Loggins, Messina canceled
VALENTINE FLOWERS pile up at the Krueger-Dunn Commons desk as coeds were
vooed with the traditional candy, flowers, and cards thrpughout the day. These flowers
^delivered earlier await pickup by the girls. (Photo by Kathy Young)
By HANK WAHRMUND
The cancellation of the Loggins
and Messina concert scheduled
this spring was announced at the
Resident Hall Association meet
ing Thursday night.
Association members displayed
obvious disappointment upon
hearing that the rock group, Log
gins and Messina, would not ap
pear for RHA weekend. They
have cancelled their entire tour.
In its place the RHA has chosen
“Eagles” at a much reduced rate.
One of its more popular record
ings is “Taking it Easy.”
Keathley Hall’s representative,
Laurie Keenig, protested the ab
sence of fire extinguishers in the
girls’ dormitories. A resolution
was drawn up requesting action
from Dean Powell’s office on the
matter at the suggestion of Ron
Blatchley, Director of Student Ac
tivities.
An RHA Judicial Board should
be operating by this fall and will
handle discipline problems involv
ing RHA members, according to
Blatchley. The board will hope
fully ease the friction between
male and female students over
violations of curfews in the girls’
dorms. RHA Secretary Karin
Wilwerding strongly protested
the men’s violations, but several
male residents reminded her of
the girls’ responsibilities for ad
hering to the rules as well.
In other action the RHA—
—approved Paul Szatkowski as
RHA acting Vice President, re
placing Robert Youngblood who
resigned;
—heard offers of social enter
tainment and private party facili
ties from the “Dukes of Aggie-
land” and the Silver Dollar Sa
loon;
—approved by voice vote a mo
tion to not join the National RHA
after T. Mark Blakemore pointed
out that the benefits derived from
the national group were not equal
to the $55 organization member
ship fee;
—asked for volunteer delegates
No details
1 available for
dorm incident
Phil Weber was taken by am
bulance Thursday night to the
University Health Center after
Bhe was found on the floor of his
room in Crocker Hall.
Paul Bradshaw, a friend of
Weber, said he found Weber in his
room about 10 p.m. “He was beat
up and the room was torn up,”
said Bradshaw, but he would not
give any details.
Charles Powell, dean of men,
said examinations of Weber
showed no evidence of physical
harm and Weber was taken back
to his room. Weber was unavail
able for comment.
According to Powell, Weber
said he was hit on the back of the
head.
Bill Reeves, head resident ad
visor of Crocker, said Powell,
Chief 0. L. Luther and he will
meet sometime Friday to discuss
the details of the occurance. None
of the three would comment fur
ther.
Che Battalion
to the Texas RHA Convention at
West Texas State University
March 27-30 at a cost of $26 per
person, with room, meals and lin
ens included;
—agreed to encourage its dorm
members to help in the YMCA’s
renovation of the Grove on Sat
urday morning, Feb. 23;
—agreed to send two volunteers
every day to the Bryan City Mis
sion to help in the recycling pro
gram there.
Blatchley cited the latter two
projects as great opportunities
for the Association to improve its
comnjunity image and to involve
more of its dorm members in
worthwhile activities.
Weather
Mostly cloudy with scattered
showers Friday. Partly cloudy
to fair and mild Saturday. High
today 68°. Saturday’s high 65°.
Vol. 67 No. 349
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schedule
' SCONA has decided to open its
1 last session to the general public,
according to planning chairman
| John Nash.
The program at 11 a. m. Sat
urday in the University Center
Theater will present Dr. Daniel
Bell, who will talk on “Changing
Personal Priorities.”
The event had been open only
to invited persons, as a brunch
was scheduled in connection with
it. The brunch will now be held
separately.
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I in saloon death 1
By VICKIE ASHWILL
Staff Writer
No charges have yet been filed in the death of Larry Dow
Sanders, pending further investigation by College Station police.
Sanders died Friday night after being included in a scuffle at the
Silver Dollar Saloon. The offense was first reported as murder; after
further investigation by police it was changed to voluntary man
slaughter.
Sources close to the scene said Jerry Lynn Derryberry of Bryan,
slapped Sanders who seemingly choked on his drink, after falling down
twice.
Police labeled the crime as simple assault.
According to police reports, they arrived at the scene at
approximately 10 p.m. and found Sanders lying on the hood of a
vehicle where someone was administering artificial respiration.
Officers took over until the fire department arrived and applied
oxygen to Sanders, according to reports. Callaway-Jones Ambulance
Service showed up at the saloon about 20 minutes later and took
Sanders to St. Joseph Hospital; he was pronounced dead on arrival.
County Attorney Roland M. Searcy said there has been an
autopsy performed, but as of Thursday no reports had been received in
his office.
Billy Barnett, owner of the Silver Dollar Saloon, said, “It’s very
unfortunate something like this would have to happen.”
Barnett added it was a very peculiar incident.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has been notified of
the death and is investigating Sanders’ death.
“Any time a death occurs in a licensed establishment we
investigate any possibility of a breach of peace which could have been
avoided by the establishment,” said Director E. W. Stevenson. “If an
investigation shows nothing, there will be no case.”
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THE DIFFERING FACES of SCONA are displayed by delegates Linda Bowers and
Bill Haltom at a Wednesday afternoon roundtable discussion. (Photo by Rodger Mallison)
Soviet nuclear power
awesome, SCONA told
By TED BORISKIE
The military is here in force.
The Air Force is here in both their winter
blues and the lighter summer uniforms. The
Army brass seems to be everywhere and, together
with the Corps of Cadets resplendent in their
R0TC finery, tend to give the Rudder Center
Theater an overall feeling of khaki.
They are all here in the middle of a Thursday
afternoon for one purpose: to see the Man, or
at least the Assistant Man: Deputy Secretary
of Defense William P. Clements Jr.
The SCONA delegates are here to see Clements
as the fourth in their list of speakers.
“Time to go to sleep again,” says one.
“I wonder what we’re eating tonight,” says
another.
“We are a nation in a difficult period of
transition, from wartime to peacetime,” Clements
tells the audience in his best Texas drawl. “This
is the first budget in more than a decade that
does not have to support U.S. military forces in
a combat role. Now we are pressed with the task
of foreseeing what military forces will be needed
to honor U.S. commitments overseas.
“Some citizens have been understandably seek
ing relief from our role as world guardian follow
ing our involvement in Vietnam,” he says, “but
the crisis in the Middle East proves that we have
moral, judicial and economic responsibilities to
the rest of the world that we cannot afford to
shirk.
“Soviet nuclear capability is awesome and
they are gaining all the time. The Soviet Union
and Warsaw Pact countries, plus the Peoples
Republic of China, all maintain large military
forces. U.S. forces have been reduced without
corresponding reduction from the Communist
countries.
“The Soviet Union continues to develop more
sophisticated land and sea missiles,” he warns
his audience.
“We are responsible to ourselves to deter the
possibility of a nuclear attack. We must judge
the power of our forces with those of the Soviet
Union. We must honor our commitments with
40 countries in addition to those of the United
Nations.
“In order to maintain a global equilibrium,
we must first maintain a strategic nuclear
balance.”
Clements closes his talk and issues a plug for
the Corps of Cadets, nothing that it is the largest
cadet unti anywhere, save for the military
academies, and that it provides more reserve
officers than any other school.
Students and SCONA delegates line up to
pose questions and after the first few queries
it becomes evident that they are not so much
concerned with allowing the Soviet Union to gain
a nuclear advantage as they are afraid of atomic
annihilation.
They don’t ask what must be done to keep the
Soviets from building an overpowering nuclear
(See SOVIET POWER, page 3)
Nixon uncooperative
in scandal probes
WASHINGTON (A>) — Special Prosecu
tor Leon Jaworski told the Senate Thursday
the White House has refused to turn over
more material for his Watergate investi
gations. The White House confirmed it and
said the order came from President Nixon.
“It is now clear that evidence I deem
material to our investigations will not be
forthcoming,” Jaworski wrote Sen. James
O. Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of the
Senate Judiciary committee.
A committee member, Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass., immediately urged East-
land to call a meeting “to consider the
ominous implications of Mr. Jaworski’s
letter.” He said the prosecutor should be
given the opportunity to testify.
Jaworski said he had been informed by
letter “that the President has refused to
reconsider his earlier decision to terminate
his cooperation with this investigation, at
least wtih regard to producing any tape
recordings of presidential conversations.”
At the Florida White House, Deputy
Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said
Nixon had decided that material already
supplied Jaworski “is sufficient to allow
the grand juries to proceed with their work
without further delay.”
Asked if this meant Nixon would fur
nish Jaworski and his staff with no further
tapes or White House documents, Warren
responded that presidential attorney James
St. Clair “will continue to discuss matters
with Mr. Jaworski on a confidential basis
and will cooperate with the special prose
cutor’s office to the extent feasible.”
Asked whether Nixon was contemplating
firing Jaworski, Warren refused a direct
response, saying the question “is not before
us, the situation hasn’t been raised.”
In confirming that St. Clair had sent
a letter to Jaworski refusing his latest
request for material, White House aides
made clear that the decision had been made
by Nixon himself.
Eastland, reached by telephone in Missis
sippi, said he had not seen the Jaworski
letter. The chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee declined comment on what the
committee might do. It has a meeting
scheduled next Tuesday to consider a nomi
nation for deputy attorney general.
Jaworski said that in the investigation
of the Watergate break-in and coverup he
had asked, and been refused, tape record
ings of 27 presidential meetings and tele
phone conversations.
A deputy, he said, also was not given
materials relating to the investigation of
dairy industry contributions, and that the
White House refused to permit prosecution
staff members to review files relating to
the special investigations unit known as the
plumbers.
The requests for some of the materials
date back to August 1973, Jaworski told
Eastland.
Magazine will
try to catch
Aggie lifestyle
Some Aggie faces will make
the national scene in the May is
sue of “Mademoiselle” magazine.
At the invitation of Host and
Fashion, the staff of this college
woirjen’s fashion guide begins a
,two week tour of the TAMU cam
pus Monday.
“They will be here to show and
tell what TAMU is really like,”
said Kay Evans, chairman of Host
and Fashion. “All the Aggie tra
ditions should really come out
those two weeks, especially say
ing ‘Howdy’ to everyone you meet.
You might end up in Mademoi
selle if you do.”
The visitors will try to grasp
a well-rounded picture of Aggie
life by mingling with students in
their everyday activities. Candid
photography, getting at the heart
of things, will catch Aggies eat
ing, studying, and whatever.
Two of the highlights of the
agenda include a beauty “Groom-
In” and a Career Day.
The “Groom-In” involves se
lecting women from an audience
to be cosmetically redone. It is
open to all local women, free of
charge. Before and after photos
will record the beauty make
overs, and Mademoiselle experts
will demonstrate beauty and
fashion tricks. The sessions will
be held from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Wednesday on the ground level
of the Rudder Tower.
Monday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m.
the staff will sponsor a fashion
career day to offer insights from
the “Mademoiselle” perspective
into modeling, journalism, mar
keting and other aspects of the
fashion field. The lectures will be
held in Room 501 of the Rudder
Tower.
The photographer and a staff
writer will remain on campus
through Feb. 28.
Today in the Batt
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Tech preview p. 4
Policy emphasis shifts
U. S. needs more prestige
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M."
Adr.
By CLIFTON LEWIS
Staff Writer
“Shifting Emphasis in Ameri
can Foreign Policy” was a far
from dry subject when Dr. Hans
Morgenthau came through his
slight accent with confidence and
strength.
Speaking to an audience, com
posed mostly of people with tags
and notebooks labelled “SCONA,”
Morgenthau began by saying one
facet of foreign policy should
never be replaced. The balancing
of foreign powers against one an
other has always been foremost on
any nation’s priorities, he said.
Other than that, there are am
ple opportunities to reorder the
emphasis in foreign policy, he
said.
“Any time a foreign nation has
experienced a social revolution, we
have assumed that it was the re
sult of a Communist conspiracy,
and have looked at Moscow or
Peking for the source.” Taking
Vietnam as an example, Morgen
thau explained the situation not
as a testing ground for Commun
ism, but of a local outbreak and a
social revolution.
The U. S., he said, has not real
ized the importance of these rev
olutionary movements. “We are
not dealing with conventional
armies, but with an entire people.
If the people would rather die
fighting then we cannot enforce
our own preference short of ex
terminating the people. Which we
have done with considerable suc
cess.”
Morgenthau gave credit to the
present Presidential administra
tion for restoring sound relations
with Russia and China. “Nixon,
whose anti-communist preferences
are beyond question” (he waited
for the laughter to die out), “had
courage and imagination to do
this. It was absurd not to recog
nize these major powers earlier.
If we look at them as incarnations
of evil, there will be no rational
diplomacy.”
The radical revolution of nu
clear Weapons puts a new front
on diplomacy, stressed Morgen
thau. “We now have weaponary so
different that it is incapable of
being used as an instrument of
foreign policy. It will not change
the will of the opponent; it will
cause the destruction of his phy
sical existence.”
War has always been the last
resort in diplomacy, he said, but
a tactical and conventional war
is no longer possible, “unless we
destroy Russia and say it was
merely tactical.” Also, defense
against such a war is not practi
cal, for even if the defensive
methods “were 90 percent effec
tive, then perhaps our remains
would be less radioactive.” A
round of applause followed.
Morgenthau ended saying that
our political system must be re
turned to a position of prestige
in the world to make foreign pol
icy. He answered questions and
told the photographer he was
wasting his film.
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THE BACKSIDE of the Corps review for SCONA is
captured by Battalion photographer Gary Baldasari in an
unusual view of Parson’s Mounted Cavalry.