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‘Who’s going to stick his neck
iut and put his name on a postal
increase?” said one House
) gfjc lepublican who asked not to be
pted by name. “It’s hard
enough just to vote for one.”
Nixon told Congress April 16
the two-cent first class rate in
crease plus boosts in other mail
classes is needed to head off an
jnticipated $2.5 billion postal def-
cit next year in the wake of new
)ay increases.
Many congressmen agree the
!ost of the pay increases must
paid. But mail rate hikes are
rsditionally the most unpopular
bills in Congress—especially
election years—and so far not
me of the 530 senators and House
nembers has introduced Nixon’s
proposal in bill form.
Besides boosting first class mail
wo cents, Nixon’s proposal would
hcrease second class rates 50 per
cent and third class rates 30 per
U. S. has begun
withdrawal
from Cambodia
LATEST LOOK—A&M coeds model the latest in fashion during' the Memorial Student
Center Host and Fashion Committee’s style show Tuesday night. Fashions were provided
by Neiman-Marcus of Dallas. See story, page 3.
By CARL P. LEBUSDORF
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Secretary
of Defense Melvin R. Laird said
Tuesday withdrawal of American
troops from Cambodia already has
begun. And he added that if fu
ture operations are required in
that country they will be carried
out by the South Vietnamese.
Laird held out the possibility
of some U.S. support for such fu
ture strikes against enemy bases
in Cambodia—but only if this did
Student dissent in the 70s will
be the topic for 16th SCONA
cent.
Administration officials say the
rates would bring in an extra
billion next year and $1.6
billion the year after, which with
1900 million “public service”
subsidies each year would pay
most of the $2.5 billion annual
deficits.
Chairman Arnold Olsen, D-
Mont., of the House postal rates
subcommittee has been holding
hearings on Nixon’s proposal even
though there is no bill before
his subcommittee to consider.
There have been reports the 8-
cent stamp proposal is dead in
this election year Congress.
By CHANCEY LEWIS
Battalion Staff Writer
“Student Responsibilities in the
70s,” will be the topic of the 16th
Student Conference on National
Affairs (SCONA XVI), Chair
man Dave Mayfield announced
Tuesday night.
He said the Memorial Student
Center Council recently approved
the topic.
In the past 15 years, Mayfield
said, SCONA has been geograph
ically oriented; it has always
dealt with U. S. foreign policy in
a selected area.
As a result, he said, SCONA
has often been accused of present
ing topics of no particular inter
est to .A&M students.
“We feel that this topic will
appeal not only to our student
delegates but to the student body
of A&M. That, after all, is what
it is all about,” Mayfield com
mented.
He said that the SCONA execu
tive committee realized the deli
cacy and inherent controversies
involved within the subject. The
objectives, however to to bring
student leaders from throughout
the country to meet, wtih A&M
student leaders and constructively
analyze and discuss the issue.
“How can we as students at
A&M identify with students else
where if we don’t understand
their motives and feelings?” May-
field asked.
“Our whole purpose is not
to create dissent, because we re-
Lubbock tornado wreaked
200 million in damages
!IAL
By MIKE COCHRAN
Associated Press Writer
LUBBOCK, Tex. — Rescue
workers and relief agencies
pressed a search for more dead
and injured in the rubble of tor
nado-scarred sections of this West
Texas city today as officials
sought methods to rebuild an esti
mated $200 million in damages.
A 20-story office building,
racked by the storm, tottered in
the incessant winds of the plains
country. Another office building
stood stark and dead, bereft of
siding and windows.
Everywhere there was rubble
and ruins, like a bombed out city
in wartime. There were thousands
of homeless—an estimated 4,800
whose up to 750 dwellings were
destroyed—hundreds of injured,
estimated as high as 500 and at
least 20 dead, the death list ex
pected to rise as the search in the
debris continues.
Texas officialdom descended on
the city en masse in an effort
to ascertain the needs and to help
in every way government is able.
The Red Cross sent massive
supplies. The Texas Department
of Public Safety’s various agen
cies such as the Highway Patrol
and Texas Rangers were in the
city in force, more than 100 in
all, the DPS said.
The big tornado, its winds ris
ing to a crescendo of sound that
was almost defeaning, struck the
city of 170,000 Monday at 9:47
p. m. and was followed by hur
ricane force winds clocked at more
than 100 miles per hour.
The storm struck with its deva
stating winds in the Texas Tech
nological University area, but
missed the main campus. They
virtually leveled two apartment
complexes and then made wreck
age of the city’s bright, modern
downtown district.
Hospitals filled quickly with
the hundreds of injured. The
death list grew and then shrunk
when duplications were discovered
in the general chaos, but was ex
pected to grow as injuries proved
fatal and more bodies were found
in the wreckage—a mile wide and
eight miles long.
For a time Monday it appeared
that the tornado-ruined Great
Plains Life building, the city’s
20-story pride, would toter and
fall. Great cracks and gashes
were seen in what remained of
its facade. A downtown area
where it could splatter on other
(See Lubbock tornado, page 4)
spect the tradition of A&M. There
fore, SCONA will be presented
with this in mind,” he assured.
“SCONA has built up a very well-
respected name at other universi
ties. We plan to continue this
tradition.
“We plan to present a broad
spectrum of speakers who are ex
perts on thier assigned topics, he
said, “not someone who is known
for creating trouble or delivering
fiery rhetoric. In fact, that is
the kind of speaker we intend to
eliminate.”
Mayfield said that one of the
major ideas of the program will
be to study the effects of student
input on national and interna
tional issues.
The actual agenda for the con
ference is yet to be worked out,
Mayfield said, but before it is,
authorities, especially those who
have been associated with SCONA
in the past, as speakers or round
table co-chairmen, will be con
sulted for opinions and ideas.
He also said that SCONA in
vites opinions and ideas from the
student body.
To improve the quality of the
SCONA XVI conference, May-
field said, the conference com
mittee is working with Dr. Wil
liam Smith, head of the Psychol
ogy Department and SCONA ad
visor, well known for his organi
zation of conferences like SCONA.
They are working to examine the
SCONA format and by re-evalu-
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ation, to make it more interesting
and educational, he explained.
Some of the possible subtopics
under consideration for the con
ference are: The role of the stu
dent in politics; the new educa
tion ; the new capitalism; and the
new ethics.
Finances for the conference,
Mayfield said, are raised by
SCONA members.
This year’s budget includes
$22,000, he said.
“This year on the spring fund
drive we raised approximately
$7,500. We plan another drive for
June in an endeavor to collect the
balance of the budget,” Mayfield
said.
The tentative date for the
SCONA conference is the middle
week in February, he said.
Students
to lobby
WASHINGTON OP)—Hundreds
of college students, schooled in
legislative lobby techniques, are
popping into Capitol Hill offices
and hinting at a failing grade at
the polls for congressmen flunk
ing their antiwar test.
Encouraged and sometimes ac
companied by sympathetic uni-
verstiy and college administrators
and faculty, students have from
campuses across the nation to talk
about America’s role in Southeast
not interfere with the program
for withdrawal of U.S. forces
from Vietnam.
The secretary told the Senate
Armed Services Committee that
several thousand U.S. troops al
ready have left Cambodia after
completing their assigned mis
sions. He said more were to come
out this week and major opera
tions against the one time Com
munist sanctuaries will be com
pleted by June 15.
The scheduled purpose of
Laird’s appearance was discus
sion of the Safeguard missile de
fense system and the U.S.-So
viet arms-limitation talks but
nearly two-thirds of a three-hour
session were devoted to questions
and answers about Cambodia.
Although he said the June 30
deadline, set by President Nixon
for removal of all U. S. troops
from Cambodia certainly will be
adhered to, Laird opposed the
Cooper-Church amendment, which
would bar funds for U. S. troops
in Cambodia after June 30. He
argued this would interfere with
the President’s ability to protect
U. S. forces in South Vietnam.
Sen. Robert J. Dole, R.-Kan.,
meanwhile, introduced a proposed
substitute for the Cooper-Church
amendment that would bar U. S.
ground combat forces from Laos,
Cambodia or Thailand “without
the prior consent of the Congress,
except to the extent that the in
troduction of such troops is re
quired, as determined by the
President and reported promptly
to the Congress, to protect the
lives of American troops remain
ing within South Vietnam.”
Republican Leader Hugh Scott
of Pennsylvania announced he
would seek to amend the Cooper-
Church amendment by inserting
language to permit continuation
of the Cambodian operation “as
may be required to protect the
armed forces of the United
States.”
Scot said this amendment has
the administration’s support but
added, “The administration would
prefer no amendment at all.”
The military sales authoriza
tion bill which contains the
Cooper-Church amendment is due
for Senate debate later in the
week.
The secretary also said that,
although the results of the Cam
bodian camgain “have exceed
ed our expectations this far,” it
will take two or three months to
detexmiine its final success ox-
failure.
“The over-all strategic success
of the program will be judged
by where we are in August and
whex-e we are in September,” he
said.
Laird made these other assex--
tions:
—“We were not involved in
any way in the change in the
govenxment of Cambodia” that
saw neutx-alist Prince Norodom
Sihanouk’s government over
thrown.
—The Cambodian invasion was
“debated and discussed at great
length” in the National Security
Council and “was presented by
me and is supported by me axxd
everyone on the National Securi
ty Council.”
—While the central North Viet
namese command post (COSVN)
has not been captured and might
not be because of its mobility,
“We expect to destroy most of the
complex” it has used.
invade Capitol Hill
on Southeast Asia
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Part of A&M’s Kyle Field turf has been
donated for a playground surface for children
of low-income families.
The turf and track are being removed
ttiis week to prepare the field for AstroTurf,
inartificial surface.
A&M Athletic Director Gene Stallings
made arrangements for 400 square yards of
the well kept grass to be cut for use at the
drushey Day Care Center west of College
Station.
The center’s governing board co-
chairman, Norman Erb, said Brazos Valley
Nursery cut the sod for a nominal fee and
Volunteers trucked the grass to the center
Monday evening.
Helping with the project were Bryan-
College Station citizens, Brushey residents
and volunteers from local businesses,
including the use of a truck from the Bryan
City Mission.
The local International Harvester dealer
volunteered a work force to prepare the
ground for the sod, Erb said.
Erb also said the turf will be used in the
playground area at the center, with plans in
progress to provide playground equipment in
the near future.
Open house at the center is scheduled
May 24, he added.
Completion of Kyle Field’s AstroTurf
surface is expected by early September.
Asia with friends and foes in the
Senate and House.
“We may be able to make some
converts,” Charles I. Schottland,
acting px-esident of Brandeis Uni
versity, told more than 500 young
men and women from Eastern
schools who jammed into a House
hearing room Monday. He said
they represented 35 states.
Rep. Edward I. Koch, D.-N.Y.,
told the students to ask congress
man “what they are doing in
terms of closing out this war now
—and tell them if they continue
to support the war you are going
to oppose them in their districts”
when they seek re-election. That
drew a burst of applause.
Switching from street demon-
trations to lobbying in the halls
of Congress, the students sought
out home-state senators and rep-
x-esentatives for face-to-face dis
cussions—some of them private,
most of them public.
Many students had done their
homework. They were prepared
with voting records and home-
district strengths and weaknesses
of their congressmen; they had
background information on key
resolutions.
Most students concentrated on
congressmen publicly uncommit
ted on such proposals as halting
funds for U. S. operations in Viet
nam, Laos and Cambodia except
for the withdrawal of American
forces.
They received an information
kit that contained helpful hints
on how to get around on Capitol
Hill—including instructions on
eating and tourist facilities.
Yale President Kingman Brew
ster, among the administrators at
tending the meetings with con
gressmen, said he was pleased by
the reception. But, he added,
“the test will be action—not the
cosmetics of hospitality.”
ON YOUR MARK—It’s not a foot race, despite the appear
ance of Miss Colorado, Linda Hicklin. She’s really getting
into position for a picture with Miss Florida, Cheryl John
son; Miss New Mexico, Theresa Phillips; and Miss Okla
homa, Evelyn Walkup. The women were taking a break
in rehearsals for the Miss USA Beauty Pagent at Miami
Beach, Fla,, this week. (AP Wirephoto)
Seniors will have
2 dances, a dinner
Senior Weekend activities Friday and
Saturday include a buffet dinner and two
dances, according to Jim St. John, social
secretary.
The Friday buffet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Ramada Inn will be followed by a semi-formal
dance featuring the Ghost Coach, he said.
On Saturday Buddy Brock and his
orchestra will play for the Ring Dance, he
said. The formal affair will be from 8 to 12
p.m. and pictures will be made.
St. John said that tickets are available in
the Student Finance Center at $5 for each
night or $9 for both.
Thursday is the last day to purchase
tickets for the buffet.