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HON le May Day Sees Reds Talk Of Peace, Egypt Cry‘War’ By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It was a May Day of con trasts abroad, with war talk and peace talk, and strikes that vir tually crippled a nation. Workers in many parts of the World took time off to celebrate the official international holiday of labor’s left wing. While the president of Egypt spoke of war, the leader of the Soviet Union affirmed a policy of peace. Workers in Britain went on strike, throwing the transit sys tem into chaos. May Day became an occasion for labor demonstrations after the Second Socialist Interna tional chose that date for its hol iday in 1889. In England and the United States, the holiday grew out of an ancient Roman rite of spring —celebrated with dancing around a Maypole decorated with flow ers and streamers. May Day themes around the world were familiar ones—peace, struggle against capitalism and colonialism. The crowds ranged from 750 Cambodians who showed up at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh to vast throngs who filled Moscow’s Red Square. President Lon Nol told the Phnom Penh rally, “We must work harder and harder so our country will survive Communist domination.” Insurgent forces were only a few miles outside the city. In Moscow, five huge posters of Leonid I. Brezhnev waved above a sea of smiling Russian faces in Red Square. Brezhnev, the Communist party secretary who dominated the day, told them: “The policy of the Soviet Union in Europe, just as in oth er parts of the world, is first of all a policy of peace.” The Russian leader’s peace pledge contrasted sharply with those of Egypt’s President An war Sadat. “Our friends in the Soviet Union believe a peaceful settle ment is the only way out of the Middle East crisis,” Sadat said over Cairo radio in a May Day speech. That idea, Sadat said, “is a myth.” He asked for Soviet help in preparing for war with Israel. North Vietnam celebrated with a massive military parade, while the Communist party newspaper, Nhan Dan, warned in an edi torial, “The situation in the In dochinese peninsula is very grave.” In Rome, Pope Paul VI told thousands of persons assembled for his weekly audience, “Radi cal struggle among different classes for the monopoly of rich ness is a social and economic error.” Not far from the Vati can, tens of thousands of Italian workers staged a rally where many held signs with leftist slo gans. Che Battalion He That Thinks Himself The Wisest Is Generally The Greatest Fool. Wednesday — Considerably cloudy. 30% chance of showers and thundershowers in morning and afternoon. Partly clotidy to night. High 75, low 53. Thursday—Fair and mild. High of 74. Vol. 67 No. 256 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 2, 1973 845-2226 Board Considered Student Proposa Is FBI Guards Scandal Files The TAMU System Board of Directors considered recommen- iations made by the Student Sen ate and two petitions concerning Student Services fees before final izing any decision here Tuesday. The two petitions the Board re- teived were from the “Students Of Concern” and the Veterinary School asking the Board to con sider a lowering of the fees as Suggested by the senate. "The Board reviewed the whole loncept,” said Student Govern ment (SG) president Randy Ross, Friends’ Play At Boot Dance ‘Friends of the Family,” a sev en-member band from Austin, will be featured at the class of ’74 Corps of Cadets Boot Dance. The dance, Saturday from 8 p,m. to midnight in the new Me morial Student Center Ballroom, is the first official function at which ’74 seniors can wear their boots. The dance will be of a formal or semi-formal motif with cadets wearing their class “A” winter with midnights. Class “A” sum mer uniforms may be substituted for those seniors not having win ter attire. Tickets are $5 per couple and can be bought in advance or at the door. Advance tickets are available at the MSC Student Finance Office, from Mike Turn er in Room 306, Dorm 3 or Chris St, John, Dorm 6 Room 109. “before making its decision to in crease the fees to $19 (from the senate’s suggestion of $18).” The Board compensated for the dollar increase by lowering the hospital fee one dollar. According to Ross, the two pe titions had impact on the Board’s decision in the sense that they made Board members discuss and consider the suggested changes. Also, said Ross, it should be pointed out that the Senate’s de cision is important. “This is an important issue and the only change made in the senate's deci sion was to raise the fee one dol lar to allocate money to the Me morial Student Center facilities and increase the reserve.” The Board also considered the resolution passed by the senate in its April 26 meeting which urged the Board to wait until the spring semester to raise room and board fees. “The Board pointed out that it was not economically feasible to wait until the spring semester to raise the rates,” said Ross. Ross suggested that those stu dents interested in applying for day-student permits in order to live off-campus should do so at this time. “The policy for moving off- campus is probably the most flex ible it has ever been,” continued Ross. “As of Monday only 11 stu dents had been turned down for such permits and 50 student files are pending acceptance.” Ross also said students with financial difficulties have the odds in their favor, but should apply now. Deadline for off-campus ap plications is July 31. WASHINGTON <A>) — FBI agents were dispatched to the White House Tuesday to guard Watergate-related files kept in the offices of departing officials. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said an around-the-clock safeguarding procedure was be gun “to physically protect” vari ous White House documents. Sources said President Nixon’s top aides, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, culled Council Alters Honor Grad Designations Designations have been revised for graduating with honors from A&M. The new categories, which go into effect this spring, are Sum- ma Cum Laude (3.75 or higher on a 4.0 system), Magna Cum Laude (3.5 to 3.749 inclusive) and Cum Laude (3.25 through 3.499). The Dean of Admissions and Records said the university’s Academic Council revised the designations after action was initiated by the Student Senate and endorsed by the Rules and Regulations Committee. Students must have complet ed at least 60 hours at TAMU to be eligible for any of the desig nations. For. transfer students For ( transfer the grade point ratio for work taken at other institutions com bined with the A&M GPR must equal that required by A&M for the appropriate category. through government files before they resigned. That disclosure came amid a flurry of other developments in the day after Nixon's speech to the nation on the case: —Nixon met with his cabinet in an effort to get his Water- gate-rocked administration back on course. One participant described the session as a general “rallying round,” and said the President told the Cabinet things would move forward now in the admin istration. —After the Cabinet meeting, Nixon met for an hour in his Oval Office with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. In disclosing the meeting a White House spokesman would not say what was discussed, describing it only as a private meeting. This ap parently was the first time since December Nixon and Agnew had held such an extensive discussion. —Sources predicted that the Haldeman and Ehrlichman resig nations will bring major changes in the White House staff struc ture. One source said Nixon would announce the shuffle next week. Ziegler said the President had made no decisions on replace ments for the two aides, but ad ministration officials said they expect Treasury Seer et ary George Shultz to receive ex panded White House duties. —In the Pentagon Papers’ trial in Los, Angeles, U. S. District Judge Matt Byrne said Ehrlich man told FBI agents he knew that Watergate conspirators had broken into the office of defend ant Daniel Ellsberg’s psychi atrist. Ellsberg’s attorney moved for a mistrial. —The federal grand jury on Watergate heard from “a very important witness,” according to assistant prosecutor Seymour Glanzer. He declined to identify the witness, saying “the impor tant people who come before a grand jury are never the impor tant people in the headlines.” He said the probe has been intensi fied. —A Justice Department source said “indictments are pretty far down the road” in the grand jury inquiry. Glanzer said “we’re not going to be stampeded into doing something rash.” The Haldeman - Ehrlichman search for documentation began days prior to Nixon’s acceptance Monday of their resignations as his closest advisers, sources said. It apparently was prompted by continuing news accounts linking them to the Watergate swirl and was accelerated after reports that John W. Dean III, fired Monday by Nixon as presidential counsel, was ready to turn over to investigators certain docu ments relating to an alleged White House cover-up of Water gate involvement. Haldeman and Ehrlichman were seen leaving the White House Tuesday morning carry ing stacks of documents. They rode off to an undisclosed desti nation in the back seat of a White House limousine. Not long afterwards, it became known that Nixon’s Watergate investigators had ordered that FBI agents be posted around the clock at the offices of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean and other locations where Watergate-relat ed files are kept. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Senate Wants Bugging Probe Given To Unbiased Party Final Review Caps Corps Year By SALLY HAMILTON Final Review, the emotional event of the year for outgoing seniors, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday as members of the Class of ’73 will perform their last duty in the TAMU Corps of Cadets. Two reviews will take place. The first regular review will be led by the out-going seniors and officers. New seniors will then form up with their units as for mer commanders and upperclass men bid them farewell. Old sen iors form a line, march to the other side of the field and serve as the reviewing party for the new Corps of Cadets. "I feel sadness, regret and pride all at the same time,” said Corps Supply Officer Jim Grif fith. “Sadness because I’m leav ing my friends, regret about things I didn’t do and should have done, and pride that I got to be a part of A&M.” "In all the underclassman years Final Review doesn’t mean that much because everyone knows that they will be coming back,” commented Russell Phillips, Corps scholastic officer. “To seniors Fi nal Review is the time to realize that this is the end of their ca reer at A&M.” Corps Chaplain Kerry Hulse feels that four years in the Corps has done much to prepare him for his future. “I’ll miss it, but I feel that it is ending at the right time. I’ve grown into a better in dividual than when I first came to TAMU. I’m not afraid to at tempt anything new,” Hulse said. "The feeling is nothing that can be put on paper,” said Robert Goatee. “It takes four years of hard work to understand.” First Brigade Commander Dan Newsome feels that he will be on his own again. “When a person returns to the campus to visit there will always be a feeling of being ostracized as he is no longer a part of it anymore,” said New- some. Ross Volunteer Commander Bill Walker said he feels that his four years in the Corps and at TAMU are invaluable. “I wouldn’t trade it for nothing,” said Walk er, “It’s sad to leave, but it’s really only the beginning.” Richard “Buck” Weirus, direc tor of the Former Student Asso ciation, attended A&M when the school was entirely Corps. “It was on a much larger scale as we had a mounted cavalry and a horse- drawn artillery.” “Final Review was the time that one found out that those high and mighty seniors that he was always afraid of were very emotional themselves,” Weirus said. “There is not a more emo tional or meaningful time for the Corps.” Maj. Donald Henderson, Assist ant Commandant of the Corps, looks at a different side of Final Review. “It’s sad to see some of these fine leaders leave, but all underclassmen are moving up a class and receiving new responsi bility,” said Henderson. WASHINGTON UP)—The Sen ate told President Nixon Tues day it wants the Watergate in vestigation taken out of the ex ecutive branch and turned over to a special prosecutor free of any taint of bias. With no objection raised, the Senate approved by voice vote a resolution by Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-Ill., who said the White House should stop investigating itself. Percy and a number of other senators said they have faith in the integrity of Atty. Gen.-des ignate Elliot L. Richardson but that he has worked for the Nix on administration too long to in vestigate Watergate himself. In a speech Monday night Nix on put Richardson in charge of all Watergate investigations but said he could name a special in- dependent prosecutor if he thought it desirable to do so. The Senate, in effect, told him to take that step now. Several senators told Nixon in telegrams and letters they be lieve the best choice he could make to fill that position would be former Republican Sen. John Williams of Delaware who de voted most of a long congres sional career to investigations praised for their objectivity and thoroughness. The Percy resolution was in troduced in identical form in the House by John Anderson, R-Ill., chairman of the House Republi can Conference. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The rsolution calls for the im mediate naming by the President of an individual “of the highest character and integrity from out side the executive branch” to serve as special prosecutor! sub ject to approval and confirma tion by the Senate. Meanwhile, sources on the Sen ate Watergate investigating com mittee said the resignations of three top members of the Presi dent’s staff have not changed the investigation’s course. “We are charging full steam ahead and fully expect to begin hearings on May 15 as sched uled,” a source close to the com mittee said. But the source said the direc tion and timetable of the probe might be changed if any indict ments are handed down before May 15 by a grand jury. Monday, Sen. Lowell T. Weick- er, R-Conn., said hearings in mid-May would be premature be cause they might jeopardize the legal rights of persons alleged to have been involved. E. V. Adams Band Building Named ■ ■ ■ ■ a The Texas Aggie Band re hearsal hall will be named in hon or of Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, retir ing director of the organization. The TAMU Board of Directors approved naming the structure the E. V. Adams Band Building at its Tuesday meeting. The circular building at the southeast edge of the campus provides unique practice facili ties for the Aggie Band. Be sides a semicircular, 50-foot ra dius main practice hall with space for 300 musicians, it con tains four ensemble practice rooms, 12 individual rehearsal areas, offices of the director, as sociate director and receptionist, a music library and instrument storage and repair rooms. It shares foundation works with the 12-dorm services build ing. They are separated by a 16-foot wide covered breezeway. The 30-foot high building faced with luminescent tile went into use on the Aggie Band’s first “The Colonel,” as Adams is af fectionately known to bandmen, said he couldn’t imagine “any way the new hall could be more ideal” just after moving his of fice from the fourth floor of ad jacent Harrington Hall, where the Aggie Band resides. He has directed the band since 1946. More than 3,000 Aggies marched under his guidance. The Colonel designed 209 football halftime drills with which the Aggie Band enthralled millions. A Bryan native, Adams taught and played trumpet while in the band. He graduated in 1929 and received a degree in education at TAMU in 1932. Study at the Northwestern University School of Music and Cincinnati Conserv atory of Music and four years service in the U. S. Army pre ceded Adams’ arrival as Aggie Band director in 1946. practice day of the 1970-71 school year. PO Becomes ‘Ag Station’ 7 Professors To Be Honored NOW THAT WE’VE GOT YOUR ATTENTION, we just thought we’d tell you that the Wofford Cain swimming pool will be open to all A&M students with ID cards this summer, with hours from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. Monday through Saturday and 1-7 p. m. on Sunday. Faculty-staff will still have to pay an entry fee, though. It’s still a good idea to in clude the city, state and ZIP, but mail addressed to “Aggieland Station” would undoubtedly reach the proper destination. That destination is, of course, Texas A&M, which is introduc ing the Aggieland Station desig nation with the opening of postal facilities in its new Memorial Student Center addition. The new name officially be comes effective June 1, and for the record the ZIP code is 77844. Aggieland Station is primarily for student mail. Official cor respondence should still be ad dressed directly to the univer sity and include a 77843 ZIP. Seven retiring faculty members will be honored with a reception and dinner Thursday evening. The honorees are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, professor of English; Dr. Thomas E. McAfee, profes sor of agronomy; Dr. Charles K. Hancock, professor of chemistry; Dr. Roger D. Whealy, professor of chemistry; Gen. John P. Doyle, professor, MacDonald Chair of Transportation; Dr. Darrell R. Shreve, associate professor of industrial engineering, and Prof. Joseph Bicknell, visiting profes sor of aerospace engineering. The Association of Former Students will sponsor a reception at 7 p.m. in the Ramada Inn Ball room, with dinner following at 8 p.m. ‘On the side of Texas A&M.” University National Bank Adv. 4 i