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Friday, October 20, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3 matter % ought of aln' and returniij row. If 200,1 i used, the 4 t is growing t would be ij all the 50,| d be requin to 300,0001,, is and here! a net expot), only would 5 •r terminaln :h in petrols o ductsslij •ssible icry opera production a reduction oetroleum id a decline rtation emi Europe’s Common Market Poses Non-military Challenge To IL S. PARIS (■#*>—The nine nations of Europe’s enlarged Common Market pledged Thursday to unify their money, trade and foreign policies—facing Americans with their greatest nonmilitary chal lenge from abroad of the century. Though pledging to pool their resources in competition with U.S. business, the market nations also Nixon Tries To Hold Line On Congressional Spending Jewelry 822-3111 Specials ning Fish 5.00 in Lunch 10 ;kend Rate fc Students i-5794 Tosa * Inn WASHINGTON UB—President Nixon is considering a combina tion of vetoes and impounding of appropriated funds to hold fiscal 1973 spending to $250 billion in an effort to avoid a tax increase, a top White House aide said Thursday. John D. Ehrlichman, the Pres ident’s chief domestic adviser, told newsmen that it is a “reason able tentative conclusion’’ to say that Nixon may be forced to im pound some of the appropriated money in order to hold the line on spending. In response to questions, Ehr lichman said he thinks a tax in crease can still be avoided next year. But he said it will be dif ficult because Congress rejected the President’s proposed $250 bil lion lid on spending. Nixon is determined to hold the federal budget for the current fiscal year to $250 billion, he said. An impoundment, or withholding, of funds is one of the two meth ods under consideration. “I would think that it would not be possible to achieve the President’s goal by veto alone,” he said, adding that impoundment appears to be the only other al ternative. No decision has been made, Ehrlichman said, and none prob ably will be until after Nixon has met with his economic advisers to consider the alternatives. He said recommendations may be forth coming next week. Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz said the President may decide to im pound funds to try to avoid a tax increase. Ehrlichman said Shultz was expressing his recommenda tion. The White House aide said im poundment of funds by the Pres ident is “an open legal question.” Although Shultz believes the President has an inherent right to withhold funds, Ehrlichman said there are strong legal argu ments on the other side. Ehrlichman said the major fail ure of Congress was to do some thing about the increase in fed eral spending. He said he would rate the performance of Congress “in the poor category” consider ing the legislation that has been sent to the White House in the past two years. asserted they want to retain their economic, political and military ties with the United States. Heads of government also agreed to fight inflation, which some fear could disrupt their so cial and political systems. The px-ocess of concerting action will start this month with an imme diate 15 per cent cutback in in dustrial tariffs as a possible first move. The summit conference also produced a decision to launch a $1.4 billion cooperation fund next Laird Creates New Military Position To Avoid Unauthorized Bombings WASHINGTON IA>)—Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird an nounced Thursday he is creating new military inspectors general to detect promptly and report to him any violations such as last winter’s unauthorized bombings of North Vietnam. However, Laird stopped short of ordering any fundamental changes in the system for exer cising civilian control of the mili tary, saying “there is no evidence of a breakdown in or a threat to civilian control.” At the same time, Laird re jected demands by some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee for a further Penta gon inquiry into the unauthorized bombings, which led the Nixon administration to relieve and re tire Gen. John Lavelle, then com mander of the U.S. 7th Air Force in Southeast Asia. The defense chief disclosed his action, designed to strengthen civilian control, in a letter to Chairman John Stennis, D.-Miss., of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which investigated the Lavelle affair. Laird made his letter public at an informal news conference. Laird acknowledged that falsi fied reports on the unauthorized bombings had been filed within the military chain of command and said that “the principal de ficiency revealed by the Penta gon’s investigation and analysis involves the inspector general system.” He said he is ordering creation of inspector generals in the major unified commands with responsi bility to look into subordinate Air Force, Army and Navy operations “particularly as they involve com mand control.” These inspector generals, Laird said, will report to him through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Such major commands include the Pa cific Command, headquartered in Hawaii, which has supervised much of the air war against North Vietnam. In rejecting demands for a special court of inquiry into the Lavelle case, Laird said “the internal machinery now available to me ... is completely adequate.” Ledbetter Gets Huber Award A&M’s Dr. W. B. Ledbetter re ceived the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Award along with four other persons at the Ameri can Society of Civil Engineers session in Houston this week. The awards were presented at the ASCE Annual and National Environmental Engineering Meet ing. The Huber research prize goes to members of the society in any grade for notable achieve ments in research related to civil engineering. Mrs. Albert Reed Huber endowed the prize in honor of her husband, past president of the ASCE. Dr. Ledbetter received the Hu ber award for research and de velopment work on use and class ification of synthetic aggregates for highway construction. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED /ays the i en you need iing literature ators. Easy to )le now cover ly First Aid" erever )nly $1 each tSITY ore h Gate” SENIORS AND GRADUATES Picture Schedule for 1973 Aggieland Oct. 9-13 A-G Oct. 16-20 H-M Oct. 23-27 N-S Oct. 30-Nov. 3 T-Z Pictures Will Be Taken from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. At UNIVERSITY STUDIO 115 N. Main North Gate 846-8019 (Bring Fee Slips) April 1. It aims to ease currency settlements among central banks of the community. The meeting is bringing Britain, Denmark and Ireland into the 14-year-old trade bloc that al ready unites France, West Ger many, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Together they will form a com munity of more than 250 million people with talents, experience and capital that could, if mobil ized, enable Western Europe to find a top spot in world markets and profoundly influence world councils. The plans they had before them ranged from developing a com munity-wide wage policy to the imposing concept of a United States of Europe. There was a realistic recogni tion it would take years, even decades, to fulfill their dreams and that, furthermore, each mem ber would be importing into the community its national headaches. For the first time since World War II, the Stars and Stripes Dr. Handin Receives $90,000 NSF Grant To Study Mechanics Of Rock Folding was not included among the flags of Europe’s major non-Commu- nist leaders. The absent American flag meant that Europe was setting forth on its own political and economic way in most things ex cept defense. President George Pompidou of France was quick to emphasize there is no hostility hidden in Europe’s challenge to the New World. “Western Europe, liberated from Nazi armies thanks to the essential contribution of Ameri can soldiers, reconstructed with American aid, having looked for its security in the American al liance, having hitherto accepted American currency as the main element of its monetary reserves, must not and cannot sever its links with the United States,” he insisted. Then Pompidou listed some goals the enlarged community should strive for — goals which President Nixon thus far has made clear he does not share. They include a higher price for gold and a restoration of the American dollar’s convertibility. On the future community rela tions with the Americans, Pom pidou stressed Europe must “af firm its individual personality.” Bulletin Board A two-year $90,000 National Science Foundation grant has been awarded Dr. John W. Handin through the Texas A&M Research Foundation for studies into the mechanics of rock fold ing. Effective Nov. 1, the grant funds a project including theo retical, experimental and field studies of rock folding, Dr. Handin said. The Distinguished Professor of geology and geophysics is direc tor of the Center for Tectono- physics at TAMU. “Folds in rocks are of great economic importance, as they are the sites of most accumulation of oil and gas and of many mineral deposits,” he indicated. Handin believes the project will lead to improved understanding of how folds form, what their shapes and distribution in space and time are likely to be and where oil, gas and hydrothermal minerals are expected to occur in the folds. “Exploration for these natural resources often involves extrapo lation into the deep subsurface crust of the earth, based on scanty data gathered at or near the sur face,” he added. “Our ability to predict the configuration of deep structures can be much improved by better knowledge of geo mechanics.” MONDAY “Natural and Unnatural His tory of the U.S.-Mexican Bound ary” will be discussed by Dr. Frederick R. Gehlback of Baylor at 7 p.m. in the Architecture Building Auditorium. TUESDAY Students International Medita tion Society will meet in Room 146 of the Physics Building at 8 p.m. There will be an introduc tory lecture seminar on the tech nique of transcendental medita tion followed by a preparatory lecture on Thursday. A&M Collegiate FFA Chapter will meet in Room 145 of the Physics Building at 7:30 p.m. There will be a slide presentation on the National FFA Convention. Refreshments will he served. Organizational Bonfire meeting of all girls in the student “Y” will he held at 6:30 p.m. in the MSC Assembly Room. GREAT COVER-U TRICK! Barefoot Sanders is running a campaign of personal attacks against Senator John Tower. This is designed to cover up Sanders’ own record. He attacks the Senator’s attendance record, yet, during a four-year period when Sanders was serving in the Legislature, he missed 266 votes in 224 legislative days, as reported by The Dallas Morning News. Sanders voted three times against ethics and reform measures, including a critical vote against an ethics amendment that re quired legislators to disclose their sources of income. If the disclosure proposal had been passed, instead of being killed with the aid of Barefoot Sanders, the Sharpstown bank fraud and scandal probably never would have happened. When the Sharpstown case broke open last year, according to the federal court docket of January 22,1971, Sanders was the attorney of record for the former Speaker of the House with whom he served in the Legislature. John Tower is a man of proven ability and integrity. Let’s keep him working for Texas in the U.S. Senate. POL. ADV. PD. FOR BY TEXANS FOR TOWER EDWARD CLARK, CHAIRMAN