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Vol. 70 No. 2
10 Pages
Thursday, September 2, 1976
College Station, Texas
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By EDMOND LE BRETON
Associated Press
'WASHINGTON — It is now up to the
fenate to decide whether senators, con-
ressmenand other members of the upper
trataofthe federal government should ac-
ipt pay raises in the home stretch of a
itional election year.
Members of the House of Representa-
yes, most of them in the midst of re
lection campaigns, decided on a 325 to 75
bte Wednesday that they really don’t
ped election year pay hikes. And, in a
iprise move, the House also decided the
lection year salary increases should be
enied to senators, federal judges and high
tecutive officials.
The pay raise for the lawmakers and
Igh-level officials would be automatic as ol
|ct. 1 under usual procedure. If members
of the House and Senate take their automa
tic pay raises their salaries would rise from
$44,600 a year to about $46,740 a year.
The House voted against the pay raises
by adding an amendment to the bill that
provides money to run Congress and its
related agencies. The House then passed
the $780-million measure.
The bill now goes to the Senate, which is
expected to take it up after the Labor Day
recess.
While all House seats are up for election,
only one-third of the Senate seats are at
stake and senators presumably are feeling
less political pressure to avoid a raise that
might inflame voters.
Moreover, senators favoring the raise
can argue that it would be unfair to deny
the adjustment to about 2,000 nonelected
workers.
If the Senate disagrees with the House
about the need for pay raises, the issue will
go to a conference committee for resolu
tion.
The outlook for the increases was further
complicated by some Republicans’ charges
that the House vote was a sham because the
possibility remains that there still will be a
pay raise after the election under another
federal pay law.
The bill passed by the House dealt with
cost-of-living increases provided for by a
1975 payroll law. The amount of the in
crease has not yet been determined, but it
is expected to be at least 4.8 per cent.
But an earlier law, still in effect, provides
for a special commission to study salaries of
members of Congress and high govern
ment officials and make recommendations
every four years for pay adjustments that
also would be automatic.
And Rep. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., said
the special commission is expected to rec
ommend “at least a $10,000 hike” in law
maker’s salaries when it makes its report
about two months after the election.
Pressler said “Congress is playing a cruel
hoax on Americans.”
Coeds flushed by toilet
By LISA JUNOD
Battalion Campus Editor
Four Texas A&M coeds missed
their classes Wednesday and spent
the morning wading through the
muck and mire that covered the
floors of their dorm rooms.
The slushy mess covered the
floors of two rooms in the four-
year-old Krueger Hall when the
toilet in the bathroom between
them overflowed.
The residents of Krueger 125 and
127 said that the toilet “began mak
ing gurgling noises” and suddenly
started spewing out sewage, while
the girls were drying their hair that
morning.
Ruthie Wilkins, a sophomore
from Bryan, said that she and her
friends became alarmed when the
plumbing started misbehaving.
‘“We dropped our hairdryers and
'v ran in different directions, to find the
RA, the head RA, and the area coor
dinator.
“While we were gone, the stuff
kept pouring out of the toilet, from
the top and from underneath. By the
time we got back there our wall-to-
wall shag carpet was covered with
the mess,” Wilkins said.
Chris Osborn, a sophomore and
Wilkins’ roommate, said that the
stuff continued to spray around the
room while the girls summoned
help.
Wilkins said that they called the
“campus Roto-Rooter squad,” or the
workmen from the Maintenance
Department to help stop the de
struction of the room.
“Before Maintenance could send a
squad over here, they had to send a
campus policeman to check out our
complaint. He walked up to the win
dow, stuck his foot through it and
immediately pulled it out — covered
with muck,” she said.
“He told us that we definitely had
an emergency,” she added.
Wilkins said that soon men began
showing up with large contraptions
that “looked like vacuum cleaners.”
She said that they started moving
furniture and belongings out of the
two rooms, while trying to suck up
the excess water and sewage with
the vacuums.
Wilkins and her friends were
quite busy also, siphoning the water
out of her waterbed. She said that
they poured the water out of the
bed and into the shower, which it
self had not been operating at the
peak of efficiency.
The girls said that the day before
the toilet overflowed, one of them,
Bertha Garza, a freshman, had been
taking a shower when she felt cold
water at her feet.
I looked down and saw that dark
(See COEDS, Page 10.)
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Rrt//?/ is first racial violence in a white area
tee fight demonstrators during Cape Town race riots
By LARRY HEINZERLING
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
liotpolice fired tear gas and charged more
Ilian 3,000 Colored (mixed race) demon-
Irators in downtown Cape Town today in
he first major racial violence in a white
ea of the city.
Hundreds of Colored students were re-
Kirted arriving at Cape Town’s railway sta-
iontojoin the protestors, who were rally-
ng to show solidarity with South Africa’s
(lacks.
Police used the tear gas after demon-
rators smashed a police truck with stones
nd scaffolding poles from a building site,
lereaming and choking bystanders ran for
over in nearby shops and office buildings.
Traffic in the area came to a halt as the
emonstrators marched through the center
Ends 28-year career
of town, rocking cars and molesting whites.
Elderly women were knocked down in a
baton charge by police, and pedestrians in
Adderley Street, one of Cape Town’s main
arteries fled for refuge.
The demonstrators then broke up into
several groups. One group marched past
the Houses of Parliament and a larger
group gathered in Greenmarket Square.
There were no reports of serious in
juries.
In Johannesburg, the South African
Council of Churches called on South Af
ricans “concerned with the need for Chris
tian justice” to note the widespread deten
tions of black leaders in South Africa in
recent weeks.
Over 800 blacks have been detained,
many under laws providing indefinite de
tention without trial, as the government
moved to crush widespread rioting in
segregated black and colored townships
across the country since June 16.
“It is alarming that protest by South Afri
cans concerned with the need for Christian
justice has been almost nil,” the statement
said.
“As Christians we must protest in the
strongest possible terms this flagrant viola
tion of human rights. And we call for the
release of those detained — or for them to
be charged,” it added.
In Durban, transport for thousands of
black and white commuters was disrupted
in a strike over higher wages by 500 black
bus drivers. They are demanding a raise of
$105 a months following a decision to give
white drivers a higher rate of pay than
blacks, colored and Indians.
Prime Minister John Vorster has re
jected Secretary of State Henry A. Kissing
er’s criticism of South Africa’s racial
policies, saying “moral lessons and threats”
from outsiders will not influence his gov
ernment.
In a statement three days before he and
Kissinger meet to discuss racial tensions in
southern Africa’s white-ruled nations, Vor
ster yesterday said that South Africa de
termines its own internal and foreign
policies and will not be dictated to by other
nations or individuals.
He said he was not commenting directly
on recent “speeches or events” but wanted
to clarify his nation’s attitude.
Kissinger, in his strongest condemnation
of South Africa’s apartheid racial policy,
told a predominantly black audience in
Philadelphia Tuesday that apartheid is “in
compatible with human dignity.” He said
he would press Vorster at their meeting for
“peaceful change, equality of opportunity
and basic human rights in South Africa.”
The two men meet this weekend in
Zurich, Switzerland, in a second round ol
talks aimed at reaching peaceful political
settlements of the racial conflicts in
Rhodesia and South-West Africa, a terri
tory controlled by South Africa in defiance
of the United Nations.
Despite Kissinger’s strong words and the
persistence of racial violence in South Afri
ca’s black townships, U.S. officials in Wash
ington yesterday said the secretary of state,
at his meeting with Vorster, would concen
trate on South-West Africa.
They said he would try to persuade Vors
ter to withdraw South African troops from
the territory and to include the black na
tionalist South-West Africa People’s Or
ganization in political talks leading to inde
pendence.
The sources in Washington said Kis
singer and Vorster are not expected to
make much headway on the issue of black
majority rule in Rhodesia.
Some U.S. officials believe that Vorster,
whose country is Rhodesia’s main eco
nomic partner, has not applied as much
pressure on the white Rhodesian govern
ment as Kissinger hoped he would.
Rhodesian government figures showed
that August was the bloodiest month to
date in the escalating war between the
white government and black nationalist
guerrillas operating from neighboring
Mozambique. More than 430 insurgents,
15 police and soldiers and 40 civilians were
reported killed.
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ays quits House; Ethics panel ends probe
By JIM ADAMS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — His political power
lestroyed by scandal, Wayne L. Hays
hose resignation from Congress as the
only way left to halt the House ethics com
mittee’s investigation into payroll-sex
charges.
The Ohio Democrat quit late Wednes
day after a two-day effort by his aides to
negotiate an end to the ethics committee
investigation. The ethics panel quickly
terminated the probe when Hays resigned.
Hays resignation ended 28 years in
Congress during which he built his chair
manship of the House Administration
Committee into a pinnacle of legislative
power.
The power he wielded, sometimes with
seeming arrogance, began to crumble
three months ago when the payroll-sex
charge by Elizabeth Ray touched off a
Capitol Hill scandal that involved sex alle
gations against half a dozen congressmen.
Sources close to the ethics committee
said one reason Hays wanted to halt the
panel’s inquiry was his concern that the
publicity and lurid details would put too
much emotional pressure on his wife, Pat.
House Speaker Carl Albert told news
men after he received Hays’ resignation
letter: “I think he did it to save his family.”
Hays’ press secretary, Carol Clawson,
said earlier this week that Mrs. Hays had
suffered emotional stress.
The resignation came two days after the
ethics committee voted to begin hearings
into the allegations that Hays put Miss Ray
on the payroll of the Administration Com
mittee, although she had little to do other
than provide him with sex.
The ethics panel had said it would con
tinue with its plans for hearings, despite a
plea that Hays was too mentally depressed
to defend himself.
Although the resignation halted the
ethics panel hearings, it does not affect fed
eral grand jury and Justice Department in
vestigations of the charge. But there have
been reports that these probes are stalled
Mondale accuses Libya of terrorism
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Sen. Walter F.
Mondale said yesterday that Libya should
face charges in the United Nations Security
Council of supporting international ter
rorism, rather than being allowed to as
sume the council’s presidency on Friday.
Citing allegations of Libyan involvement
in an attack at the Istanbul airport last
month in which four persons were killed,
and a more recent incident in which an
airliner was taken over in Egypt, the Dem
ocratic vice presidential candidate told a
Los Angeles audience: “It’s a travesty that
Libya, two days from now, will be presi
dent of the U.N. Security Council.”
“Rather than chairing it, Libya should be
brought before the Security Council and
confronted with these charges,” he told a
business leaders’ breakfast sponsored by
the American Jewish Committee. “If the
reports are true, Libya should be con
demned and sanctioned.”
Later, the senator from Minnesota flew
to Las Vegas and addressed the United
Steelworkers of America.
because of a lack of corroboration of Miss
Ray’s story.
Hays’ resignation was read to the House
about an hour after being delivered to Al
bert, but it produced no visible reaction
from the congressmen present.
The ethics committee voted to end its
three-month-old probe of the scandal on
grounds that Hays was no longer a con
gressman and no longer under the panel’s
jurisdiction.
Committee chairman John Flynt,
D-Ga., said the panel did not make a deal
with Hays to drop the probe in return for
his resignation. He declined to answer
when asked if the inquiry had uncovered
additional sex allegations.
Index
The Great Debate has been
scheduled. Page 3.
Battalion classifieds, comics and
crossword puzzle. Page 4.
A&M researchers are trying to get
protein from different oilseeds.
Page 5.
Some U.N. delegates
welcome seabed offer
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS, N Y. — Some
delegates at the Law of the Sea Con
ference welcomed the U.S. offer to help
finance international mining of the seabed.
But they doubted agreement could be
reached before the current session of the
conference ends Sept. 17.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
yesterday met in roundtable sessions with
about 300 delegations to explain the U.S.
proposal, hoping to break a conference
deadlock. He gave a reception Wednesday
night for the conference delegates and was
meeting today with the conference presi
dent, Hamilton S. Amerasinghe of Sri
Lanka, and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt
Waldheim to continue his efforts.
“He’s opened the door to dialogue,’ an
African delegate said. Others termed the
American proposals “interesting,” “con
structive,” and “worthy of detailed consid
eration.”
Under Kissinger’s plan, the United
States and other advanced countries would
guarantee bank loans and provide technical
help for an international authority that
would mine half the deep seabed for the
benefit of poor developing countries. In
return, private firms in the United States
and other industrialized countries would
be guaranteed equal access to the ocean-
floor minerals.
FBVs Kelly
may he
punished
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Ford and
Atty. Gen. Edward H. Levi are consider
ing whether to punish FBI Director Clar
ence M. Kelley for accepting gifts from
senior FBI officials.
Ford asked Levi yesterday for a full re
port on the situation, and Levi put his staff
to work preparing it.
Levi said he is reserving judgment on
whether Kelley was wrong to accept the
(See KELLY’S, Page 10.)
Rooms scarce: students spend night at office
Battalion
photos
by
Kevin Venner
More than 50 Texas A&M stu
dents waited outside of dormitory
coordinators’ doors last night in
iorder to be among the first in line for
their 8 a.m. opening.
The two groups of men and wo
men, distributed at the north and
south area coordinating offices, are
dissatisfied with their present dorm
or room situation and this morning
was the first time that the offices
would accept requests for change.
The students, some trying to sleep
and others playing games and talk
ing, had many different reasons for
wanting to change. Foremost on the
list was the heat and humidity. One
student said that he was tired of tak
ing a shower to cool off, drying and
then being soaked with sweat a few
moments later.
Many students are wanting to
switch dorms because they have
friends in other dorms and others
complained that roommates are giv
ing them problems. Cost was also a
factor for some, although a couple
said that they are moving into more
expensive rooms because of comfort
and convenience.
Two are ex-cadets and two are
women who said they are going to
request to move into an all male
dorm. “I’d like to be the first woman
in Moore Hall, to live, not just to
spend the night,” one woman said.
She added that she knew several
men she would like to room with.
Size of the rooms, populations of
ants and cock roaches, food, facilities
and sanitation were other reasons
given by the students wishing to
change.
A student, who waited by the of
fice door of the south coordinating
office, said that Larry D. Pollock,
asst, area coordinator for the south
side of campus, told him that he was
wasting his time. “I think it will be
worth it, I get first pick, ’ the student
said.
Things were going smoothly for
everyone about midnight, although
the students waiting at the north of
fice were outside near a girls’ dorm
and were asked by the dorm’s resi
dent advisor to keep the noise level
low.
Chances for dorm changes may he
slim since the number of students
wanting a dorm exceed the number
of rooms available.