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Nixon signs bill limiting campaign spending WASHINGTON WP> — Hailing it as “realistic and enforceable,” President Nixon signed legisla tion Monday to limit political advertising expenses and seal campaign finance-reporting loop holes. The law goes into effect in 60 days, so it won’t apply to early presidential primaries but it will cover later primaries, and will limit to $8.4 million the amount a presidential candidate can spend for radio and television advertising this fall. Nixon signed the legislation— the most comprehensive change of campaign practices law in a half century — without the pub lic ceremony which often accom panies presidential approval of major measures. In a three-paragraph state ment, Nixon called the bill “an important step forward in an area which has been of great public concern.” He noted that the measure stiffens reporting requirements for the source and use of cam paign funds. The new law repeals the loop hole-ridden and little-enforced Corrupt Practices Act of 1925. Asked whether the administra tion would enforce the new pro visions, White House press sec-< retary Ronald L. Ziegler re sponded, “Yes.” The law limits for the first time in history categories of spending by White House candi dates. Spending limits are calculated on a formula of 10 cents per po tential voter, or $50,000, which ever is larger. They apply to all candidates for president, vice president, Senate and House and cover their spending on televi sion, radio, newspaper, magazine and outdoor advertising, and paid-telephone campaigns. No more than 6 cents of each dime can be spent on broadcast ads, meaning the ceiling on a presidential nominee’s radio-TV budget this fall will be $8.4 mil lion. The Republicans spent an estimated $12.1 million in 1968 while the Democrats spent about $6.1 million. The law sets no over-all cam paign spending limit, but does limit to $50,000 the amount a candidate for president or vice president can contribute to his own campaign. Likewise, Sen ate candidates can contribute no more than $35,000 to their own campaigns, and House candidates $25,000. Periodic reports must be filed by candidates after spending reaches $1,000. The reports to the Senate secretary, House clerk, comptroller general or appropri ate state election officials must identify each person contribut ing $100 or more. be Battalion Cold and clearing The law also requires broad cast stations selling air time to federal candidates to charge the lowest unit rate during 45 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election. At other times, the stations can charge the same rates charged for comparable use by commer cial advertisers. Further, the bill specifies that newspapers and magazines can not charge political candidates more for campaign advertising than they charge for comparable use of the space by other adver tisers. Wednesday — Cloudy, easterly winds 10-15 mph, becoming north erly 10-15 mph. High 58°, low 41°. Thursday — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Northerly winds 10-12 mph. High 37°, low 28°. fol. 67 No. College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 8, 1972 845-2226 w PAH .RY 7 RY 8 RY 9 ml othing new found hich’may indicate missing ship’s fate GALVESTON UP) — Nothing Bwwas found by searchers Mon- jy looking for the missing tank- V. A. Fogg and the Coast yard said the effort would be iduced today by 50 per cent. "We’re reducing the search to le cutter and three aircraft and mcentrating on the area where ic life jacket, life ring and other !bris has been found,” a spokes- ian for the Coast Guard’s search ickets are irofliable to iniversity Last fall $13,994 was paid for i campus parking and moving olations, according to Univer- ty Police. During that time 4,688 tickets ere paid compared to 4,190 paid ekets in the spring of 1971 nounting to $12,086. In the fall of 1970 only $11,846 as collected for 4,250 violations. Beginning in January the Uni- jrsity Police will begin to keep ack of all excused tickets, ccording to UP almost every her ticket issued is excused. ftjTk! m YOOft AU )wn coordination headquarters in New Orleans said. The spokesman added, “I have never been on a search as massive as this one without finding some thing.” The Fogg, with 39 persons aboard, vanished last Tuesday after leaving from Freeport, Tex., to Galveston on a short voyage which included a detour to 50 miles offshore to clean the ship’s tanks of the residue of a highly volatile chemical. Nothing has been heard from the ship since she left port. Seven aircraft and three cut ters combed an 8,400 square mile area about 50 miles south of Free port Monday. Searchers found a life jacket and a life ring, both with the tanker’s name imprinted on them, in the same general area Sunday. A door found in the same area Saturday has been identified as one from the Fogg by Cherry C. Mapes, an engineer who worked on the tanker for 10 years but missed this trip because of vaca tion. However, the Coast Guard spokesman in New Orleans said Monday that the Coast Guard is still not convinced that the door found was off the missing tanker. TEMPTATION appears in the strangest ways, except to Higby, and oversized billy goat. Higby is owned by Lion Country Safari and is retired from their petting zoo because of his size. The temptation belongs to one of the African wildlife preserve’s maintenance men who has adopted him as a mascot. (AP Wirephoto) Moon in jeopardy Cambodians attack spook l Ireland’s oppositions meet n unofficial rival parliaments y BELFAST (API—Northern Ire- ,tid opposition leaders met in leir unofficial rival parliament [onday night with the prospect lat they soon may find them- ilves in jail. Police said they have taken out ourt summonses against 26 lead- of Sunday’s 20,000 strong Inti-internment march in Newry. 'he march, like all processions in Northern Ireland, was illegal tinder the government’s Special Powers Act. I Bernadette Devlin, the 24-year ■Id civil rights activist and mem- r of British Parliament, said [he too had received a summons, he supports Roman Catholic .spirations toward a united Ire land. Francis McGuigan, a 24-year- id Belfast man, made an anti- nternment protest of his own md escaped from Long Kesh amp, where around 400 suspect- !d members of the Irish Republi- :an Army are held without trial. McGuigan, according to IRA contacts, was a high officer of the Belfast Provisionals, the IRA’s militant wing. Police said troops threw up road blocks around Belfast but contacts said McGuigan was clear of the city. He was the first to escape from Long Kesh, a former airfield near British army headquarters at Lisburn, southwest of the capital. Though the Newry march passed peacefully, the weekend produced four more dead, bring ing the toll of violence since August 1969 to 239. Two members of the outlawed IRA were blown to pieces while planting bombs in a sabotage operation on Lough Neagh, an inland sea west of Belfast. The bodies were found in a sunken barge. ' The opposition politicians, meeting in their “alternative assembly” in Dungannon, said they would prepare contingency plans against prospective jailing of prominent members. Illegal marching carries a mandatory penalty of six months jail, al though the sentence can be sus pended at the magistrate’s dis cretion. PHNOM PENH <A>> — Premier Lon Nol says Cambodian soldiers who shot up a mythical monster they believed was devouring the moon during a recent eclipse wasted so much ammunition the army might have run short in case of attack. The marshal, who doubles as commander in chief of the Cam bodian army, navy and air force, described the hour-long shootout on Jan. 30 as an ill-considered action and threatened to court- martial officers and men who go on such shooting sprees. In an angry radio speech to troops over the weekend, Lon Nol said the fusillade—which lit up the night sky over Phnom Penh with tracer bullets—took 2 lives and wounded 85. z It cost Cambodia millions of riels worth of ammunition, the marshal said, and was “a serious blot on the honor of the Khmer Republic.” The soldiers were trying to drive away Reahou, a legendary monster who is a malevolent brother to the sun and the moon. Tradition teaches that only by making great noise could they prevent Reahou from gobbling up the moon during the eclipse, darkening their nights forever. For the average Cambodian soldier, Reahou surpasses myth. Fabulous beasts and monsters from ancient Khmer folk legends are as real to him as the cattle wandering placidly through down town Phnom Penh. Omens and oracles play an im portant part in decision making for many Cambodians. Marshal Lon Nol himself frequently seeks the advice of seers. Lon Nol once used an oracle to incite Cambodians to overcome their ingrained Buddhist respect for sanctity of human life to fight the enemy from North Vietnam. “According to an oracle, the current was in Cambodia is a religious war,” Lon Nol told the Cambodians in a broadcast on May 11, 1970. “I wish to inform my fellow countrymen who are Buddhist believers that an oracle has predicted that everybody will enjoy equal rights. Everybody will be happy and good when this religious war ends.” West Coast strikers seek settlement in SAN FRANCISCO (^—Nego tiators in the West Coast dock strike worked Monday to achieve agreement before Congress votes on a new plan for a 60-day in junction to partially end the record 122-day walkout. The shipper and union bar gainers appeared near a contract agreement in the sixth day of TAMU’s former students give $599,029 in direct aid University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. A&M’s Association of Former Students gave $595,029 in direct aid to scholarships, faculty and academic departments during 1971. More than 20,000 former stu dents and friends of the univer sity contributed $1,066,326 dur ing the association’s 1971 An nual Fund campaign, a fiscal re port presented Sunday at the annual Winter Council meeting showed. Approximately one-half million dollars financed association op erations. Leslie L. (Les) Appelt of Houston reported in a letter to the 150 persons attending the weekend meeting that $559,361 had previously been distributed to the scholarship and academic funds. In addition, the association Sunday gave A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams an additional $35,668. Those funds were desig nated $10,000 for President’s Scholarships, $22,000 to provide 11 academic deans with $2,000 each unrestricted funds and $3,- 668 to establish a new fund for public relations. The former students also committed $65, 845.66 for design of the Infor mation Center on the first floor of the Continuing Education Tower, with design and planning by the A&M Architecture Re search Division. Donald W. Garrett of San An tonio, vice president for fund raising, pointed out per capita giving was $52 with 40 percent of A&M former students partici pating in the Annual Fund. The record year included 2,532 former students in the Century Club, a special recognition for members who gave $100 or more during one fund drive year. talks directed by Sam Kagel, vet eran private mediator. They resumed talks less than an hour after a House Labor Subcommittee in Washington ap proved the injunction plan draft ed by Chairman Frank Thompson, D.-N.J. The vote was 5 to 1. At the White House, Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson de scribed the legislation as clearly unsatisfactory. He said the meas ure “leaves everything up in the air” for at least another 60 days. Thompson said Harry Bridges, president of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehouse men’s Union, told him the union would continue the San Francisco negotiations through Wednesday. Bridges was quoted as saying the ILWU then would propose submitting all unresolved issues to Kagel for binding arbitration. Thompson’s bill would author ize the government to seek a 60- day injunction ordering the union and shippers to handle military and agricultural cargoes and shipments to and from Hawaii. The bill would allow other phases of the strike to run on while negotiations continued. Thompson estimated his pro posal would get 80 per cent of the strikebound cargo moving. Thompson said in Washington he offered his proposal because the administration had failed to convince him that the national health and safety required a termination of the entire strike at this time. He said the measure would go to the full House Labor Commit tee today and could be passed by the House Wednesday if it agreed to suspend its rules to allow emer gency action. But he said he is not optimistic the House will act by Wednesday and even so, Senate action before a week-long Lincoln Day recess starting Wednesday night seems unlikely. Thompson told the House sub committee that Bridges reported only two major issues unsettled— pay increase retroactivity and optical care benefits. In a 5-3 party line vote, the House subcommittee rejected President Nixon’s emergency strike legislation plan. The President’s bill would have compelled the 13,000 ILWU strik ers to return to their jobs while the entire dispute was submitted to compulsory arbitration by a three-man board. Academic, sport programs to be tops: Williams The goal at A&M is to make the university’s academic and athletic programs the finest in the nation, President Jack K. Wil liams told leaders of the 55,000- member Association of Former Students Sunday. “We are the number one in stitution in this country in oceanography,” he said. The A&M president reported the depart ments of chemistry, economics, sciences, civil engineering, veteri nary medicine, meteorology, arch itecture, biochemistry and petrol eum engineering are near the peak of excellence. Dr. Wiliams spoke at the asso ciation’s annual Winter Council Meeting and gave the leaders an overview of future plans for the university. He said students participating in the administration have in cluded interior furnishing of the new residence hall and that he’d match the Aggie girls with coeds from any college. Dr. Williams received a standing ovation from the 150 participants. New head football coach and athletic director Emory Bellard also addressed the group. Bellard said three for sure and possibly four of the 14 Blue Chip football players in the state are expected to sign letters of intent today to A&M. The coach admitted the “most critical point, right now,” is a quarterback for the 1972 team. He said the Aggies have some real good talent returning and that he expected one or two of the new freshmen will be on the varsity team. Directing the weekend meeting was J. R. (Bob) Latimer of Dal las, who came to A&M in 1940 on one of the first Opportunity Award scholarships. He is 1972 association president. Latimer said he could not have attended college without the scholarship and it represented a very personal part of his life. The 1972 Annual Fund goal was set at $1.25 million. Engraving tools available to mark articles of value Identification of personal be longings — such as bicycles, tape decks and tools — has been made easier for A&M students through the donation of 10 electric en graving tools by the College Sta tion Kiwanis Club to local police departments. Students, faculty, staff and residents may borrow the en gravers for a reasonable time to engrave personal belongings. The tools will work on almost any hard surface. Veteran legislator scheduled to speak Thursday at A&M A veteran U. S. legislator who voted for the supersonic trans port, supported the Mansfield Amendment and Senate Selec tive Service Bill of which it was a part will speak Thursday at A&M. Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia will appear as the first major series speaker of Political Forum. His talk, “Political Parties vs. the ‘New Politics’,” will be pre sented at noon in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, an nounced Forum Chairman Paul Turner. The Senate Democratic Whip since early last year, Senator Byrd is a legislative leader with 26 years elective service to West Virginia and the U. S. The 54-year-old solon has been the Senate Democratic Confer ence secretary five years. He is a member of the Appropriations and Judiciary Committees and the Committee on Rules and Ad ministration. Byrd was elected to his third six-year Senate term in 1970 by the highest percentage of votes ever received by a candidate in a West Virginia statewide con tested general election. He car ried all 55 counties, also a state first. The holder of more legislative elective offices than any other West Virginian served in both state houses from 1946 to 1952 when he was elected to the first of three U. S. House of Repre sentatives terms. Byrd was a cum laude gradu-i ate of American University. The senator and his wife, the former Erma Ora James, make their home in Sophia, W. Va. Class schedule established for A&M Free University The Free University classes have established meeting times and places. Gourmet Cooking — Feb. 14, A&M Consolidated. For more in formation call Bill Fore at 845- 3100. Albert Schweitzer’s Philosophy of Life — Feb. 9, 8:00 p.m., Lu theran Student Center. Handicrafts — Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., room 100, Chemistry build ing. Chemical Theology — Tues days, 7:30 p.m., room 228, Chem istry building. Reading Improvement—Thurs days, 7:30 p.m., room 100, Chem istry building. Political Trends — Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., room 303, Fermier. Sculpture and Creative Design — Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., 202 Fran cis. Photography — Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., room 229, Chemistry building. Self - defense — Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., room 303, Fermier. Revelations — Thursday, 7:00 p.m., room 127, Academic build ing (this week only); after this week there will be two sections — Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m., room 127, Academic building and Mon days, 7:30 p.m., room 228, Chem istry building. Philosophy Discussion — con tact Randy Durham or the Phil osophy Department for meeting times and places.