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    Pane 10 THE BATTALION
^ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1976
| IT U riO L- / '' 1 1
West Point cadets charge
classmates with cheating
Associated Press
WEST POINT, N. Y. — They pass
along exam questions at meals. They
lie about attendance. They steal ath
letic equipment. And, according to
affidavits signed by cadets accused in
the U.S. Military Academy’s biggest
scandal, they do so with abandon.
In the 151 affidavits shown to The
Associated Press yesterday, some 60
cadets charge nearly 700 other
cadets with flouting the honor code
by lying, cheating, stealing, fixing
cases before the cadet honor com
mittee and tolerating those ac
tivities.
The affidavits allege that a
member of the Class of 1974 ac
cepted a $1,200 bribe to return the
single not-guilty vote needed to free
another cadet of charges against him.
Other affidavits say mere friend
ship of a member of the 88-cadet
honor committee is often enough to
win innocent verdicts. Still others
say incidents of cheating are far too
numerous to list.
“It would be futile to try and
Smile
It's not completely
hopeless
document the exact times and dates
that this occurred since it became
habitual all the way until and includ
ing the term end exam, one cadet
swore.
He referred to the practice of writ
ing formulas, equations and various
sample problems in the margins of
the mathematics texts permitted
during tests.
“I can remember many instances
in which ‘poop sessions’ were given
by someone who had already taken
an exam. They size of these poop
sessions ranged from 5 to 10 to liter
ally entire companies, and from
there it spread to other companies
throughout the regiment, usually by
word of mouth, an affidavit read.^
The worst scandal in West Point s
174-year history has touched 226
cadets to date. Of that number, 149
have admitted their guilt in col
laborating on graded homework, lost
appeals of allegations they did so or
left for other reasons. Four cases are
pending. , , , ,
The accused cadets assembled the
affidavits to support their contention
that the honor system here has
failed, that cheating is so widespread
that to punish them by forcing them
to leave for a year or for good is
unjust.
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China’s Mao Tse-tung dies
THURSDAY
Rifle Team Tryouts, Rifle Range,
Military Science Bldg.
Flying Club CE 121, 8 p.m.
Amateur Radio Committee,
Rudder Tower 402, 7:30 p.m.
Political Forum MSC 145, 7:30
1 Math Club, Harrington 100, 7:30
p.m.
Cepheid Variable “2001: A Space
Odyssey,’ Rudder Auditorium, ad
mission one dollar, 8 p.m. and 11
p.m.
FRIDAY
Rifle Team Tryouts, Rifle Range,
Military Science Bldg.
Aggie Players, “The Fantasticks”
Rudder Forum, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY
Football Texas A&M vs. Virginia
Tech, Kyle Field. 4 p.m.
Cadet Corps Parade, 2:50 p.m.
Aggie Players “The Fantasticks,
Rudder Forum, 8 p.m.
Aggie Cinema “Cabaret”, Rudder
Theater, 8 p.m.
SUNDAY
Chess Committee, MSC 140, 6
p.m.
MONDAY
Community Education Course, to
review mathematics for various en
trance exams (SAT, GRE, etc.),
A&M Consolidated High School, 7
p.m. (If questions, see Keith Tuttle,
Harrington 410)
Introduction to Fortran Reed
McDonald 003, 3 p.m.
Rifle Team Tryouts, Rifle Range,
Military Science Bldg.
Economics Majors, 1201 Mun
son, College Station, 4:30-6 p.m.
TUESDAY
Introduction to JCL Reed
McDonald, 3:30 p.m. (for more in
formation call Lucia Adams 845-
4211)
Political Forum Alan Steelman,
Rudder 601, 1 p.m.
Flying Club, CE 121, 8 p.m.
Rifle Team Tryouts, Rifle Range,
Military Science Bldg.
WEDNESDAY
Rifle Team Tryouts, Rifle Range,
Military Science Building (weapons
will be supplied).
McClure urges
work, not just
participation
Manpower will run the Student
Senate this year, Fred McClure,
student body president told a filled
Student Senate audience last night.
The meeting was the first meeting of
the year.
“It will take more than just your
presence at meetings to make this
Student Senate run smoothly,’
McClure said adding, “We need
manpower, people to run the Book
Mart, rent refrigerators and compile
housing reports.
“We shouldn’t become engrossed
in small insignificant items of busi
ness that have been discussed for the
past ten years.” McClure said. “We
should work on items of business
larger than the ones in the past that
interest the students at Texas
A&M.” The Senate applauded as
McClure walked briskly back to his
seat.
(Continued from Page 1.)
his countrymen but also became a model
for revolutionaries in many of the backward
regions of the earth. • j
A classical poet, calligrapher, hard-
headed politican, guerrilla strategist and
audacious thinker, he led the long struggle
which ended with the triumph of com
munism in China and then broke with the
Soviet Communist party in a schism that
split the Communist world.
His passing raises the compelling ques
tion of how long his own brand of com
munism — called Maoism — will survive in
China. Much will depend on how those
who follow him interpret and apply his
ideals and teaching.
A believer in the masses and permanent
revolution, Mao spearheaded many revo
lutions during his long and turbulent
lifetime. In one, he trampled upon and
sought to destroy the rule of the
centuries-old elite — the landlords, rich
merchants, intellectuals, officials and war
lords — whose privileges were defended
by 25 centuries of Confucian thinking.
He aimed to turn over this power to the
poor peasants, city workers and soldiers\
Besides ripping up the tightly sewn fab
ric of Chinese rule, he tore great rents in its
long dormant society, insisting that the
new proletarian overlords revolutionize
their personal lives. . . f
He tried to make them into a new kind ot
human, skilled in warfare, in farming, in
industrial labor and in politics.
His own version of Marxism was heavily
salted with nationalism, influenced by
ideas from the Chinese past, and grounded
in the long suffering peasant.
On the educational front, he sought to
educate the poor at all levels of society,
making it easier for them to enter advanced
schools while leavening the already edu
cated with the common sense and earthy
experience of the peasant.
Born in the village ofShaoshan in Hunan
province Dec. 26, 1893, Mao grew up, as
did all China’s nationalist leaders, in a
period of great historical excitement.
As a youth, he saw the monarchy over
thrown in 1911 by followers of Dr. Sun
Yat-sen. While still a young man, he be
came one of the 13 founding members of
the Chinese Communist party in 1921.
He was 42 and at the peak of physical and
mental powers when he assumed leader
ship of the party in 1935 during its harrow
ing, 8,000-mile “Long March’ from the
east coast to Yenan in Shensi province.
Twelve thousand began the retreat
under the battering of the armies of Na
tionalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
and only 2,000 finished it. Mao succeeded
through discipline, political skill and good
luck in rebuilding the Communist army to
a strength of one million by the end of
World War II in 1945.
Despite the efforts of the United States,
which dispatched Gen. George C. Mar
shall to mediate, the civil war which had
long been simmering, burst into full flame
in 1946.
Three years later, at the age of 56, Mao
proclaimed the People s Republic from the
high red walls of the Forbidden City in
Peking.
The thread of Chinese hostility to the
Soviet party wound through Mao’s long
life. It was aggravated by the Korean
episode, flared again when the Russians
refused to help during the bombardment o
the Nationalist offshore islands in 1958, and
broke into the open after Russia’s new
party chief, Nikita Khrushchev, aban
doned Stalinism and decreed peaceful
coexistence with the West in 1956.
The last straw was the withdrawal ot
10,000 Soviet technicians and blueprints
for an atomic bomb from China in 1960.
Mao’s way was that of independence
from outside influences, the guerrilla men
tality in the military, emphasis on agricul
tural development at the lower levels and
recurrent shakeups in Chinese thinking
through periodic purges, the most massive
of which was the 1966-69 cultural revolu
tion.
Mao threw himself enthusiastically into
the struggles which these two lines precipi-
tated.
Using his immense prestige and the
cunning acquired in decades of political
maneuvering, he arraigned and then
crushed his enemies.
They included some of the most famous
names of Chinese communism — Manchu
rian boss Kao Kang, Marshal Peng
Tehhuai, Chief of State Liu Shaochi, De
fense Minister Lin Piao and, in 1976, First
Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping. He de
stroyed them all, but in the process left the
party shaken and uncertain.
The only one who survived was Chou
En-lai, his onetime rival and longtime col
laborator, who represented the moderate
wing of the party as against the radicals
whom Mao encouraged.
Premier from 1949 until his death at 18
last January, Cou was content to be No. 3
most of his career, safely clear of the blows
which descended on those in the heir-
apparent position. ^ i
Chou was widely believed to be the ar
chitect of the policy of rapprochement with
the West which culminated with the visitin
1972 of President Richard M. Nixon to Pek
ing. Mao accepted the new policy because
it promised to keep the Russians in check.
Since 1969, they had massed a million
troops on the 5,000-mile Sino-Soviet bor-
der.
Mao received Nixon warmly and was
equally cordial when his successor, Gerald
Ford, visited Peking in December 1975.
Responding to Mao’s invitation, Nixon
went to the Chinese capital a second time,
as a private citizen, in February 1976, the
fourth anniversary of his historic first visit,
Mao’s last public appearance was as
chairman of the 10th Communist Party
Congress in August 1973. From that time
onward he received foreign visitors in his
modest Peking home, talking with manyof
them for more than an hour. But by the
spring of 1976 his audiences had grown
shorter and the topics discussed more gen
eral. The decline, touched off by a seriesof
small strokes, had set in.
At his death, Mao could look back with
satisfaction on many major accom
plishments. Full communism had not been
achieved — he estimated it would take
another century to do so — but China had
moved forward along the road to that ideal.
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Cape Town patrolled
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The people fled when riot squads arrived in
convoy with sirens screaming.
Police lined the main streets of the non-
white Ravensmead township as municipal
workers cleared debris from the rioting.
In one suburb in which both colored and
whites live, more than 30 shops Y ei , e
looted after their windows were smashed.
Several buildings and vehicles were set
Violence was reported in at least four
other areas of the city. In some areas, dem
onstrators threw up roadblocks, apparently
to keep residents from going to work.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister John Vors-
ter, in his first major statement since his
weekend meeting with Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger, ruled out a political
role for blacks in white-ruled South Africa
and threatened tough new steps against
antigovernment rioters.
The prime minister’s speech to a pro
vincial congress of his ruling National Party
in Blomfontein disappointed some liberals
who hoped for an announcement of signifi
cant relaxation of the apartheid policy of
white supremacy, racial separation except
during working hours and denial of South
African citizenship to nonwhites.
Vorster said he was willing to meet
black leaders in urban areas to discuss
complaints
President Ford yesterday said in Wash
ington that he would not decide whether to
authorize the African diplomatic shuttle
that Kissinger is contemplating until Assis
tant Secretary of State William Schaufele
reported on his current visit to Africa.
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