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Ohio to use non-lethal guns Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, October 8, 1970 J. C. (Jim) Harris THE BUG SHOP, Inc. 1911 So. College Ave Bryan, Texas 77801 Phone 822-5383 Bryan's Leading Independent Volkswagen Service * LAKEVIEW CLUB 3 Miles N. On Tabwrj&MHk- Saturday: Johnny Bush Admission — Regular Price STAMPEDE Every Thursday and Friday Nile Live Band—Men $2.00 - Ladies Free (ALL BRANDS BEER 25tf) COLUMBUS, Ohio <A>)_The Ohio National Guard, criticized by a presidential commission in connection with the shooting deaths of four Kent State Uni versity students, has asked for non-lethal weapons for use in future disorders. But the Guard plans to continue to carry rifles and load them on command. Sadat heads Egypt, IH taking hard line N Ohio Adj. Gen. Sylvester T. Del Corso, commander of the Ohio Guard, said Tuesday Guardsmen will continue the policy “to have ammunition with them when called out and will load their weapons on command of an officer.” Career Day set for Saturday A&M’s annual Agricultural and Engineering Career Day set Oc tober 10 is expected to draw a large turnout of Texas high school students, teachers, parents, and the public. Last year’s attendance was 3,800. “We do not want to kill any one or even injure anyone. But the trouble is there when we are called out, and we have to be pre pared to do our job.” Committee chairmen Agricul tural Associate Dean R. C. Potts and Engineering Assistant Dean J. G. McGuire have reported re sponse to invitations indicate twice this number may attend the exhibition concerning careers and study programs in agriculture and engineering from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in DeWare Field House. Faculty and student represen tatives will be available to talk with the students, answer ques tions, and distribute printed ma terials about careers within each discipline. Twenty-seven exhibits are planned. The Cooperative Ed ucation program, in which stu dents alternate periods of univer sity attendance and employment in industry, will be explained, Mc Guire said. Del Corso has noted he is under court order not to comment on the shooting deaths last spring of four students and wounding of nine others at Kent State pend Ranger company for extra training ing conclusion of a state grand jury investigation of that inci dent. Because of that, he said he would not comment on a report released this week by the Presi dent’s Commission on Campus Unrest. The report condemned the violent actions of some stu dents at Kent State, terming them intolerable. It also criti cized the Ohio Guard for using loaded weapons on the campus and denounced the shootings as “unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable.” Slide contest to be held A slide contest will highlight the Monday meeting of the Me morial Student Center Camera Committee at A&M. Winning slides will advance into Gulf States Camera Club Council competition, announced Chairman Greg Gray of Houston. He said the 7:30 p.m. meeting will be in Rooms 3B and C of the MSC and that any guests or in dividuals interested in joining the committee will be welcome. The club signed 70 members for the fall semester. By JOHN CURYLO Battalion Staff Writer “Our purpose in the A&M Ranger Company is to make available extra military training for those cadets desiring it.” That is the goal set by Roger W. Waak, this year’s command ing officer of the company. Waak, a history major from Wichita Falls, said that the unit was formed in the fall of 1968 by Sherman Roberts, who had just returned from Army ROTC sum mer camp. Roberts felt that such a com pany would better prepare cadets for summer camp. He also in tended to provide training for those who were interested in Ranger school once they were in the Army. The company uses classroom sessions and practical warfares (p.w.’s) to teach the basics of Ranger training and skills, ac cording to Willie Cisneros, the executive officer of the A&M Rangers. “We try to apply in the field what we teach in class,” Cisneros said. “The first semester is geared toward preparation for summer camp, while the second semester is devoted to Ranger tactics.” GET IT OFF YOUR MIND 'I'lam-'l p.m. cn S O a> P- cr* O a> ►—* w tn g U) £ w Or EL W I el SOAPBOX FORUM Any A&M student, faculty or staff may speak with valid I. D. Each person may speak 10 minutes, with 5 minutes for rebuttal. Any topic except political campaigning is acceptable. The 55 members of the com pany meet once a week for their classroom sessions. Emphasis is placed on different parts of the training cadets learn in military science class. Practical and con ventional skills, such as writing operation orders, are taught. The advisor for the Rangers is Capt. Charles Briscoe of A&M’s Military Science Department. Capt. Briscoe, a 1965 graduate of The Citadel, acts as a liaison be tween the cadets and the Military Science Department in coordi nating the activities of the com pany. The cadet leaders actually run the company, however, Capt. Brisco works with plans and advisory duties. The high point of last year’s p.w.’s was a 24-hour problem en countered by the company in April. This p.w. encompassed all the basic skills of Ranger tactics. The cadets went from the Bryan airfield 23 miles down the Brazos River in rubber rafts, and then they held a 7-mile forced march. The Ranger Company has been involved in two activities already this year, in addition to the weekly classroom sessions, an nounced Tim Leftwich, the public information officer for the A&M Rangers. The weekend of Sept. 26-27, 52 members of the company went to Ft. Hood to observe and take part in various aspects of air- bomb training. Each A&M Ranger took a practice jump from the 34-foot tower used by the Texas National Guard air borne unit. The cadets drove to Waco for classes of instruction there at the National Guard Armory. They were taught how to jump and what equipment they could carry when jumping. The company then watched the actual training of an airborne unit. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Egypt’s National Assembly nominated Acting President An war Sadat for a full six-year term as president Wednesday and pledged the new leadership would follow the policies of Ca rnal Abdel Nasser. However, there were indica tions in Cairo and elsewhere that Nasser’s successors were taking a tougher line toward the United States and Israel than the late Egyptian president took. In Beirut, newspapers of both the right and the left noted a tougher Egyptian stance. “Egypt Stifens After Nasser,” declared the banner headline in the right-wing Lebanese news paper A1 Nahar. The independent right-wing newspaper A1 Hayat noted the “beginning of a crisis between the United States and Egypt after Nasser.” A1 Kifah, which reflects the views of the anti-Nasser Iraqi government, said support for a Middle East settlement appears to be receding in Egypt.” Sadat and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad have re jected an American demand for withdrawal of antiaircraft mis siles from the Suez Canal cease fire zone, and the country’s only political party, the Arab Social ist Union, called the United States and Israel the “main enemies.” The semiofficial Cairo news paper A1 Ahram said Sadat told U.S. Secretary of Health, Edu cation and Welfare Elliot L Rid WAS ardson that Egypt rejects al dent N claims of missile movements it night i the truce zone in violation of to Vietnai agreement. It quoted the Egypt® m ediat< leader: “The first and foremos thing is that nobody asks us it and a l to seek withdraw a single missile fro; througl the front because that is cot pletely unacceptable.” Depai stances At the United Nations in Nn: initiate York, a British spokesman ei cease-fi pressed concern over the M that it decision to pull out of depiit; i all the level talks to establish guii How« lines for a Middle East peatt ficial i The talks among the Unitit, identifi States, Britain, France and iu ministr Soviet Union should contim if the f “and be seen to do so,” a Britis; immedii spokesman said. j Vietnan The U.S. representative, ChiJ He s topher H. 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