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Canada to hold new elections in July
OTTAWA (A 1 )—Angered by in
flation and dissatisfied with a
proposed government budget, the
opposition brought down Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s
minority Liberal government
Wednesday and opened the way
for new elections in July.
The vote of 137-123 was only
the third time a government has
been defeated on the floor of the
House of Commons. It meant the
handsome and progressive-minded
Trudeau, who replaced Lester
Pearson as prime minister in
1968, will face a new contest for
political survival.
Trudeau’s government had sur
vived 19 no-confidence votes in
the I1/2 years preceding Wednes
day’s vote, usually with the help
of the left-leaning New Demo
cratic party—NDP. The latest
no-confidence vote carried be
cause the NDP—which held the
balance of power in the 29th
parliament—decided to join the
main opposition conservatives in
attacking the administration’s
budget.
The critical vote came on an
NDP resolution — actually an
amendment to a Conservative
measure — that condemned the
government for its “failure to
apply any measures to help pen-,
sioners, or others on fixed in
comes, to deal with the housing
crisis and to remove the glaring
inequalities of the tax system.”
Inflation in Canada has reached
10 per cent this year.
Che Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 393
College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 9, 1974
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■ SAN FRANCISCO (A*)—Cloaked
,■! in secrecy and unprecedented se-
^■curity, a San Francisco County
grand jury has held an unusual
■ second consecutive night session
■ into the Zebra street slayings.
I Rarely does the grand jury meet
Imore than once a week. But the
■ jury weighing evidence against
Sdulll ^ ree men charged in the random
■ slayings held a three-hour hear-
I ing Monday night and returned
again Tuesday night.
In both instances, about 20
policemen sealed off City Hall and
the unidentified witnesses refused
to answer newsmen's questions as
ithey entered.
Walter Giubbini, chief assistant
district attorney, refused to say
i how many witnesses have been
called or to disclose their identi
ties. There was no confirmation
that the secret informer whose
April 28 meeting with Mayor
Joseph L. Alioto led to the arrests
has testified.
Three black men — Larry C.
Green, 22; J. C. Simon, 29, and
Manuel Moore, 29 — have been
charged with three of the 13 ran
dom killings of whites here in the
I past six months. They will enter
[ pleas Thursday. Their attorney,
Clinton White of Oakland, said
they are innocent.
Giubbini has refused to say
whether the accused men will be
ordered to appear before the
grand jury.
He also refused because of a
gag order issued last Friday to
discuss any aspect of the Zebra
case, so named after the “Z” radio
channel police have used in their
investigation. Judge Agnes O-
’Brien Smith of Muncipal Court
issued the order Friday.
Lt. William O’Connor, the po
lice department’s public affairs
officer, meanwhile disputed an
article that appeared in Tuesday’s
editions of the San Francisco Ex
aminer. The story said the arrests
of the three men may have been
"premature” and may have des
troyed months of police work into
the killings.
Officials are anticipating a
record 1,950 students will be
awarded degrees Saturday in
ceremonies highlighted with an
address by Vice President Gerald
R. Ford.
The commencement exercises
begin at 9 a.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Admission to the coliseum will
be by ticket only, noted university
officials, pointing out the facility
will be filled by the graduates
and their families and friends,
along with the official party,
academic department representa
tives and other university per
sonnel involved in the ceremonies.
Guests without tickets can view
the ceremonies via closed-circuit
television in the Rudder Center
auditorium and theater. The cere
monies also will be telecast by
KAMU.
Commissioning ceremonies, with
Gen. George S. Brown, Air Force
chief of staff delivering the prin-
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Cain Pool Wednesday night. The event attracted several hundred who rocked out to the
vibes supplied by the MSC. (Kodalith by Gary Baldasari)
Judicial Board discusses
possible procedure revision
Judicial Revision and a possible
publication were discussed at the
Senate Judicial Board meeting,
Wednesday evening.
A need to set up procedure was
the general concensus of the eight
board members meeting. “Thor
ough investigation of all the areas
of appeal in our own system,”
was recommended by Jerri Ward,
J-Board chairman.
Subpoena powers, student-fac
ulty ratios and student liability
were proposed by Ward as areas
of consideration for next year.
Ward said the appeals system on
campus would be explored next
year. “It seems to dead end with
certain committees,” she said.
A publication explaining the
different appeal bodies was sug
gested by Mike Perrin, senior
member of the board.
The publication will be directed
at incoming freshmen either sepa
rately or in a booklet on Student
Government. This is pending ap
proval of the Student Senate
Activities Director.
Ward closed the meeting sug
gesting research by the Board
members be carried on thoughout
the summer on other universities’
judicial systems.
It was the first time a Cana
dian government suffered a Com
mons defeat on its budget. The
budget proposal was presented on
Monday.
Trudeau had no immediate
comment on the vote, except to
say he will dissolve Parliament
and seek a formal election order
Thursday from Governor-General
Jules Leger. The election is ex
pected to be July 8, and Trudeau
will remain prime minister until
then.
Conservative leader Robert
Stanfield declared promptly after
the vote that after the new elec
tions “I will return as prime
minister.”
NDP leader David Lewis ap
peared jubilant, and said the
party machinery for a new elec
tion is “rolling already, every
thing’s moving along well.”
The Liberals were vulnerable
to a joint NDP-Conservative at
tack because they hold only 109
seats in the 264-seat House of
Commons. The Conservatives have
106, the NDP 31 and the right-
wing Social Credit party—which
supported Trudeau—15. There is
one independent member, the
House speaker, and two seats are
vacant.
Canada has a parliamentary
system of government, and ordi
narily the leader of the party that
elects the most members to Parlia
ment becomes prime minister and
leader of the government. The
government can be defeated any
time a majority of members votes
no confidence on an important
matter of government policy—for
example, Wednesday night’s fed
eral budget vote.
Constitution gives
4-year term option
cipal address, will be at 2:30
p.m., also in the coliseum. Uni
versity officials expect 161 of the
gi-aduates to be commissioned into
the Army, Air Force and Marine
Corps.
Final review will be at 4:30
p.m. on the main drill field.
In addition to the Vice Presi
dent’s address and award of de
grees, the commencement pro
gram will include presentation of
Distinguished Alumni Awards to
four prominent graduates, Gulf
Oil Foundation’s presentation of
the E. D. Brockett Award to
establish three professorships at
TAMU and the Brown Founda
tion-Earl Rudder Memorial Out
standing Student Award. Joe H.
Moore, president of The Associ
ation of Former Students, also
will formally make the alumni
organization’s annual gift to the
university in support of scholar
ship and related programs.
The commissioning ceremonies
will include presentation of the
Doherty Award to the outstand
ing member of the Corps of
Cadets being commissioned Sat
urday.
Vice President Ford practiced
law briefly in Grand Rapids be
fore joining the Navy during
World War II. After four years
of service and attaining the rank
of lieutenant commander, he re
turned to his law practice in
Grand Rapids in 1946 and, two
yfears later, was named one of
“America’s Ten Outstanding
Young Men” by the U. S. Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Vice President Ford was se
lected by “Sports Illustrated” in
1959 to receive the magazine’s
Silver Anniversary All-American
Award as one of the 25 football
players in the preceding quarter-
century who contributed most to
their fellow man. He was pre
sented the George Washington
Award by the American Good
Government Society in 1966 and
three years ago was chosen by
the American Academy of
Achievement to receive the Golden
Plate Award as one of 50 “giants
of accomplishment.”
AUSTIN <A>) —A legislative
article that gives lawmakers
greater power and flexibility and
presents voters the option of fom*-
year terms for House members
has been approved by the Consti
tutional convention.
The article is subject to revi
sion on third reading later in
the convention, but any changes
required a two-thirds vote.
In its present form, the legis
lative article makes certain major
changes from the existing consti
tution :
• Instead of the present 140-
day legislative sessions every two
years, there would be a 140-day
session in odd-numbered years
and a 90-day session even-num
bered years.
• Lawmakers could call them
selves into special sessions by a
petition of two-thirds the mem
bers of each chamber. This is a
prerogative reserved for the gov
ernor.
• The House would be divided
into single-member districts, elim
inating the last vestiges of at-
large countywide representation.
• Local laws no longer could
get through the legislature under
the guise of general bills limited
to areas within certain popula
tion brackets. Notice of such a
bill would have to be published
in the area affected. The city or
county must be named in the bill.
• All legislative sessions must
be open, including the tradition
ally closed Senate meetings to
discuss the governor’s appointees
before voting to confirm them.
DeFrank predicts
Ford’s presidency
Those who hear U. S. Vice
President Gerald Ford speak at
Saturday’s commencement exer
cises will probably be listening
to the next President, said News
week writer Tom DeFrank.
“I believe Ford is capable of
stepping into the Presidency,”
DeFrank said in a telephone
interview with The Battalion.
DeFrank, a TAMU graduate and
former editor of The Battalion,
has traveled close to the vice
president and says that Ford’s
personality is pleasing.
“The thing that carries the
day for Ford is that he’s a genu
ine human being; he’s decent and
honest. You feel you can call
him Jerry and get away with it,”
DeFrank said.
DeFrank said Ford doesn’t ex
pect President Nixon to resign
or be removed from office, but
Ford is probably the only man
able to unite the Republican
party.
“I believe Ford is being honest
when he says he will not run for
President in 1976,” DeFrank said.
“At the same time, he is smart
enough to know that if he is
forced into the Presidency, it will
be a different story.
Construction will not
be completed by 1976
Construction will not be complete by 1976,
TAMU’s centennial year, said General Alvin
Luedecke, executive vice president.
As yet unapproved plans for landscaping will
continue in different sections of the campus. One
of the areas under consideration is the median
running up from West Gate to the Academic
Building. The shrubs lining the esplanade will be
transplanted if young enough, or removed.
This clearing, according to Luedecke, will
enable the lighting system to more adequately
illuminate the street area.
The Memorial Student Center is scheduled to
be completed by next Christmas. There are no
plans for any type of landscaping around the MSC
to prevent or block students from treading on the
memorial grass, continued Luedecke.
The new architecture building will be in the
building stages during the ’76 school year. During
this period water line construction and room
renovations will continue.
Luedecke said the new water tower should be
completed by the end of the year and the old
water tower will be removed.
The third summer of the major Dormitory
Improvement Program Phase III has been
approved. During the summer, the rooms and
closets in Corps area dorms 2, 10 and 12 and Hart
Hall will be repainted, as will the bath and shower
areas in Moses, Davis-Gary, Crocker, Moore, Hart
and Legett Halls. Aluminum and wire glass ramp
doors will be installed in Hart, Law, Puryear,
Walton and Moses Halls.
The total cost of the program is $203, 674.
■ ■***?(>■
IT’S A BIRD! It’s a plane! (It’s a tent?) No, it’s “Eklektos.” Samuel Ximenes, junior in
Enviromental Design, displayed his art behind the Academic Building. (Photo by David
Spencer)
“Ford has a strong obligation
to help the Republican party keep
from disaster.”
Newsweek’s January 28 issue
stated “the GOP leadership had
an obligation to defend the Presi
dent, and Ford—as one Republi
can not facing re-election this
fall—was the logical candidate
for the job.” The article further
said that Democrats conclude that
“the White House . . . was send
ing Ford on a suicide mission in
an effort to make Mr. Nixon
more attractive.”
Ford and Nixon are close ideo
logically, and DeFrank believes
the only major change Ford
would make in the Presidency
would be to make the Executive
Office much more open to the
public and the press.
Ford began his political career
in 1949 when he won the first
of his 13 consecutive terms as a
representative from Michigan. He
was chosen in 1965 as Minority
Leader of the House, and became
Vice President on December 3,
1973.
Senate makes
11 appointments
at last meeting
Less than one hour was taken
by the last senate meeting of the
semester.
The Senate approved 11 ap
pointments at the meeting Wed
nesday night. For the position
on the Publications Board, Steve
Eberhard, SG president, nominat
ed Don Hegi, MSC vice president
for projects. Sandy Hood was ap
pointed to the off-campus under
graduate vacancy in the Senate.
The new representative on the
Athletic Council will be Larry Mc-
Roberts subject to the approval
of President Jack Williams. The
7 members of the Athletic Ad
visory Committee will be Tom
Walker, Cindy Murray, Larry Mc-
Roberts, Gwen Flynt, Ron Plack-
emeier, Joe Hughes and Gerard
Pelletier.
These were the last of the ap
pointments to be made.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.