M. 71 No. 53
12 Pages
Battalion
Monday, November 14, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Today:
Two-percenters take a quiz, p. 2.
Concert-goers don’t take to Flash
Cadillac, p.
Aggies take a tough loss to Ar
kansas, p. 10.
omalia cuts
Soviet ties
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United Press International
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia has bro-
i diplomatic ties with Cuba, expelled
tisands of Soviet advisers and closed
all Russian military facilities in re
lation for the two Communist nations
fence to Ethiopia.
|ln a move one step short of a full dip-
Tnatic rupture with Moscow, Somalia
[nday also renounced a 1974 treaty of
ndship and ordered the strengths of
! Somali embassies in H avana and
ow reduced.
special Radio Mogadishu announce-
pnt accused both Havana and Moscow of
zen” interference in the four-month-
Ogaden conflict between Ethiopian
lops and Somali forces.
|lhe announcement accused Russia of
ing Ethiopia, trying to “make the
irn of Africa subservient to Ethiopian
lonialism to further their strategic objec-
es’ and helping plan an invasion of
i.
The Somali move came after months of
teriorating relations sparked by
y oscow’s decision to strengthen ties with
e Ethiopian regime, re-equip its armed
ces and halt all fresh weapons supplies
Somalia.
It signaled the collapse of Moscow’s del-
ite balancing act between warring states
the Horn and dealt a severe blow to
Moscow’s prestige on the continent. It also
cleared the way for fresh Somali overtures
to the United States and Western Europe
for military aid.
Information Minister Abdul-qaadir
Salaad Hasan told the country the esti
mated 6,000 Soviet military and civilian
advisers “must leave the country within
seven days. All facilities enjoyed by the
Soviet Union on land or sea in Somalia
have been withdrawn immediately.
The Soviets had major facilities at the
southern port of Kismayu and th northern
port of Berbera where they had con
structed a sophisticated communications
station and missle-handling facility for
their Indian Ocean submarines. The 1974
treaty of friendship was one of three the
Soviets had with African states, the others
being with Angola and Mozambique.
Turning to Cuba, the minister said in
view of Havana s “brazen decision to
commit its troops on the side of the Ethio
pian government and its malicious prop
aganda against Somalia, the Somali gov
ernment has decided to break off diploma
tic relations with Cuba and ordered the
explosion of Cuban Embassy staff within
48 hours, along with its experts.”
There were only a few dozen Cubans in
Somalia through President Siad Barre
previously said there were up to 15,000
Cuban troops fighting with the Ethiopians
in the Ogaden conflict.
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nrollment growth
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ninluslpx urine division of Texas A&M, could in
tease its enrollment to 3,000 students
ithin two years if additional facilities
'ere available, the institution’s board of
isitors was told here Friday.
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late will supply the resources to build
icilities to accommodate the growth,
oted Dr. William H. Clayton, president
fthe seven-year-old institution headquar-
sred on Pelican Island in Galveston.
Clayton’s observation was in response to
n inquiry by George P. Mitchell, a
aember of the Moody College Board of
isitors, regarding future planning,
litchell donated the 100 acres on which
lie campus is located, and the site is
lamed in honor of his late parents, Mr.
ind Mrs. Mike Mitchell.
“Were actually trying to hold enroll-
nent down because of limited facilities,
layton pointed out.
Moody College’s enrollment reached a
record 626 students this fall.
Dr. Jack K. Williams, chancellor of The
Texas A&M University System, agreed
that Moody College has been “hampered
by an inability to obtain funding for build
ings.”
He credited State Sen. A. R. Schwartz
of Galveston with being the prime mover
in the Legislature in helping Moody Col
lege generate its major facilities funding to
date, including a special multi-million-
dollar appropriation at the session earlier
this year.
The nine-member advisory group con
tinued its meetings here Saturday.
Mrs. Schwartz, vice chairman of the
board, is serving as presiding officer in the
absence of Melvin Maltz of Houston,
chairman.
Other topics for the two-day session in
clude organizational changes, academic
review, and division and administrative
reports.
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Jim Pack, at 32, the oldest member of the Corps
of Cadets, advises 3-year-old J. J. McDavitt on
Corps policies. J. J., in his complete senior
uniform, practices his role as a future cadet. . .
in the class of ’97.
Battalion photo by Paige Beasley
By PAIGE BEASLEY
How does it feel to be a 32-year-old
cadet, when the youngest Corps member
is only three?
At age 32, senior Jim Pack, known as the
chaperone of Company V-l, is the oldest
member of the Texas A&M Corps of
Cadets.
Three-year-old “J.J.” McDavitt, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Riley McDavitt, is an hon
orary member of V-l and Pack’s youngest
fellow cadet.
During final review in May, J.J. an
nounced that next year, he was “gonna
march with Daddy.
As requested, J.J. received a specially
tailored uniform from the Military Prop
erty Custodian. J.J. wears the same brass
and rank as his father, who is senior cadet
captain and executive officer of V-l.
To everyone’s surprise, J.J. joined the
ranks of Company V-l and marched from
the corps “quad to Kyle Field before the;
first football game. He has since appeared
in all pre-game march-ins.
Pack admits that at times he feels like
“Old Mother Hubbard, especially be
cause he is personnel officer of his com
pany, but he is glad to be getting the edu
cation he wants.
After a false start at A&M in 1966-67,
Pack joined the Navy and later moved to
Corpus Christi, where he worked for an
electric company.
Pack felt he was “stalemated at the
company, and didn’t have much to look
forward to without an education.
“When you wake up in the morning and
try to think of one good reason to go to’
work, you’re in the wrong business, Pack
says.
Pack returned to A&M in the fall of 76.
He says he joined the Corps because par
ticipation in campus activities would look
better on his resume.
Besides, Pack says, “I always wanted a
pair of boots and that’s the best way I knew
how to get ’em.
“The Corps is abnormal to a person who
has been in the real military,” Pack says,
“I think the underclassmen are harassed a
little too much, but that is the Corps, and
it always has been and always will be, so I
just go along with it.
He has not regretted joining the Corps,
though he says Corps activities take their
toll on marriage, homelife, job, school,
and grades.
After graduation in May, Pack plans to
work for the National Park Service.
J. J., if he follows in his father’s
footsteps, will return to A&M as a member
of the class of 1997.
Jranium smuggling investigated
FBI search gets union protest
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The FBI last year
launched a secret but fruitless investiga
tion of employees at a Pennsylvania nu
clear plant, who were suspected of
smuggling out highly enriched uranium in
their crotches, newly declassified docu
ments say.
No smuggled uranium was found, ac
cording to the documents, but stricter se
curity measures brought union and other
protests of “pat down’’ searches of workers
at other U.S. nuclear power plants.
One worker objected because he was
“ticklish. ”
The new material on the much-
Canal needs barriers
to separate creatures
j United Press International
I WASHINGTON — Construction of a
Inew sea-level canal or modification of the
[existing Panama Canal should include bar-
| tiers to keep apart the creatures of the At-
[lantic and Pacific Oceans, says a scientific
I review committee.
I In a report recently submitted to the
jWhite House science office, the special
[committee said substantial environmental
[hazards would be involved in the exchange
of marine organisms between the two
I bodies of water.
The building of a new Central Ameri-
I can canal cut through from ocean to ocean
[without the present system of locks, has
I been discussed for many years but it is not
I expected in the near future. A more likely
[project is the modification of the present
[canal, causing sea water to replace fresh
| water throughout its length.
[ The change in the environment of the
| canal would allow different varieties of fish
| and plant life to migrate from the Pacific to
the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, and
vice versa. Such a development could
upset the ecologies of the two oceans and
should be avoided, the group said.
“There is convincing evidence that such
migration has substantial potential for ad-
| verse effects,” it said.
It said the migration could result in the
spread into the Pacific of such creatures as
the barracuda and the Portuguese man-
of-war, while certain snails, starfish and
other Pacific coral predators move East
and wreak havoc with coral in the western
Atlantic.
Another possibility is that different but
related species from opposite sides of the
Isthmus could mate and produce hybrid
offspring with unpredictable results.
. The most significant ecological hazard is
the introduction of virtually unknown
parasites and disease-causing organisms
into new ocean areas.
“Migration of disease organisms could
possibly affect the shrimp, fin fish, and fish
meal industries in both oceans,” the report
said.
Exchange migrations have occurred in
other parts of the world, most notably
through the Suez Canal. The report noted
that as of 1967, 118 species of Red Sea
marine life had become established in the
eastern Mediterranean and 14 had made
the reverse migration through the Suez.
In some cases, migration can have bene
ficial results, such as increases in commer
cial or sports fisheries, it said. Fish that
originally were native to the Red Sea made
up to 20 percent of the Israeli Meditera-
nean trawl catches in 1971.
However, the arrival of new species
sometimes causes native sea life to decline
or causes other problems.
investigated Apollo, Pa., nuclear fuel plant
has been released by the Natural Re
sources Defense Council, Inc., a non
profit environmental group.
It obtained declassified documents from
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and
the former Research and Development
Administration, which supplemented ma
terial released last week to some of the
media under Freedom of Information Act
requests.
Previously released documents showed
that since the early 1960s up to 200 pounds
of enriched uranium handled by the
Apollo plant’s previous management —
enough to manufacture 15 to 20 bombs —
could not be accounted for and was sus
pected of having been diverted to Israel to
make nuclear weapons.
“A secret report by a joint NRC-ERDA
Task Force investigating nuclear material
accounting and control at the Babcock and
Wilcox nuclear fuel plants at Apollo, Pa.,
reveals that the FBI in 1976 launched a
clandestine investigation following a re
port that employees were smuggling
highly enriched uranium from the plant by
hiding it in their crotches, the council
said.
“A janitor at the plant, ” it said, “told a
fellow employee in a barroom conversa
tion that workers were smuggling uranium
out of the plant by hiding it between their
legs to avoid detection.”
The commission notified the FBI, which
began an undercover investigation at the
Apollo plant Aug. 16, 1976. Some 20 pres
ent and former employees were inter
viewed but the allegation “was not sub
stantiated,” according to the documents.
In August of this year, the report said,
the Wisconsin Public Service Co. and Bal
timore Gas and Electric petitioned the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to amend
its security regulations to eliminate the
requirement for “pat down” physical
searches of individuals working in pro
tected areas at nuclear power plants.
The petition said: “Some plant person
nel and their unions have made known
their feelings that a physical search is
highly distasteful, personally offensive,
and in violation of individual rights. The
problem of women employees and visitors
is particularly troublesome.”
Three tough sections left
on Carter's energy policy
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The conference
committee reconciling House and Senate
versions of the energy program has almost
completed sections dealing with energy
conservation and coal conversion.
But that leaves three tough sections to
be dealt with: utility rate policy, natural
gas pricing, and energy taxes.
When those three will be done is any
body’s guess. Even preliminary staff com
promises on the utility rate issue are so
hard to come by that one participant said
the process could go into next year.
The five bills the conferees eventually
produce must then go to both chambers
for a vote. The Congress is already four
weeks beyond its original mid-October
hoped-for adjournment date and has gone
on a semi-recess schedule to allow the
energy conferees time to work on the bills
without being interrupted by being called
to their respective houses for roll calls or
other needs.
President Carter has postponed indefi
nitely his planned foreign trip, to remain
in Washington until the energy program is
completed. There is as yet no sign when
that will be.
SUU-EEE . . .
Kevin McCormick and Mike Tindell of company L-l hold their
version of an Arkansas Razorback. The pig, called “Uncle Woody”
by the freshmen, was released before Saturday’s game. “Woody”
was captured by the freshmen after a short romp on the Kyle
Field turf. Battalion photo by Jim Crawley