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Vol. 68 No. 118
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 5, 1976
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eagan takes first place in GOP race
Associated Press
Ronald Reagan has seized star bil
ling in the Republican presidential
contest, and President Ford, sud
denly second, may have to rewrite
his campaign script.
But there are likely to be new
twists in the GOP plot before it is
played out this summer. There are,
after all, 16 Republican presidential
primaries to go. And there coidd be
new faces in the campaign cast be
fore convention time.
Nonetheless, Reagan has for the
first time established himself as a
challenger who can convince the
Republican hierarchy that he has a
real chance of denying nomination to
an incumbent president.
Even Ford’s campaign manager
had to acknowledge that Reagan had
the advantage after making the Pres
ident a three-time loser on a single
primary election day.
It was evident in the numbers that
made Reagan for the first time the
leader in committed Republican
nominating delegates and, perhaps
as important, in the momentum and
credibility the conservative chal
lenger gained with two Southern vic
tories and an unexpected triumph in
Indiana.
Jimmy Carter, the dominant
Democrat, won overwhelmingly in
Indiana and in his Georgia home. He
led in partial returns in the District
of Columbia.
In Atlanta, Carter said he wasn’t
assuming he could win all the re
maining primaries — but added that
he doesn’t intent to lose the nomina
tion.
The former Georgia governor said
Reagan’s primary showings put Ford
in peril. “I think this is going to put
Ford on the defensive,” Carter said.
“I think he’s in trouble.
“I just want to make sure that
whoever gets the Republican nomi
nation has to face me.”
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace
won his home-state primary, too.
Wallace offered testament to Car
ter’s claim that as the likely nominee
he can rally Democrats around him.
“I could support him,” Wallace said.
While Carter was speeding his
bandwagon among Democrats,
Reagan was cementing a remarkable
comeback by gaining 51 per cent of
the Indiana vote to defeat Ford by
about 15,000 ballots.
The former California governor
once was on the verge of elimination
as a presidential candidate, with
money running short after a succes
sion of early primary election defeats
by Ford. He held on and turned it
around — for a second time.
Ford’s allies thought they had
finished Reagan in the early
primaries, but he upset the Presi
dent in the North Carolina primary
on March 23, gained strength in
Southern and Southwestern GOP
state conventions, and scored a re
markable, 96-delegate sweep over
Ford in Texas on Saturday.
Now it is the President who is
skidding, although a spokesman said
Ford remains determined and con
vinced he will win the Republican
nomination.
But an outcome that had seemed
inevitable to many Republican lead
ers no longer looks like a sure thing.
And unless Ford can quidkly repair
the damage by dealing setbacks to
Reagan in the coming primaries, the
race could begin to look inviting to,
some men now on the sidelines.
Should Reagan build on his cur
rent advantage, Republicans like
John B. Connally and Vice President
Nelson A. Rockefeller may see open
ings that didn’t exist before. And that
could draw more after the primary
election season, which ends nine
weeks before the GOP convention
begins.
For the moment, the arithmetic
reads Reagan. He emerged from the
Tuesday primaries with 360 commit
ted GOP delegates in his column.
Ford has 292. That has not happened
to an incumbent President seeking
election in modern times.
Rogers C. B. Morton, Ford’s
campaign manager, said events had
given Reagan “a sudden, and I hope
temporary, advantage.”
He said a major factor in that turn
was the crossover vote of conserva
tive Democrats who cast ballots in
Republican primaries because of
Wallace’s virtual elimination horn
their party’s competition. Reagan
said crossover Democratic support
was a virtue, proving he would have
broad appeal as the GOP nominee.
There was evidence of a substan
tial crossover vote in the crucial In
diana race, although it did not ap
proach that in Texas. Alabama and
Georgia also were open primaries, in
which a voter could go either way.
And Morton noted that there will be
six more like them. He said the Ford
camp will have to find a way to cope
with the crossover problem, al
though it wasn’t clear what that
might be.
The contests next Tuesday are in
Nebraska and West Virginia, and
both those states register voters by
party, which precludes primary
switches.
But this week’s outcome may give
Reagan next week’s momentum. He
said he thought the Texas victory
helped him Tuesday. Indiana
strategists on both sides said in ad
vance that the Texas sweep would
boost Reagan’s showing, perhaps by
five per cent. That was more than his
margin of victory.
The votes read this way:
Indiana
With 94 per cent of the precincts
counted in the Republican race it
was:
Reagan 309,913, or 51 per cent.
Ford 294,724, or 49 per cent.
That awarded Reagan 45 Republi-
(See REAGAN, Page 10)
Means wounded
in North Dakota
Associated Press
WAGNER, S.D. — American In
dian Movement leader Russell
Means and another AIM member
were shot early today at a housing
area near here, Atty. Gen. William
Janklow said.
Janklow said he was told that
Means was shot in the chest and that
there was no word on his condition,
and that John Thomas was hos
pitalized at Yankton in critical condi
tion.
Wagner is on the Yankton Sioux
Reservation near the Nebraska bor
der in southeastern South Dakota.
The superintendent of the
(See MEANS. Page 10)
Student parking lots
have high crime rate
By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion Staff Writer
Students parking in three of the
A&M campus parking lots have a
better than even chance of having
their vehicles burglarized.
Those three lots, 24 and 40 (both
behind the Krueger-Dunn-
Mosher-Aston dorm complex) and
48 (east of Kyle Field on Houston
St.) were the locations of over half
the vehicle burglaries on campus in
the last month.
“For this year, those are our worst
three lots,” University Police Chief
O.L. Luther said.
Of the 17 vehicle burglaries re
ported to University police since
April 4, 10 were committed in the
three lots. Four burglaries took
place in lot 24 and three each occur
red in lots 40 and 48. No other lot
had more than one burglary.
Almost all burglaries were at night
and in most cases a citizens band
radio or stereo tape deck was taken.
“It appears that that’s where the
concentration of vehicles is on cam
pus,” Luther said. “I don’t think that
it’s a lighting problem.”
He said, however, he thought the
lights in lot 48 had been turned off by
a contractor working in the area. The
three burglaries in lot 48 occurred
about that time.
Luther said the lots are regularly
patrolled during the night by Uni
versity police officers. But a burglar
could hide behind cars on one end of
a lot and easily he missed by some
one at the other end, he explained.
Lot 24 is well-lighted and highly
visible to passing traffic on three
sides, hut is one of the largest lots on
campus.
Lot 40, which lies between lot 24
and Jersey St., is poorly -lighted
with three light poles. Lot 24, which
is about twice as large, has 12 light
poles.
A shoulder-high hedge also sur
rounds lot 40, blocking it from the
view of traffic on Bizzell and Jersey
Sts. The hedge also hampers visibil
ity in the lot, Luther said.
Lot 48, east of Kyle Field, has a
number of street and building lights
nearby, but only one light pole in
side the lot. A fence south of Kyle
Field and buildings at both ends of
48 block the view of the lot on three
sides.
On the fourth side, the lot is built
considerably higher than Houston
St. and the first row of cars blocks the
view into the rest of the lot.
Luther said burglars may enter
the lots between officer patrols or
during patrol-shift changes.
“We tell officers to remain as visi
ble as possible in the lots,” Luther
said. “We feel their very presence
tends to discourage burglars.”
In two of the burglary incidents.
University police officers arrested
burglars who were removing citizens
band radios from cars. One arrest
involved two juveniles in lot 24, and
the second involved a student in lot
48.
(See FAR-FLUNG. Page 10)
Conference begins
amid controversies
Seriate checks FBI
Report calls operations illegal
rected against the New Left after student
riots in 1968.
The lack of success was due in part to the
fact that the FBI was unable to define
exactly what organizations belonged in the
New Left.
The result was that student groups rang
ing from Students for a Democratic Society
to “all of Antioch College, a liberal arts
school in Ohio, became targets of Cointel-
pro, the report said.
I.D. pictures taken
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — FBI headquarters
approved more than 2,300 actions in a
“rough, tough and dirty” campaign to dis
rupt and discredit U.S. organizations.
A new report on the bureau’s Cointelpro
program released today by the Senate in
telligence committee, said many of the ac
tions “may have violated specific criminal
statues.” Others “involved risk of serious
bodily injury or death to the targets.”
Chairman Frank Church (D-Idaho)
coupled release of the report with a re
newed call for creation of a congressional
panel to oversee intelligence operations.
He also asked for a special prosecutor to
investigate possible criminal charges
against officials involved in intelligence
abuses.
The 77-page report outlined Cointelpro
operations against “a staggering range of
targets.” Actions began in 1956 with the
Communist Party U.S.A. and ended in
1971 with “students demonstrating against
anything.”
FBI use of “dangerous, degrading or
blatantly unconstitutional techniques
. . . appears to have become less restrained
with each subsequent program. ” the report
said.
The report quoted internal Justice De
partment documents saying Cointelpro ac
tivities may have violated the civil rights
statute and federal laws against mail fraud
and extortion.
Although FBI witnesses testified that
Cointelpro was protecting the national
security and preventing violence, the re
port said that “the unexpressed major
promise of much of Cointelpro is maintain
ing the existing social order and . . . com
bating those who threaten that order.”
According to the report, more than half
the Cointelpro operations were directed at
the Communist party.
By the early 1960’s, Cointelpro opera
tions had expanded to include the preven
tion of Communist infiltration “of mass or
ganizations ranging from the NAACP to a
local scout troop.”
FBI officials were quoted in the report
saying the most successful Cointelpro
program was against the Ku Klux Klan.
The report said Cointelpro “used com
paratively few techniques that carried a
risk of serious physical, emotional or
economic damage to the targets” in dealing
with the Klan.
But, the Cointelpro program aimed at
“Black Nationalist” groups, ranging from
the Black Panthers to the Southern Christ
ian Leadership Conference, “used such
techniques extensively.”
According to the report, the least suc
cessful Cointelpro program was one di-
All persons who pre-registered for fall
classes between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. i
Monday of last week must have their pic
ture taken for their ID cards. The photos
will be taken between 8 a. m. and noon, and
1 to 5 p.m. through Friday at the registra
tion center in the Old Exchange Store.
Mexican oil reserves top Alaska’s
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Mexico
revealed yesterday its new oil
fields in the southern states of
Tabasco and Chiapas had
boosted estimated crude re
serves to from 30 billion to 60
billion barrels, three to six
times those of Alaska’s North
Slope.
Francisco Javier Alejo, sec
retary of natural resources, told
reporters that Mexico’s proved
reserves have reached seven
billion barrels, an increase of
one billion since March.
Alejo also announced a rever
sal of government oil policy by
stating Mexico planned to join
the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC) as
soon as possible.
“We have just begun to
explore,” he said. “We believe
90 to 95 per cent of the national
territory is capable of producing
hydrocarbons of one type or
another.”
He said the Gulf of Mexico
also promises to be a source of
offshore oil.
Just one year ago, Alejo said
international observers’ specu
lations that the new fields con
tained 20 billion barrels in re
serves were “irresponsible.”
He also said then that Mexico
was not interested in being an
exporter of crude oil.
A basic rule of OPEC mem
bership is that a country be a
major exporter of crude.
The reserve figures were the
first ever revealed by the Mexi
can government. The indication
Mexico was about to become a
major world exporter caught
observers by surprise.
Some suggested the policy
change resulted from Mexico’s
need to increase its foreign cur
rency reserves and to reduce its
heavy $18 billion foreign debt
and $3.6 billion foreign trade
deficit.
Mexico began drilling in the
two southern states four years
ago. Since last year Mexico has
been exporting 113,000 barrels
of crude oil and other pet
roleum items daily, making it
the third largest Latin Ameri
can oil exporter after Venezuela
and Ecuador.
Alejo said the figure should
double later this year.
Mexico has refused re
peatedly to join OPEC, spurn
ing invitations from such lead
ers as Venezuelan President
Carlos Andres Perez and the
Shah of Iran.
President Luis Echeverria.
has maintained a conservative
oil policy, keeping reserves sec
ret and criticizing OPEC mem
bers for not spending more of
their oil earnings in underde
veloped nations.
“Mexico will join OPEC as
soon as it is invited, ’ Alejo said
Tuesday. Membership in
OPEC is by invitation.
The United States buys most
of Mexico’s crude oil, which is
selling at $12.30 to $12.40 a bar
rel. There was no indication the
price would change if Mexico
joined OPEC.
The secretary said Mexico
would attempt to sell more
gasoline, since it brings bet
ween $18 and $19 a barrel. He
said by the end of this year
Mexico should be earning $2.4
million from the export of
200,000 barrels of petroleum
daily.
Pemex, the government oil
monopoly, began drilling 47
wells in the two southeastern
states four years ago. By March
of 1975, Alejo could report that
exploration was taking place in
23 of the country’s 31 states.
Antonio Dovali Jaime, direc
tor of Pemex, said then three
refineries were being con
structed. The first one to open is
at Tula, 30 miles north of
Mexico City. That occurred
March 18 of this year, the 38th
anniversary of the nationaliza
tion of the petroleum industry.
Echeverria said then Pemex
invested $692 million on re
fineries and other construction
in 1975.
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — President Jomo
Kenyatta called on the fourth United Na-
ions Conference on Trade and Develop-
nent today to write a “Nairobi Charter for
iome new and truly international economic
order” inspired by a “breath of political
joodwill” among rich and poor nations.
Kenya’s president boycotted the open
ing of the conference, and his welcome to
lire nearly 3,000 delegates was read by an
aide. Western diplomats said Kenyatta,
who is in his 80s, was angry because
Index
A Canadian research team has iso
lated a type of bacteria that eats
one form of pollutant. Page 4.
The dean of the College of Geo
science gives his perspective of
the “energy crisis.” Page 5.
Couples are given a view of pic. fo
nancy and abortion. Page 6.
Israel replies today in the United
Nations to Egyptian charges of
terrorism. Page 7.
A privately owned city transporta
tion service returns to Bryan-
College Station. Page 8.
It is predicted that the Senate will
override Ford’s veto of child day
care subsidies. Page 10.
A fight spectacular is planned be
tween a wrestler and a heavy
weight boxer. Page 12.
Entertainment. Page 5.
. C\ass\heds. Page 8.
another chief of state. President Ferdinand
E. Marcos ofThe Philippines, was attend
ing the meeting.
Other controversies simmered around
the meeting, although none so far seemed
likely to disrupt the proceedings. The
Arabs were talking about trying to oust Is
rael and seat the Palestine Liberation Or
ganization as an observer. Some black Afri
can nations wanted to expel South Africa.
Soviet-bloc nations were reported pressing
in private discussions for the exclusion of
Chile.
Kenyatta’s message said the world was
suffering from a “crisis of rising expecta
tions and diminishing fulfillment” in which
billions of persons in developing countries
had only a remote chance of improving
their living conditions. He said the confer
ence has a unique opportunity to chart a
world economic breakthrough.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
also called for a new international economic
order at a conference preliminary Tuesday
night.
Major issues, in addition to commodity
prices, include how to encourage manufac-
turing in poor nations and spread
technological skills now concentrated in
industrial nations, how to relieve debts
burdening the world’s poorest nations and
how to regulate multinational corpora
tions.
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Assaults do occur,
even at Texas A&M
Editor’s note. The second and final part
of this series tomorrow will deal with an
actual rape that occurred on the A&M
campus, along with precautionary mea
sures and tips for self-protection against
assault and rape.
By VIR ANDERSON
Texas A&M University is one of the
safest, most crime-free places around. So
you don’t have to worry about any weirdos
at A&M, right? Wrong!
Several students who were interviewed
about disturbing incidents they were
either involved in or knew of reported the
following:
^ A woman was approached by an
exhibitionist in a typing room of the library.
V There have been numerous cases of
indecent exposure in the library and
apartment parking lots.
^ Obscene gestures and drawings have
been directed toward women in study
cubicles at the library.
V H has been rumored that three women
were raped in Lot 24, the parking lot be
hind Mosher-Krueger.
Some of those reports have gone unsub
stantiated. Sue Hodge, assistant area coor
dinator for Mosher Krueger, said yesterday
she had heard of no such occurrences in Lot
24.
“If this actually had happened, I’m sure I
would have been informed,” she said.
Texas A&M Police Chief O.L. Luther
confirmed reports about the incidents in
the library.
“Over at the library we’ve had numerous
complaints of indecent exposure on the
first, second, third and fourth floors,” he
said. “Many incidents occur at a time when
a lot of students are in the library — both
day and night.”
He said that over a four-year period,
there have been reports of assaults in the
Academic Building, Olin E. Teague Build
ing, Old Chemistry Building and in Hensel
Apartments.
The most recent incident reported to the
campus police took place at Hensel Apart
ments last month. A woman was assaulted
during the early morning hours as she re
turned home. Another case last spring in
volved assault and rape at the apartments.
Toby Rives, dean of women, said there
has been one rape reported this semester.
She said the victim had left her dorm room
unlocked.
Rives said a potential assault situation
would appear “late at night when a girl has
been studying in a building.”
She said students should be informed of
such incidents, “not to cause hysteria, but
to make people aware of these things.”
Shortcuts across dimly-lighted areas may not always be safe
for coeds. Disturbing incidents on the Texas A&M campus
have brought attention to the problem of attacks on women.