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Laird announces 15,000-man draft WASHINGTON (AP)—Issuing the first draft call in five months, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird announced Monday that 15,000 men will be drafted into the Army during April, Klay and June. The call was the first since October when the Pentagon closed out 1971 with a 10,000-man quota spread over the final three months of the year. No draft calls were issued during the first quarter of 1972 as Pentagon officials waited to determine whether more than $3 billion in new military pay increases generated enough volunteers to fill its manpower needs. Another factor was a congressional order to trim 70,000 men from the Army by June 30. The administration is trying to achieve an all-volunteer force by mid-1973. The Army exceeded slightly its 15,000-man enlistment goal for January but fell short by more than 3,000 in February. “We’re making progress,” Laird told the winter meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He said the draft was 300,000 in 1969, the year he took office; 200,000 in 1970, 98,000 last year, “and this year we will reduce those calls to 50,000 or less.” This will enable the Nixon administration to fill its military needs in an election year with the smallest draft since before the Korean War. The last time draft calls fell below 50,000 was in 1949 when 9,781 men were inducted. Selective Service sources said it’s likely that young men with lottery numbers above 60 will be safe from the draft this year. In his speech, Laird defended his new Defense budget with its $6-billion increase in new spending. He said the two-year lead the U.S. holds in inter-continental ballistic missile technology “could be rapidly closed if we do not maintain a strong research-and-development program. The Soviet Union, the Secretary said, is “deploying at the present time multiple re-entry vehicles MRV warheads” on some of its ICBMs. This has been indicated earlier by Defense officials who now, elaborating on Laird’s statement, estimate the Russians have equipped about 100 of their big SS9 and SSI 1 ICBMs with triple warheads. Laird said the Russian MRVs are not as advanced as the warheads already deployed by the United States which can be directed to widely separated targets. The Defense chief said he is troubled by the difficulty military recruiters are having on some high-school and college campuses. “You either have to have Selective Service as your manpower source or you have to have a volunteer program. To protest against both means to disarm America, and we can’t have that,” he said. Cbe Battalion Partly cloudy, warmer Wednesday — Partly cloudy. Westerly winds 10-15 mph. High 58°, low 44°. Thursday — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Easterly winds 10-15 mph. High 63°, low 41°. Vol. 67 No. 89 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 7, 1972 845-2226 Clay’s second try Student running for C. S. City Council Bruce Clay, Public Relations Chairman of the Student Senate, announced his candidacy for a seat on the College Station City Council Friday. The 20-year-old candidate, de feated in an earlier attempt, said he is seeking to provide more responsive and progressive lead ership for the College Station community and a union of under standing. "Through this understanding,” Clay said, “I’ll have the time and the energy to work wholeheart edly at the task of being a city councilman because I will have none of the conflicts of interest that currently exist on the coun cil.” Clay said he would like to see the development of College Sta tion through the construction of a future plan. The current fu ture plan for College Station is 10 years old. Under a new plan Clay said he wants a budget set aside for parks and recreation. “I would rather see money spent for the development of the parks we have rather than con structing a community pool,” he said. “There are several under developed sites out of the seven or eight we have, and I want to see these get priority over new projects.” “Haphazard spot zoning” is an aspect of the current council policy that Clay would like to see changed. He said special treatment of businesses in this manner only results in a profit for the businesses and nobody else. Clay said he would like to co ordinate student participation with the city. “There are 6,500 students who live off-campus with city prob lems facing them in abundance — poor streets, sewage and gar bage disposal, and bad street lighting, to name a few.” He said initiation of programs for recycling trash and garbage would help make money for the city, money which currently comes from the ad valorem tax (15%) and sales tax and profit on utilities sales (85%). “Currently, all our utilities are being purchased from Bryan,” he said, “and this needs to change. Bryan’s water supply is growing shorter and shorter and as a result Bryan has increased our rates and will only sign one-year contracts. “We need to get our own wells before Bryan cuts us off. We could make more money in the long run if we had our own util ities sources, although bonds would have to be floated to ob tain them.” Clay said he would also like to see Northgate rebuilt because it is “deteriorating due to the increase in auto traffic. “We need to attract more bus inesses such as Skaggs-Albert- son’s and other light industries,” he said. “If more businesses are attracted, the city will get more money from these than an in crease in population, which is supposed to double in the next ten years. This means larger fa cilities will have to be built and this can only come from increased revenue. Clay pointed out that the elec tion date, April 5, will concur with spring break, which will end Wednesday, April 6. “Absentee voting will be an absolute necessity for the stu dents of A&M if I’m to be elected,” he said. “There are about 1,300 students eligible to vote and if the majority of these vote in the absentee period March 16->31, I stand a good chance.” Clay said he will be providing transportation to City Hall where absentee voting will be held. “It’s students’ duty to vote, whether they vote for me or not.” 52 injured in bomb blast behind theater in Belfast Miss Texas A&M pageant set for Wednesday night The Miss Texas A&M pageant will be held Wednesday night at 8 in the Engineering Center mall. The pageant winner will repre sent A&M in the Miss Texas Universe pageant in San Anto nio, April 10-15. Miss Texas Universe will enter the Miss USA contest, whose winner will attend the Miss Universe contest. Fourteen A&M coeds _ have entered this year’s pageant. They will compete in three cate gories: swimsuit, formal and personality. Judging the contest will be Toby Schreiber, Dean of Wom en, Charles Powell, Dean of Men, Fern Hamman, a local television talk show personality, Ed Coop er, assistant to the president, and Mayor Richard Hervey of College Station. A&M to study Laredo air pollution Air pollution at the Laredo- U. S. Border Customs Station is so heavy A&M was given $20,000 this week to study the problem, according to Dr. M. P. Boyce, as sistant professor of mechanical engineering. J. M. Hughes, assist ant professor of environmental engineering, is a co-investigator on the project. The problem is caused by the automotive exhausts from the heavy flow of traffic crossing the border, Dr. Boyce said. The team plans to design an air handling system to reduce the amount of pollutants breathed by the customs officials. The program will entail on-site and on-campus studies. On campus the team will simulate the situa tion by making a detailed model of the station and surroundings. BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Fifty-two persons, most of them women, were injured Mon day by a bomb that exploded be hind a big movie theater and rocked central Belfast. Minutes later, another blast wrecked a Londonderry hotel. The Belfast explosion panicked a matinee audience at the Ritz Cinema. People ran out scream ing. Ambulances took the in jured to hospitals. Only a few of the moviegoers were hurt when the bomb went off outside a hijacked truck. Most of the injured were shoppers and office girls bloodied by shattered windows and suffering from shock. The blast smashed windows in the Europe Hotel, Belfast’s new est and biggest, and other down town buildings up to 300 yards away. The terrorist attack came de spite pleas for peace after two girls were killed and 136 per sons injured Saturday in the bombing of a crowded Belfast restaurant. city, was wrecked by a bomb but no one was reported hurt. Three masked gunmen planted the bomb and gave the staff 25 minutes to leave. There were no guests in the hotel at the time. Meanwhile, 29 victims of Sat urday’s attack on the Abercorn Restaurant remained in hospi tals. Seven were reported “very seriously ill.” Police said a vague telephone warning only 60 seconds before the bombing was traced to a bar in the Roman Catholic Lower Falls district. The area is a stronghold of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The IRA, which is fighting a guerrilla war to wrest Ulster from Britain and unite it with Ireland, disclaimed responsibility for the bombing and blamed the attack on Protestant extremists. In Enniskillen, fiery protester Bernadette Devlin was cheered and carried shoulder high by a crowd chanting “IRA forever” after she and other militants won postponement of a court hearing on charges of staging an out lawed parade. The tiny, 24-year-old member of the British Parliament, who was sentenced to six months in jail last month in a similar case, was accused with more than 70 other persons of marching Feb. 13 to protest the internment without trial of IRA suspects. She pleaded innocent. The hearing was postponed until late March pending a sep arate appeals case to settle ques tions of defendants’ rights in such hearings. PRECISION SKY DIVING came to A&M Saturday as part of the activities for Military Day. The team, famed Golden Knights of the U. S. Army, performed a series of intricate maneuvers and landed onto the main drill field before an enthusiastic crowd. (Photo by Robert Williams) Kleindienst inquiry told Prime witness under strain The four-<3tory Ardowen Hotel in Londonderry, Ulster’s second New dormitory will bear name of A&M grad Carl C. (Polly) Krueger of San Antonio has been honored by A&M where a new dormitory will bear his name. A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams said the “C. C. Krue ger Residence Hall” is one wing of a new $8.5 million complex currently under construction. The complex includes two four-story residence halls, the east wing named for Krueger and the west wing for J. Harold Dunn of Amarillo. In addition, there is a one-story student com mons with dining and recrea tional facilities. Scheduled for completion this summer, the complex will serve 948 students. Dr. Williams pointed out Krue ger is the oldest living presi dent of A&M’s Association of Former Students, the first pres ident of the San Antonio A&M Club and co-organizer of the San Antonio Mothers’ Club, a former A&M System board mem ber and an outstanding San An tonio businessman and civic leader. WASHINGTON (A>) — A phy sician testified Monday that Mrs. Dita D. Beard was under severe, periodic mental stress at the time she prepared a memo in volved in accusations against the International Telephone and Tele graph Corp. and officials of the Justice Department. Mrs. Beard, a lobbyist for IT&T, is in a Denver hospital. The IT&T controversy has de layed Senate action on the ap pointment of Richard G. Klein dienst to succeed John N. Mitch ell as attorney general. Mrs. Beard’s doctor. Dr. Vic tor L. Liszka, a heart surgeon of Arlington, Va., said that she de nied to him that she meant to imply any connection in the memo between an antitrust suit against IT&T and an IT&T pledge of $400,000 to the Repub lican National Convention. In testimony before the Sen-« ate Judiciary Committee, Liszka said he has been treating Mrs. Beard for what he described as a serious heart ailment. At Monday’s hearing a state ment from Solicitor General Er win Griswold was read, describ ing a meeting Griswold had with then antitrust chief Richard L. McLaren and Kleindienst in the Justice Department last April 18 or 19. Griswold said in the statement, requested by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., that he was summoned to Kleindienst’s of fice and asked how far along was legal action in an antitrust action involving IT&T and its subsidiary Grinnell Corp. Griswold said he told Klein dienst a 10-day extension of plans to file a court suit was possible if good reasons could be shown. “He asked me to try to get the extension,” Griswold said. In the end, IT&T agreed to drop portions of the Grinnell Corp. In an Anderson column last week, Mrs. Beard is described as approaching Mitchell at a re ception following the Kentucky Derby last May to discuss the IT&T merger case. U of H not to be allowed selling of beer on campus ME students presents papers JAMES GANG performed Friday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. For a while things got a bit hectic because of over-enthusiasm in part of the audience. (Photo by Robert Williams) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Two A&M mechanical engineer ing students from India will pre sent papers March 20 and 21 at the Third Southwestern Graduate Seminar on Applied Mechanics at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. They are Y. S. Bale and A. R. Desai. Bale will discuss radial flow compressor designs, and Desai will talk on the flow of gases in narrow passages. Both students are working un der the direction of Dr. M. P. Boyce, assistant professor of me chanical engineering. HOUSTON (A»)—County Judge Bill Elliott Monday ruled against legalizing the sale of beer at the University of Houston. The ruling came after a public hearing requested by the oper ators who provide food on cam pus. They sought to sell beer in the Cougar Den in the student center and in an on-campus cof fee house. Hamilton A. Miller, food serv ice manager for the firm, said he did not know if the ruling would be appealed to a district court. Numerous religious representa tives attended the hearing and asked Judge Elliott, who is an alumnus of the university, not to grant a beer license. Roger Nud, vice president and dean of students at the college, spoke in favor of the applica tion as did several students and lawyers retained by students. Bill Scott, director of the uni versity center, told Judge El-t liott that 67 per cent of the stu dent body is 21 years of age or older. Beer would be sold only from 5 p.m. until midnight and sold only to students who pre sented identification that they were of legal age. A number of those who spoke against the proposal said the university administration was trying to circumvent the law. Others maintained the sale of beer on campus would degrade the school and lead students to ward alcoholism. Judge Elliott said a ruling by Attorney Gen. Crawford Martin established the university as a public school as defined in state statutes and that state law says that counties may prohibit the sale of liquor within 300 feet of a public school. Elliott said that in this case the Houston city charter prohib its such sales at public schools, forcing him to reject the license.