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h and tit ■st game, hedule hai | at Bayli |y 0 l. Q'J 09 sas. he Battalion Wednesday —. Partly cloudy College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 1, 1972 Cloudy skies, high 52°, low 35°. Winds northerly to northwesterly 5-10 mph. and Thursday —? Increasing cloudi ness. Cold front passage at 3 p.m. Cloudy, colder with rain. warmer High at noon 60°, dropping to near freezing at midnight. 8154226 Uugby bout set between TAMU, Argentina team ■ The Rugby Club of A&M takes pi a touring team from Argentina /ednesday at 2 p.m. on the Drill ield. lAQll The Club Champagnat of Bue- , Eos Aires, the first foreign team XUSSOrid L history to tour Texas, chal- Jnfinijki Inges the defending champion flggies of the Texas Rugby Union. I The Argentine team will be in iwn until Thursday, having ar- ived Monday. They are being RAH oarded in Walton Hall on the M campus. Saturday, Jan. 22, the small but lighty Argentine team played its rst game, defeating the Hous- >n Rugby Club, 29-6, in Memo- al Park. The Club Champagnat |layers were outweighed by 15 unds per man, but they thrilled ! lihe crowd in overwhelming Hous- o. I The team was in Galveston over lie weekend. After College Sta- lon, they travel to Austin and lallas. I Roger P. Soos, coach of the |&M Rugby Club, announced at there will be no admission ? Area ructions Terrace Station ,/J charge for Wednesday’s game. A public address system will be set up to explain the game to the fans. The Aggies will be putting a 20-game winning streak on the line against the Argentines. The weekend of Feb. 12-13 will see the Aggies travelling to New Orleans to compete in the annual Mardi Gras Invitational Tourna ment against teams from Canada, the East and West coasts, and from Tulane University. The Ag gies are the only team invited from Texas. February 19 marks the begin ning of the season proper, with games against Austin Gold and Black Clubs, St. Edward's of Aus tin and Dallas and Harlequins Rugby Clubs of Dallas, compris ing the Northern zone of the league. The winner of this zone will compete on April 29 against the Southern zone champions for the Texas Rugby Union title. Included in this season are two tourna ments, one in Galveston and an other in Austin. US faval ROTC unit authorized (for A&M’s Corps of Cadets Increase in troops by North Vietnam causes speculation A&M has been, authorized a aval ROTC unit, probably to be tablished by the summer of 1973, President Jack K. Williams las announced. He revealed the authorization ythe Chief of Naval Operations, Idm. E. R. Zumwalt Jr., at a Corpus Christi A&M Club meet- ig Thursday night honoring ^ Q,,, larine Corps Lt. Gen. Ormond ® Simpson. TS ition rvice noted the part of the Cadets, with | President Williams ’itV ! etachmen t will be regular Corps of U «avy members wearing the tra- 1)3111“ Aggie uniform bearing e Naval ROTC patch. The Navy techment will number up to iO cadets. I fa A General Simpson, a 1936 A&M aduate, and U. S. Rep. Olin E. |Peague, a 1932 TAMU graduate of College Station, assisted in Wing application for the NRO- C unit. “This is good news because it dds a dimension to the tremen- bus Corps of Cadets of A&M,” he president commented. “We Dok forward to being one of two iversities in the United States aving uniformed Corps of Cadets fith openings available to all ree military branches.” (PL.C) involving 53 cadets, of whom several are in the Corps. “This indicates the university is totally behind the military pro gram,” observed Col. Thomas R. Parsons, commandant. He pointed out that cadets of the Texas Maritime Academy located at Gal veston have participated in Corps of Cadets events on campus. The Corps, commanded this year by Cadet Col. Thomas M. Stanley of Mt. Pleasant, consists of 14 Air Force ROTC squadrons, 20 Army ROTC companies and the Aggie Band. Total strength is near 2,300 cadets. Those Argentinians can be rough was the Saturday lesson for A1 Leskinen, a junior at Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston. The match was rugby, always a game hard on men and the team was from Argentina. The same group is now at A&M and will be tak ing on the local rugby club Wednesday at 2 p. m. on the Drill Field. See the accompany ing story. (Photo by Robert Williams) SAIGON CP) — Hanoi has com mitted four of its five reserve divisions to a campaign in South Vietnam but its course is not en tirely clear, according to an as sessment by senior U.S. officials. Many theories are being ad vanced. One is that the North Vietnamese may want to attempt massive infiltration into the South just prior to a ceasefire, to be in a position to attain their ultimate goal—a takeover of South Viet nam after Vietnamization and al lied forces are withdrawn. Both U.S. and South Vietnam ese military officials say every indication is that North Vietnam will launch a major offensive soon. One doubt is how many men they will commit, or what role the four reserve divisions will play. “Without question, as a mili tary man, and with the infor mation that I have received, there is every indication that the enemy is preparing himself for an of fensive,” says Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. Army chief of staff. He adds that it will be a major one compared with enemy initia tives of the last couple years. Westmoreland sees indications the offensive will be multiphased over a period of time and will take place in the northern quarter of South Vietnam and in the cen tral highlands. Officials feel it will begin this month. While Westmoreland did not go into specifics, other U.S. military sources said four of Hanoi's re serve divisions are on the move. Evidently this marks the first time since the big invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese troops nearly a year ago that North Viet nam has committed its reserves so fully. “They’ve committed four-fifths of their reserves to something,” said one source. “Only time will tell.” The immediate short-range goal of the Communist command, in the view of senior officials, is to embarrass President Nixon during his trip to Peking and demon strate that North Vietnam is still a potent military force in South Vietnam. “It would give them propa ganda value,” says one U.S. offi cial. Some sources suggest that Ha noi seeks to show that Vietnami zation is a failure. The long-range goal, many of ficials say, appears to be to gain an advantageous military position from which to negotiate a set tlement of the war should a cease fire be declared. They recall that prior to the Geneva agreements of 1954, dividing Vietnam at the 17th Parallel, North Vietnam made a massive infiltration effort into the South. Not communistic Hanoi seeks open government in South PARIS — North Vietnam denied Monday it wants a Com munist government in Saigon, and said it seeks one broadly based on national political and religious factions. Nguyen Thanh Le, Hanoi’s spokesman at the Vietnam peace talks, said Secretary of State Wil liam P. Rogers “deliberately sought to deform our positions” when he said Sunday night Hanoi insisted on “a government of their choosing, a Communist govern- Martin asking court delay on house district divisions exa; RE AX rs TAMU and The Citadel at Wleston, S. C., will be the only istitutions with Air Force, irmy and Navy ROTC programs Jading to officer commissions. -&M currently has a Marine rps Platoon Leaders Course AUSTIN, Tex. </P) — Texas Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin dis patched an assistant to Washing ton today to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to delay a three-judge fed eral court order dividing Dallas and Bexar (San Antonio) Coun ties into single-member state house districts. Martin said Asst. Atty. Gen. Sam McDaniel would file the mo tion with Justice Lewis Powell, circuit judge for the area that includes Texas. The motion contends it would be too difficult to hold elections in the individual house districts in the time available — three Xew doctors added to staff J| of campus hospital facility Appointment of three doctors the staff of the A&M hospital |^f/lias been announced by President | I |jack K. Williams. I.*™ Dr. W. H. Powe Jr., currently staff member of the student lealth center of New Mexico Rate University at Las Cruces, dll join TAMU Aug. 1 and be- ome head of the hospital when )r. Kenneth L. Nelson retires as Hrector Aug. 31. Dr. James Samuel Watkins III >f Baytown joined the TAMU lospital last month, and Dr. Rob- ! rt E. Lee Gowen of Houston be- ;an work today. Dr. Williams said the appoint ments are part of an overall plan —1 |k enhance medical services to TAMU students. He noted the plans also include construction of tew facilities. Dr. Powe has been associated frith. New Mexico State since 1964. He previously had a general practice in his hometown of Greenville, S. C. He is a graduate of Furman University and The rg ie; INC irf University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Medical College of South Caro lina and served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps. Dr. Watkins is a graduate of Quachita Baptist University and Baylor College of Medicine. The Waldo, Ark., native served on Baylor’s community medicine faculty before joining the staff of the Baytown Clinic. Prior to moving to Houston, Dr. Gowen practiced medicine in Graham and earlier in his career served in the Navy Medical Corps. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He was reared in Bellevue, near Wichita Falls. The TAMU president noted the hospital staff also has been bol stered through cooperative agree ments with 12 local doctors. Ar rangements to serve in “on-call” and related capacities have been itiade with Drs. William H. An drew, Robert H. Benbow, L. W. Coleman Jr., 0. C. Cooper, Ernest A. Elmendorf, John J. Hall, Rich ard H. Harrison III, J. Y. Lara, James I. Lindsay, Henry C. Mc- Quaide, T. O. Melcher and David C. Rich. months and five days until the party primaries. Filing deadline for candidates is next Monday. Martin said the motion also al leges some “pretty bad errors” were made in the plans ordered by the court. Some census tracts were left out of districts, some were included twice and some were “islands” instead of being contig uous with complete districts, he said. A three-judge court in Austin ruled last Friday that the present multi-member system for big city house districts discriminated against Dallas blacks and San Antonio Mexican-Americans. Dallas was cut into IS neigh borhood districts and San An tonio into 11 individual districts, each with about 74,000 people. The Dallas and San Antonio districts were put into effect for this year’s elections. The court also said the entire 1971 House redistricting plan was unconsti tutional because of population va riances among districts. But the court gave the legislature until July 1, 1973, to write new dis^ tricts. MSC open house to start Thursday Memorial Student Center pro grams and activities will go on display Thursday during annual spring open house from 7 to 9:30 p.m. MSC Council and Directorate President John C. Dacus an nounced that students, faculty and the public are invited to the event, designed primarily for stu dents enrolled at TAMU the first time this semester. “The purpose of the open house is to make students aware of benefits they receive from the student services fee they pay as part of registration,” commented Mickey Wiesinger, public rela tions director. Martin said his motion asks the high court to stay the Dallas and San Antonio single-member district order until the Supreme Court can consider the state’s full appeal—probably next fall. Last week the court delayed implementation of a three-judge federal court order striking down the legislature’s congressional re districting plan and ordering new district lines for 1972 elections. The high court’s decision permits this year’s congressional elections to be held in districts drawn by the legislature. ment” which the United States could not accept. Le said Hanoi wants “a large government of national accord” to succeed the administration of President Nguyen Van Thieu. “This government, to be precise,” said Le, “would be composed of personalities of various political and religious tendencies.” The major religious groups in South Vietnam are the Buddhist^ and Roman Catholic communities. At the White House in Wash ington, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said officials are in the process of reviewing the lat est North Vietnamese statement. He told questioning reporters “we’ll have that completed by to morrow and I’m sure we can be more responsive to your questions at that time.” Le also released the details of the nine-point peace plan which was handed to presidential ad viser Henry A. Kissinger at a se cret meeting with the North Viet namese in Paris on June 26. Point 3 called for the Thieu government to be replaced by “a new administration standing for peace, independence, neutrality and democracy.” This government would nego tiate with the Viet Cong’s provi sional revolutionary government “to settle the internal affairs of South Vietnam and to achieve na tional concord,” the hitherto se cret plan said. Such a position is not new from the Communist side. In the seven-point peace plan presented July 1, 1971, by Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, delegation leader of the Viet Cong in Paris, Point 2 called on the United States to stop back ing the Thieu government and, assuming this would lead to its downfall, said: “The political, so cial and religious forces in South Vietnam aspiring to peace and national concord will use various means to form in Saigon a new administration favoring peace, in dependence, neutrality and de mocracy.” The Viet Cong would immediately start negotiation with this government to form “a broad three-segment government of national concord” to organize general elections. A cease-fire would take effect as soon as the government of national concord was formed. The wording was similar to that of the Hanoi plan revealed Monday but went further into details over the cease-fire and other questions of ensuring peace ful conditions in the country. The Viet Cong has never clari fied the composition of the first or second of the projected care taker governments. The latest U.S. proposal for interim arrangements came in the eight-point proposal handed by Kissinger to the North Vietnam ese Oct. 11, and publicized by President Nixon last Tuesday. It called for an “independent body representing all political forces in South Vietnam” to or ganize presidential elections six months after agreement between the two sides in the war. Presi dent Thieu would resign one month before the election and a caretaker government would be led by the president of the Saigon Senate. U.S. spokesmen have said that Viet Cong representatives could be members of the electoral body and there could be Viet Cong presidential candidates. Protesting Sunday deaths North Ireland’s guerrillas strike BELFAST, Northern Ireland hTP)—Rebel guerrillas in Northern Ireland struck back with bombs, bullets and defiant parades" Mon day over the killing of civilians in a clash with British troops. The Irish Republic to the south recalled its ambassador from Lon don and a gasoline bomb set the British Embassy in Dublin ablaze. In Parliament in London, Ro man Catholic militant Bernadette Devlin assaulted British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding — punching and scratching him and pulling his hair. When the gasoline bomb ex ploded at the British Embassy in Dublin, hundreds of chanting demonstrators were marching outside. They were protesting the battle Sunday in Londonderry which took the lives of 13 civil ians. The Sinn Fein, political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, called the protest. Troops came under repeated fire Monday in Belfast's Catholic strongholds during violent reac tion to the Sunday shootings. A soldier was seriously wounded when a guerrilla bullet penetrated his armored car. School children dived into snow-packed gutters when they were caught in a cross fire, but none was hurt. The Irish Republic recalled its ambassador in London, Donal O’Sullivan. An Irish Embassy spokesman called the move “the strongest protest we can make” without rupturing diplomatic re lations with Britain. In London, Miss Devlin, a mem ber of Britain’s Parliament as well as a leader of the Roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, interrupted proceedings as Maudling was explaining the circumstances in which a force of British paratroopers opened fire during Sunday’s demonstra tion in Londonderry. “I have the right as the only representative who was a witness to ask a question of that murder ing hypocrite,” she shouted. Miss Devlin, wo stands only about 5 feet tall, then rushed across the House of Commons and attacked Maudling. She was pulled away by other members of Parliament and haul ed from the chamber. Earlier an anonymous telephone caller in London claimed that a two-man suicide squad had been assigned to assassinate Prime Minister Edward Heath to avenge the civilians killed in London derry. The caller told The Associated Press the killers had been chosen at a meeting of Saor Eire, a left ist offshoot of the Irish Repub lican Army. A spokesman for Heath said the necessary steps would be taken. The Irish Republican Army— the IRA—has vowed revenge for the deaths in Londonderry. Strikes protesting Sunday’s shootings paralyzed much of Northern Ireland’s industry. Lon donderry limped along in near shutdown. So did some other smaller Northern Ireland towns. Free University registration scheduled Thursday in MSC Registration for the Free Uni versity will be from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday night in the Me morial Student Center Ballroom. The course instructors will be present to explain their course and establish meeting places and times. People who do not go to Thurs day’s registration may still at tend classes. The locations and times for the courses will be published later. Four more courses have been added to the Free University. Sculpture and Creative Design will be taught by Rodney Hill from the Environmental Design Department. Roy Pledger, from the same department, will provide guidance in “Photography.” Advice on self-defense will be given by Karl Mesloh. This class is open to coeds. A philosophy discussion group will be led by Phi Club President Randy Durham. For more information call Bill Heeter, 845-6804; Layne Kruse, 845-3750; or the Student Pro grams Office, 845-1515.