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Two Russian
vessels seized
in U.S. waters
TIIGERATORS ARE now available to those who wish tributor Joe Hughes. The refrigerators are leased at $20
lem and live in dormitories that are capable of taking a semester with a $10 deposit. 80 have been distributed
leni. Clifton Taylor, left, is picking his up from the dis- and 120 are left, Hughes said. (Photo by Mike Rice)
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Cooperation and communica-
between students, faculty,
• administrators are goals of
I Charles W. Powell, recently
pinted A&M’s Dean of Men.
he new office of Dean of
j was created to Augment the
Ce of Dean of Women and to
over some of the work load
Jthe Dean of Students. The
Res cover many areas.
p hree named
istinguished
vet college
ftiree Bryan-College Station
adents attending A&M have
on named distinguished stu-
hts in veterinary medicine, an-
unced Dean Alvin A. Price.
pie honor is awarded to stu-
who have excelled academ-
in the College of Veterinary
‘cine, Dr. Price said. A 3.25
■tter grade point ratio out of
ssible 4.0 was required during
all semester.
Bryan-College Station students
ftiing distinguished student rec-
nition include James Monroe
P&es, first-year student, son of
L J° Ami Rhodes of 1205 Mar-
lar, College Station; Mark
ic is Spire, first-year student,
°f Mrs. Lydia Spire, Route 4,
n, and Janice E. Turek, third-
student, daughter of Mr. and
Eddie A. Turek, 1307 E. 25th
■t, Bryan.
“A big part of this job will be
to coordinate all student activi
ties,” said Powell, “and to act as
liaison between organizations on
campus. As the number of wom
en in activities at A&M in
creases, we will work more with
the Dean of Women.”
“Discipline is a major concern
of this office,” Powell said. “We
are responsible for taking care
of problems that arise.”
Powell supervises the director
of civilian students, the foreign
student advisor, and the civilian
dormitory counselors. Some of
the functions covered here in
clude intramurals, dorm elec
tions, and Corps of Cadets’ ac
tivities.
His office is also a place to
complain about unfair practices.
“Students can come talk to me
anytime. So far I have spent a
lot of time with them and I
hope that anyone with a prob
lem will come to me. This office
exists for the student’s benefit
and unless he comes to us, we
cannot help him,” commented
Powell.
Personal contact is very im
portant. “I like to get out and
work with people. Everytime
you come to the Dean of Men s
office you get a certain picture
of him behind his desk. But if
you can see him out and func
tioning with the people, it shows
things in a different light and
it becomes easier to communi
cate,” said Powell.
“I have found from experience
that if I would go out to some
one’s apartment and sit down
and explain to them why the
university has a rule, be honest
and frank with them, they would
go along with it 90 percent of
the time, even if they disagree,
if they could see the reason for
having it,” Powell stated.
Coming into a new position
of authority is not an easy task.
“One of my biggest problems
will be getting people to trust
me and believe in what I say,
and this usually takes a while.
I hope the word gets around
pretty fast and I can establish
a good rapport with the stu
dents,” he said.
Powell spent his first week on
the job visiting people in their
place of business on campus.
“These were ‘get acquainted’ per
iods for me to meet all these
other people I will be working
with and to give them an idea
of the operation of my office,”
said Powell.
Powell is a 40-year-old native
Texan who previously was the
Assistant Dean of Men at North
Texas State University. He has
taught in both high school and
college, served as a coach and
principal, and was a Vice-Presi
dent of a community college in
Arizona.
JUNEAU, Alaska <A>>—Balky
crews aboard two Soviet fishing
vessels seized for illegal entry
into U.S. water were resisting
escort to a U.S. Navy base in
the Aleutians, the Coast Guard
said Tuesday.
One of the two ships earlier
had tried to escape but was re
captured Tuesday following a
four-hour chase through the Ber
ing Sea ice pack. That chase
nearly ended in gunfire.
The Coast Guard icebreaker
Storis, outnumbered 80 to 1 by
the Soviet fishing vessels, had
armed boarding parties on both
vessels and two Russians were
reported under arrest aboard the
Storis.
Officials said there were no
reports of violence.
A spokesman said the Storis,
attempting to escort the two ships
600 miles south to Adak Island,
failed to get under way partially
due to the uncooperative Soviet
crew.
“It’s quite simple for them to
say ‘no, we’re not going and just
sit there’,” the Coast Guard
spokesman said.
The 362-foot Lamut, a process
ing ship, and the side-trawler
Kolyvan are charged with con
ducting illegal fishery support
activity within the U.S. 12-mile
limit near uninhabited St. Mat
thew Island some 200 miles off
the western Alaskan coast.
The Coast Guard earlier had
reported the vessels were under
way to Adak, but a spokesman at
district headquarters here later
said the Storis and Lamut re
mained in the approximate loca
tion of the seizure.
The Coast Guard said the Koly
van, which stopped in ice 30
miles south of the other two
ships, returned to their vicinity
later Tuesday.
Officials said communications
with the Storis were spotty but
declined to disclose other details
of the ship’s situation.
The Lamut, flagship of the
80-vessel Soviet fleet, fled with
an armed Coast Guard party
aboard after it was seized Mon
day night. The Storis “came
about as close as you can get”
to firing a warning shot at the
Lamut during a four-hour zig
zag chase through foot-thick ice,
the Coast Guard said.
One Coast Guard official said
if the two ships could not be
persuaded to head for Adak un
der their own power, alterna
tives would be either to tow them
to port or release the vessels but
detain their masters to face
charges.
Armed Coast Guardsmen were
stationed aboard the two vessels,
but a spokesman said the board
ing parties were not capable of
operating the vessels, and the
Russian seamen were “dragging
their feet.”
The Coast Guard said two
Russian fishing officials — the
master of one of the vessels and
the fisheries director of the Soviet
fleet—had been arrested and were
being held on the Storis.
Spokesmen said the Storis’
77-man crew is “considerably out
numbered” by the Soviet seamen,
fishermen and processing crews.
But no violence or harassment
was reported.
A Coast Guard cutter from
Kodiak, the Balsam, was sched
uled to reach the scene today to
assist the Storis. The three ves
sels were reported to be sitting
about 20 miles from St. Matthews
Island Tuesday afternoon.
Federal fisheries officials say
the vessels, under bilateral agree
ments, could have conducted their
operations legally within three
miles of shore a few miles from
where they were seized while
loading fish.
In Anchorage, U.S. Attorney
G. Kent Edwards said the vessels
probably will be charged with
illegal intrusion into the contigu
ous zone. But he said no charges
are expected to be filed against
the Lamut for leading the ice
breaker on the chase through
international waters.
Making passes in front of the
Lamut and finally threatening to
(See Two Ships, page 5)
My Lai is
than army
worse
claims
reporter asserts
Deficit budget in
fourth for Nixon’s
works,
term
the
its,
elopmental campaign at TAMU
isses 5 million mark for 1970-71
s development program
1 1970-71 totaled $5,362,024, a
jhificant landmark,” accord-
| to Dorsey E. McCrory, direc-
L of development.
gScCrory pointed out in the
P>al report of gifts and grants
® 1969-70 total exceeded $4
Pen for the first time.
|| ts and grants from Sept. 1,
I', to Aug. 31, 1971, were $3.32
million to A&M, $1.9 million to
the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station, $139,869 to the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, and $2,025 to the Texas
Transportation Institute.
The Development Office gifts
included donations from indi
viduals, estates, corporations,
trust funds, foundations and civic
organizations.
W’f’s named coordinator
\f A&M auxiliary services
• d Davis, 1967 A&M graduate
1 cadet colonel of the Corps of
| e s his senior year, has been
L uu xiliary services coordi- management
r r a t the university, a
(need President Jack
‘"lams.
Davis, 26, will assist Tom D.
Cherry, vice president for busi
ness affairs, and Howard Vestal,
management services director,
placing special emphasis on stu
dent relatoins.
- niversity National Bank
r 11 fte side of
Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
of Henrietta, Davis
majorca m agricultural journal
ism and won “distinguished stu
dent” honors as an undergraduate.
A native
majored in
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Presi
dent Nixon will send to Congress
Monday his fourth consecutive
red-ink budget, reportedly call
ing for record spending of near
ly $247 billion in fiscal 1973.
The size of the prospective
deficit was not divulged by gov
ernment sources, but they ac
knowledged that the deficit gap
in the current fiscal year, 1972,
will have widened to nearly $40
billion by the fiscal yearend next
June 30.
Even if Nixon’s 1973 deficit is
estimated at only half that
much — and it probably will be
higher — he will have piled up
total deficits of more than $85
billion since taking office.
That would top any other ad
ministration except Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s final term in World
War II.
Whatever estimate of the defi
cit Nixon submits to Congress,
the actual amount will be gov
erned largely by the pace of the
business recovery this year, since
tax collections are geared to in-t
dividual incomes and corporation
profits.
And the recovery to date has
been disappointingly slow. Nix
on’s optimistic forecast of a year
ago that 1971 national output
would total $1,065 trillion turned
out to be roughly $20 billion too
high.
The lag caused a serious short
fall in income to the Treasury
while outlays climbed higher than
expected. The 1972 deficit, which
Nixon last January estimated at
only $11.6 billion, apparently will
be about SVa times that amount.
However, the White House
again forecast a “full employ
ment surplus.” This means that
spending will not exceed the
theoretical amount of revenues
which the Treasury would take
in if the economy were running
at full employment and full pro
duction.
If such prosperity prevailed,
and if unemployment were down
to around 4 per cent instead of
the present 6.1 per cent, the tax
system would produce roughly
$248 billion in fiscal 1973 reve
nues. With federal spending at
around $247 billion, there would
be a “full employment surplus”
of about $1 billion.
However, the “full employment
budget” is merely an economic
concept and a planning tool. As
long as it stays in balance, econ
omists say, the real dollars-and-
cents deficit will be stimulative
but not inflationary. Nixon
warned a year ago that the full
employment budget must never
fall into deficit because that
would be inflationary.
The President has not had the
budget break which had been
expected from the de-escalation
of fighting in Southeast Asia —
the so-called “fiscal dividend.”
Such savings as have been
made are being passed on to tax
payers under the tax-relief leg
islation of 1969 and 1971. And
now defense costs are expected
to rise because of higher pay for
servicemen, inflation of costs in
all forms of procurement, and
an anticipated resumption of
spending on new weapons sys
tems. Nixon reportedly has ap
proved the request of Secretary
of Defense Melvin Laird for a
substantial boost in development
outlays for the Undersea Long-
range Missile Systems (ULMS).
This would be the first substan
tial increase in new weapons sys
tems outlays in several years;
other weapons proposals also are
said to have been given a green
light.
On the home front the Presi
dent is expected to ask more
funds for a number of programs,
including revenue sharing and
the proposed overhaul and ex-.
pansion of the welfare system.
A few items will be going
down. For example, smaller out
lays for unemployment compen
sation are expected as hiring is
gradually increased; higher mail
rates will reduce the postal defi
cit; and the decline in interest
rates may reduce slightly the cost
of carrying the federal debt even
though the debt will continue to
rise.
But the spending trend will be
upward generally. At around
$247 billion, outlays would be
roughly $18 billion higher than
Nixon’s $229.2 billion estimate
of a year ago and perhaps $15
billion higher than the probable
$232 billion total of actual fiscal
1972 outlays.
NEW YORK (iP) — The U.S.
Army has testimony that twice as
many Vietnamese men, women
and children were killed by U.S.
troops at My Lai than it has so
far publicly acknowledged, ac
cording to Seymour Hersh, the
reporter who first broke the
massacre story.
Secret testimony that a second
massacre took place at a nearby
hamlet on the same day has been
ignored by Army authorities,
Hersh charges in an article in
the current issue of the New
Yorker magazine.
Quoting from what he says is
a complete transcript of testimony
given to the Army commission set
up under Lt. Gen. William R.
Peers to investigate the My Lai
incident, Hersh says Army in
vestigators concluded that 347
civilians had been slain at My
Lai on March 16, 1968,” a total
twice as large as has been pub
licly acknowledged.”
The Peers Commission tran
script has not been publicly re
leased by the Defense Depart
ment, but Hersh claims he ob
tained a complete record of the
testimony. It reveals, he said,
that the platoon headed by Lt.
William L. Galley Jr. was respon
sible for 90 to 130 murders at My
Lai. A second platoon appar
ently murdered as many as 100
civilians, Hersh writes, with the
rest of the deaths attributable to
a third platoon and helicopter
gunships.
The Army said Tuesday it
would have no comment on any
aspect of the My Lai case while
the Galley sentence is under re
view.
Hersh charges that the Peers
commission transcript quotes
American servicemen testifying
about a second massacre that
took place at the hamlet of My
Khe about IVa miles from My Lai
on the same day.
An infantry platoon headed by
Lt. Thomas K. Willingham shot
into the hamlet and Vietnamese
survivors later told Army investi
gators, Hersh charges, that from
90 to 100 women, children and old
men were slain.
The Army charged Lt. Willing
ham with involvement in the
death of 20 civilians, Hersh
wrote, but the charges were dis
missed by an Army general a few
months later without a hearing.
Willingham subsequently left
the Aimy.
An Army spokesman confirmed
that details of what happened at
My Khe are in the Peers report
but said they couldn’t be dis
cussed at this time.
Civilian students are eligible
for advanced ROTC
A&M graduate students, junior
college transfers and students
completing the sophomore year of
study can become eligible this
summer for the advanced Army
ROTC course, Col. Thomas R.
Parsons announced.
The professor of military sci
ence explained that students who
have not taken the basic ROTC
course in the freshman and sopho
more years may qualify for ad
vanced ROTC by attending a six-
week course beginning in June.
Prospective summer program
candidates will be interviewed by
the Military Science Department
until April 28.
Students completing the sum
mer program and advanced course
are commissioned as second lieu
tenants.
4 The ROTC basic camp empha
sizes leadership development,”
Colonel Parsons said. “It brings
the student to a level of military
training and education which
qualifies him for enrollment in
the advanced course senior ROTC
program.”
Only students who have suc
cessfully completed either the
basic course or camp, and certain
armed forces veterans, are eli
gible for the advanced course.
Students in the summer pro
gram are paid $288 a month for
the six weeks training at Fort
Knox, Ky. They also receive free
room and board and are reim
bursed for travel.
Upon entering the advanced
course, they receive a $100 per
month allowance and may apply
for an Army ROTC scholarship,
which pays for tuition, most fees,
course
books and supplies.
“Experience of former cadets
has shown that the leadership
education the ROTC program pro
vides is invaluable in building
post-college careers, whether they
decide to remain in the military
or choose a civilian occupation,”
Colonel Parsons noted.
“Almost 50 per cent of the
Army’s officers are ROTC gradu
ates, including about 128 general
officers. ROTC graduates are
found in high positions in govern
ment, industry and virtually
every other walk of civilian life,”
the TAMU commandant added.
Students interested in enroll
ing for the summer program
should call Maj. Roy Avant at
845-1622, or visit him in Room
207 of the Military Science
Building.