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Thursday, December 9, 1971
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India claims enemy lines
broken in East Pakistan
Jeane Dixon makes predictions for the future Wednes-
fina Great Issues presentation at G. Rollie White Coli-
am. (Photo by Joe Matthews)
\ Great Issues
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
India claimed Wednesday the
enemy’s lines in East Pakistan
had crumbled and the Pakistani
army was in confused retreat,
but conceded its own forces were
in peril on the western front in
Kashmir. Pakistan denied Indian
gains in East Pakistan.
An Indian spokesman in New
Delhi asserted “Pakistani sol
diers are withdrawing from all
the border areas in Bengla Desh
into the heart of the country.”
Bangla Desh is the rebel name
for East Pakistan.
The Indians claimed to be
within 28 miles southeast of
Dacca, the East Pakistani capi
tal, after capturing Jessore in
the southwest, Comilla in the
east, and Sylhet in the north
east.
Radio Pakistan asserted those
towns “are firmly in our con
trol and Indian radio broadcasts
of their capture are fantastic,
ridiculous and baseless.”
A report from Rawalpindi,
West Pakistan, said Indian
forces had been driven back in
the Hilli region in the north
west.
“We are defending every inch
of our sacred soil,” the official
Pakistani broadcast asserted.
The chief of staff of the In
dian army, Gen. Sam Manek-
shaw, broadcast his second ap
peal in two days to Pakistani
soldiers in the east to surrender.
A group of Western corre
spondents belied the Pakistani
claim of holding Jessors. The
correspondents were allowed to
visit the town and watched as
jubilant crowds cheered the con
quering Indian troops.
The residents brought out the
red, green and gold flags of
Bangla Desh that they had con
cealed in their homes. Tanks
and armored personnel carriers
thundered through Jessore in
pursuit of the Pakistanis.
The news for the Indians was
grim from Kashmir. The Indian
spokesman said the Pakistanis
launched a fierce new attack
with troops and tanks on the
east bank of the T a w i River
Wednesday afternoon “and our
troops are very hard pressed.”
The Indians had fallen back
from Chhamb, near the border,
Tuesday and tried to dig into
the east bank of the Tawi to
check the Pakistan drive threat
ening to cut off the main road
from Kashmir to the rest of In
dia. The Pakistanis have com
mitted more than a division of
infantry and three armored bri
gades to the battle, the spokes
man said, and strategic positions
in the area have changed hands
several times.
He claimed the Pakistanis were
driven back from some ground
they had gained but fighting still
was raging, making it difficult
to give a clear assessment.
The spokesman was reluctant
to give too many details of the
Chhamb fighting, however, and
at one point commented: “I am
trying to avoid giving fresh news
of Chhamb.”
Claiming Pakistani losses were
massive, he said only that In
dian casualties in the fighting
were moderate.
A top defense official assert
ed in New Delhi that planes of
a foreign country he refused to
identify were landing military
supplies for Pakistan at Karachi
civil airport.
Texas no fault insurance
coming, Traphagan says
)ixon predicts events of future
Senator Edward Kennedy’s life
ii great danger if he should
for president in 1972,” pre-
d Jeane Dixon to a Great
:!s audience last night.
Hie democratic nomination is
for the taking,” she said,
ihe should wait until 1976.”
ton, who writes the daily
iicated column “Your Horo-
®" and has authored three
is, discussed “The Future.”
appeared in a long, white,
tering gown and began her
iwith formalities and compli-
ifs to the university,
hon divided her prophecies in-
fao categories. The first was
pathy, which, she feels, can
changed if circumstances
The second category, rev-
tons, is the will of God and
Jot be altered. She considers
Psychic gift as a God-given
talent which “can’t be turned on
or off like a water spigot.”
“Nothing will hold back the
celestral light of our Lord,” she
said. She urged Americans to
allow their divine talent to rise
up, to forget the past and to seek
world peace under God.
Dixon complained of often
being misunderstood, misquoted
and ignored. “My dream is to
serve the Lord and its children,
she said.
Dixon called 1971 the “year of
light,” which will bring forward
many truths. Next year, she feels,
will be the “year of reckoning”
and will determine the future of
mankind. She fears the present
world events are leading up to a
major world conflict in 1972
which will require determined
peaceful measures by man to
avoid.
The Chinese and Russians, Dix
on believes, are working to spread
communism and take over the
world. For the United States to
back down from its commitments
in Indo-China and Korea would be
a step in this direction, she said.
When asked how many Com
munists are in high places in
Washington she replied, “Too
many.”
Dixon predicted last July that
Communist China would be voted
into the United Nations and that
Nationalist China would “walk
out.” She feels that this has
hurt the UN and that at this
rate the United States will event
ually draw back financial support
from the organization. She did
say, however, that at this time
the United States and Nationalist
China have the opportunity to
'rotesting students block
ntersect ion in El Paso
^ PASO, Tex. (AP) — A group
students, mostly Mexican-
*ncan, at the University of
®s-El Paso ended a demon-
fion Wednesday afternoon
Mocking a major intersec-
at the campus for a brief
ere were no arrests and no
fence.
,' Ve students who had met
University president Dr.
jr Smiley, and who had
til rem ain in his office
lines of communication
'opened,” left the office.
e demonstration ended after
‘j-y agreed to a meeting with
.Mesa Directiva, a group co
llating organization for Chi-
^ groups on campus.
^ Hernandez, chairman of
Mesa Directiva, announced that
Smiley had agreed to the meet
ing.
The students are seeking the
removal of Dr. Gary Brooks, vice
president for student affairs at
UTEP, and also have demanded
a Mexican-American assistant
dean, a Chicano studies program,
and other changes.
Hernandez came from the Ad
ministration Building, around
which most of the demonstration
had centered, and announced by
bullhorn to about 100 demonstra-*
tors that “It became increasingly
obvious Smiley didn’t want to call
the police.”
Hernandez said he also had
been counseled by Professor
Philip de Ortego that “going to
jail now wouldn’t accomplish
much.”
Hernandez said “we feel confi
dent Brooks is coming out and
the Chicano team will be installed
by next semester.”
Hecklers from the crowd ac
cused Hernandez of procrastinat
ing. There were shouts of “let’s
get him out now.”
Earlier, there were some tense
moments in the demonstration.
After an initial meeting of six
students in Smiley’s office, Joe
Medina, chairman of MECHA, a
Chicano group, said “The Admin
istration. wouldn’t listen. Any
violence will be on the head of
the administration.”
A group of about 75 sat down
in the intersection some distance
from the Administration, block
ing traffic for a time.
bring peace to Asia and the
world.
Dixon is skeptical towards the
future of democracy in America.
“We could have a dictatorship,”
she said. She believes that at
some time nuclear weapons will
be used on the United States.
She feels that unity is necessary
to avoid a disaster. She said that
we should back the executive no
matter of who he is. “I’m part of
the greatest nation in the world,”
she added, “and we can keep it
great.”
During the question and answer
session Dixon freely threw out
several predictions.
“The racial situation will give
us great trouble,” she said. She
considered overpopulation as un
important compared to the more
pressing problems of the times.
“The one man who will change
our destiny was born on Feb. 2,
1962, in New York City,” Dixon
prophesized. “Unfortunately, I
cannot tell you who that is,” she
said.
Mrs. Dixon has offered to pre
dict A&M’s next football coach
as soon as she meditates over a
list of prospective candidates.
Dixon ended her program by
having T. C. Cone, the Great
Issues master of ceremonies, lead
the audience in “God Bless
America.”
No fault insurance in one form
or another is coming in Texas,
an Insurance Information Insti
tute official said Wednesday at
A&M.
“The industry basically sup
ports one type of system or an
other,” explained William M.
Traphagan, I.I.I.’s Southwest re
gional manager.
Noting that the institute takes
a neutral position on the auto
insurance alternative, Traphagan
said support ranges from total
by the American Insurance As
sociation to a reduced or partial
no-fault system among mutuals
and independents.
He said the state bar and le
gal associations favor it in
Texas.
“The system trades something
for something else,” he com
mented. Lower rates are at
tained by giving up litigation
costs and reparations.
In a Political Forum talk giv
ing the opposing viewpoint to an
earlier address by Texas Sen.
Mike McKool, Traphagan point
ed to reasons behind rising auto
insurance rates, but indicated no
new increases will come before
late 1972.
“July, 1972 would be the earli
est that Texas might have a rate
change, which would take effect
in August or September,” he
said.
In a question-answer session,
the former Cincinnati I.I.I. man
ager said non-availability is
more a worry to the policyholder
than rates, “because of the pos
sibility of financial loss from an
accident.”
Traphagan said auto under
writing, bad as it is, would be
opposed as a government func
tion by the industry because “it
is a major portion of insurance
business and the segment
through which public contact is
maintained by insurance compa
nies.”
Traphagan labelled the auto
mobile a "predominate material
istic phenomenon, one which even
the anti-materialistic young” ac
quire and use extensively.
“There are more autos in the
U. S. today than homes, bath
rooms or children. The popula
tion is increasing by 6,000 per
day while motor vehicles are in
creasing by 12,000 per day,”
Traphagan cited. “It has been
calculated that by the year 2000,
there will be four vehicles for
every five people in the U. S.
By 2020, four cars will be around
for every three people.”
“That means,” he quipped,
“that in 2020, every fourth car
seen on the streets will be driv
erless and passengerless.”
Cars have proliferated at such
a pace, they have become men’s
masters rather than servants,
the speaker advanced. Possess
ing a car is not always a happy
experience either, but “it is a
necessary evil.”
The final fall semester Politi
cal Forum speaker noted that
other situations have added to
make the current time one of
crisis for insurance writers.
Insured losses from Hurricane
Celia and the Lubbock tornado
in 1970 amounted to $370 mil
lion, which put Texas insurance
companies $100 million in the
hole not counting other storms,
hail and fire losses, Traphagan
commented. Hurricane Camille
cost $215 million in claims and
Betsy $650 million.
“Celia could have been worse,”
he added. “It was computed that
if that storm had hit in the
Houston-Galveston area, $550
billion in insured losses would
have occurred.”
13 Texas municipal regions
awarded crime fight grants
AUSTIN, Tex. (A>) _ Thirteen
federal grants for more than
$1.3 million have been awarded
to Texas metropolitan areas to
fight crime, the Criminal Jus
tice Council reported Wednesday.
Dallas was awarded $209,091
for a police command and con
trol information systems study.
Dallas County was funded $150,-
000 for records conversion and
regional radio communications
design.
The El Paso region received
more than $270,000 with $173,550
going to El Paso County for
small-group care homes for pre
delinquent adolescent girls. The
City of El Paso received $96,616
to upgrade the communications
center of the police department.
Fort Worth drew four awards
totaling $185,041. They were
$55,922 for research and analy
sis section in the police depart
ment, $60,710 for a drug abuse
prevention project, $43,409 for
crime laboratory expansion and
$25,000 for a police communica
tions study.
Harris County was awarded
$150,000 to continue a foster
home residential facility pro
gram for troubled youth.
San Antonio received $160,091
for crime laboratory expansion.
Two grants to Austin totaled
$124,185, with $68,885 for estab
lishing a retrieval system and
$55,300 for designing a pilot
model of a city police patrol
command and control system.
Corpus Christi received $56,-
250 for a police community re
lations program.
House passes foreign-aid bill
Iraft induction moratorium
onexistent, court declares
S ANGELES <A>)—The 1971
tive Service Act doesn’t con-
90-day moratorium on the
a ry induction of men in-
unt
armed forces, a U.S. Dis-
Court judge ruled Wednes-
16 decision by Judge Irving
iJame on a class action suit
e American Civil Liberties
n that halted drafting of
& men from seven Southern
dversity National Bank
1 the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
California counties and stopped
processing of draftees at the Los
Angeles Armed Forces Induction
Center.
There was no immediate word
when the inductions, held up by
the Selective Service after a rul
ing by U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William O. 'Douglas, would re
sume.
The ACLU contended the 1971
draft law, effective Sept. 28, con
tained a provision barring invol
untary induction for 90 days—
or until Dec. 28.
The provision was put in the
1948 Selective Service Act and
never dropped in each succeed
ing act, the ACLU contended.
But the government said the
provision was only intended for
1948 to allow for time to set up
the draft machinery.
After rejection by a three-
judge federal court panel, the
ACLU asked Douglas to inter
vene and he sent the matter back
to the U.S. District Court here.
ACLU attorney Nathan Zahm
said he would not appeal Hill’s
decision to the U.S. 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals.
WASHINGTON <A>) — The
House Passed Wednesday a $3-
billion foreign-aid money bill
bearing $400 million for Israel
and none for India, Pakistan and
Equador—with Senate leaders
still saying they will refuse to
consider it.
The vote was 214 to 179.
With present spending author
ity for foreign-aid and defense
expiring at midnight, Plouse and
Senate leaders consulted on put
ting out a stopgap interim ex
tension—possibly into next year
—but came to no early agree
ment.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield of Montana,
whose six-month Indochina war
deadline has the House and Sen
ate deadlocked over renewing
foreign aid, refused to give up
the deadline.
The $3 billion foreign aid
money bill was passed by the
House after worried leaders ap
pealed to it not to kill the bill
and a bloc of foreign-aid sup
porters who had threatened to
vote against it because of cuts
announced they would reluctant
ly accept it.
“We cannot just plunge out of
this business,” Speaker Carl Al
bert appealed to the House. “All
of us hope to see a gradual de
crease of foreign aid but we
must support this bill.”
Republican Leader Gerald R.
Ford told the House U.S. aid in
the bill was vital to the security
of the Middle East and to the
safe withdrawal of U.S. forces
from the Indochina war.
Aid for India and Pakistan
was barred as long as they are
at war. The ban on $15.5 mil
lion slated for Ecuador was vot
ed Wednesday because of that
country’s seizure of U.S. fishing
boats.
The proposed slash of $100
million in U.S. contributions to
United Nations programs was
retained in the bill Wednesday
despite efforts to cut the reduc
tion to $50 million.
Leaders stressed the money
bill included some $400 million
in aid to Israel, $300 million in
weapons credit and $100 million
in military aid, as a political
carrot to try to get it not only
through the House but through
the Senate as well.
House Appropriations Chair
man George H. Mahon, D-Tex.,
told newsmen he would refuse
to accept the Senate’s $500 mil
lion for Israel amended to a de
fense bill, with the result the
Senate could get Israeli aid only
by accepting the foreign aid bill.
Approval of the money bill
was an effort by House leaders
to bypass the House-Senate con
ference deadlock o v er Mans
field’s war amendment in the
separate bill to reauthorize the
foreign aid program.
The House waived Congress’
rule against appropriating mon
ey for a program that has not
been authorized but Senate lead
ers said they will not consider
the money bill until the war-
amendment deadlock is broken
and the authorization is ap
proved.
The House shouted all $15.5
million aid for Ecuador out of
the bill by voice vote for what
Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin, D-
Calif., called “piracy on the high
seas” in the seizure of 52 U.S.
fishing boats in the past year.
It added $8 million for the
Peace Corps on a 68 to 35 vote,
bringing the Corps’ total to $68
million, and rejected 82 to 32 an
effort to pull the Peace Corps
out of Chile by next Feb. 1.
House leaders agreed to add
$150 million to the bill for the
Inter- American Development
Bank after a bloc of 18 foreign-
aid supporters announced they
might turn against the bill be
cause of its cuts from interna
tional organizations and empha
sis on military aid.
An effort by Rep. Donald M.
Fraser, D-Minn., to restore $50
million of the $100 million cut
from the U.S. United Nations
contribution was rejected 268 to
119.
Fraser called elimination of
the entire 1972 U.S. share for
the U.N.’s own major foreign-
aid program, the U.N. Develop
ment Program, an isolationisl
step away from America’s inter
national commitments.
But Chairman Otto E. Pass
man, D-La., of the foreign op
erations appropriations subcom
mittee handling the bill said th<
U.N. program did not need th<
U.S. contribution because it ha:
a $343 million surplus.
The House action increase!
the money bill from the $2.8-
billion bill reported out of com
mittee to $3 billion including $2.
billion for aid, $100 million fo
Cuban refugee relief and $6
million for the Peace Corps.
The foreign aid includes $1.1
billion for assistance, $1.13 fc
military and $510 million fc
military weapons credit sales.