The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 26, 1972, Image 4

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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,
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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. But
press secretary Ronald L, ]
ler said Kissinger would
with newsmen Wednesday,
Nixon’s speech followed
of mounting speculation on [
tol Hill and elsewhere that
on was prepared to set a dati
full American withdrawal
Vietnam in exchange for tk
lease of U.S. prisoners of
But Ziegler during the day
tioned reporters about foe
on this aspect of the prok
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