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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, December 3, 1971
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by Jim Earle
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Morton Says
Alaskan pipeline to be approved
SEATTLE (tP)—Interior Secre
tary Rogers Morton said Thurs
day that Interior Department
approval of the controversial
Trans-Alaska oil pipeline should
be given by the end of January.
The Interior Department per
mit to allow construction of the
800-mile oil pipeline would rep
resent government approval of
the project.
Lawyers for Alyeska Pipeline
Service Co., the firm which wants
to build the line, have asked for
an additional 30 days to work on
legal documents they need to de
fend their pipeline proposals
against suits brought by conser
vation and Alaskan native
groups, Morton said.
He said the time extension
means that instead of issuing on
Dec. 15 a statement showing
what effect the construction is
expected to have, the statement
“will probably be Jan. 15.”
“As to the issuance of the per
mit, it looks as though it will
follow very closely behind. I will
consult with the President, I will
consult with Chairman Russell
Train of the Council on Environ
mental Quality and perhaps with
some other officials of govern
ment, but we should be ready to
issue a permit certainly before
the end of January,” he said.
Morton made his comments in
an interview with a Seattle ra
dio station.
There are a number of road
blocks to an actual start of con
struction even after an Interior
Department permit is issued,
however.
amounts of federal lands within
Alaska are “frozen” preventing
their selection by the state.
Several conservation groups
also have obtained an injunction
in U.S. District Court in Wash
ington against issuance of a per
mit.
A Senate - House conference
committee is considering two
bills to settle aboriginal land
claims of Alaska natives. Until
the issue is settled, large
Morton could not issue a per
mit until the district court lifts
the injunction, and environment
groups who obtained that injunc
tion may well challenge the en
vironmental impact statement
the department must issue be
fore granting a permit.
Butz named Secretary of Agriculture
WASHINGTON <A>)_The Sen
ate confirmed Earl L. Butz
Thursday to be secretary of Ag
riculture in a 51-44 vote seen by
both parties as the opening shot
in next year’s Farm Belt politi
cal campaigns.
Republicans viewed their suc
cess in the bitterly contested
battle to confirm the 62-year-old
Purdue University dean as a vic
tory for President Nixon.
Democrats said the vote was
a “cruel defeat” for America’s
“You wouldn’t believe how many better ways of raising
money that I’ve thought of.”
family farmers.
Butz, who replaces Clifford
Hardin, had been criticized for
his statements advocating cor
porate farming and opposing
Listen up
‘Flunk’
courses ra
PPed
Editor:
To-' A&M is a fine school;
yone here, including me, be
lieves it and better admit it for
their own good. There are, how
ever, some things radically wrong
with it as far as administrative
attitudes toward students are con
cerned. Foremost in my mind are
the “flunk-out” courses such as
freshman chemistry.
With only two or three excep
tions, every major course of study
at A&M requires spme form of
hundred-level chemistry in its
curriculum. Again, with few ex
ceptions, these courses are taught
by people respected in their field.
Unfortunately, these profs aren’t
geared to undergraduate minds.
For the first time a lot of people
are lost in a ridiculous maze of
abstract terms and confusing
ideas. Science majors and chem
istry profs say these courses are
simple, but they are looking at
things from a different viewpoint.
I’m an Ag-journalism major. Prob
ably the most scientific thing I
will ever do is write seed catalogs.
Why must I take sixteen hours
of chemistry?
Throughout our educations we
have been taught that success is
possible if we apply ourselves.
Isn’t it unfortunate that one
chicken course like freshman
chemistry can shatter this belief?
« Karl Wolfshohl ’74
★ ★ ★
Editor:
John Brieden in Monday’s Bat
talion is shocked that someone
would advocate the enforcement
of state laws concerning alcohol.
I am shocked, also, that anyone
would take the outmoded laws of
our great and glorious sovereign
state to heart, although I under
stand a few extremists (for the
most part, exiles) still do. I still
less understand why anyone would
food stamp programs. He has
said repeatedly, however, he will
do all he can to raise farm prices
and be a vigorous spokesman for
farmers.
As he waited out the roll call
in the secretary of Agriculture’s
office, Democratic and Republi
can senators made clear his
name will be a focal point of
1972 campaigning.
“I don’t think the farmers of
the nation will take this lightly,
and I expect that they will make
their displeasure with the ad
ministration known at the polls
in 1972,” said Sen. George Mc
Govern, D-S.D., an announced
contender for his party’s presi
dential nomination.
Sen. George Aiken, R-Vt., who
managed the nomination on the
Senate floor, said: “I’m very
sorry politics has been injected
into this.
“But anyone who isn’t blind
and deaf will realize that it has
been,” he said.
Forty Democrats and only four
Republicans voted against Butz.
Thirty-seven Republicans and 14
Democrats voted for him. Five
senators were absent.
“We’ve done all right,” said
D-
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey,
Minn., just before the vote.
Humphrey, who campaigned
unsuccessfully against Richard
M. Nixon in 1968, predicted the
Butz debate has put such a spot
light on the ailments of family
agriculture that the administra
tion will be forced to spend up
to a billion dollars on farmers
before election day in 1972.
Butz first served in Washing
ton as assistant Agriculture sec
retary under Ezra Taft Benson.
Nixon tells Israelis
to expect more arms
feel that the lessening of others’
freedoms would augment his own.
But neither can I agree with Mr.
Brieden in his attack upon the
unfortunate Buratti. He should,
instead, aim his flaming arrows
of brilliant sarcastic wit at the
only people who can really effect
the change he desires. In case
somebody out there doesn’t know,
that body is the state legislature
who made the rule in the first
place.
Of course, it’s extremely doubt- - _. ,. . , , .
ful that the legislature will ac- » lth the D.stmgu.shed American
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tually listen to a bunch of scruffy
Football award
honors Joe Utay
Former Texas A&M football
great Joe Utay will be honored
WASHINGTON UP) — Presi
dent Nixon Thursday assured
Prime Minister Golda Meir of
Israel that the United States will
participate in a long term pro
gram of modernization of Israel’s
armed forces.
Reporting on a two-<hour con
ference between the two leaders,
White House press secretary Ron
ald L. Ziegler said the President
has “recognized that Israeli forces
must maintain a long-term pro
gram of modernization and that
the United States will participate
in this process.”
But Ziegler declined to say if
U.S. participation would mean
compliance with the longstanding
Israeli request for Phantom air
planes.
The State Department has said
the request is still under review.
Ziegler said that Nixon and his
guest “have agreed that the spe
cific nature of their discussions
remain confidential.”
He said that his description of
the talks being “useful and sat
isfactory” was shared by Mrs.
Meir.
On the Middle East question in
general, Ziegler said the Presi
dent stressed the need for “fur
ther diplomatic efforts to achieve
peace and particularly expressed
the specific ways the United
States and Israel could contrib
ute to such efforts.”
Before seeing Nixon, Mrs. Meir
met for almost three hours with
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers where, she said, all prob
lems of the Middle East were dis
cussed.
anarchistic students; they obvi
ously have more important things
to consider. Like investments. And
ethics commissions. But if you
feel you’re getting the shaft, Mr.
Brieden, you’d better get to some
body who can change the situa
tion instead of attacking a pow
erless student.
Stephen Goble
Nixon asks U. N. fund cut
WASHINGTON (A?)—The Nix- right direction,” said Rep. John million and U.S. voluntary con-
on administration said Thursday G. Schmitz, R-Calif., “but I think tributions to international organ-
it will try to cut America’s Unit- we should cut it all and then pull izations, most of them related to
ed Nations contribution to 25 per out and kick them out.” the United Nations, bring the
cent — stressing this is not re- A Senate policy statement call- total to about $190 million,
taliation for Nationalist China’s ing for reduction of the U.S. con- DePalma was before the House
expulsion. tribution to 25 per cent appeared subcommittee ostensibly to testi-
“We have had this matter un- likel y to be ke Pt in a compromise fy on a bill introduced by Rep.
der study for some time and our foreign aid bill being worked out Joe D. Waggonner Jr., D - La.,
decision to work toward this goal ^ House-Senate conferees. and 68 co-sponsors to base U.N.
is a matter of principle,” Asst. The 25 P er cent U - S - share of members’ contributions on their
Secretary of State Samuel De- U - N - expenses this year is $52.4 populations.
Palma said, “and not in retalia- ^ •
or recent events bCnatC DESSCS atltl-pOVertV
Secretary of State William P. Jk J
Rogers disclosed Wednesday
program, will be two years
per cent contribution and DePal- ^
ma presented details to a House WASHINGTON 6S>)—The Sen- Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn.,
k orei £ n Affairs subcommittee. ate p asse( j Thursday a compro- would establish the broadest day
“We believe that a reduction mise $6 billion bill extending the care programs ever funded by
of our assessment to 25 per cent anti-poverty program two more the federal government,
would be beneficial to the U.N.,” years and establishing a broad Nevertheless, Mondale said it
DePalma said, “because the or- new federal child care program. would fall well short of meeting
ganization ought not to be over- The vote was 63 to 17. the full need.
ly dependent on the contribution Republicans assailed the $2 The proposal calls not merely
of a single member.” billion child care plan and said for custodial care but for a
The decision drew support of it might well lead to a veto of broad range of services includ-
U.N. backers in Congress, in- the bill by President Nixon. ing meals, education, medical
eluding subcommittee chairman The Senate vote sent the leg- care an( i social services.
Donald M. Fraser, D-Minn., but islation to the House which The federal funds would be
U.N. opponents said Congress plans to take it up next Tues- channeled through local child de-
should cut the contribution deep- day. velopment councils which could
er than 25 per cent. The child development section select churches or some other
“That’s 75 per cent in the of the bill, sponsored chiefly by group to operate the centers.
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Award from the North Texas
Chapter of the National Football
Foundation and Hall of Fame.
The award will be presented
during a luncheon Tuesday at
UT-Arlington.
Utay, now a Dallas lawyer,
captained the 1907 Aggies and
was among the group that formed
the Southwest Conference.
He has officiated more than
100 SWC games during his ca
reer as a football official and
for 27 years was a contributing
editor to Spalding’s Official Foot
ball Guide.
The chapter’s Amateur Foot
ball Award will be presented to
Fort Worth Star-Telegram pub
lisher Amon Carter Jr.
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