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m IT CO, ENS :e ng PEDWIN, , ACME,’ RSE Impeachment Moves Planned As Watergate Probe Continues LY! WASHINGTON UP>—Demands for President Nixon’s resignation or impeachment mounted Monday even as the new acting attorney general pledged vigorous pursuit of the Watergate investigation. House Speaker Carl Albert and other congressional leaders worked on plans for how to pro ceed with impeachment resolu tions promised by angry mem bers in the wake of Nixon’s fir ing Saturday night of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald I Cox. Nixon, first at the White House and then at his Camp David, Md., retreat, considered using a tele- ^ vised speech to present his side of the case to the nation. U. S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork said the staff and evi dence assembled by Cox would be used to pursue the Watergate probe. Bork became acting attor ney general when Atty. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson quit and Deputy Atty. Gen. William D. Ruckelshaus was dismissed Sat urday night over Cox’s firing. He put the investigation under the supervision of Henry E. Petersen, the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. Bork said he retains “ultimate authority and responsibility” for the investigation. When Nixon fired Cox, he also abolished the office of special prosecutor, which had handled the case since May. While White House aides sought to mollify critical sena tors and congressmen with ex planations of Nixon’s action, criticism of the move continued to pile up—a significant amount of it from Republicans. The AFL-CIO’s national con vention in Miami Beach Fla., shouted approval to a resolution calling for Nixon to resign or be impeached if he didn’t. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D.- Hawaii, a member of the Senate Watergate committee, told the convention Nixon should resign because Americans “have suf fered enough” and “must be spared this new pain and trauma.” The public flooded Western Union with telegrams to Wash ington. Some 8,000 were sent to Cox’s former office. A new Gal lup Poll taken before Saturday’s events showed Nixon’s confidence rating with the public at a new low. The president of the American Bar Association urged Congress to reestablish the office of the special prosecutor, a move a number of senators and repre sentatives also advocated. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D.- Mass., urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate what he called accumulating evidence that last week’s tapes battle was a pretext to fire Cox because he was “too hot on the White House trail.” Kennedy said Nixon should consider resigning to spare the country the anguish of impeach ment proceedings. THE HORNED FROGS took it on the chin Saturday as the Aggies pulled together a 35-16 victory. For more information see story page 6. (Photo by Rodger Mallison) Battalion College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 23, 1973 To Generous Souls, Every Task Is Noble. Mid-east Still at War Despite Cease Fire ASSOCIATED PRESS Egypt and Israel ordered their troops to silence their guns Mon day, but Syria snubbed a U.N. Middle East cease-fire appeal and fighting was reported continuing on both fronts hours after the be ginning of the truce. Ninety New Initiated at Ross Volunteers Annual Banquet CAPT. MARVIN T. HOP- GOOD ’65 said that while he was at A&M he was proud est of being a yell leader and being a Ross Volunteer. Capt. Hopgood, of the United States Marine Corps, was the guest speaker at the RV Banquet Thursday night. (Photo by Gary Bald- asari) By SALLY HAMILTON Ninety junior TAMU cadets became Ross Volunteers Thurs day night at the annual fall initi ation banquet of the Ross Volun teers. The R.V.s, a drill unit com posed of juniors and senior cadets began in 1887 with a crack drill unit under the name of the Scott Volunteers. With the in auguration of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the Scott Volunteers be came the Ross Volunteers. Each time a new president was ap pointed at A&M the name was changed in honor of that presi dent until 1902 when H. H. Har rington was made president. He was the son-in-law of Lawrence Sullivan Ross and wished that the unit retain the name of the the Ross Volunteers. The first uniform was a white duck, high-necked blouse with white pants until the Theodore Roosevelt era when the uniform was changed to a blue and gray uniform and a black stetson hat in honor of the Rough Riders. In 1952 the R.V. Firing Squad was organized and has come to be the most hallowed tradition of the drill unit. Each platoon at the end of each spring semester elects seven men plus one alter nate to make up the 21-man squad. It is considered the high est honor a cadet can receive as an RV. Second Platoon Commander Mark McLean spoke of the duties and responsibilities of the new members, “In the trying times of of the Corps the idea is to lead and not to be led,” said McLean. McLean quoted the 1972-73 RV Commander, Bill Walker, when he said, “Pride is the way you conduct yourself when no one else is watching.” Executive Officer Homer Mills administered the R.V. pledge and the new members received the traditional gold and white cord to be worn with their uniforms. Guest speaker was Capt. Mar vin T. Hopgood ’65 of the United States Marine Corps. During his years at TAMU Hopgood said he was proudest of two things: being a yell leader for two years and )N City Council Relocates Campus Polling Place By VICKIE ASHWILL The College Station City Coun cil agreed to move the TAMU city polling place and placed the TAMU ward system resolution petition in committte Monday night. A resolution presented by the TAMU student body asked to move the city polling place to the University Center. This location is more widely used by students and will put both the county and city polling places in the same location. Mayor J. B. Hervey said that by law the council could not act on he resolution concerning the ward system at this meeting ex cept to put it in committee. “This amendment asks for a charter change,” said Hervey. "Such a change can not be made until two years after a previous charter amendment, the last be ing in 1972.” Therefore, no action can be taken on the establishment of a ward system in the College Sta tion area until April of 1974. At this time, if the committee re ports favorably on the idea, the resolution will be voted on by the citizens of College Station. The resolution said that Col lege Station had grown consider ably in the last few years since the initiation of the present sys tem and that a ward system would give better representation to the various factions of the city. The Bryan - College Station Chamber of Commerce presented a slide show to the council ask ing that it consider a joint cre ation of a tourist-convention bureau. The bureau would be funded with income from the newly established hotel-occupancy tax of three per cent, which took effect in College Station Oct. 1. Presently, 45 other Texas cities have such a room tax and 58 per cent of these have established bureaus that are devoted exclu sively to the development of tour ism and conventions. The chamber proposes that the bureau would be governed by a blue-ribbon panel with equal rep resentation from both cities. The presentation pointed out that Bryan-College Station had major attractions such as TAMU, the Texas World Speedway and Lake Somerville. Robert A. Lacey from the chamber said the location of the bureau had not been determined but that it was important that such an operation be jointly con trolled by the two cities. Assistant City Manager North Bardell reported on the 8.65 miles of alleys in College Station to the council. “It would probably cost around $235,000 to pave these alleys which would require the adjust ment of utilities and shrubbery,” said Bardell. “Newer city devel opments for the most part don’t have alleys and where they do, contractors provide the pave ment.” As a result of the survey, the council decided that the pavement of alleys would be the responsi bility of individual residents, yet the city would give technical ad vice on the matter. The council accepted the low bid of Halsell Motor Co., Inc., of $7,050 on two 1974 Dodge Monaco police cars. (See Council, page 3) being an R.V. Capt. Hopgood spoke of being an RV as a unique challenge. Hopgood held up a book sym bolizing knowledge. “Anyone pur suing a professional or military career will never be a leader without knowledge,” he said. “As leaders you will be making a lot of decisions. To make a decision without knowledge is folly.” Capt. Hopgood then held up a red bandana symbolizing the hard work that one must go through to be successful. “Only in the dictionary does success come be fore work. An individual should strive for more than just the every day stuff.” Hopgood con tinued, “People always expect a great deal from leaders. “These seniors may inspect you once or twice but remember that they as leaders are watched, looked up to and inspected many more times. People always ex pect a great deal from leaders. Leaders are always on parade.” Hopgood concluded by empha sizing the spirit that goes with being a Ross Volunteer. “The loyalty and spirit that each of you now possess is a very real and important thing. Always re member to keep that spirit and (See Initiation, page 3) Student Senate Vacancies Announced Applications are available for three positions within the Student Senate through noon Friday in the Student Government office in the Memorial Center. These positions are for the Legett-Hart-Milner living area and two from the graduate col lege of agriculture. Sam Bayes formerly held one of the graduate agriculture posi tions and had also been parlia mentarian for the Senate. Larry Matula, representative from the Hart-Legett-Milner area resigned from his position due to the academic workload. Students applying for the posi tion must have at least a 2.25 GPR. Israel charged Egyptian artil lery was still shelling Israeli po sitions “in numerous locations” along the Suez Canal battle lines nearly 3% hours after the cease fire in place came into effect. Cairo radio denied the charge and said the Israelis made it only to have a pretext for viola tions of their own. Spokesmen in Tel Aviv declin ed to say whether the Israelis were firing back. Cairo and Tel Aviv accepted the Security Council truce call in the morning but Damascus said only that it was studying it despite reported telephone dis cussions between Presidents Ha fez Assad of Syria and Anwar Sadat of Egypt. Iraq, the major Arab nation fighting with the Syrians, reject ed the appeal outright and Jor dan, with a small force in Syria, announced it would accept it on condition Syria agreed. An Israeli war correspondent reported from the Syrian front that there was no change in that sector when the cease-fire dead line came. “The Syrians did not cease fire,” he reported, “and Is raeli forces carried on with their normal operations.” Both sides reported heavy fighting before the deadline. There also were reports of day long artillery attacks on Israeli positions on the western bank of the Suez Canal as the Egyptians tried to push back Israel’s ex panded beachhead in the Egyp- tion heartland. Cairo and Tel Aviv announced they had handed down orders to their commanders to hold their fire unless fired upon along the Suez Canal front that has been bitterly contested since Oct. 6. The guns were to fall silent at 6:50 p.m., Middle East time— 12:50 p.m. EDT. Both sides made their accept ance of the cease-fire conditional on scrupulous observance by the other side, however, and the re ports of continuing shelling un derscored the difficulties of an immediate halt to the war after 17 days of heavy tank, infantry and aerial combat. The truce was jointly proposed by the Soviet Union and the Unit ed States, the superpowers back ing the warring parties. It was voted in the Security Council ear ly Monday after an agreement worked out in Moscow over the weekend by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev. Four of Staff Hospitalized Four members of the TAMU staff have been hospital ized. Toby Rives Schreiber, dean of women is having abdom inal surgery according to a hospital spokesman. She re turned home Monday, but probably will not return to work for six weeks. Robert L. Boone, director of the Singing Cadets and The New Tradition Singers, was hospitalized for ammonia burns and returned home Friday. Robert H. Rucker, professor of Soil and Crop Science is having knee surgery and will probably return to work in six weeks. J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Cen ter, collapsed last week in his office in the MSC. It is not known when he will leave the hospital, as officials do not know the cause of his blackout. Hospital spokesmen cited heart beat irregularities as a contributing factor, but said this had been straightened out. Campus Liquor Discussed At Texas Student Meeting By VICKIE ASHWILL Students attending the Texas Student Association conference at Stephen F. Austin State Uni versity Sunday afternoon discuss ed liquor on-campus, an issue of rising interest in many schools. The University of Texas and the University of Houston are now working to legalize on-cam pus pubs while TAMU remains at “stage one.” Vice President for Student Af fairs at SFA, Gordon T. Beasley, said the ground work for legaliz ed liquor there was done when the 18-year-old majority rights bill went into effect. ‘Howdy’Day Set Wednesday The Corps Finance Committee is sponsoring “Howdy” day, a traditional day promoting the friendly atmosphere of TAMU. Everyone is asked to greet all their fellow Aggies on this day whether Corps members, civilians or co-eds. Although “Howdy” is the traditional Aggie greeting, a “Hello” or “Good Morning” is fine. Participate and promote one of the many unique quali ties of Aggieland. NOEL HARRISON expresses his indignation at having to move pornographic books one more time in his Monday production of “No Sex Please, We’re British.” Couple Robert Jundelin and Flair Bogan look on surprised that he keeps refusing to help hide the books from Harrison’s mother, who was visiting with the couple. (Photo by Gary Baldasari) “There is no state law that bans alcohol from the campus except at athletic events,” Beasley said. Beasley said that the actual change in the SFA ruling was made by the president of the uni versity. “The Board of Directors over sees him,” Beasley continued, “but he does what he wants. “Our Board considers the presi dent competent—he doesn’t have to poll the members.” The regulation concerning liq uor at SFA is similar to that presently before the TAMU Stu dent Senate. The SFA ruling al lows alcoholic beverages on-cam- pus as long as the person in pos session is 18. The alcohol may be consumed only within the rooms and must be carried in some form of cover ing or wrapper. “Eighty per cent of our prob lems are with freshmen boys,” said Beasley. “Of course, these ‘social deviates’ can be found in any society.” Beasley said the main problem was Thursday and the extent of the problem usually depended on the weather and the time of the year. Persons creating problems with alcohol on the SFA campus are put on conduct probation. UH and UTA are both working toward on-campus pubs. The Uni versity of Oklahoma has had a pub on its campus for seven years and St. Mary’s in San Antonio will be opening a similar service at the end of October. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” Adv. Yell Practice Tonight, 7:15 at Kyle Field—Beat Baylor!