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Inside Today:
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Museum of Natural Sciences, p. 6.
Michael Murphy returns to A&M
Friday, p. 7
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weekend tournaments, p. 9
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erous task of pounding out bottle caps for
fish spurs outside an apartment at Tanglewood.
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homemade spurs during the week of the SMU
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last night s panel discussion is any in-
10 n, students would not be willing to
an iudividual user’s fee to ride a
i' cam Pus shuttle bus system.
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? s [ ud y the feasibility of an internal
e system Monday night heard
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® six student organizations. It was
e that financing for a cross-campus
P e service must come from a student
Ces ee or from the university.
Representatives of the Agriculture
Council, Student Engineers’ Council,
Saddle and Sirloin Club, Graduate Stu
dent Council, Collegiate FFA and Off-
Campus Student Association attended the
hearing along with approximately 30 lis
teners. The representatives reported that
most students would not be willing to pay
an individual user’s fee.
The internal shuttle bus subcommittee
will compile a report on the project to
night, based on information heard at
Monday night’s hearing.
The proposed cross-campus shuttle bus
system would connect the main campus
with the west campus across Wellborn Rd.
and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
The system was proposed by University
Chancellor Dr. Jack K. Williams last
spring because of long walking distances
between different points on campus. It
takes 13 minutes for instance, to reach the
west campus from Sterling C. Evans Li
brary, without traffic considerations.
An ad hoc committee chaired by How
ard Perry, assistant vice president for stu
dent services, studied the proposed sys
tem. Perry said the committee reported
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ompulsory Social Security
( ^ n '* et t Press International
ASHINGTON — state and local gov-
all S ? re lobbying against a proposal
°t their employes be brought
COm Pulsory Social Security cover-
mpresentatives of the employes are
n 8just as hard for the proposal.
The issue is one of many that will arise
Wednesday when the House debates a bill
to finance Social Security into the next
century.
One provision in the bill would require
about six million workers who now are
outside Social Security to join it in 1982.
About 70 per cent of state and local gov-
iberals preparing fight
Washington —
United Press International
— Legislation .granting $40 billion in energy-related tax
ep arin er , the n ext eight years headed for the Senate floor today with liberals
bill a .r e to k' 11 most of its tax credits and incentives.
Uax j. , 1S ar from the energy tax bill originally proposed by President Carter to
Carte r CreaSes *° ma ke energy more expensive and thereby cut down on its use.
hi(,, j j SUrnrn oned House and Senate Democratic leaders to breakfast at the
llieSen"i^^frcuss the energy package.
iss e n L lte ’ as guided to the Senate floor by Finance Commit
’'Verxi,’ would rely on tax credc s and other incentives
|y n „ >n Fuels other than oil and gas or to become more energy efficient. It
Eng’s'? tax lncr eases at all.
fch } s rate gy is to take the Senate bill to conference with a House-passed bill
L, IT1<)re ’ n bne with Carter’s wishes, combining the two into a bill that
bexurrvdV 1:0 Garter.
jiate tax / ' d would contain some of the House tax increases with some of the
Ns < s. However, Long strategy has been challenged by a group of
s () p D() s . Udln g s un. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
W( -4e d° n ' S ex P ectecl t<> stretch debate through the week and possibly into
Committee Chairman
to encourage
ernment workers are covered by Social
Security now on a voluntary basis.
The proposal would achieve what is
being called “universal coverage” — 97
per cent of American jobs then would be
included in the program.
The House Ways and Means Commit
tee proposed the move as one of several
steps, along with higher Social Security
taxes, to bring more money into the Social
Security trust funds to keep it solvent in
the 1980s.
Proponents say universal coverage
would bring in $26 billion in 1982 and
mean that payroll taxes, paid by employers
and employes, would not have to be raised
quite so high.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the
National League of Cities say cities now
outside Social Security would have to
begin paying Social Security taxes as em
ployers but still would be stuck with the
costs of their existing pension systems for
their workers.
The American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employes, repre
senting 750,000 workers, says it favors
universal coverage partly because many
existing local government pension plans
are underfunded and won’t pay the bene
fits they claim they will 10 to 20 years from
now.
Embargo: Young
favors sanctions
United Press International
U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young says
he favors imposing some form of sanction
against the white government of South Af
rica to force it to yield to international
pressure for racial reform.
Young made the remark to reporters
Monday after leaving a Security Council
meeting where African delegates, angered
by a South African crackdown on dissent,
demanded a comprehensive arms and
economic embargo against Pretoria.
Asked if he favored some sort of sanc
tions against South Africa, Young replied:
“Yes, I guess I do.”
The outspoken diplomat made it clear
this was his personal view and the final
decision would be made by Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance and President Carter.
But Young’s statement could embarrass
the United States and other Western pow
ers who fear that slapping an embargo on
South Africa could jeopardize negotiations
underway to bring majority rule to
Rhodesia and independence to South
West Africa, also known as Namibia.
Young, trying to head off a confrontation
with the black African nations, said the
United States was in “a very good position
to come up with a draft resolution that we
can all agree on.”
In South Africa Monday, police
wounded one black youth and arrested 66
others in demonstrations across the na
tion.
Relations between Washington
and Pretoria, already strained by
the American ambassador’s return
to Washington for consultations,
dipped further Monday in a dispute
over South Africa’s development of nu
clear power.
The State Department said Prime
Minister John Vorster “formally assured”
Carter twice in the past month his country
would not develop nuclear explosives, but
Vorster said Sunday in a television inter
view he was “not aware” of any such prom
ise.
In the Security Council debate, Tuni
sian Ambassador Mahmoud Mestiri, who
spoke on behalf of African delegates, said
South Africa’s decision last week to shut
down two top black newspapers, disband
18 opposition groups and arrest dozens of
critics showed that the time for tougher
Security Council action had come.
“Events of the few past days have ex
posed the true intentions of South Africa,”
he said.
A spokesman for the Pan Africanist
Congress of Azania (South Africa) said
Britain, France and the United States,
who have previously vetoed attempts to
impose sanctions on South Africa, must
realize that “Vorster is no mere juvenile
deliquent to be treated with mild rebuke.
“He murders in cold blood and
blackmails openly,” Daivd Sibeko
said. “He is a dangerous gangster.
“The justice demanded by the people of
Azania from the international community,
a community which has declared apartheid
a crime against humanity, cannot be fur
ther delayed if the spill of blood in our
country and across its borders ... is to be
minimized. ”
Carter meets leaders
of Democratic party
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
summoned Senate and House Democratic-
leaders to the White House today for a
breakfast huddle on prospects for complet
ing his comprehensive energy package be
fore his global journey late in November.
Carter’s invitation came as the Senate
prepared to consider the whopping tax
credit provisions in the energy bill which
the Finance Committee approved and the
administration opposes.
The chief executive blended domestic-
issues with foreign affairs. Prince Sand,
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, was in
vited to the White House for consultations
on a way to revive the Geneva peace con
ference and provide representation for
Palestinians without sacrificing participa
tion by Israel.
Legislation boosting the penalties for
fraud in the multibillion-dollar Medicare
and Medicaid program also awaited Car
ter’s signature.
The busy day followed a relaxed Veter
ans Day for the President. Carter made
pay
three major points to Williams: funding
should come from unallocated bookstore
fees, student services fees or a combina
tion of the two; if the west campus is to be
serviced, then outlying parking areas must
be serviced; and the 1978 spring semester
would be a better time for a trial run of the
system than the 1977 fall semester.
Perry recommended that an in-depth
study into the feasibility of the system be
conducted and that Student Government
look into initiation of spring 1978 trial run
of the cross-campus shuttle.
Transportation Enterprises, Ine., which
handles the present shuttle bus system,
could run up to four buses per day on a
trial basis, at a cost of $7,500 per semester
for each bus. Perry said.
“Personally, I believe a shuttle of three
to four buses in limited areas would be
fairly well utilized, ’ Perry said. The
number of buses to be used would depend
on the routes, he added.
Col. E. C. Oates, chairman of the shut
tle bus committee, cited driver shortages
and breakdowns of buses as possible prob
lems with the ultimate system as well as
the trial period. He added that bus drivers
are paid minimum wage, and if minimum
wage increases the cost of the internal
shuttle system would increase also.
Problems discussed by the representa
tives included possible traffic congestion
caused by buses loading in narrow campus
streets, modification of buses to accom
modate handicapped students, over
crowding of buses and the length of the
trips.
Robert Timmerman, Collegiate FFA
president, said FFA members considered
10 minutes as satisfactory travel period be
tween two locations. Perry said the ad hoc
committee explored 12- to 15-minute
periods between loadings, with three and
a half trips per hour per bus.
The subcommittee on the cross-campus
shuttle bus system has not definitely ruled
on a trial run yet. The administration rec
ognizes the need for some sort of internal
transportation on campus, but is thinking
in terms of cost, Oates said.
“My personal feeling is that there will
be a need, starting next semester, for
some sort of transportation between these
centers (the main campus and west cam
pus),” she said. “The degree of it depends,
of course, on if you’re willing to pay.”
the traditional pilgrimage to Arlington
cemetery where he said the Vietnam era
sacrifices by his son and others were more
difficult because they were “scorned” on
their return home. Carter recalled he was
welcomed as “something of a hero” ol
Korea and World War II.
The nation owes Vietnam veterans “a
debt of gratitude” that has not been ex
pressed because the war was unpopular,
Carter said.
“I represent the kind of family that is
close to all your hearts," he said in an ad
dress at the flag-draped Arlington am
phitheater.
“About 140 years after my own family
came to this country, the first James Car
ter in our family who lived in Georgia
fought in the Revolutionary War. My
great-grandparents participated in the
War Between the States.
“My own father was . . . first lieutenant
in the First World War. I wore the uni
form of our country during the Second
World War and the Korean War.
Carter was completing a crash course at
the Naval Academy when World War 11
ended.
" Although I came back from the wars as
something of a hero — although I was not
a hero — my son came back unap
preciated, sometimes scorned by his peer
group who did not join in the conflict,"
Carter said.
He referred to Jack, who served in the
Navy and was given a general — less than
honorable — discharge for smoking
marijuana.
The President, his wife, and daughter
Amy, rode in a long processional motor
cade that wound through the cemeteiy
amid rows of white markers of the war
dead.
Carter placed a red, white and blue
wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier as taps played.
Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
Keeping his chin up
Freshman Jeb Wait recently entertained himself and friends by
balancing a ping pong ball in the air — with no hands! This feet of
lung power took place in the Commons.