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rage d mt tJA l I ALIUN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1974 Cuba verbally attacks U. S. I. - 5:00 p.m. Bunited nations, n.y ll —The United States and Cuba iteak Mexican Style s Jshed sharply in the United Na- f, Rice, Beans, Salail, ; tions on Monday. Flour tortillas jin a speech to the General As- it their kitchen is nowbipsembly, Cuban Foreign Minister a from Mexico j|aiil Roa attacked CIA spending in ile, accused Washington of bully- | oil producing nations, blamed the United States for the Cyprus Hsis, and championed Puerto Bican independence from the mdal. , . colonialist domination the United States. ” U.S. Ambassador John A. Scali lied in a press statement that, “unaware that time has passed him by, the foreign minister continues to rely on the tools of slander, in vective and personal insult at a time when enlightened world leaders call for more understanding, patience and good will. “I categorically reject his scurril ous attacks on the United States and his tiresome allegations of U.S. re sponsibility for the events in Chile. His plea for Cuban-style indepen dence for Puerto Rico will be as ef fective and as appealing as his pre vious efforts. ” Scali said Roa’s speech was “in marked contrast to the efforts of the rest of the nations of this hemis phere to renew our sense of com munity through a new dialogue.” A spokesman said the United States probably would pass up its opportunity to answer Roa in an as sembly speech. No reason was given. Roa’s remarks clashed with re ports that came from Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., after he and Sen. Claiborn Pell, D-R.I., visited Havana and spoke with Prime Minister Fidel Castro on Sept. 28. Javits said he got the clear impres- eachers could confront dministrators on labor >NE PORTRAf :gular prici D GET 2nd 1TRAIT FOR ALF PRICE ANY IMPERIAL COLOR S TAKEN DURING THE TH OF OCTOBER AN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP)—The ’s top education administrator Monday that Texas “seems to headed toward a confrontation teacher labor relations, r. Marlin L. Brockette, who is his first year as Texas Commis- ner of Education, spoke during final day of the joint annual con ation of the Texas Association of pool Administrators and the ixas Association of School Boards. Brockette said he was speaking iut teacher labor relations “as a nd and an observer and not as an plementor of policy. ” He said, “We seem to be ap- [oaching a time in our history lereall those entrusted with edu- :ion in our state teachers, ad- Jnistrators, board members, legis- ors are to be tested.” I Brockette said, "We are on the e of a new legislature, and tragi- ly we seem to be prepared to our biases and self-interests d emotions on our policymakers, |e representatives of the people. “And our positions, sadly, have not come out of the rational ap proaches that have been so worthy in the past,” he said. He said his concern “is not only for the high cost that people must pay for any solution fought out in an appeal to force, whether that be strikes and picket lines or special interest pressures on our decision-making system, but my concern is also for the example this sets for our children and youth.” He said the confrontation which is possible concerns roles relation ships and responsibilities of teachers and their compensation. “There is no proper adversary role here. There is no legitimate ap peal to force here,” said Brockette. “Here is a time if ever there was for rational decision-making.” He received applause when he said, “I believe that the events that fill our nation’s papers clearly show that the schoolhouse is not the place for collective bargaining, and that teachers have no wish to walk a pic ket line.” In Texas, teachers do not have ErrwUvEN NEVER r UP WITH LIKE THIS.' . 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Brockette quickly added, “But let me hasten to add that teachers are deserving of our very best consider ation, yet we have too often failed to properly attend their legitimate needs.” Brockette indicated he hoped teacher relations would follow an example of different groups offering viewpoints about school Finance, which he predicted would bring new legislation in the Texas Legisla ture next year. “To the uninitiated, it might just appear that there are numerous ad versaries and that the several plans are opposed, ” he said of the school finance issue. “But I don’t see it that way. Sure, there are different emphases among the plans but what is more important is their large measure of concurrence. ” Asked after the speech what prompted his remarks about teacher relations, Brockette said the amount of teachers and compensa tion is becoming an issue in any school finance legislation. He said any controversy over teacher relations and compensation has the potential of hurting settle ment of the larger school finance issue. There have been growing efforts in at least three major Texas cities toward organization of public school teachers. SG Radio to resume usual hours Student Government Radio will resume regular broadcasting Wed nesday after two test days, General Manager Jim James, said. The station will primarily broad cast progressive rock and progres sive country with at least 56 min. of music an hour, James said. In two weeks, an interview show by Mary Russo will possibly be started. James said it is the only spe cial feature planned now. James and Program Director Mike Harper and News Director Steve Gray want the station to go Open Air. Going Open Air would increase the station’s accessability to students. James said he and the directors have been working closely with Ex ecutive Director Tom Taylor. They will recommend going open air be fore the whole Radio Board next week. The selections of 15 disc jockeys have been finalized. Anyone in terested in disc jockey work can contact Mike Harper at 845-1765. POLITICAL FORUM PRESENTS Lt. Governor Bill Hobby Regulating State Utilities” Tuesday, October 8, 1974 8:00 p.m. Rudder Center Theatre Admission: Free sion that the Cuban government was prepared to discuss a more normal relationship with the United States. Relations between Washing ton and Havana were broken in 1961. Javits said on his return from Havana, however, that efforts to normalize relations would be doomed from the start if a prior con dition for talks was lifting the 14-year-old blockade of Cuba by the Organization of American States. Roa told the assembly: “Any offi cial negotiation of the dispute bet ween Cuba and the United States cannot be started unless that crimi nal, arbitrary and anachronistic blockade is wiped out.” B-CS set for highway projects The Bryan-College Station area is slated for three projects sponsored by the Texas Highway Commission to improve traffic flow in and around the cities. The projects, part of a $61.4 mill ion statewide effort, were prepared from recommendations from Texas Highway Department district en gineers working in cooperation with local governments. The first project consists of im proving Old College Road from F&B Road northwest to Villa Maria Road. The nine-tenth mile section will cost $308,000. Traffic lights at the intersection of Old College Road and Jersey Street are the second section of proposed work. It will cost $35,000. The third announced work will be the construction of a new road from SH6 at Briarcrest Drive, northeast to FM 158 and FM 1179. The con struction of this six-tenth mile of new road will provide access to the new 50-acre county park. All right of way has been acquired by Brazos County. This road is expected to cost $211,000. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Heroin use is up again, Mexico the main supplier WASHINGTON (AP)—All the indicators of hard drug abuse are up again for the last six months after a steady downturn since 1971, Dr. Robert L. DuPont, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told Congress Monday. “So we have a genuinely new situation and a worrisome one,” DuPont said. “We can no longer talk about turning the corner on heroin.” One recent phenomenon is the “unexpected increase in heroin ad diction in smaller cities like Macon, Ga.; Des Moines, Iowa, or Jackson, Miss. “This has led us to speculate that drug use radiates out from the major population centers and can be ex pected to hit the smaller cities and eventually the rural areas after a reasonably predictable time lag,” DuPont said. DuPont testified before a House subcommittee on health and envi ronment. The chairman, Rep. Paul G. Ro gers, D-Fla., said there has been dramatic increase in the illegal use of dangerous drugs in the last three months, with heroin deaths up 100 per cent in some cities. The hearings will survey reports that heroin addicts now number be tween 600,000 to 800,000, com pared to less than half that figure a year ago. Deaths from drugs are up 100 per cent in Chicago, for instance, Ro gers said, and apparently are show ing sharp increases in the Midwest generaljy and in the smaller cities. With the breakdown of an agree ment between the United States and Turkey and the resumption of heroin planting and harvesting in Turkey, Rogers said, “I have a great foreboding that we are again enter ing another era of hard drug use in this nation which may well surpass the nightmares of the early 1970s. ” He said Mexico had succeeded Turkey as the main supplier of heroin and “Mexican brown heroin now floods this nation and we see small and medium towns involved with heroin for the first time.” The influx of Mexican heroin has increased the drug use in the Southwest, especially in Texas and California, and in what appears to be a major distribution point, the state of Illinois, DuPont said. Beverley B^fflyTours,Travel SKmMRISTMAS IN GENEVA DEPARTS HOUSTON DECEMBER 20 RETURNS JANUARY 1 HURRY! 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