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. 71 No. 62
12 Pages
Tuesday, 29, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Today:
Dilly Shaw Farm: a workshop for
the disabled and mentally retarded,
p. 9.
A look at campus fire prevention,
p. 10.
Basketball team wins opening game,
86-67, p. 11.
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new police station and municipal
building, the College Station City
awarded the project to a local
ipany Monday night.
iut the council wasn’t happy with bids
city warehouse and tabled the issue
Dec. 9.
e council accepted the bid of R.B.
ler, Inc. The company’s bid of
700 for the police station contract
was $1,300 below its nearest competitor.
The lowest bid for the city warehouse
came from Malek Construction Co. of
Navasota. It was $365,895.
The councilmen complained that the
bids for both buildings were higher than
the architect’s estimates. Councilman Jim
Dozier blamed this on the bidding system
imposed on the city through state law.
“We have a state law that costs the tax
payers money,’ Dozier said. “We can’t
protect taxpayers and that’s a crying
shame.”
Dozier criticized the procedure of ac
cepting sealed bids.
“I don’t know why we can’t have public
auctions,” Dozier said. “This puts us in
poor bargaining position.
“We should be able to negotiate indi
vidually with contractors.
Concilman Anne Hazen suggested the
warehouse bids be refused and new ones
accepted. But City Engineer Elrey Ash
said such a move would be a waste of time
and money.
“I’m convinced that if we throw these
bids out and solicit new ones, the new
ones would be higher than these,” Ash
said.
The council voted three to three with
Concilman Gary Halter abstaining. The
split vote in effect turned down the Malek
bid.
Halter then moved to table the bids.
The motion passed four to two.
In other action. Community Develop
ment Planner Jim Callaway asked and got
permission to work toward improving
Churchill Street.
The street is divided by a strip of land.
Callaway wants to secure right-of-way
through this strip and connect the two
ends of the street.
The council also approved final plats for
Raintree Apartments Section 2 near the
East By-Pass and for Windwood Phase 1
along Harvey Road.
A master Preliminary plat for Emerald
Forest, a development to be located be
tween the Raintree and Foxfire additions,
was also approved.
More Aggielands
available this week
Squads left!
Senior Corps members, commonly known as “zips,” swayed with
the music of the Aggie War Hymn during Saturday’s football
,S. to send representative
game against Texas. The seniors standing on the field were
“officers of the day.”
Israel to be at peace talks
United Press International
The United States and Israel will send
presentatives to Cairo as early as Satur-
y for talks aimed at resuming the stalled
neva Middle East peace conference,
ab nations, however, still plan to
ycott the meeting.
U S. officials in Washington said
onday the United .States will attend the
tiro meeting called by Egypt’s President
war Sadat. President Carter was ex
acted to make the official announcement
day.
In Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister
Menahem Begin said he will send one of
his top aides, former spy Eliahu ben-
Elissar, and legal expert Meir Rosenne to
Cairo as soon as Thursday.
“Thus begin direct negotiations toward
Geneva, negotiations we always wanted,
face-to-face negotiations with our
neighbors for a true peace in the region,”
Begin told Parliament.
Sadat, in a speech to the Egyptian Par
liament Saturday, called the Cairo meet
ing as a follow-up on his historic Nov. 19
journey to Jerusalem, which resulted in a
verbal “no more war,” agreement.
A spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign
Ministry said the talks may begin as early
as Saturday, will have no agenda and will
not be “restricted by procedural rules.”
Sadat’s peace initiative has drawn harsh
condemnation from hard-line Arab na
tions. Both Libya and Iraq have called
rival Arab summit meetings.
Faced with disarray in the Arab ranks,
Syrian President Hafez Assad Monday sof-
douse investigators have
secret plans of KCIA
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — House investigators
ave in hand what may have been a secret
outh Korean CIA plan to spend $750,000
a 1976 to influence U.S. foreign policy,
nd more for campaign contributions,
ources said today.
They said a House International Rela-
[ions subcommittee looking into the
CIA’s activities in the United States has
he material. Panel Chairman Donald
'Vaser, D-Minn., planned to reveal its
xistence today at the first of two days of
lublic hearings.
The sources also said the subcommittee
id eight witnesses line up to testify about
he operations — including Sohn Ho
loung, a former KCIA agent based in New
fork who defected to U.S. authorities two
nonths ago.
A statement prepared for Fraser’s use
®d made available to UPI said in part:
“At today’s hearing we will present for
the public record the KCIA’s own secret
written plan for clandestine operations to
influence American public opinion and
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policy in 1976. This plan, which was
drafted in 1975, is ambitious and detailed.
“It gives the KCIA’s assessment of the
situation in the United States, proposed
courses of action, amounts of money to be
spent, and names of persons, organizations
and U.S. government agencies targeted
for special attention.
“Among the topical headings in the plan
are operations in Congress... in the
executive branch ... in media circles . . .
in academic and religious circles and oper
ations relating to Korean residents.
“The plan shows that approximately
three-quarters of a million dollars were
earmarked to implement these operations
and there is a notation indicating that
additional funds were to be set aside for
congressional campaigns.”
One source said some of the activities
described were “clearly illegal” and called
the document “the strongest evidence by
far ever presented in public of foreign in
telligence attempts to influence foreign
policy and public opinion in this country.
In advance of today’s hearing, spokes
men for the panel refused to identify any
witnesses on grounds the names had to be
kept secret for security reasons.
But congressional sources said the key
witenss would be Young, who defected to
U.S. officials Sept. 16 just before a squad
of other KCIA agents supposedly got to his
home in a bid to stop him.
tened his criticism of Sadat, saying there
was no “divorce between two brother
countures.”
But Syria still refuses to go to the Cairo
meeting. The only other Arab country that
said it might attend was Jordan —- but only
if all other Arab countries also take part.
American officials said privately they
were concerned the Cairo meeting could
result in a separate peace agreement be
tween Egypt and Israel that would pre
vent an overall Middle East settlement. *
But Sadat, in an American television
interview, said he would attempt to
negotiate a “comprehensive agreement”
with Israel even though other Arab nations
are not participating in the Cairo meeting.
“I shall be negotiating a comprehensive
agreement and I shall be bringing it back
to the Arab summit to give their say and
for each party to give his word, agree or
refuse,” he told CBS. “This is for them to
decide in the Arab summit.’
Israel was invited to the Cairo talks in
unprecedented contacts between the Is
raeli and Egyptian ambassadors at the
United Nations Sunday, tearing apart the
traditional fabric of Middle East diplo
macy.
In extending the invitation to Israel
Ambassador Chaim Herzog directly,
Egypt bypassed the United States.
By MARK POWER
Students may rest assured that the 1977
Aggielands will be available this week in
sufficient numbers to meet demand.
Last week when the first books were de
livered, long lines and a short delivery left
many students complaining because they
did not receive their books.
“This year we have had the publisher
break the shipments down to smaller sizes
because of the space at our location,” said
Gary Baldasari, 1977 Aggieland Editor.
He said that Barracks C, this year’s dis
tribution point, is much smaller than the
Old Exchange Store where students re
ceived their hooks last year.
“This is a record year for the Aggieland.
About 12,000 units are being printed on
the first run,” he said.
Baldasari flew to Dallas Monday after
noon, Nov. 21, to supervise the delivery of
the first 940 units which he drove down for
last Tuesday’s delivery.
That same day, Deon Priest, the techni
cal representative for Taylor Publishing
Co., drove an additional 1,400 to College
Station. Even then, lines were so long that
the books ran out before 2 p.m.
“Taylor is shipping the books as fast as
they can, right off the presses. If we had
waited any longer for more books, the stu
dents would be even more upset,” said
Baldasari.
Donald Johnson, Director of Student
Publications, said that Taylor reported it
would ship about 1,500 units for today s
distribution, with other shipments later
this week to satisfy the demand.
“Hopefully the latest shipment will ar
rive for afternoon distribution today
(Tuesday),” Johnson said. “We are due for
balance of our initial order of 14,000 as
they finish off the presses in Dallas next
week.”
r Johnson said the alternative to this
year’s distribution pattern would have
been waiting until all the books arrived
from the publisher. That would have
caused a delay of up to two weeks.
“We have been lucky to have this many
books on hand, and with the deliveries
from Taylor we should have no more inter
ruptions of delivery to the students,”
Johnson said.
Students may check at Barracks C early
this afternoon to see if more yearbooks
have arrived. If students have ordered a
book, all that’s required to pick it up is to
present a Texas A&M University I.D.
card. Students may only pick up their
book or books for direct relatives, not
friends. Students carrying I. D. cards other
than their own will be turned away.
Some handicapped students may have
trouble gaining access to Barracks C, and
Rhodesian attacks
cripple black rebels
4
United Press International
SALISBURY, Rhodesia — Rhodesia’s
unprecedented air and ground attacks on
guerrilla bases inside Mozambique crip
pled the black insurgency and buoyed the
spirits of the nation’s embattled white
minority, military sources say.
The military command announced
Monday the raids — the most massive op
erations of the five-year war — killed more
than 1,200 rebels in five days last week
and destroyed two of their bases.
The military sources said the latest at
tacks crippled the black insurgency that
has been trying for the last five years to
topple the white minority government of
Prime Minister Ian Smith.
The communique said Rhodesian air
and ground forces destroyed the head
quarters of the Zimbabwe National Liber
ation Army — the military arm of Robert
Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National
Union. Zimbabwe is the African name for
Rhodesia.
Soldiers, who had been complaining bit
terly about restraints imposed on them,
also were clearly delighted.
The attacking Rhodesians were back
home Thursday night, the communique
said. Then on Saturday more troops knifed
136 miles inside Mozambique and de
stroyed the Tembue guerrilla base — the
deepest Rhodesian penetration of the war,
it said.
Aggieland at dusk
Late-autumn sunsets on the Texas A&M campus
provide a background for silhouettes of the
Academic Building dome, Harrington Center,
and the water tower. This scene was viewed
from third floor Krueger Hall.
Battalion photo by Beth Dzikowski
their books may picked up by calling Don
nie Albrecht, Student Activity Coor
dinator, at the Student Activities office at
845-1134. Students are advised to call that
office and explain their problems to the
coordinator before coming by for a year
book.
O’Hair fights
lobby efforts
of Catholics
United Press International
AUSTIN — Outspoken atheist Madalyn
Murray O’Hair and liberal abortion law
advocate Bill Baird are taking on the
Catholic Church in an attempt to stop it
from lobbying for strict abortion laws.
In a joint announcement Monday, Mrs.
O’Hair and Baird said they wanted
Catholics to quit giving money to the
church and wanted the public in general to
boycott products of Catholic businesses.
“We are declaring economic war against
the Roman Cathlic Church,” said Baird,
director of abortion clinics in Boston and
Hempstead, N. Y. He is also a key figure in
court fights about women’s right to abor
tion.
Baird and Mrs. O’Hair, head of the
American Atheist Center, said they be
lieved the current deadlock in Congress
over federally funded abortions for welfare
recipients was the work of Catholic lob
byists.
“Who in the heck is the Roman Catholic
Church to have the arrogance to say to the
Americans, ‘We re going to tell you what is
right and wrong’?” Baird said.
Mrs. O’Hair said Catholics should turn
in empty collection envelopes marked “No
money until women have freedom of
choice” during Christmas holidays.
Baird and Mrs. O’Hair also suggested
abortion advocates boycott Catholic busi
ness enterprises such as Christian
Brothers’ Wine, Monks’ Bread and Trap-
pist Jams.
“These are multimillion dollar indus
tries,” Baird said. “If people will eco
nomically boycott them I think they can
put a lot of pressure on the church.”
Mrs. O’Hair said the church was at
tempting to impose its dogma on all
Americans because she said Catholic
women had disobeyed the Pope’s decrees
against abortion and most forms of birth
control.
“I think the Roman Catholic Church is
advertising the fact that it cannot control
its own women,” she said. “If it could con
trol its own women it would not need to
reach out to control all women.”
Mrs. O’Hair endorsed Baird’s court
challenge of a 1974 Massachusetts law that
prohibits women under 18 from obtaining
abortions without the consent of both par
ents or a judge.
“I’m afraid we’re going to lose,” Baird
said. “The U.S. Supreme Court has swung
drastically to the right.”
He said a decision upholding the law
would encourage other states to adopt
similar measures and lead to deaths of
many women forced to obtain illicit abor
tions.
License gets
robber retrieved
United Press International
MILES, TEXAS—A 52-year-old Big
Lake man has been arrested and charged
with armed robbery in connection with
the theft of $3,000 Monday from a local
bank.
Police identified the suspect as Johnny
Franklin Harris.
The bank was robbed Monday about
12:45 p.m. by a lone gunman. Police said a
citizen saw the getaway car and took down
the license number. Officers said the car
was traced to Harris.