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"op Tel rwenty teams,» °. tes in Parenthd ds a nd total poi,| lte d on basis!, 1 0-9-8-7-6-5-4.3.2.|, :4i) Battalion College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 20, 1972 How Beautiful A Day Can Be When Kindness Touches It. WEDNESDAY — Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight. Cool tonight. Winds becoming west erly 5 to 15 m.p.h. Low of 40. THURSDAY High of 70. Fair. Mild day. 845-2226 Apollo’s Last Voyagers End Exploration Era INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR—Dress of different na tionalities made the Discovery Program Christmas party a colorful event. Comparing fashion notes are (from left) Berit Kleppe of Norway, Florence Awoyoni of Nigeria, Ket- ty Hernandez of Venezuela and Ann-Christin Unneberg of Norway. They are wives of international students at Texas A&M University. West Coast and Tonsberg variations are reflected in the styles of Mrs. Kleppe and Mrs. Unneberg. 51 Women Of 33 Countries Students Find Peace, Fun At Party “Peace on earth, good will to men” is practiced on a person-to- person basis in a Baptist church romen’s program for interna tional students at Texas A&M. It was highlighted Wednesday at a Discovery Program Christ mas party at the First Baptist CONGRESSMAN Olin E. Teague, with Texas A&M University President Jack K. Williams, prepares to greet constituents and other friends after presenting his papers to the university Tuesday. Teague flew to Houston imme diately afterwards for the splashdown of Apollo 17. Church in College Station. Women of at least 33 different nationalities sang carols in sev eral languages, told about differ ences in observing Christmas in their countries and enjoyed re freshments with an international flavor. “Silent Night” was presented in seven languages by student wives from Brazil, Japan, Nor way, Korea, Nigeria and China. “Silent Night” in Spanish was offered by women of Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama and Mexico. Music of India was also sung. “You’ll notice that Dianne (Miles, pianist) played in seven different languages too,” smiled Erwin Johnson, music director of the First Baptist Church in Bryan. Christmas in China, England, Israel and Bolivia was described. About 60 women of five Bap tist churches in Bryan and Col lege Station participate with in ternational student wives in Dis covery. Colorful native dress was worn by most of the 80 student wives to the Christmas observance. Some of their children, along with youngsters of the host wom en, also joined in caroling the group. “We always have a good time and enjoy ourselves,” observed Ketty Hernandez, whose home is in Venezuela. A year-around program, Dis covery helps the visitors gain confidence and proficiency in English. It also provides train ing in a variety of areas, such as cooking, sewing and art, which help the women feel at home in America. Eighty to 90 are us ually involved. “We get satisfaction from it too,” commented one of the Bap tist women. For the non-English speaking student wives, Discov ery works on a one-to-one basis. “The program has a double value nature,” remarked the Rev. David Rowland. “While it helps a person from another country adjust and live comfortably here, it turns around over there.” Other countries represented in the fall semester Discovery group are Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Turkey, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bangladesh, France, Peru, Morocco, Lebanon, Holland, Denmark, Finland and Australia. By VERN HAUGLAND AP Aviation Writer ABOARD USS TICONDER- OGA (&)—The last Apollo voyag ers came safely home from the moon Tuesday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean to end an un precedented era of exploration and adventure which carried man’s quest for the unknown to another world. Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Harrison H. Schmitt and Ronald E. Evans, perhaps the last humans to visit the moon in the 20th Century, parachuted to a bull’s-eye landing in their spaceship America that was a fit ting climax to the most perfectly- executed and scientifically - re warding of the Apollos. Scientists said they returned with data which might alter man’s theories about the evolution of the moon, and perhaps our earth and solar system. Command ship America hit gentle seas 400 miles southeast of American Samoa at 2:25 p.m. EST, just 2.5 miles from this recovery carrier. Commander Cernan happily announced: “America is stable one in the water . . . All is well on board. We all feel good. We all feel great.” The spaceship, its exterior blistered by re-entry heat of more than 4,000 degrees, had completed a journey of 1.48 million miles that lasted 12 days, 13 hours 52 minutes. It began with a spectacular night-time blastoff from Cape Kennedy, Fla., at 12:33 a.m. Dec. 7. Fifty-three minutes after splash, the astronauts were on the deck of the Ticonderoga, where in a brief ceremony, they thanked the recovery team for a “fan tastic” job and then went below decks for extensive medical ex aminations. Dr. Royce Hawkins, director of medical operations at the space center here, reported an hour later that he had received word from the ship that all three space men were id “excellent” physical condition. President Nixon in Washing ton issued a statement praising the accomplishments of the Apollo program and stating that the ex ploration of space “has barely begun.” Space agency officials in Texas were both joyous and nostalgic about the final Apollo. Dr. Rocco A. Petrone, director of the Apollo program said: “Apollo 17 goes into the record books as the most perfect mis sion, the most sophisticated sci ence mission ever conducted. This closes a golden chapter in an era of space exploration. It brings to a close what has been a very romantic era.” George Low, deputy director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said “Man has learned that space is his to explore and man will return to space to explore, to the moon and beyond. Apollo has paved the way.” The families of Cernan and Schmitt watched the spectacular splashdown on television at their homes near the space center and Barbara Cernan exuded: “The last has been my man and I couldn’t be happier.” Janet Evans tilted her cham pagne glass toward the TV set and toasted: “Here’s to them.” After the landing, the space men were lifted, one-by-one by a basket chair into a helicopter and were deposited on the deck of the Ticonderoga for a heroes’ welcome. SCONA Workers Look For Donors Seven Texas A&M students will devote their Christmas holidays to making the 18th Student Con ference on National Affairs a fi nancially solvent undertaking Feb. 14-17. Headed by SCONA XVIII chairman Chet Edwards of Hous ton, they will canvass potential donors in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth. SCONA, one of the student or ganized and operated programs of the Memorial Student Center, will bring college delegates and prominent spokesmen to TAMU in February for consideration of “The Controlled Society.” No appropriated funds or fees are allocated the conference, which operates through student solicitation. SCONA has been highly successful, from topic par ticipation and financial view points, for the last 17 years. Finance chairman of the 1973 conference, Scott D. Steffler of Houston, announced that funding currently stands at 80 per cent of the budgeted $23,500 for SCO NA XVIII. Largest contributors are the Moody Foundation, Sid Richard son Foundation, Republican Na tional Bank of Dallas and the Houston Endowment. Numerous friends of Texas A&M also un derwrite SCONA with $50 each contributions. Edwards, Steffler and other conference leaders will be shoot ing for nearly $3,700 in the Christmas - between semesters holidays. Delegate registration fees round out SCONA revenues. Conference expenses include speaker honorariums, travel and delegate housing, meals, general operation expenses and printing. SCONA XVII was budgeted at $20,000 and came out with a $275 excess. Expenses to date on the 18th conference have been $3,042.- 71, Steffler said. Soliciting during a week-long fund drive in January will be Ed wards, vice chairman Phillip Smith, Kathy Adams and Steffler in Houston; planning committee chairman Steve Kosub in San Antonio; David White, Fort Worth, and Gary Taraba, plan ning vice chairman, Dallas. The majority of SCONA XVIII revenues were raised during a summer fund drive. MSC Director J. Wayne Stark noted that student experience working on SCONA is one of the unseen benefits. Contracts with business executives through the fund drives help build poise and confidence. “It’s something for a junior to walk into an oil executive’s of fice asking for SCONA support,” Stark once said. “It’s an experi ence in itself just to be thrown out of such a place.” Debaters Assemble Winning Semester Record Teague Gives Paper To Archives Stamp* WE GIVE KI <*"■.?£ r amkMPjJ WE GIVE Scholarly study of facets of vet erans affairs, the U. S. space pro- ?ram and other legislative pro grams and people became pos sible Tuesday at Texas A&M through presentation by U. S. Rep, Olin E. Teague of his pa pers. A key legislator since 1946, Congressman Teague turned over a part of his personal correspon dence to the library of his alma Mater. The veteran lawmaker has served on the Veterans Affairs Committee since 1946, but he plans to give up the chairmanship of that group since he is in line to become chairman of the Science and Astronautics Committee. More than 80 persons, includ ing State Rep. Bill Presnal and TAMU System board members Clyde H. Wells, Ford D. Albrit ton and William H. Lewie, were at the presentation. President Jack K. Williams aid the Teague papers are “sim ply the latest in a long list of assistance Congressman Teague given Texas A&M Univer sity. His efforts have been so vig orous in so many ways.” - " “I think it is particularly fitting that Mr. Teague at this time add to his career by giving Texas A&M and the people of Texas and America a good portion of his public papers,” commented Dr. WE GIVE Banking is a pleasure Bank & Trust. at First Adv. Ralph W. Steen, principal speak er at the ceremony. “One of the things we need more than anything else in any government is this element of truth,” added the Stephen F. Austin State University presi dent and former TAMU history professor. “You can get truth from papers, much more effec tively than you can get truth from people. The reason is that as people grow older, they be come slightly confused, and they begin to confuse what they did with what they heard,” Steen add ed. “In a few more years, they confuse what they did with what they imagined,” he continued. “As a result, recollection of 30-year- old occurrences is not always the truth.” Someone who is trying to re member “thinks it is the truth, he intends it to be the truth, but it really isn’t,” Steen observ ed. He claimed the failing is “ab solutely true of everything and everybody.” “Papers are important,” he add ed, “because they tell us the truth, and the truth is what we need to know. Society today has many problems because we haven’t learned from the past the things we ought. “It’s from papers of this kind that we’re going to learn the things we need to learn in order to correct mistakes that have been made,” Dr. Steen stated. Dr. Williams also called on Dr. John Paul Abbott, professor eme ritus of English; TAMU student body president Layne Kruse, and Association of Former Students executive director Richard Wei- rus for comments on Teague’s as- MSC To Close After Thursday Memorial Student Center serv ices will close Thursday after noon for the 12-day A&M Christ mas holiday. Guest rooms, food, gift and barber shops, browsing library and general offices will reopen Jan. 3, announced Carmon Tax, facilities scheduling manager. Window service at the MSC Post Office will also shut down during the student-faculty-staff holiday period. The fountain room will close at 4:30 p.m. Wed nesday and remain closed until the start of spring semester classes, at 8 a.m. Jan. 15. The Association of Former Stu dents and Braley Travel Service will operate six days of the holi day period, Dec. 22, 26-29 and Jan. 2. Access will be by the northwest entrance. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. sistance to Texas A&M. Director of Libraries John B. Smith and Dr. Charles Schultz, \university archivist, designated the Teague papers “a resource of major importance, which will draw scholars from all over the nation to Texas A&M.” Texas A&M students John Nash of Houston and John Miller of Beaumont assembled a winning record in fall semester debate at Kansas City, Fort Worth, Hous ton and Washington, D. C. Their 19 wins and 14 losses included victories over teams from Tulane, Texas, Southern Cal, Kansas, Boston College and MIT. “The record is made more im pressive by the fact that all four tournaments Nash and Miller attended were ‘direct power- matched,’ in which winning teams meet winning teams,” commented Russell Usnick, debate director in the English Department. Any record over 50 per cent in this system usually ranks a team in the top 20 or 30 per cent’ of competition, Usnick explained. Miller and Nash, though both underclassmen, have competed against top varsity competition, he noted. Consequently, the teams they engage are usually junior and senior level debaters with several years experience. The season continues through April when the TAMU duo will attempt to win a spot at the Na tional Debate Tournament, for the top 36 teams in the U. S. To win a tourney berth, Miller and Nash must continue winning and do well at a regional qualifying tournament, Usnick said. At Rockhurst College in Kansas City, they were seventh among 56 teams with a 6-2 record after preliminary competition. They lost to Macalaster University of Minnesota at the octo-final round but received a plaque. After a 3-5 effort at TCU, Nash and Miller narrowly missed the eliminations cutoff at U-H with a 5-3 record. It placed TAMU 19th among 112 teams, with wins over Southern Cal, Southwest Missouri State, Tulane, UT and Rockhurst. At Thanksgiving the team went 5-3 at the Georgetown University tourney in D. C. They placed 21st among 134 teams and achieved it with wins over Boston College, Kansas, Augustana College, Southwestern Louisiana and MIT. YC Language Oddity; It Works By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent The Vietnamese language has only one word for “no,” but a half-dozen for “yes,” all the way from maybe to the equivalent of “cross my heart.” This linguistic peculiarity seemed to serve the present pur poses of the Communist side in its talks with Henry A. Kissinger. Before Oct. 26, the North Vietnamese, from their own words, seemed pretty confident of nailing down a cease-fire agree ment to their liking. Then some thing happened to suggest that their ‘’yes” had really been a “yes, but,” and now would give way to a resounding “no.” What Hanoi’s ruling party was saying to its members makes it appear that North Vietnam en visaged a settlement that would be only temporary and at the same time would advance both its own territorial aims and the aims of what it calls “the lasting interests of the entire movement,” meaning international commu nism. ^ The whole Indochina business started years ago because of a Communist penchant for playing grim games with nations and peoples to propagate an ideology. Somebody seems still to be play ing games. While there is room for argu ment that the penchant is not peculiar to the Communist side, Hanoi itself provides evidence that it still wants to pick up all the marbles. One piece of evi dence was in editorials of the North Vietnamese party journal Hoc Tap, one early in November, another later on. The first, written by Nguyen Khanh Toan, a prominent pro- Soviet figure, reflected a feeling that a cease-fire was still near. The article seemed to be prepar ing the party rank and file for a shift in tactics. Hoc Tap said there is “a time for us to advance but also a time for us to step back temporarily in order to advance more steadily later on.” “We cannot exterminate im perialism at one time in a single battle,” it went on. “We drive it back step by step.” Thus: “Sometimes we must accept a certain agreement with the enemy . . . aimed at weaken ing his forces and increasing our forces . . . Communists do not always reject all kinds of agree ments nor are they ready to accept any agreement. When it is necessary to reach an agree ment, Communists do not neglect their revolutionary objective nor allow limited and immediate in terests to blur awareness of the lasting interests of the entire movement. They do not allow national selfishness to control and undermine the common interests of the world revolution.” There was a vague hint of complaint in that, as if to remind their Soviet allies that the North Vietnamese were offering some concessions, being obedient to long-range goals of the inter national movement. Then it became clear that the talks in Paris had hit a snag. Another Hoc Tap editorial dis cussed U.S. “treachery,” but this time said nothing that could be interpreted as meaning agree ment was imminent. Instead it exhorted the party to prepare for a fight to the end. If Kissinger was after a last ing agreement and Hanoi had its mind set on something temporary, it is not at all surprising that the talks hit an impasse.