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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1978)
Veteran spy bitter at CIA AnaQgyg JAUSTIN, — The young, articu late Central Intelligence Agency Igent came home from Vietnam in 1975 — already a veteran of 10 years in the CIA's clandestine services. John Stockwell returned to eent- ITexas to rest after the downfall of etnam, the longest war the U.S. §er was involved in and the only ie it ever lost. Stockwell was resting at his pa nts home just outside of Austin Ihen a call came from the CIA ^headquarters in Washington. He las told that Secretary of State Jenry Kissinger and the CIA were ithering American money, mate- |al and advisors to thrust into a ushfire war in Angola. Stockwell, a former Marine cap tain. was chosen to head the opera- He resigned from the CIA last ring and has since written “In arch of Enemies — a CIA Story,” which he criticizes the operations the intelligence agency. In Texas Weekly, a public affairs ogram broadcast last week, :ockwell told how Kissinger used e Angolan war to try and win re- lectability for America following its iwnfall in Vietnam. Stockwell said, awever, Kissinger refused to heed Ivice not to get involved in Angola. For all of the publicity and the iper-hero image that he (Kissinger) id, what I saw of what he was Ding in Angola was superficial, dis honest and dumb, in terms of the U.S. national interest,” Stockwell said. “As a chess player, he lost. And 70,000 people got killed in that little war, and for him to get a peace prize really makes me pause.” Stockwell said he was naive and had a “simplistic” view of the world when the CIA recruited him. But he said he felt he had a genuine oppor tunity to protect America. “It appeared to me through the CIA that I would be with the elite, sharp troops out there on the front lines defending America,” he said. But he said he finally saw that what CIA did was not always right or law ful. Stockwell said the American people need to police their leaders, including those who run agencies such as the CIA. “It’s our presumption of our Con stitution that power corrupts, and therefore our forefathers wrote ba lances of power into the Constitu tion, and other bodies could prose cute even our own president, if necessary, if he abused the power, he said. “In recent years it’s terribly clear that the CIA, working in secrecy and feeling itself above the law, has gotten in the habit of doing some pretty horrible things to the Ameri can people or to people overseas in the name of the American people. ’ is aboi previoiul eposil 1153 am he said tal imp,': scientisi fe supp: • acre. I; ct vI If onltlti yin® ifaltwl osed lk rimp hr niversl) lead .Id- ihen® material h nurse- Congress wants program change United Press International WASHINGTON — The House and Senate each proposed major revisions of the government’s main job and training programs, known as CETA. The next step is to negotiate differences between the bills passed by each house. The similarties are greater than the differences. Both bills would extend CETA, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which expires Sept. 30, for another four years. Both would shift emphasis from employing people put out of work by the recent recession to providing training and job experience for youth, the economically disadvantaged and under-educated who have a hard time finding work even in the best of economic times. To a greater extent than ever before, both would limit public ser vice jobs in state and local governments — the best known part of CETA — to the poor and near-poor. Both attempt to make it harder for localities to use federal funds to maintain regular municipal jobs — such as those in police and fire departments — which otherwise would have been financed with local funds. Both also would give the Labor Department new auditing machin ery and greater authority to police locally administered programs against abuses, such as political favoritism in handing out jobs, which bare been uncovered in several parts of the country. The House bill, passed 284-50 Friday, was a compromise worked out between sponsors and critics of the programs. The biggest difference between the two bills is that the House version would, under present economic conditions, reduce public service jobs about 100,000 next year from the current level of 725,000. The Senate would maintain the current level next year. what’s up Monday CAREERS NIGHT: The College of Business will have a careers night, with mock interviews and departmental speakers from 7-9 p.m. in Rudder Theater. FENCING: The TAMU Fencing club urges anyone to try to “out- fence a fencer and win a gift from area merchants at Rudder fountain today and tomorrow from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. CAMPUS SCOUTS: Will plan an outing at their meeting in room 502, Rudder at 7 p.m. MSC ARTS: All interested people are welcome to go to the MSC Arts Committee meeting in room 216, Memorial Student Center (stu dent programs office) at 8 p.m. OFF-CAMPUS STUDENTS: The Off-Campus Student Association will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the MSC Student Programs Office conference room. LUBBOCK HOMETOWN CLUB: Will hold a meeting in room 300, Agriculture Building. For more information call Larry Warren at 845-4468. Tuesday HOPE-CROSBY FESTIVAL: The first of the “road” pictures, “Road to Singapore,” where Bing and Bob flee from marriage to Singa pore, where they swear off women until they meet the saronged dancer, Dorothy Lamour, will show at 8 p.m. in Rudder Thea ter. “Road to Utopia,” which features Bing and Bob as vaudevil- lians, will show a 9:45 p.m. in Rudder Theater. AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: The Society of Automotive En gineers will meet in room 203, Zachary at 7:30 p.m. SAFETY ENGINEERS: Del Tally, fron the Association of General Contractors will speak at the American Society of Safety En gineers meeting at 7:30 p.m. in room 333B, Zachary. HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: All Aggies are invited to attend the TAMU Horsemen’s Association Ice Cream Social at 7 p.m. in the TAMU Horse Center. VOLLEYBALL: The women’s volleyball team will play at Utah State in Logan, Utah. HERPETOLOGICAL CLUB: Mark Maher will speak on “Rock Rattlesnakes,” at 7:30 p.m. in room 312, Nagle Hall. CLASS OF ’79: Will have a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in room 308, Rud der Tower. For more information call Lisa Cotropia at 845-7208. Wednesday MOVIE: “Romeo and Juliet,” William Shakespeare’s tragic romance based on the plight of two young lovers caught in the midst of a bitter and meaningless family feud, will show at 8 p.m in Rudder Theater. ST. MARY’S NEWMAN CLUB: Will show the movie “Godspell,” at 7:30 p.m. in room 601, Rudder Tower. The movie is free and everyone is invited. TAMU ROAD RUNNERS: Will have a meeting at 6:30 p.m. in front of G. Rollie White Coliseum, MARKETING SOCIETY: The Marketing Society is holding a pot- luck dinner at the A&M Methodist church. There will be a speaker after the dinner. Sign up to bring dishes outside Market ing office in the Old Engineering Building. Free-U classes begin THE BATTALION Page 7 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1978 1,500 to participate What do I tal ian conversation, wine tasting, and human sexuality have in common? All are subjects of courses offered by the Memorial Student Center’s Free University. Approximately 1,500 Texas A&M University students and faculty members and residents of the Bryan-College Station area regis tered last week for courses, which will begin this week. The MSC Free University Com mittee schedules the non-credit, and informal classes. This year the Free University has devised a deposit-refund policy. “The deposit-refund policy serves as Who’s worse? towers or thieves United Press International AUSTIN, Texas — Mike Chan dler’s $350 Ford was stolen from his home two days after he bought it in April. Police have located the car now, and Chandler can have it back for $500. That is the amount due in towing and storage charges to Action Tow ing Service, which picked up the vehicle from a parking lot where it apparently was abandoned by the thief. “I wasn’t notified of it being picked up until August and they want to charge me for it,” Chandler said. He has filed a claim against the city for the price of bailing the car out of storage, but the city says it is not responsible. Meanwhile, Chan dler, 24, a cook at a University of Texas area restaurant, has hired an attorney, but bis storage fees con tinue to increase at a rate of $5 per day. an incentive for students to attend class,” says Katie Blute, chairman of the committee. For most of the courses offered, there is a $3.50 fee. “If a student attends 75 percent of the class meetings, including the last class, he will receive a $3 re fund,” she said. A few courses, such as bartend ing, winetasting and flower arrang ing require a fee that pays for mate rials, Blute said. “However, if a material fee is charged for a class, the student doesn’t pay the $3.50. Free University offers a variety of courses which includes bartending, chess, Italian conversation, rockclimbing, human sexuality, disco dance, winetasting, and per sonal finance. 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Although he never played, the “Twelfth Man” remains as a prime example of Aggie Spirit today. ;rict 3*1 nipa* Organic farming Farmer finds healthy profit ne Co. hamplii Refinii! iducts n i not* i to ll* I OcU mid 1* on. ?nt o* end 1 VALLEY, Neb. — K.C. Liver- nore, who farms 260 acres near this astern Nebraska town, says he topped using chemicals on his ■fops because organic farming is lealthier for people, livestock and irofits. Several chemical companies ried to talk us out of it when we tarted farming organically in 1967,” Jvermore said. “When they saw we lad our minds made up, one guy rom a big chemical plant said — It’s gonna be all right, you’re gonna make it.” “They know we don’t need their iroducts. Dumping chemicals on and pollutes streams, underground Water, crops, animals and, eventu- lly, man.” Livermore, 60, was raised on an astern Colorado farm and began working his Nebraska land in 1938. About that time, he said, virgin pas ture, yielding 115 bushels of corn per acre on the first harvest, slowly deteriorated. “We had to put in oats and sweet clover to bring up traces of minerals for the next year’s planting. But it got so bad we had to do something.” After conferring with organic far mers, Livermore said he decided to give up the chemicals. Since then, he usually receives more than the market price for his organically fed cattle and sheep and bis chemically free beans, corn and alfalfa. He makes about $100 more per bead of cattle and said although far mers using chemical nitrates usually have bigger yields on corn in wet years, “I still make as much profit because there’s no chemicals to buy.” In dry years, Livermore said, or- Janic farmers usually produce ligher yields; in wet years, their beans and alfalfa generally keep up or do better. And, he said, organic farming saves energy. "We make less trips to the field because our ground is nice and mel low and much easier to pull (with a tractor), so we use less fuel. Far mers who use chemicals have to keep working the soil to aerate it. Ours is done the natural way.” Livermore, who lives a few miles from Valmont Industries — one of the nation’s largest makers of center pivot irrigation systems — said his land doesn’t need such equipment. “Rainfall will penetrate our soil. Sunlight can’t pull moisture out of it, so we don’t need irrigation while the guys alongside us used to pump all kinds of water. “We got humus. When our roots decay in the ground they are used like a wick. Each evening the mois ture starts coming up to the plants. ” Chemical herbicides “cut roots off so the soil lacks this capillary ac tion,” he said. 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