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Two speakers scheduled
for April Political Forum
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By JOHN SNEED
Joshua Rubinstein, Field Coor
dinator for Amnesty International,
and Reagan V. Brown, newly ap
pointed Texas agriculture commis
sioner, will spe&k next month at
Texas A&M in conjunction with
Political Forum.
Rubinstein, whose appearance is
also sponsored by the International
Students Association, will discuss
human rights during an April 6
presentation at 8 p.m, in the Rud-
derTheatre. A film will be included.
Amnesty International is a Lon
don based organization founded in
1961 that aims to guarantee freedom
of speech and religion throughout
the world. It works for the release of
men and women imprisoned for
their beliefs.
The organization’s activities in
clude investigating conditions
under which prisoners are held and
sending observers to attend political
trials.
Rubinstein’s presentation com
plements the organization’s main
objective for 1977: “campaigning for
more human rights.”
Amnesty International has been
oflfically recognized by groups such
as the Organization of African Un
ity, the Organization of American
States and the United Nations Edu
cational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization.
Brown, a graduate of Texas A&M,
served as special assistant to Gov.
Dolph Briscoe for four years before
being appointed as commissioner of
agriculture
He will speak April 14 at 12:30
p.m. in Rudder Tower 601 on “An
Aggie in the Governor’s Office.”
A proven speaker, Brown says he
has received 411 standing ovations
as a speaker at 422 meetings during
the past three years. He has spoken
to more than 180,000 persons.
Brown has received many honors
including the Faculty Achievement
Award presented by the Former
Students Association of Texas A&M
and the Superior Service Award of
the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service.
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New department head
Dr. Samuel A. Kirkpatrick will
become head of political science at
Texas A&M University Sept. 1, said
Dean of Liberal Arts W. David
Maxwell.
Kirkpatrick, currently director of
the Bureau of Government Re
search at the University of Okla-
KIRKPATRICK
homa, will fill the position of Dr.
Paul P. Van Riper who is returning
to full-time teaching.
The new department head cur
rently holds two other positions as
the University of Oklahoma profes
sor of political science and director
of the scholar-leadership enrich
ment program.
Kirkpatrick has written two
books, coauthored three others and
edited two more. He has also writ
ten several book chapters and wrote
or coauthored more than 60 articles,
papers and monographs.
His fields of expertise include
electoral behavior and public opin
ion, research methods, social psy
chology and politics, state and
urban policy, legislative behavior
and decision-making on the indi
vidual, small group and organiza
tional levels.
The Pennsylvania native has held
a number of fellowships, among
them awards from the N ational Sci
ence Foundation and American
Political Science Association.
Kirkpatrick, a former legal assis
tant for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, first became affiliated
with the University of Oklahoma in
1968 and was named acting director
of the research bureau a year later.
During the summer of 1970, he was
visiting assistant professor and re
search associate at the University of
Michigan’s Institute for Social Re
search.
A cum laude undergraduate of
Shippensburg State College in
Pennsylvania, Kirkpatrick received
his masters from Penn State in 1966
and his Ph.D. in 1968.
Top of the News
Campus
VETERANS attending Texas
A&M University on the GI Bill
need to meet with campus Vet
erans Administration representa
tives as soon as possible in order
to insure continued benefit pay
ments for the summer. Effective
June 1, payments will arrive at
the end of the month.
CITIZENS for Quality Educa
tion (CQE), concerned with the
educational growth of College
Station schools, held an organi
zational meeting recently and
elected Bill Parker and Oran
Jones president and treasurer re
spectively. Anyone interested in
joining CQE should contact
Betty Rivers, membership
chairman, at 846-3973.
SPENCER GUIMARIN, the
state’s top recruiter of college
talent for hospitals and health
careers, will be conducting a
full-day seminar tomorrow start
ing at 9:30 a.m. in Rudder 601.
The emphasis of the discussion
will be the current employment
outlook for health careers. The
program is sponsored by the
Medical Technology Society and
the Texas A&M Nursing Society.
THE DANCE THEATRE of
Harlem will give two demon
stration-lectures tomorrow in the
Rudder Center Auditorium at
10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Tickets
are $1 and are available at the
Rudder Center Box Office. The
ballet company’s performance is
sponsored by the Arts Council of
Brazos Valley and OPAS Guild in
cooperation with the OPAS-
Town Hall Committee of Texas
A&M University.
Texas
AN EXPLOSION in Amarillo
yesterday killed two veteran
employes at a nuclear weapons
plant and a third worker was in
jured. Officials said the plant as
sembles nuclear weapons, but
that no radioactive material was
involved in the explosion. The
explosion at the Energy Re
search and Development Admin
istration’s Pantex Plant killed
Chester Grimes and Ray Tucker,
both 62, of Amarillo. Both had
worked at the plant for 25 years.
Plant foreman John Hendershot
of Armillo was in critical condi
tion at Northwest Texas Hospital,
tal.
A HOUSE COMMITTEE has
approved a school finance bill
which would freeze local school
property taxes for next year and
reduce the taxes the following
year. The $694 million bill is ten
tatively scheduled for House de
bate next week or immediately
after the legislature’s Easter
break. Rep. Tom Massey, D-San
Angelo, chairman of the Educa
tion Committee, said the bill
should have a great deal of sup
port in the House.
National
THE 1964 REPORT by the
Warren Commission shows
George de Mohrenschildt,
sought before his apparent
suicide as a “crucial witness for
the House Assassination Com
mittee, claimed he befriended
Lee Harvey Oswald out of kind
ness. The commission concluded
the Russian-born scientist, lin
guist and international busi
nessman had nothing to do with
Oswald’s assassination of John F.
Kennedy in Dallas Nov. 22,
1963.
BREAKTHROUGHS were
not to be expected; it was a time
of testing. And President Carter
should hold firm on strategic
arms because “ if the Russians
want an agreement, they’ll come
around.” Those conclusions can
be drawn today from Congres
sional and diplomatic analyses in
the aftermath of Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance’s mission to
Moscow. It was “no surprise” to
Sen John Stennis, one of the
leading proponents of American
military might, that the Soviet
Union would not buy Carter’s
proposal to lower strategic arms
ceilings.
PLANS TO REENACT the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
have been dropped by the Con
federate Air Force in Lafayette,
La. Lawyer Richard Broussard, a
member of the Cajun Wing of
the CAF, said the simulated
bombing has been deleted from
the group’s air show scheduled
Sunday at the regional airport.
Last October, the group re
enacted the bombing at a show
in Harlingen, Tex., which was
protested by pacifists and
Japanese officials.
World
AS REBEL INVADERS push
deeper into Zaire’s southern
copper belt and infiltrate the key
mining city of Kolwezi, de
moralized government troops
are deserting, reports from the
region said yesterday. U.S. em
bassy officials said five Ameri
cans remained in Kolwezi—four
missionaries and a mining com
pany employe. Another 43
Americans were evacuated
Tuesday from the city of 200,000
persons.
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