ggieland,
att editors
recommended
The 1974-75 Battalion and Ag-
jieland editorship recommenda
tions were decided Tuesday at the
Student Publications Board meet
ing.
Otfranh ■ Norman Chatman was selected
. . , for the Aggieland position and
’ Greg Moses was recommended for
^ M0R[: Battalion editor for both summer
Bmd next school year, pending ap-
iroval by President Jack Wil-
i i Chatman, recommended unani-
1 piously, is a junior education ma-
t c jor. He is a member of First Wing
2th/ >r F &ff an< ^ ’ s a ^ oss Volunteer.
I Chatman has served as photo
Bjitor, military editor and this
j past year as assistant editor.
I Moses is a sophomore journal
ism major. He has worked as a
Reporter, managing editor and as
sistant to the editor. He has qIso
filled in for the news editor and
[editor during his year and a half
on the Batt staff.
Directorate
Nixon refuses tape
request, risks rift
MEMBERS OF the Student Publications Board questioned
applicants for Battalion and Aggieland editor in closed session
Tuesday. This picture, taken through a door window, reveals
Jim Lindsey, chairman of the Board, (left) and Dr. Tom Adair
talking with Battalion editor hopeful Greg Moses ( facing
away). (Photo by Alan Killingsworth)
WASHINGTON (A>)—President
Nixon decided Tuesday to turn
over no more Watergate tapes,
thus risking a constitutional
showdown with Congress on one
hand and inviting a Supreme
Court test on the other.
White House lawyer James D.
St. Clair said the President had
reviewed special Watergate pros
ecutor Leon Jaworski’s subpoena
for 64 tape recordings and
ordered St. Clair to fight the
demand to the Supreme Court if
necessary.
And St. Clair said, the Presi
dent will not give more tapes to
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Wednesday, May 8, 1974
College Station, Texas
Vol. 67 No. 392
the House Judiciary Committee
for its impeachment inquiry.
“I do not believe it will be an
impeachable offense,” St. Clair
said.
A spokesman for Jaworski de
clined comment other than to say
“we plan to continue with our
litigation.”
There was no immediate re
action from Judiciary Committee
leaders.
A committee member, Rep. Tom
Railsback, R.-Ill., called the an
nouncement “most unfortunate”
and added:
“This decision is certain to
provide a confrontation with the
Judiciary Committee, the end re
sult of which will certainly be
bad for the country as well as
for the Republican party.”
Before the latest refusal, Sen
ate Republican Leader Hugh
Scott—in a significant shift from
his past support of the President
—said transcripts of key Water
gate conversations reveal “a
shabby, disgusting, immoral per
formance” by all involved.
And presidential lawyer J.
Fred Buzhardt, summoned before
the Senate Watergate Committee,
answered most questions but also
invoked executive privilege, na
tional security and the attorney-
client privilege to avoid some.
In the House Judiciary Com-
Touchfowf “Fantastic Voyage,” is about
several scientists who are
shrunken down to microscopic
size. This enables them to
travel through a distinguished
scientist’s body to destroy a
blood clot in his brain. Racquel
Welch and Stephen Boyd star
in this Cepheid Variable pro
gram. The movie will be shown
tonight at 7 and 9 in the Uni
versity Center Theater. Admis
sion is 50 cents.
A pool dance will be held
tonight from 8 to 12 at the
Wofford Cain Olympic Pool.
Admission is free with a stu
dent ID.
Another open air concert by
the Basement Committee will
take place on the West Aca
demic Mall Thursday. The folk
and progressive country music
will begin at noon and last un
til 5 p.m.
Rules & Regs acts
on alcohol, drugs
Revision of the University rules
and regulations to be in line with
the new Student Rights and Re
sponsibilities continued Tuesday.
The University Rules and Reg
ulations Committee voted revi
sions which deleted reference to
such issues as alcohol on campus.
They also amended the reference
to possession of illicit drugs or
narcotics to be for only on cam
pus students.
The issue of removal of bever
ages from dining halls was dis
cussed by the committee which
disapproved the addition of the
word beverages to the list of what
cannot be taken out by a four to
four vote.
The objections raised to doing
this were expressed by Mike Goe-
ken, an employe of the fiscal of
fice who was representing Ed Da
vis, assistant director of manage
ment services.
“The price of meals has gone
up significantly since we started
using disposable cups that the
students could fill up and take
out with them,” Goeken said.
Roger Miller, special assistant
to the president, suggested that
they raise the price to account
for this added expense. Curt
Marsh, SG vice president of fi
nance, said that he thought the
students would be willing to pay
for the opportunity to do so.
In other action, the Committee
set the responsibilities of the stu
dent lawyers and deleted refer
ences to not allowing convicted
felons and political speakers on
campus.
Other revisions will be consid
ered Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the
Olin E. Teague Building in the
Data Processing Center Confer
ence Room.
A MAN’S tragic memory of a crippled sister and a mother ob
sessed with the past is the basis of Tennessee William’s play,
“The Glass Menagerie.” The mother (Aileen Wenck) com
forts her daughter, Laura (Theo Lane Moffett), above. The
mother pushes her son (Walt Meissner) to bring a boy home
to meet Laura, left. (Photos by Steve Ueckert)
Black Panthers
push strong voter
registration drive
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HOUSTON (A>) _ The Black
Panther party here has embarked
on a strong voter registration
campaign with a view toward
electing a Negro mayor two years
from now, Stephen Edwards, in
formation officer for the group
said Tuesday.
Edwards said the party, which
mittee, it was learned, the staff
dropped plans to summarize its
entire case against President
Nixon when it begins Thursday
with its presentation of evidence
to the full committee.
A CBS spokeswoman said in
New York the three commercial
television networks will rotate
live coverage of the public por
tions of the committee’s investi
gation—in the same manner as
they covered last year’s Senate
inquiry.
Scott declined to criticize Nixon
directly but made plain, in talk
ing to reporters and in a floor
speech, “I am not going to take
any position supporting any
See related story, page 4
action which involved any form
of immorality or criminality as
the transcripts indicate.”
The House GOP Leader, Rep.
John J. Rhodes of Arizona said
at a news conference, “I won’t
quarrel with his (Scott’s) descrip
tion.” Rhodes also said Republi
cans he had talked to around
Congress have expressed similar
sentiments.
He said he had not seen any
thing in the transcripts “defi
nitely impeachable” but felt por
tions of them did raise some
serious questions.
“Thei’e are areas that might
possibly be brought up as im
peachable offenses, having to do
with obstruction o f justice,”
Rhodes said.
He said there were conversa-
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Dinner honors Dr. Byers
“If there are any four words I
can say to you in parting, they
are: Keep up the spirit.”
That advice came from Dr. Hor
ace R. Byers, who retires from
Texas A&M May 31 and will move
to Santa Barbara, Calif., where
he and his wife have relatives
and friends.
Dr. Byers — distinguished pro-
lessor of meteorology, TAMU’s
first dean of geosciences and
former academic vice president—
Was honored at an appreciation
dinner Tuesday night at Briar-
crest Country Club.
“I am very proud to have served
in an academic capacity and an
administrative capacity during a
period in which Texas A&M de
veloped into one of the outstand
ing state universities in the coun
try,” noted the eminent educa
tor and scientist.
He said TAMU probably ad
vanced more in a shorter period
of time than any other institution
in the nation.
Dr. Byers cited the efforts of
TAMU’s faculty and staff and
had special praise for the student
body.
“We are extremely fortunate in
the students we have here, and
they are getting better all the
time,” he observed.
TAMU President Jack K. Wil
liams and Geosciences Dean Earl
F. Cook were the main speakers at
the dinner honoring Byers, who
came to TAMU in 1965 after 25
years on the faculty at the Uni
versity of Chicago. During that
time he wrote “General Meteor
ology,” the basic text for sopho
more and junior meteorology stu
dents, and was elected to the Na
tional Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Williams identified Dr.
Byers with “excellence in teach
ing and research” and lauded
him as “a great representative
of the very best in our profes
sion.”
Dean Cooke recalled TAMU’s
efforts 10 years ago to create the
College of Geosciences and to
seek “a scientist of stature” to
serve as its first dean.
“The choice fell on Horace
Byers, and it was a fortunate
day for A&M when he decided to
leave Chicago and move to Tex
as,” Dr. Cook added. “He put
A&M on the map in the geosci
ences.”
“Plaques and scrolls and mon
uments are poor things compared
to the imprint of a man on a
good human organization,” con
tinued the dean, who cited a
Spanish saying when a man de
parts who has made such an im
print. Translated, it says, “He
passed by here,” and Dr. Cook
added, “We are better for it.”
tions between the President and
three White House aides, John
D. Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman
and John W. Dean III, “which
indicated to me some rather high
level plans were being made as
to what this person would say
and what that person would do.”
Rhodes added that he still felt
there were not sufficient votes
in the House at this time to im
peach Nixon. And he said he
still thought the public release
of the transcripts had helped
Nixon.
Sen. John G. Tower of Texas,
chairman of the Senate Republi
can Policy Committee, told re
porters his reading of a portion
of the transcripts left unchanged
his opinion that “nothing war
rants the President's being
charged with an indictable of
fense.”
Tower said the transcripts
“show there is a lot of cynicism
in the White House, that the
President did delegate away a lot
of authority, inordinately, and
that he was not fully aware of
all that was going on.”
In Nashville, Tenn., Gov. Win
field Dunn, chairman of the Re
publican Governors Conference,
said the transcripts “gave me no
reason at all for a happy re
action.”
Dunn, speaking at a news con
ference, urged that Nixon release
all Watergate tape recordings.
He also said that the transcripts
show no “indication that the
President has violated the law.
They’re going to have to show
me some more.”
Format changes
at Final Review
The Aggie military abandons
the usual military review format
for its last appearance of the
year, Final Review at 4:30 p.m.,
Saturday.
On Cadet Col. Scott Eberhart’s
“pass in review,” 36 units led by
the Corps staff and Texas Aggie
Band will start its normal ap-
roach to the reviewing stand.
Outfits, as they appeared this
year, will turn across the west
end of the Main Drill Field, pass
the stand and march onto Houston
Street. Most Corps reviews end
there.
But Saturday, following a brief
intermission, cadets will begin re
assembling along the north edge
of the drill field. Juniors will dis
card caps with white braid for
ones with the coveted gold-en
twined black of senior status.
They will wear senior boots for
the first time in public.
Sophs have donned white-braid
ed caps and freshmen, leaving
braidlesS caps behind, pull out
new ones with black piping. They
new ones wnn oiacK piping, rney its nentage
also will sport other signs of another year.
leaving behind their “fish” year,
such as curved belt buckles and
curved brass.
The former first-classmen hear
their outfits sing “Auld Lang
Syne.” Then they cross the field
and form a reviewing line that
stretches from one end of the
drill field to the other. Many will
be in Army, Air Force and Ma
rine Corps uniform and wearing
new gold bars of second lieuten
ants pinned on only an hour be
fore.
John Chappelle, 1974-75 corps
commander, commands “present
arms” and the new corps, minus
1973-74 seniors, salutes the line
across the field. “Pass in review”
will echo across the parade
ground again.
Each brigade, wing, battalion
and group staff and companies
and squadrons—led by 1974-75
commanders—recognizes its grad
uates with “eyes right” as it
passes by the line.
Thus, the Corps of Cadets, re
born in that instant, passes on
its heritage to new leaders for
Today
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does not release its membership
figures but is believed to be few
in number here, had registered
450 voters for last Saturday’s
primary election.
“We think we have the foun
dation for a strong minority vot
ing block,” he said.
Harris County Houston is about
20 per cent black U.S. Census
figures show.
Edwards said the Panthers are
upset over the failure of newly
elected Mayor Fred Hofheinz to
appoint a citizen’s review board
for the police department and to
lower bus fares for the elderly.
Hofheinz was elected in Decem
ber, gaining an overwhelming
percentage of the black vote.
“Minority groups already make
up the largest portion of inner
city inhabitants,” Edwards said.
“Eventually, the minority com
munity must seize control of the
city government.”
He said many social inequities
could be cured at a local level
with political power.
“This voter registration and
voter awareness drive represents
a new spirit on the part of the
Black Panther party, a desire to
embrace more strategy to raise
black community consciousness,”
Edwards said.
He spoke at a news conference.
Art exhibit
ROTC drops
‘Vital’ tapes
p. 3
p. 5
P.7
Weather
Partly cloudy and warm
today and tomorrow with
south - southeasterly
winds 9-12 m.p.h. Wed
nesday. High today 85°.
Low tonight '65°. High
Thursday 89°.
Black Awareness
gets more funds
The Black Awareness Commit
tee and Mike Hatch came out
ahead at the Memorial Student
Center Council meeting Monday
evening in Hensel Park.
The Council gave BAG more
funds than originally recom
mended by earlier allocation esti
mates. Hatch was named sum
mer directorate president at the
steak fry meeting.
BAG originally requested $2,460
for professional fees, used to pay
speakers and performers. An
earlier fund allocation meeting
had cut $1,960, allowing $500 for
these fees.
John Nelson, Political Forum
chairman and Directorate repre
sentative to the Council, recom
mended $1,000 be added to the
pro fees. Nelson was not present
at the earlier allocations.
This recommendation was ac
cepted by the Council giving BAG
(See BLACK, p. 6)