THE BATTALION
Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 27, 1972
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AP analysis
by jin* Eark Peace talks abrupt turnabout
WASHINGTON (A*)—President
Nixon's resumption of the Paris
peace talks is an abrupt turn
about from the administration’s
stand against negotiating with
Hanoi while North Vietnam is
mounting an all-out drive in the
South.
Administration sources sug
gested that Nixon’s policy re
versal stems from several factors
including:
• Presidential adviser Henry
A. Kissinger’s just - concluded
secret talks in Moscow with So
viet leaders, who have been call
ing for a U.S. return to the con
ference table.
• Propaganda points scored by
the Vietnamese Communists, who
have been blaming the United
States for the sterility of the
Paris proceedings since Nixon
suspended them March 23.
• Domestic U. S. criticism of
Nixon’s action including some by
Democratic presidential contend
ers.
The State Department on-the-
record reason for Nixon’s order
to U. S. Ambassador William J.
Porter to return to the Paris
parley is:
had been saying starting with the
March 23 announcement of the
U. S. suspension of the Paris
meetings. Nixon said the Reds
were using the parley for propa
ganda rather than serious negoti
ations.
Secretary of Defense Melvin R.
Laird told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee April 18
that it would be the “height of
irresponsibility” to negotiate for
peace with the North Vietnamese
while their invasion of South
Vietnam is under way.
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers also testified on April 17,
that the United States is not pre
pared to resume the Paris negoti
ations “while the invasion is
occurring.”
On April 20, a State Depart
ment spokesman reaffirmed the
position.
Before the Communist military
drive, Porter and other U. S.
officials had said the United
States would resume the Paris
talks on a sign from the enemy
that it intends to enter into seri
ous discussion, or whenever a
resumption of the parley would
appear to be useful.
U. S. officials said Wednesday
they have no signal of Hanoi in
tent to get into serious discus
sions.
As to whether the Paris meet
ing Thursday will be useful,, U. S.
diplomats privately left that as
a matter of definition. They ex
pected the allies to press for a
halt to the invasion and the Com
munists to demand an end to U. S.
bombing.
Neither on the record nor off
are administration spokesmen
predicting that the new round at
Paris will produce a peace deal
in the near future.
comes
“Somehow when I assigned these semester reports, I
forgot about having to grade them!”
“The other side had been press
ing very hard over the last few
days for a resumption . . .it was
the judgment that it could be use
ful to explore what lay behind
their insistence.”
This is a sharp switch from
what administration spokesmen
Splashdown
for Apollo 16 crew
Change
It is hard to say in one last editorial all that has not been said
during the past year. The ideas that were once so hard to come by now
come all in a rush.
So in decidingjust what note to leave on, we come back to an idea
that has appeared here before and gone quite a ways.
It is called change.
Humans are basically afraid of change and the people of TAMU
are no exception. They are afraid of it, they resent it, and they oppose
it.
Not all of them do, of course, nor just certain factions. But
overall, there is the steady opposition.
This isn’t unusual. It happens with all people. Change disturbs the
order of their lives and many people need that order, especially in these
times.
But all too often the changes proposed are opposed simply
because they are not in keeping with the ways things used to be. The
value of them is not considered, it is just noted that they will create
problems that have not appeared before or will create all kinds of
various troubles. . . ■t.yr
Certainly not all change should be embraced simply because it is
change, but change should not be rejected simply because it is change.
This university is at a point where change is of the essence. It is
happening all around us and will continue to happen.
So it is at times like these that we need to analyze our attitudes
toward change. Do we oppose it simply because it will create problems
for us, or do we oppose it because it is wrong?
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SPACE CENTER, Houston <A>>
Apollo 16 streaked toward a
splashdown in the South Pacific
today, its commander proclaim
ing “We’ve seen as much in 10
days as most people see in 10 life
times.”
Astronauts John W. Young,
Charles M. Duke Jr. and Thomas
K. Mattingly II, aboard their
command ship Casper, parachuted
to earth at 2:44 p.m. EST, 178
miles southeast of Christmas
Island.
In a press conference held in
space Wednesday as the astro
nauts hurtled toward their home
planet, Young said, “Mr. Des
cartes said it, ‘Nothing is so far
removed from us as to be beyond
our reach, or so hidden that we
cannot discover it’.” He referred
to 16th Century French scientist
Rene Descartes for whom the
moon mountains where Apollo 16
landed were named.
“That is really the story of
our mission so far,” the astro
naut added. “We have been out
testing this theory. . . .”
Before the press conference an
alarm light flashed in the ship’s
guidance and navigation system
but it proved to be only a stray
electronic impulse and Mission
Control said later “the hardware
has a clean bill of health.”
Little was planned for the astro
nauts during their last day in
space.
They busied themselves with
preparations for splashdown, se
curing the 245 pounds of moon
rock samples and the miles of
film taken on and about the
Connally s influence increases
Mission Control awakened them
Wednesday with the news that
the weather prediction was ex
cellent in the recovery area.
“That’s the best news we’ve
heard in a long time,” said Mat
tingly.
Apollo 16 smashed into the
upper layers of the earth’s at
mosphere about 13 minutes before
splashdown. At that time, Cas
per sliced through space at almost
25,000 miles per hour.
As it plunged earthward, fric
tion created temperatures of up
to 4,200 degrees on the outside
of the spacecraft.
The spacecraft blazed across
Pacific skies south of the equator.
Small pilot parachutes slowed it
down and then, at about 10,500
feet above the water, three orange
and white main chutes snapped
into the racing wind.
After a parachute descent of
about five minutes, the spacecraft
splashed down at a gentle 22
miles an hour.
The astronauts will spend two
nights and a day aboard the re
covery ship Ticonderoga as the
ship cruises north. Early Satur
day, the spacemen will be flown
to Hickam Field, Hawaii, where
they’ll transfer to a C141 jet
transport. They will arrive at
Ellington Air Force Base, near
the Manned Spacecraft Center,
about 11 p.m. Saturday night.
Apollo 16 is coming home with
a record load of moon rocks.
Young and Duke collected 245
pounds of lunar samples during
more than 20 hours of exploring
the moon’s Descartes Mountain
area, a part of the never-before
visited lunar highlands. The
astronauts deployed a nuclear-
powered science station which is
now sending data to earth.
WASHINGTON (A>)_Treasury
Secretary John B. Connally has
been expanding his influence
within the Nixon administration
to include foreign policy, but he
says the chances are dim he’ll
ever become Secretary of State.
Connally’s broadened role has
come about with the blessing of
President Nixon, leading to specu
lation that the Democratic former
governor of Texas may be of
fered the State Department post
if the Republican chief executive
wins re-election.
“I’d say that possibility is about
as dim as anything I could think
of,” Connally responded when
asked in an interview last week
if he would like the diplomatic
spot.
Last weekend, however, the
White House assigned Connally a
job usually handled by foreign-
policy advisers, briefing a small
group of newsmen on the Presi
dent’s thinking on Vietnam.
Connally spoke at a back
ground, not-for-attribution ses
sion called by the office of the
White House communications di
rector, Herb Klein. Connally told
reporters that Nixon went against
the advice of many of his advis
ers in deciding to bomb Haiphong
harbor, feeling that he must do
so to have a viable foreign policy.
CBS later named Connally as the
unidentified source.
At first, Treasury officials
thought it unusual that a secre
tary of the Treasury would be
summoned to handle such an in
formation task. But later one
said that the secretary often
advises Nixon on matters other
than the economy.
Speculation about Connally’s
future role in the administration
was heightened last week when
it was learned that Nixon had
accepted an invitation to be Con
nally’s guest at the secretary’s
3,600-acre ranch in Floresville,
Tex., this weekend.
The speculation points to the
State Department, and even some
of Connally’s own people encour
age the idea, saying that foreign
policy in the future may be
mostly economic, rather than
military.
But other administration offi
cials scoff at the idea, saying
Connally has displayed a brash
ness in negotiating trade and
monetary agreement that would
disqualify him for the job.
“Would you take it if it were
offered to you?” Connally was
asked about the State Depart
ment post during the AP inter
view.
“I doubt it,” he responded.
“Why not?” he was asked.
Connally laughed and said,
“because I don’t want to.” He
didn’t dwell further on the sub
ject.
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