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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
<•£*)—The U.N. General Assembly
called on India and Pakistan
Tuesday night to order an im
mediate cease-fire and to with
draw their troops to their own
territories.
The action came 24 hours after
the Security Council acknowl
edged its inability to deal with
the problem, because of Soviet
vetoes, and handed it to the veto-
free assembly.
The assembly vote was 104 to
11, with 10 abstentions.
The cease-fire resolutions car
ried no binding force, but its
sponsors expressed hope the In
dian and Pakistani leaders would
bow to it as a reflection of world
opinion.
The adopted resolution was
basically the same as the one
killed by a Soviet veto in the
Security Council on Monday
night.
The assembly debate began
Tuesday morning and continued
through the afternoon and eve
ning. It was marked, as the
Security Council debate had been,
by a sharp exchange between
Communist China and the Soviet
Union.
Peking’s deputy foreign min
ister, Chiao Kuan-hua, noted a
statement carried by the Soviet
news agency Tass to the effect
that the fighting involved Soviet
Wot ‘all bad
A&M laundry has advantages
A&M Civilian students unable
Set a residence hall change
tting pre-registration will have
"other opportunity Dec. 8-10.
Students may request a differ-
r oom or hall by reporting to
F Housing Office by 5 p.m.
11 bee. 10, Housing Mana-
"Allan M. Madeley announced.
11 y civilian students pre-reg-
A&M’s laundry service gives
«student many advantages not
Wed at other universities,”
ording to George Hartsock,
M’s laundry manager.
Hartsock feels the service is
Gnomical as well as time-saving,
s recent experiment an average
M student laundry bundle was
wssed at an off-campus laun-
where it cost $6.50 compared
51.47 per week paid for A&M’s
pndry service. The other laun-
takes three to four days to
'nder clothes while Aggies wait
ly a day.
A&M laundry management
a ® a study of other such serv
es and found that very few
, exas diversities provide any
l( i of laundry service at all.
the ones that do, none have
service like A&M’s. North Texas
1 te charges $18 per semester
‘"lean two sheets, a pillow case,
three towels and a utility cloth,
while A&M collects $25 per se
mester to launder 36 items per
week. The University of Texas
supplies and cleans linens while
providing washaterias.
The A&M laundry is required
to meet certain standards set by
the American Institute of Laun
dry of which it is a member. The
institute checks its members by
sending a load of clothes, treated
with certain stains, which is to
be washed 20 times and sent back.
The items are then examined to
determine if colors have been
faded and what degree of white
ness has been lost from white
items. According to Hartsock,
A&M’s results have been in the
“excellent” range and only oc
casionally fall to the “good” cate
gory.
The laundry’s policy toward
damaged clothing has changed
ii'ilian students are given
chance for dorm changes
istered for the TAMU spring
semester 1972 or blocked by the
dean may get on the waiting list.
Madeley said the list will be
processed on a first-come, first-
served basis.
Students requesting changes
during the period should check
with the office before leaving on
the semester break.
oster is re-elected to head
1P0 during spring semester
^ale Foster of Bryan has been
•elected with a slate of 12 offi-
i t0 he ad Alpha Phi Omega at
during the spring semester.
i>elt >S * er WaS 0ne seven Xi
a chapter members returned
0 bee in the national service
, ernit y. APO elects officers
c semester to provide extra
ership opportunities.
’ Delta also activated 18
f?es for full membership. The
^ 0U P will have its semester ban-
* Saturday, after working as
^mencement ushers that morn-
Mth Ce pres 'dents elected to serve
^Hoster are administration,
University National Bank
Un the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Tommy Weaver of Waco; mem
bership, Mike Bunch of Merced,
Calif., and projects, Milton Niel
sen, Austin.
Other officers are treasurer
Branon Dunn, San Antonio; gen
eral secretary, JohnSempe, Hous
ton; alumni secretary, David Mc-
Lellan, Orange; historian, Vernon
Bartle, Center; pledgemaster,
Mike Kelley, Houston; property
custodian, Burl Summrall, Aus
tin; sergeant-at-arms, John King,
Corpus Christi, and chaplain,
Larry Bailey, Richardson.
Weaver, Dunn, Sempe, McLel-
lan, King and Bailey were elected
to second terms.
Merrill Mitchell, freshman lib
eral arts major of Bryan, was
selected chapter sweetheart. She
is an Omega Phi Alpha pledge.
this year. In the past if an item
was ripped in the laundry process
a note was sent to the owner
along with the damaged article
requesting he come to settle his
claim. Now the laundry retains
the damaged item and waits for
the student to take the initiative
to come look for it.
“In this case,” said Hartsock,
“an attempt is made to fix the
article and up to 50 per cent is
given to the student as a damage
claim.”
If a student wishes to make a
claim on an item sent back in
his bundle, the money-collection
process becomes more compli
cated. The laundry sends the
article in question to the Ameri
can Institute of Laundry which
makes laboratory tests on it to
determine the nature of the dam
age and whether or not the stu
dent was mistaken in his claim.
So far this year $181 has been
paid to students in claims. Hart
sock considers this figure rela
tively low compared to other
such services of this size around
the country.
Currently only 25 to 30 mis
placed articles without identifi
cation marks are at the laundry
office. Hartsock feels that the
main cause of lost clothing is
due to loose laundry bags sub
mitted at the sub-stations.
“When loose pieces without
marks fall out of bags it is dif
ficult to return clothing to the
owner,” he said. To worsen the
problem, he added, students
sometimes fail to fill out their
laundry checklist.”
“To make sure that a student’s
socks, which are not marked, are
not lost they are washed and
dried in individual bags,” Hart
sock commented.
A&M’s laundry process begins
in the pick-up sub stations. From
there the laundry bags are
“checked-in” by checking the
student item list with what ac
tually is in the bag. The clothes
are then transported to the clas
sifying department where they
are sorted. Laundry is then di
vided into eight categories: lin
ens, general white items, general
colored items, blue jeans, white
shirts, colored shirts, white ‘T’
shirts and sta-press trousers.
Colored ‘T’ shirts that are to be
worn on the outside and knit
shirts are classified with sta-
press trousers. Colored ‘T’ shirts
that look like inside ‘T’ shirts
fall in the category with general
colored items. General white
items are washed in 170°F water
and general colored articles in
110°F water.
According to Hartsock, only
dry bleach, which is safer but
more expensive than liquid
bleach, is used. Only one ounce
is added to 100 lbs. of clothing.
“We use just enough to re
move stains that couldn’t be re
moved otherwise,” he said.
The machinery the laundry
uses is relatively new, being only
two years old.
“The fully-automated machines
wash 200 bundles at a time,”
Hartsock boasted. During Sep
tember and October the laundry
processed over 1,300,000 pieces
of laundry. Over 8,000 blue
jeans alone are washed and
pressed each week.
The A&M laundry has a few
employes who have been with
the service as long as 25 years.
Although the laundry has some
trainees, no students work there.
The turnover is very high among
its “nine-month” employes who
are laid-off during the Christ
mas and summer recesses. These
workers often begin looking for
more permanent employment as
the holidays approach. There
are 68 “nine-month” workers
and 46 “twelve-month” ones who
usually stay with the laundry
for years.
New laundry policies are often
the result of suggestions made
by the Student Laundry Service
Committee of the Civilian Stu
dent Council. “We try to do all
the committee recommends,”
Hartsock emphasized.
Due to a backload of clothes
last month the committee sug
gested the laundry adopt a two-
day return schedule. The policy
went into effect but was ill-re
ceived by the student body.
“Now we sometimes have to
work overtime but we manage to
get all the bundles back in a
day,” Hartsock said.
Monday the committee ap
proved a new policy which will
take effect next semester. Stu
dents will not be restricted to a
certain specified number of
shirts, pants, pillow cases, sheets
and small “.03” items. Instead
they will be allowed to choose
any combination of clothes with
out a charge whose laundry price
does not add up to over $1.47.
Hartsock is against having an
optional laundry system where
the students register for the
service at the beginning of each
semester.
“I feel that if it were put to
a vote the students would vote
against it,” he said.
security because of its proximity
to the borders of the U.S.S.R.
“This is blackmail and a
menace to China as well as all
the neighboring countries of In
dia and Pakistan,” Chiao said.
“Distinguished Soviet represen
tative, what exactly are you
planning to do? You might as
well tell us here.”
He repeated his charge that
“the Soviet government is the
boss behind the Indian aggres
sion.”
Soviet Ambassador Jacob A.
Malik accused China of voting
against a Soviet resolution in
the Security Council “simply be
cause it was Soviet.”
“This,” Malik said, “was remi
niscent of the worst days of the
cold war.”
He , again labeled the Peking
representatives as “social trai
tors.”
The speeches in the assembly
generally stressed the need for
speed in view of the large-scale
fighting.
India and the Soviet Union
made a half-hearted effort to
delay the debate by insisting that
the questions should be referred
first to the assembly’s steering
committee. They declined to
press the matter, however, when
the assembly president, Adam
Malik of Indonesia, ruled against
them.
In an effort to speed a decision,
Malik placed a 10-minute time
limit on all speakers except those
of India and Pakistan. Meetings
were scheduled for the morning,
afternoon and evening Tuesday
and for the morning and after
noon Wednesday.
At the start of the Tuesday
afternoon meeting, Secretary-
General U Thant took his seat
on the assembly podium for the
first time since going to a hos
pital Nov. 2 with a duodenal
ulcer.
He appealed “to all the parties
to the conflict ... to take every
possible measure to spare the
lives of the innocent civilian
population” and to prevent “sacri
fice of human lives on a vast
scale.” The proposal before the
assembly was the same one vetoed
in the Security Council by the
Soviet Union on Sunday night.
It was brought to the 131-nation
body by the same eight countries
which sponsored it in the council.
They were joined by four others
to raise the sponsorship to 12.
They were Argentina, Belgium,
Burundi, Italy, Japan, Nicara
gua, Sierra Leone, Somalia,
Spain, Ghana, Indonesia and
Tunisia.
Nearly all speakers stressed
the need for urgent action. Tu
nisian Ambassador Rachid Driss
said “we should remain here
until we reach a decision.”
Ghana’s R. M. Akwei said the
Security Council deadlock was
one more example of the United
Nation’s incapacity to act.
U.S. Ambassador George Bush
said the delegates should not try
to assess the blame for the fight
ing between India and Pakistan,
but should seek to end the blood
shed.
“Our task,” he said “is to bring
at this point in history the in
fluence of the United Nations
to bear in order to restore condi
tions of peace which are essen
tial for progress toward a politi
cal settlement.”
Kennedy hits U. S. stand
on India, Pakistan war
WASHINGTON <A>)_Sen. Ed
ward M. Kennedy, D.-Mass.,
sharply attacked President Nix
on’s handling of the India-Paki-
stan crisis Tuesday. Kennedy
charged the crisis started with
Pakistani suppression of East
Bengal last March rather than
the steps taken by India last
week.
Kennedy said in a Senate speech
that the administration has re
fused over the past eight months
to condemn “the brutal and sys
tematic repression of East Bengal
by the Pakistan Army” yet now
is condemning “the response of
India towards an increasingly
desperate situation on its eastern
borders.”
“Certainly condemnation is
justified,” Kennedy said, asking
“but what should we condemn?
“We should condemn, Mr.
President, the silence of our
leadership,” he went on, accusing
the administration of months of
“deference to Pakistani sensibili
ties” followed now by denuncia
tion of India.
He also linked the U.S. stand
to the Nixon administration’s
efforts for closer relations with
China, which backs Pakistan in
the present crisis.
“This administration has right
ly taken pride in its efforts to
re-establish contact with one-
fifth of mankind’s population in
China,” he said. “But are we
going to simultaneously alienate
one-sixth of mankind in India—
a democratic nation with whom
we have had years of productive
relations?”
He called for an immediate
stand-still cease-fire on all fronts
under international auspices, im-
AF Gen. Meyer to
officer commission
Gen. John C. Meyer, vice chief
of staff of the U. S. Air Force,
will deliver the commissioning
address at A&M during Dec. 11
ceremonies at which senior cadets
will become second lieutenants.
America’s leading fighter ace
in Europe during World War II,
General Meyer is second in com
mand of the entire U. S. Air
Force.
He is the second four star Air
Force general to be commission
ing officer and speaker at TAMU
this year. The top Air Force
officer, Gen. John D. Ryan, was
here last May.
Army and Air Force ROTC
cadets completing the four-year
program and to receive bachelor
degrees at the Saturday morning
commencement will be sworn in
as new officers at the afternoon
commissioning, according to A&M
Commandant Col. Thomas R.
Parsons. Col. Robert F. Cross
land, TAMU’s ranking Air Force
officer and professor of aerospace
studies, will participate.
In addition to awarding com
missions and addressing the new
officers, General Meyer will be
reviewing officer for a special re
view honoring President Emeri
tus M. T. Harrington.
Former commander of Tactical
Air Command’s 12th Air Force
at Waco, General Meyer has
headed several major bomber and
interceptor units of the Strategic
Air Command and Air Defense
Command as well as fighter
mediate and simultaneous talks
between India and Pakistan and
Pakistan and East Bengal and
revival of the United Nations
relief mission in East Bengal.
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D.-
Maine, issued a statement calling
for steps to end the conflict
rather than efforts “to sit in
judgement” between the two war
ring powers.
Despite official claims of neu
trality, he said that the United
States failed to end economic aid
to Pakistan, branded India as an
aggressor, withdrew economic aid
commitments to India without
taking similar action with regard
to Pakistan and called for a
cease-fire that “would leave in
place the Pakistani troops that
have oppressed the people of East
Bengal.”
deliver
address
squadrons of the Tactical Air
Command.
Recognized as one of the Air
Force’s most able officers, he also
served on the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, lastly as operations direc
tor before becoming Air Force
vice chief of staff.
A 32-year veteran. General
Meyer also served in 1948 as the
Secretary of the Air Force’s
principal point of contact with
the U. S. House of Representa
tives.
The Brooklyn, N. Y., native led
the 487th Fighter Squadron into
World War II combat in the
European theater. Meyer par
ticipated in several major cam
paigns, including Ardennes-Al-
sace, Northern France and Rhine
land.
receive
ROTC cadets to
allowances
increases in
Official notification has been
received at A&M that retroactive
subsistence allowance increases
have been granted for Army and
Air Force ROTC cadets.
Both houses of Congress and
the President approved the meas
ure to raise cadet subsistence
allowance from $50 to $100 per
month. The law also raised the
number of scholarships per serv
ice by 1,000 to 6,500.
Air Force Col. Robert F. Cross
land received word of the sub
sistence increase from Air Uni
versity at Maxwell AFB, Ala.
The 5th U. S. Army Head
quarters, Fort Sam Houston,
notified Army Col. Thomas R.
Parsons of the new pay rates.
Affected by the measure are
contract junior and senior cadets
and holders of service scholar
ships, which also pay for tuition,
fees and books in addition to the
non-taxable subsistence.
Colonel Parsons, commandant,
said the new subsistence allow
ance will be received by about
1,000 TAMU cadets. It is retro
active to Nov. 14 and the end of
the wage-price freeze.
Non-scholarship cadets and stu
dents interested in the expanded
scholarship availability should
contact Maj. Roy Avant about the
Army ROTC program or Capt.
Pat Corbett on the Air Force
ROTC program.
The law which raised the num
ber of scholarships also provides
that 20 per cent of the awards
may be allocated to cadets in the
two-year program that 50 per
cent of the scholarship cadets
must qualify for in-state tuition
rates.