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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, March 7, 1972
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SAIGON lA 5 ) — South Vietnam
ese forces have opened new op
erations near the demilitarized
zone and the old imperial capital
of Hue, field sources said Mon
day.
Fighting increased in neighbor
ing Laos, where informants said
government forces were in “full
retreat” after a heavy North
Vietnamese counterattack on the
Plain of Jars.
Cambodia’s high command re
ported a sharp clash on an island
in the Mekong River with heavy
casualties on both sides.
The South Vietnamese field re
ports said about 1,500 men of the
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Saigon government’s 1st Division
began a sweeping operation Sun
day west of Hue.
A second operation disclosed
by the sources involved 1,500 sol
diers from the South Vietnamese
3rd Division on a sweep just
south and west of Quang Tri
City. It began last Friday. Quang
Tri is just below the demilitarized
zone that divides the two Viet-
The Cambodian military com
mand in Phnom Penh said 40 to
50 enemy soldiers were killed in
either ground attacks or air
strikes. The Cambodians lost 15
men killed and more than 60
wounded in the four-hour clash,
the command reported.
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Officers in the field said both
operations were designed to
“sweep old enemy base areas to
see if they still are being used.”
Little or no contact has been
reported in either drive, the
sources said.
Far up the Mekong river in
Cambodia, troops and aircraft at
tacked Koh Sotin Island, 45 miles
northeast of Phnom Penh, which
North Vietnamese troops had for
tified apparently to protest sup
ply routes on the eastern bank of
the river.
The island is about five miles
south of the strategic provincial
capital of Kompong Cham, the
easternmost position still held by
government forces. The battle to
control the island began over a
week ago when government sol
diers of the 22nd Cambodian Brig
ade made their initial assault.
Since then, they have been pinned
down by enemy concentrations on
the island, the command said.
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A dispatch from Vientiane said
a Laotian government operation
around the Plain of Jars was
called off after North Vietnamese
counterattacks mounted in
strength.
Symposium on heat transfer
scheduled for Friday at A&M
Graduate students from Louisi
ana, Texas, Arkansas and Okla
homa will discuss research prob
lems with faculty and students
from 15 other universities Friday
at A&M.
Approximately 60 students and
faculty members, who are involv
ed or contemplating involvement
in heat transfer research, are ex
pected to attend the spring work
shop of the Southwest Symposium
on Heat Transfer.
Participating students have fur
nished the workshop with ab
stract to be shared with other
delegates in four sessions. Simi
lar problems will be grouped to
gether for presentation.
In addition, Engineering Dean
Fred J. Benson will greet the
group after registration and an
informal tour of the new Zachry
Engineering Center.
Also Dr. John Howell from the
University of Houston will speak
on “The Future of Advanced Pro
grams in Thermal Sciences.”
A panel presentation entitled
“Teaching Heat Transfer” is
scheduled last on the day’s agen
da. Chairing the panel will be
Dr. Tom Love, University of Okla
homa.
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Commission urges state financing of schools
WASHINGTON (AP) — State
governments should assume the
major burden of financing public
education, reducing reliance on
the local property tax, a presiden
tial commission recommended
Monday after a two-year study.
President Nixon’s Commission
on School Finance said the federal
government should help speed the
process by providing incentives to
state governments to help them
switch over to state-financed ed
ucation within five years.
But the federal role in financ-
set up in several ways, with the
cost to the federal government es
timated at $4 billion to $5 billion
over five years of transition.
As the report was released,
Nixon held a 75-minute meeting
on school busing with his Cabi
net committee. A spokesman said
the President will be holding more
meetings before making his posi
tion known on the busing issue.
No statement is likely before
Tuesday, he said.
The school-financing panel urg
ed an additional outlay of $1 bil
lion a year to help inner-city
schools through a federal match
ing program.
The commission said it delib
erately avoided the issue of saying
where the new federal money
would come from, since it would
have to become involved in “many
considerations of intergovernmen-
tal relations and tax policies.”
It acknowledged that one propo
sal under discussion is the value-
added tax, a form of a national
sales tax that President Nixon
has under consideration. But it
took no stand on the idea.
The tentative proposal for the
value-added tax put forth by Nix
on would bring in about $16 billion
a year, with the federal money
being used to supplant the local
property tax. The proposal is un
der study by the Advisory Com
mission on Intergovernmental Re
lations.
The commission, headed by in
dustrialist Neil McElroy, a De
fense secretary in the Eisenhower
administration, said the nation's
school system is “in serious trou
ble, and if we fail to recogniie
it, our country’s chance to survive
will all but disappear.”
Nutrition specialist says
ing education should only be sup
plementary, the 18-member com
mission said. It was a recommen
dation that runs counter to those
Food additives are often beneficial
of many private educational
groups which have urged an in
creasing federal role.
The commission said incentives
to smooth the path to greater
state-financed education could be
Is “natural” food the only way
to eat? Not quite, according to
Karen Kreipke, extension foods
and nutrition specialist for A&M.
The specialist noted that nat-
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or chemicals. Advocates of the
natural foods suggest that addi
tives are used to disguise infe
rior products and that many of
the additives are health hazards.
They also claim that additives
benefit only the manufacturer and
not the consumer.
“These claims are unfounded,”
Miss Kreipke said. “Food addi
tives prove beneficial to the con
sumer as well as the manufac
turer.”
Additives may improve the nu
tritional quality of food or pre
serve food to maintain its de
sirable characteristics. They also
provide a better color, flavor, con
sistency and texture in food.
The extension specialist said
that when foods require some fi
nal preparation in the home, ad
ditives can make the job easier.
Some chemical additives prevent
the spattering of oil while others
make the beating, spreading or
blending of ingredients easier.
“In fact,” Miss Kreipke said,
“the majority of food additives
used today are themselves nat
ural foods. Cinnamon, garlic,
clove, salt and many others are
but a few of the additives used
for flavor. The remaining addi
tives such as vitamins, minerals,
amino acids, gums and colors also
occur naturally although they maf
be produced in the laboratory.”
Turbine design engineer to speak
Writing clinic
sets deadline
Registration for a six-session
remedial writing clinic offered by
A&M’s Continuing Education Of
fice will end at 5 p.m. Wednes
day.
Classes are scheduled from
7:15-9:45 p.m. each Wednesday
and Thursday through March 23,
beginning March 8.
This clinic trains participants
to use self-help methods to im
prove the correctness and effec
tiveness of their writing. It is
open to anyone 16 years or older
whose first learned language was
English.
No academic credit is offered.
Interested persons should contact
the Continuing Education Office
next to the main desk at the Me
morial Student Center.
Citizens of Bryan, College Sta
tion and the surrounding area in
terested in the gas turbine as a
prime source of powering cars
and trucks of the future are in
vited to hear William Chapman
of Ford Motor Co., Tuesday,
March 14 at A&M.
Chapman, chief design engineer
of the gas turbine division, will
speak at 7:30 in Room 203 of tie
Zachry Engineering Center. Tie
talk is sponsored by the Society
of Automotive Engineers.
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