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Vol. 68 No. 34
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 30
Shock follows
surgery; Nixon s
ondition critical
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LONG BEACH (AP) — Former
resident Richard M. Nixon is in
ritical condition today after lapsing
ito shock for three hours and ex-
eriencing internal bleeding follow-
ig surgery for phlebitis.
The doctors are fighting for that
ian’s life,” hospital spokesman
lorman Nager told newsmen
uesday night. He said later he
idn’t mean the statement to carry
be seriousness it denoted.
But a source close to the situation
iter confided, “1 know the doctors
worried” about Nixon’s chances
if survival.
Inastatement read by Nager, Dr.
lohn C. Lungren said a team of
ihysicians administered 'counter
hock measures for three hours until
stable vascular circulation condi-
ion was once again restored’ late
uesday.
He added, “The patient is still
onsidered critical.”
Lungren said Nixon, 61, was
inder round-the-clock care by a
earn of specially trained intensive
are nurses and that Dr. Eldon B.
Hickman, the cardiovascular
specialist who performed the opera
tion, would spend the night near
Nixon.
Nixon’s wife, Pat, was with Nixon
after the surgery. A Nixon aide de
scribed her as “strained and trying
to keep herself up during these dif
ficult times.”
Mrs. Nixon was later joined by
Nixon’s longtime personal secret
ary, Rose Mary Woods, and the two
Nixon daughters, Tricia Nixon Cox
and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who
flew in from the East Coast.
Mrs. Nixon and her two daugh
ters remained with the former pres
ident until late Tuesday night and
then went to the Nixons’ seaside
villa at San Clemente, 50 miles
south of Long Beach, so the former
president could have “undisturbed
rest,” said a Nixon aide.
A White House spokesman sent
word that President Ford was pray
ing for Nixon.
Lungren said Nixon’s pulse rate
had increased and he had a slight
fever. He said Nixon was receiving
Pot search leads
to Corps evictions
By JUDY BAGGETT
On Sept. 8, John Chappelle, ex-
!lorps Commander, and several
members of the Corps staff used
passkeys to enter the rooms of five
juniors and searched for marijuana.
We found nothing at all,” said
Skip Gray, First Wing Commander.
The cadets were questioned at
the time of entrance into the rooms,
throughout the evening and the
next day, said Chip Utterhack, First
Group Commander. The cadets
were put under the Aggie Code of
Honor while being questioned. This
rode states that an Aggie’s word is
his bond. They admitted to using
marijuana, he said.
Two drill and ceremony cadets
(cadets not committed to any ser
vice) were expelled from the Corps.
They may re-enter, however, next
semester if they bring up their
grades and stay on good behavior,
said Utterhack. All of the cadets in
volved had a GPR under 2.0.
Three of the Cadets are still in the
Corps, Two are under contract and
the other is pursuing a contract.
When a cadet is under contract,
oc signs a form stating he will not
l >se narcotics, Utterhack said.
An investigation took place,
on a hearing, said John Hawtrey,
o cadets lawyer. “It is a contract
ls Pute. They may or may not have
reached the agreement.”
The Trigon, military personnel
on campus, is investigating the inci
dent. The Headquarters of Air Uni
versity in Montgomery, Ala. will
make the final decision.
medication intravenously.
Twelve hours earlier, surgeons
had attached a plastic clip-
—resembling a clothespin with
teeth—to a vein in Nixon’s groin to
control a newly discovered blood
clot resulting from the phlebitis in
his left leg. The jaw-like clip allows
blood to flow, hut impedes the
movement of life-threatening clots
to the heart and lungs.
In Memphis, Tenn., Dr. Robert
M. Miles, inventor of the surgical
clip used in Nixon’s operation, said
that post-operative hemorrhage is
infrequent and patient shock is rare
in that type of surgery.
A five-man medical team partici
pated in the hour-long operation
which started at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
After the' operation—described as
relatively simple—doctors told a
news conference that the former
chief executive was “doing well.
Hickman, an assistant professor
of surgery at the UCLA School of
Medicine, called the operation “un
eventful” and said, “Mr. Nixon is
doing well . . ., recovering in the
normal manner.”
But just over six hours later,
Nixon slipped into vascular shock
which arrested the circulation of his
blood for three hours before doctors
and nurses were able to “stabilize’
his condition.
Lungren said the complication
was probably caused by “some
retro-peritonaeal bleeding secon
dary to anticoagulation therapy.”
Retro-peritonaeal bleeding means
bleeding behind the membrane that
surrounds the abdomen.
TAMU PRESIDENT Jack Williams (1) greets U.S. senator Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex., at Easterwood
Airfield Tuesday. Bentsen, who is a possible presidential candidate, spoke at Noon Political Forum
and a press conference. (Photo by James F. Rattan)
Library
co-owner
arrested
Federal officers took into custody
Tuesday, Burke A. Hargrove, co
owner of the Adult Library Club,
while he was entering the Federal
Building in Houston with an un
identified lawyer.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals,
which issued the warrant, refused to
hear an appeal on his conviction
March 15 on two counts of mailing
obscene materials.
Hargrove will go to federal prison
for two years. He will be on
probation for five years when he is
released from prison on a second
count. The Bureau of Prisons will
determine which prison Hargrove
will be assigned to.
According to a probation officer in
Houston, federal agents accused
Hargrove of mailing advertisements
giving information on how and
where obscene materials could be
bought from the United Film Indus
tries. The ad listed the mailing ad
dress as the Adult Library Club on
University Drive.
This incident is not related to the
operations of the Adult Library
Club, which is under the protection
of a temporary restraining order is
sued by U. S. District Judge John
Singleton in Houston. The club has
been closed for one year following
raids by local police and Brazos
County court orders.
Delays decision
Bentsen would like to run
By JIM CRAWLEY
“Would I like to run? Yeah, I
would. . the problem of getting
known in this country is a pretty
tough one, said U. S. Senator
Lloyd Bentsen in regard to the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion.
Bentsen spoke during a Political
Forum Noon Series program Tues
day.
Later, Bentsen said, “. . .1 don’t
expect to make a decision until early
next year, as to whether I’ll run or
not.
“People expect action, they don’t
Death penalty to be reviewed
Supreme Court to rule again
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to
take another look at the death pen-
alty, including arguments that it is
unconstitutional under any circum
stances.
The court will review the case of a
North Carolina man condemned to
death for a fatal shooting that fol
lowed an argument over a $10 bill
during a dice game.
It will be the first death penalty
case the court has heard since June
29, 1972, when it held that capital
punishment laws then on the books
were unconstitutional.
In some of its actions Tuesday,
the court:
• Agreed to consider whether
bar associations may draw up and
enforce schedules of lawyers fees
without violating federal antitrust
laws.
Upheld by a 5-4 vote a Mary
land law under which motion pic
tures are licensed by a state board oi
censors.
• Upheld the government’s right
to withhold taxes which two pacifists
objected to paying on grounds they
went for military expenditures. Jus
tice William O. Douglas dissented.
• Upheld James Earl Ray’s effort
to obtain evidence about the cir
cumstances of his plea of guilty to
the murder of the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.
• Upheld black-lung regulations
which coal mine operators said
would cost billions of dollars.
The death penalty case involves
Jesse Thurman Fowler, who was
convicted of killing John Griffin July
1, 1973, in Wake County, N.C.
A decision on it could affect the
fate of more than 100 persons in the
United States now on death row.
The Supreme Court’s 1972 ruling
said it was unconstitutional to allow
a jury to decide, between two per
sons convicted of the same crime,
which should live and which die.
In response, more than half of the
states have passed new laws which
either make capital punishment
mandatory for specified offenses or
provide for mandatory review of the
jury’s decision. North Carolina is
one of the states with such a law.
Before it was passed, however,
Fowler and 30 other men were con
demned under an inteipretation by
the North Carolina Supreme Court
of the U.S. Supreme Court’s deci
sion. The state court said the deci
sion merely invalidated the portion
of the North Carolina law which
made the death penalty optional
with the jury, rather than mandat
ory.
The cases of seven men sen
tenced under this ruling were ap
pealed to the U.S. Supreme Court
by the NAACP Legal Defense
Fund.
Although the court’s action Tues
day directly involves only Fowler,
who is black, a decision even on the
narrowest grounds would presuma
bly affect all the men sentenced
under the state supreme court rul
ing.
The Legal Defense Fund
lawyers, however, presented their
case in much broader terms also.
expect saintliness but they sure do
expect honesty and they’re entitled
to it,” Bentsen said.
The program was followed by a
question and answer period for the
audience and a news conference.
The senator commented that
mandatory wage and price control
should be unnecessary. But an im
proved Cost of Living Council, with
full-time members and subpoena
power is necessary.
Furthermore, Bentsen said that
voluntary controls can’t keep infla
tion and the energy crisis to a
minimum.
The cattle industry was discussed
by the Texas senator. He concluded
that he would urge a curb on im
ports and “trying to get the price
over to the consumer so that some of
the profit will be eaten up.”
On tax reform, the Political
Forum speaker urged a tax relief to
the medium income family. He
stated that President Ford’s tax sur
charge could be detrimental to
many persons hurt by inflation.
Upon one question, Bentsen was
angered when asked if he was a ra
cist, because he voted against man
datory busing. Bentsen, replying
said “I don’t think we can stomach
any bigots here, either. ”
Returning tp the economy, Bent
sen maintained that if the balance of
trade was not kept level the nation’s
economy would “go to pot’ — so
we’ll have to keep up exports.
The senator stated that cuts of $7
billion in spending have been ap
proved by Congress. “But this
amounts to only one-half of one per
cent of the federal budget, said
Bentsen, “and it has little effect on
inflation. ”
Intriducing the Senator, Con
gressman Olin Teague of Texas s 6th
District stated that Bentsen is the
“leading and the best candidate for
the President of the U nited States.
Bentsen has just completed a tour
of the Northeast campaigning for
Democratic candidates in next
week’s election. In the last eight
months he has visited 34 states sam
pling the voters, in possible prep
aration for a presidential race in
1976.
After flying into College Station,
Bentsen attended a luncheon in his
honor, before speaking to an over
flow crowd of 850 in the Rudder
Theater.
Morton seeks removal
Ford drops Sawhill
from energy position
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J/°LF pen CREEK again threatened to flood the Monaco Apartments in Monday’s heavy rains. The flood which occurred last
Se Ptember rose to within a foot of the bottom of the first floor windows. (Photo by Steve Krauss)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ford announced
Tuesday he is dropping Federal Energy Administrator
John C. Sawhill, an outspoken advocate of energy con
servation, at the request of Interior Secretary Rogers
C. B. Morton.
Ford said there were no “major policy differences”
involved—just “some differences in approach or tech
nique.”
But a spokesman for Friends of the Earth, a citizen
environment group, called Sawhill s removal
“appalling . . . kowtowing to special interests,” and
said it “signals the end for a tough regulatory energy
conservation program which could have reduced our
dependence on foreign oil and helped to promote a
clean environment.”
Ford said he would nominate Andrew E. Gibson, a
former assistant secretary of Commerce and former
head of the Federal Maritime Administration, to re
place Sawhill.
At the same time, Ford announced the appointment
of Robert Seamans, a former secretary of the Air Force
and deputy director of the National Aeronautics and
Space Agency, to head the new Energy Research and
Development Agency.
And he named former astronaut Bill Anders, now a
member of the Atomic Energy Commission, to become
chairman of the new Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
With the AEC being split into the two news groups,
Ford said the present AEC chairman, Dixy Lee Ray,
will be named assistant secretary of State for Oceans
and International Environmental and Scientific Mat
ters.
Ford said Sawhill, too, “will be offered a first-class
assignment in this administration.”
Sawhill said later he did not know what new job Ford
has in mind for him.
Ford has placed Morton in charge of energy policy,
appointing him chairman of the new Cabinet-level
Energy Resources Council.
“He ought to have the right, with my approval, to
make changes, and that is why we made the changes.
Ford said in explaining Sawhill’s departure.
In an interview Monday, Sawhill stuck by his support
of energy conservation andsaid: “If there are others in
the administration who feel that I can’t really be effec
tive in my job because I’ve taken these positions, then
maybe I should leave.”
Following Ford’s announcements in an impromptu
news conference, the White House released a letter
from Sawhill to the President, dated Oct. 25, in which
Sawhill wrote that his tasks at FEA “are complete, and I
feel that the time has come for me to move on to new
responsibilities.
Sawhill told his staff Tuesday morning of his resigna
tion and said he had met with the President last Friday.
Sawhill has had the job only since last April, when
William E. Simon left it to become Treasury secretary.
A letter from President Ford accepting Sawhill’s res
ignation indicated that Gibson would take over next
Jan. 1 and Sawhill would stay on the job until then.
Gibson, 52, has made his career in various aspects of
maritime trade.
He has advocated saving gasoline by increasing the
proportion of “very small cars —two-seaters getting 35
miles per gallon or more.