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1 V THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 13, 1973 Listen Up cadet slouch by ji m Earie Reader Defends Nixon In Watergate Scandal “It use to be that when your laundry got mixed up, you would get back a few things that you could use!” SWIMMING LESSONS POSTPONED—Due to the loss of lights for P. L. Downs Natatorium during shipment, swimming lessons slated to begin today have been post poned until July 2, according to instructor Steve Montgom ery. Montgomery serves as assistant A&M swim coach during the school term and can be reached at the pool if swimming lessons are desired. (Photo by Peter Leabo) Dear Sirs: It is regrettable that you deemed it necessary to join the obstreperous choir of those who seek to destroy the presidency. You have obviously fallen a vic tim to the brainwashing of the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus which dominates the news media, and you can’t tell, now, maroon from white. The rest of the world is an incredulous witness to the bizarre spectacle of how the minor inci dent called “Watergate” is being blown up by sour losers and per sonal enemies of the American President. They have already in flicted an irrepairable damage to American diplomacy, foreign trade, and the value of the dol lar. They have injured the spirit of fair play, the one thing many people most admired in the An glo-Saxon culture. The way the President of the United States is being treated by the Press as a conspirator leaves me, a foreign- educated person and a natural ized U.S. citizen, deeply irritated and ashamed. The editors of “The Battalion” have joined a strange company without knowing it. Some self- appointed champions of the free Radio Club Set To Meet On Thursday A&M’s Radio Committee has scheduled a meeting on Wednes day, June 14, in the Student Pro grams Office room 216 for 7:30 p.m. The meeting will concern itself with a code-theory class organi zation and with field day prep arations. All members and prospective members are urged to attend and any questions should be directed to Kurt Freidberger, summer chairman, at 845-4848 at the MSC. Two Aggies On Support Of Skylab Two A&M graduates are among Air Force personnel flying in support of the Skylab I mission. Capt. James G. Gibson of San Antonio and 1st Lt. Randall T. Schulze of Dickinson are in re covery service at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Schulze is an HC-130 Hercules pilot; Gibson a navigator. They are part of the Military Airlift Command’s 31st Aero space Rescue and Recovery Squadron assigned on the U. S.’s first experimental, earth-orbital space station missions. The NASA support service continues through the two 56-day Skylab missions. Capt. Gibson is a 1961 gradu ate of Texas A&M, in journalism. Lt. Schulze finished studies in petroleum engineering in 1971. He commanded Squadron 4 in the Corps of Cadets. €bt Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editor or of the writer of tne article and are not necessarily those of the University administration or the Board of Directors. The Battalion is a non-profit, self-supporting enterprise operated by students as a University and Community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words and are subject to being cut to that length or less if longer. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit such letters and does not guarantee to publish any letter. Each letter must be signed and show the address of the writer. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. 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Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. EDITOR BILL HENRY Papa Burger Basket Two Char-Broiled Beef Patties With your choice of lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and onions, and our own A&W Dressing. All This Plus Shoestring French Fries I 4611 Texas Avenue Open ’Til 1:00 a. m. 846-3333 For Only With C Coupon Offer Good Through June 16, 1973 Coupon Must Accompany Purchase Limit 1 With Coupon press claim to save this country from an imaginary dictatorship while their columns regularly ap pear in full length in Communist countries, whenever their totali tarian regime wishes to make the strongest anti-American state ment. I think it is a grave error on your part to consider the Press, dominated by such people, to be a representative vehicle of this country. The American peo ple possess a sense of fairness and good manners. Unsubstanti ated charges of conspiracy to de molish a national party might leave the news media as the big gest loser in the Watergate af fair. May I suggest to you, if sound reasoning is possible, to consider the proven principle of cui bono. Mr. Nixon did not need a bur glary to win the election. It does not serve the interest of any gov ernment to publicize sensitive matters of national security. It only helps Mr. Anderson and Mr. Bernstein to win Pultizer prizes. It took guts and a statesman to withhold information about the Cuban invasion plans in 1960! Finally, if “The Battalion” edi tors do not see any difference be tween the American process and Communist-controlled elections, I would be glad to enlighten them. An Aggies does not have to go to Eastern Europe to realize that a voter turnout of 99.5% is hard ly voluntary. To this observer of the American political scene, the deployment of the CIA by a pres ident, or of our campus police men by Mr. Bill Moore for elec tion purposes seems to be higi unlikely. 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