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Great Issues To Present
Black America Seminar
Examination of one of Ameri
ca’s problems close to every citi
zen — social change advocated
by the minority Negro — will be
examined Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday in a Black Ameri
ca Seminar here.
The Great Issues presentation
will feature Congressman James
C. Corman, California Democrat
and riot commission member;
Charles E. Eager, former assist
ant to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., and Negro intellectual Dan
iel Watts, publisher-editor of the
“Liberator” magazine.
SEMINAR sessions in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room will begin daily at 8 p.m.,
announced Tom Fitzhugh of Wa
co, seminar series chairman.
A&M students, their wives and
season ticketholders will be ad
mitted free. Adult single admis
sion will be $1.50, faculty or
community. High school student
tickets are 75 cents.
The seminar, an intensive
three-day study of efforts and
activities of the Negro minority
to obtain social changes for
equality, will examine both vio
lence and moderation as instru
ments of change.
CONG. CORMAN will discuss
the controversial riot commis
sion (Kerner) report in the first
session.
“The report placed primary
blame for internal disorder and
racial tension on what it called
‘white racism,’ ” Fitzhugh said.
“We hope Cong. Corman will
further explain commission find
ings and that a large, responsive
audience will be present to dis
cuss the report.”
FACER WILL discuss “White
Reflections on Black Power,”
title of his first book. The Har
vard Divinity School student has
just finished the final draft of
a new volume on the failure of
the poor people’s march. Jailed
three times during the Selma,
Ala., marches of 1965-66, he ear
lier spent more than a year with
Dr. King’s Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
Described by one columnist as
“the real voice of the Negro
ghetto,” Watts is one of the na
tion’s most vocal black intellect
uals.
THE COLUMBIA architecture
graduate gave up a promising
career to found the Afro-Ameri
can Research Institute and “Lib
erator,” mouthpiece of the Negro
intellectual.
The 15,000-circulation maga
zine has featured the work of
many leading Negro authors, in
cluding poet-playwright Leroi
Jones. Watts has lectured at
colleges and universities across
America and been the subject of
articles in virtually all the na
tion’s slick magazines.
“HE IS AN articulate, intelli
gent and intelligible man who
realistically explores the various
objectives, aspirations and ideol
ogies of the many splinter Negro
groups,” Fitzhugh added. “His
arguments are based on facts
and logic. They give new in
sight and understanding to burn
ing internal issues this nation
must face up to now.”
Representative Corman serves
on the powerful House Ways and
Means Committee and the Select
Committee on Small Businesses.
For his eight years work in Con
gress, Los Angeles city officials,
the Marine Corps commandant,
VFW, UCLA and Mexican-Amer-
ican Political Association honor
ed Corman. He won the 1964
Human Rights Award and his
citation for the Holzer Award
cites “outstanding service in fos
tering good will and understand
ing among religious and racial
groups.”
DANIEL WATTS
JAMES CORMAN
A&M Fish Drill Team To March
In Houston, Here This Weekend
The Fish Drill Team will march
in two places at the same time
this weekend, the 6th Gulf States
competition in Houston and the
annual Bryan - College Station
Christmas Parade.
Senior Adviser Mike Casey of
Washington, D. C., said 84 mem
bers will be. divided into three
units for the team’s first com
petition of the year.
George Barrientos of San An
tonio will command the 34-cadet
unit to march in the 12-team
University of Houston meet. En
tries will come from Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas. The fish
will be among the competition’s
four top contenders, including
St. Mary’s University’s Marion
Guard, the Lowman Rifles of
Sam Houston State and U-H’s
Cougar Rifles.
“This will be the team’s first
taste of competition and first ap
pearance as the defending national
champs,” Casey noted. “We’re
confident the team can place high.
I know they’ll do their best.”
A&M’s team in the Houston
meet will be the same group that
appeared in home football game
march-ins and before the A&M-
TU freshman game. Team spon
sor iMlalon Southerland will ac
company the unit.
Twenty and 31-cadet units will
march in the 10 a.m. Saturday
parade in downtown Bryan.
Commanders will he Arthur
Eng of San Antonio and Kenneth
A. Black of Abilene. Junior ad
visor Steve Nichols of Crystal
Lake, HI., and Army Lt. Col.
Gerald J. Harher will he with the
units.
Last year’s Fish Drill Team
won the national championship
at the National Intercollegiate
ROTC Drill competition at the
Cherry Blossom Festival in Wash
ington, D. C.
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SCONA
Tomorrow
Round-Up Speech
William S. White
12 noon, MSC Ballroom
Army Chief Opposes
Dividing U.S. Power
Gingrich Loses
Presidency Of
Junior Class
By JANIE WALLACE
Battalion Staff Writer
John R. Gingrich, president of
the junior class, was removed
from office Thursday, after be
ing placed on conduct probation
due to an incident in Duncan
Dining Hall.
The action was taken by Malon
J. Southerland, civilian advisor
to the Corps and assistant ad
visor to the junior class. Souther
land acted as spokesman for
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan.
“Jimmy Dunham, vice-president
of the junior class, will act as
temporary president until the
election commission decides on
what to do,” said Hannigan.
Gingrich was placed on proba
tion because, according to Maj.
George E. Strebeck, assistant to
the Commandant, he “either in
itiated or escalated” a food-throw
ing incident in Duncan Dining
Hall on Nov. 21 during Thanks
giving Dinner.
Gingrich refused to comment.
The decision is based on regu
lations in the University hand
book which state:
“Minimum requirements for stu
dents selected or elected in of
ficially recognized student organ
izations or clubs, including class
es, shall be as follows: . . may
not be on scholastic or conduct
probation.
“If vacancies occur during the
year in the positions listed in
paragraphs 64 and 65 above (in
cluding class officers) filing must
(See Gingrich Page 2)
QUESTION AND ANSWER
General Harold K. Johnson, center, responds to a question put by pretty SCONA delegate
at an informal session Thursday afternoon. Dr. William C. Gibbons, head of the Political
Science Department, stands at the podium. (Photo by W. R. Wright)
Red China Is Needed In UN,
Pakistan Ambassador Says
By BOB PALMER
Battlion New Editor
In the interest of world peace,
Red China must be admitted to
the United Nations, Agaha Sha-
hi, Pakistan ambassador to the
U.N., declared Thursday.
The remarks came as part of
a panel discussion including Sha-
hi, Congressman Olin E. Teague
and General Harold K. Johnson
during the second day of the Stu
dent Conference on National Af
fairs.
“CHINA IS an original mem
ber of the UN and the security
council,” Shahi, giving the his
torical background for his stand,
said, “She was expected to carry
a large burden of the peacekeep
ing effort.
“Is the present government
that we recognize capable of sup
plying a large force to stop ag
gression? Can Chiang Kai-Shek
speak for all the people on main
land China?” Shahi asked.
SHAHI ARGUED that the
Communist government on the
mainland has controlled the peo
ple there for 19 years and meets
the requirements for UN mem
bership.
“We must get China to partici
pate in the nuclear treaties,”
Shahi continued. “The only way
to accomplish this is to have her
discuss the terms of the treaty
while it is being written in the
UN.”
A SHORT debate flared be
tween the other two panelists to
the closed meeting, Teague and
Johnson. They differed on the
proposed pay increase for con
gressmen, the president and vice
president.
Both agreed that it was a first
step toward getting better pay
for the lower government offi
cers, which Johnson considered
essential to attract top personnel.
TEAGUE pointed out that with
current inflation and high gov
ernment spending, this increased
expenditure would seriously
worsen the inflationary trend.
The Congressman from the lo
cal district also argued that high
er pay was not as essential as
the general thought.
GEN. JOHNSON described for
the delegates the military picture
in South Vietnam.
“We have a progressively im
proving military situation, the
enemy’s capability is being re
duced every day. As the South
But Mexicans Make It To SCONA
Student Strife Almost Deters Delegation
Student strikes in Mexico al
most torpedoed attendance of the
largest delegation to the Four
teenth Student Conference on
National Affairs this week.
The energetic efforts of an in
ternationally - minded senora.
However, saved the day and
Helped provide the Latin influ
ence for the four-day conference
which has attracted delegates
from 60 North American colleges
and universities. Mexico has 10
delegates at the A&M meeting,
compared to two from Canada.
GUIDING light in bringing
the Mexican students up was
Mrs. Arturo Gomez, former New
Yorker who moved to Mexico
City 20 years ago and serves as
a free-lance interpreter.
She headed a 90-member in
terpreter corps for the recent
Olympics and has participated in
some 200 international confer
ences, including several spon
sored by the United Nations and
the Organization of American
States (OAS).
MRS. GOMEZ also is in charge
of Mexico’s “Experiment in In
ternational Living” program, a
student - exchange program
through which she became in
volved with SCONA at Texas
A&M.
In previous years, Mexican
students had little difficulty com
ing to SCONA because it coin
cided with their university holi
days, Mrs. Gomez explained.
THIS YEAR, there are no holi
days, she added, because there is
no school — at least there wasn’t
when she and the SCONA dele
gates departed.
Student unrest in Mexico came
to a head shortly before the start
of the Olympics in October, Mrs.
Gomez noted, and resulted in
formation of the National Strike
Committee which is making de
mands that the government can
not meet.
WEATHER
Saturday—Partly cloudy, winds.
Southerly 10 to 12 mph. High
68, low 38.
Sunday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Winds Northerly 10 to
15 mph. High 64, low 33.
“THINGS ARE in a sort of
crisis now, as far as the school
calendar is concerned,” she ob
served.
Many of the students who
might originally have come to
SCONA declined this year be
cause they were afraid school
might start while they are away.
MRS. GOMEZ was slightly ap
prehensive about her delegates,
since they represented a cross-
section of backgrounds, rather
than emphasizing economics and
politics. She discovered, how
ever, the U. S. students also had
varied backgrounds.
She said all the Mexican stu
dents — eight youths and two
coeds — were willing to take
their chances on missing the
start of school to have the oppor
tunity to participate in SCONA.
“ALTHOUGH they have a
slight language problem,” Mrs.
Gomez observed, “they are all
contributing to the discussions.”
IN ADDITION to helping
bring students to A&M for the
conference, Mrs. Gomez helps the
Aggies when they make their an
nual SCONA fund-raising trip to
Mexico. She operates a mini-ver
sion of “Experiment in Interna
tional Living” for them, arrang
ing for them to be guests of
Mexican families, rather than
staying in hotels.
The last venture worked out so
well that one Aggie is unofficial
ly engaged to the daughter of the
family in whose home he visited.
Vietnamese become better able
to defend themselves, we will be
able to withdraw small amounts
of men at a slow rate.”
Gen. Johnson, in response to a
question by an A&M Maritime
Academy cadet, maintained that
a large merchant fleet is vital to
the defense of the United States.
“AT PRESENT we ship 98 per
cent of our supplies to Vietnam
by sea,” the former Army chief
of staff said. “Our military ef
fectiveness would be severely
hampered if we did not have a
large merchant fleet.”
The retired four star general
attacked the effectiveness of the
proposed nuclear non - prolifera
tion treaty.
“I don’t believe the treaty can
halt the spread of nuclear wea
pons,” Johnson said. “The tech
nology of some advanced coun
tries is such that they could pro
duce nuclear weapons if they
feel it in their interest to do so.”
“I ALSO question the motives
of our ooponents,” Johnson con
tinued. “I don’t believe a treaty
would stop them from supplying
nuclear weapons to another na
tion if they wanted to.”
Shahi ended the meeting with
an appeal to the major powers to
let principle and justice guide
their use of power.
“Power cannot be divorced
from principle,” Shahi said. “If
(See Pakistan, Page 3)
Romanian Dancers
To Appear Here
The Romanian Folk Ballet
will perform here tonight as
scheduled, assured Texas A&M
officials in wake of the group’s
cancellation of a Sunday per
formance in Houston.
Wayne Stark, director of the
Memorial Student Center which
is presenting the performance
through its Town Hall Series,
said the troupe is all set for its
8 p.m. performance in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Stark noted he had received
several calls regarding the pro
gram following announcement
in Houston Thursday that the
group had cancelled its per
formance there.
Johnson Sees
Military’s Role
As Stabilizer
By TIM SEARSON
Battalion Staff W r riter
A grave error lies in separat
ing elements of national power
into political, economic and mili
tary sections, Gen. Harold K.
Johnson (ret.), former Army
chief of staff, warned delegates
of the 14th Student Conference
on National Affairs Thursday.
“No single element can be dis
cussed without involving an
other,” he said.
“The military’s purpose is to
provide order and stability un
der which the government can
function effectively.
“CHANGE must be orderly,
controlled and deliberately pat
terned according to the laws of
the particular country. Military
power should be in the wings
and used only by the political
branch in times of turbulence.”
He explained how the national
policy since 1945 has been one of
collective security. The dismant
ling process of the U. S. military
after World War II proved to be
a serious mistake when the Ko
rean conflict started and cost
32,000 Americans their lives.
“In dealing with the security
of our nation, we must be hard-
nosed and practical,” he said.
“There comes a point when our
ideal has to be set on a pedestal
and we must stand in front to
guard it.”
JOHNSON called upon any
member of the audience to name
any nation more beneficient than
the United States regardless of
the amount of money, goods and
services sent overseas. At this
point he differed with keynote
speaker Walt Rostow, who was
vague in saying whether the U.S.
dealt with governments or peo
ple.
“Our aid programs are direct
ed toward the people of an un
developed country,” Johnson said.
“However, we must work through
the government of the specific
country to improve the dignity of
its people, which is our basic ob
jective.”
THE FORMER Army chief of
staff told how U.S. military bas
es are situated in 99 countries
over the world. The question of
whether the U.S. is the police
force of the world then arises,
but Johnson countered that we
must give our share as long as
we depend on collective security.
“The American youth cannot
escape involvement in the prob
lems of his country,” said John
son. “He may not see the im
mediate threat to his way of liv
ing now, but our actions in Viet
nam and other areas may affect
how his son or his grandson will
live.”
JOHNSON mentioned how our
national power is worthless with
out a solid and unanimous base of
support. He called the employ
ment of the regular Army troops
on American streets “one of the
tragedies of our time.
“Stop and think about what we
have to back up the Army if it
fails to bring order—a big noth
ing,” said Johnson. “We must
recognize that no freedom can
exist in the absence of effective
defense or if the people try to
destroy the very base of free
dom.”
HE NAMED the number one
area for defense as the U.S., fol
lowed closely by Latin America.
The Southeast Asian combat zone
is the third area because our past
commitments make it impossible
to throw' away any future aid.
“We must realize that each
one of us is a captive of environ
ment. Our emerging adults, the
finest ever produced, are willing
to stand up and be counted.”
“You may be called upon to
preserve this nation with your
life,” he said. “We must put up
our guard when danger appears,
not when holocaust is evident.”
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