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atty Hearst’s ex-fiance to testify today Associated Press ■ FRANCISCO — With the prosecu- i ready to rest its case, Patricia Hearst’s «ys planned to call her ex-fiance tyto recount the night of the kidnaping ultimately led to her trial for bank rob- ■ J.S. Atty James L. Browning Jr. said he ,ild wrap up his case against the 21- year-old newspaper heiress today when he resumed questioning FBI agent Thomas J. Padden, “our final witness. ” Chief defense counsel F. Lee Bailey said he would immediately begin reconstruct ing Miss Hearst’s kidnaping by calling her former fiance, Steven Weed, to the stand. Weed was left beaten and bleeding at their Berkeley apartment the chilly night of Feb. 4, 1974, when the Symbionese Liber ation Army abducted Miss Hearst. He and the defendant have not met since the kid naping. Miss Hearst was captured here Sept 18,. 1975. The defense maintains that Miss Hearst took part in the bank robbery two months after her kidnaping out of fear for her life. Browning based his case on Miss Battalion Hearst’s own words and actions during her bizarre 19-month odyssey through the ter rorist underground and on testimony of witnesses who saw her during that time. The evidence he offered included bank camera photos of her during a San Fran cisco robbery two months after the kidnap ing and a tape recording in which she proc laimed allegiance to the SLA. Douglas Winship library is the problem of finding a copier that works. spob Bell announces andiclacy for mayor 5 lllege Station City Councilman Bob Tmnounced last night that he will be a idate for mayor in the April 3 city elec- iBeii also resigned his Place 3 council atleffective March 31. That seat, along jfllthree other council positions, will be fed on the election ballot. Mi.••or 0. M. Holt has announced he lid not seek a second term. He said he pdbe unable to devote enough time to e If lice. Bell was narrowly defeated by ■in the 1974 city elections. Bel!, 33, is president of Scott and Davis ntliprises, a local broadcasting firm tikSli has petitioned the Federal Com- uitcations Commission for permission to nstnict a commercial FM radio station in | »s County. said he expects opposition in the Rial race, probably from one or two the: councilmen who are expected to lake their announcements next week. |ist year, Bell won his first political of- Bwhen he defeated Councilman Don by a 2-1 margin. Bell also was elected iyor Pro-Tern by the council last year. AI1965 graduate of Texas A&M, Bell is [an independent contractor associated Spearman Homes and Spearman Re- He is director and treasurer of Elderly sing Inc., a non-profit corporation otices warn aregistered Bob Bell announced his candi dacy last night at the College Station City Council meeting. Mayor O. M. Holt will not seek a second term. Bell expects competition in the race from other members of the city council. O. M. Holt which hopes to provide apartment-like housing for senior citizens in the city, in the city. Bell, his wife Anne, and their four chil dren reside at 1006 Madera Circle. Holt is vice-chairman of the board of Na tional Farm Life, a Fort Worth-based in- Bob Bell surance company. He is also affiliated with the Agricultural Workers Auto Insurance of Fort Worth. Holt served as a councilman from 1964 to 1970. He and his wife reside at 1016 Fran- ike owners line of every 10 stolen bicycles reco- idby the University Police last year had npreviously registered with the police, ht s a warning being stuck on non- ■stered bikes. fcyone who operates a bicycle on cam- [isrequiredby University regulations to ; a permit. The permit costs $1.50 and ■'Llid until Aug. 31, regardless of the date purchase. Police keep a description of i bicycle on file with the owner’s name. |900 bicycles are currently registered R the police, but University Police Chief |L. Luther said Wednesday that over bikes more are operated daily on ppus. The primary purpose of bicycle regist- ion is to aid in the recovery of stolen es,” Luther said. ver 3,200 non-registered bicycles have [n tagged with warning notices which lude some hints on avoiding bike thefts, friers of non-registered bikes can be i violation notice and fined Stephen Ingram Browning called 32 witnesses, including law enforcement officers, persons at the scene of the bank robbery and a Los Angeles area teen-ager who was kidnaped and spent a night with Miss Hearst and SLA members William and Emily Harris. Bailey has secured U.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter’s approval to take the jury to two hideouts where Miss Hearst was kept in closets in the weeks just after her kidnaping. They also will visit the bank that Miss Hearst and the SLA robbed on April 15, 1974. . Bailey said the excursion will be Mon- (See HEARST, Page 6) Directory decision to be made Monday Friday, Feb. 13, 1976 Switch to Xerox may double cost of library copies It costs more to go first class, and the library is having to face that fact about its copying machines. Don Halvorson, assistant director of the library, said research is being done to switch to entirely Xerox machines for the students’ use. “The Xerox machines are more depen- able but because of the higher leasing cost of these machines we would have to raise the price from five cents to 10 cents per copy,’’ Halvorson said. “As it stands now, 15,000 copies per machine have to be made in order to pay the lease on the machines.” Two kinds of machines are now being used in the library. Xerox machines, which cost more to lease, sell for $15,000 to $18,000 each. Royal Bond copiers, made by Litton Industries and cheaper to lease, sell for $3,000 to $5,000 each. There are 20 copying machines scattered throughout the library. Halvorson said they made more than two million copies last year. The machines have held up well consid ering all of the use they receive, he said, but they are still out of order often. When they are being used excessively they get hot and overload the electrical circuit. “The machines are checked every morn ing and every afternoon during the week and on Saturday morning, he said. The machines axe designed to handle one half of all the people in the librax y at a given time. Most repairs that are required can be done in the lilxrary without sending the machine to a shop. Sometimes the machines make copies that are too light or too daxk. Halvorson said, “A lot of the technical features of the machines had to be left off because they are coin operated. He said tliat putting a change machine in the library has taken a load off of the library staff. “Sometimes students get cheated by the machines and they can get their money back by going to room 239 and filling out a refund slip,” Halvorson said. — Randy Dusek INDEX Aggies face Texas Tech Saturday. Page 8 Track team travels to Oklahoma City to compete in the National Fed eration Meet. Page 8 Corps staff has designed scholas tic regulations to improve corps grade point ratios. Page 5 THE FORECAST for Friday and Saturday is mostly cloudy mornings, partly cloudy after noons. The high both days 80; the low tonight, 61. Southerly winds, 8-14 mph. By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR. Battalion Staff Writer A&M will begin printing the 1975-76 university directory next week uixless the firm Conti-acted to publish the directory de livers it Monday. “It’s our understanding that Monday is the deadline,” said Gael L. Cooper, direc tor of student publications. “We re just waiting until then.” The Battalion reported in January that the publishing company, B. P. Industries (BPI) of Midland, maybe unable to publish the directory because of financial difficul ties. The A&M directory is partially com pleted, BPI Vice-President Aubrey Linne said yesterday, but work on directory has stopped because of the firm’s financial problems. The contract stipulates that BPI deliver the directoxy within five weeks after A&M turned the final listings over to BPI. BPI has not done anything on the directory since it received the last part in January, Linne said. University officials have been preparing to print the directory on-campus since mid-January. University systems attorney James A. Amis Jr. will decide when and if the BPI contract is null and void. Cooper said. He said A&M could start production as soon as Amis gave the clearance to do so. If the University prints the directory, it would not be available before the first or second week in March, he said. Copies would sell for $2 each. A&M originally contracted the directory with BPI in an effort to have free copies available in late October. BPI should be obligated to reimburse directory advertisers if the firm doCsn t publish the directory, Linne said. BPI contracted about $17,000 in local advertising for the A&M directory, with about $14,500 of that collected in advance. Several advertisers said BPI increased advertising rates considerably above rates chaiged in the past by the University. Prices on a small display ad increased 2-1/2 times or more, said Bernie Gessner, a directory advextiser. BPI sales representatives told Gessner the directoxy would be available by late September and that the early release date justified higher ad rates he said. “I haven’t heard a thiixg from them (BPI) since they sent me a proof (of the ad) and a bill,” Gessner said. Asked if advertisers woxdd be reim bursed by BPI if the firm doesn’t publish the directory, BPI President Harry Scaling said, “I hope so.” Reception discussion Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Wil liam E. Schaufele, Jr. answered questions at a reception in the MSC after his speech in the Rud der Theatre Thursday night. Mr. Schaufele ap peared as part of the SCONA program. Teague undecided about Angola issue Gotcha! Unregistered bicycles operated on campus by the police. Police claim registration aids are subject to being ticketed with warnings in identifying recovered stolen bicycles. Jim Woods U. S. Rep. Olin E. “Tiger” Teague of College Station held an informal confer ence on campus yesterday with several student government and MSC Council members. Teague recently announced his candi dacy for his 16th term as representative from the 6th Congressional District. Teague answered questions on a variety of topics for 45 minutes. His comments on several areas follow’. Angola: “I don’t know the answer to it. I don’t think we can just back off and let Russia gobble up every little country they can. I think we’ve got to take some action, but I sure wouldn’t have ever voted to pxxt any troops in there. I didn’t think we should have gone into Vietnam bxxt after we went in there, I supported it.” Detente: “I think a lot of Kissinger, but I think he went much too far in trying to run a one-man diplomacy. I don’t think any one man should have the authority to do the things Kissinger has done. I think most members of Congress think Kissinger went a little too far in detente. Yes, try to get along with the Russians but make sure we don’t get cheated in the deal.” United Nations: “I think Congress is very much for the United Nations, but there are also a lot of reservations and a lot of questions. We’d rather have the coun tries talking than shooting at each other. The Pakistan ambassador to the United Na tions said, and I think he is right, that the UN can never be a peace-keeping organiza tion, but it can certainly be an arbitrating organization. When tvyo countries have a disagreement and decide to settle it, then the UN can be the referee.” Economy: “I think the greatest danger to Olin E. Teague our government today is for the whole country to become a New York City. Every segment of our economy and our people want more money. Do you know who gets the best scholarships of any American citi zens today? It’s the xxxan coming out of Huntsville (State Prison). He can go to school practically forever on scholarships that he can get.” Supersonic Transport: “I predict thexe will be a lot of improvement on engines and alot of cutting back on the noise. I voted for our SST. I’ll vote for nearly anything that is new, that is an improvement over what we have. Maybe we were moving too fast on the SST. I predict the Concorde and SST are here to stay and the French and British will get a little ahead of us in that field because they did produce the first and are putting it into operation. ” Bureaucracy: “I think people are tired of too much governmexxt regulation. A&M President Jack Williams sent me last week all the regulations they have to comply with — a stack about four inches high. People are tired of ovex-government.