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• •;. •, . *. M M ’ v "■ " ■. ’ * , 4>‘.*. *. ’•»• ALIGN it 3rson sail tier improv- can get tlie nmers we're n fine shape ed is a little all Prelims ia 1 dashes also ay. The on Wed re. BNTS Ml Paper pies on .Caa k Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 89 College Station, Texas Thursday> March 19, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 Unless Prince Sihanouk Returns Mansfield Fears Chaos Probable in Cambodia H • IlilMi By Walter R. Mears Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON—Senate Demo cratic Leader Mike Mansfield foresees disintegration and chaos in Cambodia unless Prince Noro- iom Sihanouk, “the one man in all of his kingdom who can keep it together,” returns to power. *1 think he is the most capable in all of Southeast Asia, probably in all Asia,” Mansfield said after the Cambodian government ousted Sihanouk Wednesday as chief of state. While Mansfield says the re- liim of the mercurial neutralist bader would be in the best in vests of the United States, he lounseled against any American ivolvement in Cambodia. "By all means we should stay »t of that country and we ought o get out of the rest of South- ast Asia as soon as possible,” aid Mansfield, who visited the rea eight months ago on a fact- inding mission suggested by Resident Nixon. While two colleagues voiced suspicions of secrets U. S. in volvement in Cambodian affairs, Mansfield said he was certain that is not true. Sen. George S. McGovern, D- S.D., said there has been “dis turbing indications and reports” of U. S. assistance to right-wing groups in Cambodia. He said such groups seemed to be involved in the ouster of Sihanouk. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., chair man of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, said there is, “on general principles,” a sus picion of Central Intelligence Agency involvement. “There are very few Americans in there,” Mansfield said. “It is my very very strong feeling that the CIA or any other govern ment agency had nothing to do with what has been going on in Phnom Penh.” Mansfield said he was not counting out the possibility of a Sihanouk return to power. Ful bright and McGovern said the same thing. “I’m a bit apprehensive because of the uncertainty, if this new regime succeeds, in what direc tion it will move,” said Fulbright. “It emphasizes the need for us to proceed with a political solu tion in Vietnam.” Acknowledging a shortage of facts about developments inside Cambodia, McGovern said he was certain only that the upheaval there stemmed from the war in neighboring Vietnam. “Now what this suggests to me,” he said, “is that there will be no real peace in Laos, no sta bility there, there will be no real stability for Cambodia or any other country in that immediate area until we find some way to bring an end to the war in Viet nam.” Sen. Joseph M. Montoya, D- N.M., said an extension of Ameri can involvement in Laos or Cam bodia would be a catastrophe. “Let us pull back now, before it is too late,” he said. “We are thigh deep in the cesspool of Asia.” ’■'A >„ I S fm m ns wmm m SMALL AUDIENCE—Houston Contemporary Arts Muse um Director Sebastian Adler seems to be slightly disap pointed at the meager turnout for his talk Wednesday night. Adler’s presentation was part of the Contempor ary Arts Committee’s Festival 70. (Photo by Jim Berry) Houston Museum Director Says Art A Reflection of the Times 9 Premarital Sex Not Wrong, Hanners Audience Told k Ik i. cfo* 9 4 ly Fran Haugau Premarital sex is not wrong, lit it will hurt a couple’s rela- bnship, either before or after larriage, a couple probably buldn’t indulge, a Texas Wo- lan's University student told a apacity crowd at the conclusion f the YMCA’s three-part Man four Manners series Wednesday feht. "It’s something you need to ilk about and consider whether I matters to you, whether it Jitters to your parents and ihether it matters to you even f it matters to your parents,” Irs. Becky Koreneck, a senior rom Austin and wife of a 1968 l&M graduate, said. Mrs. Koreneck and three other IWU students, Chris Jtidebottom, sophomore from Wichita Falls; aren Burk, a senior from Bra- y; and junior Claudia Gordy, 970 Aggie Sweetheart from Co- imbus also discussed going teady, pinning, engagement and arriage. Twelve Aggies, active in MCA work, will present a sim- ar series, “Manners Make the ady,” at TWU the first three uesdays in April. “If the guy has no intention of larrying the girl then premarital ex is not all right. Then it’s not remarital sex—at least not for lem,” Mrs. Koreneck added. “Premarital sex should be a ommitment, just like marriage,” liss Burk said. “When two people fall in love, hey must accept the responsi- ilities of this love,” Miss Ride- ottom explained. Miss Ridebottom defined going teady as the relationship between boy and girl who don’t wish to ate anybody else. She said such relationship had advantages and isadvantages. A steady couple can be more elaxed, but if they didn’t ever Patty * due) i PM- K * |9j date anyone else they might miss out on a feeling of insecurity which would be good in helping them grow as an individual, Miss Ridebottom said. “A girl going steady can be taken for granted,” she said, “but it’s up to the girl to let her steady know just what guide lines to go by. You should know when he’s coming, and whether he’ll be there.” Miss Ridebottom said that when a steady couple is separated, they should date others just to “go out and have fun.” But, “she added, “you should tell your steady about your other dates.” Miss Burk discussed pinning. “When a girl is pinned, she doesn’t always expect to be taken out,” she said. “You can do fun things and inexpensive things without actually going out.” She said she believes that a girl attaches more significance to a pin than she does to a drop (necklace), and that going from one stage to the next in a ro mance means a lot to the girl. Mrs. Koreneck spoke on en gagement. “Each engagement is personal,” she said. “How long it lasts and whether or not you exchange rings is entirely up to each girl and her fiance.” It is important for the man and woman to be acquainted with each others’ families, Mrs. Kore neck stressed. “If she wants an engagement ring, and you can afford it, get her one,” she advised. “Go pick them out together, in case she wants matching ones.” A broken engagement is pain ful, but it is better to find out then that the marriage wouldn’t work than after the marriage, she said. Miss Gordy told the audience how to break an engagement. “First of all, you should be sure that you want to break the engagement,” she explained. “The engagement ring shouldn’t get thrown back and forth. Then you should have a serious talk. If, after talking, you decide you really can’t make a go of it, the girl will usually see this and break it off herself.” Miss Gordy also spoke on wed dings. “Weddings today range any where from a wedding in a church to an elopement to two people parachuting out of an air plane as they say their vows,” she said. The bride’s family sets the size and style of the wedding, Miss Gordy told the group. Invitations should be sent out no later than two weeks before the wedding, and the bride’s mother should be sure one is sent to the groom’s parents, the Aggie sweetheart added. “You need not send written in vitations to an informal wed ding,” Miss Gordy explained, “but those invited should reply imme diately. When written invitations are sent, no reply is necessary unless you are invited to the re ception. If the couple plans to send announcements instead of invitations, they should be sent on the day of the wedding.” By Hayden Whitsett Battalion Staff Writer Art is vacant lots, air, trees, and spaces in a world that is steadily turning into a “human zoo,” to Sebastian Adler, director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum. “Art is simply a reflection of the times,” Adler told an audience of 18 as they gathered around him in a semicircle, “and now the time is pollution, population, and highways.” Adler had moved into the Fes tival ’70 audience to allow a closer contact. Since the audience was so small, he said, he could com municate with them better if he wasn’t behind a podium. “People have to have contact YMCA Sets Easter Service For Monday with each other,” he emphasized, “and we’ve frozen up somewhere. We haven’t taught people to feel.” The reason for art museums, the modishly dressed middle-aged man continued, is to bring the “human apes” to life, to give them dignity. One of his chief concerns is the development of present-day mu seums into three types—all of them wrong to his way of think ing. The “little metropolitan” is one of the predominate types ac cording to Adler. This one is housed in a building that is a monument to the architect’s abil ity rather than to art, and is full of collections. This he terms a vice that may wipe out museums. Another is the “culture center” variety, which he calls a collec tion of so-so artists that give the impression they comprise the finest of art. I Last mentioned were the “tour ist traps,” which purport to be museums or displays to get the public in where they will spend money. “A museum should be a public thing, placed in airports, factor ies and parks,” said Adler. “Art is expendable,” he said, “what is important is the idea, and how and when we use it.” The Museum of Contemporary Arts is an experimental station to Adler, “a sounding board for our time.” Its only reason for existing is that it has something to contribute to our time, he said. Adler said that creativity is to “know the past, be disgusted with the present and to go into the future.” As an example he cited the city of Denver, Colo., where art ists have transformed a 10-acre park that was once barren, “even people never came,” into a center where there is minimal, expend able, sculpture for children to play on without fear of damag ing a “work of art.” To Adler, the park is a work of art. “I’d never have a building if I could get away with it,” Adler said, “I want to confront people with art.” “If you must have a building, build it right next to the well- traveled way, where, like a little bird, it will keep popping up. “A change is taking place in our culture,” Adler said. “We’ve become a mobile society, a mate rialistic society.” He spoke of television, which he said had the potential to be come a new tool of art or a one- eyed monster, of informing blacks as well as whites to the joys of art, of having to develop a whole new way of talking, or learning. “As you can see,” he said, “I’m interested in art, but in a way, I’m only interested in human be ings.” The annual YMCA-sponsored Easter worship service for A&M students and staff will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in All Faiths Chapel. Ed Donnell, YMCA Cabinet president and civilian student chaplain, will deliver the Easter message, entitled “Walk While You Have Light.” A&M’s Singing Cadets, under the direction of Robert Boone, will provide religious music. Other students on the program are Ed Rogers, John Vogelsang and Otway Denny Jr. Sen. Hughes of Iowa Here For Forum Presentation Friday — Cloudy, intermittent rain. Wind East 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 62, low 42. Saturday — Cloudy, afternoon rain showers. Wind North 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 66, low 41. Sen. Harold Hughes, consid ered a dark horse candidate for the Democratic presidential nom ination in 1972, will speak here Friday. The Iowa congressman will ap pear at noon in the Memorial Student Center Assembly Room through arrangement by Politi cal Forum. Hughes is the first Democrat elected to the senate from Iowa in more than 20 years. He served as Iowa governor for six years prior to being elected to his present position. Liquor-by-the-drink legislation was passed during his adminis tration, along with laws banning capital punishment, providing tax reforms for the poor and elderly and establishing a state civil rights commission. Sen. Hughes’ talk will be fol lowed by a question-answer ses sion. Admission to the presentation is free. A Battalion Interpretive Interest High In Airport Authority Yote Fashion 70’ Show Scheduled 'or Tuesday Night in MSC Metallics, the midi and the mini Ml be the three themes of Fashion 70,” a student fashion ibw sponsored Tuesday night by Host & Fashion Committee, n conjunction with Neiman-Mar- of Dallas. Thirty A&M women will model 60 outfits provided by Neiman’s at 8 p. m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom. The models, referred to as mam-selles in the 'ashion world, were selected after ast Saturday’s Fashion Fair by Ann Randall, fashion advisor for Oman’s who will commentate the show. “The metallics’ will be the look of now and the future, ‘the midi’ GREAT SAVINGS PLANS made even better by new legal rates at First bank & trust. Adv. will be clothes from the past in today’s style, and ‘the mini’ will be anything that’s current, even some bathing suits,” Dale Torger- son, Host & Fashion Committee chairman, said. Heavy sandals, funky prints and crocheted hats will be fea tured as part of the “look of “70.” The Poverty Hill Singers will perform in between the acts of the show. Refreshments will be served. Tickets are $2 and can be pur chased from committee members or at the Student Program Office in the MSC. “You can probably get them at the door, too,” Mrs. Torgenson said, “but people should try and buy them ahead of time to be sure of getting a seat.” By Dave Mayes Battalion Editor Debate on the proposed Brazos County Airport Authority has en tered its third week, and public discussion of the issue has been like the March winds that build up and die down, blow hot and blow cold, gust one way and then the other. Since March 2, when the county commissioners said the issue would be decided this Saturday, claims and counter-claims con cerning the proposed authority have surfaced at public meetings, arguments and rebuttals have ap peared in newspapers, pointed questions and sharp answers have filled the air waves. Primarily, the winds of contro versy have swirled around two questions: 1. Is a better airport facility needed ? 2. Is the proposed airport au thority the best way to manage such a facility? Proponents of the authority have generally emphasized dem onstrating the need for answer ing “yes” to the first question, adding that tax conditions in the county automatically dictate an swering the second question, “yes.” They have identified Easter- wood Airport as the most logical choice for developing as a mod ern airport facility and say that money for these major improve ments is desperately needed: —Strengthening and overlay of runways —Strengthening, overlay and widening of taxiways —Repair and expansion of parking ramp space for aircraft —Addition of a fire and rescue building Announced supporters of the authority include A&M’s faculty- staff Executive Committee, the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce, the B-CS Jaycees, and Bryan Mayor Jerome (Jack) Zubik. Opponents of the authority have generally stressed the need for saying “no” to the second question, conceding a “yes” an swer to the first question, that there is perhaps a case for im proving facilities at Easterwood. They question, however, wheth er the airport authority board, as a body appointed by the county commissioners, should have the broad powers to: —Levy and collect taxes. —Issue bonds. —Exercise powers of eminent domain. —Regulate air zoning. Announced opponents of the authority include College Station City Councilman Joe McGraw and the Concerned Citizens Committee chaired by Woody Humphries. In Saturday’s election, these two major questions and all oth ers raised in the winds of con troversy will be tied to the one on the ballot: The voter must decide finally whether he is for or against “the creation of the Brazos County, Texas, Airport Authority and the levy of the tax in support thereof.” The mechanism that would cre ate the authority is Texas House Bill 189, a 17-page document passed specifically for Brazos County May 29, 1969. The measure not only pre scribes how the authority would be established, but also defines and limits the powers of the gov ernmental unit. According to the act, the five directors of the authority are appointed to interlocking terms by the majority vote of the coun ty commissioners. Their only re quirement for appointment is that they be residents of Brazos County and not be employed by the county. The board is required to hold “at least one public meeting each three months . . . Any three members of the board shall con stitute a quorum, and a majority of those present shall be neces sary for any official action taken by the board.” The act defines the taxing power of the board, stating that the “directors may on their own motioh order an election on the questibn of changing the maxi mum amount of the annual tax authorized to be levied to any amount not to exceed 75 cents on the $100 assessed valuation.” The county commissioners have set the authority’s tax limit to be a maximum of 20 cents per $100 assessed valuation for Sat urday’s election. The authority may use the county’s assessment system of rendering real and personal property at 20 per cent of actual market value, but it does have the power to assess at full market value if it so decides. Thus, without ordering an elec tion, the board may tax a $10,000 home as little as $4 per year or as much as $20 per year. The act gives the airport au thority board power to hire per sonnel and “fix compensation and duties of same.” “It the (board) shall be authori zed,” the act continues, and shall have jurisdiction to plan, estab lish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate and protect airports within the territorial limits of the authority . . The measure defines “airport” as “any area of" land or water which is used or intended for use for the takeoff, landing, parking and storing- of aircraft and for the transportation by air of per sons and things” and includes practically all buildings, from hangars to hotels, “which in the judgment and discretion of the board of directors of the Authori ty are necessary, useful or de sirable to serve occupants, pas sengers, users, employes, opera tors, airlines and lessees . . .” The board may also authorize and issue revenue bonds, interim bonds, and refunding bonds with out holding an election. In another bill passed by the house the same day (H.B. 188), the A&M Board of Directors, which supervises operations at Easterwood Airport, was autho rized to enter into lease agree ments with municipalities or air port authorities. The act stated that the A&M (See Airport, page 3) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.