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P>age 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1976 SUPREME COUPJT £EAL OF APPROVAL AFTER ALL- TH E-Y'IRE UU5»T CRIMINAL^.. Once you’re up there, you can’t work your way down. \S /-N l l »—* y-J \ I v / y-x l l l—» y-x xy 11^ y-x L-x ^-x a • 4- x y y-x . > xy y-x yx. yx X— y You can dye your hair or lie about your age and it still won’t change the situation. As you get older, life insurance rates go up. Never down. The best time to buy life insurance is while you’re in school. Your rates are lower and your policy matures while you’re still young enough to enjoy it. Drop by our campus office and let’s talk over our life policy with the Guaranteed Purchase Option. KIRK W. FRANCIS Lineberry Associates Suite 28, 707 University Dr. College Station, Tex. 77840 846-7027 PROVIDENT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Home Office: 4601 Market St., Phila . Pa. 19101 Subsidiaries: Provider Management Company Provider Sales Company Who was rude at Houston? Editor: Two weeks ago there was a letter to the editor from a girl complaining about the rudeness of two Kansas State football trainers during the halftime induction of the new mem bers into the Hall of Fame. I agree with her that I was proud to be an Aggie at that game; I wish I could say the same about the University of Houston game. After Houston’s third extra point, the Aggie fans wouldn’t return the football to the field. A Cougar man ager asked them to give the ball back, but they refused. The manager had to get a policeman and they had go into the stands to retrieve the ball. Personally I was embarrassed, and I think it was a childish display of unsportsmanlike conduct. Just be cause we re not winning the game, we re still supposed to act like “good Ags.” Maybe some people thought it was funny and cute, but I wonder how many would think the same if it had happened at Kyle Field. Wanda Weatherly, ’79 FREE FREE PIE AFTER 5:00 P.M. 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The seeds of “People’s Power” were sown in 1970, after the failure of the 10-million-ton sugar harvest on which Castro had staked “the honor of the revolution. ” In a series of speeches after the harvest, Castro accepted responsibility for the fail ure and declared that Cuba needed to change its internal power struc ture. In particular, he said the Com munist Party had become far too in volved in the day-to-day administra tion of government, urging that it confine itself to providing broad political direction for the country but withdraw from administration. The Cuban revolution, he said, was en tering “a new, more mature phase . the democratization of the revolutionary process.” For five years, a group of leading Cubans, led by Bias Roca, a member of the Central Committee of the Party, and Dr. Denio Camacho, dean of the Law School at Havana University, worked to shape Castro s proclamations into specific propo sals. The result was the approval last January of a national constitution, which Cuba had not had since the revolution. As a result all Cubans over the age of 16 will be eligible to vote on Oc tober 10 for local representatives to 169 municipal assemblies. The elec toral districts will be very small, giv ing voters a chance to meet each candidate personally. In recent weeks, posters have begun appearing on walls and bulle tin boards throughout Cuba display- Slouch by Jim Earle “I’ve had a number of students who have had to be absent to participate in the centennial festivities. Have you heard any thing about a pool shooting exhibition as part of the convoca tion activities that would require a student to miss class?” * $5 i m 4 sy | | | | K '4 8 Aggieland Flower & Gift Shop | Plants — Hallmark Cards Posters — Candles — Roses & Other Fresh Flowers If she's special — be individual and let Aggieland Flowers design your mum just for her. Select a special mum of velvet, colligate or satin trim — add roses, carnations or button poms. This week 10% OFF On Every Mum With This Ad Open 8-5:30 846-5825 209 University Dr. (Next to Campus Theatre) 846-5825 We Wire Flowers Worldwide ing photographs and biographies of the candidates — the only form of campaigning permitted other than personal contact. Candidates run without party affiliation and may not spend money to campaign. On October 28, the municipal as semblies will convene and elect from their number representatives to 14 provincial assemblies, which in turn will select the members of the Na tional Assembly. According to the new constitu tion, the National Assembly of People’s Power “is the supreme organ of state power” and “is the only organ in the Republic invested with constituent and legislative author ity.” Previously, these functions had been the province of the Communist Party. Members of the National Assem bly will serve five-year terms, and all but those elected to leadership posts will keep their regular jobs. The Assembly’s first act after it convenes December 2 will be to elect, from among its deputies, a 30-member Council of State. The president of the Council of State will be head of state and head of govern ment, appointing a cabinet and di recting the government within the revolutionary socialist policy set by the party. Precisely where the line of author ity will be drawn between the party and the “organs of People’s Power” remains to be seen. CASTRO'S ROLE Under the constitution, it appears that Fidel Castro will not be eligible to retain his post as prime minister unless he is elected to the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power by his neighbors and then to the Provincial and National Assemblies by his fel low delegates. Even if he does seek election, he may plan to step down once he is convinced that the new structure of government is sound. In any case, he is expected to re tain his position as first secretary of the Communist Party. In 1970, in one of Castro’s first major statements on the process that was to become “People’s Power,” he said, “The revolutionary process it self has gradually revealed the in convenience of bureaucratic and administrative methods.” Popular sovereignty, he confes sed, “had taken a back seat — not through the fault of either the work ers’ organizations or the workers themselves but through our faidt, the party’s fault, the fault of the country’s political leadership.” Castro emphasized that “our par ty s role cannot be — nor can it ever he — that of replacing the adminis tration or the mass organizations.” Without yet knowing what would be the final product of the process he was initiating, he pledged that the nation “will emerge stronger and more democratic than ever before . it will be very strong because it will be very democratic.” The constitution gives broad pow ers to the National Assembly, includ ing the power to pass and repeal laws, to approve the national budget, to declare war, to name the attorney general and to approve “the principles of the system for planning and the management of the national economy.” Municipal and provincial as semblies are given similar adminis trative authority, combining execu tive and legislative powers. Accord ing to the constitution, they will “di rect economic, production, and serv ice units . . .and provide eco nomic, cultural, educational and recreational services.” These delegates, serving for two- and-a-half years, will also retain their regular jobs. Cuban leaders admit they are not certain how successful “People’s Power will be or what new prob lems it may create, but they are clearly convinced that the adminis tration of government should be under popular electoral control. Bik< C^H I oF-ELNl 7 V o TT> GE~r ~To Kmou You BETTER. OPEN for. ON w fcte.RjE. tor By Along wit CAH 6AEET" INFoRA/^ent increai last five yf| o o .yen faster I o ^ » c y cles ol ) f While th iled, the n| o o ere( ^ on ca l ier cent. A;[ Jes had b< ""■"University H-Cm-O BOOT” THE- Mb ably le jicycles o Police Chit gently. A survey University’s revealed thJ f the bicyl :a*ipus weil Beginninl 0 tered bicycl .subject to a| mandatory “Our prii| registration Nlonr Q O n"E- uuHAT tification of 1 V\ AL> IN V H b not identi *yl a registratu Of the L len on cam{ ‘ registered. w bicycles re registered. ^ lies have l ^ O and two of O er( .(l. j The incr^ _ .on and aroi 0 unloitnn.it S^-onTd ^ Aggie S - H OO^tUT* \T AWf 0 Q4 _ recerv The first C Association the women sented at T Awards were accep team captai C and Elizabe Q|,‘ : Col. Thoi .ofmilitary s tations. Th trophy and last summe ; In additit cepted six g team. ■Nealin re Opinions exi>resse(l in The Battalion are thoufafoy last yea editor or of the writer of th e article and arc ily those of the University administration or iheBM of Regents. The Battalion ts a non-profit^ supporting enterprise operated by sity and community newspaper. Editorial policy^ termined by the editor. 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