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Cbe Battalion Cold and wet Vol. 67 No. 57 College Station, Texas Friday, December 10, 1971 Friday — Cloudy. Northerly winds 5-10 mph. High 52°, low 46°. Saturday — Partly cloudy. Northerly winds 5-10 mph. High 63°, low 38°. 845-2226 1 I! k India chases enemy back into Pakistan mm Mi |s ■ / HP ^ 'I % By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS India reported Thursday Pak istani troops were fleeing across the rivers of East Pakistan be fore a swift Indian advance that had speared to within 25 miles of Dacca, East Pakistan’s capital. It also claimed the Pakistani air force had been wiped out there. Radio Pakistan asserted that “Indian invasion forces have been blunted on all fronts in East Pakistan and they have been dealt heavy punishment.” An Indian spokesman reported that on the western front, in the northern state of Kashmir, it had seized five Pakistani outposts northeast of Srinagar, the state capital and had successes in the Chhamb sector to the south. Pak istan denied this. An Indian army communique issued in eastern headquarters at Calcutta said troops pressing westward had reached the Meg- hna River, 25 miles southeast of Dacca. An Indian spokesman claimed the capture of Ashun- ganja, a river crossing point 35 Nixon vetoes bill to extend federal anti-poverty attack MUD was present on the drill field Thursday, and so were these men from Mitchell Hall, out for a game of mud football. Game strategy was much like the varsity’s at the be ginning of the year—hike the ball and then try to recover the fumble. That’s not too easy to do with the ball as slick as it is. (Photo by Joe Matthews) WASHINGTON <A>> _ Presi dent Nixon vetoed Thursday a bill which would have extended the federal war on poverty and created a massive child care pro gram. Nobel Peace Prize winner Bunche of United Nations dies NEW YORK (A*) — Ralph J. I Bunche, a dedicated United Na tions peacemaker in a troubled mid-century era of potentially dis- jastrous brush-fire wars, died Thursday at the age of 67. He gained a Holy Land truce in 1949 at the risk of his life and won I the Nobel Prize. President Nixon led the world I in eulogizing Bunche, who was present at the birth of the United Nations and served the interna tional agency for 25 years. He retired Oct. 1 as undersecretary- general — the highest-ranking I American in the secretariat. ‘One of the greatest architects peace in our time,” Nixon call- M Bunche. “America is deeply proud of this distinguished son and profoundly saddened by his | death.” Bunche had served under all three secretaries-general who di rected the United Nations since ■ts founding in San Francisco in 1945—-Trygve Lie, Dag Hammars- UMd and U Thant. He was the most effective and est known of international civil servants, and his record of achievement as an individual Member of the secretariat was unsurpassed,” said Thant, for whom Bunche had acted as a top trouble-shooter for a decade. For some months, Bunche had been all but crippled by illness. He suffered from diabetes and a kidney malfunction. The latter required his treatment from time to time with an artificial kidney. His condition was aggravated last summer when he fell in his Queens home and broke his right arm. Death came at 12:40 a.m. at New York Hospital. Bunche’s log of action at the United Nations reflected the crises which confronted the or ganization over the years—Pales tine, the Congo, Yemen, Cyprus, to list a few of the trouble spots toward which his talent was di rected. In 1963, Bunche demonstrated with the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lincoln Memo rial in Washington, and in 1965 they marched together from Sel ma to Montgomery, Ala. In 1968, Bunche attended the funeral of the assassinated King, a fellow Nobel Peace laureate. Bunche went to Jerusalem in 1948 as an aide to Count Folke Bernadette of Sweden, to try to mediate the first Arab-Israel war. On Sept. 17, Bunche was en route to join Bernadette, but was de tained in a no-man’s land only a short distance from their sched uled meeting point. A short time later, Bernadotte was slain in an ambush. A French colonel occupying Bunche’s reg ular seat in the count’s car also was killed. Bunche became acting media tor after Bernadotte’s death and in 1949 secured an armistice be tween Egypt and Israel, the first step in a general cease-fire. The American diplomat was praised by both sides, and the Egyptians hailed him as “one of the world’s greatest men.” The accolade became official the next year when Bunche re ceived the Nobel Peace Prize. Hammarskjold sent Bunche to the Congo in 1960 to set up a U. N. force. It later was used to suppress the secession of Ka tanga Province. Bunche served as a U. N. ob server during a civil war in Ye men, and was a member of a U. N. peacekeeping force in Cy- raises {Payment of wage attacked by Republicans WASHINGTON (AP>—Republi- I c Ws opened an attack on pro- Vls ions broadly calling for retro active payment of frozen pay faises Thursday night as the °use began debate on Phase 2 ec onomic legislation. At issue is a section of a bill a Pproved by the Banking Com- 1111 tee providing that previously j^gotiated pay increases caught the 90-day freeze be paid un- ess the y are unreasonably incon- Williams elected to chairman post frd straight time A&M President Jack K. Wil- toms has been elected to a third c <>nsecutive term as chairman of the Commission on College of the Southern Association of College a Pd Schools. The commission has responsi- bility for accreditation of the 572 Member institutions of higher e ducation in 11 southern and s °uthwestern states, including Texas. la addition to being chairman °T the commission. Dr. Williams also serves as a member of the association’s board of trustees. University National Bank ‘‘On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. sistent with wage rates in the economy generally. A Republican-backed amend ment would provide instead for payment of such raises where they are tied to price increases, or in the case of teachers and other public employes, where they are tied to tax hikes. The provision in the committee bill “makes no economic issue. Rep. John B. Anderson of Illinois told the House. He is chairman of the House Republican Con ference. “If we allow for retroactivity in all cases, it would undo the effect of the freeze,” Anderson said. “It would create a ripple effect that would have a devas tating effect on the economy.” But Banking Committee Chair man Wright Patman, D -- Te ^’ complained that the bill sub mitted by the administration originally did not deal with the question. “The committee insisted that this nagging and divisive ques tion be dealt with by providing that such contracts and agree ments were to be honored unless the President could determine that they were unreasonably in consistent with the rate of wages in the economy generally.” There was no controversy on the basic issue of extending Nixon’s economic-control author ity a full year—through April 30, 1973—or providing essentially the machinery he asked for adminis tering Phase 2. Two provisions of the Senate measure are not in the legislation before the House. One would cancel President Nixon’s six-month postponement of a pay raise for federal civil employes and the military that had been scheduled for Jan. 1. The other would exempt news media, broadcasters and maga zine and book publishers from both price and wage controls. Four grads win awards for activities Four mid-term graduates in the College of Science have been presented faculty achievement awards for their academic work and extracurricular activities. Dr. J. M. Prescott, dean of science, presented the citations to Daniel R. Droemer Jr., zoology major from Houston; George William Lockwood of Fort Worth, a physics major; Donnie Lee Murphy, Mt. Pleasant, who is studying chemistry, and James Edward Pozzi of Victoria, a mathematics major. prus when Greek and Turkish Cy priots were at odds. A native of Detroit, Bunche supported himself through high school by installing carpets. He attended the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles on an ath letic scholarship, winning letters in football, baseball and basket ball. Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA with a degree in in ternational relations, Bunche went on to Harvard for a master’s de gree and a doctorate. He did post-doctoral work at Northwest ern University, the London School of Economics and the Uni versity of Capetown in South Africa. Bunche left the staff of How ard University at the outset of World War II to serve the Of fice of Strategic Services as an African specialist. He joined the State Department in 1944 in a similar capacity. Bunche was named undersec retary without portfolio in 1955, and two years later became un dersecretary for special political affairs. In 1969, the latter title was changed to undersecretary- general. Review cancelled The Corps of Cadets review to honor Dr. M. T. Harrington, presi dent emeritus, has been cancelled due to a wet field. The review had been scheduled for Saturday afternoon. In a message to Congress, Nix on said the child development pro grams included in the legislation, though well intended, would be plagued by “fiscal irresponsibili ty, administrative unworkability, and family weakening implica tions . . .” He ticked off nine reasons why he was striking down the legis lation which had cleared the House on a 210-186 vote on Tues day. “For the federal government to plunge headlong financially in to supporting child development would commit the vast moral au thority of the national govern ment to the side of communal approaches to child rearing over against the family-centered ap proach,” Nixon declared. He urged Congress to now pass a bill extending the Office of Economic Opportunity—the ma jor anti-poverty agency—as he had originally proposed. While Nixon said the Senate bill contained several ill-advised amendments, most of his veto message dealt with the “deeply flawed” child care programs. Architecture exhibit to be on display An exhibit of award-winning landscape architecture projects from throughout the nation is on display in the foyer of A&M’s Architecture Building. Robert F. White, head of A&M’s Landscape Architecture Department, said the exhibit in cludes 40 panels showing projects cited at the annual meeting of the American Society of Land scape Architects. The projects range from urban planning to private and public housing. White said the exhibit will be open to the public through Dec. 22. miles northeast of Dacca. Associated Press correspon dent Peter O’Loughlin reported from Dacca that the feeling there was that Indian forces “attack ing from several directions, are tightening the noose.” Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora, Indian commander of the eastern front, told reporters thousands of Pakistani troops were under air attack as they tried to reach Dacca or the port of Chittagong in sampans, barges and river boats. He added that about 7,000 Pak istani troops were trying to get across the Ganges to Dacca. He reported a tank attack from the bank of the Meghna River and air blows set fire to a river steam er carrying about 500 Pakistani troops 25 miles southeast of Dac ca. Aurora, at a briefing in Cal cutta, claimed the last Pakistani plane was shot down during the day and Indian planes “had a field day.” Heaviest fighting in East Pak istan, India reported was in the northwest near the town of Dina- jpur and an Indian spokesman said “the enemy suffered heavy casualties.” Declining to give In dian casualties, he added that “our troops are regrouping and bitter fighting is going on there.” On the other hand, Radio Pak istan reported severe fighting on the eastern front near the border of India’s Tripura State and add ed: “An estimated 540 Indian soldiers were killed as they at tacked in wave after wave.” While correspondents are not permitted to visit the fighting fronts to verify rival claims, they noted in Calcutta that confirmed Pakistani casualties have been relatively light and their with drawal might be more orderly than Indian briefings indicate. Both sides claimed widespread aerial attacks and O’Laughlin re ported from Dacca that high-fly ing Indian planes dropped a stick of four bombs on an orphanage there. He said rescue workers claw ing into the wreckage of the Moslem Mission Home had re covered 17 bodies and many boys are missing. There were 300 boys and 100 girls at the home, rang ing in age from 7 to 16. The girls escaped because they were in a building at the rear of the home. In New Delhi, the government announced it had ordered bombing pauses Friday and Saturday at Dacca and Karachi to permit the evacuation of foreign nationals caught up in the conflict. The government, also confident of victory in East Pakistan, be gan making plans to fly news correspondents to Dacca. Tax-cut legislation heads for Senate WASHINGTON <A?) — Legis lation cutting taxes $15.8 billion over three years cleared the House Thursday, headed for swift ap proval by the Senate and expected signing by President Nixon. The bill contains the essen tials of Nixon’s proposals to stim ulate the economy. The big obstacle to his approval, a plan to finance presidential compaigns by a dollar checkoff from taxes, had been lowered earlier. Demo crats reluctantly agreed to post pone it beyond next year’s elec tion. A bipartisan House vote, 320 to 74, approved the measure con taining the compromise. The bill contains substantially moi'e tax relief for individuals than Nixon’s original proposal, which relied heavily on stimulants to business investment and ex ports. Much of the relief goes to some 25 million low-income individuals and families for whom the mini mum standard deduction would be increased. An estimated 2.8 mil lion persons at or near the pover ty level would be relieved entirely of tax. But there would be some tax relief for all. For example, a family of four with $15,000 in come could save about $44 next year, while such a family with $4,000 income could save $28 and a single person with $3,000 in come, $55. The principal business stimu lant sought by Nixon and in cluded in the bill is revival of the investment credit. It allows businesses, in general, to charge off directly against taxes 7 per cent of investment in productive facilities. Congress partly offset this benefit by tightening the rules for speeded-up depreciation. For exporters, thre is a special tax benefit. The bill authorizes the organization of Domestic International Sales Corporations DISC, to handle their overseas sales. Half the export-generated income of a DISC would enjoy the tax deferral advantages of a foreign subsidiary. All individual income taxpayers would benefit by increases in the personal exemption. On this year’s income it would go from $650 to $675, on next year’s from $700 to $750. MONDAY IS MOVING DAY as several engineering departments transfer to the new $10 million Engineering Center located on the north side of the campus. The move is scheduled to be finished before the spring semester be gins. (Photo by Joe Matthews)