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offet : ilm Top of the News Campus ■ oil miller, an assistant math pi lessor here will present a lecture “Creation and Cosmogony” to- Ighi in Rudder Tower 401 at 7:30. | THE STUDENT SENATE has cenings for senators in the follow- fig positions: Graduate, College of ■griculture; Graduate, off-campus; ■ollege of Veterinary Medicine; < (Kain-Hotard-Walton-Meinnis- ■chuhmacher; Graduate, College of Engineering. Interviews for the po- ■tions will be held Jan. 17-18. For ■formation contact Student Gov- Kmment, MSG 216. Itwo HUNDRED YEARS of Lmericana, depicted in cartoons and laricatures, will be on display today li the MSC Gallery, Room 104. I The exhibition, entitled “The page of America in Caricature and UOi^Kartoon,’' is sponsored by the MSC krts Committee. An open reception jail be given tomorrow in the Gal lery at 2 p.m. J ENGLISH 489A, the language of Blm, will be offered in the spring Ebmester as English 251. The only prerequisite is freshman English. Texas A PESTICIDE manufactured in a Houston chemical plant may be the iause of nerve diseases that have af- 'ecte'! several workers at the facility, ifederal official says. The pesticide, lepthophes, was (nanufactured at the plant from 1971 until the company ceased produc tion of the material in January 1976. | George Pettigrew, regional con- 100 Ct, sultant for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Dallas, said some of the affected workers had symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis. Pettigrew said his main concern is to find past employes who might be experienc ing some neurological symptoms. ! 2 Exp. . Roll 7! 7Oil atective .Ctni . . ..Btl. I, “Ml . . . .Btl. I, alets : 46 Oz. . . Con ise tlOii »eeteited. .(in 31 Instant. JOHN CONN ALLY plugged for a six-year term for U.S. presidents yesterday and said events out of the ^control of the chief executive would cause Jimmy Charter to have a strug gle if he seeks re-election in 1980. The former Texas governor told a news confetcnee at Trinity Univer sity he thinks those events include problems with the economy, inter national relations and bureaucracy. THE RAILROAD COMMIS SION reported yesterday that 22 wildcat oil v eils and 13 wildcat gas wells were chilled in Texas during the last half of November, maintain ing the lead on last year’s pace. The commission reported that 6,769 oil wells have been completed this year, 544 more than at this time last year. A total of 3,824 gas wells have been completed, 726 more than a year ago. National PRESIDENT FORD. as one of his last acts, may ask Congress to outlaw sex discrimination. This would give women the legal protec tion that Congress gave blacks and other racial minorities in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ECONOMIC PROJECTIONS that could raise President-elect Jimmy Carter’s hopes of balancing the federal budget during his term are being considered by a congres sional panel. The Congressional Budget Office, in a report issued yesterday, said this year’s estimated $50.6-billion deficit could turn into a surplus of as much as $78 billion by the fiscal year be ginning Oct. 1, 1980. But the budget office report care fully stressed that its projections should not be considered predic tions. WHITE HOUSE officials say President Ford probably won’t try to force the steel industry to roll back its new price increases, but the in coming Democratic administration has expressed its willingness to pres sure the industry into compliance. Vice president-elect Walter Mondale criticized the steel indus try’s 6 per cent boost in prices on a major product as a “very ominous pattern for the economy.” The new prices, which took effect yesterday, cover flatrolled steel, the kind used in the manufacture of autos and appliances. World YITZHAK RABIN, Israel’s prime minister, said in Paris yesterday that his country is ready to work with its Arab neighbors on “any aspect of economic cooperation” even without a formal Arab-Israeli peace settle ment. He said that he felt the benefits derived from common economic projects would accelerate the movement towards peace. He also said that he expects a major Arab- Israeli peace initiative next year. weather r Partly cloudy and a little warmer to day. Fair tonight and tomorrow. High today in the low 60s. Low to night near 40. High Friday in the mid-60s. No precipitation forecast. The Battalion Vol. 70 No. 52 8 Pages Thursday, December 2, 1976 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Senate suggests formation of Aggieland advisory board A five-student advisory committee will counsel Texas A&M’s Aggieland yearbook editor on future editions of that yearbook if University President Jack Williams follows a recommendation the student senate made last night. The senate voted last night after 2 1 /’ hours of discussion to ask Williams to estab lish the board on a strictly advisory basis. The senate had difficulty deciding what to do with the Aggieland bill. Sen. Mary Ellen Martin proposed the advisory board form of the recommendation early in the meeting as an amendment, but the senators defeated it the first time. How ever, after another hour of discussion and several aborted attempts at a final decision. Corps Commander Robert Harvey rec ommended another vote on the advisory board version, and it then passed, 37-12. The three-hour meeting was totally dominated by the Aggieland discussion, with only one other bill coming up for a vote. Under the senate’s recommendation, an advisory board to allow student input on the yearbook would have representatives from student government, the Residence Hall Association, the Corps of Cadets and the Memorial Student Center (MSC) Council. The bill originally had called for an edito rial board to replace Aggieland editor Gary Baidasari and take over all his duties. How ever, through their discussions most senators showed they considered the editorial board either an infringement of free speech or not entirely legal. A letter from Bob G. Rogers, chairman of the Student Publications Board, which Harvey read to the senate probably helped gain support for the advisory board. The Publications Board is the student-faculty committee that hires and fires Aggieland and Battalion editors and handles business affairs for the two publications. Harvey quoted Rogers in the letter as saying he welcomed a student group to help advise the yearbook editor, but op posed an editorial board that would replace the editor. Controversy over the Aggieland first ap peared with the 1976 Aggielands in late October. Some students complained about pages in the yearbook they call “derogat ory’ and “in bad taste. As corps member and senator Michael Springer reiterated last night, some felt “the Corps was flat-out insulted.” Recommendations in the meet ing ranged from outright removal of Bai dasari at any cost to asking for a Publica tions Board investigation into his compe tence, to a possible public reprimand of the editor. The senate recommendation ultimately stems from Baldasari’s being editor for the 1977 yearbook as well as the 1976 edition. A number of senators expressed fears that he would produce another yearbook next year that they’d consider controversial. When the senators approved the final yearbook recommendation at 10:50 p.m., they began filtering out of the senate chambers one by one. The one other rec ommendation the senators voted on re quested that University administrators and deans be made eligible as they now are not for the Distinguished Achievement Awards given each spring by the Former Students Association. After rushing through the Achievement Awards recommendation and a small amount of new business, the senators seemed ready to break and run when Se nate Speaker Lynn Gibson strode out from behind his podium and began a five-minute “speaker gripe session,” as he called it. Gibson chastised the senators for meet ings such as last night’s “where you destroy a bill, rebuild it, then destroy and rebuild it again.” His voice resounding across the suddenly quiet senate chambers, he called to them for more self-pride and profes sionalism. “If you’re interested in helping the students, you’ve got to prove it in here before you can out there,” he shouted at them. And they listened, then applauded. Then they adjourned and broke and ran. —Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Ford’s half-brother, Leslie King, dies in car, tractor-trailer wreck Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Leslie Henry King, President Ford’s 53-year-old half brother, was killed today when his car col lided head-on with a tractor-trailer on In terstate 40 near this Central Tennessee town, police said. A White House spokesman said shortly after state police announced King’s death that President Ford had not yet been in formed of the accident. State police Sgt. Ron Hill said King’s car was westbound in the easthound lane of the Interstate when it hit the tractor-trailer. King, a resident of Cookeville, Tenn., where he owned an auto parts store, was alone in the car and apparently was killed outright, Hill said. The driver of the tractor-trailer, Billy Hudson, was not injured, Hill said. Hill said it took more than an hour to cut King’s body from the tangled wreckage. Witnesses told police that King had been driving in the wrong direction for several miles. Hill said. Operators of Citizens Band radios who saw King driving the wrong way said they tried unsuccessfully to warn him off the highway. His body was taken to McFarland Hospi tal in Lebanon. Hill said an investigation would be made. King was one of three children born to Ford s father, Leslie L. King, by a second marriage. President Ford, born in Omaha, Neb., in 1913, was the only child of the first mar riage and originally was named Leslie L. King Jr. His parents divorced in 1915, and the following year his mother married Gerald R. Ford of Grand Rapids, Mich., who adopted the baby and renamed him. Mrs. Ford subsequently bore three other sons. Ford did not learn until he was a teen ager that he was the adopted son of his mother’s second husband. King, who also was a hunting guide, said he recalled first meeting his half-brother when Ford was an assistant football coach at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., where Ford attended law school. During the years that followed, they ex changed letters and met whenever Ford’s political trips took him into Tennessee. After Ford became president in 1974, King, who was a member of the state Re publican executive committee, invited him to visit the state. He said then he felt closer personally to Ford than to either of his two full sisters “because of our political think ing.” King was an active supporter of Ford’s recent election campaign in Tennessee. While campaigning in the state, he ihdi- cated he was thinking of seeking office him self, saying he might “run for something instead of somebody.” Execution of Livingston delayed by Justice Powell Associated Press WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Jus tice Lewis F. Powell Jr. has postponed the scheduled Dec. 10 execution of convicted Texas murderer James Livingston. Powell acted yesterday to give the full court time to consider Livingston’s formal appeal that he be spared the electric chair. He was one of two men sentenced to death for the 1974 murders of three persons dur ing a robbery of a rural North Texas grocery store. The other convicted murderer, Robert Excell White, has pleaded with the high court to let him die. White’s lawyers, how ever, have asked the court to delay his execution. White’s case is being consid ered by all nine justices. Livingston, his brother, Gary Dale Livingston and White were arrested in Mississippi a few days after the three per sons were shot to death at McKinney, Tex. The victims were a 73-year-old store operator and two teen-aged customers. Gary Dale Livingston was sentenced to life in prison after he plead guilty to a mur der charge. The Texas death penalty and death pen alty laws in Florida and Georgia were up held last July 2 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Powell is considering the cases because he handles matters for the U.S. Fifth Circuit, which includes Texas. Opponents plan to halt execution Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Death penalty opponents say they’ll make a “concerted effort” to stop the Monday sunrise execu tion of Gary Gilmore, who wants to be the first Utah convict to stand up to face a five-man firing squad. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually will get the case on appeal and when it does “they’re going to look at it and say, ‘My God! This is a circus,’ predicted Jinks Dabney, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. Dabney said he would meet today with other attorneys to coordinate plans for stopping the execution, which District Court Judge J. Robert Bullock ordered to take place two days after the convicted murderer’s 36th birthday. Robert Van Sciver, an attorney for other Death Row convicts, said, “It’s really going to be a concerted effort on the part of a lot of interest groups. We just want to be certain there isn’t any overlap’ in plans to stop the execution. Asked how Gilmore, who has consis tently fought for a speedy execution, would react to a delaying appeal, his attorney. C7.S. aid to 3rd-World nations harmful, ex-ambassador says By JOHN W. TYNES Battalion Staff American aid to underdeveloped nations has been largely harmful to their emerging social character, Tran Van Dinh said last night at Texas A&M. Dinh, former South Vietnamese ambas sador to the United States, discussed emerging Third World nations in a speech sponsored by the Political Forum Commit tee of the Memorial Student Center (MSC). “No countiy is made of the same social values, Dinh said. As an example, he said that the export of American television to Southeast Asia has encouraged attitudes that are in direct contradiction to parts of Buddhism, one of the major religions there. He said that corrupt governments often use money from the United States to fur ther their own power instead of improving the welfare of the people. He suggested that American aid should consist of specific programs that can only be used for the people’s benefit. Dinh also said the introduction of an ex tremely modern technology, such as American automobiles, into a more primi tive culture can shape social values. “Behind every technology there is an ideology. Behind every ideology there is a technology,” he said. The large American newspapers and news agenices are often the dominant source of information in emerging coun tries, Dinh said. “Some days we have to read the New York Times in order to understand what has happened in our own country, he said. “I accept that, but I do not accept the fact that the U.S. has the right to say that what is written should be always true. ” He added that Soviet news services do not exert as important an influence. “I don’t think the Soviet propaganda is very effective except for those already be lieving,” he said. Battalion photo by Sheryl Wooldridge Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight Matthew 3:3 A warm yuletide glow last night greeted Aggies who attended the first annual lighting of Texas A&M’s international Christmas tree in the MSC student lounge. Earlier this week students decorated the tree with orna ments representing many different nations. While other celebrants sur rounded the tree and sang Christmas carols, Thomas A. Holtzer, a post-doctoral fellow in entomology, and his family seemed to consider the more solemn aspects of the holiday. Ronald Stanger, said, “I don’t think he would be happy.” Convicted murderer Robert Excell White, 30, is scheduled to die in the elec tric chair four days later on Dec. 10. How ever, White’s attorney appealed to a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who referred the request to the full court. There was no indication when the court would act. The National Weather Service said sun rise in Salt Lake City on Monday will be at 7:37 MST. Gilmore had said he wanted a six-pack of beer as his last meal, but he has been on a hunger strike since Nov. 19 because offi cials refuse to let him talk with his girl friend, Nicole Barrett, 20. She was con fined to a mental hospital on her mother’s orders after she and Gilmore took sleeping pills in an abortive suicide pact on Nov. 16. Bullock, who presided over Gilmore’s trial on charges of killing a motel clerk, originally sentenced him to die on Nov. 15. But the sentence was stayed by Gov. Cal vin Rampton pending a review by the state Pardons Board. At yesterday’s re-sentencing hearing — one day after the board upheld the death sentence — Bullock rejected a petition by a former Gilmore lawyer, Tom Jones, that would have stayed the execution pending appeal. Utah tradition gives condemned crimi nals a choice of hanging or the firing squad. The 39 men who have been put to death by firing squad all were seated and strapped in a wooden armchair with a black leather hood covering their heads. But Gilmore told Bullock, “I don’t want a hood on my head. I’d like to stand and not wear a hood.” “I doubt I have jurisdiction over that, but I will tell the warden about your re quest,” the judge replied.