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nU n who has devoted her life to the
an d destitute of Caleutta, Monday
awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize,
hised the occasion to denounce nations
legalize abortion.
ll her speech to a gathering of royalty,
ploniats and heads of states the frail 69-
i fl igid Roman Catholic nun said such
(itries where abortions are legalized
ten truly poor, lacking the respect for life
is the basis of human dignity,
tie said the greatest threat to world
peace today was the cry of the unborn child
dying in its mother’s body.
lo me the nations that have legalized
abortion, they are the poorest nations,” she
smei They are afraid of the little ones. The
child must die because they do not want to
feed one more child, to educate one more
child.”
She said the homes she runs in India and
20 other nations around the world fight
abortion through adoption.
Ihe tiny nun, dwarfed by the massive
oak podium, spoke unhesitatingly without
notes for 30 minutes, her deeply-lined face
creased with a serene smile throughout.
Mother Teresa also said that the way to
peace in the world was simply to learn to
respect the dignity of all human beings and
to care for each other.
“In these 20 years of work among the
people, I have come more and more to
realize that it is being unwanted that is the
worst disease that any human being can
ever experience,” she said earlier.
Mother Teresa led a torchlight proces
sion in sub-zero temperatures Sunday
night.
The procession moved quietly from Oslo
Cathedral to a mission hall where Mother
Teresa, wearing sandals and a threadbare
coat over the blue and white sari of her
Roman Catholic order, received $72,000
collected by Norwegians in all parts of the
country as a “people’s peace prize.”
Instead of the traditional celebrations af
ter the official awards ceremony at Oslo
University, the 69-year-old nun last week
persuaded the Nobel Foundation to spend
the $5,800 set aside for a banquet on an
extra day’s food rations for some of the
250,000 starving, pavement-dwellers of
Calcutta.
Mother Teresa also was given Sunday
$200 collected by a girls school choir that
sang at the mission hall reception. Earlier,
she attended an ecumenical church service
at the Oslo Cathedral.
The Albanian-born nun, who travelled to
Calcutta 31 years ago to teach in an upper-
class convent, has said she will spend the
$193,000 Nobel prize money on homes and
a hospital for the poor.
“The world has acknowledged the pre
sence of its poor—that is the significance of
my winning the prize,” she said recently.
“I come in the name of the poorest of the
poor to accept the award.”
Her first task will be to help provide
decent homes for the lepers on whose be
half she founded the Society of the Mis
sionaries of Charity in 1950.
Mother Teresa flew to Europe last week
at the end of her month of prayer and medi
tation.
She had a private audience with Pope
John Paul II in the Vatican Saturday before
flying on to Oslo with two sisters from her
religious order.
Once asked how average people could
help her work, she replied simply, “They
should begin to love at home, they should
love by sharing and giving until it hurts.”
Battalion
Tuesday, December 11, 1979
College Station, Texas
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Williams to break all ties
with A&M to take new job
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Jack K. Williams, former chancellor of the Texas A&M University
System, recently was nominated to head the Texas Medical Center, Inc.
[Williams said his job will be to coordinate each of the center’s activities in
management capacity.
SC groups to
ridal fair next
By RICHARD OLIVER
Battalion StafT
The nomination of Dr. Jack K. Williams
to head the Texas Medical Center, Inc.,
marks the end of his tenure at Texas A&M.
Williams, 59, was nominated Thursday
to head the center. The former chancellor
of the Texas A&M University System said
he feels the appointment will be a chal
lenge.
“I will be the chief operating officer for
the center,” he said in an interview Mon
day. “It will be a marvelous opportunity for
me, not only as a challenge, but it’s a
chance for service to people.”
The center, based in Houston, has 23
institutional complexes, including nine
separate hospitals and several child care
centers. The center has total operating
budgets of $535 million this year and is the
largest medical center in the world.
Williams said his job is to coordinate
each of the center’s activities in a manage
ment capacity.
“There are all sorts of areas which must
be looked after,” he said. “I will oversee
sponsor
semester
everything from the laundry ... to the com
puter centers.”
Williams was chosen by a search commit
tee to succeed Dr. Richard T. Eastwood as
executive vice president and director of the
medical center. The committee will formal
ly nominate him at the center’s board of
director’s meeting next Tuesday.
Board president Herman P. Pressler said
Williams appointment would probably be
unanimously approved at the meeting.
Willaims said the appointment will com
pletely withdraw him from University acti
vities.
“I will be completely divorced from the
University and its operations,” he said. “I
am sorry to go because I have had a great
relationship with the students and the fa
culty. I hope everything goes well with
everyone here.”
Williams’ controversial tenure at Texas
A&M began on Nov. 1, 1970, when he was
appointed president of the University and
its system after the death of Gen. Earl
Rudder.
Williams suffered a heart attack in July
1976. When he returned to work about a
year later, he was appointed chancellor of
the University System, and Dr. Jarvis Mil
ler took over the position of president.
At this time, several changes occurred in
the duties of the University president.
The primary changes in power occurred
when the main campus. Moody College
and the Agricultural Extension Service
were put under the supervision of Miller
instead of Williams.
In the fall of 1978, the chancellor’s home
on the Texas A&M campus was given to
Miller.
Williams resigned his job as chancellor in
a surprise announcement on Jan. 4.
On Feb. 28, Williams’ two-bedroom
apartment in the old Board of Directors
quarters on campus was gutted in a fire.
Williams declined to comment on the
current chancellor and president system at
Texas A&M, saying it is “something for the
board of directors to argue over.
‘Communists respect no human rights'
Former Cambodia leader speaks here
By LAURA HERTENBERGER
Battalion Reporter
1A Bridal Fair, sponsored by the Memo
rial Student Center Free University, Hos-
Itality and Basement committees, was
pproved at Monday night’s regular meet-
[ of the MSC Council. The fair will be
M 7-13.
|The council also heard reports on the
coming MSC College Bowl as well as the
IP V - 28 lost-and-found auction and the
9 Christmas program.
(The Bridal Fair will consist of a series of
Carriage seminars planned for April 7-10
I'd a fashion show the afternoon of April
|3. rhere will be no charge for attending
the seminars but a $1 fee is planned for the
fashion show.
Topics for the seminars include the
working couple,” “what married life is real
ly like” and “the finanical aspects of mar
riage and how to be a married student. A
bridal consultant from a local shop will dis
cuss wedding preparation and a panel of
clergy will offer discussion on differing
theological views of marriage.
The MSC College Bowl, “varsity sport of
the mind,” will begin with intramural con
tests Feb. 4-7. Team applications are now
being accepted; there is a limit of 16 four-
man teams. The winning teams will adv
ance to regional finals in Fort Worth.
The lost-and-found auction raised a re
cord $1,960 from the sale of unclaimed arti
cles such as calculators, clothing and jewel
ry turned into and held for at least six
months at the MSC main desk.
Proceeds from the auction went toward
financing Sunday’s Christmas program.
Preparations for the program included the
decoration of a $400 live tree, placed in the
main lounge of the MSC. The program be
gan with a prayer by President Jarvis Miller
and ended with a reception during which
Santa Claus and A&M football player
George Woodard posed for pictures.
The meeting ended with the approval of
budgets for MSC Great Issues, Association
of College Unions-International Confer
ence, and Basement Committees.
By MARCY BOYCE
Battalion Reporter
Former President of Cambodia Cheng
Heng appealed to students at Texas A&M
University Monday to speak up for the hu
man rights being denied the Cambodian
people.
Cheng, speaking as part of a Human
Rights Day presentation by the Interna
tional Student Association, said the com
munist takeover in April 1975 was the be
ginning of a holocaust in that country.
“Food has been deliberately destroyed
by both sides to serve as weapons,” Cheng
said. “People, young and old are sick and
starving.”
Cambodia’s population, which was
almost 8 million prior to the takeover, has
been depleted to about 3.5 million, he said.
And reports show as many as 2 million more
could die unless vast aid is made available
to them.
Before 1975, however, starvation in
Cambodia was the exception rather than
the rule, Cheng said.
“When I served as prime minister of
agriculture, we had problems finding mar
kets to sell surpluses of corn, rice, fruits,
rubber and timber,” he said in an informal
discussion with students earlier.
Today, the problem is getting food into
the country, Cheng said. Although govern
ments and international agencies around
the world are mobilizing relief efforts,
Heng said only 20-30 percent actually
reaches the people. The remainder just sits
on the docks.
“The communists don’t respect any hu
man rights,” he said. “They think it’s easier
to kill the Cambodian people like this than
with war.”
This fall Heng went before the United
Nations to protest the situation in Cambo
dia. And two weeks later, he said, the U.N.
made an appeal to North Vietnam to with
draw its troops.
“We speak about human rights,” Cheng
said, “but we don’t have any force to make
others respect them. And he said he
would support military intervention by the
united Nations troops.
“We need peace in Cambodia. We have
to have peace and let the people grow
food ” Cheng said.
Cheng, currently representing the
YMCA Indochinese Refugee Program,
asked for contributions from students.
“Please help prevent the Cambodian
people from ceasing to exist,” he said. “This
emergency relief can only come from civil
ized people around the globe, and from the
American people in general.
.S. grants A&M $1 million
or development program
By ANGIE JONES
I . Battalion Reporter
I a recently approved $1 million federal
[lengthening grant,” to be matched by
Was A&M University, is but another step
) the internationalization of this Univer-
(y.
Strengthening Grant program is a
Fjponent ofTitle XII legislation passed in
'5 as part of the International Develop-
i en * ant l Food Assistance Act of 1975. The
. ge " c 'y for International Development
b) and the federal government are
tyrog to use the agricultural expertise of
roversities across the nation to help lesser
Weloped countries (LDCs), said Pam
listr't' Stren S t bening grant program admi-
Aprimary goal ofTitle XII is to provide
leased, long-term scientific support to
I Ve . “re food, nutrition and agriculture
A r^t problems of LDCs.
Another major goal will be to assist
^ sin strengthening agricultural institu-
fhat they better produce a perma-
n flow of new technical knowledge for
ush - F-2; a *f farmers. The program will also try to
Rnrks ^ n, S ^i ri , 1TK)C lernization of agriculture and
R P r - K ul1 s 3 ^ 0r ^ u ' P oor majority in the LDCs.
secondary goals for Title XII are to har-
‘ss professional, scientific and technolo-
® resources of U. S. universities to assist
^•cultural institutions in the LDCs.
_ l0rne explained that Title XII has four
* * ‘' ff,w i F’nents and the Strcnghthening Grant
snt ^ U jnii>> it' li ’ rar V un der “adaptation and appli-
s '^ k , (,n technology.” A second component
’ u j. rt:n Kfboning and evaluating LDC insti-
ros/nv' r °ugb projects aimed at expand-
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extension and related services.
Advisory services to LDC nations are a
third component of Title XII. Technical
suppoft to countries and missions will be
provided through long-term contracts with
Title XII universities to provide advisory
services. Short-term advisers will work to
develop AID programs and to evaluate
their effectiveness. Also, non-institutional
building development projects could be in
itiated in the LDCs through this compo
nent.
A fourth component of Title XII is the
Collaborative Research Support Program.
U.S. universities will concentrate their de
velopment efforts on neglected research
problems in collaboration with the LDCs
institutions.
The overall objective of the Title XII
Strengthening Grant Program at Texas
A&M will be for the University to partici
pate in assistance activities authorized in
Title XII for the mutual benefit of Texas
A&M, Texas and the people of the cooper
ating countries. Horne said this is the first
year federal funding has been provided to
Texas A&M to use for these grants.
Of the 46 universities that received AID
grants, Texas A&M received the second
largest amount. AID provided $1,040,000,
which A&M matched with $1,052,500. The
AID grant will be distributed over a five
year period with installments averaging
$200,000 per year. This year the University
was given $210,000 to match and begin its
programs.
Texas Tech University and Sam Houston
State University both received AID streng
thening grants of $500,000. Michigan State
University got the largest AID strengthen
ing grant of $1.5 million.
Horne said that all departments at Texas
A&M have been encouraged to participate
in strengthening grant activities by submit
ting program proposals.
Texas A&M strengthening grant guide
lines for program proposals have desig
nated “nutrition and agricultural develop
ment,” “women in development” and
“small farmer” as priority subject areas.
Texas A&M’s international policy guide
lines have noted Latin America as a priority
development area, followed by countries in
Asia and Africa.
Strengthening grant activities to be initi
ated here are tbe adoption of a system
analysis approach to agricultural develop
ment.
The grants will also help begin the de
velopment of the Texas A&M faculty and
staff through international activities such as
seminars, institutional linkages, case stu
dies, conferences, language area studies
and course and curriculum additions.
Horne said a summer course on Public
Administration is also being planned.
So far, 56 program proposals have been
submitted, involving 39 different Universi
ty departments and services. A committee
headed by T. R. Greathouse, vice president
for international affairs, will make decisions
on funding the program proposals by Dec.
20. Co-chairman of the committee is Dr.
Morris E. Bloodworth, director of Interna
tional Programs.
Horne, Bloodworth and Greathouse
chose the other eight members of the com
mittee, including several deans and per
sonnel from the extension and service de
partments of the University.
Cheng Heng, former president of Cambodia, chats
with reporters and Texas A&M University students
outside the Memorial Student Center.
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Lesehper Jr.