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Mideast large U.S.worry, official saysBY MIKE STEPHENS Battalion Staff Writer

The Middle East situation is the most serious problem the United States has today, a U.S. foreign service intelligence offi­cer said here Wednesday night.

Edward L. Peck, who repre­sents the U.S. State Department, spoke during a Great Issues Committee presentation. He has been with the State Department for 13 years, and has served in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

Peck said the role played by the State Department in foreign service is that of observing and reporting on happenings within

New singers

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ThanksgivingBy CHARLES MASTERSON Battalion Staff Writer

The Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate will show off its newest program when the New Tradition Singers, a mixed A&M student singing group, will perform for a Student Y Associ­ation Thanksgiving program Nov. 23 in the All Faiths Chapel.

“We’re really quite a unique jroup and are having lots of fun,” Leilani Sanders a sopho­more zoology major and secretary for the group, said.

“Bob Jarvis organized us after he failed to make the Singing Cadets,” she continued. “He knew there were a lot of students, es­pecially girls, who were interested in singing.”

Robert L. Boone, choir director for the Singing Cadets, acts as advisor and director for the ten- month-old, 50-member group.

Miss Sanders said the Thanks­giving program will be the first public appearance for the group since their formation in January of last year. Miss Sanders dis- c/afms that the Singers are mod­eled after any other singing group.

“We are open to any type of songs. Our Thanksgiving program will have songs such as ‘This Is A Great Country’ and ‘Say It With Music’,” Miss Sanders said. "In all we will sing about 16 or 17 songs.”

The group is open for member­ship until Friday. The Singers practice each Monday night from 7:30 to 9:30 in the Singing Cadet Room No. 119 in G. Rollie White Coliseum.

Anyone interested in joining the New Tradition Singers can call Miss Sanders at 846-4626 or Rob­ert L. Boone at 845-1515 before Oct. 23.

a foreign country. Since World War II, he said, the United States has played a larger role in world affairs, perhaps going farther than it wanted to go.

But when the United States began playing that role, it need­ed a foreign policy, Peck said. The State Department has a com­paratively small budget, he said, and its function includes report­ing to the president and advising him on foreign policy. The de­partment does not, he said, ac­tually make decisions.

U. S. policy is basically com­posed of ideals, not objectives, the official said.

Peck said the Middle East crisis is highly dangerous, and the smallest mistake might cause a major war.

“What makes it worse is that the whole situation is unmanage­able,” he said.

When the Soviet Union entered the Mideast arena, Peck said, the situation became worse than it already was.

“The Soviet Union is taking a role similar to the one the United States always has taken,” he said. “This is what is scaring us —we don’t know what to expect next.

“The United States is trying to not take sides in the conflict,” Peck said, “and is supplying money and equipment to those on both sides.

“We are trying,” he explained, “to balance the power as much as possible and we hope for a peaceful solution in the end.”

The foreign service veteran noted the U.S.-initiated Mideast cease-fire expires Nov. 7, and nothing definite has been decided on so far. With the death of Egyptian President Abdul Gam- mel Nassar, he said, the chances of a quick peace settlement in the Middle East have almost been done away with.

“There is no one in the Arab countries with the capabilities and powers that Nassar had,” Peck said.

Another complicating point of the conflict, he said, is that none of the sides actually is trying to win, but rather all are trying not to lose.

“All anyone can do is sit back and hope a settlement is made before a tiny mistake causes a major war,” he said.

Peck said the situation is ev­ery bit as critical as people be­lieve it to be, if not more so. There is reason, he said, for a healthy fear of possible conse­quences arising from the situa­tion.

Great Issues’ next presentation will be Oct. 27, when Maj. Frank Thompson of the Pentagon, a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam, will speak. His talk will be on POWs and the treat­ment they receive from the North Vietnamese.

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U. S. State Department official Edward L. Peck speaks on America’s role in the Middle East at Wednesday night’s Great Issues presentation. (Photo by Mike Stephens)

The Civilian Student Council will discuss student discipline problems and the possibility of establishing hall judicial councils tonight at 7 in Room 3D of the Memorial Student Center, accord­ing to Mark Olson, president.

Olson said several students have gotten in trouble during re­cent midnight yell practices.

“This has made it necessary to postpone the discussion on traffic and university police,” he said. “We think hall judicial councils can give out more constructive punishments than the department of student affairs. This will also take a load off the council and the department.”

Ten new standing committees also will give their first reports, he said. More than 100 students will be involved in council de­cisions this year, compared to only 30 last year.

The Environmental Study Com­mittee will also present prelim­inary data on the condition of six dorms, he said.

for Paul Mauriat performance parkine areas to be closedThe Paul Mauriat Orchestra “Those holders of Rotary SeriesThe Paul Mauriat Orchestra

performance Oct. 30 will be open to both Town Hall and Rotary Season patrons on season tickets, reminded Bill Leftwich, Wednes­day.

Town Hall and Rotary season ticket holders and students with activity cards need only to pre­sent them for admittance to G. Rollie White Coliseum for the phenomenally successful perform­er, the Town Hall chairman said.

An additional gesture is being made to Rotary Series patrons for the Town Hall crossover pro­gram, he added.

‘Those holders of Rotary Series passes who would like to ex­change the general admission ticket for an available reserved seat ticket may do so at the Stu­dent Program Office in the Me­morial Student Center,” Left­wich said.

He said Town Hall season tickets will receive priority on the best reserve seats. The Ro­tary general admission exchange will have to take what is left of the reserve seating.

The 8 p.m. Paul Mauriat per­formance leads off the Texas A&M-Arkansas football weekend.

Part of parking lot 13, beside the Chemistry Building was clos­ed Monday to provide for con­struction of a new wing on the building, University Police Chief Ed Powell said today. One hun­dred cars were taken out of the staff lot; 99 spaces will remain.

lot behind Guion Hall, will also be closed permanently sometime in the spring.

Powell also said that construc­tion would close one-third of staff lot 11 behind the Mechani­cal Engineering Building in De­cember for utility construction. The remainder of this lot would be closed in February or March, he said.

Raleigh Lane, of the Student Senate Landscape Committee presented a report of the Traf­fic Committee Wednesday stat­ing that some spaces in lots 1, 2, and 3, near the civilian dorms, are blocking sidewalk traffic. The committee voted to remove six spaces in these lots. They will place no parking signs in these spaces.

At Law Hall

Dorm ‘adopts’ 16 womenTo compensate for the staff

parking losses, 42 spaces from day student lot behind the Geol­ogy Building will be changed to be in staff lot 7 next to 8.

The committee decided to re­move a stop sign located on La­mar where it intersects Coke. The sign will be placed at the same intersection on Coke, stop­ping traffic traveling south on Coke.

Three lots are closed to stu­dents at all times, traffic com­mittee member Mike Essmeyer stressed. Lot 27, at the hospital must be kept clear for emer­gencies. Lot 26, next to Duncan Dining Hall, is closed to stu­dents, except for the first row. The lot by the Physics Building, lot 19, is closed because of re­search and night classes.

Students may bring their cars to these lots or streets near their dorm to load them on Friday aft­ernoon, Powell said. This loading parking will be for 10 minutes only, and the student must leave the lid of his trunk up.

Law Hall has “adopted” 16 women students as honorary members of the hall. They will participate in many of Law’s activities and functions, according to Rodney Nairn, chairman of Law’s Publicity Com­mittee.

The “Ramp Ten Girls,” so called because Law Hall has only nine ramps for men’s residence, were chosen by a committee consisting of Terry Van Dyck, hall president, Ralph Alonzo, Programs Committee chairman, and Mrs. Patricia Self, counselor for women.

The girls are Mary Beth Beard, sophomore modern language major of Bryan; Marcia Bee, freshman pre-vet major, Houston; Colleen Bourland, freshman pre-vet major, Dallas; Susan Casey, freshman pre-vet major, Albany; Cindy Crane, sophomore pre-vet major, El Paso; and Toursten Duren, freshman pre-vet major, San Antonio.

Chris Feely, freshman zoology major, Dallas; Nancy Hadaway, freshman modern language major, Waco; Engil Harrak, freshman architecture major; Carole Key, junior animal science major, Bloomington; Shirley Kotara, freshman mathematics major, Houston; and Nan Malavansos, freshman pre-vet major, Houston are also included.

Polly McGlew, sophomore geography major of Arlington; Gerrie Phelps, freshman sociology major, Chriesman; Linda Parkhurst, freshman pre-vet major. Fort Worth; Cindy Tilson, freshman pre-vet major, San Antonio; Maureen Turk, junior physical educa­tion major, Terre Haute; and Kendra Ward, freshman mathematics major from Houston are also in the group.

The girls will receive hall activity cards entitling them to attend all of Law’s functions. They will have free access to the hall lounge and attend meetings of the Programs Committee.

“The residents of Law hope to provide a vehicle for the interaction of men and women students on the A&M campus,” said Nairn. He added that they intend to provide an opportunity for the men and women students to better understand each other as students.

Nairn also expressed the hope that other halls would follow Law’s example and “establish similar programs of their own.”

The Ramp Ten Girls have also been organized into a powderpuff football team. Alonzo will coach them.

When lot 11 is closed perma­nently, 170 spaces will be trans­ferred to lot 8, Powell said. A new lot, lot 50 on the north side of the campus, should be open by this time.

Construction on the Memorial Student Center will close Hous­ton Road, between Joe Routt and Lamar, Monday. Lot 30, student

University Police will pass out temporary stickers allowing stu­dents to park in restricted lots for a short time when deliver­ing heavy projects to classes or work, Powell said. The stickers, which will be free, will be good for only a day or for a few hours. They may he picked up in the University Police office if the student can give a sufficient rea-

Staff members with special permits to park in a lot must park in that lot when they are in that area on campus unless the lot is full, Powell said.

If a student wishes to appeal a traffic ticket, he must fill out papers in the University Police office within 72 hours after re­ceiving the ticket, Essmeyer said. He will then go before the Traf­fic Appeals Board, which meets every Wednesday afternoon.

A1 Capp tells studentsfinding fascism his job

WACO—A1 Capp, who introduc­ed himself to Baylor students as an “authority on nothing with opinions on everything,” refused to classify himself as a “conserv­ative” in spite of his caustic at­tacks on the political left.

ing, heckled him during an ad­dress.

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APPLICATION FOR BALLOT BY MAIL FOR THE GENERAL ELECTIONON THE DAY OF NOVEMBER . 19 70

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Capp, creator of the cartoon strip “L’l Abner,” said he was not a liberal when he campaigned for John P. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

“This is what I call fascism,” he said, “when that man is able to teach because we’ve protected his right to speak .... Having gotten those rights, they (fas­cists) want to deny it (freedom of speech) to anyone who dis­agrees with them.

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County, Texas, and I am lawfully entitled to vote at

Election to be held in said precinct on the ________________ day of

November , 19 70 , and that I am prevented from appearing at the polling place in said precincton the day of said election because applicant is absent from the county of his residence at the time of making this application and expects to be ab­

sent on the date of the above mentioned election and during the clerk's regular office hours for the remainder of the period for absentee voting for

said above mentioned election. The ballot for said election is to be mailed to me at

“I am what the source of ulti­mate truth—my tax report—says I am. I’m a professional humor­ist,” he said. Capp said in that role his two purposes were to “make as much money as I pos­sibly can and to find fakery and fascism where it hides and fire at it.

“Fascism is tough and obscene and it can’t be cured by a slap on the wrist. You fight it with everything you have. If you don’t it will overthrow you,” he said.

Kent State—“The real martyrs were our kids in National Guard uniforms. The kids who had been poisoned by the faculty Fagans of Kent State were tearing the uni­versity apart. Our other kids (in uniform) were ordered to save Kent State from its own destruc­tion.

Capp commented on a variety of issues, including:

, which is an address outside th§ county of my residence.

I hereby make application for a ballot to be furnished me for said above mentioned election and my permanent address is

“I found it on the lunatic fringe of the far right and I let ’em have it,” he said. “I watched the fak­ery and fascism shift from the right to the left. It just changed its initials from KKK to SDS.

Vietnam—“I say let’s keep of­fering them peace, but if they keep shooting at us while we are offering them peace I say let’s shoot back.”

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and my registration receipt or certificate of exemption is to be returned to me at said address.

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I just changed my aim,” he said.

Registration Receipt Number

Signature of voter

By:(Signature of witness who assisted voter in event of physical disability)

Capp’s remarks during a Bay­lor chapel program received rounds of applause from much of the audience and a standing ova­tion at the close. He did not pre­sent a prepared address but an­swered questions that had been previously submitted by students.

TO VOTE ABSENTEE in the Nov. 3 election, students ballot must be notarized and returned to the county clerk must request an absentee ballot by Oct. 30. Fill out the in your home county by 1 p. m. Nov. 3. The Battalion above form, send it along- with your voter registration urges you to exercise your rights and vote, certificate to the county clerk in your home county. The

Capp offered his definition of fascism by citing an event at the University of California at San Diego recently when 20 students, whom he said were trained by a professor to keep him from speak-

Liberal politicians—“I want to know whose income, whose free­dom and whose neighborhood he intends to be liberal with. You can bet it’s not his own.”

Welfare — “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”

Student unrest — “We should stop calling it student unrest and start calling it by its proper name —crime.”

Universities — “The university is a place where I once came and where you now come to purchase the services of skilled men—serv­ices you need to prepare you for living .... If you’re not satisfied with the skills of your barber or the philosophy behind his busi­ness, the only right you have is to get . . . out of there and find

Angela Davis—“She should be given a trial. I will abide by the verdict of a free society. If you don’t try her, you can’t try the suspected killers of Medgar Ev­ers or Martin Luther King. Our system is the fairest, most hon­est, most agonizingly patient sys­tem in the world .... Let us not be afraid to denounce any crim­inal—white or black—as the crim­inal he is.”

My Lai—“For us to ask our young men to go into war—if we had any brains we wouldn’t be at war—into organized killing and then to denounce them because they have killed is a most vile betrayal of our young .... We’re furious at the GIs who kill­ed at My Lai but never mention the 4,000 bodies at Tet, women and children dug out of the ground, who were killed by those we knocked off at My Lai.”

Economy—“What’s economy? I haven’t noticed any around. I fig­ure if we can buy lunch tomor­row, we’re ahead.”

University National Bank ‘On the side of Texas A&M.”

—Adv.

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