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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1968
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KEYNOTER CONSIDERS QUESTION
Walt Rostow, right, special assistant to President Johnson..
istens intently as delegates to the Fourteenth Student
Conference on National Affairs pose questions following
lostow’s keynote address at the conference Wednesday.
Die conference continues through Saturday. (Photo by
V. R. Wright)
At Guion Hall
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“Arms and the Man,” Aggie
’layers production opening Mon-
ay at Guion Hall, provides a
modern viewpoint on wail in con-
rast to the theatrical group’s
■rat season play.
The George Bernard Shaw-
Titten anti-war satire will run
lec. 9 to 14 with curtain at 8
m., announced C. K. Esten, Ag-
ie Players director.
“Arms and the Man” follows
16 Aggie Players presentation
f Euripides’ “The Trojan Wo-
nen.”
“Both are anti-war, as is any
E&sonably humane person,” not-
1 Robert W. Wenck, production
irector. “But the approaches take
W( > different forms. Euripides
mployed high tragedy; Shaw
ses satire, a thing he does bet-
r than anyone else.”
WHERE EURIPIDES tries to
show horror and tragedy result
ing from war in “Trojan Wo
men,” Shaw displays the ridicu
lousness of those who find honor
and glory in warfare, Wenck
added.
>raduate Council
iks Changes In
Traffic Situation
The Graduate Student Council
Wednesday drew up a list of 19
Poposals dealing with on-cam-
Ps traffic problems and submit-
pl them to Dean of Students J.
I' Hannigan for approval.
The proposals, divided into
®destrian, parking and automo-
The plot revolves on Captain
Bluntschli, played by George Mc
Coy of Marble Falls, Swiss mer
cenary who reveals a pragmatic
attitude toward armed conflict,
a young girl and soldier who are
disciples of the “higher love of
war for glory’s sake.”
Raina, portrayed by Mrs. Becky
Ingraham of College Station, is
a romantic young girl whose high
ideals of the glories of warfare
are shattered when she meets
the professional soldier. Marc
Fleishman of Dallas appears as
the soldier Sergius.
“VISUALLY, this is the most
exciting play done by the Aggie
Players,” observed Esten.
The set includes a revolving
stage designed specially for the
play, period and style costumes
from American Costumes of New
York and authentic props includ
ing Solingen cavalry sabers and
a Russian imperial dress sword.
“It’s a hilariously funny play,
serious in intent but written with
Shaw’s tremendous flair for ton
gue-in-cheek humor,” Esten add
ed.
recommendations, included:
Removal of all “Dumpster”
fa sh containers blocking side-
slks to eliminate offensive od-
18 from sidewalk areas.
Paving of the parking lots
e tween the Mechanical Engi-
*ering Shops and the Chemistry
folding.
Building of sidewalks
^° Un d this parking lot to add
the attractiveness of the area
^ keep pedestrians off the
Beets.
Removal of the “tank
’ (cement block barriers) in
r°nt of the Memorial Student
^nter at Houston and Lamar
’ re ets, with replacement by a
fir-way stop to again open
-° Us ton Street to two-way traf-
) C an< f Provide smoother traffic
across the campus.
SCONA
Tonight
S. Military Programs
ln Foreign Countries”
Gen. Harold K. Johnson
° P- m., MSC Ballroom
Other members of the cast are
Jim Weyhenmeyer of Livingston,
N. J., as the man-servant Nicola;
Candy Yager of Bryan as Louka,
family maid; Irene Woodard as
Catherine and Travis Miller as
Paul, Raina’s parents, and Bruce
McKenty, a soldier.
THE COMPANY roster in
cludes Alejandro Bernal as assis
tant director; Mike Link, stage
manager and set crew head; Aug
ust Lester, props, Tim O’Hara,
music and sets; Robert Nesmith,
sound effects; Ruth Reeves,
house and Brenda Hathaway,
publicity. Numerous other A&M
students and locals work in the
production.
Tickets will be available at the
door, which opens at 7:30 p.m.
each day of the run, or at the
Memorial Student Center pro
gram office.
“Many local clubs and organi
zations have been given oppor
tunity to buy tickets at a sav
ings,” Wenck said. “Patrons
should check with groups to which
they belong about this possibili
ty.”
WEATHER
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Friday — Cloudy, winds East
10 to 15 mph. High 53, low 29.
Saturday—Partly cloudy, winds
East 5 to 10 mph. High 68, low
27.
U.S. Must Stay Involved,
SCONA Keynoter Says
★ ★ ★
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Gold Standard Called Key
To U. S. Inflation Problem
By TIM SEARSON
If the United States went off
the gold standard tomorrow, our
modern society would not be
plagued with the problem of in
flation, SCONA XIV panel mem
bers agreed Wednesday night.
Dr. James M. Buchanan, pro
fessor of economics at the Uni
versity of California at Los An
geles, and a member of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Ameri
can Economic Assoc., acted as
moderator for the second presen
tation in the conference.
“WHAT 90% of the economists
agree would strengthen our econ
omy is a demonetizing of gold
by letting the dollar float on
its own,” said Buchanan. “We
would release any commitment
to using gold.”
“There are two other possible
solutions which the United States
could use to solve the problem.
By tightening our belts and de
flating the domestic economy
through an increase in taxes and
a cut in expenditures, we would
be faced with more headaches.”
“Likewise, by imposing credit
controls over travel and imports
with brute force, though an in
creasingly papular idea, is en
tirely wrong.”
“Our total trade in goods and
services overseas approaches only
5-7% of our Gross National Pro
duct. In comparison with other
countries in the world that de
pend on their international trade,
such as Britain, we must be class
ified as a domestic economy.”
“THEREFORE, we should not
gear our economy toward inter
national trade involvement,” said
Buchanan. “After World War II,
our economy pushed the produc
tion of goods for our domestic
market, a policy expanded under
the Kennedy administration.”
Buchanan told how Kennedy
tried to keep the flow of capital
from gong abroad, while the gold
stock kept going down. By 1965,
the claims on the American dol
lar by foreign countries had be
come serious.
“WHAT WILL go down in his
tory as the Johnson Inflation saw
a jump in price levels and a
more rapid price increase,” said
Buchanan. “Our deterioration in
ternationally was not helped by
the vicious attempt of President
Johnson to impose on the right
of free travel by Americans.”
Buchanan referred to the at
tempt by Johnson to impose a
tourist tax on any citizen travel
ing abroad under the Trade with
the Enemy Act of 1918. He slam
med it as one of the most under
handed actions any president
could try.
“THE RECENT trouble in the
economy in France has helped
make our balance of payment
situation look better,” said the
noted economist. “However, our
balance of trade looks much
worse with the disturbing increase
in imports.”
Edward S. Marcus, second mem
ber of the panel, is the first presi
dent of the National Association
of the Partners of the Alliance
and Executive Vice President of
Nieman-Marcus. He has worked
for more than 25 years in inter-
American affairs and received
the highest civilian award of the
Peruvian government.
“AMERICAN business has fin
ally realized its responsibility to
educate and promote the poorly
trained above the standard of
poverty in the American econo
my,” said Marcus. “Our next ad
ministration, in acknowledging
this, will delegate more responsi
bility to business in departments
usually reserved to government.”
“In trying to build a healthy
world we must expect to have
friends to help us. American busi
nessmen, realizing this, have be
come more aware of the social
needs of our fellow man, here
and abroad.”
THE THIRD member of the
panel, Dr. William R. Kintner, is
the Deputy Director of the For
eign Policy Research Institute at
the University of Pennsylvania.
“Our foreign commitments are
influenced by our domestic de
mands, as can be seen in the un
popularity of the Vietnam war,”
said Kintner. “Our commitments
in the next decade will depend
on whether the Paris peace talks
fail, or the United States makes
a complete withdrawal, or the
war is terminated with terms fa
vorable to the U. S.”
“TURNING TO neo-isolation-
ism would be a serious threat.
Already our sea power is threat
ened by the Soviets and our su
premacy may determine future
world stability.”
“Our firmest commitment, then,
is to defend! the North American
continent and the external parts
of the United States. We must
honor our alliances with Western
Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia,
New Zealand and the Philip
pines.”
“We should eliminate commit
ments to areas not important in
affecting our position in the
world. At present the Soviets are
putting more productivity into
their military than we are.”
“The simple truth is, we can
afford to survive if we want to,”
said Kintner.
By TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writer
The United States must continue, and in some cases
increase, support and involvement in world affairs, noted
Walt W. Rostow, special assistant to the President, in the
keynote address to SCONA XIV Wednesday.
“None of the things that have been done in the past
eight years could have been accomplished without the
determined and often courageous use of American economic,
political, and military power,” Rostow said in the opening
session.
“But, equally, none of these things could have been accom
plished by the United States acting alone,” he continued.
ROSTOW MENTIONED some of the problems facing America
when he started work with the Kennedy administration in 1961.
• Fidel Castro had taken over Cuba and the rest of Latin
America was worried about communist takeover.
• Nikita Khrushchev was attempting “nuclear blackmail” in
Berlin and seemed certain that the U. S. would back down.
• Laos was beginning to collapse and the necessity of U. S. in
tervention was becoming a dis- —
Freshmen Name Eight Officers;
Run-Offs Set For Nine Others
Freshmen Wednesday elected
eight class officers andl tentative
ly sent nine others into the Dec.
12 run-off elections pending an
election commissioner’s protest
filed against five of the run-off
candidates.
Students placing in the run-off
elections for president were Kir
by Brown with 303 votes, Law
rence Pfrench, 151, and Peter
Johnston 161; for vice president,
Gerald Bratz with 121 votes and
Gary D. Newsom, 242.
Also in the run-offs for secre
tary-treasurer, were Joe D. An
derson, 191, and Ivan Langford
III, 151; for social secretary, Joe
Schriever 344 votes and John
Briedon with 182 votes.
Election commissioner Tommy
Henderson filed a petition charg
ing five candidates with posting
campaign materials on unauthor
ized University buildings.
They are presidential run-off
candidates Peter Johnston and
Lawrence Pfrench; presidential
candidate William Scherle; and
vice presidential candidates Mic
hael Tiemann and Charles Mad
dox. Election Commission Presi
dent Jerry Geistweidt said that
a commission hearing would be
held before the run-offs to de
cide whether or not the candi
dates were guilty of the viola
tion.”
Members of the freshman class
elected election commissioners are
A1 Bradley 464 votes, Patrick
Buckley, 413, Bill Curtis, 430,
Michael Essmeyer, 417 and Ray
mond H. Kopecky Jr., 486.
Freshmen elected to the Stu
dent Senate are Don Mauro, 325,
Phillip Morley, 478, William
Hartsfield, 251, and Dwain G.
King, 334.
tinct possibility.
• Many African countries
were facing governmental crises.
• Relations with Russia were
strained and U.S. troops in Eur
ope were causing problems in
the balance of payments.
The dynamic eight years since
1960 have changed many of these
situations.
Castro has been contained and
is no longer considered a real
threat.
“In no sense is Castro’s Cuba
. . . regarded as a model for de
veloping nations,” Rostow com
mented.
THE BERLIN crisis was faced
down in the winter of 1961-62
and the U.S. is actively engaged
in the defense of Southeast Asia.
Indonesia has freed itself from
the Communist threat and Japan
has left its isolationist role to
become involved in the problems
of Asia.
“President Johnson will turn
over to Nixon a strong NATO
— despite the French defection
— which, in the wake of the
Czechoslovak crisis, deeply un
derstands that a vital NATO will
be required as far ahead as any
one can foresee,” Rostow said.
According to Rostow, the
American dollar is still a source
of stability in the world attempt
to build a cooperative interna
tional monetary system.
WORLD FAITH in the Amer
ican economy has been reaffirm
ed in the last eight years and is
again overshadowing Soviet
methods.
“Most advanced thought in
Communist nations now looks, in
fact, not to the Soviet Union but
to the United States, Western
Europe and Japan as represent
ing more nearly the way a mod
em, sophisticated economy should
perform,” he remarked.
Rostow cited several develop
ing countries such as South Ko
rea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Pakistan,
Iran, Tunisia, Mexico and Colom
bia for their economic growth in
the last few years.
He pointed out, however, that
For SCONA Round-Tables
Chairmen Represent 8 Nations
the present administration has
not been completely successful.
“We regret that an honorable
peace in Southeast Asia could
not be brought about in our time
of responsibility,” he said.
“EFFECTIVE unity” is still
only a dream in Europe and the
acceptance of responsibility that
would result from such unity is
not yet a reality.
The Senate has not yet acted
on the Non-Proliferation Treaty
and missile talks with Russia
have yet to begin.
The Middle East is still boil
ing and the Czech crisis means
even more problems for the al
ready troubled world.
“In short, there is no reason to
believe our successors will find
time on their hands or be short
of challenging tasks; and I am
reasonably certain that my suc
cessor will be called by the White
House Situation Room quite often
in the night with news of crisis
and danger in one part of the
world or another,” Rostow con
cluded.
Rostow quoted President John
son concerning the U.S. hope for
the future and said that as other
countries grow in strength the
burden carried by America hope
fully can be gradually decreased.
“IN EVERY quarter of the
globe, within the Communist
world as well as outside, men
and nations desire to take a
larger hand in shaping their own
destiny,” Rostow commented.
“They cannot do so, however,
in a world as interdependent as
ours unless they set aside old-
fashioned nationalism and learn
to work together,” he continued.
“This kind of world cannot be
created by the United States act
ing alone; but we remain, wheth
er we like it or not, the critical
margin . . .” he said.
“AND WE shall remain the
critical margin in the years
ahead if the world is going to
make its way through the great
transition towards the goal of
stable peace,” he emphasized.
According to Rostow, inter
national unity is the answer to
international problems.
“The nation — state — what
ever its size and resources—can
not solve the vast problems now
before us or foreseeable in the
tary in
fairs at
“Round-Table” Co-chairmen of
SCONA XIV who are leading del
egate discussion sessions through
out the conference, include rep
resentatives of eight foreign
countries and the U. S. Military
and Air Force academies.
Shinichiro Asao is first secre-
charge of political af-
the Japanese embassy
in Washington, D. C. He has
served at Japanese embassies in
Australia and Indonesia.
Hans Helmut Freundt is the
first secretary of the West Ger
man embassy in Washington. He
has served in his country’s foreign
service in Europe, the Near and
Middle East and Africa.
MRS. BARBARA B. de Gomez
is executive director of the Ex
periment in International Living
in Mexico. She has served the
U. S. government in the Office
of Strategic Services, the Foreign
Service and the embassy in Boli-
M. G. Kaul is Minister for Co
ordination at the Embassy of
India in Washington. He was a
member of the Indian delegation
to the United Nations in 1966
and 1967. He currently deals with
all aspects of Indo-U. S. trade
and assistance in food and other
agricultural commodities.
Dan Pattir is counselor at the
press office of the Israeli embas
sy in Washington. He has been
a member of the country’s U. N.
delegation and served as a press
aide to the President of Israel
on trips to the United States
and Canada in 1966 and 1967.
DR. K. W. REININK is coun
selor for political affaire at the
embassy of the Royal' Nether
lands in Washington. He has
served the Netherlands Foreign
Service in Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw,
La Paz, Moscow and Havana,
among other cities.
I. J. Sagay is first secretary
of the Nigerian embassy in Wash
ington. He served in the embassy
in Ghana from 1964 to 1967.
Dr. Gutierre Tibon is editor-in-
chief of the Mexican Encyclo
pedia. He is an ex-professor at
the National University of Mexi
co and the author of several
books.
His Excellency Agha Shahi is
Ambassador of the Pakistan Mis
sion to the United Nations.
MAJ. J. L. Abrahamson is an
assistant professor of social sci
ence at the U. S. Military Acade
my at West Point, N. Y. He has
served as executive secretary of
the Student Conference on U. S.
Affairs (SCUSA), the Military
Academy’s equivalent of SCONA.
Maj. F. D. Margiotta is with
the Department of Political Sci
ence at the U. S. Air Force Acad
emy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Thomas J. Barnes is country
officer for Laos, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, in the
State Department. He has served
in several East Asian countries
and is author of the “Pocket
Guide to Vietnam” issued to U. S.
servicemen stationed in that coun
try.
JAMES H. Boren is the direc
tor of the Partners of the Alliance
Programs, Alliance for Progress,
State Department, Agency for In
ternational Development in Wash
ington.
John T. Barton is supervisor in
engineering for the Dow Chemical
Co. in Freeport, Texas.
Charles Blaschke is manager of
the education programs for the
Institute of Politics and Planning
in Arlington, Va. He is a graduate
of Texas A&M and was Adjutant
of the Corps of Cadets.
Dr. George F. Carter is a dis
tinguished professor of geogra
phy here at A&M. His specialties
include a study of cultural his
torical evidence on the origin
and spread of ideas with special
reference to transatlantic and
transpacific pre-Columbian voy
aging.
Dr. Manuel M. Davenport is
head of A&M Department of
Philosophy and Humanities. He
has done a Peace Corps survey
where he visited with Dr. Albert
Schweitzer and has also been a
coach of a College Bowl Team in
New York.
future,” he said.
“We shall achieve arrange
ments of authentic partnership
— based on mutual respect and
acknowledgment of interdepend
ence — or we shall not move
successfully through the great
transition,” Rostow concluded.
CadetReview
Is Called Off
The Corps of Cadets’ first
formal review of 1968-69, sched
uled today for the 14th Student
Conference on National Affairs,
has been cancelled.
Col. Jim H. McCoy, comman
dant, said wet ground prevented
practice for the main drill field
appearance of the 2,800-cadet
Corps.
Four graded march-ins for
home football games and Corps
trip parades in Dallas and Aus
tin have been the Corps’ official
appearances so far this year.
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