The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 07, 1971, Image 1

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Vol. 67 No. 5
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, September 7, 1971
845-2226
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By JOHN CURYLO
A&M students can expect the
tightest housing situation in
years to ease within the next
few weeks, according to Allan
M. Madeley, University Housing
Manager.
“We’re finally making prog
ress,” he said yesterday. “Things
are levelling off. We really ap
preciate the attitude of the stu
dents during this crisis.”
Howard S. Perry, director of
civilian student activities, com
mended student behavior toward
the problem, which saw some 70
civilian and 60 cadet rooms occu
pied by three students.
“The attitude was wonderful,”
he explained. “We appreciate the
way everyone acted, even though
they were inconvenienced. This
goes for both civilians and
cadets.”
Madeley said that the civilian
housing situation was alleviated
somewhat Friday, when students
were moved to leave the usual
two to a room. A similar correc
tion will be made by the Corps
tonight.
The two officials noted that
part of the problem arose with
the success of the recruiting and
retention efforts of the Corps.
“We expected a twenty per cent
loss,” Perry said. “Instead, there
was an increase of about 100.
This is excellent, but we weren’t
ready for it, as far as housing
was concerned.”
Madeley said that about 25 to
30 people are still waiting for
on-campus housing, but that they
should be taken care of within
a month.
tention is better than it used to
be, among both the Corps and
the civilians.”
“At this point, a solution re
mains to be seen,” he said. “How
ever, there usually are a certain
number of resignations due to
marriage or dropping out of
school. Theoretically, the situ
ation gets better day by day, and
will continue to throughout the
school year.
“We’ll probably have the high
est percentage of occupancy
across the campus than ever be
fore,” he continued, “although it
was pretty tight for the civilians
two years ago. Overall, the re-
Regarding future difficulties,
the chief of housing indicated
that the new dormitory would not
be of significant help.
“We won’t pick up that many
rooms, because Mitchell Hall will
be torn down,” he explained. “We
will have a few more rooms,
though.”
As a possible solution, Madeley
agreed that the policies restrict
ing off-campus housing for single
students may be relaxed a little.
“Some people want off campus
and others want on,” he said,
“and we like to make everybody
happy.”
Second crash in 3 days
17 die as charter jet crashes
HAMBURG, Germany UP)—A
West German charter jetliner
packed with vacationers bound
for Spain attempted an emer
gency landing on a superhighway
Monday, but struck a bridge and
exploded.
Police, sorting out conflicting
reports, said 17 of the 120 per
sons aboard were killed. They
said 42 were hospitalized and 61
others escaped unharmed or with
slight injuries.
The accident occurred minutes
after the plane took off from
Hamburg’s Fuhlsbuettel Airport.
A spokesman for the Pan Inter
national Airline said the com
pany’s British-made BAG 111 jet
attempted an emergency landing
on the highway after the captain
radioed that he had engine
trouble.
As the plane moved down the
highway it brushed a bridge and
damaged a wing r the airline
spokesman said.
The main fuselage skidded to
a halt and most of the passengers
and crew scrambled out before it
exploded in a cascade of flames.
Stunned and injured passen
gers staggered in a field along
side the autobahn and many were
picked up and taken to hospitals
by motorists, airport officials
said.
This complicated the task of
compiling a list of dead and in
jured.
The airline spokesman said all
crew members survived.
It was the second crash of a
commercial airliner since Satur
day, when an Alaska Airlines
727 jet crashed into a mountain
20 miles west of Juneau, killing
111 persons on board.
A COED AT NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY at Denton, Jackie Barret, mirrors
a surprised expression when she tried to deposit litter in a trash can on the campus.
The hand in the barrel is the photographer’s idea to illustrate the need of a clean campus
and the drawing effect of the many multi-colored cans. (AP Wirephoto)
Reddy, Denver open Town Hall
Four power Berlin
slowed by language
treaty
barrier
vor
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,o.
Town Hall entertainment fea
turing singers Helen Reddy and
John Denver opens A&M’s first
football weekend and the 1971-72
Memorial Student Center series
Friday.
The A&M-Wichita State game
“warmup” begins at 8 p.m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Town Hall chairman Kirk
Hawkins said single and season
tickets are on sale at the Student
Program Office in the MSC.
Miss Reddy and Denver will
bring to Town Halt styles that
go across the current music scene.
A. student of the psychological
aspects of supernatural phe
nomena such as telepathy, clair
voyance and extrasensory percep
tion, Miss Reddy is a Capitol
recording artist whose first single
was “I Don’t Know How to Love
Him” from “Jesus Christ Super-
star.”
“compleat” spokesman for his
under - 30 generation and is
among the hottest artists on the
college concert circuit. Denver
worked with the Mitchell Trio
four years, being selected from
among 250 applicants to fill the
spot Chad Mitchell vacated.
The performing career she
plans to one day put aside for
study in bringing mysticism and
religion together has landed Miss
Reddy on the Johnny Carson,
Mike Douglas and Steve Allen
Shows, among others.
BERLIN OP) — A translation
foulup blocked formal signing
Thursday of the first four pow
er accord on Berlin since World
War II.
It was the involuted Teutonic
language which forced the Big
Four powers to postpone their
scheduled signing of the accord
on the city — and save face by
announcing that the postpone
ment was due to the sudden ill
ness of U. S. Ambassador Ken
neth Rush. He was to have
John Denver, a former Mitchell
Trio member, has “Leaving on a
Jet Plane” from his “Rhymes
and Reasons” album, “Readjust
ment Blues,” the revelrous “Coun
try Roads“ and “Carolina in My
Mind.”
A singer-guitarist-composer,
Denver sings and plays as a
President’s reception tonight
for new A&M faculty, staff
He grew up in an Air Force
family and while a Texas Tech
student got involved during the
folk music craze period. Denver
left architecture studies to try
his show business luck. He suc
cessfully auditioned at Leadbet-
ter’s in Los Angeles, won the
Mitchell spot in 1965 and struck
out solo in 1969. Denver’s recent
college performances were ac
cented by appearance on the Merv
Griffin Show.
Great
Walt
Issues will
Rostow on
present
Thursday
The annual Texas A&M presi
dent’s reception for faculty - and
staff members will be held from
7 until 9 tonight in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom.
New faculty-staff will be hon
ored guests, but President Jack
K. Williams emphasized that all
faculty-staff and their spouses
are cordially invited, along with
retired personnel and their
spouses, and widows of former
faculty-staff members.
President and Mrs. Williams
will be joined in the receiving
line by Dr. and Mrs. John C. Cal
houn, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Tom
D. Cherry. Dr. Calhoun is the
university’s vice president for
academic affairs and Cherry is
vice president for business af
fairs.
Miss Reddy was a professional
performer at a tender age
through her show-business par
ents, but detoured. She went to
a strict English boarding school
and had a one-time yen to be a
missionary.
Great Issues will present for
mer White House aide Walt
Rostow on “The Possibilities of
Reconciliation in Asia” Thursday
at A&M.
Rostow, now an economics and
history professor at UT-Austin,
will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday in
the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom, announced Great Issues
chairman Sam Drugan.
The first MSC presentation of
1971-72 will be a public-free pro
gram, with all students, faculty-
She started working fulltime at
age 15, first with a road show
into the Australian bush area
known as the Outback. An Aus
tralian “Bandstand Internation
al” contest win brought her to
the U. S.
Tupamaro guerrillas free
111 prisoners in Uruguay
01 Mayor Louie
fall Political
!es”
Gi
ion
Welch
Forum
begins
series
City, state and federal govern
ment officials will appear at
A&M this fall through the Memo
rial Student Center’s Political
Forum committee.
Houston Mayor Louie Welch
will lead off the series on Sept.
23, announced Forum chairman
Paul Turner of Livingston.
Wisconsin Sen. William Prox-
mire, Sen. John G. Tower, State
Rep. Curtis M. Graves of Hous
ton and Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes
appear on the fall schedule,
among others.
The Political Forum presenta
tions enable A&M students, fac-
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
ulty-staff and area citizens to
hear key government leaders
regularly on major issues and
problems.
Turner noted presentations in
clude talks by visiting officials
and question - answer sessions.
Political Forum’s noon series
operates in an informal setting.
Nominally-priced lunches may be
purchased at the door.
Noon-series will present Barnes
on Sept. 29; State Sens. Tom
Creighton of Mineral Wells, Oct.
6, and Mike McKool of Dallas,
Oct. 12; Graves, Nov. 11, and
Dallas Mayor Wes Wise, Nov. 23.
Feature evening Political Fo
rum presentations will include
Senator John G. Tower of Texas,
Nov. 2; Georgia Legislator Julian
Bond, Nov. 14, and Proxmire,
noon
free,
Oct. 22.
Student attendance for
series presentations is
Turner said. Patronage subscrip
tions are available to faculty-
staff and area citizens. Nominal
admission yvill be charged for
non-subscribing patrons.
Separate admission will be
charged for major speakers.
Noon series arrangements will
be made by Political Forum com
mittee members working under
vice chairmen Wayne Edwards
and Dan Beckett. Turner said
Mike Lindsey is major programs
chairman and his wife Rochelle
has charge of arrangements.
Noon chairmen are Allen Cruse
and Keith Fowler, Gordon Van
Pielt handles publicity and Lynn
Reed publications.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay <A>)_
Tupamaro guerrillas carved a tun
nel under a maximum security
penitentiary Monday and freed
111 prisoners with military pre
cision, striking a sharp blow at
the government’s antiterrorist
campaign.
All imprisoned Tupamaro lead
ers were among those freed.
In neighboring Argentina, at
least three gunmen fatally wound
ed five guards and freed 17 in
mates of the municipal jail in
San Miguel de Tucuman, about
700 miles northwest of Buenos
Aires. Two other guards also
were wounded by the raiders who
entered the jail compound in a
light truck and opened fire with
machine guns.
Sources said some of the pris
oners who escaped the Argentine
jail were armed with smuggled
weapons and began shooting at
the same time as the terrorists.
All fled in a truck and two
cars waiting outside the jail walls.
Police reported 14 of the escapees
were suspected members of the
People’s Revolutionary Army, a
Marxist guerrilla group, and the
others were common criminals.
There did not appear to be a
connection between the Argentine
and Uruguayan breakouts.
The mass escape in Monte
video was the second in two
months carried out by the leftist
Tupamaros. Among those who
crawled to freedom through a
120-foot tunnel under the thick
prison wall was Raul Sendic, 44-
year-old lawyer and a founder of
the Tupamaros.
The Tupamaros have kidnaped
foreigners and Uruguayans alike
in a campaign against the gov-
erment.
Conference set
for San Antonio
San Antonio will host the 16th
annual Water for Texas Confer
ence Sept. 9-10 at the El Tropi-
cano Motor Hotel, announced Dr.
Jack R. Runkles, director of the
Texas Water Resources Institute
at A&M.
The conference program, “Ur
ban Water Resources Planning
and Management,” will show the
shift from state-wide water
planning to regional and local
planning, Dr. Runkles said.
Conference participants include
approximately 200 interested citi
zens and representation from city,
county, state and federal water
resources agencies.
staff and area citizens welcome,
Drugan emphasized.
He said Great Issues program
organization for the new year
will enable more audience-speaker
interaction. A question-answer
session following Rostow’s talk
will be longer. In addition, a re
ception for the speaker will be
held in Room 2A following the
program.
Rostow, 54, served as deputy
special assistant for national se
curity affairs, State Department
counselor and policy planning
council chairman and U. S. mem
ber of the Inter-American Com
mittee on the Alliance for Press
under President John F. Kennedy
appointment from the early to
mid-1960s.
President Johnson called Ros
tow back to the White House as
his special assistant for national
security affairs in early 1966. He
remained on the post until he
returned to teaching in February,
1969, at Austin.
The Yale University graduate
also taught at Columbia, Eng
land’s Cambridge University and
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Rostow was a staff member of
the MIT Center for International
Studies before accepting appoint
ment by President Kennedy in
1961.
signed for the United States.
Berliners took the announce
ment of Rush’s indisposition
with raised eyebrows in the face
of diplomatic maneuvering they
have experienced since 1945.
They were earthy in their com
ments.
So far as is known, the French
and Russian texts have been ac
cepted by East and West. But
since last week, experts of the
four powers responsible for oc
cupied Berlin, plus East and West
German experts, have been work
ing on an official German-lan
guage version.
They met late into Wednesday
night and Thursday morning;
and at the appointed hour, a
French spokesman told newsmen
there would be no signing.
Two hours later, a U.S. spokes
man added the announcement
that Rush was indisposed and
ordered to bed for the rest of the
day.
The heart of the matter is a
question of language that could
have grave consequences.
The English text of the agree
ment refers to “transit traffic”
concerning access through East
Germany to and from West Ber
lin.”
The West Germans want this
translated as “through traffic.”
The Communist side wants sim
ple “transit.” The implications
are legalistic in German;
“Through traffic” would mean
within a single country. “Tran
sit” would mean from one politi
cal entity, West Berlin, through
another, East Germany.
Barnes to speak
here Saturday
A recipient of the Order of the
British Empire, the Legion of
Merit while an Army major and
Medal of Freedom also attended
Balliol College in Oxford, Eng
land, in 1936-38 as a Rhodes
Scholar.
The author of numerous publi
cations in economics and inter
national politics serves on UT’s
Board of Foreign Scholarships.
Ben Barnes, Lt. Gov. of Texas,
will talk to A&M students this
weekend at an informal question
and answer program and barbe-
que in Skaggs & Albertson’s
parking lot, at noon Saturday.
The press conference will pro
vide a personal discussion period
for students.
Student tickets to the barbeque
will be $1.00, student’s dates 50
cents, and guests, $1.00. Tickets
to the program are available
through student sales in the Me
morial Student Center and Sbisa
Hall.
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