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l. place evt the loil hurdles, f 22-0^ : jj ohn :e ran till in 52.7,1 Gordon f posted a | ind Hw. n, Rani)] yard klf| n was I a heave s i errigan convicted on minor count ARRISBURG, Pa. GP> — The . Philip Berrigan and a nun o served as his lieutenant in antiwar movement were con- Wednesday of smuggling rs in and out of a federal son, but a jury deadlocked on rges that they conspired with other defendants to kidnap idential aide Henry Kissinger, e five were freed by the jury dlock. Stfldel r®These verdicts are yours and ow °* ®*rs alone, and you don’t need justify them or explain them anybody,” U.S. District Court Ige R. Dixon Herman told the women and three men as he issed them after their week- quest for a verdict that end- their split decision. There will be many, many peo ple who disagree and there will be just as many who agree,” add ed Herman, a bald 61-year-old jur ist appointed to the bench in 1969. At the heart of the govern ment’s case was the three-pronged conspiracy charge—accusing the “Harrisburg Seven” of scheming to kidnap Kissinger, blow up government heating tunnels in Washington and vandalize draft boards in several Eastern cities. But this went by the boards as a result of the jury’s verdict. Instead, Berrigan and his as sistant in the Catholic antiwar left, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, were convicted of smuggling half a dozen letters in and out of Lewisburg, Pa., federal peniten tiary after the priest entered in 1970 to begin a term he still is serving. The other five defendants were not involved in the letter smug gling, and thus not included in any way whatsoever in the ver dict. It was returned at 4:09 p.m. “We all have a feeling of cel ebrating a victory,” said Sister Elizabeth, who faces a maximum sentence of 30 years as a result of the conviction. “We consider what happened something of a victory. The gov ernment based a whole indictment against seven people on the ex change of correspondence between two,” she told a news conference. Berrigan faces a maximum of 40 years in prison as a result of his convictions. Ahmad, speaking to reporters, said: “My plan is to get out of here as soon as I can and go into the streets to protest the war in Vietnam. We will continue our antiwar work. We have not been frightened by our government.” The five defendants on whom the jury could not agree were Eqbal Ahmad, 41; the Rev. Neil McLaughlin, 31; the Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, 36; Anthony Scoblick, 31 and his wife, Mary Cain Scob lick, 33. Ahmad, the only non-Catholic among the group, is a Pakistani Moslem associated with the Adlai Stevenson Institute of Interna tional Affairs in Chicago. Mc Laughlin and Wenderoth are Ro man Catholic priests, Scoblick is a former Josephite priest and his wife is a former nun. The defendants had smiled and embraced in the locked courtroom in advance of the jury’s entry, as word of a possible deadlock spread. With the announcement that the jury had deadlocked on five of the defendants but convicted Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth the air of re lief vanished. Neither the convicted priest nor the nun displayed any emo tion, however. The jury had convicted Ber rigan on Easter Sunday on a single count of smuggling a let ter out of the Lewisburg, Pa., federal penitentiary on May 24, 1970. His emissary at the time was a fellow convict, Boyd Douglas be Battalion Jr., who a week later became an FBI informant against the priest. Douglas, 31, was a star gov ernment witness at the trial, which revolved also around an exchange of 24 letters in all be tween Berrigan and Sister Eliz abeth. The defense characterized Dou glas as an agent provocateur, say ing of his connection with the peace movement: “He infiltrated, he activized, he betrayed.” Lynch, however, said in reply that the defense “hacked at him but they never were able to change his testimony.” The Sunday conviction made Berrigan liable to 10 years in Cloudy, with ram prison. The three smuggling counts added by the jury Wed nesday carry an additional 30 years. Currently the priest is serving a six-year federal prison sentence for destroying draft records in Maryland in a case unrelated to the trial. Sister Elizabeth, 32, a 5-foot-7 brunette, was suspended with pay as an art history instructor at the Marymount College in Tarry- town, N.Y. The trial began Jan. 24. Four weeks were required to pick a jury and six alternates and it was not until Feb. 21 that the actual proceedings got under way. The government presented 64 (See Berrigan, page 2) Friday — Mostly cloudy. After noon thundershowers. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 83°, low 66°. Saturday—Cloudy in the morn ing, partly cloudy afternoon. Westerly winds 10-12 mph. High 79°, low 58°. 67 No. 104 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 6, 1972 845-2226 Sea Grant helping U. S., White claims STOP ? (JB« S! ittaup w (ill i SStt Gif & The Sea Grant Program is evolving as a powerful tool to help restore the U. S. capacity to com pete with other nations, Dr. Rob ert M. White, administrator of the Commerce Department’s Na tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said this morn ing. Dr. White was keynote speaker at Texas Sea Grant College Day activities sponsored by A&M. The ceremonies included formal dedi cation of the TAMU campus as one of the nation’s first four Sea Grant Colleges. State Rep. Ray Lemmon of Houston, chairman of the House Interim Committee on Coastal and IRA debates moves Marine Resources, was to speak at a luncheon following the ded ication ceremonies. Activities were to continue with afternoon student seminars con ducted by Robert B. Abel, direc tor of the National Sea Grant Program, and Alan Lohse, senior scientist with the Gulf Universi ties Research Consortium and member of the Presidential Air Quality Advisory Board. ' Exhibits depicting university involvement in the marine-relat ed activities of the TAMU Sea Grant Program will remain on display through Friday in the foyer of the Zachry Engineering Center, site of the dedication cer emonies. “Only a decade ago, it was pop ular to talk of the technological gap—a gap in which the United States was far advanced techno logically over other nations—and to talk of the dominance of Amer ican science and technology in in dustry and commerce,” Dr. White recalled. “Today, we are forced to look at the other side of the coin,” he observed. “We are concerned with the competitiveness and pro ductivity of our industry in rela tion to that of other nations, with the disparity in the rate of eco nomic growth of many of our technological competitors over our own. A gap is now developing again—many people think in re verse.” The NO A A administrator said the “unique nature” of the Na tional Sea Grant Program, de signed for flexibility and the cross-hatching of many skills, fa cilities and institutions, enables it to attack complex problems ef fectively. He emphasized the Sea Grant approach recognizes that key na tional marine problems are not only scientific, technological, so ciological, political and institu tional, but an “amalgam of all.” Since Sea Grant’s organization in 1967, more than 100 institutions 2 bombs shatter Irish peace ■y. -■ -K.v'-U OP! That is the message that seems to be made by iking cement masons who were picketing the entrance the campus Wednesday. The mason’s strike followed a :hine operator’s strike and may be followed by an iron- rkers strike. (Photo by George McKenna) Fall preregistration will begin April 17 Preregistration for the fall imester at A&M has been theduled for the week of April -21, Registrar Robert A. La- ey announced. The procedure will be the ime as followed during pre- ious preregistration periods, acey noted. Only students currently en siled are eligible to preregister. .11 new freshmen and transfer ■udents will preregister during be summer. New graduate stu- ents and old returning students gister the week of Aug. 21-25. A student begins the process y taking his identification card o his major department office to receive the registration card packet. Each department will set its hours and class order. The departmental registration advisor will register the stu dent. Fee statements will be mailed to the student’s permanent mail ing address on or about June 15. Fees must be paid by mail by Aug. 1, otherwise the preregis tration is subject to cancella tion. After fees are paid, the stu dent’s class schedule, fee receipt and ID card will be mailed to his permanent mailing address. Fall semester classes begin Aug. 28. BELFAST (A*) — Two bombs shattered a calm in Northern Ire land Wednesday as the outlawed Irish Republican Army debated possible peace moves. The bombs in Belfast, one of which was found and intentionally detonated by troops,, caused no casualties. They came amid re ports that William Whitelaw, the British minister named overseer of Northern Ireland, soon will or der the release of 60 suspected guerrillas interned without trials. The death toll from 32 months of communal violence between Roman Catholics and Protestants mounted to 294. Henry Miller, 79, died of injuries he suffered last month in a bomb blast that killed six other persons on Bel fast’s Donegall Street. IRA terrorists were blamed for a bomb explosion Wednesday that set afire a youth employment office in Belfast. Three armed men hurled the explosive into the building as morning rush hour crowds filled the streets, the Brit ish army said. A second bomb rocked the city’s eastern quarter, damaging struc tures. It was being detonated by army experts who said they were unable to defuse it. The army also reported a small cache of arms and ammunition was found buried in hospital grounds off the Catholic Falls Road district of Belfast. There were indications that the IRA might be considering a halt in its guerrilla campaign, in re sponse to mounting public pres sure. Many Catholics have called on the IRA to cease hostilities and give a fair chance to the British peace plan, which installed Whitelaw and ended a half cen tury of Protestant domination over the Catholic minority. Fol lowing up moves by the IRA in Londonderry to sound out Cath olic opinion on reducing the vio lence, the movement’s Sinn Fein political arm'' in Dublin said it also may contact “units in the field” to obtain the feelings of Catholics. Peace-seeking Catholic women in Belfast’s Andersonstown dis trict, shouted down by the IRA earlier in the week, said they may meet in secret to discuss ways of quelling the gunfire. In Londonderry, the Rev. Wil liam McGaughey, a local priest who serves 7,000 people in the Bogside and Brandywell Catholic enclaves, said he supported the suggested talks. “The feeling here is that the people want the British initia tive to be given a chance,” he asserted. “I would encourage . . . anything that would promote an end to the violence.” Dublin IRA chief of staff Sean (See Bombs, page 4) have conducted some 600 different projects, White noted. He said some 1,500 scientists and engi neers are engaged in Sea Grant activities and 1,300 students are enrolled in its programs. Approximately 70 percent of Sea Grant resources go to applied research, 15 percent to education and about 10 percent to advisory and extension efforts. “Top priority in the future must go to extension of the Sea Grant Program to all coastal states needing it—to address the very difficult and pressing prob lems of coastal zone management, resource development, recreation al facilities, industrial develop ment, pollution control and a host of other matters which must be solved if we are to preserve our marine resources for future gen erations,” White said. The federal official predicted the network of Sea Grant insti tutions will play an increasingly vital role in problems which are national, rather than local or re gional, in scope. Restrictions asked on election signs A campaign sign was acci dentally poked through the sprinkler system at the Memor ial Student Center Wednesday. Tape is now being laid on the ground in the campaign sign area to indicate where the water lines run. Campaigners are asked to avoid placing signs near the lines. Politics for women too F arenthold buildup for latest offensive cl ™iown earlier, officials say WASHINGTON GP) The since the 1968 bombing halt, IS f>rth Vietnamese military build- above the demilitarized zone known for years but escaped nerican attack because the Nix- administration did not “con- pt a continuous bombing cam- ipgn against the North,” the pntagon said Wednesday. Defense Department spokes- an Jerry W. Friedheim said here were “many, many military pgets” in North Vietnam, but were not bombed because it vas not U.S. policy to attack lem.” I The numerous “protective re gion strikes” carried out by jl. S. planes against the North % 01 University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Friedheim said, were limited pri marily to antiaircraft sites and some supply areas. This, in effect, gave the North Vietnamese “a sort of sanctuary” above the DMZ where they as sembled tanks, artillery and the 308th Division, one of the main units involved in the current of fensive against the South, he said. Friedheim denied that U. S. and South Vietnamese forces were taken by surprise when the enemy crossed the DMZ last weekend with what he estimated were between 50 and 100 tanks. Although it was long known “that there existed the capabili ty on the part of the enemy to attack in force across the DMZ,” he said there was no way to pre dict his intentions. Women in politics may be a hoped for bridge for other minor ities, Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, candidate for governor, said at a Thursday Political Forum presen tation. Farenthold, speaking before an overflowing MSC Ballroom, said women have been told too long the political arena is for men only. “Women want a chance to share political concern while let ting others share their full poten tial. We’ve been handmaidens much too long,” she said. The Democratic representative said most women show a new awareness towards politics today. She added psychological inertia may keep them from the polls but not greatly. Keeping her prepared speech short, Mrs. Farenthold then open ed the presentation to questions from the audience. Her voice cracked slightly When Student Senate President John Sharp questioned her pos sible indictment for nepotism. “Since I have been in Austin,” she said, “I have found jobs for my children as assistant sergeant- at-arms and pages within the Senate. However this has been with the full approval of Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes. Really, this has been the custom through the years.” Farenthold, undeterred, contin ued saying she is opposed to the legislature sitting as a constitu tional convention. She said more than one branch of government Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. should have the responsibility of rewriting the constitution. Reforms are necessary both in the executive and legislative houses, she said, giving priority to reforms in the governor’s pow ers. “The governor should address the people more as the President does,” she said. “If I were elected, I assure you I would have no partners as the present Governor and Lt. Governor. “Secondly, I would require each appointee to be able to make full disclosure of his actions. This might cut down on the number of applicants for these jobs.” Reforms are needed in the pres ent House Consent Calendar, she said. “I go on record as having been present and nonvoting in last year’s calendar because bills were being passed at a rate greater than one per minute. This leaves too many questions unanswered, ones I probably couldn’t answer without studying.” When asked her feelings about the proposed corporate profits tax, Farenthold said she won’t vote for an increase in sales tax. She proposes the next revenue source for Texas businesses to take the load off the consumer. Farenthold attacked visual pol lution when a student asked why he noticed no billboard posters for her along highways in southern Texas. “In five races for two terms, I have never had to resort to this type campaign and presently don’t see any reason to begin,” she an swered. Rep. Frances ‘Sissy’ Farenthold