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Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 28, 1971 THE BATTALION . U. S. action angers Cuban delegation Cuba accused the United States Wednesday of “arbitrary and dis criminatory action” in prohibit ing a Cuban delegation from par ticipating in an international sugar conference in Louisiana. The Fidel Castro regime de clared that the 19 Cuban sugar technicians now in New Orleans after flying there uninvited Tuesday were willing “to assume any risks” while insisting on their “legitimate rights.” Although ordered by U.S. offi cials to return to Cuba, the tech nicians have refused to do so. Meanwhile, the U.S. State De partment said Cuba had agreed to permit two American planes to land in Havana and fly out the 236 passengers of a 747 jum bo jet hijacked Monday. The Cuban government indi cated the airliner and its 15-man crew would be allowed to leave the Cuban capital sometime Wed- TUB PUB “FOR AN ATMOSPHERE YOU WILL ENJOY” Featuring: FRIDAY — “Resurrection” SATURDAY — “Resurrection” Happy Hour Every Afternoon From 4 - 6 p. m. 329 University Drive North Gate 846-9973 Open 7 Nights A Week From 1 - 12 nesday, said State Department press officer Charles W. Bray. He said Cuba indicated the condition of the runways made it unsafe for the loaded 747 to take off from the Havana air port. The developments came as So viet Premier Alexei Kosygin con tinued his visit to Cuba. Kosygin flew into Jose Marti International Airport Tuesday while the American Airlines plane sat on the runway. Its crew and passengers, which in cluded three sky marshals and an off-duty FBI agent, were lodged in a Havana hotel. Havana radio monitored in Mi-* ami said that for the United States to deny the Cuban tech nicians visas to enter the coun try to attend the sugar meeting was “another instance of the Liberal Arts College given S&H grant Dean W. David Maxwell of the College of Liberal Arts was pre sented a $2,000 Sperry and Hutch inson Foundation grant. The grant will be used to fund a series of speakers at the univer sity. The free public lectures in clude such speakers as U.S. Sen. William Proxmire and Dr. Rob ert R. Gilruth of NASA. A&M’s Political Forum and Great Issues Committees are cooperating on the lecture series entitled “Sci ence, Technology and Public Poli cy.” arbitrary and imperialistic policy of the Yankee government, abus ing its condition as host country to injure our fatherland.” It declared the Cuban people strongly supported the “valiant and appropriate attitude of the Cuban technicians” in their re fusal to leave the country. Their arrival in a red, white and blue Russian-built plane sur prised U.S. officials who ordered them to return to Cuba because they lacked visas. The State Department said Cuban officials were advised Sept. 24 that visas would not be approved. It said this was in line with a practice of not issu ing visas to Cubans unless they are members of official delega tions to the United Nations or other international organizations of which Cuba is a member. There had been speculation that Castro was attempting to bargain the fate of the jumbo jet for visas for the sugar dele gation, but the later announce ment that the 747’s passengers would be flown out and the air craft allowed to leave appeared to dispel such fears. There was no further Cuban announcements either on the activities of the Soviet premier, who was said to be on a “visit of friendship,” his first to the island since late 1967. A&M receives Kodak grant 1 To Be Shown At: BAPTIST STUDENT 201 N. 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D A&M has received a $2,750 un restricted grant from Eastman Kodak Co. under a program that benefits institutions graduating Kodak employes. The grant is based on the num ber of graduates from A&M join ing Kodak within five years after graduation and presently complet ing their fifth year of company employment. Kodak contributes $250 for each year of academic work completed by the employe at the undergradu ate or graduate level. A&M graduates honored in the 1971 grant, all Texas Eastman Co. employes, are Robert C. Beas ley, attended A&M three years and received a B.B.A. degree in 1963 and M.B.A. in 1964, $750; James F. Crouch, two years with B.S. degree in 1966, $500; Charles R. Risinger, two years with B.S. in 1966, $500, and Thomas A. Smith, four years with B.S. in 1966, $1,000. A&M is one of 116 publicly supported colleges and universi ties to receive direct gi’ants from the company’s 1971 Educational Aid Program. WASHINGTON <A>) — Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said Wednesday the United Nations has become a paper tiger and a “propaganda sound board for the left.” But he added U.S. mem bership is worthwhile because “it is good to be in the other guy’s huddle.” The vice president said the United States should reassess its financial contributions to the United Nations, the diplomatic importance it assigns the world organization, and its system for distributing foreign aid. He said the General Assembly made a bad decision Monday night when it voted to oust Na tionalist China and seat Peking, “but I’ve never felt, honestly, that the United Nations has served the interests of the Unit ed States diplomatically in any important sense.” “The U.N. has increasingly become in recent years a propa ganda sounding board for the left,” Agnew said in an inter view with The Associated Press, “and this indicates to me that its going to continue this way . . . “My judgment is that we will move away from assigning a position of predominant impro- tance to that body until such time as there is a more even bal ance and fairness exhibited by the member nations.” reappraised many years ago,” he said. “I don’t see any reason why we should pay such a pre dominant amount of the tab..," Agnew said the United States should reappraise the way it dis tributes foreign assistance. “. . . Our aid structures are so complicated sometimes that the recipients of our assistance don’t even realize who’s helping them," he said. Amid conservative clamor in Congress for a cut in U.S. con tributions to the United Nations, Agnew said he favors a reassess ment of the American payments, but not because of the vote that spurned the administration’s two- China seating policy. “I’ve always taken the posi tion that it should have been “That’s why I think we’d be better off instead of using the U.N. framework through these international groupings, if we’d do more on our own and selec tively for our own interests." Forty-four of the 76 nations that cast U.N. votes to oust Na tionalist China are among re cipients of U.S. assistance under a $3.2 billion foreign-aid bill now before the Senate. Brezhnev accuses U.S. of ‘backstage’ intrigue PARIS lSP> — Leonid I. Brezh nev accused the United States at a formal dinner Wednesday night of intriguing with Red China to settle the Vietnam war “behind the backs of the Vietnamese peo ple.” Repeating a theme that has appeared frequently in the Mos cow press, the Soviet Commun ist party chief said “backstage intrigues” or attempts to impose a solution would fail. It seemed surprising that Brezhnev would use a dinner for President Georges Pompidou, his official host, as a forum to at tack both Washington and Pe king. Brezhnev did not mention Chi na by name, but the formula was a familiar one. After saying “American aggression” in Indo china was an obstacle to peace, Brezhnev added: “There is only one way to a solution of the In dochina conflict and that is an end to the foreign intervention in the internal affairs of the peo ples of that region of the world. “No solution can be found to this problem by attempts to im pose a foreign will on Vietnam by force, or by intrigues carried on backstage behind the backs of the Vietnamese people.” Brezhnev’s allusion to the pos sibility of a Chinese-American agreement on Vietnam was an indication of the persistent So viet uneasiness about President Nixon’s decision to visit Peking. Brezhnev also spoke of the “energetic actions of our two countries favoring the convoca tion ’ of a European security conference. He said the confer ence for which Moscow has been pushing would take place next year. His reference to preparations followed reports from diplomatic TAMU TOWN HALL Presents . . . 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