Veteran spy
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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.
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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
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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. The course instruc
tors include community residents,
students and professionals.
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The “Twelfth Man” was composed
on Jan. 1, 1922, in Dallas during a
football game against Centre Col
lege. An Aggie, E. King Gill, was
called from the stands to suit up as a
substitute. Although he never
played, the “Twelfth Man” remains
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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.
Livermore, chairman of the
Douglas County chapter of the Na
tional Farmers Organization, said
farmers “for too long” have been lis
tening to universities and the fed
eral government.
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