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Former Treasury Secretary Connelly hosted President Nixon at his Texas ranch overnight. Last month, a number of his fellow Democrats who were supporting Nixon this year were invited along. There was one curious omission from the guest list, a land speculator who moved only an hour away and

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who has emerged as Nixon's biggest listed contributor. The National Treasurer of the Democrats for Nixon was asked where the man was at first. He said, I haven't seen him. He pressed further. He said, I don't know the man, the man he was talking about was not

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seeing and later not knowing is Walter Duncan. Duncan is publicly listed as having contributed a total of $257,000 to President Nixon's campaign committees. And before the Democrats nominated George mcgovern, he reportedly had given Hubert Humphrey $300,000 for his bid for the nomination. At the same time

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that Duncan has been sharing his wealth with politics. He's had trouble paying bills. He's facing a variety of legal and federal difficulties. He was unknown to political fundraisers and little known even to his neighbors when he burst into prominence. Last June as a $300,000 contributor to

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the Humphrey campaign. He has since moved to San Antonio and has an unlisted dumper and repeated efforts to interview him have failed. But dozens of interviews with persons in six states and a check of public records show these things about Duncan before he made his contributions,

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federal agents were probing his role as the second largest borrower from National Life Insurance company. National Life Insurance Company, as you may recall, collapsed along with the Sharpstown Bank and led to the Sharpstown State Bank scandal. I'm Carl Trevi for the news. According to Carl Bernstein

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and Bob Woodward, in a copyrighted article in the Washington Post, FBI agents have established that the Watergate bugging incident stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of President Nixon's re election and directed by officials at the White House and the

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committee for the re election of the president. The activities were aimed at all the major democratic presidential contenders and since 1971 represented a basic strategy of the Nixon re election effort. The White House has declined comment on the matter. During the Watergate investigation, federal agents established

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that hundreds of thousands of dollars in Nixon campaign contributions had been set aside to pay for an extensive undercover campaign aimed at discrediting individual Democratic presidential candidates and disrupting their campaigns. Intelligence work is normal during a campaign and is said to be carried out by both

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political parties but federal investigators said what they uncovered being done by the Nixon forces is unprecedented in scope and intensity. They said it included, for example, following members of Democratic candidates families forging letters and distributing them under the candidate's letterheads leaking false and manufactured items to

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the press, throwing campaign schedules into disarray, seizing confidential campaign files and investigating the lives of dozens of Democratic campaign workers. The investigators said the major that a major purpose of the sabrosa activities was to create so much confusion, suspicion and dissension that the Democrats would be

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incapable of uniting after choosing a presidential nominee. The fbi's investigation of the Watergate definitely established that virtually all of the acts against the Democrats were financed by a secret fluctuating 300 to $700,000 campaign fund that was controlled by former Attorney General John Mitchell while he headed

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the justice department. According to sources close to the Watergate investigation, much of the fbi's information is expected to be revealed at the trial of the seven men indicted in the Watergate case. I'm Carl Van for the news, barefoot Sanders. After studying the voting patterns in us,

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Senator Lloyd Benton's 1970 victory over Republican George Bush. And listening to reports from campaign managers over the state predicts he can forge a similar defeat of us. Senator John Tower four weeks from now. The one thing that blurs his analysis he admits is the possible adverse

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impact of presidential candidate George mcgovern on the rest of the Democratic ticket basic to the outcome from sanders' view is how well he himself does in the state's two most populous counties. Harris and Dallas Benson ate up his Republican opponent in most of the rural counties

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of the state. Clobbered Bush in San Antonio and South Texas and broke about even in Fort Worth in Austin. I think I'm going to carry Harris County or keep it close. Our reports in Dallas, my home county indicate we should do very well. Although that is

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traditionally Republican said Sanders, he said, if I can lead Tower an average of 500 votes in 200 rural counties and I think I will, I've got a beat. He said, but what about mcgovern's candidacy which many believe is headed for a disastrous defeat by President Nixon

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in Texas? Sanders said I can evaluate that race or how it will affect my race or other democratic contests. Realistically, it does blur the picture on his race with Tower. He concedes I'm Carol for the news. The preliminary results of a study conducted by Dr Ernest

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Barrett, a professor of neurology and physiology at U T Medical School in Galveston seems to indicate that dope smoking causes an impairment of sleep. Barrett said he felt the disruption of heavy sleep known as stage four was important because it is considered the period of rest

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most vital to the rebuilding process of the human body. He conducted an experiment on 14 young male adults and also had a similar sized group as a control. It was interesting to see some of the control subjects report they had sustained highs but they suffered none

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of the sleep decreases or physical problems. The next day, theirs was just a psychological and not a physical high. Barrett said the controls group smoked placebo cigarettes, asked about his conclusions. Barrett said our educated guess is that regular, perhaps four times a week use of marijuana

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hampers sound sleep and causes the users to be less active, less interested, less aggressive people. Obviously, we need to get more definite data and we need to see what effects just occasional use of marijuana does. I'm Carl Slevin for the news. All right, for hens in

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college, we had uh 250 votes in favor and 22 votes against. This is a 91.6% favorable margin. Baker College had a very similar 247 votes for and 26 votes against which is a 90.5%. We had a very large turnout in both of the colleges, uh on

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campus in hands and we had 213 out of 219 which is 97.3%. Baker had uh 92.6% on campus voting. Both of these were over the 80% requirement. And with the, we're also way over the two thirds requirement. So it has passed in each college. We barbecue

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at six and it last some time till around seven, uh, from seven, from seven on, I believe that there's supposed to be the regular hack speeches, uh, on this type of thing. And the government is supposed to be there. He's scheduled to be there around 7

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30. And like the barbecue is a fundraising affair for students. It's $2 per person. And, uh, the rally is most important for his chances here in Texas. Uh, the national office has told, told the local mcgovern people that they must have uh 25,000 people at the

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rally. If they don't reach the 25,000 people thing, then they're supposedly going to run off Texas in November. And it's just like serious thing in the Congress. The last three years, the Democrats have passed authorization bills each year, appropriating or authorizing, excuse me, twice as much

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money as Nixon will spend for education every year. Nixon cuts the educational effort in half. And then he goes on the television and says, how deeply interested he is in quality education. He's not interested in quality education because he won't put his money where his mouth

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is to answer whether you want four more years of a president who plays an occasional game of golf with a labor leader and then spends the rest of his time playing ball with the big greedy special interest of this country. He says he's standing on his

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record. I think he's standing on it so nobody can examine it. 155 people voted to abolish the Senate. 675 people voted against abolishing the Senate. That is to say the referendum failed approximately 2 to 1 as it happened. Only 38 a half percent of the S

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A voted in the referendum which would not have been sufficient in any case. But as I said, the total vote was 2 to 1 against the referendum. Only Lovett College by a margin of 56 to 47 will rise college by a margin of 76 to 34.

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Voted in favor of the referendum. In particular, Hansen College voted 114 to 19 against it. Ben Stitz carried every college en route to a 504 to 223 victory. 300 people abstained in that election of the approximately 1050 who cast ballots mean you got all these different

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kinds of polls and none of which, you know, depending on, on what kind of polls you're looking at. You know, none of which you're super optimistic. But at the same time, you have to take with a grain of salt, like for one, they're so far out

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of date, you know, even the most up to date Gallup poll you can look at is three weeks old and I think you have to figure, you know, that, you know, there's been a whole lot changed in the last three weeks and the particular poll you're

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referring to is probably more out of date than that. And, uh, you know, I mean, I, I just don't see is, is how it can really be as bad as all the polls they like in 1968. You know, it looked just about the same thing at

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the same point in time and it's easy to forget that, you know, he's gonna be getting in, uh, where he's gonna be in Waco and coming in from there somewhere in the neighborhood at about 6 15, then he's going over to Shamrock Hilton for a cocktail

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fundraising, cocktail party over there and then, uh, going from the cocktail party at Shamrock Hilton over to the rally and then gonna stay there for a good while. You know, he's going to give a speech and shake hands and, and talk to all the other politicos

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and, you know, just kind of hang around for a little while and then, uh, he'll be going there from the airport and from the airport to San Antonio. And that's about the extent of what he's going to be doing here in Houston. I would propose the

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creation of a separate independent Office of investigation to supplement the Department of Justice with the power to look into charges of illegal activity made against members of the executive department or the White House staff. The attorney general after all is the President's lawyer and his department

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in many of these cases, simply cannot act as both prosecution and defense in the same case. And the Watergate scandal is a perfect example of that Senator mcgovern's position is to disarm the South Vietnamese. That is a complete false. I will quote him to withdraw all

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salvageable military material considering in the past three years that the South Vietnamese military forces are armed with salvageable us military material in effect. We disarm the South Vietnamese under the mcgovern proposal. I checked James ruins, James on Mr Russ interpretation is incorrect and I believe the

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campaign and the senators already clarified that point. In fact, we've had Americans shot by trying to take us arms away from South Vietnamese troops. All I can do. Russ is quote, Senator mcgovern, you're a candidate for the presidency, move all salvageable military material. We are going

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to disarm the South Vietnamese and demand nothing of the North. Senator mcgovern is going to leave South Vietnam with an army that out numbers the North Vietnamese and we don't want no military weapons. It has all the weapons we've given them. A lot of blame has

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been heaped on the lovely city of Pasadena, Texas for its air pollution problems. But according to an article in the Pasadena News, Citizen Houston is really the one to blame for the problem. The citizen claims the town of Pasadena is helpless. They can keep tabs on

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about 90 incinerators in one petrochemical plant. But under Texas law, a city can file only against polluters within its own city limits. And all the industries within 2500 ft of the ship channel are under the jurisdiction of the city of Houston Thomas Fry, environmental health Specialist

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of Pasadena's air control program says about all we can do is complain and keep daily records. Fry also said that these potential polluters under the city's control have cooperated well and stayed within allowable limits. Johnny, the news, this administration has used the full power of the

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White House and the executive branch to turn back every effort that has been launched in the Congress to do something about ensuring these actions, protecting their portability, protecting the equity that you build up and pensions. There are people in this country who have worked 25 or

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30 years contributing to a pension fund only to lose the whole thing because of our failure to establish the kind of public interest laws that would protect the pensioners of this country. I am sure his words at that signing will be replete with praise for veterans

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and compassion for their problems, but he will not explain why he opposed the bill as inconsistent with the national effort to control inflation or why he has consistently vetoed hospital funding to reduce the long waiting list of eligible veterans at hospitals or why his efforts to

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find jobs for veterans were so feeble that fewer than one veteran in 10 found employment. As a result, I have advocated that we immediately raise the monthly amount paid each veteran desiring an education or job training to a sum in line with the minimum determined to

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be at the poverty line. That is $214 a month if he is single, $280 per month, if he is married but childless and so on up the scale. Beyond that, the terms of my bill would reimburse patterns for all educational expenses up to $3000 for each

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normal school year. 20 years ago, when Mr Nixon accumulated a secret fund of $18,000. General Eisenhower said to him come clean with the American people or get off the ticket. Now, unfortunately, today, there is no General Eisenhower to make Mr Nixon come clean or to tell

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us the truth about this $20 million secret spot. But I say to him, Mr Nixon come clean with the American people or get out of the White House. The reason for this late charge in the first place is it, it's a payment incentive. Someone is more

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likely to pay their bill more promptly. If they have an incentive to pay it, then if they don't. And that's one of the reasons for its existence is professional term paper, writing a low and unlawful enterprise infested with criminal types. The authors of the Steve Roper

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comic strip of publishers Hall syndicate seemed to believe so in recent sequences of their story, they dealt with the murder of a college professor by hoodlums hired by a term paper operator because the professor was lobbying for legislation to outlaw the business. In return for the

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author's public spiritedness, they are being sued for six million by a term paper library incorporated which provides term paper help to college and graduate students. The Washington Post which carries the comic strip is also being sued. The suit was filed Monday in US district court. This

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is Chuck Selmi, the news when we set up the central intelligence agency about 25 years ago, we said that it would be permitted to conduct certain types of espionage for it to really that in competition with the Russian secret police, the K G V or against

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the Gestapo four or five or maybe more people who used to be in the CIA and became experts at that type of thing have been hired by the committee to reelect the president and they're practicing within the United States. The CIA tactics that were banned from

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the United States. We ought to have a law if we don't already have one that would make it a federal offense to do that type of thing in the political campaign problem for, for Nixon and for Kissinger is this, they can't say to the American voter

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that peace is unlikely. And Hanoi realizes this also, they cannot accept Hanoi's terms currently, in part because the two government is still strongly critical of those terms. So what in effect has happened is that Hanoi is attempting to use public opinion here in the United States

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to force Nixon and ultimately to force two into accepting terms which are not as satisfactory as they might be. And Kissinger is just responding by demanding a little bit more negotiating time without fighting, frightening the American voter prior to November 5th, potentially. What seems to be

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happening is that there's a power play taking place between Hanoi and Washington with Saigon standing firmly in the middle. Um Hanoi interestingly has dropped its traditional uh preference for secret diplomacy to attempt to force the hand of the Nixon administration to accept a tentative agreement. The

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outlines of this agreement are fairly well known, but the problem is that there are the terms of agreement still aren't accepted by either any of the parties, especially Saigon. And what Hanoi has done is to say that there's an October 31st deadline which must be met

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for the agreement or they will refuse to agree to any of the terms. The Vice Student Association has made arrangements for students to work at Election Central on the evening of election day. November seven, Leighton Reid. A president says that students in all colleges have been

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hired to work as runners at a dollar 75 an hour. A new organization, the Texas student lobby has been formed as an offshoot of the Texas Student Inter Collegiate Association of which our Student Association is a member. The lobby will be under student direction and will

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lobby in the state legislature for such things as reduction of penalties for the possession of marijuana and majority rights for 18 year olds. The S A has given the Rice Program Council the job of coordinating a seminar to be sponsored by a Houston firm on choosing

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investments and on how to invest your money has also been getting book lists from professors so that rice students can take advantage of the national student book club. This club has a $2 life membership fee and gives a 10 to 15% discount on all books including

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textbooks. The Society of Physics Students has been given a franchise by the ESA to sell forward times in National Student magazine. The society would make about $60 a month for its activities. A student bail bond fund was established at Rice in 1965 to bail out students

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jailed in peace or civil rights actions. The will assume control of this fund in the near future. Finally, good news for everyone. The student association has announced that the company will be out in about six weeks for more information, contact your student Association office at extension

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3 20. This is Chuck Sick. The news. I heard a partial quote from Senator mcgovern today. At least we've gotten this far and I'm sure without that decade of his dedication to bringing about peace in Vietnam that we'd be much farther from it than we are

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at this time. Of course, I like every other person. I'm sure it's not limited to America and its bloodiest of all our decades. Oh, I'm grateful that there is a, um, apparently secession of, of the war. Everything seemed normal enough. A pleasant Thursday evening in the

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hand some college commons was being served and there wasn't anything, anybody hadn't seen 100 times before until I saw you pull that out of your car. I did not. Everybody knows you. Yeah, like the master's table. What had, seemed like a friendly card game erupted

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into? Wow, something you, I don't know. I was serving with funny and she went around because I thought she didn't have that card and then she went after and like you. Thank you. Thank you. K t what exactly happened to you anyway? Well, I think it

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was, it was a lead off to a food war here at hands and it's a dedicated effort by the coalition front against the food service. Well, close. The actual reason for the disturbance seems to have been a protest against dullness in college commons meals. Or perhaps

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it was a harbinger of the future of co educational camaraderie. It was, I think they had an orgasm. The closing hours of the Congress Mr Nixon vetoed landmark legislation aimed at cleaning up our streams and waterways. He attempted to kill the most important water pollution bill

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ever passed in the history of this country at precisely the time that his campaign commercials were attempting to depict him as a champion of clean air and clean water. The, the Danforth Foundation fellowships are uh to finance a student through several years of graduate study toward

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the phd. And uh the candidates who are favored are the, well, are those who are encouraged to apply? Are people who are planning to make a career of university teaching? Uh Well, how are people nominated for any professor on the faculty may nominate a student who

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he considers outstanding. And after he has done so, a faculty committee interviews all of the candidates and uh looks over their records and the letters of recommendation and uh select we Rice University is permitted by the foundation to nominate two people because I I suspect I

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we're in the only chemist in the place. But when a crystal of salt appears in a solution because it precipitates just plain sodium chloride, it appears as a very small nucleus and it either grows at some rate or it disappears. No, what I'm trying to say

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to you is that smallness per city is not maintainable in a static condition in nature at least. And I think in institutions which are derived from nature so that rice has grown very modestly over the last several decades, while other places have grown less modestly. Hence

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our condition relative to those others is that we are smaller. We have to be sure in our determination that we do not get so small as to dissolve, they disappear. Mayor Larry Welch has announced today that he has agreed to join the Chamber of Commerce as

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his full time executive head. When his term of office expires in 14 months, he will succeed the late Marvin Hurley who headed the Houston Chamber for 22 years and was widely regarded as one of the nations foremost men in his field. Mayor. We confirmed the announcement

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today shortly after his return late Sunday from a civic trip to Japan. He said that his acceptance of the Chamber of Commerce post constitutes his positive decision not to run for re election in the fall of 1973. He added that he and his family have decided

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that the time has come for him to return to private life and that the challenges and opportunities offered by the top post in Houston's highly effective chamber make the proposal irresistible chamber. President Benjamin and Woodson and the mayor confirmed that discussions have been underway for several

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weeks and said that substantial agreement was reached with the chamber's three man negotiating committee just before the mayor's departure for Japan some 10 days ago at a breakfast meeting held this morning upon the mayor's return, the understanding was approved by the Chamber selection committee consisting of

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the 10 most recent past presidents in the president, incumbent, the agreement became official by action of the entire Board of the Chamber of Commerce. At a special meeting at noon today, Mayor Welch's title at the chamber will be that of president when he takes office on

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the first business day of 1974. He has been making noise. Grober has been making a lot of noise. Uh La Roz is going to take away some votes. So Grover said, you know, he was talking to some of the La Raza people in, in the valley

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and was supporting them because every vote that they voted would take a vote away from his opponent, Briscoe. You know, I don't like to uh be too confident. It's always good to be pessimistic because when something turns out good, it makes it that much better. Uh

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It's like Johnson said, don't think you got the election in the bag unless you own the bag. That's a good way to, to think about politics because there's nothing as uncertain as a sure thing. If we carry Harris County, it'll be by just a few percentage

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points. Um That's just, he hasn't been down here very much and I attribute that to that. He was relies very heavily on the rural boat as he did before. And that is what carried him because we didn't carry the big city. A lot of people are

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just trying to get the 70,000 so that they can be a registered, uh part of the ballot in the next election. That's what they're trying to get a good hold so they can be recognized as an official party of the state of Texas. The, uh, main

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strategy of the pr people was to wait to the last two weeks and start a bomb media bombardment. But, uh, that two week started, uh, last week and it hasn't, the bombs haven't been dropped yet. Um, I guess they've called a bombing halt on pr but

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we're gonna have a rally Sunday out at Herman Park and we're trying to get some people to show us for all the democratic candidates in Harris County. We'll have some bands and free drinks and a donkey race which ought to be the big hit of the

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afternoon of all the candidates. We're gonna have them race over the hill at Miller and the winner will get a trophy with the back end of a donkey on it. A recent survey by a national polling firm arrived at the surprising results that 91% of Senator

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mcgovern's supporters are expected to appear at the polls while only 59% of President Nixon's supporters are expected to vote. If these statistics are accurate. It would give the Senator a decisive majority. The Houston committee to committee to re elect the president is staging a massive telephone

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campaign to Houston Republicans to make the effort of going to the polls. They desperately need volunteers to man their telephone centers on Sunday. November 5th, Monday the sixth on election day, Tuesday, November 7th, the telephone centers are conveniently located at their headquarters and in several corporate

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law firm offices, transportation and refreshments will be provided and you can help out by calling James Vreeland 52682. It's called ST but a National South every summer or any time during the year. Really for a group of students who initiate a study in environmental or social

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problems and research and the way it is it arranges is a bunch of kids get together and they decide that they do want to do a project. Get a hold of the guidelines, read the guidelines, write up a proposal, have a faculty advisor and submit it

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to the foundation by November the 30th. The siphon usually runs in the order of $80 a week to full time project members. Proposals are, are made and reviewed on a competitive basis that one school is not limited to one proposal. You know, she's got a proposal

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has just as much chance as anyone else's, you know, and you can have more than one from one school in the last 10 years. If you add up all of the personal federal income taxes that every taxpayer in this country has paid, it comes to $681

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billion. How much do you think we have spent on military purposes alone in these last 10 years? $680 billion Well, the program basically is consisted of a consciousness program for the rice people. We wanted them to see exactly what the our room is all about and

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all of its guilt edged glory. And I think the the rice people are reacting as we expected them to be with great disgust. The Washington Post citing records filed with the general accounting office reports that over $1.6 million worth of advertisement and television spots for the

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Democrats for Nixon have been financed by Republican organizations. As a matter of fact, according to records filed by the Democrats for Nixon, in compliance with federal law, that organization is financed almost entirely by President Nixon's re election committee and wealthy Texans. Many of them Republican, aside

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from $1.1 million in advertisement in the Democrats for Nixon's name, almost $800,000 of the organization's total receipts of one million $86,000 came as loans from the president's re election committee while over a third of the remaining $280,000 were contributed by Texans. This is Kevin Mayer, the

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news. It is now clear that Mr Nixon in a cynical attempt to defuse the Vietnam issue in the final days of the campaign has unjustifiably raised the hopes of the American people for an early peace agreement. The tone of the Paris peace talks this week combined

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with Mr Nixon's wholly unsatisfactory report last night, clearly indicates that Henry Kissinger's optimistic press conference last week failed to take into account the veto that president too apparently holds over the actions of the United States in ending this tragic conflict. I hope all Americans will take

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the time to hear Senator mcgovern express his views on the current Vietnam situation in his nationwide network broadcast. Tonight. The issue of the condition of our economy has also been denied him. It's been denied him because just about every major economic index is pointing toward a

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boom and there's no way to campaign against a boom. Industrial output is up 7.6% in the past year. Retail sales are up. Housing starts are 67% higher than they were during the eight years of the preceding administration. And the gross national product is not only up

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but it's growing at the exceptionally high rate of over 7% per year since the new economic policy took effect in August of 1971 through the long years of America's involvement in Vietnam. Our people's yearning for peace has largely been focused on winning an end to that

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difficult war. As a result, there has often been a tendency to lose sight of the larger prospects for peace in the rest of the world. As peace in Vietnam comes closer, we can look to the larger world in the long term future with hope and satisfaction.

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Four years ago, I promised that we would move from an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation. I also said that we would maintain our own strength and work to restore that of our alliances. Because the way to make real progress toward peace is to

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negotiate from strength and not from weakness because we have done so. The world today is more peaceful by far than it was four years ago. All over the world. The tide toward negotiation is moving North and South Korea are negotiating with one another. East and West

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Germany are negotiating with one another. A ceasefire has been in effect for more than two years. In the Middle East. The leaders of India and Pakistan are talking with one another. The nations of Europe of NATO and the Warsaw pact are preparing to meet next year

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in a European security conference and preparations are under way for negotiations on mutual and balanced reduction of armed forces in Central Europe. All this is evidence of solid progress toward a world in which we can talk about our differences rather than fight about them. In the

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past four years, my efforts to build that structure of peace have taken me to 22 countries including four world capitals, never visited by an American president before Peking Moscow, Warsaw and Bucharest. Everywhere I have traveled, I have seen evidence that the times are on the side

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of peace. If America maintains its strength and continues on course, the missile system, as many advocated, we would never have achieved the first arms agreement with the Soviets if we unilaterally slashed our defenses. Now, as our opponents in this election advocate, the Soviets would have no

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incentive to negotiate further arms limitation. I intend to introduce a bill along the lines of those matters which are in agreement between the House and Senate. That is those matters which put into effect the international processes for return of hijackers and require uh permit sanctions to

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nations that don't comply with them. I would create a similar police force but I would put it in the FBI because today hijacking has become a crime related with other crimes. As for instance, in this case, bank robbery plus hijacking later. And it seems to me

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that the FBI is the appropriate place to put the authority of the final of this election. Look to the day air of this country will not only be free from pollution and waste, but that, that air will be freed from doubt and hatred and suspicion and

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fear. Bye bye. It was the glow that I saw on the faces of tens of thousands of people in every part of this country. A glow that I think said to us that they wanted a new kind of leadership in this nation. It wasn't a partisan

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matter. It was a feeling that I sense that somehow we had touched a spark in the people of this country or at least among millions of them that made them want to be better than we have been as a nation in recent years. The resolution was

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proposed to City Council yesterday afternoon. It was an eight point resolution that proposes to establish an administrative process whereby the city of Houston could become the regional arm of the Texas Air control Board and actually enforce air quality laws beyond what is presently, the city's city

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limits or the city's jurisdiction. Uh It would essentially allow the city of Houston to contract with the air control board to become the Texas Air control Board's legal arm in this region. The problem that the city of course has, is, is that a great quantity of

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the pollution we breathe here in the city limits comes from outside the city limits along the channel in Texas City. And the like, however, the city can't enforce the law there. This could act as a nucleus for developing a regional environmental agency not only to do

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just air but water solid waste and the like, uh it also suggested that a private firm be contracted with to do all the monitoring of air quality in the area rather than the county doing theirs, the city doing theirs, the EPA doing theirs and the Texas

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Air control board doing theirs. Uh It seems like a lot of duplication and duplication is wasteful and waste is environmentally unsound. The rummage sale is being held to more or less lend moral support than anything else because we realize we won't contribute very much to the

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$800,000 that must be raised before December 31st for the 450 acres that they're trying to get. And all we want to do is just show we're behind it. And I feel that this is about the best and most effective thing that I personally can do toward

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toward getting the, um, the $800,000. And we're sort of hoping that to student support shown in things like this foundations like the Brown Foundation who have, which have a close connection with rice will be more inclined to give a large grant. And that's really the only

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hope we have of getting the $800,000 necessary. By the December 31st deadline, we are trying to raise a million dollars between now and the first of 1973. Now, if we do raise this million dollars, the federal government will match it. And with that, we can acquire

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a good deal more land out there, approximately 500 acres more. Um We are hoping to get this million dollars from foundations and individuals up to the present time, we have approximately $30,000. This is significant in that it has come from so many foundations and so many

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individuals, of course, is not nearly enough. There are rather large foundations who are vitally interested in it. So there is a possibility that between now and the first of the year these foundations will come forward and we will reach the million dollar goal. And then if

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we do, as I say, the federal government give us another million dollars. Once again, this fall, the rise pre Med Society is sponsoring a drive to collect blood donations for the Veterans Administration Hospital. This year's drive will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the R

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MC on Wednesday, November 15th through Friday, November 17th, 300 pints of blood is this year's goal for donation to the hospital which uses between 455 100 pints of blood monthly. The VA is the only hospital in Houston which administers blood transfusions free of charge and its

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only source of blood is from volunteers like you and me rice. Community members may reserve donat donation times by consulting drive coordinators in the colleges are just dropped by the R MC between the hours of nine AM and five PM. This is Scott Birdwell for K

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T R U News. Robert Townsend will be here this Thursday night in the media center at eight PM, be a very informal discussion session. He's uh he wants a lot of interaction with the group students who are interested in the practical side of how to make

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a business breathe, how to make it work like it should not going on the assumption that people hate work, but going on the assumption that if people are motivated to work, they will, Senator Lloyd Benson of Texas is being considered for their appointment as the next

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chairman of the Senate Democratic election committee. The post which would be a rare assignment for a first term. Senator is considered a stepping stone in the leadership ranks in the Senate Lyndon Johnson served as its chairman before becoming majority leader. Benson got generally high marks for

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his performance during the election campaign. Just completed, he campaigned vigorously for Democrats in several sections of the country. Senator Benson was credited as being the turning point in Delaware where 29 year old Joseph Biden upset veteran republican Senator Caleb Boggs. The Texas senator campaigned two days

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in Delaware for Biden who telephoned his thanks to Senator Benson the day after the elections. If Senator Benson takes the campaign post, he will head election and re election efforts of Democrats to the Senate in 1974 and he will be building a base of support for

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his own re election efforts. In 1976. I'm Karl Trevan for the news, former Democratic Party Treasurer Robert Strauss of Dallas said Saturday he is willing to become the chairman of the party's national committee, but he is not receiving wholesale endorsement from Texas Democrats. Senator Larry Benson

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has started a move to force Gene Westwood to resign as chairman and has mentioned Strauss as a possible replacement. But critics claim naming Strauss to the position would be tantamount to turning the party over to John Connolly who headed the Democrats for Nixon campaign this year.

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Benson said Mrs Westwood should be replaced because of the crushing defeat suffered by Senator George mcgovern. Benson said Strauss would make a good chairman and governor elect Dolf Briscoe also recommended Strauss without putting himself on record as favoring the removal of Mrs Westwood. The Democratic National

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Committee holds its next meeting. December 9th. Strauss predicted Mrs Westwood hand picked by mcgovern to run the committee will be ousted by more moderate elements within the party. Strauss said he had nothing personal against Mrs Westwood but that any party leader whose presidential candidate lost by

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an overwhelming margin should resign immediately. I'm Carl for the news charging gross irregularities and illegal procedures in Tuesday's election. The Harris County Republican chairman said Saturday she will file suit in district court for a recount of votes cast for governor in Harris County. Mrs Nancy Palm

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said the recount will not affect the outcome of the race in which GOP candidate Hank Grover took Harris County but lost to Democrat Daph Briscoe statewide by some 100,000 votes. However, she said the suit will in her words bring to light and hopefully remedy the many

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violations of the Texas election code that occurred here during the general election. It is very likely the recount will uncover some of the most glaring deficiencies of our county's electoral process. She said I'm Carl Trevin for the news. The situation is with this particular land being

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as close to the inner city in the Montrose as it is, it would serve a real purpose in giving people that don't have backyards and they don't have sufficient room because they live in apartments or they live in small houses uh to garden. And it would

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also provide a green area, a small park of sorts. And it would also give a place for people to get together um into, to interact and relate to each other because, um so many of the people in the inner city in the um don't have a

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chance to get to know each other, you know, they, they typecast each other and that's it. I think you had something like this. You have a great diversity of people involved, you know, people and old people and, and kids and everybody and they've been getting together

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and they have, they already have something in common. So they'd have something to start a conversation and learn to get to know each other with tomorrow. I'll be meeting with Linus Wright, he's the business manager for SD. Yeah, his office and their lawyers will be drawing

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up the contracts that will be necessary for us to use the land. And also the meeting tomorrow with um a representative from the county agents office and Mr Adams as far as uh what work and what materials and what equipment we're gonna need to work it

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into it. So it'll be plant by spring. The developers stated very clearly that from their point of view. Water districts are just a business proposition and they're set up for them to make money and they make money. They create the government and they control it. I

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don't think that government should be totally under the control of any one person or group of persons. There's no question at all that it will ensure greater control over methadone, which is something we certainly need. There has been in the past a lot of uh methadone

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on the streets, illegal methadone and uh it's not coming from the legitimate programs in town. There are four methadone maintenance programs here in Town trims, the riverside program, VA and Saint Joseph's. We know that the methadone in the street is not coming from these programs because

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each of these programs is using a daily oral administration with the exception of the D A program and they give an optional three day supply. So it'll probably cut down some on the street methadone except that that's coming from outside the country. Ok. The Rash University

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Premed Society is sponsoring a charity Blood drive, benefiting the Veterans Administration Hospital of Houston. The VA hospital is the only hospital in Houston which administers blood without charge to the patients. All other hospitals make a charge for this blood. Therefore, the only means of obtaining blood.

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The Veterans Hospital has is through voluntary donations from blood drives like this held throughout the city