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.
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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.