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01 , fast,7 ..ghs^*; 1 to run I; rm wl' e H The Battalion Vol. 71 No. 14 12 Pages Tuesday, September 20, 1977 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 air raisin# troubH "He lalks don’t end ideast snags United Press International IHINGTON — Clear differences nain on how to approach a Middle ace conference despite “candid” instructive” talks between Israeli Minister Moshe Dayan and U.S. n spent 5'/2 hours in talks Monday eAmerican side, including an hour vith President C'arter in the Oval itcment issued by the White House, * agreement of the Israelis, said, k was conducted in the open and spirit of relations between our two s, which permits differences to be d candidly. ng those differences were the ques- representation of the Palestinians at conference and the new Israeli icnts on est Bank, in, in his first trip to the United as foreign minister, scheduled a L (inference today and a meeting with of the Senate Foreign Relations Ken He*" 1 i,The^ ! OH 3DS iches inks jes committee and the House International Relations committee. The statement said “there was an ex change of views,” a diplomatic phrase that is frequently used to describe a discussion that failed to reach agreement. White House spokesman Jody Powell said the talks on the two questions had been "constructive.” The two sides remain in basic accord, according to the statement, on the impor tance of resuming a Geneva conference. Left unsettled after the first day of talks in this new round of negotiations, was how to organize that conference, and, particularly, how the Palestinians should be repre sented. The United States, in a major policy statement with which the Israelis dis agreed, said the Palestinians must be rep resented as “a party to the conflict.” The Israelis want the Palestinians only as mem bers of a Jordanian delegation. On the West Bank settlements, the United States has said they are both illegal and an obstacle to peace. arter energy plan owing up in senate Stock selling time favored for Lance United Press International HINGTON — President Carter’s reform utility rates has been de in committee and his proposed oil tax faces increasing opposition enators in both parties. Senate today was holding a second debate on Carter’s natural gas pric- m, before considering amendments ing Wednesday. —V^fate Energy Committee Chairman Jackson, D-Wash., headed senators lg Carter’s plan for continued federal controls. The chief rival was a imt of controls sponsored by Sens. Pearson, R-Kan., and Lloyd :n, D-Tex. Energy Committee approved a plan ay for federal officials to participate in rate cases before state commissions. |vas a pale shadow of Carter’s original ill, which would have made sweeping ;es in the way utilities charge eustom- ir electricity and natural gas. committee had decided last week it () little information to work on the [efonn, so it substituted the participa- ilan. [e committee also approved a resolu- Monday urging the tax-writing Fi- Committee to kill Carter’s proposed i domestic crude oil. The vote was a strong signal that the oil tax is in le unless changed considerably, me senators have said they would vote only if it had provisions rebating some [e tax to oil companies that explore for supplies. the price of everything made from oil with out doing much for conservation. In opening Senate debate on natural gas price controls Monday, Jackson said, "rampant inflation would be triggered by deregulation.” Battalion photo by Jim Crawley Where's the snowman With afternoon temperatures in the 80s and 90s, no Aggie is going to helieve this wintry' scene on Lamar Street. The photographer conjured up the snow covered trees through the use of infrared film. The special film portrays leaves and grass as a light gray or white. United Press International WASHINGTON — Budget Director Bert Lance probably will get his recjuested extension of time to sell his Georgia bank stock — providing he is still around to take advantage of it. The Senate Government Affairs Com mittee has concluded nine days of hearings on Lance, and key members favor voting to ease his financial problems temporarily. "The man is in trouble,” said committee Chairman Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn. “I have always been in favor of giving him more time to sell his stock.” Sen. Charles Percy, R-lll., also said he would vote for a limited extension of the Dec. 31 deadline to sell 200,()()() shares of National Bank of Georgia stock, provided an audited financial statement were provided. Ribicoff and Percy said they believed the majority on the committee agreed with their views. C'arter and Lance met Monday, follow ing a weekend in which the White House received telephone calls and telegrams ex pressing heavy public support for Lance after his three days of testimony on Capitol Hill. And White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said the President still believes Lance has done nothing illegal. Lance told CBS Monday in a telephone interview at his office: "I haven’t really thought about resigning. I’m here work ing.” Early Monday he was reported to have participated vigorously in a Cabinet meeting. No further witnesses were scheduled in the 1 Lance controversy and Ribicoff said Lance’s future now is up to the President and Lance. He said the committee does not now plan a report on its findings because, “I don’t know what to write a report on.” Research team draws notice for ‘lignite-to-coal’ project ds I® unural <ed in ; llOW- iay be )ffice. g the •ed at Id the Senate Finance Committee, in a law vote that changed as absent mem- 1 were polled, tentatively decided in ] of tax credits for home insulation. Tax [its for solar, geothermal and wind Igy devices received unanimous ap- |al. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, ^sponsored the anti-oil tax resolution in [Energy Committee, said the tax will ! the economy and the poor by raising By KIM TYSON Battalion Staff International attention has focused on a team ofTexas A&M researchers working on a project to fight the energy crisis, said the project dierctor, Monday. News of the project has been covered by Associated Press wire service, the three television networks, the Houston Post, Playboy and Time Magazines, said Kurt Irgolie, principle investigator of the Ger-' man Document Retrieval Project. Irgolie said he had a telephone interview with Radio Coin, a West German radio sta tion, and appeared on the “Good Morning America” television show. Since 1975, a group of A&M staff mem bers and students have microfilmed 350,000 confiscated German war records — page by page — to find out how they turned lignite, a soft coal, into synthetic- gasoline during World War II. “We’re like Perry Mason’ in the 1 history department,” said Irgolie. "It is more of a detective story trying to hunt down these documents.” The lignite in the United States alone could provide more energy than the Mid dle East oil, said Dr. Richard Wainerdi, former director of the- Center for Energy and Mineral Research (CEMR), in an interview last spring. The project is funded by a CEMR grant. At the end of the war, the United States captured and stored more than 175 tons of German documents as spoils of war. The bulk of these records has never been studied, Wainerdi said. But the project has also discovered more than coal conversion processes. At the weekly progress report meeting Monday, abstractor David Gill said he had found evidence there may have been an atom bomb blast by Germany as early as 1974, a year before the U.S. Hiroshima blast. Irgolie pointed out that the main objec tive of the project is to uncover technologi cal energy facts, but occasionally the group stumbles upon historical discoveries. He said their excitment at these sometimes tends to distract them from their goals. The goal of the project is to set up a center on the lignite-gasoline process, Ir- golie said. He said the microfilm reels will be housed in a section of the Sterling C. Evans Library. The team originally consisted of Irgolie; Dr. Arnold Krammer, history professor; and Dr. Richard Galvert, oral historian. Graduate student Terry Tooley also as sisted in research. This summer, the project expanded to include five more people. Dr. Andrew Stranges now assists Calvert and four abstractors translate and condense mate rial . The annual budget is $250,000. Half is paid by a grant from CEMR and half by three oil-related companies: Dow Chemi- and cal Co., Diamond Shamrock Corp. Union Carbide Corp. Irgolie said he expects the majority of collection and microfilming to be done by the end of this semester. Ultimately, he said he expects there to be more than one million documents microfilmed. They hope to visit depositories in Lon don next spring, Irgolie said. Krammer said he is also planning to go to Florida to pursue a lead on documents in a garage. Irgolie said he knows of no other country engaged in similar research. “Nobody else has the resources with re spect to documents like this,” Irgolie said. “The bottom line of the project is this, Irgolie said. “Sooner or later the United States will have to make artificial gas. The U.S. has never done this; Germany has. It would be unwise not to look back at such a successful operation. ” The committee has reached no consen sus on whether the budget director should resign. It has no power to do anything but advise Carter of its opinions. The formal issue still before the commit tee is whether to give Lance an extension of a Dec. 31 deadline to sell his stock that constitutes about half his personal fortune of $2.5 million. Perch and other Republicans on the committee had charged Lance was unfit to be budget director because of financial ir regularities in his past. They cited critical reports from the comptroller of currency and the Internal Revenue Service on Lance’s pattern of writing overdrafts and personal use of an airplane owned by the bank he headed. The committee ended its hearings Monday with testimony from staff mem bers who described what Lance told them in January when they were checking his background in preparation for his confirma tion hearings. Though the staff members drew no con clusions, their testimony indicated that Lance’s January statement did not always square with information that has been re vealed since. Colleges need minority quotas, says government United Press International WASHINGTON — The administration said Monday "minority-sensitive” college admissions programs are necessary, but did not say in a long-awaited Supreme- Court brief whether it supports the use- of rigid racial quotas to eompe-nsate for past dis crimination. The-Justice Department said the mueh- publicized Bakke* v. California case* pres- e-nts only the que-stion of whether the- ad missions program at the University of California Medical School should take- race- into account. In its frie-nd-of-the--court brief, the governme-nt said race- should be- a factor. The brief asked the court to return to the- California Supre-me* Court the- case- of Allan Bakke-, a 37-year-old white- applicant who cemte-nded he was denied admission by the- medical school se> it could admit less ejual- i fie-cl blacks, Hispanics and Asian- Americans under a special quota system. The California court agreed with Bakke*. During the buildup surrounding thc- ease, black leaders have expre-sse-el fear that the- gove-rnment would reje-ct the- use- of ejuotas, undermining affirmative* action programs and costing minorities te-ns of thousands of jobs. But the government only made- passing mention of ejuotas in the brief re-lease-el to day, and Justice Department source-s saiel the- position reflected little, if any change- in government policy toward programs aiine-d at ending discrimination in education and e-mployme-nt. Black le*ade*rs who had se-em the- brie f in advance said privately it appeared to be- "less bad” than earlier drafts, but pre-ferre-el te> wait te> see- the precise le-gal language- be*fore commenting. alk continues after canal lugging probe closed [j iy, tm ; in m United Press International I’ASHINGTON — The Senate Intelli- |ee Committee feels it has disposed of ;ations of hugging and blackmail during Panama treaty negotiatiems. [No furthe-r meetings on the subject are Jeduled,” a spokesman said, adding that egular meeting of the- panel fixed for |ay has been cancelled, iut it was believed an ambiguous state- bit issued by the committee Monday fol ding a weekend of investigations would satisfy many in Congress, particularly ise* who oppose the treaties relinquish- the-waterway and adjoining U.S. Zone the year 2000. 'anel Chairman Daniel Inouye, ■Hawaii, emerged from the nearly four furs of committee closed meeting with intelligence officials and treaty ’otiators and told reporters only that S. intelligence activities had not affected |( final result. He refused to say what those activities ibraced or when they occurred, or to iswer any questions on electronic surveil- leeor reports that a U.S. Army sergeant iped off Panamanian leader Omar Tor ies about bugging and Torrijos used the formation as blackmail for more favorable h-aty terms. Inouye said he was forbidden by law to pselose anything about “signals intelli- inec” — a term embracing interception of Jim inunications. He said he had only been authorized by iecommittee to read a statement that the final outcome of the treaty talks had not been affected by any U.S. intelligence ac tivities. “The Senate Select Committee on Intel ligence has received testimony from Am bassadors Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz; Adm. Stansfield Turner, director of central intelligence; officers of the State- Department and U.S. intelligence agen cies concerning certain aspects of the Panama Canal Treaties,” the statement said. Bunker and Linowitz were the chief U.S. negotiators. “The committee has concluded there is no evidence or reason to believe that ac tivities of U.S. intelligence have in any way affected the final results of the Panama Canal Treaties,” Inouye said. According to press reports, the National Security Agency eavesdropped on Torrijos in 1974, learning intimate details including his sexual activities. Scripps-Howard News Service said an American sergeant gave the NSA dossier to Torrijos who “blew up and took it to American negotiators. Other reports said Torrijos used the in formation to blackmail the United States into treaty terms more favorable to Panama. "We have studied literally thousands of documents,” Inouye said, "and we have concluded that our intelligence activities have not in any way affected the negotia tions.” ‘Educating’ is goal of Miss Deaf Texas By KEVIN PATTERSON Kathy Jo Jones, a 27-year old woman from Bryan, returned to her hometown Monday after several wet-ks of travel in her official role of M iss Deaf Texas. Addressing the Students Con cerned for the Handicapped, an A&M group composed of students and area citizens, Kathy related some of her own struggles to over come the stereotypes associated with deafness. Some people, she said, label or have their children labeled as men tally retarded when they may actu ally be deaf. Kathy said she recog nized limitations of her handicap at an early age and became determined to achieve a ehallanging role in her life. She learned sign language at the age of two from her parents, both of whom are deaf. During her speech she spoke aloud and with signs for her parents who were present. Kathy’s sister is also deaf and provided a very needed playmate who understood the silent world. Unable to find the necessary skills or programs in Bryan-College Station during high school, she dropped out of school. Later, she was tutored by an aunt and with this help was able to graduate from Bry an’s Stephen F. Austin High in 1969. Further education with emphasis on the needs of the deaf was not availa ble in this area and she was forced to travel out of state to Ricks Jr. College in Idaho for college. After a brief stay at Ricks, she moved on to the much Kathy Jo Jones, Mtss Deaf Texas Battalion photo by Susan Webb larger campuses of Brigham Young University in Utah and finally to Gal- liaudit, a liberal arts college for deaf students located in Washington, D.C. Recieving a B.A. in Social Work, Kathy has been using this degree and her own personal experiences to educate people on the deaf and their role in society. "Increased media and communi cations network attention to the handicapped is vitally needed,” she said. “There is a definite need for a captioning of news and television specials for the deaf.” The availability of program scripts and television sequels would help the deaf follow and enjoy a major entertainment medium, she said. These scripts could be printed and distributed by the station or a public broadcast system. She noted the increase of elec tronic equipment such as theT.T.Y., a device that allows deaf people to use the telephone and a modified typewriter to transmit messages over telephone lines. But she said these items are costly. “There just doesn’t seem to be a great deal of effort or progress in this area,” she said. Kathy will end her role as Miss Deaf Texas in the 1978 Pageant in Houston, and she said she hopes her involvement with the Pageant won’t end there. She said she hopes to be chairperson of the Miss Deaf America Pageant, but being Miss Deaf Texas has had a great influence on her life. “I feel that to me, being Miss Deaf Texas is more important, than if I had been Miss Texas, because I can in crease people’s knowledge of hand icap people’s position in a positive wav.