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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 5, 1973
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“You buy a ticket for one dollar and the one who holds
the ticket nearest to the hour when the orange and white
buses are repainted wins the pot! !”
From Washington Watch
A decisive showdown between
a determined Congress and a de
fiant President is due this month.
The issue—the move by Senate
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield
to cut back the swollen American
foreign legion, 606,000 troops at
1,963 foreign bases at a cost of
$30 billion a year. Nixon chooses
to regard this as a personal attack
upon him, and swears to veto the
cuts. He sent Secretary of State
William Rogers to Europe and
Asia to tell our “allies” he will
not allow any reductions in the
foreign legion.
The White House, as described
by the Washington Post (July
21), regards this and every other
effort to chop down the weedy
growth of Presidential power, as
an unholy conspiracy against Nix
on. He sees the 1972 election as
bestowing on him almost divine
powers. “And what we were elect
ed to do, we are going to do,” he
told his staff July 20. Congress
has become “the enemy.” Colum
nist Marquis Childs sees both
sides “plunging toward a Consti
tutional crisis.”
Working Behind The Scene
Recent assault and attempted assaults on women living
or walking on the A&M campus stirred up many concerned
students and faculty two weeks before the commencement
of fall classes. The information on these incidents did not
find its way to the Bryan Eagle until nearly a week had
passed after the events.
Hence, a problem immediately arose for those connected
with the case. Concerned people began to feel that news of
the incidents was being suppressed by the University Police
Department and rumors began to circulate in relation to
University Police affairs.
Why was the news not immediately announced to the
public? For two reasons.
One, two incidents near the end of July happened less
than a week apart and the university Police were working
on leads to narrow their field of two suspects down to one.
This was accomplished because the suspect didn’t have any
idea someone was getting close to his trail.
Secondly, the University Police are not in the news
business. That is our business. The police send reports to
University officials who need to know what is happening, i.e.
Dr. Jack K. Williams, college deans and other top level ad
ministrators. It is our duty (the duty of the press) to go
and look for the news for the public. When this fails to
happen, then we are letting the readership down.
Before jumping to conclusions about the University
Police, one should get to know the men on the force and
what makes it tick. They really do more than is asked and
frequently go out of their way to aid students and faculty.
For instance, last spring a Battalion staffer came upon
a police officer examining bicycles near the Kreuger-Dunn
complex at two o’clock in the morning—not because he had
to, but because he was interested in finding stolen bikes for
students.
It’s this sort of attitude which makes working and
dealing with the University Police an easy thing to do. And
besides, much of the force is comprised of graduate students
trying to put themselves through college the best way they
know how while being the most beneficial to their fellow
students.
We’re not saying, “take a police officer to dinner,” to
butter him up, but try to understand what makes him tick.
After all he’s just like the rest of the world—doing his thing
the best he knows how.
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'TAKE ME AWAY—PLEASE, TAKE ME AWAY!'
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EDITOR MIKE RICE
Managing Editor ^Rod Speer
Women’s Editor Louise Holzem
Sports Editor Kevin Coffey
Ass’t. Sports Editor Ted Boriskie
This issue cuts across the
board, for wrapped up in it are
—the price of bread, the fate of
the battered dollar, aid to educa
tion and other domestic programs.
Two questions: Will the President
try to rally the military to his
side in a test of Congressional and
civilian power? Will Nixon crack-
up in this and other confronta
tions ahead? He has a hitory of
coming apart when seriously chal
lenged, and this is a great con
cern today.
The foreign legion is the big
drain on the dollar, and is respon
sible for the $9.2 billion balance of
payments deficit in 1972, and the
drop in the dollar’s value. Busi
ness Week (July 14) points out,
“Four years ago, a single US dol
lar would buy four German marks
. . . Today, a dollar buys barely
2.3 marks.” The dollar crisis, says
the Guardian (July 4), “now
threatens the breakup of the pres
ent international monetary order
and a decisive rupture between the
US and the Common Market.” The
dollar slippage has brought a 39.8
percent increase in the cost to
American manufacturers of raw
materials. (Conference Board,
July 23)
The President’s argument for
his foreign legion is—the only
way to be sure the Russians will
behave is to stand guard on them
with a loaded gun. Behind this is
a factor peculiar to Nixon, his
need to operate from overpower
ing strength in dealing with oth
ers. Without this, he becomes con
fused and apprehensive.
Yet the best evidence for a cut
in overseas troop strength comes
from the working layers of the
Pentagon. CIA and State Depart
ment. They point to the Soviet’s
obsessive fear of China. Russia
has stationed a million troops
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Nu Chi Chapter of Kappa Del
ta Pi will nominate new members
and install officers at 8 p.m. in
Room 231 of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
THURSDAY
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet in Room 228 of the MSC at
7:30 p.m.
Cepheid Variable Science Fic
tion Committee will announce the
Hugo Winners at 7:30 p.m. in the
Student Programs Office of the
MSC.
Alpha Phi Omega will hold a
Fall Pledge Smoker at 7 p.m. in
Room 231 of the MSC.
Political Forum will meet in
Room 229 of the MSC at 7:30
p.m.
Arab Student Organization will
meet at 7:00 p.m. in Room 230
of the MSC.
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(eighty-five battle divisions) on
the “enemy” border, and pointed
its missiles east and south.
Add to this, food shortages in
Russia and torrential spring rains
slowing the harvest. (Moscow Ra
dio reported July 12, “Harvesting
this year is off to a somewhat un
usually slow start. Torrential
rains and winds . . . have flatten
ed or twisted crops.”) Brezhnev’s!
making friends with the West to
concentrate power against China
has the OK of the hard-line Red
Army as a practical strategy.
Red Star, the army newspaper,
in early July published an eight
thousand word defense of the de
tente with the West, and Marshall
P. A. Rotmistrov in Izvestia (July
5) echoed the line.
Americans for Democratic Ac
tion ask other questions: “Wheth
er we should have nine thousand
troops in Taiwan at a time when
we are establishing ties with Chi
na? Do we still need forty-three
thousand troops in Thailand after
the withdrawal of troops from
Vietnam? Is it necessary to main
tain one hundred eight thousand
US forces afloat?” We also have
twenty thousand in Japan, fifteen
thousand Philippines, forty-two
thousand Ryuku Islands, seven
teen thousand Guam, and thou
sand more scattered in such areas
as Bahrain, Sudi Arabia. Iran,
Greece, Cyprus, Ethiopa—all po
tential trouble spots where up
risings or wars could involve US
forces.
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Wednesday—Moses, Schumacher, Moore, Crocker,
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