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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.
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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
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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.
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Run-off freshman election today
Corps candidate list OK'd as campaign tactic
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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. ”