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Opinion
Letters Eddie Chiles fights American apathy L
By SUSAN 1
Campus Re|
Carter wants stronger CIA
Buried on page 46 of the president’s State of the Union
report to the Congress is a brief but vital section titled,
“Intelligence Charters.”
In it, Carter told the Congress “a legislative charter of the
intelligenqe agencies and a chartei; of the FBI are long
overdue. Events of the past year indicate the need for a
strengthened and clearly defined role for our intelligence
community. ”
While the president may be referring to the difficulties in
Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when he speaks
of “events of the past year, ” he cannot escape responsibility
for the sloppy job turned in by American intelligence in
recent months.
Measures taken to correct the errors of past administra
tions in carrying to excess the use of intelligence gathering
now are directly disrupting our ability to be prepared.
The American people want a strong CIA with abilities to
report on what is transpiring in foreign lands that involve our
national welfare. Congress should renew our intelligence
capabilities without delay.
Martinsburg (W.Va.) Evening Journal
Editor:
Your “Opinion” column in the February
4th Battalion is completely unjustified and
an afront to Mr. Chiles. Here is a man
using, as you put it “several hundred
thousand dollars, ” of “his own money ex
tolling American citizens to use their ina
lienable right to vote for the government of
their choice. Today, in the face of Russia’s
invasion into Afghanistan, the Iranian crisis
and other world events, America more than
ever needs strong and capable leaders. Mr.
Chiles, it seems, is one of a very few whom
appear to be concerned. For his efforts, you
have decided his method of advertising,
not to mention his right of free speech, is
not effective and therefore the reason of
your highly regarded opinion. How can a
newspaper, its editor, or any of its writers
be so sharply critical, in such a demeaning
way, to America’s right of free speech and
voting priviledges? If you take exceptioi ro
the method Mr. Chiles uses in reaching the
voting public, then why don’t you come up
with a better alternate method instead of
attacking his?
Dale Hembree
its members very professional. Most of all
they are students who care about other
students. I encourage off-campus students
to condemn the city council for its action.
David Mobley
B-CS growing fast
Draft is important
CS EMTs need work
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Editor:
Upon reading your front page story,
“City Law Curtails A&M Ambulance Ser
vice ”, I was appalled at some of the state
ments made by councilman Gary Halter
about TAMECT members “running
around trying to play EMT. ’
Imagine that you are in a serious accident
and losing a lot of blood. The ambulance
arrives and on the way to the hospital you
are at ease because you know that your life
is in the hands of trained professionals.
Suddenly, you realize something is wrong!
The EMT that is with you can’t seem to stop
the bleeding or even get a blood-pressure
reading. Next you hear mumble, “God, I’m
so rusty, you’re my first patient in a year. ”
The hospital keeps radioing for vital signs,
but the EMT isn’t competent enough to
measure them.
Sound like a nightmare? Well, this re
cently happened to me while riding in a
City of College Station Emergency Rescue
Fire Department Ambulance. Now I ask,
who is “playing EMT” and who isn’t? It is
too bad, that the off-campus Aggies lose in
answering that one. I know next time I wil
ride in someone’s station wagon before I
will let a City Ambulance pick me up: in
fact, this experience shocked me so much
that I recently joined TAMECT and found
Editor:
I \youl{l .like, to comment on.an article
which appeared in the Opinion column of
the February 5, 1980, issue of The Batta
lion. Its author suggested that Americans
are overreacting to the proposal which
would reinstate selective service registra
tion. The author pointed out that setting up
a registration system is not equivalent to
reinstating the draft, and that even if the
draft is reinstated it is at least six months or
a year away.
I believe that the author has failed to see
several aspects of this problem which are
indeed cause of immediate concern.
First, although the current proposal is
only for registration, the time to oppose the
draft, if one intends to, is now. If it is wrong
to draft individuals into the military, it is
equally wrong to force them to register for
such a draft.
Secondly, when an action entails such
devasting consequences for the lives of so
many people, I hardly think that it is prem
ature to begin some very serious thinking
concerning the matter even a year in adv-
Most importantly, I do not believe that
the author appreciated the nature of what I
believe to be the most important decision
tht one must make upon receiving a draft
notice from “Uncle Sam “. The prospective
soldier is always Confronted with the ques
tion, “are you willing to give your life for
your country. ?” But as George Patton once
said, the purpose of war is not to give your
life for your country, but to make make you
enemy give his life for his. Thus should we
not also ask the question, “are you willing
to kill other human beings, much like your
self, in order to preserve the American way
of life’, or simply because someone with a
bigger stick than yours told you to?
I believe that this is the fundamental
question that we must all answer in regard
to this issue. Unfortunately, this question is
usually avoided by viewing the enemy as
something which is less than human — an
attitude which is hardly consistent with the
Christiam values which most of us claim to
espouse.
Robert C. Jones
Editor:
This is a letter with regard to a very hig
problem in the College Station-Bryan area.
I am a freshman in environmental design
and I think what’s happening in the CS-B
area is disgraceful. I am a surfer/skateboar
der from Houston and I realize that my
point of view is very different for the “typic
al Aggies. I think TAMU is an excellent
school and I really enjoy going to school
here but, I think what’s happening in the
community is discouraging. The uncontrol
led growth of the CS-B area is depressing.
Every where you look see nothing (jut bull
dozers and construction crews, or so it
seems. The growth rate of the CS-B area is
outrageous; growing up in Houston was
bad enough.
For instance, the ramp we we built for
skateboarding is going to be demolished in
a few days due to the construction of
another complex of apartments. I realize
most people could not even relate to having
something that “fluid” under their feet but
for me, there’s nothing I’d rather do with
my spare time. I realize people need a
place to live however, I feel there must be a
more efficient way to accomodate these
people. The destruction going on has
already gotten out of hand. For example, a
few days ago I saw an entire grove of trees
that took nature several decades to produce
be flattened in about twenty minutes; that
is not the way it should be. A few days prior
to this there had been birds and rabbits
among other forms of wildlife in these
trees. The fact is that very few contractors
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are even making an attempt toily n i versity cami
harmony with nature. The poor% dnesday night in
these eomplexex along with the Aii#^y ac |j ey i ns titut<
way of "trying to make a buck’isevi fu e( } icine has had tl
the entire community. Thesecorapl *]L xas a&M since
a number of years will be nothin£» 00( j D r } V e in 1955
than slums such as the ‘rundown’
Houston. Some designers have
job in complexes but I think there
be an effort made by builders and
to utilize the environment inthepli
these complexes. Because I w<
see College Station match fkl
growth rate as well as its overcrowil
unbeautified conditions. After all, 1 __
take their pride in their school, wb ‘Wadlcy, said since
their community also? l|ood drives have g
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Graham unfair
Editor:
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ham has taken an unwarranted and®
staniated swipe at President Carter Is
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Correction
On the front page of Wednesday’s
Battalion, there was a mistake in the
diagram of a proposed reorganization
of the Texas A&M University system.
There were two headings in the dia
gram that read “Deputy Chancellor
for Engineering. ” The heading on the
right should have read
“Deputy Chancellor for Agricul
ture.”
On page 2, the “Letters” section
contained two mistakes. A letter from
Bill Reavis was accompanied by 150
other signatures. Also, Katherine
O'Keeffe’s name was misspelled at the
end of another letter.
On page 10, Dr. W. David Max
well’s name was misprinted. The Bat
talion regrets the errors.
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- to use against the aggressive Sovif^ f the u As , sociat ‘ c
ion - an Olympic boycott. Mr. Cf ^’/hich contai
erred in that a boycott would W! Ph y llls Swanton,
and that there are other weapons aviw
to Charter.
Russia has traditionally used tkei#
ernment-supported athletes as a ftp
propaganda to claim Soviet supre*
Seeing the Olympics as a perfectebra
showcase their alleged superiority, NB
made the highest bid ever to bethel#
the Games. They have preparedatai®
ish rate observation, the Soviets*®
have their perfect opportunity to l*
world opinion of themselves. Tald|M
American athletes would also taMi
millions of dollars from tourists anil SB
Canada, African nations and othersJt#
pected to withdraw if Soviet preseitfjH
Afghanistan is not ended, and this®#
further dash any hopes Russia has fora'#
Olympics, much less to gain worldrts^U
Not only would the proposed hff
damage Russia, technology andrfS
embargoes and other economic sart*
will eventually cause Russia naggiiml
lems.
Personally, I do not support Carteri#
upcoming election, but Mr. GrahaoV
supported attack on our Chief of States*
not serve any purpose. I would suggest!®
Mr. Graham either draw political cart#
that are accurate or valid or limithis*®B
amusing cartoons about college life
David Lyons 1 ’
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