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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
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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.
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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