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by Scott McCullar Thursday, October 31, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 9 The Lost Patrol’ Westmoreland marches with Vietnam vets Associated Press AUSTIN — Retired Gen. William estmoreland, who commanded .S. troops in Vietnam, marched ive miles on a Texas highway ednesday with Vietnam veterans 1 who call tnemselves “The Last Pa rol." “It’s great pride for me to be with hem again,” Westmoreland said as e walked on the Interstate 35 front- ige road. “I’ve been with them be fore on the battlefield.” The Dallas-San Antonio march is billed as “A Journey to Remember The Last Patrol,” and is aimed at calling attention to Vietnam veterans hf [j^ and to remind the public of those jj still listed as missing in action. Marchers hope to raise money for a Texas memorial to Vietnam veter ans. A rally was planned for today at the state Capitol. Westmoreland said he might attend the rally. He also planned to meet today with Lady Birdjohnson. As the retired general marched with the Last Patrol, motorists in af ternoon rush hour traffic slowed to wave and honk their support for the marchers. The patrol stopped and went into military formation to greet West moreland on the frontage road. It continued with him at the front, car- BYPHOS irinddcj me rep*; n's doni; ED SOU; (tint free ijj egivem: attack ks path ’A 40. Hu intact po tasunsu ntinucs. RD STd edaocii: PAttiE profan icer. Tki '‘They (veterans) did a great job in Vietnam. The war was not lost on the battlefield. It was lost in Washington. ” — Retired Gen. William Westmoreland ryin hun isiveactef ck tiret s then pi Police. REAT: :e rete* ig twoxo .am" [ he .• io bmh their torch for the final few red yards as the marchers pre pared to spend the night at a Veter ans of Foreign Wars post. “I don’t think anybody has staged a march like this before,” said West moreland, who now lives in South Carolina. “It’s a good symbolic ges ture.” “Better late than never,” he said of the warm reception for the veter ans. “What you see here today is typ ical of what’s going on around the country. Theres been a tremendous turnaround in the attitude of the Vietnam veteran toward himself and the attitude of the American public toward the Vietnam veteran. march begs 19. It is scheduled to end in San An tonio Nov. 7. About 20 marchers are participating, but other Vietnam vet erans — such as Westmoreland — join for portions of the walk. As he stopped to re-bandage his feet, marcher Gregory Smith of Dal las said he joined the Last Patrol to keep America from forgetting Viet nam veterans like himself. “We’ll all just die out and it will fade away, said Smith, 37, a business systems analyst. “Somebody has got to care.” He said he was glad Westmore land joined the marcn. “He’s got a heavy burden to car ry,” Smith said. “We’ve got our own. He did what he thought he had to do.” Of the 450,000 Texans who served in Vietnam, 3,244 were killed and 161 still are listed as missing. Larry “Gunny” Grantham, said he is determined to complete the walk because he hasn’t finished anything in five years. “I haven’t been able to hold a job,” Grantham, 34, a former gunnery sergeant who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971, said. “I’ve gone “They did a great job in Vietnam. The American military didn’t lose ^ the war. The war was not lost on the through one marriage, and the war battlefield. It was lost in Washing- gave me alcohol, drug and high ton,” he said. Blood pressure problems.” Four missing after sailboat faces hurricane Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A Coast Guard jet searched Wednesday for a 32-foot sailboat that headecl out for a journey across the Gulf of Mexico a few hours after Juan be came a hurricane, the Coast Guard said. Although one member of his four-person crew was injured and another seasick, the Amy’s skipper refused to leave his boat Monday night — the last time anyone heard from him, said Petty Officer Debbie Westerberger. She said the sailboat left Galves ton, Texas, for Panama City, Fla., about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Juan be came a hurricane Sunday af ternoon. The Amy reported to a boat called Jaguar later in the day that it was 60 miles south of Galveston and doing fine, she said. Monday afternoon, the skipper told a research vessel called the Seven Seas that he was heading for Corpus Christi in an attempt to avoid the storm, she said. “They were then 90 miles south west of Galveston. The Amy still re ported everything was OK,” she said. About 2:30 p.m. Monday, she said, the Amy reported that it was dropping sail because of heavy westerly winds. “At 6:50, the Amy said one of its crewman was seasick and another had a back injury but didn’t require medical evacuation,” Westerberger said. “It gave its last position, which we believe was about 98 miles south west of Galveston. It had gone maybe eight miles from where it was before,” she said. However, Westerberg said, the skipper wasn’t sure he knew his ex act position. A huge rescue effort coordinated by the Coast Guard had rescued nearly 150 people by about 7:30 Monday, when darkness forced a halt. 'Falcon Cresf, 'Dynast/ popular in Spain (continued from page I) you find out they don’t really know much about America or Reagan. Becky Beazley, a junior in speech communication, says the Spanish university students she met had no problems accepting Americans. “They have genuine interest in knowing about American life,” she says. “They like American music. The men like American women — they like blond hair. In away, they think we’re pretty, but kind of wild and kind of ‘free-to- be.’ ” Martinez, a native of Spain, says he thinks Spainards gener ally like American television pro grams and products. “American products are very popular in Spain — hamburgers, McDonald’s, Wendy’s,” he says. “Twenty-five miles from my home town, there is a GM factory and many people from the town work there. American films are all over the main street in Ma drid. “People dislike the American (military) base in Spain, but they know they have to nave that. It’s an ambivalent feeling.” Francisca Miller, an instructor in the modern language depart ment and also a Spanish native, says she thinks Spaniards like the American people, but not the government. “During the second world war, Europe was the battle ground,” she says. “People don’t want that to happen again. With missiles placed in Europe, people fear that a war will happen. They think they will be the first ones to g°- “People think Reagan is not really careful enough to prevent the war.” “At 6:50, the Seven Seas told the Coast Guard they offered to find them and take the Amy’s crew aboard for safety, but the skipper said he didn’t want to abandon his- boat. He wanted to remain adrift and wait for better winds. “At this point, the Seven Seas said he was barely audible.” When the Seven Seas and an other nearby boat tried to reach the Amy by radio at 8 p.m. Monday, she said, nobody answered. A Coast Guard jet was unable to see or make radio contact with the boat when it flew over the area where the Amy was last reached on the way to another rescue Tuesday, Westerberg said. Enrollment decline attributed to tuition hike ni (continued from page 1) At UH, a variety of factors in ad- lition to the tuition increase figured in lat school’s 3.84 percent enroll ment decline, said Wayne Sigler, dean of admissions and enrollment rvices. Sigler said a number of new ad ministrative policies came into effect this fall at UH. He said those policies dude an increase in freshman and ansfer admission requirements for ;omputer science, higher admission jtandards for transfer students en tering the school’s hotel and restau- ant management program, the hoofs refusal to give transfer stu dents credit for D’s earned at other niversities and the implementation of a new core curriculum ef fective for transfer students. The core curriculum, which has been effective for entering freshmen at UH since the fall of 1983, has srobably affected the school’s reten- ;ion rate, Sigler said. At UTEP, Barbara Prater, direc tor of institutional studies and in terim registrar, said the school’s 7.85 percent decrease in enrollment was largely a reflection of the school’s heavy loss of international students as a result of the tuition increase. UTEP lost 12 percent of its non- Mexican international students and about one third of its Mexican stu dent population, Prater said. As for private four-year universi ties, the Coordinating Board figures show enrollment gains for 19 schools and losses for 18 others. Collectively, private senior colleges and universi ties had an increase of .90 percent. Among those with increasing en rollments are Baylor University, Houston Baptist University, Mc- Murry College, Texas Christian Uni versity and Howard Payne Univer sity.' Baylor had a gain of 491 students, pushing its enrollment over the 11,000 mark. Enrollment at Houston Baptist was up 5.43 percent from last fall. Don Byrnes, aean of admissions and records, said the school gained in both full-time undergraduate and graduate students. Byrnes said the increase in grad uate students could be attributed in part to the enrollment of about 50 students in a new master of liberal arts degree program. At McMurry, Head Registrar Bobbye Fry said an increased re cruiting effort by the admissions of fice and those involved in extracurri cular activities was partly responsible for that school’s enrollment increase. McMurry gained 162 students, bringing its enrollment to 1,644 — a 10.93 increase over last year. Enrollment gains were made in each undergraduate class, Fry said. At TCU, a gain of 178 students boosted enrollment to 6,925 — a 2.64 percent increase over last year. Edward Boehm, dean of admis sions and assistant vice chancellor for enrollment management, said the rise in enrollment is the result of an organized promotional effort de signed to emphasize the school’s strengths. “It was marketing and public rela tions — but it’s been a sustained, all- out effort showcasing our faculty and the quality of facilities we have here at TCU,” Boehm said. “Eve ryone at TCU in the last five years has worked in a sustained, all-out ef fort to let other people know more about this place called Texas Chris tian University in Fort Worth, Tex as.” Coordinating Board figures show Howard Payne to have the largest percentage enrollment upswing, in creasing from 818 to 1,060 students — a 29.58 percent gain. The president’s office at that school declined comment on its en rollment figures when contacted by The Battalion. •a- msc LOST & FOUND AUCTION CALCULATORS. SPORTS EQUIPMENT, UMBRELLAS. 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