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Vol. 71 No. 14
12 Pages
Tuesday, September 20, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
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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
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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
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[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.
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lugging probe closed
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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.