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MONTANA KAIMIN AN INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER Pentagon to Plan Death of Draft WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi­ and was requested to plan a special dent Nixon has directed the Pen­ commission to develop a detailed tagon to work out a detailed plan plan of action for ending the of action for ending the draft when draft.” Vietnam expenditures can be re­ The White House announcement duced, the White House announced indicated a shift from the position yesterday. President Nixon took during his It was Nixon’s initial step to­ presidential campaign: “That when ward fulfillment of a campaign the war in Vietnam is over the promise to seek an all volunteer draft should be ended.” military establishment. During the campaign, President The instructions sent to Secre­ Nixon said the draft is not an effi­ tary of Defense Melvin R. Laird cient system for obtaining man­ were among 14 sets of directives power in a time when conventional Nixon dispatched Wednesday to war is unlikely. He said if war eight government agencies seeking comes in the future it is more advice and recommendations on likely to be guerrilla or a nuclear subjects ranging from interest rate exchange. ceilings to the future of the super­ President Nixon said last Oct. 17 sonic transport program. that the total cost of pay raises The White House announcement needed to attract an all volunteer said Laird “was advised of the army would be $5 billion to $7 President’s conviction that .an all billion a year, but he said this volunteer armed force be estab­ would be increasingly offset by lished after the expenditures for savings due to a reduction in the Vietnam are substantially reduced, turnover of military manpower. SCHUSSBOOMER’S BLUES — Ridiculously cold Wolfe looks on as Peggy Simonson attempts to temperatures failed to deter these two UM ski fans extricate a pesky pole during ski classes at Snow who either find the wind too strong or the slopes Bowl yesterday. (Staff photo by Helen Ahlgren.) too slippery for a flawless run down the hill. Doug Faculty To Consider Year-old OEO Indian Program Ending Requirement Faculty members will consider be offered on an elective basis. abolishing the present three-quar­ • There should be one elemen­ Inadequate to Account for Needs ter English composition require­ tary composition course instead of By MELINDA HOSKINS the West,” Mr. Toole said. “Unless The main complaint is that the ment at hearings Feb. 5, 6 and 13, three, and that it be a course in Montana Kaimin Staff Writer there is a drastic revision of OEO’s structure of the Consortium, by according to K. Ross Toole, history composition only, not other phases The Montana Consortium, a $2 policy, I think the University order of the OEO, is rigid and does professor a n d recommendation of English. million federal program designed would be unwise to proceed with not account for the real problems committee chairman. • The course be required selec­ to aid nine Indian reservations, the Consortium.” and needs of the Indians. The proposals, presented to the tively by schools or departments may be junked after only one year The Board decided in a recent Before the end of the fiscal year Curriculum Committee by an ad for any or all of their majors. of operation. meeting to inform the OEO that in June, the OEO is expected to hoc committee of nine faculty • The Curriculum Committee The Consortium, funded by the the University system would try comment on the proposed restruc­ members and one student, recom­ invite faculty members to testify Office of Economic Opportunity, the program for another year only ture. It will be decided then mend that: before it makes its recommenda­ was to extend technical services to if the Consortium were restruc­ whether the program will be con­ • English composition should tion on the composition require­ reservations in Montana, Idaho tured. Ultimately, the decision to tinued. not be a requirement, but should ment. and Wyoming and to train 10 In­ retain the program on this campus Mr. Toole said the ad hoc com­ dians at Montana universities to is up to President Robert Pantzer, mittee questioned deans and de­ help their people. Mr. Toole said. partment chairmen before making The Montana University System Frequent complaints by board its recommendations, and found a has cooperated with the Consorti­ members, Indians and others led House Democrat Unveil widespread misconception on what um in effecting the training pro­ the board to press for reorganiza­ the nature of a college-level com­ grams. The Consortium is housed tion. One complaint was that the position course should be. This on the UM campus. training cost for each trainee was misconception often leads to teach­ Professor K. Ross Toole, Con­ too high—$316,000 for 10 students. Proposed Revenue Bills ing and administrative problems sortium board member and UM Critics suggested that federal By T. J. GILLES as a deduction in computing state in the English department, Mr. history professor, criticized the money be used to supply college Montana Kaimin Staff Writer income tax returns. Toole said. way the OEO set up the program. scholarships to more Indians. More Democratic legislative leaders Other proposals would increase The committee reported that un­ “I think the program of the OEO than 36,000 Indians live in Mon­ der the present composition re­ is inapplicable to the problems of tana, yet only 47 attend UM. unveiled their long-awaited reve­ both personal and corporation in­ nue program yesterday and said come tax. The personal income tax quirement, faculty-wide responsi­ it would provide for a total gen­ schedule would increase about 15 bility is being dumped in the lap eral fund expenditure of $158 mil­ per cent from its present structure. of one department. News Briefs lion. The new tax structure includes The committee acknowledged a Among the revenue bills intro­ these proposals: need for a composition course, but duced in the House was a proposal • The income tax on the first said retention of the present com­ NLF Rejects Peace Overture to eliminate the federal income tax $1,000 of an individual’s taxable position requirements will not income is lowered to 1% per cent solve literacy problems at the col­ By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from the current 2 per cent. lege level. • Present tax rates ranging The ad hoc committee’s recom­ PARIS—The second full-scale North Vietnam and the Front mendation for a faculty forum led session of Vietnam peace talks made it clear they will not accept UM Students from three to seven per cent on division of the talks into military the next $9,000 of taxable income to the scheduling of the February ended yesterday night with no sign remain unchanged. hearings by the Curriculum Com­ and political questions. mittee. of progress. From apparently hard­ U.S. ambassador Henry Lodge Will Be Tried • Incomes of $10,000 to $40,000 ened positions, North Vietnam and again denied Hanoi’s charge that Justice of the Peace J. V. Moon would be taxed eight to ten per the Viet Cong’s National Libera­ U.S. B52 bombers resumed attacks yesterday bound over to District cent. tion Front rejected U.S. efforts to on North Vietnam this month. The Court the six UM students in­ • Incomes over $40,000 would start talking military de-escala­ ambassador reasserted America’s volved in the alleged Jan. 16 “pot be taxed 11 per cent. Language Poll tion. intention.of continuing reconnais­ party” in Aber Hall. Democratic leaders said the gen­ The four delegations meet again sance flights to protect South Viet­ The six students are Patrick eral fund will increase $22 million Out Next Week next Thursday. namese forces. Flaherty, William Flynn, Gary if the new tax structure is passed. Hoffman, Durwood Park and Ed­ House Speaker James P. Lucas A poll on the foreign language ward Venetz, all of Great Falls, described the 14 revenue bills pro­ requirement of all departments Retired CIA Mastermind Dies and Michael Cooney, Cut Bank. posed yesterday, by House Demo­ will be distributed next Wednes­ crats as a “sock it to ’em package.” day to UM students, Jack Green, WASHINGTON — Allen W. throughout Europe during World The action ending the prelimi­ “It will be disastrous to Mon­ Academic Affairs Commission Dulles, director of the Central In­ War II. His contacts reached into nary hearing came after Assistant tana,” he said. “If ever there was member, reported last night. telligence Agency from 1953 to Hitler’s high command. County Atty. Gene McLatchy a package that could drive people The poll, formulated by Thomas 1961, died Wednesday night of flu Mr. Dulles knew in advance of moved that all six students be out of Montana, retard our busi­ Johnson, business administration and pneumonia at the age of 75.