U S. helping Israel WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States was reported preparing yesterday to rush tons of artillery shells and antitank ammunition to Israel to avert threatened shortages after less than a week of intense battles between Israel and Syrian and Egyptian forces. ' Meanwhile, Pentagon sources said Soviet transport planes have been carrying replacements for weapons and ammunition to Syria and Egypt. At least 80 Soviet AN 12 Cub. transport planes were said to have reached Syria within the past day loaded with surface to-air missiles, antitank rockets and other war material. The Pentagon sources said hurried U.S. shipments would be an emergency measure. There were indications the shipments, probably in Israeli planes. Evaluations interest by < Editor's note: following is the last in a five-part series on course evaluation.) By ROBYN MOSES Collegian Staff Writer Course evaluations should stimulate student interest in the courses, according to Evelyn R. Saubel, assistant to the dean of the College of Human Development. According to Saubel. the college’s Student Council devised an evaluation form last Fall Term which iater was redesigned by a student-faculty committee. The revision was necessary because the original questionnaire was geared mainly toward lecture presentation and : ,according to Saubel, “We use many; innovative teaching methods in the College of Human Development.” She said the results now are coming in. "All of the faculty used the form. There has been no negative feedback from either the faculty or the students,” Saubel said. The evaluation . form consists of questions concerning course content, texts, types of instruction and personnel. According to Saubel, “The Student Council wants a consistent format for course evaluation. They want a general questionnaire for all courses.” Saubel said, “Our courses change every term, therefore we do not print anything. Our evaluation results are found in loose-leaf mimeographed form so it can keep up with the rate of change. Copies of the results are available in each division office.” Asked about the plans for an evaluation this year she said, “We received no funds for a revision for our present course evaluation procedure. Last year the. College of Human Development had to use its own funds to publish the results.” She added, “I think any evaluation is not to be used year after year. If the council can finance it this year, they’ll have one.” According to Saubel, “One of our purposes in evaluating courses is to help students making their course selection get an idea of what they’re taking. In planning his work, a student could take a combination of lecture and other types of courses.” She continued, “The students who have actively participated, such as the Student Council members, learn some methods of evaluation which can be used Search continues for Agnew successor Richardson seen as middleman in resignation WASHINGTON (AP)— President Nixon approved the secret bargaining that led to Spiro T. Agnew’s resignation as vice and acceptance of a felony conviction, Atty. Glen. Elliot L. Richardson yesterday said. The White House counsel was the pivotal middleman who brought together the government prosecutors and Agnew’s lawyers for negotiations sparing Agnew a prison sentence but subjecting him to public disgrace and possible civil suits for thousands of dollars in back taxes, Richardson said. In a nationally televised news conference, the attorney general said he hopes “the American people understand and support what has been done.” He said Agnew faces no further federal criminal proceedings based on the nine-montli probe of corruption in Maryland politics. A state prosecutor quickly said he plans no action against Agnew. But Richardson said it is up to the Internal Revenue Service whether to bring civil suits for the collection of substantial but still undetermined sums owed as taxes and penalties on a minimum of $87,500 Agnew allegedly received as illegal payoffs in three public offices, including the vice presidency. An IRS spokesman later said it is virtually certain the IRS will try to collect all of Agnew’s unpaid taxes. In the gymnasium-like Great Hall of the Justice Department, Richardson fielded questions for an hour at his Collegian the daily would depart from remote fields in the United States. Decisions on replacing Israel’s significant aircraft and tank losses were discussed by the White House, State and Defense departments, officials said. Deputy White Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren',refused to answer questions about resupplying Israel. Meanwhile, the press of the Middle East situation was reportedly forcing Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to cancel a weekend trip to London. Resources of the U.S. Army and Air Forces would be tapped if the government decides , to send major military hardware to Israel quickly. One proposal under study would transfer to the Israeli’s'F4 Phantom jets from U.S. Air Force squadrons in stimulate students? throughout life. I wouldn’t have invested my time if it wouldn’t have been an educational process.” According to Helen I. Snyder, assistant dean of the College of Education, “It’s been a long time now that we’ve been committed to the notion of course evaluation.” Snyder said, “The committee for the college, the Academic, Affairs Committee, has now in hand reports from two committees and subcommittees. One deals with course evaluation, implementing plans college wide.” According to Snyder, “We have two types of evaluation, one dealing with course evaluation, the other with instructor effectiveness.” The! latter evaluation procedure was described by Snyder, “All department chairmen meet annually with the AAC where the teaching capability of all the instructors is discussed. A summary is then filed with the dean.” The other type of evaluation utilizes the questionnaire type procedure. Snyder said this is used by all larger divisions. According to Snyder, “The Student Council is not enamoured by this method. They don’t feel that it’s the best way to evaluate courses. Suggestions will be made at the next Council meeting to change it.” She added that the Student Council members also are voting members of the AAC. ■ According to Snyder, these forms of evaluation augment a number of departments using the UDIS questionnaire. She said, “Course evaluation is a central concern in a professional college such as ours.” Snyder also said, “The College of Education is the first to undergo Progress Review this term, an intensive analysis of the effectiveness of the courses and faculty.” Weather Mostly cloudy this morning becoming sunny this afternoon. High 73. Fair and mild tonight, low 53. Saturday increasing cloudiness with showers and chance of thundershowers in the afternoon continuing into Saturday night. High 88, low 51. Sunday variable cloudiness and cooler. High 63. Europe. The planes would be replaced in the U.S. Air Force inventory by aircraft being produced in the United States for Israel. •„ According to latest intelligence, Israel lost Close to 600 tanks and nearly 75 fighter planes in the first five days of the new war about one-third of the tanks and about one-fourth of the jet fighters Israel owned before the fighting erupted Saturday. Pentagon intelligence said Syria has lost 650 tanks, about half the country’s pre-war armor. Syria has lost 85 aircraft, or about one-third of its strike force, the sources said. Egypt has lost 200 to 250 tanks out of a force of 2,000, the Pentagon intelligence sources said. Egypt’s aircraft losses were put at more than 80, but including only 47 fighters. Egypt started the war with more than 500 fighter planes, the Pentagon sources said. Although Israel appeared to have the upper hand on the Syrian front Israel faces further significant losses in the Sinai where main tank and infantry battles remain to be fought with Egypt. Some U.S. officials think the urgency would go out of any need for replacing Israeli battle losses if the Sinai battles are short. Dayan predicts lightning victory The Israeli military command claimed its tanks blasted their way through Syrian defenses yesterday and were rumbling along the road to Damascus. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan predicted lightning victory but did not say if the Syrian capital was the objective. “I think that by tonight or overnight this front will be finished off in our favor,” Dayan told his soldiers in a report broadcast over Israeli television. Syria ignored the claim of a breakthrough on the Golan Heights and said its forces there were holding firm. In other developments: At the United Nations in New York, Foreign Minister Mohamed H. el- Zayyat of Egypt Said a communique to him fjrom Cairo told of 500 persons being killed in air attacks on Port Saiid, Cairo OD may receive Reports last week of On Drugs Inc.’s demise may have been a bit premature. “Give us a few more weeks and we can have the whole problem ironed out,” Chief Centre County Commissioner J. Doyle Corman said Wednesday. OD’s problem stems from the commissioners’ failure thus j far to appropriate 10 per cent in matched funds so the county can receive $90,000 in social services. | The $90,000 of which OD has requested $26,000, has been approved tentatively by the Governor’s Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. ! At its press conference last week, OD representatives expressed displeasure with the commissioners’ failure to reach a decision, calling it “a bureaucratic first news conference since the investigation touched lAgnew. Richardson said U.S. Attorney George Beall in Baltimore decided July 3 that the charges against Agnew were so serious that the attorney general must be told. • ] Later that month, Richardson said he related the substance of the charges to White House chief of staff Alexander Ji. Haig and in early August to Nixon himself. Richardson said neither the White House nor anyone else attempted to squash the probe. “The President was kept fully informed at all times,” the attorney general said. “He fully approved each of thej major steps that were taken in the course of the negotiations. !He did not participate in the negotiations as such.” : ! . Nixon set no limits on the bargaining, Richardson added, but the President “was, of course, concerned as all of us were with the potential consequences of a prolonged and agonizing trial of these issues of fact.” j The attorney general said the plea bargaining was {set jin motion by White House counsel Fred Buzhardt who telephoned him in September to suggest Richardson meet with Agnew’s lawyers. Buzhardt “did not indicate that he was acting at the President’s behest,” Richardson said. | The bargaining stalled later in September because each side refused to budge. Richardson declined to disclose details, but he and Beall suggested the U.S. attorney and his assistants were holding out for at least a brief prison sentence. 1 On Sept. 25, Richardson announced the failure of negotiations and said he had authorized Beall to turn over the Agnew allegations to the grand jury. Four days later, Agnew delivered a combative attack bn the Justice Department and declared he would not resign even if indicted. i Richardson said bargaining resumed last Saturday and sped to agreement Tuesday. I As for the personal impact of the case, Richardson said he would not accept the nomination for vice president should Nixon offer it because “it would be highly inappropriate for me as the government’s accuser of the vice president.Lto be for one moment considered as a potential successor to him.” Richardson had been mentioned among several nominees. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By JEFF DeBRAYj Collegian Senior Reporter suburbs and Egypt’s northern delta. Cairo radio said Egyptian tanks punched farther into the Sinai peninsula to wipe out a fleeing column of Israeli armor. In the naval war, Syria and Israel reported conflicting versions of a battle off the Syrian coast. The Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said an Israeli gunboat sank one of its ships, killing two crewmen. In the air war, Syrian and Egyptian communiques claimed more than 100 Israeli planes shot down yesterday, and a Tel Aviv communique said Israel bagged a total of li Arab planes. Pentagon observers believe both sides have exaggerated their aerial kill reports. , Egypt’s Middle East News Agency, in a report immediately described by the U.S. State Department , as an conflict.” By announcing the close down, OD wanted to take its case to the citizens, hoping to pressure the commissioners into providingsthe funds. “We have to play our cards to protect ourselves just in case the money does not come through,” OD President John Elliot said yesterday. “We are optimistic we will get the funding, but we want to get as much community support as possible,” he said. Corman said he thinks OD is making “a big deal” about the situation. He said there is a “very great” chance the commissioners will appropriate the money. “OD gives us the most for the money of any program we are involved in. There is no question they are doing a good job, and they are well worth it,” Corman said. Congress okay necessary in Nixon choice WASHINGTON (AP) —President Nixon believes he has a free hand in choosing a new vice president and need not confine himself to selecting a “caretaker” without 1976 presidential ambitions, White House sources reported yesterday. They said Nixon hopes to nominate a successor to Spiro T. Agnew within the next few days and perhaps by the end of the week. The selection process yesterday got under way in earnest less than 24 hours after Agnew resigned as vice president and pleaded no contest to a tax evasion charge.' Under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1967, Nixon’s nominee must win majority approval from the Democratic-control led Senate and House. That provision has prompted some Congress members to suggest they should be the President’s partners in naming a new vice president. Nixon's criteria requires a person who is qualified to be President, someone who shares his foreign policy views and a nominee who can win the approval of the Democratic controlled House and Senate. The President’s distaste for selecting a caretaker candidate came soon after the reporting of a strong undercurrent of bipartisan opposition to John B. Connally, who is regarded as a leading potential contender for the 1976 GOP nomination. One congressional source made a flat prediction that a Connally nomination would be. rejected by the Senate. Leading Democrats are firmly opposed to Connally and Horns., Syria “outrageous lie,” said Western diplomatic sources in Cairo claimed that U.S. carrier-based warplanes had attacked Egyptian positions-. The Israeli command said it broke through the Syrians’ Golan Heights defense after an all-day tank and infantry offensive backed by massive air support. The command said Israeli forces were six miles inside the 1967 cease-fire line along the Heights, a hilly area rich with farmlands seized from Syria in the 1967 war. i The Israeli state radio quoted Dayan as telling a newsman the Israelis had decided “to teach Syria a severe The state radio said tanks leading the offensive into Syria bore the chalked slogan: “Non-stop to-Damascus.” j A high-ranking military official told' newsmen last night: “The road to appropriations Corman said the delay in reaching the decision was because, “I think we have an obligation to investigate this thoroughly, because as a taxpayer 1 am concerned about how the money is being spent.” The commissioners will meet tomorrow with representatives of the Governor’s Council from Harrisburg, OD and the County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board, “to make sure the plan the state has is the same one we have,” Corman said. A meeting Tuesday with a representative from the Governor’s Council was “very disappointing,” Corman said, bfecause “he didn’t bring the proposal for the county plan along." Corman was referring to the report prepared by the Centre County Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. In the last week, OD has received Friday, October 12, 1973 , j Vol. 74, No. 47 10 pages University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The!Pennsylvania State University Smoke bilious from a burning oil refinery al Homs, Syria yesterday. The central Syrian city uas hit by Israeli jets. some Republicans warn that his selection would split both parties and precipitate a bitter and protracted struggle. Nixon, in finding a replacement for Agnew, had called on Republican' members of Congress, governors and state party officials to submit suggested names by yesterday. Congressional leaders continued trying to act on Nixon’s choice. Senate Majority leader Mike Mansfield said senators favor joint hearings with the House on a successor to Agnew. Mansfield told newsmen that House Speaker Carl Albert “seemed to approve” but wanted more time to discuss the idea. In both parties, there is considerable sentiment for a senior figure who could be quickly approved, would set a less controversial tone in the vice presidency and would pose no threat to either Nixon or the flock of 1976 hopefuls. In early evening, Nixon flew to Camp David in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains to ponder his choice. The White House, which said his plans for a return to Washington were not known, reported that neither aides nor family members accompanied the President to the rustic retreat. Basically, Nixon appears to have three choices: —Selection of one of the major figures in the GOP giving one of the party’s presidential hopefuls a leg up on the 1976 nomination. Besides Connally, this list is headed by New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who has passed the word he has an “active interest,” and California Gov. Ronald Reagan. —Selection of a respected senior statesman, a person of impeccable credentials with a less partisan tinge, in a bid to restore national unity. Former Secretary of State William P. Rogers appears to head this list, along with retired Sens. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and John J. Williams of Delaware; Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, and the two top GOP congressional leaders, Sen. Hugh Scott and Rep. Gerald R. Ford. —A dark-horse, a younger less mentioned figure, in the way that Spiro T. Agnew was selected by Nixon in 1968. Mentioned in this context were former Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. ambassador' to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; former California Lt. Gov. Robert Finch, and former Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton, whose presence in Washington on an apparently unrelated matter sparked considerable speculation. Damascus is'open to us.’’ But the official indicated Israeli forces would stop short of entering the Syrian capital because international protests would be too strong if Damascus were taken. At the United Nations, the Egyptian foreign minister did not make clear if the 500 persons he said were killed in Israeli air raids had been killed yesterday. A Cairo war communique said- Egyptian fighters intercepted Israeli planes over Egypt, shot nine of them down and forced some to drop their bombs and flee. Some of the bombs fell on villages, the communique said. Casualties were not listed. Israeli planes had attacked Port Said twice since the war began, but no Tel -Aviv war communiques yesterday mentioned attacks on Egyptian targets. pledges of support from several campus organizations. The Undergraduate Student Government and . the Organization of Town Independent Students have appropriated S5OO. Panhel. $l5O. The Association .of Residence Hall Students. SlOO and the Interfraternity Council is expected to vote at its .next meeting on whether to give OD $5OO. The Committee to Save OD has contributed about S2OO. Elliot said most of the major loans would be refunded, if the county funds come through, but he said he was "not too sure” about the ones under Sioo. Elliot said OD 'also has approached Vice-President for Student Affairs Raymond Murphy. Associated Student Activities Director Mel Klein and the Centre Region Council of Governments : about the possibility of'receiving ■support. AP wtreohoto
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