klarsfeld, German-
born wife of a French journalist,
told a West Berlin court she had
not wanted to hurt Kiesinger
with her “symbolic box on the
ear” at the end of the Christian
Democratic party gathering. She
said she intended to provoke a
trial to publicize Kiesinger’s Nazi
past.
Kiesinger, 64, was a Nazi party
member from 1933 until the end
of World War II, working during
the war in the Foreign Ministry’s
radio propaganda section. His
later career has been marked by
statements repudiating nazism.
As a witness at a war crimes trial
last July he said he had been a
party member but “not out of
conviction or out of opportun
ism.”
The slap was administered in
full view of a number of conven
tion delegates.
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Sports Editor John Platzer
City Editor Mike Wright
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Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake,
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cism on Daley. But as a coun
terbalance he enjoyed the respect
and gratitude of the White House
through the Kennedy and John
son years.
VOTERS CUT off the long
distance between Washington and
City Hall Tuesday.
Daley’s line to the State Capi
tol in Springfield was also taken
out of service when his longtime
friend, Gov. Samuel H. Shapiro,
lost to Republican Richard B.
Ogilvie.
But things are not as bleak as
they might seem.
Paul Powell, a Southern Illi
nois pal of Daley’s since they
rang door bells for Franklin D.
Roosevelt, won his second term
as secretary of state, a powerful
patronage job.
MICHAEL J. Howlett, Demo
crat, won his third term as audi
tor, and Paul Simon, a Demo
cratic state senator from Troy,
pulled off an upset by winning
the lieutenant governor race—
the first time Illinois has ever
chosen a man for that post from
a party different than the gov
ernor’s.
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