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WASHINGTON (A*)—President Nixon began his
“journey for peace” to China Thursday—a historic
mission he said he was undertaking for all mankind
in search of a common ground with the long-hostile
and isolated Asian Communist power.
As he embarked for the first face-to-face summit
meeting ever between U.S. and Chinese Communist
leaders, he tempered his words of hope with words
of caution.
“We are . . . under no illusion that 20 years of
hostility . . . will he swept away by one week of
talks,” Nixon told some 8,000 persons attending
farewell ceremonies at the White House. Then he
and Mi*s. Nixon winged westward to Hawaii on the
first leg of his 20,395-mile, 13-day journey.
“We will have great differences in the future,”
he said.
“What we must do is find a way to see that
we can have our differences without being enemies
at war.”
From the White House, where school children,
Cabinet officers, congressional leaders, government
employes and tourists hade him farewell from the
winter-faded South Lawn, Nixon flew by helicopter
to nearby Andrews Force Base, Md.
There he boarded his blue, silver and white
presidential jet, “The Spirit of ’76,” for the 10-hour
nonstop flight to Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station
on the northern shore of Oahu.
His departure, which came as light snow fell from
slate-gray skies, was televised live nationwide—a
prelude to the extensive live television coverage
planned for his eight days in China.
After a 45-hour stay in Hawaii, recommended by
his physician to readjust to time zone changes, the
President flies to Guam on Saturday for an overnight
stop.
With his wife and an official party of 13 White
House and State Department advisers, Nixon will
arrive in Peking on Monday—Sunday night U.S.
time—and become the first American president ever
to set foot on Chinese soil.
Before returning to the United States Feb. 28,
he will have an open-ended series of talks with
Chinese leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, at
tend a round of four banquets in three cities and
visit the Great Wall and other Chinese shrines and
historic sites.
Nixon met for 45 minutes Thursday with Demo
cratic and Republican congressional leaders, giving
them what House GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford of
Michigan described as “a realistic appraisal of the
possible results.” He promised to brief them upon
his return.
Then, without a topcoat to ward off the winter
chill, the President stepped onto the South Lawn to
deliver his brief farewell remarks.
The President recalled his statement of July 15
—when he announced that a secret summer mission
to Peking by his foreign affairs adviser, Henry
Kissinger, had set up the unprecedented summit
meeting.
“That statement was, as you will recall, that this
would be a journey for peace,” he said.
Nixon noted, too, a toast offered by Chou when
Kissinger was in China.
“ ‘The American people are a great people,’ ” he
quoted the Chinese premier as saying. “ ‘The Chinese
people are a great people. The fact that they are
separated by a vast ocean and great differences in
philosophy should not prevent them from finding
common ground.’ ”
Nixon said if his talks with Communist leaders
bring progress toward finding that common ground
“the world will be a much safer world.”
And, motioning to the hundreds of school children
on the lawn—many of them chattering excitedly as
he talked—Nixon added that he hoped “all those
young children there” would have a chance “to grow
up in a world of peace.”
Before turning to walk across a red carpet be
tween a military honor guard to the helicopter, the
chief executive said: “If there was a postscript I
hope might be written in regard to this trip, it would
be the words on the plaque left on the moon by our
first astronauts when they landed there:
“ ‘We came in peace for all mankind.’ ”
About 200 Americans—including 87 accredited
news media personnel—are flying into China with
Nixon, joining about 100 already there making ad
vance arrangements.
In the months prior to the day of departure,
Nixon stressed repeatedly that he had no expectation
of spectacular results from the trip.
He spoke after of increased communication be
tween mainland China and the United States—per
haps through an exchange of athletes, scholars, scien
tists and students.
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Scientific pursuit is important
National Academy of Sciences President Philip Hand
ler told a University Lectures Series Audience at A&M
Thursday the world cannot afford to turn its back on the
pursuit of scientific knowledge.
Handler, one of the nation's most articulate spokesmen
for science, warned that “to reject science, the only tool
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REVEILLE, A&M’S MASCOT, was on hand at the Corps of Cadets review for the Student
Conference on National Affairs Thursday. Both the dog and the cadets felt the un-
seasonally warm weather—especially since the uniforms were Class A’s. (Photo by Rob
ert Williams)
Hughes
travels
abandons Bahamas,
to Nicaragua capitol
MANAGUA, Nicaragua UP) _
Howard Hughes abandoned his ho
tel and flew Thursday to Nicara
gua on a visit officially described
as a business trip. In the familiar
Hughes pattern, the 15-room top
floor of the pyramid-shaped Inter
continental Hotel in Managua was
taken over and sealed off to vis
itors.
Hughes slipped secretively
away from the suite in Nassau
where he had been secluded for
15 months. But in the background
of the abrupt pullout was a squab
ble with authorities over the work
permits of his staff.
The trip came while court hear
ings were in progress in New
York on a purported autobio
graphy of Hughes written by Clif
ford Irving, a book that has been
called a hoax by Time magazine.
Both President Anastasio So-
nioza’s office and Hughes spokes
men in the United States con-
flrmed the trip, but the 66-year-
old Hughes eluded newsmen in
his usual fashion.
It was not known whether
Hughes, who hasn’t been seen
publicly since the 1950s, was in
the hotel or at Somoza’s coun
try estate 200 miles away.
Hotel officials declined even
to say whether the suddenly in
accessible 8th floor was reserved
tor Hughes and his staff. The ele-
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—Adv.
vators were disconnected to that
floor and the fire doors sealed.
It was reported the reservations
were for five days.
After a flurry of reports over
Hughes’ movements, his public
relations man, Richard Hannah,
issued this statement in Los An
geles:
“Mr. Hughes is in Managua,
Nicaragua. He is there at the
invitation of President Somoza.
His trip is related to business
discussions which have been go
ing on for some time between
representatives of the Nicaraguan
government and executives of
Hughes Tool Co.”
Hannah said this was every
thing he knew about the journey
and “anything else» would be
guesswork.”
The office of President Somo
za, himself a multimillionaire, also
announced that Hughes had ac
cepted his invitation to visit Ni
caragua.
In Las Vegas, Nev., a Hughes
Tool Co. spokesman said Hughes
“is considering investments in Ni
caragua and he considers the
economic and political situation
good.”
He added that the length of
the visit is indefinite—“we aren’t
saying how long he’ll be there
but ‘indefinite’ could indicate a
certain degree of permanence.”
He also said that Hughes had
“no definite plans to return to
the United States or to Las Vegas
and no plans to conduct a press
conference at the moment.”
Earlier reports said he might
go to the United States shortly
and meet with the press. An East
ern Airlines Jetstar, believed to
have been the plane bringing 66-
year-old Hughes to Managua,
landed at the Nicaraguan air
force strip near the municipal
airport at 9:15 a.m.
A spokesman for the U.S. Em
bassy said that Hughes’ repre
sentatives were in contact with
the embassy a few days ago to
arrange the visit. He denied re
ports that the U.S. ambassador,
Turner Shelton, knew Hughes per
sonally and had helped arrange
the trip.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal
in Nevada quoted Hughes sources
as saying it wasn’t the billion
aire’s intention to stay long in
Nicaragua.
“This is just a temporary stop.
We expect him to arrive in the
United States shortly and there
(See Hughes, page 3)
GALVESTON, Tex. (A>) — A
former pumper on the sunk tank
er V. A. Fogg testified here
Thursday of leaking pumps and
of seeing sparks flying about the
vessel while it carried highly vol
atile chemicals.
The pumper, Charles Floyd Jr.
of Jacksonville, Fla., told a Coast
Guard investigation board that a
major pump aboard the tanker
broke down and heated up while
it was being used to transfer high
ly inflamable benzene.
Floyd, who served on the V. A.
Fogg until just two days before
it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico
Feb. 1, said he also saw sparks
on one occasion flying from the
stack of the jumbo tanker.
The Fogg exploded and sank
about 50 miles off the coast from
Galveston while on a short cruise
from Freeport to Houston. All 39
men aboard are missing and pre
sumed dead.
The Jacksonville man also tes
tified that leaky pipes and pumps
caused petrol chemicals such as
benzene to collect in the bilge
beneath the pumproom. Fumes
from these chemicals, he said, oft
en were so thick in some areas
on the vessel that he had to wear
a breathing apparatus to do his
work.
He said a pump which failed
reportedly heated up and sparked
while being used to transfer bene-
zene.
This revelation triggered a
heated exchange between attor
neys for the tanker’s owner, Tex
as City Tanker Co., and a Mari
time Union lawyer.
Attomey B. D. McKinney, for
the tanker company, closely
questioned Floyd about the sparks
at some length, causing the sailor
to repeat his earlier testimony
several times. After about 10
minutes, Marvin I. Barish, the
union lawyer, interrupted the pro
ceedings with a shout.
“If you don’t want the board
to know there were sparks aboard
your vessel, that’s just too damn
ed bad,” said Barish.
The hearing was adjourned mo
ments later.
The inquiry recessed at 1 p.m.
today and will not reconvene un
til Feb. 29. At that time testi
mony is expected from divers who
have explored the sunken tanker
in its watery grave.
Officials said currents are ex
tremely swift in the area where
the tanker went down and this
poses danger to divers.
A Coast Guard vessel is sta
tioned near the tanker to warn
marine traffic. The radar anten
na on the tanker extends two feet
above the surface.
with which we can manage our future ... is to invite the
spectres of pestilence, famine and nuclear holocaust.”
The former Duke University professor said he was
concerned about a variety of subtle changes in national
thinking which he noted appear to operate against scientific
research as an essential ingredient of our national life.
“There is abroad a growing anti-rationalism, which has
grasped the minds of at least some fraction of our bright
est youth,” he noted. “They suggest affection, tenderness
and love can substitute for reason and evidence in the man
agement of human affairs.”
Dr. Handler added he found the sugggestion by others
that some aspects of science should be left unexplored
“equally surprising.”
“What deeply disturbs me,” he said, “is the easy con
comitant damning of science which is now held to account
for all the abuses of unregulated technology by insuffici
ently understanding individuals.”
Dr. Handler said there has been a failure to recognize
the collective public responsibility to examine, in advance,
the social consequences of new technology before it is made
available, and he feels government must take greater re
sponsibility in this area.
Describing modem resistance to sciences as the modern
equivalent of book-burning, Handler said he could see no
wisdom in deciding what not to know, but he added that
society must use its authority to say how knowledge is em
ployed.
“Since Prometheus stole fire from the gods, man has
been using energy to alter his own world,” Dr. Handler
pointed out. “Our era began when Francis Bacon delineated
the essence of the scientific method early in the 17th cen
tury.”
“Armed with Bacon’s intellectual instrument and the
fire of Prometheus, he concluded, “man has altered the
world to suit himself, multiplying his numbers, fashioning
the landscape, determining the fate of all other creatures
on the planet and now there can be no turning back.”
SCONA
XVII Program
Friday
8-9:30
Senator John G. Tower
9:30
Social Gathering—Ralph’s
Pizza, East Gate
Saturday
8:30-9:45 a. m.
Sixth Round-Table Session
10:15-12 noon
Dr. John R. Silber
Share it with administration
McGrath pushes college student power
Dr. Earl J. McGrath
The students of the university
should share the power in the ad
ministration of the college cam
pus, Dr. Earl J. McGrath said
Thursday night at the Student
Conference on National Affairs.
There is a pervasive momen
tous relationship between charac
teristics and qualities of society
and the characteristics and qual-
ities of education, he said.
Director of the Higher Educa
tion Center at Temple University
in Philadelphia, McGrath said
that if the universities were
closed, “society would be seriously
impaired.”
“Science and technology pro
vide the bulk of society, but if
sociology, psychology, economics
and philosophy were halted, what
would happen?” he asked.
“There would be a supply of
boundless energy that could not
be expended. The continuing of
the university is fruitfully ex
tended to all areas of living. If
the activity cannot be entwined
with society, then we would be
culturally bankrupt,” he said.
Teaching must be relevant to
the social atmosphere, he added.
There are two aspects needed
to be considered with the rele
vancy, he said.
First is that students are not
the first to make the function of
the university relevant to the
society.
Secondly, the relevancy of so
ciety is entwined with politics.
There exists a moral position on
social issues in society. Though
it exists, there should not be con
cern about Vietnam, race, or poli
tics.
McGrath stressed the need for
the administration to give the
students a role in legislative
bodies. This enhances patrons, he
said.
In these law making positions,
students invoke necessary and
various generalizations, McGrath
said. Students give a conscious
ness of social problems and the
disarray of culture such as war,
economy, ecology and women’s
liberation to society.
He felt that students get more
action on issues than other
groups.
McGrath also backed student
representation on boards of uni
versities. As well as this, the
faculty should be willing to ac
commodate student assistance on
content of courses, teaching proc
esses, fees, and degree plans.
He called for the reexamination
of the faculty, saying that they
dominate higher education and
need to be watched. Too, students
should seek membership on ad
ministrative boards because this
is where education begins for the
college student.
All items of student life should
be governed by the student, he
said.