Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1980)
'^d Press Iittra -K — Die^ iave been hcl for quicU ristmas early; The Battalion five- year vej. •n Kyle frot Vol. 74 No. 36 . 10 Pages t the Broncw;? work. L Serving the Texas A&M University community Monday, October 20, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS045 360 Phone 845-2611 Yesterday The Weather Today High 76 High 75 Low : 70 Low 55 Rain . 0.00 inches Humidity Chance of rain . . . . muggy . . . slight Iran admits refinery city Abadan cut off teams clans hen Dallas j tn from the ■ve and he agent Kyle si] round drali sity ofWyo^ coach ‘'"W? United Press International any to tei BASRA, Iraq — Iraqi gunners poured artillery and mortar n, but it "i'ouncls into Abadan and Iran conceded the refinery city was cut ?y eventua jg - ! Fighting also raged in Abadan’s sister port of Khurramshahr t safety po _ renamed the “City of Blood” by Iran. deattheonl. An Iraqi official Sunday said there were “only a few Iranians :ht. jeft” in Khurramshahr and said that Abadan, about 10 miles south i y OU cjj, if Khurramshahr, was surrounded on the north, west and east. all player»tJ;As the war entered its fifth week, UPI correspondent Roland :hoice, you lyrell Sunday reported round after round of Iraqi shells and > add himti mortar bombarding Abadan, sending black plumes of smoke bil- 5 can fit in, lowing from the wrecked Shatt al-Arab refinery town, ure so sayilj ^Tyrrell also reported the crackle of small-arms and machine- him in, id Dallas Kyle on inji inal cut said Dalk esn’t make s decision ginning t he dod ting at pi ith the ic was stil season from jve bone e said ther!| iping who ister. ccept the ?ser\’e the Landry "^J 11 guess I gun fire in Khurramshahr, indicating stubborn Iranian resistance in the city, whose port Iraq claimed to control earlier in the 29-day war. Baghdad reported Sunday its troops had captured Doj, a “strategic” military camp near Khurramshahr, while four Iranian jets were shot down in dogfights overhead. Iran conceded the Iraqi assaults, but Pars News Agency said “house-to-house and hand-to-hand fighting” had driven the “mer cenaries” from Khurramshahr. Tehran, however, said that naval personnel were evacuating the wounded “with difficulty.” Tehran Radio early today reported the “Supreme Defense Council has, following a proposal from the front, renamed Khur ramshahr: Khunninshahr,” which means “City of Blood. ” Although claiming its Revolutionary Guards had halted the Iraqi advance on the outskirts of Abadan, Tehran admitted for the first time the city s “road links with other parts of the country have been closed.” Iran sent warplanes to attack Baghdad, hitting what the Iraqis called “civil and economic targets.” Baghdad said four Iraqi sol diers and one civilian were killed. In other Iranian military reports: —Pars said 200 Iraqi troops had been killed during the past 24 hours in the northern Gilan-e Gharb area. —Tehran Radio said two Iraqi air raids on the Persian Gulf oil terminal at Kharg Island were beaten off and that Iranian troops “inflicted heavy blows” on advancing Iraqi troops near Susangerd, 80 miles north of Khurramshahr. —Tehran also reported “clashes” within Qasr-i-Shirin, a north ern Iranian border city captured early in the war. On the diplomatic front, Habib Chatti, secretary general of the 42-nation Islamic conference, was reportedly in Tehran for talks on the war and Iraq sent Minister of Irrigation Abdel Wahab Mahmoud on an eight-nation tour of Latin America to explain his country’s stand. Financial sources in Beirut said Iraq, anticipating a long war, has asked Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for financial war aid and that Qatar had already agreed to the request. ir-old nati" msly coni — New troit — H "I wentto ; loves ibout the Staff photo by George Dolan Soppy Saturday Head yell leader Mark Outlaw tries to rouse voices of all the wet Aggie football fans Saturday afternoon. The loyal fans sat through pouring rain that lasted during most of the game. The Aggies yelled but the team lost miserably, 46-7. See page 8 for more on the Baylor victory. Soviets suppress mutiny 98 ST United Press International NEW DELHI, India — Soviet troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships have squashed a mutiny of 8,000 Afghan ; troops on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghan sources said today. A Tass dispatch from New Delhi denied the reports as Afghan President Babrak Karmal left Moscow on his way home after five days of talks with Soviet officials. | Occupation forces arrested “hundreds” of ranking Afghan offic ers at Pulicharki base 7 miles east of Kabul after they tried to bolt with “the major portion” of the 4th and 5th mechanized divisions of the Afghan army last week, the sources said. ■ “Contrary to inventions by the Western mass media, the situa tion in Kabul and most of Afghanistan’s other provinces is abso lutely normal, ” Tass said, quoting an Indian newspaper which it said was “close to government circles.” There was no information on casualties, although intermittent gun battles were reported in the last two weeks. In sketchy reports that could not be verified by diplomatic or authoritative Afghan sources, travelers reported Soviet troops earlier had disarmed about 50 percent of the fighting men at the Russian-built base because of unrest there. Travel toward Pulicharki on the Jalalabad road — now control led by anti-Soviet Moslem insurgents — has been restricted because of tension at the base for more than two weeks, the sources said. Soviet tanks and MI24 helicopter gunships left Kabul heading toward Pulicharki on several days last week, they reported. The military population at the base has dropped from 14,000 to 7,000 because of massive defections and arrests, the sources said. VP Run-off freshman election today Corps candidate list OK'd as campaign tactic nuisii By MARCY BOYCE Battalion Staff | A list circulated within the Texas A&M University : Corps of Cadets identifying 40 cadets running for fresh ly man class officers does not violate election regulations, but is considered a tactic to encourage a Corps bloc vote, says Leah Whitby, election commissioner. “We all know that the Corps has a bloc vote, but there is | nothing we can do to stop them,” Whitby said, because the list is considered an endorsement — a legal campaign | lactic, according to election regulations. About 100 of the lists were printed prior to the pre- | liminary freshman election Wednesday, circulated throughout the outfits and posted on Corps dormitory bulletin boards. Members of Corps Staff, the group of cadets that formulates and administers Corps policies, say hey don’t know where the list came from. Whitby said she was forewarned of the list. “I knew it was coming out. They do it every year, but jj. we can’t slap their hands and say, ‘no, no, ” she said. The election commissioner said, however, she did cau tion poll workers to watch for the flyers at the four polling ites since they are not permitted where people vote. Two lists were confiscated. But besides banning the flyers from polling sites, Whit- y said, “As long as they (the candidates) help pay for them, there isn’t anything we can do about them.” The 40 cadets on the list each were told to record a $3 campaign expenditure to cover the cost of printing the flyer distributed in the Corps — a precautionary measure jsmce the actual cost was about $1, Corps Adjutant Tracy ~ox said. Cox didn’t deny that similar lists of candidates in the Corps are circulated every year, but he and other Corps Staff members disagreed with Whitby that the campaign tactic is intended to encourage a Corps bloc vote. “It’s not meant to be a bloc vote. It’s meant to be Run-off candidates listed Freshman run-ofF elections are scheduled Tuesday. Here is a list of candidates: President Joe Nussbaum Jay Cross Secretary/treasurer Jay Still Melissa McDaniel Vice president Jill Mutschler Greg Griffen Social secretary Barbara Brunner Charles Viktorin informative,” said Cox, who is also Student Government vice president for finance. If freshman cadets don’t know anything else about any of the candidates running, Cox said, at least the list will help them identify candidates who are fellow members of their organization. “All it (the list) is used for is to say, ‘if you don’t know these guys, get to know them, and if you don’t know anybody that is running, you may as well vote for someone in your outfit,’” Corps Administration Sergeant Glinn White said. Although three years ago the Corps newspaper fre quently endorsed a few Corps and non-Corps candidates, both Cox and White contended the flyer this year is not even an endorsement. Since 40 of the 83 people running for office were cadets, there is no way the Corps can pick out a few to endorse. White said, noting that 26 Corps members alone were running for the senate. In run-off elections Tuesday, a cadet will be competing against a non-cadet in every office except the Senate. And four of the seven newly elected student senators are mem bers of the Corps. For the freshman class offices, nine cadets sought the presidency, three ran for vice-president and one ran in each of the secretary/treasurer and social secretary races. “There’s just no way we can tell them (cadets) to bloc vote,” White said. “We do make them vote, but we don’t tell them to vote for people in the Corps. It wouldn’t really be logical, anyway, because each individual casts his ballot privately. “A lot of people misconstrue its purpose, but it’s not for a bloc vote.” Regardless of the flyer’s intent, Whitby said the Corps is not the only organization on campus that uses this type of campaign tactic. Dormitory newspapers all over cam pus frequently print lists of their residents seeking offices, but because the Corps is big and well-known, she said, it is one of the more obvious organizations. Freshman ‘fair’ in chapel shooting By JENNIFER AFFLERBACH Battalion Staff A Texas A&M University freshman was listed in fair condition this morning after a Saturday night shooting that wounded her and left a Houston man dead. University Police identified the man as Michael Bruce Duchin, 19, of 6126 Bayou Bridge in Houston. Duchin was found dead of a gunshot wound in the All Faiths Chapel shortly be fore 9 p.m., police said. He was not a Texas A&M student. The woman, Janie Koester, a freshman from Cypress, was hospitalized with two stomach wounds. She was listed in “fair” condition this morning in the intensive care unit of St. Joseph Hospital, an improve ment from her “critical but stable” condi tion Sunday. Koester underwent surgery Saturday night to remove two bullets from her sto mach area. A .22-caliber pistol was found at the scene of the shooting, police said. Police said they suspected the shootings were an attempted murder and suicide. A Texas A&M student who arrived or the scene soon after the shooting said ht did not hear any shots, but heard Koestei yelling for help. He said he found Koestei lying outside the door on the north side oi the chapel and stayed with her until the ambulance arrived. Another student on the scene said the dead man was lying on the floor at the front of the chapel. The student said there was a gun lying about 20 feet from the body. There were two bullet holes in a chapel window, he said. A friend of Koester’s said in a police statement that Koester and Duchin dated until recently. The friend said Duchin re cently withdrew from another university. Justice of the Peace Carolyn Hensarling withheld a ruling on the incident pending results of an autopsy and further police in vestigation. Acquittal expected Brilab almost over Over 150 apply for presidency More than 150 nominations and applica tions for the presidency of Texas A&M Uni versity have already been received, the search committee advising the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents learned Friday. The 22-member committee met for the second time and began the screening pro cess in the nation-wide search. Clyde H. Wells, chairman of both the board of regents and the search committee, said the nominations and applications rep resent a broad cross-section of backgrounds and geographic distribution. United Press International HOUSTON — House Speaker Bill Clayton, who has said he expects to be acquitted in his federal Brilab trial of con spiracy and racketeering charges, should know by the end of this week whether his prediction will hold true. Closing testimony was scheduled for this afternoon in the trial of Clayton and two Austin attorneys, with final arguments set for Tuesday and jury deliberations to follow. It was exactly one year ago Sunday that Clayton first met convicted swindler and FBI informant Joseph Hauser. Nearly three weeks later Hauser and L.G. Moore, a Deer Park union official and Clayton supporter, gave the speaker the $5,000 prosecutors claim was a down pay ment for Clayton’s help in fixing a state employees insurance contract. One of the key points in the trial will be why Clayton, a conservative Panhandle Democrat, millionaire cotton farmer and Baptist deacon with the spotless political and personal record, did not acknowledge receiving the money in an interview with FBI agent Fred Ligarde. Clayton, who has said he expects an ac quittal, now says he made a mistake by not admitting taking the money. He said he intended to return it to Moore when he saw him again. “Do you think that (acknowledgement) would have saved you some heartache?” Clayton was asked outside the courtroom Friday. “I doubt it,” he said. “Do you think it would have made any difference?” a reporter asked. “I doubt it,” Clayton said. Clayton believes he would have been prosecuted regardless of what he told the FBI because its agents knew the money had changed hands and that three months later Clayton had neither reported nor re turned it. The heart of Clayton’s defense is that cash or checks in hand are not by law or by practice political contributions “accepted.” Clayton and the state’s chief campaign fi nance official testified that a recipient must decide to accept money and if he decides to accept it, he must report it. Oil needed for growth here, but not for U.S. United Press International WASHINGTON — A gloomy congres sional study says U.S. oil production could sink as low as 4 million barrels a day by the turn of the century, meaning the United States would have to look elsewhere for the energy to fuel industrial growth. Congress’ Office of Technology Assess ment, in a study titled “World Petroleum Availability: 1980-2000,” said current U.S. production of 10.2 million barrels a day may sink to between 7.2 million and 8.5 million barrels by 1985 and decline to 4 milfion to 7 million barrels by the year 2000. “If OTA’s projections prove correct, the United States as well as the rest of the world will have to fuel its economic and industrial growth without the seemingly limitless supply of oil\we have had in the past,” said John Gibbons, the office’s director. The study found it might be possible to boost world production by one-third in the 1990s. But it said increases are unlikely because Arab oil-exporting nations and Mexico, the countries with the best pros pects for higher production, have little financial or political incentive to boost output. The report, released Sunday, agreed with a CIA study that concluded non communist oil output — 52 million barrels a day in 1979 — could start dropping in this decade, and reach a range of 40 million to 60 million barrels in 20 years. The office said declining production could cut exports from the Soviet Union, the world’s largest producer, forcing East ern Europe and perhaps Russia itself to compete as buyers in the world market. Production by the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries in the next 20 years should continue at its current level of about 31 million barrels a day, with the bulk ol reserves controlled by Arab countries, the study said. Any increase in production by non- OPEC Third World countries such as Mex ico could be absorbed by rising Third World demand, it said. “The OTA report shows that unless the United States takes immediate action, we will be in real trouble in the years ahead,”, said Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz., chairman | of the office’s congressional board. “The only way we can cut our oil depend-, ence enough in that short time is through serious and sustained efforts to increase efficiency and cut waste in our use of oil. ”