1972
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Vol. 67 No. 98
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 22, 1972
Thursday — Partly cloudy.
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Londonderry
fighting hits
highest level
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Cartoons most violent part
of television. Senate is told
LIKE ODDLY SHAPED MUSHROOMS sprouting out of on fake rockets for a children’s theater before the students
the Architecture building lawn are these proto-types of rescued them. All that remains to be done is the develop-
disaster housing being developed by TAMU students. The
fiberglas units were actually intended for use as nose cones
ment of the interior, which will have two floors. (Photo
by Mike Rice)
For TAMU
Sea Grant dedication April 6
Dedication ceremonies honoring
A&M as one of the nation’s first
four Sea Grant Colleges will be
held April 6 during Texas Sea
Grant College Day on the univer
sity’s campus.
Ceremonies, open to the public,
will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the au
ditorium of the new Zachry En
gineering Center.
The keynote address will be
made by Dr. Robert M. White, ad
ministrator of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin
istration, U. S. Department of
Commerce, which includes the Na
tional Sea Grant Program.
Following the dedicatory ad
dress, persons giving distinguish
ed service to the A&M Sea Grant
Program will be recognized for
their contributions.
Formal designation of TAMU
as one of the first Sea Grant
Colleges came September 17, 1971,
in the office of former Secretary
of Commerce Maurice H. Stans.
TAMU involvement in marine
sciences is comparable to the
commitment the university made
in 1876 when it opened its doors
as the state’s first land grant
college, dedicated to agricultural
and engineering studies.
Recognition of the university
as the state’s leading institution
in marine affairs comes little
more than three years after
TAMU was named one of the
first six universities in the na
tion to receive institutional sup
port under the Sea Grant Pro
gram and College Act, the first
marine resource program ever
devised by Congress.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(AP) — Four bomb blasts rocked
Londonderry Tuesday and guer
rilla gunmen fought a two-hour
battle with British, troops that
the army called the city’s biggest
confrontation since street fight
ing began in August 1969.
The bombings were preceded
by warnings, permitting the areas
to be evacuated, but police said
25 persons were hospitalized with
shock or minor injuries. No cas
ualties were reported in the gun
battle.
WASHINGTON (A>) _ The U.S.
surgeon general said Tuesday that
the most violence on television is
in children’s cartoons and he sug
gested a TV rating system simi
lar to the movie code.
Parents then could switch to
another channel before the pro
gram started, Dr. Jesse L. Stein-
feld told the Senate subcommittee
on communications as it opened
hearings on TV violence.
He said there is ample evidence
to show a clear link between tele
vised violence and actual aggres
sive behavior.
“Violence is significantly high
on television,” said Steinfeld, “and
the highest of all is in children’s
cartoons.”
He said the Department of
Health, Educatian and Welfare
will publish in the next few
weeks a book to tell parents how
to watch TV shows with their
children, and to recommend which
type of shows to see.
Steinfeld defended a recent re-
The gunmen ambushed a Brit
ish army squad Tuesday night in
side the Bogside district. Army
reinforcements were ferried in by
helicopter at the height of the
shooting.
Two of the bombs were 100-
pound gelignite charges placed in
side parked cars. Both cars had
been left where the explosions
could do the worst possible dam
age to shops and offices.
The third bomb, estimated at
50 pounds of gelignite, was dump
ed at a railroad depot.
port given to him by an advisory
committee which studied the im
pact of televised violence on chil
dren. Critics contended the study
biased in favor of the TV indus
try.
Steinfeld said some writers mis
interpreted the report. But, he
said, the committee produced suf
ficient evidence to show a defi
nite relationship between TV vio
lence and anti-social behavior to
justify immediate remedial meas
ures.
Steinfeld told the senators that
children who watch a lot of tele
vision in their early years tend
to have larger vocabularies, but
that high school students who
watch much television tend to be
less bright.
“If children must watch violence
on TV—and it would be a very
unreal world of never-never land
if we banned all violence from TV
—then parents should watch with
them and point out the undesir
able consequences of violence,”
said Steinfold.
The fourth, placed in a parked
car, wrecked an electric equip
ment showroom and damaged oth
er stores along Strand Road.
The bombings contrasted with
an incorrect tip given authorities
Monday, with disastrous results.
The guerrillas warned of a bomb
placed on one Belfast street, and
crowds streamed to a nearby
street where a 100-pound gelig
nite charge went off in a parked
delivery truck, killing six men
and wounding 150 other persons.
Security forces blamed the
blasts on outlaws of the Irish
Republican Army, which is bat
tling 15,000 British troops in a
bid to join the north with Roman
Catholic Ireland to the south.
Blame for the Belfast explo
sion—which scythed through Don-
egall Street packed with lunch
time shoppers—has not been fix
ed.
The IRA’s marxist Official
Wing has denied responsibility.
Its militant nationalist Provision
al wing so far issued only a blunt
no comment.
Northern Ireland’s prime min
ister, Brian Faulkner, completed
a final round of talks with his
parliamentary Unionist party col
leagues before flying to London
to hear details of Prime Minister
Edward Heath’s peace initiative
for the province.
A statement after the meeting
said Faulkner’s party had repeat
ed its support for “his determi
nation to maintain Northern Ire
land as an integral part of the
United Kingdom and to uphold
and defend the constitution and
Parliament.”
Details of the package will re
portedly include the phasing out
of internment of suspected IRA
men, a bigger Catholic voice in
Ulster’s government and possible
moves toward a United Ireland.
Mutscher ‘stepping aside’
Halting heroin traffic halfway
solution, Nixon advisor says
AUSTIN, Tex. tT) — House
Speaker Gus Mutscher said Tues
day he is “stepping aside” and,
in effect, will never preside over
the Texas House again.
“I am stepping aside and will
not preside over a special session
of the legislature,” Mutscher told
a reporter who called for clarifi
cation of a statement Mutscher
read to House employes.
He steered away from the word
"resign” in talking with House
employes and newsmen.
Mutscher was ambiguous when
In ( R’ niovie
By ROD SPEER
Staff Writer
"Sex should be an expression
of love, although it can be just
fun,” actress Angela Gale said
Tuesday while in town promoting
"The Secretary” in which she
plays the title role.
"The Secretary” is the actress’s
film debut and is ‘R’ rated. She is
a commercial and photographic
model and has appeared in more
than 50 national television com
mercials and numerous magazines
ads. Gale has toured Europe with
the USO and has been on the
Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan and
Merv Griffin Shows. She has also
done some directing.
She considers marriage as a
state of mind beyond sex and tak
ing care of children. “Marriage
is more than a contract,” she said.
"It is the ability to co-exist with
someone on a day-to-day basis.”
The actress does not believe in
the exploitation of sex. She would,
however, feel no inhibitions to
wards being shown in the nude
if the particular scene was im
portant to the theme or plot of
the movie. In “The Secretary”
she, as Ginger, seduces her boss
in the office.
Gale describes “The Secretary”
asked whether he would submit
his formal resignation to the
House.
“I’m not Saying I’m not and
I’m not saying I will,” he said.
“A number of alternatives are
here but I will speak to those
later on,” he said.
Rush McGinty, a speaker’s aide,
said possibilities included desig
nating someone to fill the presid
ing officer’s duties in place of
Mutscher.
McGinty, Mutscher and Rep.
Tommy Shannon of Fort Worth
as “an expose of life in our mod
ern society.” The film is a comedy-
drama set against a background
of rich southern elegance and the
permissive swinging singles so
ciety. It is the story of two ex
college roommates who, although
friends, live in two different
worlds and are each dissatisfied.
Dave is bored with his married
life of elegance and affluence and
is convinced by Pete, the irre
sponsible bachelor, to have an Af
fair with Dave’s own secretary.
The plot revolves around the af
fair.
The young actress said that she
much prefers acting to directing.
She enjoys the traveling and does
not mind working year round.
She is 23, 5’ 6”, has long blond
hair and brown eyes. She was
bom in a small town in North
Carolina, became interested in
acting in high school and received
a degree in drama and speech
from the University of North Car
olina. She was married for a year
and divorced. Gale likes children
but said “I don’t want to become
the ‘motherly’ type.”
Gale does not spend much of
her time in Hollywood but travels
all over the country doing acting
jobs. “There is not too much work
(filming) being done there any-
were convicted in Abilene last
Wednesday of conspiring to ac
cept a bribe from Houston pro
moter Frank Sharp.
Mutscher called his staff and
other House employes together
for a late afternoon meeting
Tuesday.
Mutscher was elected for a two-
year term that expires in Jan
uary 1973. The legislature will
meet between now and that date
in a special session to be called
by Gov. Preston Smith.
more,” she said. Terry Branson,
United Film Organization co
head, with Gale in College Station,
attributes this to the fact that it
is cheaper and just as good” to
film elsewhere. “Everyone in the
(filming) world goes to Holly
wood and there is not enough
happening there for all of them
to work,” he added.
Gale feels the audiences of to
day are more sophisticated than
in the past. “People don’t tear
name people apart like they used
to,” she said. “On the streets peo
ple who recognize me just say
‘Hi’ or ask politely for an auto
graph.”
“I believe a little in the astro
nomical guide,” Gale said. “Every
thing I’ve read about Libras
(which is her zodiac sign) has
come true for me,” she continued.
She added that she has met many
bull-headed Taurus men.
Gale and Branson will follow
“The Secretary” as it premiers in
different cities. From here they
will go to Little Rock, Ark., and
eventually will come back to Texas
to visit Dallas and Houston.
“Angela has great acting abil
ity, and, who knows, she could be
another Betty Davis and last a
long time in the field,” Branson
said.
TAMU shares its new Sea
Grant College status with three
other marine-oriented universi
ties—Oregon State, Washington
and Rhode Island.
Sea Grant College designation
represents a commitment to con
tinue the programs instigated un
der institutional support and to
expand these to include every fac
et of marine resources develop
ment and coastal zone manage
ment.
STRASBOURG, France <A>) _
A Nixon administration health
policy advisor said Tuesday that
halting the heroin traffic is only
a halfway solution to the world’s
narcotics problems because “we
don’t know beans about why peo
ple take drugs.”
Dr. Roger Egeberg, special as
sistant for health policy to Health,
Education and Welfare Secretary
Elliot L. Richardson, said that if
heroin were cut off to the esti
mated 500,000 addicts in the Unit
ed States, they would for the most
part switch to any other addictive
drug available.
“We’ve got to start to come
around to focus on the man rather
than on the agent that addicts
him,” he said in an interview.
“It’s not a short-term goal, but
it’s the basic untouched one. I’m
not saying you shouldn’t keep
working at cutting off your opi
um sources at the same time. But
no one so far has seriously got-
Former Peace Corps and
VISTA volunteers Roy Wilson,
Peggy Adams and Wayne Jud
kins are at the Memorial Student
Center this week to provide in
formation for people interested
in participating in their
programs.
Last summer Peace Corps and
VISTA merged with several
smaller public volunteer agencies
to form ACTION. Under this new
agency, Peace Corps and VISTA
will be recruiting for assignments
here and abroad.
Peace Corps programs today
reflect the actual development
needs of host countries. These
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
ten into the questions of narcot
ics use.”
He said president explanations
and statistics about why people
take drugs are incomplete and
appear to just skim the surface.
“When you say that somebody
is on narcotics because he is bor
ed or frustrated or afraid of the
future you are at the same place
they were centuries back when
they condemned wells,” he ex
plained. “They knew people were
getting sick and from where but
they didn’t know about bacteria.”
Egeberg said one of the big
problems was getting case his
tories from drug addicts. Their
tendency, he added, is to tell what
ever story they think might please
an interviewer and make less
trouble for themselves.
countries are putting particular
emphasis on agriculture, engi
neering, business and economics,
math and science teaching, city
planning and health.
VISTA is a national corps of
volunteers who work to alleviate
poverty in the United States,
Guam, Samoa and the Virgin
Islands. Volunteers assist the
poor in solving problems in such
areas as health, economic devel
opment, education and manpower,
housing, community planning and
social services. VISTA volunteers
live in urban slums, rural poverty
areas, migrant worker camps and
on Indian reservations.
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‘Sex...can be just fun,’ actress declares
ACTION group at MSC
to recruit for programs
Angela Gale