The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 23, 1971, Image 1

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    Wednesday — Clear to partly
cloudy. Winds easterly 8-12 mph.
High 52°, low 38°.
Tuesday, November 23, 1971
Thursday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy with good chance of early
morning precipitation and early
afternoon chance of light inter
mittent drizzle. Winds northerly
8-10 mph. High 56°, low 40°.
845-2226
Aggies get tentative
invite to bowl game
By JOHN CURYLO
Battalion Sports Editor
Coach Gene Stallings received
word Monday morning that the
Aggies will be invited to play in
the Liberty Bowl Dec. 20 if they
upset the Texas Longhorns Thurs
day.
Arkansas has been invited on
the condition that they do not
win the Southwest Conference
championship, which would mean
they would play in the Cotton
Bowl New Year’s Day.
For the Razorbacks to take the
title will require that A&M beat
or tie the nationally ranked Long
horns in Kyle Field Thanksgiving
Day.
The news was told to Stallings
by Bud Dudley, an official of the
Memphis, Tenn. classic. The Uni
k
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Walton Hall runs Austin-C.S.
marathon to symbolize spirit
POKING SLIGHTLY LIKE A MAN FROM MARS, this Bonfire worker is wrapped in
oat, gloves, parka, towel, and helmet—all to no avail. The coffee he is drinking was pro-
iedby University Women, who kept the supplies up all day. (Photo by Hayden Whit-
A&M students’ love for their
school and flaming desire to win
the Thanksgiving Day football
game was evidenced Monday.
After putting in two days’ work
ith Nixon
Meany says clash contrived
IIAMI BEACH, Fla. UP) —
torge Meany, denying that
Rsident Nixon was treated
dely at an AFL-CIO convention
Bion last week, has accused the
Bident of trying to contrive
dash for propaganda purposes.
The administration has charged
(labor delegates were discour-
« when Nixon spoke at the
PL-CIO convention here Friday.
But Meany, the AFL-CIO pres-
»t, accused the White House
“a little lack of courtesy” of
its own. “I still think we have
the constitutional right to laugh,”
Meany said Monday of the 2,000
delegates’ behavior during the
Nixon speech.
Nixon himself provoked one in
cident by unexpectedly bolting
into the crowd to shake hands,
Meany said, and “I committed the
cardinal sin of saying, ‘Well, let’s
go on with the second act.’ But
that was my reaction,” Meany
said.
“I have the impression the
udent warning is issued
gainst campus vandalism
Wl and University of Texas
l Austin administrators issued
joint warning Friday that stu-
’•ts will be suspended for acts
'fendalism on the campus of
(rival school.
The long-standing policy agree-
»t between the UT regents and
« board of directors was re-
•phasized as students at both
I'ersities prepare for the an-
B l Thanksgiving Day football
! ssic here Thursday.
A&M President Dr. Jack K.
Williams and UT-Austin Presi
dent Dr. Stephen H. Spurr em
phasized any student ‘‘who goes
to another campus with the in
tent to paint or otherwise deface
statues, buildings or other prop
erty or commit any other act of
vandalism” will be suspended for
at least one semester.
“Fortunately, in recent years
such misconceived enthusiasm has
been infrequent,” the two presi
dents pointed out.
omen’s rights are advanced
y landmark Court decision
$
President did not come here to
make a speech. He came here to
contrive a situation under which
he could claim that he had been
unfairly treated,” Meany told the
convention to frequent applause,
laughter and a standing ovation.
The convention unanimously re
elected Meany to another two-
year term as chief of the feder
ation of 117 unions with nearly
14 million members.
Meany declined comment on the
charges of Secretary of the Treas
ury John B. Connally Monday that
the treatment of Nixon reflected
“arrogance, boorishness and dis
courtesy” by Meany.
Meany said Nixon was never
booed and jeered, that he was ap
plauded politely at least eight
times, and only drew some laugh
ter when he claimed his wage-
price control progress was work
ing well.
Meany confirmed he refused
Nixon’s request to speak the day
before because it was too short
notice, and that he ruled out live
television coverage because cam
eras would have displaced 80 or
90 delegates.
Meany said the AFL-CIO fol
lowed the minutely detailed
schedule laid down by the White
House until Nixon himself de
parted from it after his speech
and began shaking hands with
delegates.
“When I finished a very short
expression of appreciation, I
turned my head and he was gone.
The escort committee was sitting
here and he just went right by
them,” Meany said.
White House aides had com
plained there was no escort com
mittee.
Nixon was supposed to return
to an office behind the platform,
but “he turned and went into
this roped-off area,” Meany said.
Presidential security agents them
selves removed the rope, he added.
“A White House photographer
appeared and there was a fellow
carrying a great big enormous
glaring light. The President start
ed to mill around over there. Now
at that time, after two or three
minutes of that, the delegates
and guests from the far end of the
hall all started to converge over
here, and I took the mike and
said, as I have many times, ‘will
the delegates and guests kindly
take their seats?’ ” Meany said.
He said Nixon had ignored the
AFL-CIO’s invitation for seven
weeks, and then on 12 hours’ no
tice wanted to address the con
vention precisely at noon on the
opening day, Meany said.
“There was a little lack of
courtesy there,” Meany said. He
added that he told the White
House this was impossible but
that “I would be glad to have the
President later in the afternoon
or any time he wanted on Friday.”
Meany said Nixon did not
touch on one issue critical to
labor, and “His speech was pure
political propaganda.”
on the bonfire to be burned Wed
nesday evening, civilian students
in T. O. Walton Hall ran a “Beat
tu Marathon” from Austin to
College Station.
They carried a torch in the re
lay marathon to be used in ignit
ing the 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
bonfire.
The marathon runners followed
State Hwy. 71 from the southeast
city limit of Austin to Bastrop
and turned east on Texas 21
through Caldwell to College Sta
tion. The Walton Warriors cover
ed 99.3 miles in 45-degree weath
er including a raw north wind
and drizzling rain.
Dividing running chores were
Ron Rodgers and Bennett Jones
of Marshall; Mark Boerger,
Wharton; Kent Roach and Hank
Niblo, Dallas; Bobby Jones, Pasa
dena;
Also, Kirk Palmquist, Jon Green,
Gary Galuyna, Randy Tracy, Bill
Schwartz and Robert Denmard,
Houston; Karl Mesloh, Beaumont;
George Cooper, San Antonio;
Fred Ziehe, Fort Worth; James
Gomez, Brownsville; James
Goode, Weimar; Doug Hansford,
Washington, D. C., and Bill Our-
en, Hampton, Va.
versity of Tennessee has accepted
an invitation to play in the game,
which will he broadcast nationally
by ABC-TV that Monday night.
Stallings informed A&M Presi
dent Jack K. Williams and Ath
letic Council President O. D. But
ler of the news before releasing
it to the press Monday evening.
“I talked it over with the play
ers this morning,” Stallings said,
“and they want to go. I think this
is great for them, and the Liberty
Bowl would be a good reward for
a team that bounced back from
five straight losses the way they
did.
“When I was called, the Liberty
Bowl people tried to sell me on
the idea of our going there,” he
continued. “They sure didn’t have
to convince me—I want to go as
much as anybody.”
Stallings said the Liberty Bowl
officials feel that the game will
get good exposure by being broad
cast during prime time. ABC-TV
currently shows professional
games Monday nights, hut the
last one is scheduled for Dec. 13,
one week before the Liberty Bowl.
Should Arkansas win the con
ference by virtue of a tie or an
Aggie win, Texas will be left
without a post-season game. Since
1960, the Longhorns have been
to the Cotton Bowl seven times,
the Bluebonnet Bowl twice and
the Orange Bowl once.
In eight post-season appear
ances, A&M has won five and lost
three. Four of the trips came
under Coach Homer Norton. In
the 1940 Sugar Bowl, the Aggies
beat Tulane 14-13. In the Cotton
Bowl the next year, Fordham fell
to the Aggies 13-12. Alabama
downed A&M 29-21 in the 1942
Cotton Bowl, while LSU turned
the trick 19-14 in the 1944 Orange
Bowl.
The first bowl game for the
Aggies was on Jan. 2, 1922, when
D. X. Bible’s squad beat Centre
College 22-14 in the Dixie Clas
sic, where the Twelfth Man tradi
tion was begun.
Harry Stiteler was the coach
of the 1950 Aggies, who beat
Georgia 40-20 for the Presiden
tial Cup that year. In 1957, Bear
Bryant’s A&M team fell to Ten
nessee 3-0 in the Gator Bowl of
Dec. 28, the only previous game
with the Volunteers.
Stallings’ 1 9 6 7 conference
champs beat Bryant’s Crimson
Tide in the 1968 Cotton Bowl,
20-16, the last year A&M beat
Texas or had a winning season.
Flag at Texas game to honor
POW-MIAs in N. Vietnam
A flag in honor of the POW-
MIAs in Southeast Asia will fly
over Kyle Field Thursday when
the Aggies play the Texas Long
horns.
The flag, which was flown over
the Capitol in Washington, D. C.,
was presented by Congressman
Olin E. Teague to Mrs. Bobbie
Meyer, whose husband Alton
(A&M Class of ’60) is a prisoner
of war in North Vietnam, and
Mrs. Neil Ward, whose son Clint
(A&M Class of ’67) is listed as
missing in action.
Mrs. Carla Clock and Mrs. Mary
Thomas, members of Interested
Individuals for POW-MIAs, joined
Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Ward in
presenting the flag to Coach Gene
Stallings for use at the Thanks
giving Day game.
Thousands honor JFK
on anniversary of death
ARLINGTON, Va. <A>) _ Thou
sands of people climbed a grassy,
windswept hillside Monday to pay
tribute to John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy on the eighth anniversary of
his assassination.
Leading the procession through
acres of small white markers was
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who
arrived at Arlington National
Cemetery in the early morning
hours, coatless, solemn and alone.
Washington (/p> — in a
Ntaark ruling the Supreme
0,1 U Monday unanimously
arbitrary discrimination
tost women by legislators
’(■ywhere in the nation.
e startling decision, an-
p Ce d by Chief Justice Warren
' Wger, was the first by the
* court cloaking women with
equal-protection clause of the
jWitution, the basis for earlier
Co 8 a<AvancAn £ bhe rights of
r t> e r said legislatures may
women differently from
only when the purpose is
Enable.
decision came in a rela-
ey obscure case from Idaho in
lc the father and mother of a
l, - s °n had vied for the
^ to administer his estate of
$1,00 0- Under state
. ne father had been named
administrator.
Sid ^ aVe conc ^ u ded,” Buyger
1 that the arbitrary prefer-
j, 6 es t a blished in favor of males
l ’ ’ ,• the Idaho code cannot
, in the face of the 14th
e ndment’s command that no
j,, dony the equal protection
^laws* any person within
Jiclvin Wulf, legal director of
: American Civil Liberties
I'° n w bich filed the brief for
j. iteed, said “I am moderately
■ Se d that we won the case, but
asure is very qualified be-
We did nnf. win on.
“Our purpose was to try to
get the Supreme Court to declare
that sexual discrimination is un
constitutional, and they have ap
parently declined to take that
major step,” Wulf said. “Please
note that the court is made up of
seven males. Those male judges
have a vested interest. If women
had been on the court, we would
have seen all sex discrimination
declared unconstitutional.”
Last month the House passed
a proposed amendment to the
Constitution designed to prohibit
discrimination on account of sex.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., the
amendment’s chief sponsor in the
Senate, said he is heartened by
the ruling but doesn’t think it
makes an amendment unneces
sary. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-
N.C., countered that the ruling
proves an amendment is un
needed.
“U n d e r the 5th and 14th
amendments, any law, federal or
state, making any distinction be
tween men and women is uncon
stitutional unless based on rea
sonable grounds,” he said.
Burger announced the ruling
shortly before a Senate Judiciary
subcommittee approved on a 6-4
vote an Ervin substitute for the
House-passed amendment.
Note!
did not win
er grounds.”
the
versity National Bank
tbe side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
This is the last issue of The
Battalion this week. There will
be no others.
The regular schedule will re
sume next week with the Tuesday
issue.
For a quarter-hour the Massa
chusetts Democratic senator stood
before his brother’s grave, shiv
ering in the November chill, arms
folded, head bowed. Then, mak
ing the sign of the cross, he knelt
and placed a single white carna
tion on the stone.
Then, stepping away, he walked
to the grave of his brother, Rob
ert, also victim of an assassin’s
bullet. Here, Kennedy placed a
small white rosebud.
Another early visitor was the
late president’s mother-in-law,
Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, accompa
nied by her 24-year-old son,
James. Together, they knelt in
prayer on the steps which lead
to the memorial before placing a
handful of daisies at the base
of the marble tomb.
James said he thought his half-
sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onas-
sis, was in New York and that
she had no plans to visit the me
morial this day. Traditionally,
Mrs. Onassis remains in seclusion
with her children on the anniver
sary of her first husband’s death.
Kennedy’s personal secretary,
Evelyn Lincoln, left six long
stemmed red roses in remember-
ance of her friend and boss. Later
in the morning, one of the Ken
nedy sisters, Eunice Shriver, ar
rived. After kneeling at John’s
grave, and then at brother Rob
ert’s, she straightened the floral
offerings strewn by the wind.
Then came the tourists, many
of them in the blue tourmobiles
that cruise the cemetery. Hun
dreds carried cameras and chat
ted as they snapped pictures of
their friends in front of one grave
or the other.
Some laid bouquets of flowers
at the grave. A few brought or
nate wreaths.
More than 31 million people—
10,000 a day—have visited the
Kennedy grave since November
22, 1963. This Monday, cemetery
officials said, the crowd was larg
er than usual.
Pakistan accuses Indians
of launching ‘all-ouV war
HAPPINESS IS A WARM LOG, at least if you were working on the Bonfire any time
recently. A norther blew in (from the east) and chilled things off and then soaked them
down in that fine old Bonfire tradition. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan <A>) _
Pakistan radio accused India
Monday of launching an “all-out
offensive” in East Pakistan with
out declaring war and said the
Indian forces were denting Pak
istani defenses.
The radio account claimed 130
Indians were killed and perhaps
500 wounded in fighting around
Jessore on the western border
with Indian West Bengal. Pakis
tan casualties were put at 7 killed
and 40 wounded.
The same broadcast reported
President Agha Mohammed Yah-
ya Khan visited troops near the
West Pakistani border with In
dia and Kashmir and vowed that
Pakistan will “crush the aggres
sor.”
In New Delhi, the Indian gov
ernment radio claimed East Pak
istani guerrillas had wrested
about 45 square miles from gov-
ernment control in Khulna and
Jessore after a 17-day battle.
An Indian news agency quot
ing guerrilla sources said Pakis
tan lost five tanks in a battle
Saturday near Mehespur, also in
the Jessore district. This was the
same area where Radio Pakistan
reported the Indian offensive.
An Indian Defense Ministry
spokesman denied the Radio Pak
istan allegations that India had
lost 90 soldiers in a tank battle
in that area. The city lies about
10 miles from the Indian border
town of Boyra, where India ear
lier reported shooting at Pakis
tani fighter planes.
The Pakistan radio account
was the fiercest report of East
Pakistan border fighting since
skirmishes erupted in earnest
nearly four months ago.