The Battalion
Vol. 71 No. 18
8 Pages
Monday, September 26, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Hill predicts change
in governor’s office
By SCOTT PERKINS
Texas Attn. Gen. John Hill met with re
porters and a small group of supporters
Friday at Easterwood Airport on the last
leg of a 4,000 mile trip through Texas to
announce his intention to run for governor.
Hill said he believed that Texas voters
would make a change in the governor’s of
fice this election.
Hill, a 1947 graduate of the University of
Texas law school, was elected attorney
general in 1972, and re-elected in 1974. He
entered public life in 1966, when he was
appointed secretary of state by then-
governor John Connally. He ran for gover
nor in 1968 but was defeated.
At the meeting. Hill called Governor
Dolph Briscoe’s leadership “ineffective,”
and said, “The people of Texas don’t want
anyone to serve in the governor’s office as
long as 10 years. They’ve found that if any
one serves that long they dominate the
government. And that’s dynasty building,
and totally opposite of the Texas tradition. ”
Hill said that education and law
enforcement will be the areas of top con
cern in his administration, and as governor
he will stress “human needs.”
He criticized Briscoe for increasing tax
assessments in Texas.
“We need to get truth in taxation in ad
valorem taxes,” Hill said. “What so often
happens is the powers that be don’t raise
the tax rate, they simply raise the market
value (of the property) which results in
higher taxes.”
Hill said the special problems of tax as
sessment concerning farmers and ranchers
should also be examined. “They ought to
have a different way of assessing their
taxes. Otherwise they will be driven off the
farm,” he said.
Regarding the problem of gas and oil
deregulation. Hill said Texas should be al
lowed to utilize its own resources to satisfy
its own needs.
Hill lashed out at Briscoe for his lack of
visibility, saying “it wouldn’t take much”
for Briscoe to be a more visible governor.
Hill said he could meet the financial chal
lenge of the campaign.
“We know we re up against big money,”
he said. He’ll probably outspend us two to
one.” But Hill said he wouldn’t be in the
race if he didn’t think he could win it.
Hill also said that he didn’t believe
former governor Preston Smith’s entrance
into the race would be much of a factor, that
this would be a race between the attorney
general and the governor.
Canal debate
Carter begins campaign for treaty approval
Battalion photo by Rocky Lee
Is
|eff Morgan triumphs over Steve Gould at a Tuesday night meeting
of die Texas A&M Society for Creative Anachronisms.
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Medieval Aggies?
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Spurred by
memories of the Senate’s fateful 1921 re
jection of the League of Nations, the Car
ter administration Mon ay opened its drive
for Senate approval of the controversial
Panama Canal treaties.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was
presenting the administration’s arguments
to the Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
Demand for male dorms low
By PEGGY EMERSON
re appears to be no demand for un-
Rod 1 nditioned dorms for men at Texas
University.
ho sefi iproximately 200 of these rooms are
he field vacant in Leggett, Hotard, Walton,
ear, Law, and Hart dormitories,
crewpi ker and Utay, air conditioned dorr
recordea Iries, also have vacancies.
:ation. h
“I feel students are not aware of va
cancies because of how tight the housing
situation has been in the past,” said
Ronald E. Sasse, assistant director of stu
dent affairs-housing, in an interview last
week
Sasse attributes the vacancies to three
factors: increased cancellations by stu-
Vof shot in heart;
und dead in car
6y MARY ALICE WOODHAMS
Battalion Staff
Jruling pends in the shooting death of
ftsA&M University professor William
upMWmith, 52, who was found in his car
sorth-id,,y on the west feeder road of Highway
at tfit^ I
: tapfe Police said Sunday that Dr. Smith’s
an ge: By was found at 11:15 a.m. Friday, and
ton, fe I investigation of the death is still
lerway.
t sources at the scene of the shooting
that a magnum .22-caliber pistol was
d in the car next to the body, and that
ngine was running when investigators
ed. An autopsy reported that Dr.
:h had been shot once through the
plice said Friday that a member of the
ps of Cadets reported finding a gun-
victim near the area where Parsons
[inted Cavalry keeps its horses.
e funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. to
ut the Church of Jesus Christ of
:er-Day Saints, 2500 Barak Road. Bu-
will be at College Station City Ceme-
. Smith was Texas A&M’s first Psy-
logy Department Chairman and a
ler professor of management. He came
&M in 1967, after working four years
lersonnel develpoment manager for
ox Corp. Before that, he taught at
theastem University for three years,
hen Texas A&M formed a separate
chology Department in 1968, Smith
ame its first head. He held this position
until 1972, when he returned to full-time
teaching.
Smith had developed business execu
tive and managerial development courses
at Texas A&M, and had instituted similar
programs for Xerox in eight South Ameri
can and European countries. He had also
conducted research here on alcohol abuse,
particularly among rural residents.
Dr. Smith had served as a consultant to
the U.S. Department of Labor, and held
the rank of commander in the Naval Re
serve. He earned three degrees from the
University of Utah, and his Ph.D. was
awarded in 1960.
Smith, who resided at 1826 Shadow
Wood, is survived by his wife, Elizabeth,
and seven children.
dents who signed up last spring to return
to dorms this fall, students assigned dorm
spaces who turned them down and an un
usually large number of “no-shows.
“Any one of the three factors could have
put us over and we could have been sitting
with no spaces. One is as bad as the
other,” said Sasse. “You can use the best
figures you have to make predictions but it
does not always turn out right.”
Last spring, 83 percent of dormitory
students signed to return to their dorms
this fall and 20 percent of them cancelled
their reservations.
Because of cancellations, approximately
600 extra dorm assignments were made
and 46 percent of them were turned down.
Students turning down rooms had already
signed apartment leases or made other liv
ing arrangements.
No-shows were extremely high this fall
vith 224 persons (188 men and 36 women)
losing their dorm deposits because they
did not notify the housing office by July 15,
to cancel their dorm spaces.
Students have not been contacting the
housing office for living space this fall.
Most are settled in apartments and if they
want dorm space they are on a waiting list
for spring.
The housing office will try to get the
dorms filled in the spring because va
cancies hurt the university, said Sasse.
“We have a few stragglers coming in but
people aren’t beating our door down.”
tee, which begins three weeks of intensive
hearings on the accords.
The Panama Canal treaties, signed by
President Carter and Panamanian Presi
dent Omar Torrijos in early September,
would turn control of the canal over to
Panama by the year 2000, but allow the
United States to intervene to insure neu
trality of the historic waterway.
Popular sentiment appears to be run
ning heavily against the treaties. Most
mail arriving in congressional offices is
against the accords, and Senate Demo
cratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia
has said they would be defeated if voted on
Monday by the Senate.
The administration is believed to be at
least 15 votes short of the two-thirds
majority needed to secure Senate ratifica
tion.
If it cannot secure the missing votes, it
may opt for not bringing the treaty to a
vote at all in this Congress.
Administration officials are aware of the
historic parallels with 1921 when Wood-
row Wilson tried to convince the nation to
approve the Versailles Peace Treaty with
its provisions for a world organization —
the League of Nations — for settling
international disputes.
In March 1921 the Senate rejected the
League despite Wilson’s desperate jour
ney across America to sell the pact to the
people. In the course of that cross country
train journey, Wilson suffered a stroke
from which he never fully recovered.
The Carter administration faces a simi
lar task: to explain to the American people
why the treaty could insure the viability of
the canal and promote better relations
with Panama and the whole of Latin
America.
Sen. Clifford Cpse, R-N.J., said in a
weekend statement on the forthcoming
Senate hearings:
“One of the underlying matters to be
resolved is: what are our real interests in
the Canal? Is it primarily the form of sov
ereignty and whose flag flies over the
Canal and the Canal Zone?
“Or is it keeping the Canal in operation,
assuring to the maximum extent possible
the protection of extremely vulnerable
system of locks and dams and maintaining
our strategic interest in the canal?” he
asked.
Aggies win!
Above, some Lubbock residents
were quick to acknowledge the
Texas Aggies’ status after Satur
day night’s 33-17 victory over
Texas Tech. This marquee was
outside the Lubbock Hilton with
in an hour of the final gun.
Battalion photo by Jim Crawley
At left, the Aggie Johnnie Dona
hue (73) gives a hard knock to a
Texas Tech Red Raider Rodney
Allison.
Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley
Israeli patrols to end immediately
Cease-fire accepted in southern Lebanon
United Press International
Israel accepted a U.S.mediated cease
fire in the fighting in southern Lebanon
Monday and a Palestinian spokesman said
Israeli troops and tanks were pulling back
from the battle zone.
A spokesman for the radical Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine re
ported the Israeli pullback shortly after
the Israeli Defense Ministry announced
acceptance of the cease-fire, effective at 10
a.m. (4 a.m. EDT) and said its patrols in
southern Lebanon would end im
mediately.
The PFLP spokesman in Beirut said
calm was returning to southern Lebanon.
But he said there could be no ceasefire
with “the Zionist enemy” and said even if
Israel pulled back “no one should expect
us to reciprocate with similar action.”
Both Palestinian officials and spokesmen
for Christian rightist forces backed by Is
rael said Sunday night they had agreed
in principle to the cease-fire.
An official of the Palestine Liberation
Organization in Beirut said Monday said
there would never be a cease-fire with Is
rael, but that “there could be a cease-fire
between us and the isolationists (the
Work starts today
Supreme Court justices deciding on cases to be heard
United Press International
ASHINGTON — Justices of the Su-
uie Court are working on a stack of ap
is, several feet high, which have piled
over the summer or are left over from
term.
Jo preparation for the 1977-78 term
ining next Monday, the justices are be-
ning a week of private conferences fpr
ting through hundreds of petitions for
iew.
Jiey will meet for about seven hours
h day in an elegant, oak-paneled con-
Jnce room to vote on the cases.
Iieir privacy is so closely guarded no
else is allowed to enter the room and,
here are any messages, junior Justice
^John Paul Stevens will act as errand boy
and go to the door to accept or send them.
By tradition, the court only hears argu
ments and rules on petitions, which at
least four justices have voted to review.
While more than 1,000 requests for review
come in every term, written opinions are
issued only on about 150 cases.
Before the last term closed June 29, the
justices had accepted more than 80 cases
for argument in the coming term. They
include the already celebrated case of
Allan Bakke, a white who charged he was
discriminated against when a medical
school rejected him while admitting some
less-qualified minority applicants under its
affirmative action program.
Also up for review are questions about
the sick leave rights of pregnant women
workers, mandatory retirement at 65,
commercial sale of some of Richard Ni
xon’s White House tapes and whether a
Washington state law regulating oil tan
kers clashes with federal law.
Fresh cases which the justices vote on
reviewing this week involve subjects rang
ing from school desegregation to the free
press.
One appeal from Tacoma, Wash., in
volves a school teacher who was fired for
admitting he was a homosexual. A Tennes
see case asks whether the Endangered
Species Law requires a multimillion dollar
dam to be left incomplete in order to save
a three-inch fish threatened with extinc
tion.
A major media case involves protests
against a lower court ruling barring cross
ownership of newspapers and broadcasting
stations in the same markets. A racial
“quota” system ordered for police pro
motions to the rank of sergeant in Chicago
also has reached the Supreme Court.
Other appeals include whether cities
can use a permit system to restrict com
muter parking on residential streets; a
court-ordered plan to desegregate Wil
mington, Del., schools and Nixon’s appeal
that his tapes are protected by presidential
privilege from being subpoenaed for use in
civil damage suits.
Lebanese Christian rightists supported by
Israel).”
Reports from Metullah, Israel, said that
even after the cease-fire deadline, Soviet-
made rockets smashed into into the nearby
Israel towns of Kiryat Shmona and Safed in
what Israeli military sources said was an
attempt by extremist Palestinians to sub
vert a new cease-fire in south Lebanon.
The Israeli military command said eight
persons were wounded in the attacks —
the heaviest casualties reported since
rockets began hitting Israeli towns last
Wednesday.
The spokesman for the PFLP had no
immediate comment on reports of guer
rilla rocket attacks but said, “No one can
dispute our right to keep on fighting the
Zionist enemy.”
“In fact, Palestinian revolutionaries
shelled the (north Israeli coastal) town of
Nahariya late Sunday night,” he said.
The cease-fire was called to end 10 days
of heavy fighting between the Israeli-
backed Lebanese Christian rightists and
joint Palestinian-Lebanese leftist forces.
It was the first time Israeli military
sources admitted Israeli troops were in
volved in the battles despite continuing
reports from both sides of the border that
they were helping the Christians.
A PLO official had said Sunday the
cease-fire, mediated by the United States,
was to have gone into effect on Sunday,
but for unknown reasons the fighting con
tinued and gunners from both sides ex
changed fierce artillery barrages.
An Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman
said the terms of the cease-fire fulfilled Is
rael’s insistence that it guarantee the
safety of Christians in the southern war
zone and include provisions to keep the
Palestinians away from the border.
Soviet-made rockets fired by Palestinian
guerrillas from within Lebanon landed in
the Israeli border towns of Metullah early
Monday, but a military spokesman said
there were no injuries or damage.
The army radio said a number of rockets
also hit the border town of Safed, injuring
one person. But, in a break with Israeli
practice, its artillery did not shell the sus
pected source of the rockets.
Though a top PLO official said Sunday
that PLO gunners had stopped firing at 5
p.m. (11 a.m. EDT), reporters at the
scene said both sides continued shell and
mortar battles 4*4 hours later.
A salvo of Palestinian Soviet-made rock
ets slammed into an Israeli border town
late Sunday drew an Israeli warning that
“the guerrillas will be facing an Israeli
reaction” if the attacks continue.
UPI reporter Mathis Chazanov reported
from Metullah that Israeli U.S.-built ar
mored personnel carriers were crossing
into Lebanon. It was the first time Israeli
censors allowed such reports, but they
banned publication of other details.