\ixon will withdraw more troops
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'etitivi,
»m Los,
prokali- A-SHINGTON (^—President
Mr. Jj m said Wednesday night he
«r of! withdrawing another 20,000
ro SotJ H'ican troops from Vietnam
to play uly 1. But he vowed to con-
seedd 6 U- S. air and naval attacks
lore O' Vietnam until it ends
"naked and unprovoked
sion” of the South.
“*® ni will not be defeated
ixm declared in a nationally
adcast report to the nation,
^ id we will never surrender our
riljj ends to Communist agression.”
"1U fhe chief executive said the
^ led States is returning to the
Jl^ij ris Peace Talks Thursday with
\ ie aim of halting the month-
id invasion and “with the firm
tation that productive talks
low through all available chan
nels.”
The President spoke shortly
after dispatches from Saigon told^
of a renewed North Vietnamese
drive against the city of Quang
Tri south of the demilitarized
zone, and while the fate of much
of the Central Highlands of South
Vietnam remained uncertain un
der heavy offensive pressure.
As he announced over radio
and television that U. S. troop
levels would be cut in the next
two months to 49,000—or 500,000
below the level when he took of
fice three years ago—Nixon so
licited public support for his de
termination to “be steadfast . . .
not falter.”
He said:
“The Communists have failed
. . . Their one remaining hope is
to win in the Congress of the
United States, and among the
people of the United States the
victory they cannot win among
the people of South Vietnam or
on the battlefield in South Viet
nam.”
The speech, delivered in stern
tones as he sat behind his desk
in his Oval Office, was his first
report to the American people on
the war since the enemy thrust
led him to renew bombing of
North Vietnam, including air at
tacks near Hanoi and Haiphong.
Shortly before Nixon’s address
his chief foreign-affairs adviser,
Henry Kissinger, briefed news
men at the White House and,
while declining to talk about spe
cific private negotiating, said
“Notable diplomatic actions are
going on . . .”
He said the chief Communist
negoiator Le Due Tho, is return
ing to Paris and added, “He
doesn’t return for trivial reasons.”
Kissinger while reluctant to
talk about the U. S. negotiating
posture, said the administration
feels North Vietnamese troops
“should be withdrawn back across
the DMZ,” and that the Commu
nists should abide by the 1968
agreement which led to cessation
of U. S. bombing of the North.
According to U. S. officials, the
understanding called for North
Vietnam to respect the demili
tarized zone and not shell
be Battalion
rocket major South Vietnamese
population areas. But Hanoi never
has acknowledged subscribing to
such an agreement.
“The gut issues are clearly
understood” by the Communist
negotiators in Paris, Kissinger
said, and “we should be able to
learn very rapidly whether pro
gress can be made.”
While Nixon said that South
Vietnam still needs air and sea
support, he added that his Viet-
namization program of training
and equipping the Saigon gov
ernment’s army “has proved it
self sufficiently that we can con
tinue our program of withdraw
ing American forces . . .
“The South Vietnamese are
fighting courageously and well
in their self defense and . . . have
made great progress and are
now bearing the brunt of the
battle . .
Nixon’s three decisions — con
tinued withdrawal, a return to
the Paris peace talks, and con
tinued air and naval attacks on
North Vietnamese military tar
gets—could have a major inpact
on the domestic election year
political scene as well as on in
ternational relations.
In his prepared address, Nixon
did not renew his previous crit
icism of the Soviet Union for sup
plying Hanoi with modern weap
ons used in the current offensive—
a diplomatic decision that might
have resulted from Kissinger’s
just—concluded secret mission to
Cloudy
and
warm
Moscow.
And while Nixon did not spell
out any specific new private peace
initiatives, his statement that the
United States expects productive
talks leading to rapid progress
“through all available channels”
was viewed as an indication that
some secret maneuvering could
be underway.
Nixon said Ambassador Wil
liam C. Porter was going back
into the Paris talks Tuesday
“with one very specific purpose
in mind.”
“We are not resuming the Paris
talks simply in order to hear
more enemy propaganda and
bombast from the North Viet
namese and Viet Cong delegates,”
(See Nixon, page 3)
Friday — Cloudy in the morn
ing, partly cloudy in the after
noon. Westerly winds 10-15 mph.
High 72°, low 56°.
Saturday — Clear, northerly
winds 10-12 mph. High 74°, low
51°.
Thursday, April 27, 1972
845-2226
Texas Democrats pledge
public trust restoration
DALLAS UP)—Democratic can
didates seeking to become Texas’
next governor promised Wednes
day night that, if elected, they
could restore public confidence in
state government.
“I would require all officials to
make a full financial disclosure
of their sources of income,” said
Mrs. Frances Farenthold, one of
five Democratic candidates ap
pearing on a televised question-
and-answer program. “And I
would make anyone appointed to
a state agency make a full dis
closure.”
“I would veto any legislation
that had not had a public hearing
in the House and Senate,” said
Dolph Briscoe.
“If we had full financial dis
closure, annual sessions and bring
our constitution up to date, this
would take care of the situation,”
said Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes.
Robert Looney, another Demo
cratic candidate for governor,
said that, if elected, he would
personally see that any other of
ficial “guilty of malfeasance” was
prosecuted.
Looney said he had personally
prepared “a criminal complaint”
against Gov. Preston Smith, ac
cusing the governor of “the same
offense they convicted Gus Mut-
scher of at Abilene” and would
present the accusation to the
Travis County district attorney
on Friday. Mutscher, former
NDBAGS ARE BIG BUSINESS in Da Nang-, South
tnam’s second largest city. The city has been repeated-
ocketted or mortered since the start of the North Viet-
thics committee rules
namese offensive and citizens are snapping up the bags
as a little added protection against the shellings. (AP
Wirephoto)
lowdy’s voting rights upheld
mg
I JwjASHINGTON (A 1 ) — The
I ob«J se e thics committee voted out
pnesday a resolution which
lid strip convicted Texas Rep.
in Dowdy of his congressional
Ing rights.
3ut evidence mounted that a
fight over the resolution
likely—from both extremes
ipinion.
ie resolution adopted on a
vote now goes to the Rules
ihmittee for clearance for the
lor vote.
M when that might be was
ear but Rep. Olin Teague of
s said he doubts that it will
on.
don’t think they’ll do any-
g until after the election,”
gue said, referring to the May
rimary in Texas in which
dy’s wife is running to suc-
him in Congress,
looting against the resolution
e Teague and Rep. Watkins
pressure from two California
members, among others, who not
ed that the ethics committee was
created in 1968 to patrol mem
bers’ behavior and that to re
frain from punishing Dowdy
would be a bad precedent.
Even as the committee acted,
however, criticism of its action
rose.
Rep. Bob Eckhardt, a Houston
Democrat and lawyer, said it
would be improper if not uncon
stitutional for Congress to de
prive a member of his voting
privilege without giving his dis
trict a chance to elect someone
in his place to give it representa
tion.
He said the district’s election
of a member gives the congress
man his vote, not the Congress
itself. The Congress could prop
erly take away a member’s com
mittee assignments — but not his
floor vote.
Eckhardt appeared before the
ethics committee to give them
his arguments.
“This would put a member in
a pretty tough situation,” Eck
hardt said. “A man’s under a
duty from his district to vote
and then here comes a resolution
from the House telling him not
to.”
The congressional Black Cau
cus is also critical of the ethics
committee resolution, arguing
that it is being hypocritical in
light of Congress’ exclusion of
the late Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell of Harlem, who wasn’t
convicted of anything but was
accused of improper conduct.
After Powell was reelected by
an overwhelming vote, the House
then stripped him of his senority
and fined him $25,000, both un
precedented actions.
The Black Caucus said the
resolution against Dowdy, who
has been convicted of bribery in
the conduct of his duty, was “a
mere slap on the wrist.”
“A House vote on anything less
than exclusion of Dowdy would
plunge ethical standards to the
level of the preposterous,” the
caucus said.
Ross, Zepeda recognized
as Student Senate leaders
Randy Ross of San Antonio
and Richard A. Zepeda of Potts-
boro were recognized Wed
nesday at A&M as outstanding
members of the 1971-72 Student
Senate.
Zepeda, doctoral student in
industrial education, was named
Outstanding Student Senator at
the annual Senate awards ban
quet.
Ross was cited as the out
standing Senate executive com
mittee member. He will be the
1972-73 Senate vice president.
Zepeda has been elected Grad
uate Student Council president
for next year.
Outstanding class senator
awards went to Stanley D. Ko-
sanke, graduate student, Cordell,
Okla.; George S. (Sam) Drugan,
senior, El Paso; William E.
(Bill) Hartsfield, junior, La
Marque; Mark Blakemore, soph
omore, Richmond, Ky., and Ter
ry Brown, freshman, Garland.
More than 150 persons includ
ing TAMU PresidentJackK. Wil
liams witnessed the awards for
top service on the 86-member
Student Senate, A&M’s student
body organization.
Tommy Henderson, the 1970-
71 outstanding student senator,
presented the award to Zepeda.
John Sharp and Mike Essmeyer,
1971-72 Senate president and
vice president, made the other
awards.
Drugan was also Great Issues
chairman of the Memorial Stu
dent Center directorate this
year. Hartsfield will serve next
fall on the Senate executive
committee as academic excel
lence committee chairman.
Blakemore was elected pres
ident of the 1972-73 Civilian
Student Council.
Speaker of the Texas House, was
convicted at Abilene of conspir
acy to accept a bribe in connection
with two banking bills passed by
the 1969 legislature.
Smith, who refused to take part
in the TV program, vetoed the
two bills and has claimed that this
action brought on the stock fraud
investigation.
Bill Posey, Houston funeral di
rector, said he would restore pub
lic confidence by making mem
bers of the state insurance board
elected, instead of appointed.
Earlier, five Republican candi
dates for governor generally
agreed that local property taxes
should continue to be the main
income for Texas public schools.
The five GOP candidates ap
peared in one segment of the TV
program, followed by six Demo
cratic candidates for governor
with Gov. Preston Smith con
spicuously absent.
Shaw to present
engineering talk
at Great Issues
Genetic engineering, its possi
bilities and consequences, will be
discussed by Dr. Charles Shaw,
M.D., in a Great Issues presenta
tion tonight.
Dr. Shaw will speak at 8 p.m.
in the Zachry Engineering Cen
ter’s main auditorium. His pres
entation, “Genetic Engineering—
Man Into Superman?” is a public-
free event, Great Issues Chair
man T. C. Cone said.
Dr. Shaw is chief of the med
ical genetics section at the M. D.
Anderson Hospital and Tumor
Institute in Houston.
Cone said Dr. Shaw’s presenta
tion is the final Great Issues
program of 1971-72.
Ifjj ;f. Abbitt, D-Va.
M
report on the resolution
i’t be released until Teague
possibly Abbitt file minority
s, which can be within three
I.
s approved by the committee,
resolution would express the
use of the House” that a mem-
convicted of any crime pun-
able by two or more years in
son should abstain from par-
bating in committees or vot-
on the House floor.
The resolution doesn’t mention
wdy but was forced out by
en. Ratliff quits
ue to criticism
AUSTIN <A>) _ Sen. David
Miff of Stamford resigned
ednesday following a month of
s media criticism over his
Hng of relatives.
Ratliff said his resignation was
fective immediately so a special
iction could be called to name
s successor.
Kleindienst to be recalled
regarding antitrust statements
In presidential race
Muskie pulls out of primaries
University National Bank
On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
WASHINGTON 6P>—The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5
Wednesday to recall Richard G.
Kleindienst and ask the nominee
for attorney general about differ
ing statements regarding a ma
jor antitrust settlement.
The committee extended an
earlier hearing deadline by one
day as it agreed to send the full
Senate its recommendation on the
nomination by late Thursday.
At the same time, Republican
committee members with some
Democratic help beat back at
tempts by liberals to further ex
tend the hearings and call still
more witnesses, including presi
dential aide Peter M. Flanigan.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., said he still will ask the
full Senate to send the nomina
tion back to the committee for
expanded hearings.
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va.,
the Democratic whip, said he is
particularly interested in what
Kleindienst would say about ear
lier testimony that he did not
recall talking to Flanigan about
settlement of the antitrust suit
against International Telephone
& Telegraph Corp.
In a letter to committee chair
man Sen. James O. Eastland, D-
Miss., earlier this week, Flanigan
said he had delivered a financial
report on the proposed settle
ment to former Asst. Atty. Gen.
Richard W. McLaren while Klein
dienst was present.
McLaren, renowned as the Nix
on administration’s trustbuster
before he left to accept a federal
judgeship, has said the financial
report prepared by investment
banker Richard J. Ramsden was
a major factor in the decision not
to carry the ITT case to the Su
preme Court.
Flanigan also said he relayed
word to Kleindienst shortly be
fore the settlement was announced
that ITT would not accept the
original proposal, which was
changed later.
Kleindienst’s nomination was
approved once before by the com
mittee but hearings were reopen
ed at Kleindienst’s request. They
followed allegations by column
ist Jack Anderson that the anti
trust settlement was connected
with a financial commitment by
ITT for the Republican National
Convention.
WASHINGTON UP>—Sen. Ed
mund S. Muskie has decided to
withdraw from all presidential
primaries and concentrate a less-
expensive, small-scale campaign
on the search for delegates to
the Democratic convention, a
source said Wednesday night.
There were reports — denied
by the Muskie camp — that the
Senator would quit the race alto
gether.
“Ed Muskie will withdraw
from all primaries,” a Democratic
office holder said. The source
said Muskie, who suffered a twin
defeat in Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania primaries Tuesday,
will maintain a smaller campaign
operation aimed at recruiting
Muskie supporters as convention
delegates in non-primary states.
“He has recognized the gravity
of the situation and is making a
rational decision based on it,” the
source said.
The Maine senator, who was
considered frontrunner for the
Democratic nomination until the
April 4 Wisconsin primary, can
celed a Wednesday night trip to
Ohio. The Ohio primary is next
Tuesday.
But Muskie’s press secretary
denied a Mutual Broadcasting
System story that the Senator
would drop the campaign en
tirely.
“I categorically deny any state
ments that he’s decided to with
draw,” Stewart said.
Muskie himself met with top
aides at his home in suburban
Washington, and his campaign
headquarters said he was “eval
uating the political situation”
and would hold a news confer
ence Thursday.
Muskie said Tuesday night,
after his defeat in the Massa
chusetts and Pennsylvania pri
maries, that he intends to stay in
the race for the Democratic nom
ination.
Top aides have advised him to
withdraw from future primary
races, where polls show him do
ing poorly, but stay in the race
for the nomination. Under this
strategy, he could concentrate on
rounding up delegates in nonpri
mary states, and later could offer
himself to the party convention
as a compromise candidate.
Muskie had been scheduled to
speak Wednesday night in To
ledo, Ohio, and the state’s gov
ernor, John J. Gilligan, was al
ready on the way there to intro
duce him when word came that
the trip was canceled.
A statement from Muskie’s
campaign headquarters in Wash
ington issued shortly before 6
p.m. said, “He has been consult
ing with his family, with friends
and his supporters throughout
the day. And he will continue to
do so throughout the evening.”
Some of those supporters in
Congress, asked about the re
port, said they hadn’t heard Mus
kie would get out. Some said
they thought it more likely he
would merely withdraw from
some or all of the remaining pri
maries, but remain in the race
for the nomination.
The Mutual report quoted aides
to Muskie as saying he would
continue to consult with advisers
and family to consider the situa
tion, but had already decided to
get completely out of the race.
Reports that Muskie would
withdraw have surfaced with in
creasing frequency since the one
time frontrunner for the nomina
tion finished fourth in the April
4 Wisconsin primary.
Muskie’s office has continued
to deny the reports and Muskie
himself has repeated that he in
tends to press his campaign all
the way to the Miami Beach
convention in July.
Should Muskie withdraw from
campaigning for the Ohio pri
mary it would leave just three
Democratic candidates making
an all-out effort there: Sen.
George McGovern of South Da
kota; Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
of Minnesota and Sen Henry M.
Jackson of Washington.
Muskie’s campaign is reported
to be at least $1 million in debt.
The staff has been trimmed and
the salaries cut on more than one
occasion in recent months as con
tributions dried up.
Muskie was beaten by Sen.
George McGovern in Massachu-
settes and by Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey in Pennsylvania. Those
setbacks followed earlier losses in
Florida and Wisconsin and a
lukewarm victory in his own
backyard state of New Hamp
shire.