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Cbe Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 28
College Station, Texas
Cool
and
cloudy
Friday, October 15, 1971
Friday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Southerly winds 10-15
mph. High 78°, low 61°.
Saturday — Cloudy, intermit
tent rain. Southerly winds 10-15
mph, becoming northerly 15-20
mph. High 78°, low 67°.
Ft. Worth Kickoff Time — 66°.
Northerly winds 10-12 mph. 40%
relative humidity.
845-2226
Israeli military aid
to be reconsidered
Julian Bond, Georgia legislator, tells a Political Forum audience of the insuing threat of
racism Thursday in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. (Photo by Joe Matthews)
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. <A>)_
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers said Thursday the United
States will reconsider its military
commitments to Israel because of
a new Soviet promise of more mil
itary aid to Egypt.
A U.S. official said afterward
the Soviet promises had prompt
ed an “active” review of the Isra
eli request for more warplanes
and that the review would begin
“pretty promptly.”
Rogers discussed U.S. aid policy
outside his New York hotel suite
after an hour’s conference with
the Israeli foreign minister, Abba
Eban.
Eban had said earlier the So
viet promises to Egypt made re
sumption of the U.S. warplane
shipments necessary. They are re
ported to have halted last July at
the expiration of a contract.
The Israelis especially want
more Phantom jet fighter bomb
ers.
Emerging from the conference,
Eban said he had put “great em
phasis” on Israel’s request for
more planes. He noted that a
Soviet-Egyptian communique is
sued in Moscow Wednesday night
said the two sides agreed “on
measures aimed at further
strengthening the military might
of Egypt.”
Julian Bond says
Racism is America’s big enemy
Racism is the only major prob
lem facing America today, Julian
Bond, black legislator from Geor
gia, told a jam-packed Political
[Forum audience Thursday.
“Politics is the art of seeing
who gets how much of what,”
Bond said, adding that blacks are
the “ones who have gotten noth
ing from you know who.”
Bond was elected to the Geor
gia Legislature three times be
fore he was seated by a Supreme
Court decision. Obstensibly, the
legislators of Georgia prevented
him from being seated because
of his dovish views on the war
in Vietnam.
He is a gentle appearing man
of about medium height, his fea
tures more Caucasian than Ne
gro, his skin more light-brown
than black.
When he talks it is with a quiet,
oven voice, barely having any
trace of a southern accent.
Bond emphasized the value of
Politics to the black community
nather than attempting to first
gain economic control.
“Political power is relatively,
note I say relatively, easy to ob-
p in as compared to economic
Power. Economics are too big,
too massive to wrestle with,” he
said.
According to Bond, black po
litical power will mean an arrival
; a t black economic power. By con-
trolling or influencing the giving
°f subsidies and grants Bond feels
; that blacks can quickly improve
their economic status.
A major means would be by
cutting military spending by
withdrawing all advisors and
troops from Vietnam, Bond said.
Politics can mean the end of
Nixonomics, Mitchell mixups,
; the Federal Bureau of Intimida-
t' 0I b family destruction, starving
c hildren eating lead-poisoned
Fish elections
open for filing
this Monday
Filing for Fish elections will
e gin Monday in the Student Pro
grams Office of the Memorial
Student Center.
; Positions open are those of
I res ident, vice-president, secre-
^ry-treasurer, and social secre
tary.
Five at large Student Senators
"dll also be selected.
Required for the class positions
18 a 2.00 GPR. A 2.5 GPR is
needed for the senate seats.
food and poverty in the midst of
plenty,” Bond said.
“It is not too soon to begin
now, it may be too late,” he said.
“It means involving yourself in
politics.”
“To you,” he told a predomi
nately white audience, “it will
only mean the changing of the
picture on your dormitory room
dartboard. To blacks, who have
been running in place or sliding
backward since 1968, it means
much more.”
Bond, the first black to be
nominated for vice president of
the United States, even though he
was too young to serve, is op
posed to President Nixon, a man
he says was elected by racism.
Most of Nixon’s policies came
under fire by Bond. One of the
few times he praised Nixon was
when he said he was doing the
nation a service by “staying alive
and watching his health, he is
keeping Spiro Agnew out of the
presidency.”
As for Nixon’s possible re-
election, he said, “The choice is
easy, it’s anyone besides the in
cumbent. What we need is some
one who will deliver reality, not
rhetoric, to the black communi
ty.”
Despite his talking of political
power and the presidency, Bond
does not see a black vice presi
dent within the next two terms
of office. Though he has been
nominated by the Democratic
Party for vice president, he is
too young to serve and doubts
that he would want the job.
In directing statements to
youths, he urged young voters
to vote, as about 80 per cent
don’t.
“You could have quite a bit
of political power,” he said, “but
it will never be done by smoking
America to her knees or by people
who enjoy Woodstock while tol
erating Watts.”
He called for young Americans
to get involved, saying that drop
ping out is nothing but a con
scious dodging of issues and real
ities. Political power has no sub
stitute, he said.
“Politics sent American men
to Vietnam and can bring them
home alive; politics decides that
black people must live in perma
nent depression, that we must live
in second and third hand homes
or vertical concrete prisons de
signed by an architect who lives
in the suburbs, that blacks are
the last hired and the first fired,
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
that black children will get 12
years of school but only six years
of education,” Bond said.
“Look for the difference be
tween national ideals and national
reality,” he said. “We want jobs,
we want a good economy but we
have unemployment and infla
tion.”
Aside from economic and poli
tical power is “another goal much
more desireable, an ill much more
horrible. The ill is racism, the
goal is containment and eradi
cation.”
On busing, Bond said that it
was nothing new, that busing had
been going on for many years
without complaint. Busing, he
said, was and is a safe means
of moving children to schools and
has always been practiced.
“There is no objection to the
yellow bus,” he said, “there is
objection to the black body on
the bus.”
Throughout his speech, Bond
received applause from an enthu
siastic audience. He twice receiv
ed standing ovations, one com
ing when he ended his speech with
a quote from black leader of the
Civil War era, Frederick Dou
glas.
“If there is no struggle, there
is no progress,” Douglas said.
Food seminars
to begin Monday
Seminars and special programs
on food protein research will be
held next week at A&M.
Dr. Aaron M. Altschul, profes
sor of community medicine at
Georgetown University School of
Medicine, will give seminar lec
tures Monday, Wednesday and
Friday on the world food supply.
Programs conducted by A&M’s
Food Protein Research and De-
Off-campus
applications
being taken
Undergraduate applications for
off-campus housing permits are
now being taken at the Housing
Office.
Effective immediately, applica
tions will be accepted through
Oct. 29. After that date applica
tions will not be accepted until
the close of preregistration.
Single undergraduate students
who have not received day stu
dent permits by Oct. 29 must pre
register as residence hall stu
dents and should reserve rooms
during the room sign-nip period
to avoid loss of room priority.
Permission for undergraduates
to live off-campus is given only
for very unusual circumstances.
Those under 21 must have par
ental permission before applica
tions will be considered.
Parental permission does not
guarantee approval and should
not be interpreted as such.
In the Middle East, Eban said,
“the balance is such that it can
only be maintained if shipments
of American aircraft to Israel are
resumed.”
When Rogers came out of his
Waldorf Towers suite, he also
noted the Soviet pledge to
“strengthen the military might
of Egypt.”
“In view of that,” he said, “we
will have to carefully consider
our position, particularly in the
light of President Nixon’s com
mitment when he said that the
military balance in the Middle
East will not change.”
The U.S. official drew a con
nection between U.S. military aid
to Israel and U.S. efforts to ar
range an Egyptian-Israeli interim
agreement on reopening the Suez
Canal as a step toward a general
settlement.
The interim agreement now be
ing discussed would involve an
Israeli military withdrawal from
the canal, an Egyptian crossing
of the canal to clear and open
it, and various commitments to
cease-fire, peace and freedom of
navigation.
Rogers said both Egypt and
Israel had asked the United
States to continue its peacemak
ing. Though neither had made
concessions, he said, there were
indications that “we will be able
to have a more active exchange
of views.”
Consumer protection bill
receives House support
WASHINGTON <A>) — The
House passed a consumer pro
tection bill 344 to 44 Thursday
over protests by Ralph Nader’s
allies that the legislation is a
skillfully designed deception.
It creates a new consumer pro
tection agency, gives legal under
pinning to the White House’s
Office of Consumer Affairs, and
sets up a 15-member consumer
advisory council.
The legislation was sent to the
Senate—which endorsed a simi
lar bill a year ago—after the
House rejected a key strength
ening amendment by 218 to 160
and deefated the major weaken
ing amendment by 240 to 149.
The White House has approved
the plan. Republican Leader Ger
ald R. Ford of Michigan, urging
the House to turn down all ef
forts to “undermine the bill one
way or another,” hinted that se
rious changes could prompt a
presidential veto.
Rep. John E. Moss, D-Calf.,
pleading for approval of a
strengthening amendment, said
the committee bill had “no teeth,
no bite.”
Rep. Chet Holifield, chairman
of the Government Operations
committee said it is a strong
bill “that is carefully balanced
by safeguards to insure that
trade secrets will not be im
properly disclosed, test data will
not be misrepresented, duplicative
work will be avoided, and govern
mental operations will not be dis
rupted.”
An amendment offered by Rep.
William S. Moorehead, D-Pa.
would have extended the new
agency’s authority to get involved
in more of the so-called adjudica
tory proceedings—the process of
formulating orders. It also would
have permitted the new agency
authority to review informal steps
by which other agencies dispose
of consumer complaints. The
amendment was defeated.
Another unsuccessful amend
ment aimed at putting more
limitations on the new agency’s
power was sponsored by Rep.
Don Fuqua, D-Fla. He proposed
to give the agency the status of
an adviser, handing out “a
friendly warning” to other agen
cies, but without power to enter
cases as a legal party with rights
of “adversary advocate” of con
sumer interests.
Nader’s backers said they had
gained last week the support of
Ways and Means Committee
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark.,
for their attempts to strengthen
the bill. But Mills voted against
the Moorhead amendment.
A&M United Drive campaign
officially set to begin Monday
A&M’s United Drive officially
begins Monday, announced Lib
eral Arts Dean W. David Max
well, this year’s campaign chair
man.
The university drive, scheduled
to continue through Oct. 30, is
conducted in behalf of the Col
lege Station United Chest and
the Greater Bryan United Fund
campaigns.
A goal of $106,700 has been
established for the Bryan drive
and $26,870 for College Station.
Dean Maxwell noted university
employes may designate which
of the campaigns is to receive
their contributions, or contribu
tions may be divided between the
two funds in whatever proportion
desired by the donor.
Beginning Monday, employes
will be contacted by volunteer
representatives in offices through
out the campus. They will be given
contribution cards and material
explaining how the funds will be
used.
Both organizations support the
Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, Salvation Army, USO,
Brazos Valley Rehabilitation
Center, Brazos County Counseling
Service and the Brazos County
Community Council.
Additionally, the GBUF sup
ports the Brazos County Girl’s
Club, Boy’s Club, Youth Center,
Bryan Welfare Fund and the Tex
as United Community Service.
The CSUC also supports the
College Station Recreational
Council, Junior Museum of Nat
ural History, Brushy Day Care
Center and Community House,
Inc.
The first United Drive contrib
ution was $500 from the Student
Senate.
velopment Center will be explain
ed Monday and Thursday. Dr.
Altschul, internationally recog
nized protein scientist, is a con
sultant to the center, a part of
the College of Engineering at
Texas A&M.
Dr. Karl F. Mattil, food pro
tein center director, said the first
meeting is at 1:30 p. m. Monday
in University Library Room 226.
Formal presentations will be
made by center staff members
to review the A&M research pro
gram.
Dr. Altschul will speak on “The
World Food Situation” at 7 p. m.
Monday in the Memorial Student
Center. Dr. Alice Stubbs, presi
dent of the sponsoring Phi Tau
Sigma society, will preside.
At 3:30 p. m. Wednesday Dr.
Altschul will give a second semi
nar on “Intervention in Food Sup
ply: Prospects and Problems” in
Library Room 226.
The Advisory Council for Oil
seed and Food Protein Research,
Natural Fibers and Food Protein
Committee of Texas — formerly
the Cottoon Research Committee
of Texas — will meet at 9:30
a. m. Thursday to coincide with
Dr. Altschul’s campus visit. Exec
utive Director Carl Cox will pre
side at the meeting.
Dr. Altschul’s final seminar,
“The Special Case of the United
States,” is scheduled for 1:30
p. m. Friday in Library Room
226. Dr. Mattil will preside at the
Wednesday and Friday lectures,
both sponsored by the food pro
tein center.
Banking is a pleasure at
Bank & Trust.
First
Lawrence Sullivan Ross appears to be quite a ladies’ man this year. Pledges for Omega Phi
Alpha, the first sorority for A&M, restore the knightly statesman to his former luster,
carrying on a tradition usually performed by the male contingent. (Photo by Mike Rice)