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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1983)
Thursday, March 31, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 Jn Road to forum has been tough as uncover^ P'intingi ‘NATO and the Western /ass at wort ng all I Alliance” forum has not been a smooth one, but the forum’s organizer said most of the plans 5 > many men, now are final. >n to a glorf N ot until after the program is.” saiH with former President Gerald Ford, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt nd former British Prime Minis ter Edward Heath will the MSC migtonlie. Endowed Lecture Series chair man be able to relax. Dale R. Tampke, chairman, said the lecture series was estab lished because funds were avail able and the series was an excel lentway to use the money. The sstimated cost for the whole ls > saidont d she was pi th e first || at a dance, aids >1 not sure o; two years fe lingwhathei >ns. d to dimmisl ory is correc Americans erest of 1 ingenious ” sanctionsi ill try by Angel Stokes Battalion Staff The road to Monday night’s .- jrogram is over $90,000, he People an ^1 anwhtle.toii Tampke is a graduate stu- h week to atp dentin agricultural economics ?ople," as Hi from San Antonio. Originally, the idea was to have Henry Kissinger speak, but Kissinger alone wouldn’t be an cadeobA effective P ro g ram - Tampke caue ot Mp ^ Instead) he wanted tQ ask Alexander Haig, Dean Rusk and icet orienti Edmund Muskie to speak. Con flicts, however, caused that program to fall through. Tampke said that from the beginning he was sure Ted Kop- from ABC “Nightline”, pel, would be the moderator. However, due to several com plications, Marvin Kalb now will moderate. Harry Walker, Inc., a speak ers’ agency, was hired to find peakers, but problems arose, Tampke said. “The agency kept saying that Koppel was ready to come and then he (the agent) called and said that there was a scheduling conflict,” Tampke said. But through former student Frank N. Manitzas, who works for ABC, Tampke said he found out that the only way Koppel would come to Texas A&rM would be if ABC’s “Nightline” or ‘Viewpoint” attended the lec tures. “Nightline” could not come because of budget prob lems, he said. After he was informed Kop pel would not attend, Tampke said he decided to try to get J ohn Chancellor or David Brinkley to be moderator. While negotia tions were under way for Chan cellor, Tampke said he found out through another former stu dent that Brinkley wanted to do the program. Everything was going as plan ned, he said, but then Brinkley was offered a chance for an in terview in the Soviet Union for the same week-end. “So we went back to our agent again to continue negotiations with Chancellor,” Tampke said. Everything was fine until the agent said Chancellor was obli gated to a book tour at the same time. Marvin Kalb was chosen to moderate because he is the chief diplomatic correspondent for NBC, Tampke said. “Since he will be dealing with former diplomatic leaders, I think he will work well as mod erator,” he said. Plans for the program began around November 1981, when Tampke was appointed chair man. He worked on the prog ram alone until last semester when a committee was formed to work on the project. Heath will arrive Sunday at Texas A&M, when Ford and Schmidt have tentatively been scheduled to arrive. Kalb’s travel arrangements have not been confirmed. However, Universi ty airplanes, a plane from a local builder, and a plane from Penn- zoil Corp. are available to help transport the men. If the speakers stay overnight, they will stay in the Board of Regents quarters in the Memo rial Student Center. Ford will bring four Secret Service men, Schmidt will bring three and Heath will bring two. Tampke said the University police have been notified of the speakers’ visit and are preparing for the event. He said a Secret Service representative will be on campus today to determine what arrangements will made for security. Local car dealers have don ated cars for the men to use, but Ford will bring his own car. Several national publications have expressed interest in con ducting interviews with the men while they are here, Tampke said. They include Time Maga zine, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report and the Christian Science Monitor. Cable Network News also wants an interview, Tampke said. Restaurants offer local taste event by Pamela J. Franklin Battalion Reporter Fifteen local restaurants will offer samples of their wares in the first annual “Taste of Brazos Valley” on Thursday, April 7, at 7 p.m. in the Brazos Center. The tasting event is being sponsored by the Brazos Valley Chapter of the Texas Re staurant Association. The restaurants will offer such samples as seafood, barbe- que, Japanese, Italian and Mex ican foods. Mark Conlee, president of the Brazos Valley Chapter, said he hopes the tasting event will illustrate the Texas Restaurant Association’s theme “Eating Out is Fun“. Mary Newton, a member of the association’s board of dire ctors, said that the event is being sponsored so that the association can encourage more people to eat out at local restaurants. The local TRA has wanted to have a tasting event for a long time, Conlee said. Other TRA chapters across the state have held successful tasting events, he said. Craig Kites, the event chair man, said that such food sam pling events are not a new idea. “The concept of the taste (events) is statewide and becom ing more popular,” Kites said. Participating restaurants are donating food and paying all ex penses, Conlee said. Proceeds from the event will go to a charit able organization, he said. Door prizes and entertain ment are part of the activities for the event. Local high school groups and Sneaky Pete, a guitarist-singer, will provide the entertainment. Door prizes will be donated by participating re staurants. Tickets for the food sampling event are $10 per person and can be bought at local re staurants. M S C. Sartre s ‘No Exit’ begins 3-day run “No Exit,” a play by Jean-Paul Sartre will be presented tonight, Friday and Saturday in 301 Rudder by the Pre-Theological Society. The theme of the play is ex istentialism. It tells the story of three people in hell and how they find the meaning of death and responsibility. Tickets are available at the door and the MSC Box Office. The cost is $1.50 for Texas A&M students, faculty and staff and $2 for all others. The play begins at 7:30 p.m. Following tonight’s perform ance, there will be a reception and discussion of the philosophy of existentialism held by Manuel Davenport, a philosophy profes sor at Texas A&M. Aggi^cinema Fri. & Sat. 8:00 p.m. The Three Stooges in THE OUTLAWS IS COMING Fri. & Sat. Midnight Theater THE Sun. bicycle thief April 3 7:30 p.m. Theater $1.50 wTAMU I D. Advance tickets at MSC Box Office Mon.-Fri. 8:30-4:30 Also 45 minutes before showtime. •vr TJ Coordinates... So right for the coming Easter season. In aquamarine and white. Fully lined, linen- look easy care fabric. 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