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Vol. 71 No. 24
8 Pages
Tuesday, October 4, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Today:
Is the Battalion going to pot? see
Letters to the Editor
Another bid for Teague’s office,
page 5
Sooners meet Longhorns: ’miff said,
page 7
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Inaugural Highchairs
This geometric design was created by a stack of chairs waiting to
be unloaded yesterday afternoon. The chairs ended up under a tent
on the drill field where a barbeque was served today to the delegates
at the Miller inauguration.
Russia must do likewise
United Press International
ALGIERS, Algeria —- Algeria was ex
pected to grant political asylum to 11
Japanese terrorists who held up to 151
hostages during a six-day, 6,000-mile
hijacking, and to return the $6 million ran
som paid by the Japanese government.
The Japanese Red Army members
ended the marathon hijacking without
bloodshed Monday, surrendering the last
of their 19 hostages — and themselves —
to Algerian authorities.
In the departure lounge at Dar el Beida
airport, the freed hostages drank toasts to
each other with orange juice, the strongest
drink provided by the prohibitionist Alge
rian government.
Three gleaming black limousines then
whisked the 11 hijackers to an unknown
destination. Police broke the ribs of one
TV cameraman who tried to film the de
parture from the airport and confiscated
the cameras of several Japanese photo
graphers.
Most observers said Algeria probably
will grant political asylum to the ex
tremists and return their ransom to Japan,
as it has in previous hijackings, but there
was no official assurance that this would be
the case.
In Tokyo, Prime Minister Takeo
Fukuda said today the question of asking
Algeria to give back the 11 fugitives and
the money was “still undecided,” but
other official sources said no exchange
would take place.
Japanese police said the point of the
hijacking was to pump more money and
manpower into the Red Army, a tiny
group believed to total not more than
about 40 extremists.
The hijacking began Wednesday when
five Red Army extremists seized the
Paris-to-Tokyo DCS as it was leaving
Bombay with 151 other persons aboard
and forced it to land in Dacca, Bangladesh.
In tense negotiations, 115 hostages were
exchanged for the ransom and six Red
Army comrades rounded up from various
Japanese prisons and flown to Dacca. Late
Sunday, a replacement DCS flew the 11
extremists and 36 hostages from Dacca to
Kuwait.
In Kuwait, seven more hostages were
released in exchange for food and fuel and
the jet flew on to Damascus where 10
more hostages were let go on similar
terms. By the time the red-and-white air
liner touched down at Algiers, only 19 hos
tages remained — 12 passengers and
seven crew members.
Freed passengers said they were de
prived of water and toilet facilities from
time to time and that some of them were
pistol-whipped for not obeying orders fast
enough.
They also said their captors lectured
them on the Red Army creed, which calls
for the violent destruction of Israel and the
replacement of capitalism with “pure”
socialism.
Overflow crowd welcomes
Miller at inaugural reception
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
Students, businessmen, housewives,
teachers. They all came to listen to music,
sample the sugarcoated grapes and wel
come the new president.
The music was excellent. The punch
was rumored to be spiked. Everyone got
to pump President Jarvis Miller’s hand
and wish him good luck.
But while the lines inched forward,
people turned to conversation, food and
dancing.
The elaborate floral and fruit sculptures
were inspected. One woman examined an
arrangement of watermelons, chrysan
themums and limes, poking the- sliced
melon to see if it was real.
With tiny silver forks, people piled
sugar-coated grapes, strawberries, melon
balls, mints, miniscule sandwiches, ginger
cookies and various cheeses onto glass
plates. But it took a special kind of courage
to eat or drink in the crowd. The Memorial
Student Center Ballroom overflowed.
About 2,400 persons in evening dress
dodged each other’s punch and coffee-
cups.
In one of the room, the Aggie Stage
Band played such favorites as “Stranger in
the ' Night.” People fox-trotted and “two-
stepped as they waited to congratulate
Miller.
Many of Miller’s relatives were at the
' reception. Miller’s daughter Margaret, a
junior at Bryan High School, said it was
like a family reunion and she had met rela
tives “I didn’t even know I had.
At a concert earlier in the evening, the
Singing Cadets paid tribute to Miller’s
wife and four daughters with a spirited re
ndition of There is Nothin’ Like a Dame.”
Susan Miller, a senior a Southern
Methodist University, said she liked the
Singing Cadets. “We were really embar
rassed. But we liked it.”
School board agrees
to more merger talks
By KAREN ROGERS
Further discussion on merging
tax offices with College Station City
Hall was approved by the Consoli
dated School Board last night.
Fred Hopson, superintendent of
the school system, will begin talks
with the city council “to determine
further areas of discussion on con
solidation of the tax offices.”
Committees from the school and
the city held a special meeting last
week to discuss the possibility of a
merger. They decided to go back to
their respective government bodies
for further input.
The problems and costs of the
merger still have not been worked
out.
John Reagor, a board member,
said, “I had the feeling the city
manager would just as soon this
merger not take place. It would
place an increased burden on him.
Bill Fitch, Bruce Robeck and
Hopson said they agreed with this
impression.
Joseph Natowitz, president of the
board of trustees, said they had not
received any communication from
the city concerning the merger.
“It’s the- usual situation. They
seem to be doing things, but they
never communicate these things to
us,” he said.
"They got direct contact from the
committee,’ he said. The school
board did not send any other com
munication, he added.
Fitch said he- would contact
Councilman Lane Stephenson, to
determine the city’s position on the
merger.
“As soon as there is something
substantial or positive. I’ll report
back to the board,” Hopson said.
U.S. to cut nuclear arsenal
Dr. Smith new dean
of College of Medicine
United Press International
ere o> JNITED NATIONS — Declaring that a
ir re arms limitation agreement is
’ff to Ofthm sight," President Carter Tuesday
ere( l to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal by
Per cent if the Russians do likewise. He
° pledged America will never use- the
j^Pons except in self defense,
arter said rny country believes that
I; me has come to end all explosions of
Cear devices, no matter what their
claimed justification — peaceful or mili
tary.
Carter, who flew here from Washington
for a two-day stay, had a calendar crowded
with . speaking engagements, talks with
heads of delegations from around the
world, and crucial consultations with the
Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers
later Tuesday.
In an address prepared for the U.N.
General Assembly, the President said “In
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks we and
the Soviets are within sight of a significant
agreement on limiting the total number of
weapons and in restricting certain
categories of weapons of special concern to
each of us.
He said “We can also start the crucial
process of curbing the relentless march of
technolgical development, which makes
nuclear weapons even more difficult to
control.
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1) in vy., v. ansas tdity. Mo., and on
bli c S lng t°n,D.C to allow fur-
comments.
The bill — No. 1 item on labor’s legisla
tive agenda this year — would crack down
on employers who persistently violate
labor law. Many also view it as an organiz
ing tool to reverse the recent decline in
Union membership.
Both labor and management have
mounted ambitious lobbying campaigns
reminiscent of earlier congressional battles
over labor law bills: Taft-Hartley in the
1940s and Landrum-Griffin in the 1950s.
“This has been our most comprehensive
lobbying effort ever, and we’ve faced the
toughest opposition,” said the AFL-CIO s
Al Zack. “Obviously it is going to be close
and tough.”
The AFL-CIO has spent $800,000 lob
bying for the bill, and nearly 400 corpora
tions have banded together to fight it
under a loosely knit coalition known as the
“National Action Committee.”
Labor enters the fight with a dismal rec
ord this year Business intends to use the
same strategy on this legislation that suc
cessfully defeated or weakened several
other key labor bills earlier.
About 250 amendments were offered,
half of them by the leading opponents —
Republican Reps. John Erlenborn; Ill.,
and John Ashbrook, Ohio. “They are t^-
ing to make this into a circus, a labor offi
cial said.
Erlenborn and Ashbrook vowed to fight
a House rule prohibiting them from offer
ing amendments chosen from their own
anti-union bill, known as the “Employe
Rights Act.”
House GOP leader John Rhodes pre
dicted that unless many of these amend
ments are adopted labor can muster no
more than 170 votes for the bill. A House
majority is 218 votes if all 435 members
are present.
The House GOP Policy Committee
voted unanimously Monday to oppose the
bill.
“It is purely and simply a political
payoff, the policy committee said. “Pres
ident Carter is attempting to reward or
ganized labor for its support in the 1976
presidential campaign.”
If the two superpowers succeed in limit
ing weapons, he said, they “will also create
a foundation for better relations in other
spheres.
To reduce the reliance of nations on nu
clear arms. Carter said “I hereby solemnly
declare on behalf of the United States that
we will not use nuclear weapons except in
self-defense; that is, in circumstances of an
actual nuclear or conventional attack on
the United States, our territories or armed
forces or such an attack on our allies.”
On the subject of conventional arms.
Carter said worldwide military expendi
tures are now in the neighborhood of $300
billion a year.
In Africa, Carter said it is “essential that
all outside nations exercise restraint in
their actions in Zimbabwe and Namibia so
that we can bring about majority rule and
avoid a widening war that could engulf the
southern half of the African conflict.”
Dr. Elvin Smith will serve as acting
dean of Texas A&M ’s College of Medicine
pending selection of a successor, an
nounced Dr. J. M. Prescott, the univer
sity’s vice president for academic affairs.
Smith replaces Dr. James Knight who
announced his resignation in June but
agreed to continue to head the new college
through its opening of classes or until a
successor was named.
At the time he suggested an effective
date of Oct. 1 in order for him to accept his
new position in psychiatry at the Louisiana
State University Medical Center in New
Orleans.
“While Dean Knight feels that he must
proceed to relocate in New Orleans, he
will continue to assist us as a consultant,”
Dr. Prescott noted.
He said Dr. Smith, who has served as
associate dean for the past year, was ap
pointed acting dean upon the recom
mendation of Dean Knight.
Dean Knight noted that Dr. Smith has
been involved in all facets of the develop
ment of the College of Medicine and had a
major role in working with the medical au
thorities who recommended its accredita
tion.
Dr. Smith joined the Texas A&M medi
cal faculty in 1975 as director of the pro
gram in physiology. He came here from
the University of Mississippi School of
Medicine, where he served as professor of
physiology and biophysics.
He earned his Ph.D. there in 1964 and
subsequently taught and conducted re
search at both the university and its medi
cal facility. He was graduated magna cum
laude in 1960 from William Carey College
in Hattiesburg, Miss., where he was
reared.
He is the author or co-author of more
than 60 technical papers, primarily dealing
with heart-related research.
‘He’s Got High Hopes. . /
Battalion photo
by Curtis
President Jarvis Miller was serenaded by four musical groups during
the inaugural concert that opened two days of A&M celebration.
But if the lyrics of last night’s song are any indication. Miller
has “Got the World on a String.” That one came from the Reveliers,
who sang a song by the same title. Their opening number was a
musical warning: “You’re Gonna Hear Prom Me.” And perhaps
another student message came from the Singing Cadets, who sang
of “High, apple-pie-in-the-sky hopes.”