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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.
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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.