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Thursday, February 24, 1972
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China attitude
more friendly
at peace talks
HUEY GIVES CHARLIE A HARD TIME in the jungles of
South Vietnam. The battling helicopter, better known as
Huey Cobra, makes its home at the Central highlands base
of Pleiku and provides close air support for ground troops.
(AP Wirephoto)
Gets 18 months
Court denies Dowdy acquittal
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BALTIMORE OP) _ Rep. John
V, Dowdy, D-Tex., sought ac
quittal or a new trial Wednes
day, but instead received an 18
months prison sentence and a
$25,000 fine for bribery conspir
acy,
The sentencing was imposed by
Judge Roszel C. Thomsen in the
same federal court where the
Athens Democrat’s eight-week
trial has been conducted. His
lawyers said they would appeal.
The maximum sentence on all
eight counts of which Dowdy was
tonvicted could have brought 40
years in prison and $40,000 in
fines.
Dowdy was the first congress
man convicted since Rep. Thom
as J. Lane, D-Mass., was found
guilty of income tax evasion 15
years ago. Lane was fined $10,-
000 and sent to prison for four
months.
Dowdy’s lawyers filed motions
for acquittal and a new trial,
listing 19 reasons why they said
the verdict should be set aside.
The motions were rejected.
Leon H. Pierson, Dowdy’s chief
lawyer, argued that the court
acted improperly on two occa
sions during the trial.
Approval of telephone taps
was not proper because the court
A&M Traffic Panel supports
movement toward bike paths
The University Traffic Panel
in Wednesday’s afternoon meet
ing decided it favors some sort
Of bike path plan for the College
Station community.
The panel examined the bike
path plan proposed by A&M’s
landscape architect, Robert Ruck
er, Rucker’s plan calls for bike
paths to generally follow the
streets and leaves the center of
campus free for pedestrian trav-
The proposed paths will be
five feet wide allowing three feet
for a passing lane.
Chief of Police O. L. Luther
commented that there should be
no problem enforcing a bike path
system on campus.
The committee would like to
know how the bicycling commun
ity feels about the proposed plan.
A copy of the plan has been sub
mitted to the A&M Wheelmen
Club for its comments.
A report was given at the
meeting which described a bike
path system now being used at
the University of California at
Davis. The town’s population is
only 24,000 but it boasts of hav
ing 18,000 bicycles. In Davis the
bikeways are separated from
auto traffic by small concrete
blocks. Bike lanes vary in size
from 12 to eight feet depending
on their usage. Bicycling in Da
vis has helped preserve the down
town area as a valuable shop
ping district since parking is no
longer an obstacle. The town
provides bike racks with movable
rectangular bars that make it
necessary for bicyclists to carry
only padlocks.
In addition to bike path plans
the traffic panel discussed the
auto-pedestrian conflict that ex
ists around Sbisa dining hall.
The panel has recommended that
Ross street be permanently
closed to auto traffic between
Asbury and Houston streets to
remedy the problem.
has no jurisdiction in Washing
ton, D.C., where the taps took
place, Pierson told the judge.
Pierson also said tapes of those
conversations should not have
been replayed for the jury while
it deliberated a verdict.
Dowdy also spoke on his be
half and argued the government
used illegal evidence to gain con
viction.
The veteran congressman cited
the speech and debate clause of
the Constitution saying his
transactions with the Monarch
Construction Corp. of Silver
Spring, Md., were privileged. He
said as a U. S. congressman, he
wasn’t required to defend his
legislative actions and dealings
in court.
The legislator was convicted
Dec. 30 of a $25,000 bribery con
spiracy for blocking a Justice
Department probe of a Mary
land home improvements busi
ness.
Dowdy was accused on two
counts of bribery conspiracy, one
count of causing interstate trans
portation of a bribe and five
counts of lying to the grand jury
in Baltimore.
Nathan H. Cohen, Baltimore
businessman, Julius Levitt and
Myrvin C. Clark, former Mon
arch employes who said they
passed the $25,000 in a briefcase
to the 19-year House veteran at
Atlanta, Ga., Airport, were key
prosecution witnesses.
Dowdy was indicted March,
1970 but trial did not begin until
more than a year later, Nov. 8,
1971, because of his health prob
lems.
Dowdy said his attorneys will
file notice of appeal within the
next few days and that he will
“go all the way to the Supreme
Court” if necessary.
Asked about the fine and sen
tence, Dowdy said, “I expected
that from the judge.”
Dowdy spoke of “framed-up
charges” and said it would have
no effect on Mrs. Dowdy’s cann
paign for a congressional seat.
PEKING (A*) — President Nixon
and Premier Chou Eng-lai held
another long session Wednesday,
and more friendly Chinese over
tures lent hope that the leaders
are charting ways for improving
relations between their nations.
Before the opening of the sec
ond four-hour meeting in as
many days, Chou indicated some
American correspondents could
stay on for a look at China after
Nixon leaves next week.
After the meeting, Chou es
corted the President and Mrs.
Nixon to a sports show at Capi
tal Stadium and about 18,000
waiting Chinese applauded as
the presidential party entered.
At the gymnasium, Nixon was
seen by the largest live audience
since he arrived Monday. This
added to his public exposure,
already underscored by the selln
out of the People’s Daily when it
gave lavish display to the first
accounts of his visit.
Another gesture regarded as
friendly was the fact that the
day’s meeting between Nixon
and Chou was held at the guest
house where the Nixons are stay
ing. The two previous sessions
had been held in the Great Hall
of the People.
Again the atmosphere was
friendly. Nixon and Chou laughed
and joked. Before the doors
closed, Chou told the waiting re
porters, “If the press wants to
see any more places, they can
apply to the Department of In
formation. You don’t have much
time here.”
“How are you all?” Chou
asked the American correspond
ents.
“They’re better than they de
serve,” the President interrupted.
Nixon asked Chou if the snowy
weather would prevent the visi
tors from seeing the Great Wall
outside Peking Thursday. The
premier predicted that the
weather would “turn fine.”
No word of what is under dis
cussion has come from behind
the closed doors. But it seemed
certain they were covering ideas
for cultural and scientific ex
changes, a Nixon goal, and per
haps had discussed Vietnam.
No one expects the Chinese to
give on Nixon’s peace plan for
Indochina. Chou made clear be
fore' the President arrived in
China that the plan was unac
ceptable.
Possibly reflecting H a n o i’s
certainty on this, George Wald,
a Harvard antiward professor,
said in Hong Kong on his arriv
al Wednesday from North Viet
nam: “I think the Chinese are
going to hold the line on Viet
nam.” But Wald added that the
North Vietnamese “have had the
same feeling of uneasiness as the
American peace movement in the
past few months about which
way China might go.”
Nixon’s plan calls for a com
plete U. S. troop withdrawal
from Vietnam within six months
of an agreement, and new elec
tions in South Vietnam with
President Nguyen Van Thieu re
signing a month before the vote.
In return North Vietnam would
release all war prisoners.
Behind the show of Chinese
friendliness may be a desire to
worry the Russians. The Soviet
leaders are well aware that the
remote Mao Tse-tung, in an al-<
most unprecedented gesture, saw
Nixon on his first day in Peking.
They know that Chou has made
an outward show of friendliness
to Nixon after the rather low-
key reception at the airport up
on the President’s arrival.
Henry A. Kissinger, the Presi
dent’s national security adviser,
was again present as Nixon met
Chou across a green conference
table Wednesday. Chou was ac
companied by Chao Kuan-hua,
vice minister of foreign affairs;
Chang Wenchin, director of the
Foreign Ministry’s department
for Europe, America and Aus
tralia, and Wang Hai-jung, the
ministry’s deputy director of
protocol.
President’s China trip
costing taxpayers plenty
WASHINGTON (A 5 ) — Presi
dent Nixon’s trip to China is
costing taxpayers at least $300,-
000 for transportation alone. To
tal costs could be several times
that amount.
The White House says it hasn’t
calculated the trip’s cost. Some
estimates can be made, however,
based on such known expenses
as the hourly operating costs of
the presidential jet.
On private citizenry
Kleindienst raps spy tactics
WASHINGTON (A*) — Rich
ard G. Kleindienst, President
Nixon’s nominee for attorney
general, said Wednesday the
government should not spy on
private citizens who are peace
fully picketing or demonstrating.
“That would be improper con
duct on behalf of the govern
ment,” he told the Senate Judi
ciary Committee. “I would never
allow it.”
Kleindienst, currently deputy
attorney general, said however
that when citizens exercise their
Singing Cadets perform
over wide area of state
i
Singing Cadets this spring will
keep A&M before Texans in a
^ay that almost matches the
record 61 performances of 1970-
1,
Appearances by the all-male
fllee club before the May 6 se
mester end will include Houston,
Say City, Marshall, Tyler and
Jacksonville trips, plus several
local performances. The Cadets
sang 26 times last fall.
The 61-voice unit will go be
fore the Santa Gertrudis Inter-
University National Bank
•On the side of Tecxas A&M.”
—Adv.
national Conference in Houston
Friday.
Director Robert L. Boone then
will have an open stretch until
mid-March to work in new music
for the Cadets’ local show.
A four-day period March 16-
19 -will include five perform
ances. The Maroon-clad musical
group will sing at the Engineer
ing Center dedication, concerts
at Houston’s Jones Hall and Bay
City for A&M Mothers Clubs
and two churches. On March 23
the Cadets take the risers for
the campus Transportation Con
ference.
A Marshall-Tyler-Jacksonville
tour will set the stage for a se
mester-closing surge, which will
include shows for the Federated
A&M Mothers Clubs, April 15;
the First Baptist Church in Bry
an, April 16; Relay Engineers
Conference, April 17; Aggie
Muster and the local show, April
21; a faculty-board dinner, April
24, and Sul Ross Reunion ban
quet, April 28.
The group accompanied by
Mrs. June Biering sang earlier
at the Bankers Credit School
and SCONA XVII, along with a
weekend San Antonio trip for
performances at Concordia Lu
theran Cuhrch and the Theater
of the Performing Arts. More
than 1,500 people attended.
right under the First Amend
ment, there are usually others
who use it as an opportunity to
plan for the disruption of the
government and against the na
tional security.
“I think that the government
has a duty to gain information
on these activities,” he said. “But
just to go around taking moving
pictures or prying or snooping
on individual citizens is improper
conduct by the government.”
The 48-year-old Kleindienst
made his comments during the
second day of his confirmation
hearings in again answering
questions on the government’s
use of surveillance.
Kleindienst was supposed to put
his head into the lion’s mouth in
his first confrontation with lib
eral senators examining his qual
ifications to be attorney general.
The lion turned out to be more
of a lamb.
The confirmation hearing on
Kleindienst’s nomination for at
torney general was billed as an
opportunity for Judiciary Com
mittee Democrats to review the
Justice Department record over
the past three years, a period
in which Kleindienst has been a
key spokesman.
But Sens. Birch Bavh, D-*Ind.,
and Phillip A. Hart, D-Mich.,
who did most of the interrogat
ing in the opening round Tues
day, were not severely critical in
their remarks.
Even Bayh, who said he and
Kleindienst have an agreement
to disagree on policy, said he
thinks the Senate will confirm
Kleindienst.
Kleindienst said he favors gov
ernment wiretapping in national-
security cases without a court
order. If confirmed as attorney
general, he said, “None will be
authorized without my signa
ture.”
He added that he would use
wiretaps in the intelligence-gath
ering process even if the Justice
Department did not plan to seek
an indictment.
Hart asked his views on the
legalization of marijuana and on
capital punishment.
Kleindienst said he would not
recommend legalizing the posses
sion or sale of marijuana because
“it’s an euphoric substance which
causes youn gpeople to depart
from the realities around them.”
In general, he said, he does
not favor capital punishment but
thinks it could be used in such
cases as “cold-blooded, premedi
tated, rational acts where hein
ous crimes are commited — kid
naping, assassination, bombings.”
Sielken’s seminar
gets postponement
Robert L. Sielken Jr.’s Insti
tute of Statistics seminar origin
ally scheduled this week at A&M
has been postponed until March 1.
The lecture, “Fitting a Regres
sion Line by Minimizing the Mean
Absolute Deviation,” will begin
at 4 p.m. in Plant Sciences Room
103.
But the cost to the taxpayers
is dwarfed by the multimillion-
dollar outlays being made by the
television networks and other
news organizations to provide
coverage of the President’s trip.
Media expenses include, for ex-i
ample, 10 cents a word for dis
patches transmitted from China.
Probably the biggest single
government expense category is
transportation.
The Air Force calculates the
costs of operating Nixon’s Boeing
707 jet, the “Spirit of ’76,” at
$1,180 per flying hour. Since
Nixon’s round trip to Peking is
taking about 40 flying hours,
that figures out to $47,200.
Add on the cost of a backup
jet from the presidential fleet,
plus about half a dozen other
similar-size government planes
which are now in China, which
are expected there this week or
which made the trip earlier, and
the government transportation
tab exceeds $300,000.
For the 87 news correspond
ents and other media personnel
who flew to China with Nixon in
a pair of chartered Pan Am
707s, the round-trip ticket for
each was about $2,300 — or a
total of more than $200,000 paid
for air fare by news organiza
tions.
One hard-to-determine govern
ment expense category is com
munications.
Nonsensitive communications
between the presidential party
and China and the White House
are being handled via specially
arranged satellite circuits.
The White House won’t say
how much this costs, but the go
ing commercial rate for a three-
minute telephone call for Peking
is $14 — plus $4.50 for each ad
ditional minute.
Sources reported the White
House several weeks ago re
served three around-the-clock
voice-grade channels on the
Comsat satellite linking China
with the United States. Each of
the channels can be split into 22
circuits capable of telegraphic
transmission.
The White House has been em
ploying also a facsimile trans
mission system to send presiden
tial documents from Peking to
the White House. This requires
a voice-grade channel.
If the White House is paying
the $4.50-per-minute commercial
telephone rate, the daily costs
for the three satellite channels
would exceed $38,000.
4 additional curriculums
await approval by Board
Four new curriculums will be
considered for approval by the
Board of Directors in their Tues
day meeting.
Scheduled to be presented are
a Bachelor of Arts degree in both
Chemistry and Biology, a curric
ulum in Medical Technology and
a Bachelor of Science degree in
Applied Mathematical Sciences.
The B.A. programs for Chem
istry and Biology are the first of
their kind at TAMU though not
unusual at other major colleges.
The programs will serve to pro
vide scientifically trained person
nel in non-research positions and
allow students to have a greater
breadth of knowledge about re
lated subjects.
Neither of the programs will re
quire the addition of new courses.
The Medical Technology curric
ulum provides for a three-year
program at TAMU with the sen
ior year to be completed at a
major medical technology school.
The course will help fill the
currently great demand for more
trained laboratory personnel. No
new courses will be instituted.
The Applied Mathematical Sci
ences program is a mathematics
degree with emphasis on statis
tics. Four new courses, all of
them in statistics, will be requir
ed.
Previous to this only graduate
level programs have been offered
in statistics.