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Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 26, 1972 THE BATTAU Nixon says North Vietnamese have rejected peace pla (Continued from page 1) tion to the North Vietnamese containing new elements. He said he urged a meeting on Nov. 1 between Kissinger and one of Hanoi’s top political lead ers, Le Due Tho. The North Vietnamese agreed and suggest ed a Nov. 20 date, he said. But on Nov. 17 the President contin ued, the North Vietnamese re ported Le Due Tho was ill and called off the meeting. Since then, he said, “the only reply to our plan has been an increase in troop - infiltration from North Vietnam and Com munist military offensives in Laos and Cambodia. Our pro posal for peace was answered by a stepup in the war.” Disclosing full details of the plan “will prove beyond doubt which side has made every ef fort to make these negotiations succeed,” Nixon said. “It will show unmistakably that Hanoi— not Washington or Saigon—has made the war go on.” Laird worried about Soviet nuclear arms WASHINGTON <A>) _ Secre tary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, seeking new airborne command posts, said Tuesday he is con cerned about Soviet nuclear arms developments and the dangers of “electromagnetic pulse.” Laird, detailing a request for $254.8 million to “meet defense requirements as a result of the Soviet weapons momentum,” told the House Armed Services Com mittee he is concerned that U.S. missiles might be paralyzed by electromagnetic pulses released by explosions of enemy nuclear war heads. He sought approval for $113.8 million during the current book keeping year to buy four Boeing 747 aircraft for use in an ad vanced airborne command post program. Two more would be bought in the next fiscal year and another the following year, iHjd^sa4dv x * j nu'*. joyjsija j -rbur ' for $89t4> millionifor research and development funds to meet what he called “potential near-term Soviet threats posed by their upgraded ICBM force, Cruise missiles, surface-to-air , missiles, ballistic missile defense, and antisubmarine warfare sys tems.” This, he said, would include such projects as the Undersea Long-range Missile System and an electronics version of the Fill aircraft, plus updated ballistic re-entry systems, an ocean sur veillance system and Cruise mis siles. Prints available for semester loan from A&M library A&M students may check out works of renown artists Tuesday through the Library lending print collection. Prints in the collection may be checked out beginning at 1 p.m. at he circulation desk, announced Richard L. Puckett, public serv ices coordinator. Some of the prints will be on exhibit on the check-out date. The 80 framed, ready-to-hang color prints are loaned for the entire semester. The library’s one-print-per-student loan policy is on a first-come, first-served basis. Prints will be due on May 12. Puckett noted A&M students only may check out prints. Bor rowers are responsible for lost or damaged prints. Replacement cost ranges from $25 to $40. A variety of artistic styles is included in the collection. Rem brandt, Goya, Matisse, Picasso and Velaquez are among artists represented. Allen edits essays of economist Spengler Dr. William R. Allen, A&M professor of economics, served as editor for a volume of essays by Prof. Joseph J. Spengler, past president of the American Eco nomic Association. A copy of the publication, “Population Economics,” was for mally presented to Spengler by Allen at a banquet honoring the Duke University professor. The banquet was held on the Duke campus. Allen was assisted in prepara tion of the volume by two of Pro fessor Spengler’s colleagues at Duke. It was published by the Duke University Press. Nixon said the new South Vietnamese elections would be organized and run by an inde pendent body “representing all political forces in South Vietnam, including the National Libera tion Front”—the Viet Cong. After President Thieu and his vice president resign one month before the election, he said, the chairman of the South Vietnam senate would serve as caretaker head of the government. Nixon touched on another ele ment which he said was offered privately last July 26: “We re main prepared to undertake a major construction program throughout Indochina, including North Vietnam, to help all those people to recover from the rav ages of a generation of war.” White House officials elabo rated on one point made only briefly in his speech—“we re main willing to settle only the military issues and leave the po litical issues to the South Viet namese alone.” The officials told newsmen this means negotiations can come in two stages: military aspects such as troop withdrawal, pris oner exchange and a cease-fire to be negotiated first and the political elements, including new elections, to be taken up later. The officials, who would not allow the use of their names, in dicated they expected a negative initial reaction from the North Vietnamese but that the United States still hopes “for serious negotiations.” There were two basic reasons for Nixon’s decision to make pub lic now the secret negotiations. The first, the officials said, is the hope that the disclosure will trigger a response. The second, they said, is the fact that the situation was “undermining our credibility and demoralizing the American people.” In his 20-minute speech, Nixon said his settlement offer is fair to both North and South Viet nam. “It deserves the light of public scrutiny by those nations and by other nations as well,” he said. “And it deserves the united support of the American people.” The White House would dis close no details of Kissinger’s 12 secret journeys to Paris. 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