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; & '-.'t I„v,* p i f r ■ : \ be Battalion Warm and cloudy ii J Vol. 67 No. 30 College Station, Texas wnd ing, Wednesday, October 20, 1971 Thursday — Clear to partly cloudy, light and variable winds. High 78°, low 57°. Friday — Cloudy to partly clody. Afternoon rainshowers. Easterly winds 10-15 mph. High 79°, low 62°. 845-2226 Jews further effort to ridicule Kosygin OTTAWA <A>) — Thousands of Jews poured into this capital Tuesday in a continuing cam paign to embarrass Soviet Pre mier Alexei N. Kosygin. Police cordoned off the vicinity of the Soviet Embassy in prepa ration for the arrival of at least 110 busloads of protesters from other cities. Police intended to keep protestors five blocks from the embassy in every direction. While authorities were prepar ing for an organized parade pro testing alleged mistreatment of Soviet Jews, Kosygin was hav ing another round of what were described as solidly businesslike discussions with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and other Canadian leaders. There have no large crowds of well-wishers waiting to greet the visitor in the first two days of his eight-day tour. On the con trary, most who turned out seemed to be there not to cheer but to jeer. The protests may dog the trip in other cities. Busloads of pro testers already have been head ing toward Montreal, where Ko sygin is due Thursday for an overnight stay, and other dem onstrations are promised for Edmonton, Vancouver and Tor onto. A ram’s horn signaled the be ginning of the Ottawa march. The protesters formed up behind a group of rabbis and started to ward a semicircle of several hun dred police. Young parade marshals formed a barrier in front of the police to insure no contact with the protesters. A sprinkling of young men carried blue and white flags bearing a clenched fist in side a star — the insignia of the militant, New York-based Jew ish Defense League. Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the league, and six companies were turned back to New York after arriving in Montreal. Men with megaphones 1 e d chants — “Let our people go,” and “Free Soviet Jewry.” But the crowd was more picnic than protest in atmosphere, despite the chant and the placards. The atmosphere was friendly. One Montreal-bound convoy of 55 buses was halted for a check by Quebec provincial police, who Nixon appoints Calhoun to serve on new council ? 'zssgtm Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., Texas A&M vice president for academic affairs, was named Tuesday by President Nixon to serve on the newly created National Council on Oceans and Atmosphere. The President said NACOA will undertake a continuing re view of the nation’s progress in oceanic and atmospheric affairs AVERY COMIC, but very serious situation happened last Saturday for apprentice bull fighter Cesar Gonzalez. Gonzalez suffered a serious thigh injury at his first perform ance at Zaragoza arena in Spain. (AP Wirephoto) Activity card no guarantee Town Hall tickets not assured Town Hall is not obligated to give tickets to all students with activity cards, according to Kirk Hawkins, chairman of the Town Hall Committee. The committee has received much criticism recently from stu nts concerning the ticket dilem- ma ' A&M students are required to pay a mandatory fee which en titles them to a general admis- aton ticket, if available, to all Town Hall Series performances, here are, however, far more stu- aents entitled to tickets than seats available at performances. “There are 14,000 students but only 8,300 seats in G. Rollie White Coliseum,” said Hawkins, “so the ticket distribution must be x - un on a first come, first served basis.” In the past it has been found that only 2,500 to 3,000 students actually attend a Town Hall Se ries performance on a general admission ticket, according to Hawkins. Because of this, the Town Hall Committee has always set aside a number of tickets for sale to the community. “Of the 033 tickets set aside for the Carpenters’ performance about half were distributed to students free of charge,” he said. “We could not distribute re serve seats to students free of charge,” Hawkins continued, “without infringing on those stu dents and patrons who hold sea son tickets and those who have already purchased reserve seats.” Hawkins emphasized that ac tivity card holders are entitled to pick up general admission tickets only as long as seats are avail able. Energy enterprise is hurt •)y governmental regulation overnment policies concern- ln g private enterprise in the en- er Sy field often seem to work gainst the long-term public in- We st, A&M’s geosciences dean , ln ted out at a Senate commit- ee seminar here Wednesday. r ' Earl F. Cook called for a re sh new look” at energy poli- J an d strategies in a presen- ' 0n ^ ^e Energy Policy and a >onal Goals Symposium con- o' ^ ^ the Senate Committee nterior and Insular Affairs, j n ' Henr y M. Jackson of Wash- vited" 1 ' com rciittee chairman, in- e the dean to serve as a Se J>nar panelist. . i cited a need for “more regulations of pub- at V ■^ es ’ a * ess P re J u diced look 01 imports and possible adop- „ n an “°il bank” concept for 7 erv ing domestic deposits. re . ran £ e as it may seem, rate " ation of Public utilities can con m direction of increased an(j SUmP ^ 0ri bruited resources Pact ^° rSene< * env ir° n mental im- ti ' n °ted the former execu- gj^tary for the Division of National Acad- l 0 ^ e '| 1 regulatory agencies al- on i° n y a seve u per cent return tested capital to a utility must pay 10 per ital ° n money borrowed for cap- >mpr ove ment ’ Dr _ Cook rea _ f 0r here are only two ways to e utility to make up the a ad t ences: by rate increases „ Th y barging its market. tiv e f 6re ' S an economic impera- aew ° r t ^ lat company to solicit customers and to encourage greater use of energy — no mat ter what it is used for,” the A&M dean explained. “It is quixotic to expect a company in that sort of bind to attempt to decrease its sales in order to protect the environment or to preserve re sources.” The dean questioned the stra tegy of tax incentives and im port quotas to increase the rate of discovery of domestic reserves of oil and natural gas. “To stimulate production of a resource which is limited and nonrenewable hastens the day of dependence on foreign imports or on a substitute resource,” Dr. Cook added. He said a more appropriate strategy would be to develop strategic domestic reserves of oil and gas, while continuing to im port lower-cost foreign oil as long as it is available at reason able cost. Dean Cook also questioned the wisdom of governmental policy which leaves U.S. companies ■ especially oil companies — to stand alone, unsupported by their government, in their relations with other countries. “If their costs are escalated by requirements we would consider inappropriate at home, or if their assets are expropriated, that’s their hard luck, or so we have seemed to say,” observed the bean. „„ , “The day is not far off when we shall have to import half of University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. our petroleum requirements, con stituting more than a third of our total energy needs,” he pre dicted. “But we should not allow that feeling to obscure our view of the major problem of insuring a large inflow of foreign petro leum during the period when we shall need it desperately — the next 50 years,” Cook warned. “This is not an oil company’s problem; it is a national prob lem,” he emphasized. “It would be tragic if we let the national ism of the other producing coun tries and old-fashioned prejudice against ‘oil imperialism’ at home determine our oil import stra tegy.” “We need to explore ways of insuring our interest in foreign oil, to consider government-to-* government negotiations and con tracts,” Dr. Cook concluded, “and to look at ways of making inter national oil companies instru ments of national policy, rather than the scapegoats of national failure.” Williams to speak to local A&M club A&M President Jack Williams will speak to the Brazos County A&M Club at its regular monthly meeting tonight. Club President Larry Locke said the 6:30 p.m. meeting will be at the Knights of Columbus Hall, at the Groesbeck St. and Palasota Dr. in Bryan. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. and barbecue supper will be serv ed at 7 p.m. “The student priority pick-up period was advertised by the lo cal radio stations in the “Bat talion,” the “Daily Eagle” and in the Town Hall brochure,” said Hawkins. He went on to say that students could have picked up tickets on Oct. 5, 6 and 7 but after these dates tickets were made available to all students and the community. The ticket office was closed on Friday, Oct. 8, for inventory due to the large volume of tickets given out dur ing the student priority pick-up period. According to Hawkins, activity cards as well as ID cards will be checked at the door. The Town Hall Committee has requested that students who have tickets but who do not plan to attend return the tickets to the program office so that they can be redistributed. It costs $15,750 to get the Car penters, he said. Of that, approx imately $6,000 comes from the funds allocated to Town Hall from the student activity fees. and will advise the Secretary of Commerce on programs of the National Oceanic and Atmos pheric Administration. NACOA is composed of 25 members representing industry, education, state government and labor. “When plans for the reorgani zation of the nation’s ocean pro gram were outlined by the Com mission on Marine Science, Engi neering, and Resources in 1969, it was recognized that a broadly representative committee be named by the President to pro vide continuing advice to the de velopment of the national marine program,” Dr. Calhoun said. “The National Advisory Council on Oceans and Atmosphere is the re sult of that recommendation.” The council will report to the President and the Congress an nually on its activities and make recommendations for the nation’s ocean-atmosphere program. Dr. William A. Nierenberg, di rector of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is chairman of the council, and Dr. William J. Har gis, director of Virginia Institute of Marine Science, is vice chair man. In addition to being vice presi dent for academic affairs at Tex as A&M, Calhoun also is director of the Texas Sea Grant Program. He serves as chairman of the Ocean Affairs Board of the Na tional Academy of Sciences-Na- tional Research Council and was a member of President Nixon’s task force on oceanography in 1970. In 1969 he served as chair man of the Marine Affairs Ac tion Committee for the U. S. De partment of Interior. Calhoun was appointed chair man of the Presidential panel to study the Santa Barbara off shore oil spill in 1969. From 1963 to 1965, he served as science advisor and special assistant in the In terior Department. Calhoun joined Texas A&M in 1955 as dean of engineering and was named vice president for pro grams in 1965. In 1967, he was the recipient of the Mineral In dustry Education Award of the American Institute of Mining. said they were tipped there were bombs aboard. None was found and the buses were permitted to go on to Montreal for what organizers say will be nonviolent protests against Soviet treatment of Jews. As Kosygin left his hotel for his second business session with Trudeau, about 50 Jewish youths greeted him with chanted slo gans. After his business session, Ko sygin was taken to the swank Rideau Club, directly across the street from the Parliament Build ing, where he was host at a luncheon for the Canadian prime minister. Again, in front of the club, there were pickets, a rela tively small knot of men with placards and chanted slogans. Two Montreal men charged with illegal possession of explo-i sives after a dynamite bomb was found in a car near the Soviet Embassy were remanded in cus tody without plea until Oct. 26. Kosygin’s continuing talks with Canadian leaders again fo cused on international affairs and included a long exchange of views on the Middle East. Both nations support the United Na tion’s 1967 resolution calling for Israel’s withdrawal from occu pied Arab territories. Spokesmen said there was no discussion of either Vietnam or Red China, nor did either side mention the current Canadian grievances against the United States because of Washington’s economic policies. Reservations of dorm rooms are taken for next semester Spring semester room reserva tions began today for A&M stu dents. Housing manager Allan M. Madeley said reservations will be taken in specific time blocks, with students who wish to re serve the room they now occupy having until Oct. 26 to make res ervations. Students in Hart, Law, Pur- year, Legett, Milner, Walton, Hotard, Schuhmacher, Hughes, Fowler, Keathley, Moses and Henderson Halls should report to the Housing Office during the Oct. 20-26 period. Residents of Davis-Gary, Moore, Crocker, Mclnnis, the civilian section of Harrell, White and Utay Halls may reserve their present rooms or another room of the hall in which they now reside by contacting the resident advisor during the same time period. Reservations involving hall changes may be made only dur ing Nov. 8-12, Madeley an nounced. Mitchell Hall residents will have a special Nov. 1-3 room res ervation period. Mitchell will be demolished next spring to make way for the new health center to be built between Houston Street and Military Walk, north of the YMCA. Madeley noted the Mitchell res ervation period will give Mitchell residents choice of rooms in other halls after current occupants have had opportunity to sign up for the same halls and before the first-come, first-served reserva tion period Nov. 8-12. The housing manager said stu dents should be at the YMCA office for reservations between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. during the ap propriate time period. HMS BELFAST, a warship with a name usually associated with trouble, passes under Tower Bridge in London. The heavy cruiser, launched in 1938, is the largest ever built by the British Navy. It is set to begin a new career as a floating museum. (AP Wirephoto)