hinese announce death of Mao Tse-tun
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By JOHN RODERICK
S Associated Press
■TOKYO — Mao Tse-tung, who led the
ommunist revolution to victory in China
1949 and dominated the world s most
pious nation for the next 27 years, died
irly today, Peking announced.
Hewas82 and had been slowly failing for
any months.
Hsinhua, the official Chinese news
;ency, said the founding father of the
pie’s Republic of China died at 12:10
in., 12:10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, “be-
mse of the worsening of his illness and
espiteall treatment, although meticulous
medical care was given him in every way
after he fell ill.”
The broadcast did not give the nature of
the final illness.
The announcement of Mao’s death was
delayed for about 16 hours, the same
length of time that intervened before the
death of Premier Chou En-lai was an
nounced last Jan. 8.
The White House and the U.S. State
Department in Washington had no im
mediate comment on Mao’s death.
Mao’s death was expected to intensify
the power struggle that has shaken Peking
intermittently for years and that flared up
with renewed intensity after Chou’s death.
There has been no designation of his suc
cessor as chairman of the Chinese Com
munist party, the country’s most powerful
post, which he had held since 1935.
Presumably Premier Hua Kuo-feng is
next in line since he was also named first
vice chairman of the party when he was
raised to the premiership five months ago.
But his elevation is not assured.
Others who appear to be in the running
are Mao’s widow, Chiang Ching, a leader of
the radical faction of the party; her pro
teges, Vice Premier Chang Chun-chiao,
Wang Hung-wen and Yao Wen-yuan; party
vice chairman and defense minister Yeh
Chien-ying; and Chen Hsi-lien, comman
der of Peking units of the Syz-million-man
Liberation Army. Wang also is a vice
chairman of the party.
The party constitution provides that a
plenary session of the 195-member Central
Committee elects the new chairman.
Hsinhua said Mao’s body would lie in
state in the Great Hall of the People for one
week beginning Saturday for Chinese
leaders and the masses to pay their last
respects.
All recreational activities will be sus
pended until Sept. 18, when a solemn
memorial rally will be held in Peking’s Tien
An Men Gate of Heavenly Peace Square,
where almost 27 years ago Mao announced
the founding of the People’s Republic.
All factories and neighborhoods will ar
range for the population to listen to or
watch live radio and television broadcasts
of the rally, Hsinhua said, and at exactly 3
p.m. (2 a.m. CDT) all Chinese “wherever
they are” should stand at attention for three
minutes in silent tribute, “with the excep
tion of those whose work cannot be inter
rupted.” Trains, ships and factories are to
sound their sirens at the same time.
Hsinhua did not mention burial ar
rangements.
It said no “foreign governments, frater
nal parties or friendly personages” would
be invited to send representatives.
A Japanese correspondent in Peking said
crowds gathered in Tien An Men Square
soon after Mao’s death was announcedr A
huge portrait of Mao was displayed and
many of the mourners wept, the reporter
said.
A peasant’s son who became one ol the
20th century’s greatest revolutionaries,
Mao not only deeply influenced the lives of
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Nwttlebus heavily used
Bus change to thin crowd
Battalion photo by Bernard Gor
lot behind the Cyclotron center. Lot 7 (above),
changed at the beginning of the semester. Dur
ing the past two weeks the lot has had an abun
dance of spaces available. University officials
say that they are studying the Lot 7 situation.
Parking lot:
‘Feast or
famine’
It’s a case of feast or famine.
In a select few parking lots on the Texas
A&M campus, lucky parking sticker hol
ders roll into any one of many empty spac
es. In other lots, drivers circle like vultures
to scavenge scarce spots.
It comes down to the haves and the have
nots, and University officials agree that
changes need to be made.
They will first have to decide how many
parking permits have been issued and the
number of spaces available.
Next week University police will go into
all the parking lots three times a day for
three days to count the actual vacant spac
es. Parking lot revisions will be considered
from this survey.
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Ford faces Vietnam bill veto
An additional bus and route revisions are
apected to thin crowds and lessen delays
in shuttlebus service to the Texas A&M
fflnpus.
Ed Bloser, local manager of Transporta-
mEnterprises, Inc., said the changes are
e result of a meeting yesterday between
leA&M Shuttlebus Committee and Col.
EC. Oates, University shuttlebus direc-
r.
Bloser said TEI will add the new bus
Monday. TEI is a private transportation
firm contracting with the University for the
shuttle service.
The announcement came after TEI and
Shuttlebus Committee studies showed
passenger congestion hampering the serv-
“There are more people riding than the
University anticipated,” Bloser said. “It is
overcrowded in the morning and the eve
ning, but midday seems to be real good.’
Bloser said immediate changes include
route revisions to facilitate the busing of
the unexpected crowds. He said various
rerouting patterns will provide for quicker
service for more people to the campus.
The present service was contracted by
the University ;on the basis of studies com
piled throughout the year. Changes in the
service are at the discretion of Oates and
the Shuttlebus Committee.
Bloser said students have been very
cooperative during the first weeks of
school, and that few complaints have been
filed with TEI. Oates was unavailable for
comment about complaints directed to him
at the housing office.
Students have reported being late to
classes after passed up by a loaded bus.
Bloser said that two buses will appear min
utes apart on heavily congested routes to
handle an overflow.
When asked if a drivers’ strike against
TEI at the University of Texas this week
was affecting local service, Bloser said that
no connection could be made between the
universities and that he expected no prob
lems with his staff.
TEI drivers in Austin are striking for
increased wages. Police protection was
called in Monday to quell isolated cases of
violence when strikebreakers began
operating the UT shuttlebuses.
By GEORGE GEDDA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Ford
faces a key foreign policy decision on
whether to veto a Vietnamese bid for
United Nations membership.
While not ruling out the possibility of a
U.S. abstention when the vote comes up
tomorrow, officials suggest that American
dissatisfaction with Vietnam’s policy to
ward U.S. servicemen listed as missing in
action probably will lead to an American
veto of Hanoi’s bid.
The consensus among officials is that a
veto would most likely help Ford in his goal
of trying to consolidate support among
those voters who would be alienated by any
kind of gesture toward Vietnam. Last year,
the United States vetoed the admission of
what were then two Vietnams.
In what is described as a signal of good
will, the Vietnamese government last
Monday gave the American Embassy in
Paris the names of 12 U.S. airmen it said
had been killed in the Vietnam war.
The move apparently was tied to
Vietnam’s campaign for U.N. admission,
but Ford called this a limited action and
said it was callous and cruel of the
Vietnamese not to account for the remain
ing 800 MIAs.
Asked about the Vietnamese application
in the United Nations, Kissinger said “the
issue of missing-in-action is of course a key
issue, and we want to see whether any
progress can be made there.”
Officials refused to comment on whether
they expected any additional accounting of
MIAs by Hanoi before the U.N. debate on
Vietnam opens Friday. One U.S. source
said American aquiesence to the
Vietnamese bid would deprive Washing
ton of one of the few levers with which it
hopes to extract concessions from Hanoi.
He said there was little sentiment within
the administration for the argument that a
U.S. decision not to block the Vietnamese
application could inspire a more flexible
attitude by Hanoi on the MIA issue.
Other officials, expressing the minority
view, said Vietnam’s behavior since the col- J
lapse of the U.S.-backed Saigon govern
ment 16 months ago is much better than
Washington had expected.
Since that time, they said, Vietnam has
normalized relations with all non-
Communist nations in Southeast Asia, of
fered its friendship to Washington, called
for expanded trade with the Western de
mocracies and treated supporters of the old
Saigon regime with restraint.
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By LARRY HEINZERLING
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
Police armed with automatic rifles pa-
Irolled trouble spots in the Cape Town area
today after a night of rioting and arson in
which police said 5 persons were killed and
at least 12 wounded.
The night’s killing raised the toll in racial
unrest in South Africa to at least 311 since
mid-Junet
Asst. Police Commissioner David Kriel
said at least 30 persons were arrested dur
ing the night.
Violence was reported at two other
points in the country today.
Police patrols were stoned in a black
township in Kimberley, the diamond
mining center. In the Transkei tribal re
serve, scheduled to become an indepen
dent black state next month, a girls’ hostel
at a mission school near Umtata, the capi
tal, was hit by fire during the night. Police
said arson was suspected.
Cape Town police opened fire on rioters
a number of times yesterday and during the ;
night, using rifles, shotguns and pistols,
witnesses said.
A large crowd gathered today in the Salt
River colored township to look at a depart
ment store that was torched before dawn.
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4 cars collide near campus
Four cars collided in a chain reaction
accident this morning on Wellborn Rd.
wlien one driver struck the rear of a car
attempting to turn into a university parking
lot and two following cars piled into the first
two.
There were no injuries in the collision.
William Joseph Blaschke driving a
Plymouth Duster, was attempting to
turn right off Wellborn Rd. into parking lot
62 at 7:50 a.m. when a Volvo driven by
Frank Thomas Barnes struck him from be
hind. Barnes was changing lanes and didn’t
see Blaschke soon enough to avoid hitting
him, College Station Police Officer Bobby
Williams said.
The car following Barnes, a Ford LTD
driven by Gloria Losgren attempted to
miss Barnes’ Volvo but struck it from be
hind. Losgren’s LTD was in turn struck by
an International Travelall driven by Robert
Judy, Officer Williams said.
“It was just a chain-reaction type acci
dent,” Williams said.
Barnes was ticketed for failure to control
his speed, Williams said. Losgren and Judy
were issued warnings for following too
closely, he said.
Department revises
advisory program
The Department of Educational
Curriculum and Instruction has
changed the student advisory pro
gram for this year. All students will
be assigned to groups alphabetically
by last names. Group meetings will
be held six times during the year.
Attendance is compulsory.
Defecting
Soviet pilot
U.S. bound
Associated Press
TOKYO — The Soviet pilot who landed
his super-secret MIG25 jet in Japan left
today aboard a commercial airliner for
asylum in the United States.
U.S. officials accompanied the defecting
Soviet air force flier, Lt. Viktor I. Belenko.
Soviet sources said the pilot left a wife
and daughter in the Soviet Union. They
said Mrs. Belenko expressed disbelief that
her husband had defected.
His flight Monday in the world’s fastest
warplane touched off a diplomatic row be
tween Moscow and Tokyo. It also gave the
United States and Japan an intelligence
bonanza, the chance to examine
thoroughly the Soviet Union’s most ad
vanced fighter aircraft and to question the
pilot about his training.
Kensuke Yanagiya, a Foreign Ministry
spokesman, said Japan is fully entitled to
inspect the MIG25 since it entered
Japanese territory illegally.
Soviet Ambassador Dmitri Polyanskii
charged today in a meeting with Foreign
Ministry officials that Japan had shown an
unfriendly attitude toward the Soviet
Union by refusing to return the defector
and his plane immediately. Moscow had
lodged six previous protests.
After refusing for four days to speak with
Soviet officials, the 29-year-old pilot was
persuaded by Japanese authorities to meet
with representatives of the Soviet Embassy
shortly before he left for Honolulu and the
U.S. mainland.
Dining with the stars
Battalion photo by Kevin Venner
The restaurant on the 11th floor of Rudder
Tower may not put one quite as high as the
heavens, but it does give a person an excellent
view of the campus while eating. Many enjoy
the $2.63 all-you-can-eat lunch each day. Kim
Hammond (above), a freshman biology major
from Boston, Mass., says that she dines in the
tower as often as possible.