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,c fer who looked good illie Foreman. W ints and four retd play was particn:! lefense being kiss] ■st ally is neitherdtj ; it’s time. The.U month and some] Juled before conk] etcalfcangetittoM inference ehampioj rt behind. ivith Top of the News CAMPUS )EAD WEEK begins Monday. [APPLICATIONS for Texas A&M University’s first medical school f Kss are now available in the Doh- df t Jx* tjrty Building 300. The classes are C.. %/' lY Iheduled to begin in the fall of 1977. M and take away tkelB Son them the last H iod. 1 TEXAS ished the game** ^hile Bettis had PBA CHILD, who was sitting on the aspect of the Aee of one of Santa’s many helpers the women’s in a Houston department store’s ;amearoundforthe«rking lot, listed the things he and Hmelv li nte ° f° r Christmas. Then two a 20 point lead f n walked up to the man in the red ;n in th<'second hi ! ut j an ~ wh | te beard and placed shed the contest I t; 1 '“ V? h,m Sh ®7 ff 1 s from flip field ■‘ntitied the man as Mark D. Plutt, 18 whom they arrested on a charge game for the won of aggravated robbery of another light against Ste| Shun is car. Authorities said Fluff did /ersity. The gamt not resist arrest, but the children Rollie White ColBio were waiting in line to see the occurring at 5:15 gsarded man were shocked. They didn’t say too much of any- ng, hut they couldn’t believe we re arresting Santa Claus. They re shocked,” said Sheriffs Dep- ^W.C. McDuffie. [HOUSTON ATTORNEY Wesley )cker, an unsuccessful write-in ididate against convicted State strict Court Judge Garth Bates, s Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe is re ared to name Hocker to fill Bates’ iw term. Hocker today said he Jould be appointed because he pd the necessary bond on an elec- n lawsuit against Bates. NATIONAL » L ■ABOUT 20 MAYORS, all but one B>m Iowa, are expected today for the first National Rural Com- lunities Mayors Conference in Shenandoah, Iowa. The national designation was meant as a parody of He recently televised national con- ference of big city mayors, according Hits organizer, David Childs, part- jme mayor of Shenandoah. The roblems facing small communities |b real, Childs said. The agenda ills for the delegates to discuss their loblems for two to three hours. Hack on cookies and coffee, and Hen drive home. [COMMON CAUSE, the public interest lobbying organization has Harged that the Joint Congressional Hpmmittee on Atomic Energy was a Huckster for the nuclear power in- •fuldnstry” an d should be abolished. In ®“* *|its report titled ‘Stacking the Deck, ?mmon Cause accused the com- ttee of ignoring safety issues and sts to protect federal investments its members’ states and districts. jpK)ininon Cause said that in the past years the committee has heard H^Hly 98 public-interest group wit- ||Bsse.s compared to 2,531 govern or OCAT TCfNJf men t witnesses and 1,109 industry npresentatives. The 18-member nel is the only joint committee th power to draft legislation. STHE NATIONAL League of [ties is expected to elect Phyllis imphere of Seattle, Wash., as the ___ Hague’s first woman president dur- .. '®j|pg its 52-year history. Mrs. Lam- ip —— Jjhere, who has promised more -giipunch and action” in pursuing an “^Iggressive urban policy, headed the Sesolutions Committee when it en dorsed the proposal to decriminalize drugs, including heroin. About [pi000 delegates are expected to at tend the final session of the 1976 Kongress of Cities in Denver, Colo. I -■ 1 . . ■; rtist Conception option Constructs SUSAN DONNER has become he first woman to win a varsity orts letter from the Coast Guard cademy. Miss Donner is one of 31 omen who broke the century-old ill-male tradition at the academy. Spokesmen at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies say their first classes of women aren’t far behind e men on the athletic field or in the TH CLUB MC SECURll WORLD Jk MEXICO’S President-elect Jose ■i ■ ■■ ■ ■ 0 , ^ (> P ez Portillo, who takes office to- faces Mexico’s worst economic rthgateCondominium [slump in decades and a land reform ).BoxT12 confrontation between farmers and gielandStation Hndless peasants. President Luis liege Station, Texas77^iSeheverria, who is seeking election ephone713/846-4711 as secretary-general of the United Rations, has promised to avoid na- ation on Northgate [° na l politics once out of office. WEATHER j,€l()udy to partly cloudy and cold to night. High today in 60s, low tonight i low 30s. High tomorrow in mid- !)s. No precipitation likely through iimorrow. The Battalion Vol. 70 No. 51 14 Pages Wednesday, December 1, 1976 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Texas Mexican Demos ask to talk with Carter Page Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Texas Mexican- American Democrats have asked President-elect Jimmy Carter for a meet ing within the next two weeks to discuss what he plans to do about a promise that he would bring Mexican-Americans into the decision-making process under his admin istration. Former State Sen. Joe Bernal of San An tonio, chairman of the Mexican-American Democrats (MAD) said yesterday that the group drafted a letter to Carter this week asking for the meeting and reminding him of the overwhelming support he received from Mexican-American Democrats in the recent election. Bernal said the group met in Corpus Christi to analyze the election and deter mine what kind of impact Mexican- Americans can have in the new administra tion. “What we want is proportionate repre sentation at all levels of government. We want to become involved in the decision making process,” Bernal said. Bernal recalled that during a campaign speech in Houston Carter promised to bring minorities into his administration. “We are not looking for handouts, but involvement,” he said, noting that Mexican-Americans want Carter to do what Gov. Jerry Brown did in California. “Brown started an austerity program,” he said, “but he involved everyone. Par ticipation is the meaningful thing for us.” Bernal said that both federal and state governments have failed to get the Mexican-Americans involved. “I am waiting for the day in Texas when we will have a Mexican-American on the board of regents of the University ofTexas, of Texas A&M, of the Board of Pardons and Parole.” Bernal said MAD analyzed the vote in the recent election and found that, on the average, about 87 per cent of Mexican- Americans in Texas voted for Carter. “In some precincts in Corpus Christi,” he said, “the percentage was 95 per cent. He said the percentage never has been so high for a single candidate. “We had conservative, moderate and liberal Mexican-Americans united in this campaign,” he said. “We did not have the division of 1972 when many felt that McGovern was to liberal. “We have had eight years of inflation and unemployment under the Republicans. And inflation and unemployment hit our people hardest, especially in South Texas.” Berti mariiaj ? the 2( ay- f NBC is Jeav he loca ihow t< docu <esmar Six hundred Aggies pay tribute Silver Taps solemn occasion, held last night for three Susan Weber looks on while Brad Wakeman and another student assem ble Texas A&M University’s international Christmas tree which will be lighted tonight at 7 during a ceremony in the MSC student lounge. The tree consists of an aluminum frame with noble fir cuttings from the state of Washington. Battalion photo by Mike Barnett Songs, decorations to highlight ceremony An international Christmas tree will he lighted today during a Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate ceremony at Texas A&M University. The 18-foot tree decorated with ornaments made or furnished by many of the international student organizations at Texas A&M will stand in the. MSC student lounge. Lighting ceremonies featuring the Century' Singers and brief remarks by Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services will start at 7 p.m. Students, faculty-staff and area residents are invited to participate, according to Carolyn Johnsen of the MSC Council. The public is also in vited to a reception in MSC 206 after the 30-minute lighting ceremony. The Century Singers will present Christmas music under the direction of Robert L. Boone. Johnsen said the tree is built of northern fir boughs attached to a synthetic trunk. Decorations, made in homeland fashion or supplied from their homes by international students, will represent 69 countries that have students at Texas A&M. By RUSTY CAWLEY Battalion Staff They gathered last night in the front walk of the Academic Building, forming a circle before the bronze statue of Sul Ross. About 600 Aggies, corps and civilian, stood silent in the chilling air to pay respect to fellow students who had died the week before. Silver Taps were held for Mark Kevin Dean, Robert Steven Cornforth, and Mary Ramsey Kennemer. All surrounding lights had been switched off. The three-quarter moon bathed the yard in an eerie milk-white. From a distance came the staccato clap of military shoes striking the sidewalk. Slowly and with grandeur, the Ross Volunteers stepped from the darkness between Bolton and Legett halls, and passed into the pale light. Step by step they paced, shouldering their rifles on their white uniforms, the black brims of their white caps drawn down close to their eyes. They seemed faceless. Moving as one, their footsteps together resounded a single crack. The crowd parted along the sidewalk, allowing the platoon to enter the circle. The men came to a halt. A left-face com mand brought the Volunteers around con fronting the monument of Lawrence Sulli van Ross, for whom the unit is named. Twenty-one soldiers bearing rifles stood at attention. “Ready,” ordered the commander. Mechanically, the cadets brought their rifles to their chests. “Aim.” They pointed toward the sky. “Fire. The first volley sent hordes of grackles flying from the trees. Three times the cadets fired their rifles into the November night. From the Academic Building, a choir of bugles played the military dirge, “Taps.” In long, three-note phrases, each chord passed wearily over the head of the crowd. Three times the buglers played the dirge. The final chord dispersed the Aggies in the same manner the first volley had scattered the birds. The Volunteers stood alone at parade rest. They closed ranks, turned and moved with quiet smoothness into the shadows. Diplomat cooperates in probe of Korean influence-buying Associated Press WASHINGTON — FBI agents are guarding a South Korean diplomat who has defied orders to return home and has begun cooperating with the Justice De partment s probe of alleged South Korean influence-buying among U.S. con gressmen, according to reports. Sources identified him last night as Kim Sang Keun, who is officially listed as a counselor at the South Korean Embassy, but who reportedly was the top Korean Elderly shouldn’t be forced to retire, committee says Associated Press AUSTIN — It’s unjust to put a person out to pasture at age 65 if he or she wants to continue working and is able to, the House Social Services Committee says. The committee said, in its final report to the 1977 legislature, that the state should take the lead in giving the elderly the right to work. “Age should not be used as the basis for discriminating against an entire group of workers,” the committee said. \ Chairman Lane Denton, D-Waco, said “a bill of some sort” will be introduced to carry out the recommendation. Denton did not seek re-election but instead ran unsuc cessfully for railroad commissioner. “Aside from the disastrous effect on in come, often the sudden disappearance of the work role around which so much of life is built is a shock from which people do not recover,” the committee report said. In all, the committee made 21 recom mendations designed to make life easier for old people. The report said all services for the el- Chinese may announce new Politburo members Associated Press TOKYO — The ruling body of China’s parliament is meeting to ratify the govern ment shakeup that has followed Mao Tse- tung’s death and the purge of Mao’s widow and other radicals. The session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, which opened yesterday, was expected to pub licize the new government lineup that the Communist party Politburo has worked out. The only announced change has been the elevation of Premier Hua Kuo-feng to succeed Mao as party chairman, a change in the party leadership, not the govern ment. Speculation centered on which govern ment figures would become the latest victims of the purge that began two months ago with the arrest of Mao’s widow, Chiang Ching, and the other three radical mem bers of the party Politburo on charges of plotting to prevent Hua from succeeding Mao. Hua may have decided to relinquish the post of premier as well as the post of minis ter of public security. Press reports from Peking have said that Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien is expected to become pre- Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua also may be removed. Reported ill in recent weeks, he may be in disfavor because his wife was once closely associated with Chiang Ching. Hsinhua, the official Chinese news agency, did not list him among those attending the session yester day. The leading candidate to succeed Chiao appears to be Huang Hua, who has been China’s chief delegate to the United Na tions. He returned to Peking Monday, and sources in his office said he would be as signed to another post. e were wrong Because of an Associated Press re porting error, a story about the Palestine Liberation Organization’s attitude toward Israel erroneously reported in yesterday’s edition of The Battalion that Herman Edelsberg was the director of the B’nai B rith International Council. Edelsberg is former director of the B’nai B’rith International Council and is now part-time consultant to the organization, a B’nai B’rith ^spokesman said. derly should be brought together in a single state agency in order to end “frag mentation, duplication, overlap and gaps.” It said the Governor’s Committee on Aging and the Texas Department of Public Welfare both have responsibilities for old people but “it was hard. . .to determine where the Governor’s Committee on Ag ing’s jurisdiction stopped and DPW’s started. Another recommendation would raise from $3,000 to $10,000 the amount de ducted from the valuation of an old person’s home for tax purposes in most parts of Texas. Denton said high property taxes cause some old persons to sell their houses and move into nursing homes, often with Medicaid or Medicare paying the bills. Raising the homestead exemption would allow “the elderly the opportunity to con tinue to live in their own homes, thereby maintaining their independence and dig nity and forestalling a move into an institu tional setting,” the committee said. It also proposed increased funds and a broader role for the Texas Commission for the Deaf, including its recognition as the state referral agency for parents of deaf children. Parents of children with poor hearing “are frequently confused and not certain as to where to turn to obtain assistance for their children and themselves,” the report said. The committee recommended creation by statute of a state agency dealing with early childhood development, a function now handled by a division of the Texas Department of Community Affairs. Among the duties of the early childhood development office would be creation of a statewide “parenting education” program. “Many of today s families are exceed ingly young. The number of teenagers marrying is increasing at a rate four times that of all Texans. And the number of babies born to mothers 19 and under is increasing at an even higher rate,” the re port said. Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) officer here. FBI agents were guarding Kim, his wife and family at an undisclosed location near here. Agents were also stationed at Kim’s apartment in suburban McLean, Va. Kim, 43, who had been named in recent news reports about the Korean influence- purchasing probe as a KCIA officer, repor tedly feared the Seoul government would make him a scapegoat in the U.S. investiga tion of its lobbying activities. The South Korean government has or dered home several officials to prevent them from cooperating with U.S. inves tigators, reports show. The alleged influence-purchasing scheme reportedly was directed from the highest echelons of the Seoul government with the knowledge of the South Korean president. Although Kim and other South Korean officials at the embassy and other consular offices in the United States have diplomatic immunity, they could cooperate voluntar ily with the prosecutors. The South Korean Embassy issued this statement last night: “Counselor Kim has never asked for political asylum and he made this clear not only to us hut also to the U.S. authorities.” But a source said that Kim, while not technically a defector since he is from a nation friendly to the United States, has been allowed to change his visa status in return for his cooperation with the Justice Department probe. Kim was said to be well-informed about the activities of Tongsun Park, a South Ko rean businessman with wide interests here, and Pak Bo Hi, president of the Washington-based Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation and a top aide to Ko rean evangelist Sun Myung Moon. Pak is also a former military attache at the em bassy here. Tongsun Park, who owns a posh club and an export-import business in Washington, reportedly is in England, where he told reporters recently that he was cooperating with the Justice Department probe. Park reportedly has admitted giving cash and gifts to some congressmen, but he has denied he was a Korean government agent or that he did anything illegal. An attorney for his Washington firm, Pacific Develop ment Corp., recently told the Justice De partment he has advised Park not to coop erate with the probe because of repeated leaks to the press. The Washington Star reported yesterday that Park was not planning to return to the United States and that he has put two of his lavish Washington properties up for sale. In Seoul today, the Foreign Ministry re fused to comment on Kim’s action. The South Korean government has denied that there was any influence-peddling scheme. * I 4 Wish to come true soon Gilmore's death date to be reset today Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Gary Mark Gil more, his death wish granted by the state pardons board, could face a firing squad soon after his 36th birthday Saturday, bar ring appeals by death penalty opponents who ignored his demand to “butt out.” Gilmore was to appear before 4th Dis trict Judge J. Robert B ullock in Provo today to have a new date set for the execution by five anonymous volunteers. “Thank you, sir,” the handcuffed and shackled prisoner whispered on Tuesday after Board Chairman George Latimer an nounced a 2-1 decision affirming a jury’s order that Gilmore be put to death for kil ling a motel clerk during a robbery. “I have simply accepted the sentence that was given to me,” he had told the board during a locally-televised public hearing at the Utah State Prison. “I’ve ac cepted sentences all my life.” Earlier, Gilmore, appearing healthy and alert despite an 11-day fast, had ridiculed witnesses who spoke against the death penalty, and snapped at reporters who crowded into the tiny hearing room. State officials said the execution — which would be the first in the United States since June 2, 1967 — must come by Monday to avoid conflict with a state law. That law requires that death sentences be carried out 60 days after initial sentencing, which in Gilmore’s case was Oct. 7. He chose the firing squad over hanging, and was to have been executed Nov. 15. But retiring Gov. Calvin L. Rampton is sued an unwanted stay until the pardons board reviewed the case. Gilmore labeled Rampton a “moral coward” for that delay. After the hearing — which Gilmore con temptuously described as “much ado about nothing” — several individuals and groups said they planned appeals that could delay the execution. Tom Jones, an attorney whom Gilmore fired last week, filed notice of appeal to the Utah Supreme Court, which turned down a previous appeal by two other court- appointed attorneys. Lawyers for the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and lawyers for other Death Row inmates indicated they too would go to court in efforts to stay the execution.