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CALL 846-1126 THE BATTALION Wednesday, November 15, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 7 Hanoi Continues Fighting Despite Peace Efforts SAIGON (A*) —Despite height ened hopes of peace, North Viet nam still is pushing fresh war materiel into the South and the U.S. Command announced Thurs day that American planes kept up a heavy pounding of the enemy’s main supply routes. “There is no sign that the Com munists are withdrawing troops from South Vietnam prior to any possible peace agreement,” said a Saigon command spokesman. “On the contrary, they are sending in fresh supplies which have enabled them to step up ar tillery attacks against our troops.” Monday, for the second day since Oct. 22, when bombing was restricted to below the 20th Par allel because of peace talks, U.S. warplanes mounted more than 220 tactical strikes against targets in North Vietnam, the U.S. Com mand said. The parallel is 75 miles south of Hanoi and about 240 miles north of the demilitar ized zone separating the Viet- nams. The strikes are designed to blunt the enemy buildup. Another 171 missions were flown by Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter-bombers Monday just south of the demilitarized zone in Quang Tri Province. Targets reported destroyed or damaged north and south of the DMZ included trucks, warehouses, river boats, railroad cars, a loco motive and rail and road bridges. B52 Stratofortresses bombed enemy supply caches and troop concentrations in all four coun tries of Indochina. The bombers struck deeper into North Viet nam than at any time since last April, attacking stockpiles 58 miles below the 20th Parallel. The U.S. Command announced about 30 B52s hammered the U. S. Attempts To Break Stalemate By RICHARD PYLE SAIGON UP)— The United States is trying to break a stale mate on the Indochina peace agreement by convincing Presi dent Nguyen Van Thieu that he has nothing to fear from Com munist forces in South Vietnam after a cease-fire. It was on the strength of this belief, informed political sources here say, that U.S. negotiators conceded to Hanoi the point that its troops could be withdrawn un der a private, unwritten under standing. But Thieu is balking at any ar rangement that would leave the status of North Vietnamese forc es in the South unclear. He de mands that a provision for a to tal enemy troop pullout be writ ten into any final accord. From conversations with West ern and South Vietnamese senior officials and political informants, plus other indicators, it is evident that this is the central issue fac ing the U.S. and North Vietna mese negotiators when they re turn to Paris for another round of private talks. If the question of withdrawal can be resolved, some of these sources say, no other obstacle of equal importance stands in the way of a peace agreement. The issue’s significance for Saigon is underscored by recent official attacks on President Nix on and his chief negotiator, Henry A. Kissinger, for going over Sai gon’s head to forge a deal with Hanoi that includes no written provision for a Communist pull out. Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam made it apparent in talking with newsmen Tuesday that the nar rowing of differences achieved in the most recent meetings here with Kissinger’s deputy, Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., concerned a clearer U.S. understanding of Saigon’s objections rather than an agreement between the allies on withdrawal itself. The U.S. effort to convince Thieu that no major peril to South Vietnam would result from enemy forces remaining in the South is based on two key argu ments, both arising from the of ficial American view of existing battlefield realities. One is that the North Vietna mese, estimated at 125,000 to 150,000 by the Americans and twice that number by Thieu, could pose no further organized mili tary threat after an interna tionally guaranteed truce, nor could they magically transform themselves into bogus Southern ers to contain the struggle. IS FANTASTIC FASHION UNDER $20.oo Smock tops and full shelled blouses in assorted pastel colors Easy care dacron & Cotton. Size* 3?-38. $6.00 Penny Pincher '-V! by O^cTcr/fj ’ <SSralep A&M To Host English Pilot Conference Faced with these realities, the Americans say, the North Vietna mese would simply “fade away” of their own volition and return to the North. The other key to the U.S. ar gument is the widely accepted view in U.S. official circles that as a result of severe manpower losses and erosion of their politi cal base, the Southern Viet Cong insurgents are no longer a force to contend with. About 50,000-60,000 Viet Cong are said to be operating in the South, but senior Americans say with confidence that they are ef fectively neutralized and that they could not suddenly rise up in unexpected strength. However, Americans studying Thieu’s position see justification for it from his standpoint, espe cially his contention that since the North Vietnamese invaded the South, they ought to be made to go home. A&M will host a pilot confer ence on programs of placement, exemption and credit in English Thursday and Friday. Representatives of approxi mately 30 Texas colleges and uni versities have been invited to attend the session sponsored by TAMU’s English Department and Counseling and Testing Center, noted Dr. Forrest D. Burt, con ference director. Dr. Burt is associate professor and chair man of the freshman English program. The meeting, first of its type in the nation, is designed to pro vide an exchange of information among officials charged with formation and implementation of placement, exemption and credit policies in English at their insti tutions. “By bringing together repre sentatives of test-making organi zations and the teachers who utilize the tests for placement, exemption and advanced credit, we hope to derive procedures which will benefit the individual college student,” Dr. Burt ex plained. President Jack K. Williams will welcome conference partici pants. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Lorrin Kennamer, dean of edu- STARTS WED - SAT. LASTS 4 DAYS cation at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Burt said one of the major conference topics involves the need for increased communication between the makers of tests and teachers who utilize them, to in sure that the devices actually measure the aptitudes and skills the professors wish to have meas ured. Another key topic centers on the need for increased communi cation regarding transfer stu dents. “There is “grey area’ in two- year and four-year school inter communication,” Dr. Burt pointed out. “The ‘feeder’ institutions need to know the level of compe tency required at the four-year school in order to i-educe academic casualties after transfers.” Institutions expected to be represented at the conference by their department chairmen or freshman English directors are: Abilene Christian College, An gelo State, University of Texas (Arlington), Universtiy of Texas (Austin), Baylor, Del Mar Col lege, East Texas State, Univer sity of Texas (El Paso), Uni versity of Houston, Kilgore Junior College, Lamar Univer sity, North Texas State, Prairie View A&M College, Sam Houston State, San Antonio College, Southern Methodist University, Stephen F. Austin State. Also, St. Mary’s Universty, Tarrant County Junior College, Tarleton, Texas A&I, Texas Christian, Texas Southern, Texas Tech, Victoria College and West Texas State. southern and central regions of North Vietnam, dropping up to 1,000 tons of bombs on routes leading from the ports of Thanh Hoa, Vinh and Dong Hoi. There were similar B52 strikes in the same region Sunday. In a protest against what it called “savage U.S. air attacks,” Hanoi’s Vietnam news agency claimed a number of civilians were killed and wounded and close to 100 homes destroyed as a re sult of “carpet bombing.” The Viet Cong radio claimed a U. S. F4 was shot down east of Quang Tri on Monday. Hierth Voted To Teacher Council Dr. Harrison E. Hierth of A&M has been elected to the executive council of the Conference of Col lege Teachers of English in Texas. The English Department head was chosen for the three-year term at the recent SCMLA meet ing in Tulsa. Eight TAMU fac ulty members attended. 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