BATTAl; , ea/ >iE BATTALION Wednesday, January 19, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 5 Cadets, officers win first into space. GaJI Is a doctorate jJ e€ring ^ nd ^| A&M Amy ROTC cadets and jonosphenc M f f icerg brought home a first Marine Corps M rom Fort Benning, Ga. ' filter pilot, i members of tl|C ^* ie ent, i re g roil P successfully v are space J om P^ e f e d the U. S. Army Jump- he conimandetH naster Course ' a demanding donel in the St« ight ' day program re- is a civilian »B uiring five i um P s and 60 hours in engineering. M lassroom work - ' Air Force lieijH The A&M group included 16 ^adets, three graduate student of ficers and Maj. Benjamin R. chlapak, Capt. Mario Macaluso and Capt. Charles Briscoe of A&M’s Army instructor unit. In addition, Corps Commander Tom Stanley of Mt. Pleasant, Corps Adjutant Jim Ferguson, Garland, and Company L-l execu tive officer Jan C. Bertholf, An- nandale, Va., successfully com pleted Ranger School. Bertholf was No. 1 in the Ranger training. Other Army cadets in the Jan. 3-13 course were John Carlson, Palos Verdes, Calif.; Roger Chan- ning, Masontown, Pa.; Richard Curb, Houston; Benjamin Dela- mater, College Station; Michael Hammack, Biloxi, Miss. Also, Mark McAvoy, Dumas; Kim Mote, Austin; Craig Pearson, Belton; David Raffo, Dallas; Duane Spain, Houston; William Stewart, El Paso; Stephen Swan- ner, Pasadena; Michael Thomp son, Baytown; Richard Tillman, Southgate, Mich., and USMC PLC Douglas Dryden, Corpus Christi. Stanley to attend Pentagon meeting of ROTC cadets Thomas M. Stanley, commander of the A&M Corps of Cadets, will be among 40 ROTC cadets of the Fifth Army area in a Pentagon meeting Feb. 24-25. The Pentagon meeting of ROTC cadets will be in conjunction with the Reserve Officers Association mid-winter conference, according to Col. Thomas R. Parsons, TA- MU professor of military science. The local ROA chapter is spon soring Stanley’s attendance. Ca dets selected have shown out standing qualities of military leadership and expressed a desire to participate. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird and Roger T. Kelley, as sistant secretary, are featured speakers for the meeting to be conducted at Washington’s Hilton Hotel by the Department of De fense. Newspapers seeking liberty to interview prison inmates WASHINGTON ) — A group of newspaper reporters, two com munications corporations and sev eral prison inmates have filed suit against Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons to pre vent the bureau from blocking press interviews with prisoners, the American Civil Liberties Union announced today. CLIP AND SAVE! VALUABLE COUPON FREE CALENDAR The plaintiffs include Tom Wicker of The New York Times, Don Singleton of The New York Daily News, Betty Medsger of The Washington Post, Nat Hent- off and Jack Newfield of The Vil lage Voice, Playboy Enterprises Inc. of Delaware and The Amster dam News Inc. of New York. The ACLU said the suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington as a class action on behalf of all news media seek ing to interview federal prisoners and all prisoners who wish to be interviewed. It seeks a perma nent injunction “against the bu reau’s policy of barring the press from interviewing federal pris oners,” the ACLU said. The suit argues the bureau’s ban violates freedom of the press and the inmates’ right to free ex pression. The prisons bureau, the suit claims, is attempting to stifle criticism of the prisons and dis semination of inmates’ views. Two ships (Continued from page 1) fire a warning shot, the 230-foot Storis recaptured the Soviet fac tory ship early Tuesday morning and resumed its escort course for Adak. Spokesmen at the 17th District Coast Guard headquarters in Juneau said the Lamut, report edly carrying fleet commander Vladimir Artemov, and the 278- foot sidetrawler were discovered about 91/2 miles from the island. Harry Rietze, regional direc tor for the National Marine Fish eries Service, said the United States permits Soviet fishing boats to take shelter near the island in three different loca tions, one of them less than 10 miles away from the seizure site. In the special zones, he said the foreign vessels may venture as close as three miles to shore. The Coast Guard said the sea chase began when the two Soviet vessels balked at proceeding to the Adak naval base, and the Lamut broke away with a Coast Guard party aboard. Spokesmen say it may be days before it is known what happened to the boarding party during the escape attempt, but no injuries were reported. Receiving permis sion to fire a warning volley, the Storis took pursuit. “At the end, the Storis kept crossing his bow, forcing him to change course and slowing him down,” said Lt. Cmdr. Emmanuel Schneider, district intelligence and operations officer in Juneau. “They were in ice, and the Storis has an advantage because it’s an icebreaker. “Finally,” he said, “the Storis ordered him to stop or he would be forced to take action, when he warned he was ready to fire, it was about as close as you can get.” It was not known why the Koly- van made no effort to flee while the Storis was occupied. 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