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College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 17, 1970
FRIDAY — Partly cloudy to
cloudy with afternoon rain-
showers. Winds Southerly 10
to 15 m.p.h. High 88, low 73.
SATURDAY—Cloudy with in
termittent rains. Winds South
easterly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High
86, low 74.
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Gould charges country
unwary of commie split
22
1) BILL BUCHANAN
Battalion Staff Writer
Former Associated Press and
NBC foreign correspondent Loyal
N. Gould said Wednesday night
that there was a “lack of suffi
cient attention being paid in the
United States to Chinese-Soviet
relations.”
Speaking in the Memorial Stu
dent Center ballroom, Gould was
the opening speaker for the 1970-
II University Lectures Series.
Gould said he had worked since
the spring of 1969 interviewing
in Europe and doing research on
the Chinese and Soviet presses.
He said that he felt his fellow
countrymen should give more
thought to these countries and
their disputes.
Explaining why he thought
there was a lack of attention be
ing paid, Gould said it was “due
primarily to our intensive preoc
cupation in Vietnam, but I also
fear that it is due in large meas
ures to our continued belief in
something we still refer to as
monolithic communism.” He add
ed:
“The dispute between the So
viets and the Chinese has grown
so severe that the Chinese are
currently accusing the Soviets of
king capitalists and the Soviets
in their press, their radio are
accusing the Chinese of being
Hitlerites. They are equating the
red guard with the Hitler youth.
17 helicopters
wrecked over
lietnam, Laos
SAIGON MP>—Seventeen Amer
ican helicopters were destroyed
or damaged in action ranging
(rom South Vietnam’s Mekong
Delta to the jungles of .southeast
Laos, the U.S. Command said
Thursday.
The casualty count was rela
tively low—four Americans killed
and five wounded.
The latest two losses were an
Army UH1 Huey and a big Ma
rine CH53 transport chopper cap
able of carrying more than 40
combat-equipped troops, both
downed by enemy gunfire Mon
day in Laos’ lower panhandle.
Five crewmen were reported
wounded.
Command spokesmen would not
say what mission the two heli-
topters were on, but loss of an
other CH53 in the same area
Sunday raised the possibility they
were transporting troops, sup
plies or both for stepped-up allied
action against North Vietnamese
troops moving down the Ho Chi
Hinh trail.
Sixty-seven U.S. aircraft have
been lost over Laos since the
D.S. Command began reporting
losses publicly March 10. The
total number of American heli-
topters lost to all causes in a
decade of Indochina fighting
stands at 4,042.
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“In short, the Chinese and the
Russians no longer regard each
other as Communists.”
The tension between the two
communist giants is becoming
such that a clash is likely and if
it happened, the world, economi
cally and politically, would no
longer be the same,” Gould said.
“It is my opinion that the dan
ger comes from the Russians, who
desperately want to hold on to
that five million square miles of
territory that they took from
China in the 19th century,” he
said.
Considering what could happen
Loyal N. Gould
if the Chinese and the Russians
started an all out shooting war,
Gould said, “I for one don’t be
lieve the United States could keep
out of it for very long.”
Gould said Russia’s position
was such that “in this age of the
missile, China is more vulnerable
to Soviet attack than are the
Soviets’ far eastern territories to
an attack by the Chinese.”
China’s industrial arsenal, Man
churia, and its only modern air
craft and armament factories are
located within easy bombing dis
tance, Gould said.
After serving four years at
Ohio State University organiz
ing and directing an international
journalism program, Gould was
named chairman of Wichita State
University’s journalism depart
ment this fall.
The author of numerous syn
dicated news stories, book re
views, articles, and books dealing
with national and international
affairs, Gould served six years
with the Associated Press and a
year with NBC.
He was foreign correspondent,
foreign news editor, and United
Nations correspondent for AP and
foreign and national network cor
respondent for NBC. He also
helped cover the 1968 presidential
campaign for National Education
al Television.
Pass-fail topic
at senate meet
RAINS KEEP COMING and
winds keep blowing, but
students still go to class.
Barbara Schnelke, junior
zoology major from Corpus
Christi, walks barefoot in
the rain Wednesday. (Photo
by Patrick Fontana)
Who’s Who applications
available through Oct. 9
Nomination forms for Who’s Who Among
Students of American Universities and Colleges are
available through Oct. 9.
The applications can be picked up and turned
in at the MSC main desk, Commandant’s Office,
Housing Office or the Office of the Dean of Students,
Room 111, YMCA Building.
Applicants must be seniors expecting to
graduate before Aug. 31, 1971, unless they are
veterinary medicine students under the trimester plan
who will become seniors by February, 1971.
Undergraduates applying must have an overall
grade point ratio of 2.5 or better, based on a 4.0
system.
Graduate students must have completed one
semester of at least 12 credit hours, with a 3.5.
Qualified students are urged to nominate them
selves in order to insure consideration of all names.
They may also be nominated by other students, by
members of the University staff or by campus
organizations.
Who’s Who Committee members are Dean W.
David Maxwell, College of Liberal Arts; Associate
Dean Charles McCandless, College of Liberal Arts;
Assistant Dean C. H. Randsdell, College of Engineer
ing; Col. Jim H. McCoy, Commandant of Corps of
Cadets; and Associate Dean of Students Don R.
Stafford.
Students on the committee are Van Taylor,
Corps Commander; Mark Olson, president, Civilian
Student Council; Tom Fitzhugh, president, Memorial
Student Center Council; Mickey Land, president,
Graduate Student Council; Tom Bain, Deputy Corps
Commander; and Gordon Pilmer, vice president,
Civilian Student Council.
Recruits to study
race discrimination
A pass-fail course resolution,
a possible international student
association, and a new university
president resolution will be dis
cussed by the Student Senate to
night at 7:30 in the library con
ference room.
Recommendtion for the initia
tion of pass-fail courses will be
discussed before the senate votes
on this resolution at the Oct. 1
meeting. Bill Hartsfield, senate
recording secretary, said he had
met with all the college deans and
recorded their reactions as both
favorable and openminded.
Hartsfield said if this proposal
Esten casts 18
for five nights
in “Much Ado”
A blend of Aggie Player vet
erans and newcomers have been
cast in the Texas A&M theatrical
company’s Nov. 16-20 staging of
Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About
Nothing.”
The 18-member student cast for
probably the final production in
Guion Hall was announced by
C. K. Esten, Aggie Players direc
tor.
The roster includes Alec Horn
as Leonato; Mitch Hall as Don
Pedro; Gordon Evans as Don
John; Pat Castle as Benedict;
Scott Wilson as Claudio; Paul
Peterson as Antonio; Carlos
Carranco as Balthasar; Bruce
Baethge as Conrade; and Kurl
Miles as Borachio.
Also in the cast Mike McCaskill
as Friar Francis; James Dennis
as Dogberry; Robert Anderson
as Verges; Edmund Arranga as
the Sexton, Messenger, Boy and
Watch 2; Mary Hanna as Hero;
Lucy Gravett as Beatrice; Caro
line Most as Margaret; Yvonne
Schmitz as Ursula, and Arnulfo
Garcia as Watch 1.
Horn, Hall, Castle, Peterson,
Dennis, Anderson and Mrs.
Gravett have appeared in previ
ous Aggie Player productions.
The play directed by Esten will
appear five nights at Guion Hall
and also will go on the road, for
Nov. 21 presentation in the Schul-
enburg civic theater.
‘Much Ado” will be the A&M
players’ only production of the
fall semester. Guion Hall will
be removed for Memorial Student
Center expansion and auditorium
construction.
was accepted by the Executive
Committee of the Academic Coun
cil, the system would probably
first start in the College of
Liberal Arts. The pass-fail pro
posal is on the agenda for dis
cussion in the College of Liberal
Arts faculty meting Oct. 9, Harts
field said.
Roger Miller, senate vice presi
dent, said the senate will vote
whether or not to support the
initiation of an International Stu
dent Association. Miller said this
association would allow interna
tional students to share ideas and
more easily adjust to life at Texas
A&M. Miller said an organiza
tion of this type could possibly
begin a model U.N. at A&M.
The Senate will also consider
two resolutions having to do with
the university presidency. One
resolution welcomes Dr. Jack
Williams, recently appointed Tex
as A&M president, and invites
him to speak before the senators.
A second resolution considers ex
tending the appreciation and con
gratulations of the Senate to
Acting A&M President A. R.
Luedecke.
Remains of Felice
observed at A&M
Remnants of Felice, the tropical storm that toyed around with
hurricane status while pumping across the Gulf of Mexico toward
Texas, passed directly over Bryan and College Station early Wednesday.
Observers in A&M’s Meteorology Department weather station and
radar control room marked the passage at between 6 and 7 a.m. Wind
gusts to 36 mph were recorded.
Several Polaroid pictures of Felice’s deteriorating structure were
taken off the radar scopes of Goodwin Hall. A department official said
the storm’s eye measured 10 to 15 miles in diameter.
Precipitation and cloud echoes were picked up by the matched-
antenna radar system out to about 70 miles on the south, east and
northeast sides. Activity was depicted on the screens out to about 50
miles on the northwest side.
At noon, the storm’s center was about 50 miles northwest of
College Station.
Weather station manager Jim Lightfoot said one wind gust in
association with a thundershower at about 9 a.m. gauged 38 mph.
Rainfall patterns ranged from 1.1 inches at Easterwood and .85 to 1.5
inches in Bryan to .95 inch at the weather station. At Millican,
precipitation measured near 1.4 inches by 8 a.m., he added.
With the reading through 8 a.m., the station total for the month
of September stood at 6.02 inches.
Taborsky to speak
on eastern Europe
“Eastern Europe Today” will be the topic of the first Great Issues
presentation tonight at 8 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom.
The free presentation features Dr. Edward Taborsky who spoke
in a Great Issues program last year on U.S.—Czechoslovakian relations.
He is currently a professor of government at the University of Texas.
Before he came to America, Dr. Taborsky served in high
administrative capacities in Czechoslovakia, and as the personal aide to
the Czechoslovakian president following that in 1939 to 1945.
Taborsky is the author of several books, including “Truth
Prevailed.”
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Clubs to divide
store’s profits
t should signup
Meetings for allocation of Ex
change Store profits will be held
next week.
Sept. 24 meetings will be held
st 5:15 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center. Representatives
From departmental and profes
sional clubs will meet in Room
2C while non-departmental and
non-professional clubs represent
atives will meet in 2B, announced
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan, who chairs the Exchange
Store advisory committee.
“Organizations that wish to
make requests for aid of the
Exchange Store advisory commit
tee should pick up information
sheets and application forms at
the Student Finance Center of
the MSC,” noted Sanders Led
better, club aid advisor of the
MSC staff.
GREAT SAVINGS PLAN made
even better by new legal rates at
FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv.
WASHINGTON <dP> — The
Army, faced with serious black-
white conflict on many of its
bases, soon will make training in
better race relations as much a
part of boot camp as drilling and
shooting.
The Continental Army Com
mand is putting the finishing
touches on a five- or six-hour
course aimed at teaching black
and white soldiers how to live
together. The program may be
come a model for the other serv
ices.
A similar course already has
been approved for all officers and
noncommissioned officers attend
ing Army training schools and
will be put into effect in a few
weeks. The recruit course will
begin by early next year.
“The idea,” said one officer,
“is to grab the men as soon as
they come into the Army and to
let them know we have certain
policies and programs that don’t
condone racial discrimination.”
A year ago Gen. William C.
Westmoreland, Army chief of
staff, ordered a get-tough pro
gram drawn up to deal with se
riously increasing racial unrest
in the ranks.
Racial problems have affected
all the services and the military
contends it is a reflection of so
ciety in general.
The new course features televi
sion tapes showing verbal con
frontations between blacks and
whites. The tapes, explained one
official, try to make clear the
reasons behind racial prejudices
carried into the Army by black
and white soldiers.
An Army spokesman said the
course is aimed at reaching “the
vast middle-of-the-road guys who
can be talked to and be made to
recognize the problem.
“We have no illusions,” he
said, “of reaching the hard-core
militants on both sides.”
Ag sweetheart
signup deadline
Friday at five
Applications for Aggie Sweet
heart are still available to coeds
in the Student Programs Office
of the Memorial Student Center,
Jim Alexander announced Wednes
day.
The applications must be turned
into the Student Programs Office
by 5 p. m. Friday, he said.
This is the first year A&M
coeds have been eligible to com
pete for sweetheart. Formerly,
only students from Texas Wom
an’s University were eligible. This
year the contest is open to stu
dents from both schools.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
AN AGGIE sweep is in motion against Wichita State as
Brad Dusek (44), Marc Black (41) and Lenard Millsap
(64) lead the way for quarterback Lex James (10). It
must have been successful as the Ags gained 550 yards a
new school record in the process. They hope to do the
same Saturday night against the LSU Tigers in Baton
Rouge. (Photo by Steve Bryant)