Before FulbrighVs Committee Rogers Calls For Simultaneous Pullout TYPEWRITERS Rentals-Sales-Service Terms Distributors For: Royal and Victor Calculators & Adding Machines CATES TYPEWRITER CO 909 S. Main 822-6000 * No. 1 In College Sales Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company 303 College Main 846-8228 WASHINGTON ) _ Secre tary of State William P. Rogers declared U. S. readiness Thurs day for secret talks with the en emy on a Vietnam settlement, and for simultaneous U.S.-North Vietnamese troop withdrawal “over a very short period of time.” But Rogers avoided saying such private negotiations have already begun at Paris — on grounds that talking about secret talks impairs their usefulness— and he indicated the enemy has not yet accepted Saigon’s latest offer for informal meetings. Rogers testified at Senate For eign Relations Committee hear ings, giving a global account of the foreign policy of the new Nixon administration. The ses sion was carried on radio and television. It was the new secretary of state’s first such appearance be fore the group headed by Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark. and the cordial atmosphere contrasted with the chill accorded Dean Rusk during his latter months as secretary of state. MANY committeemen found Rusk too tough on Vietnam poli cy. “I think your first perform ance has been excellent . . . very useful and an auspicious begin ning,” Fulbright told the 55-year- old Rogers, a former lawyer, at the wind-up of three hours of testimony. Rogers ranged through current foreign issues in his overall presentation — defending Presi dent Nixon’s go-ahead for an antiballistic missile system, ex pressing hope for a Middle East solution, foreseeing potential sub stantial progress in dealing with the Soviets. On Vietnam, he offered the fullest outline publicly delivered by the Nixon administration to date on how it hopes to achieve peace. The secretary of state said that basically, a satisfactory settle ment bringing stability to South east Asia probably must come from an international political agreement rather than a Korea- type solution leaving sizable U,S. forces still on the scene for guard duty. HE TREATED the Viet Cong’s attack on the Saigon govern ment’s offer of private negotia tions as probably “propaganda” and said that past negotiating progress in the Paris talks and “out of the way places” had come through secret sessions, also in Paris. “I don’t put much faith in what they say publicly,” Rogers said of Hanoi and Viet Cong ut terances. “If they are serious about peace and want to talk in good faith, we are ready.” Rogers added that the United States and its allies “are offer ing an honorable and reasonable outcome” and “it is our fervent hope that the other side will soon put polemics aside and begin in good faith to negotiate an end to this tragic war.” ON THE military side, Rogers said, the United States is seek- BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES One day 4.:• -1 ^ Students for a Democratic: ciety at the University of Tfl at Austin lost their fight Tb® day in the U.S. 5th Circuit Cof of Appeals to force the unin sity to let them use campus: cilities for a meeting of the SI national council. The court rejected an app from a judgment by the fedu district court in Austin, wh refused Monday to grant a ts porary restraining order to St The ruling leaves the without a place to meet, but le> ers have said they would holf here this weekend anyway. Some 1,200 to 1,500 SDS 0 bers from across the nation* attend, they said. Larry Waterhouse, a Ten member, testified Monday tl university officials gave himi surances last month that i SDS could use the Union Bii ing. MANAGEMENT MINDED? Consider the unique advantage to you in starting with KROGER The Nation’s Third Largest Food Retailer Interested in Majors in: • Marketing • Management • Liberal Arts • General Business • Economics • Finance • Merchandising We Offer: TRAINING PROGRAM • RAPID ADVANCEMENT • GOOD PAY • PROFIT SHARING • EXCELLENT BENEFITS FIND OUT NOW WHAT KROGER CAN OFFER YOU AT GRADUATION SIGN UP NOW IN YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE FOR CAMPUS INTERVIEW WITH COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE FRANK PAGE April 8, 1969 An Equal Opportunity Employer PROFESSIONAL* and TECHNICAL*.. ’69 GRADUATES £PAam/wc& ★“EMPLOYERS PAY FOR OUR SERVICES.’ EMPLOYMENT SERVICE •College Division# North Gate 331 University Dr. 846-3737