Nixon in Houston for question-and-answer session
HOUSTON UP) — President
Nixon flies Tuesday to Houston
for a nationally televised and
broadcast question and answer
session at the National Associa
tion of Broadcasters convention.
Nixon also is to remain over-
Inight and honor the Skylab 3 as
tronauts Wednesday at the John
son Space Center and inspect
some of the hardware planned for
use on the 1975 joint space mis
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Partly cloudy today and to
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sion by American astronauts and
Russian cosmonauts.
In a prepared statement, the
International Energy Council
said it expects Nixon to speak
out during his Houston visit for
an expanded National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration
mission.
The Council also asked that
NASA be assigned new and sub
stantial energy related missions,
adding that the Johnson Space
Center and other NASA facilities
have produced “the most produc
tive and successful team ever as
sembled in the history of the
world.”
The Council is an organization
of business and industrial exec
utives who say it is imperative the
nation close the gap between ener
gy consumption and domestic pro
duction.
Only about one-half of the 5,-
000 to 6,000 radio and television
broadcasters here for their 52nd
convention will be in the Jesse
H. Jones Hall for the Performing
Arts for Nixon’s second question
and answer session in less than a
week. Jones Hall has a maximum
seating of only 3,500 and conven
tion officials said the doors will
be closed when all seats have
been taken.
The Houston trip is another
stop on Nixon’s efforts to over
come Watergate and publicly dis
play his resistance to pressures
for impeachment and resignation.
He flew to Chicago on Friday
for a luncheon with a group of
businessmen and an hour-long
question and answer session that
also was televised and broadcast
nationally. On Saturday night he
was in Nashville, Tenn., for the
opening of a new home for the
Grand Ole Opry.
The ground rules Tuesday night
will be a bit different from Chi
cago and the first question and
answer session held in November
at Orlando, Fla., at a convention
of newspaper managing editors.
Unlike Chicago and Orlando,
selected White House correspon
dents will be allowed to join with
the broadcasters in questioning
the President.
Che Battalion
Precise details of the Houston
itinerary had not been announced
but Nixon was expected to arrive
about 4 p. m. CDT at Ellington
Air Force Base and spend the
night at the Hyatt Regency Hotel,
about six blocks from Jones Hall.
There was indication he would
helicopter at midmorning Wednes
day to the Space Center and then
depart from nearby Ellington for
Washington.
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Tuesday, March 19, 1974
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Wednesday closing
of filing draws near
in listless elections
ARD AT WORK immobilizing this criminal automobile is University Police officer Larry
ussell. The new “Rhino” immobilizers are used in a vigorous campaign to keep reserve
ts and handicapped parking spaces open. In addition, the devices are now being used on
rs which have records of four or more unpaid tickets. (Photo by Steve Ueckert)
Sirica orders
report turned
over to House
Filing for spring student elec
tions closes Wednesday with 58
positions yet unfiled for and 33
persons running unopposed out of
110 positions.
Only one person has filed for
the positions of student govern
ment president and vice-president
of external affairs. Both positions
require 50 signatures on the peti
tions for running.
“We always have a last-min
ute rush on all of the positions,”
said Randy Ross, Student Gov
ernment president. “Candidates
need to remember however, that
this year they must have signed
petitions before they will be eli
gible to run.”
Only one person has filed for a
position with the Graduate Stu
dent Council. All college repre
sentation is still open for the first
person to file except the college
of science which has one person
running. There are 14 positions
open on the Graduate Student
Council.
No one has filed for the Resi
dence Hall Association president
and the positions of vice presi
dent and secretary are unopposed
races.
Class offices that have not
been filed for include social sec
retary for both the junior and
sophomore classes.
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WASHINGTON UP)—U.S. Dis-
rict Judge John. J. Sirica ordered
be Watergate grand jury’s Nixon
eport turned over to the House
npeachment inquiry Monday,
oting that “it draws no accusa-
ory conclusions.”
He said he had no other choice,
eclaring that delivery to the
louse Judiciary Committee is
eminently proper, and indeed,
bligatory.”
The judge said “it seems in
edible that grand jury matters
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Three consecutive issues pub-
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“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
should ... be unavailable to the
House of Representatives in a
proceeding of so great import as
an impeachment investigation,”
when such reports often go to
police investigations and disbar
ment proceedings.
“We deal in a matter of the
most critical moment in the na
tion, an impeachment investiga
tion involving the President of
the United States,” Sirica said in
a 22-page opinion.
The judge allowed lawyers for
the seven men indicted March 1
in the Watergate cover-up two
days to appeal the ruling.
Sirica received the report and
recommendation that it be placed
in the hands of the Judiciary
Committee at the time of the
indictments.
John J. Wilson, the lawyer for
H. R. Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman, and attorneys for
the other defendants opposed
transmittal to the House. One
reason was the leaks from the
report might prejudice their
clients’ ability to get a fair trial,
they said.
Wilson said he will file an ap
peal by Wednesday afternoon. He m
would not discuss the matter
further.
Sirica said “the person on
whom the report focuses, the
President of the United States,
has not objected to its release to
the committee. Other persons
(See SIRICA, page 4)
People are running unopposed
in the races for president, secre
tary-treasurer and historian of
the senior class and vice presi
dent and secretary-treasurer of
the junior class.
In Student Senate races, in liv
ing areas, only two people have
filed for the 10 off-campus under
graduate positions and none have
applied for the five off-campus
graduate positions. The sopho
more and senior corps represen
tative spots have not been filed
Farenthold
PF speech set
for Wednesday
Gubernatorial candidiate Fran
ces “Sissy” Farenthold will speak
Wednesday here.
A Political Forum, presentation
will feature her views on “Cam
paign Financing and Disclosures.”
The noon hour speech in the
Rudder Center Theater will be
a public-free event, announced
PF Chairman Ed Jarrett.
Mrs. Farenthold ran for the
governorship of Texas in 1972.
She spoke at TAMU in April that
year under PF auspices. One of
the “Dirty 30” in the 62nd Texas
Legislature, she served in the
House of Representatives in 1968-
72.
Other dorms with no one run
ning for representative are Krue
ger, Dunn, Davis-Gary-Moses-
Mpore and Utay-White. The posi
tions from Hart-Legett, Hotard-
Milner - Walton, Law - Puryear
Athletic and Crocker - Mclnnis-
Schumacher have only one candi
date. The candidates for the junior
and at-large positions in the corps
are unopposed.
For other Senate seats, there
has been no filing for the junior,
senior or graduate places from
agriculture. Two seats are avail
able in each class.
The College of Architecture has
only one person filed for two pos
itions elected at large. The posi-
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tions for sophomore, junior and
graduate students from the Col
lege of Education still have no
candidates. The two graduate stu
dent seats from the College of En
gineering are still unfiled for.
Liberal arts still has no one
running in the junior or graduate
class for the senate seats there.
One at-large position from the
Moody College has no candidate.
The College of Science has no one
filed for the position of junior or
senior senator. Three senators will
be elected at-large from the Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine, but
no one has signed up for the slots.
The university-owned apartments
has no one running for the two
positions open there.
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Executive filing
also in trouble
Student Government executive
positions have two unopposed
races going into the last two
days of filing for spring elections.
Steve Eberhard is the only can
didate for Student Government
President and John Nash is the
only one who has filed for exter
nal affairs vice president.
IN OTHER RACES Shannon
Walker and Jeff Dunn have filed
for vice president of academic af
fairs. Curt Marsh and Tom Tay
lor have signed for vice president
of finance. The vice president of
student services position is being
sought by Barry Brooks and Hal
Brunson.
Three persons have signed to
run for vice president of rules
and regulations. Jerri Ward, John
Tyler and Susie Brewer have an
nounced their candidacy for this
position.
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POLITICAL ANTICS greet students returning to the grind Monday, as John Nash (left)
hangs a campaign sign from a tree near Sbisa and bearded state representative candidate
Sparkey Hardee (above) hands out “Sparkey Dollars” near Sbisa’s steps. The “dollars,”
containing some of Hardee’s platform, are valueless now, but may be worth a discount later
on, according to a Sparkey’s Pizza spokesman. (Photos by Alan Killingsworth)