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Monday, December 5, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
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crashes; 100 killed
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Cougar game.
Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
cameras
United Press International
SINGAPORE — Unidentified gunmen
hijacked a Malaysian Airlines jetliner and
fought a gunbattle aboard the plane, but
the craft exploded in midair and plunged
into the swamp tidelands of southern
Malaysia, killing all aboard. Dato
Sulaiman Sujak, deputy chairman of the
airline, said all 100 persons aboard the
Boeing 737 jet were killed. He declined to
say whether he knew who the hijackers
were or how many there were.
Other airline sources said they may
have been members of the Japanese Red
Army guerrillas but a Japanese govern
ment spokesman in Tokyo said it appeared
unlikely.
Sujak said the plane began its landing
approach to Kuala Lumpur against
hijacker orders but pulled away from its
landing approach after gunfire broke out
inside the plane. It was ordered to Singa
pore but crashed minutes before landing
in the tidelands of southern Malaysia.
The airline sources said conversations
from the plane had identified the hijacking
as a Japanese Red Army operation.
In Tokyo, Japanese authorities said
there was little possibility the hijackers
were of the Japanese Red Army, which
customarily makes an announcement
when it seizes a plane.
The plane. Flight 653, had departed the
resort city of Penang, 500 miles north of
Singapore, en route for the Malaysian cap
ital of Kuala Lumpur then Singapore.
The pilot, Capt. G. K. Ganjoor, re
ported he was being hijacked as he ap
proached Kuala Lumpur and at that point
the pilot and the control tower argued
over whether the plane should land in
Kuala Lumpur for refueling. The plane
made an attempt to land until shooting was
heard in the cabin of the plane.
Witnesses outside Singapore reported
the plane was descending for an apparent
landing but suddenly pulled sharply up
ward, followed by a blinding flash and a
loud explosion.
It was at least the second crash of a
hijacked aircraft. On Sept. 15, 1974 a
hijacker demanding to be flown to Hanoi
seized an Air Vietnam Boeing 727 jet en
route from Danang to Saigon and set off a
grenade in flight. The plane crashed at
Phan Rang, 175 miles northeast of Saigon,
killing all 70 persons aboard.
The airline said it was investigating re
ports that Malaysian Agriculture Minister
Dato Sri Ali Haji Ahman and the Cuban
ambassador to Japan, Mario Garcia
Inchaustegui, may have been aboard.
Most of the passengers were reported to
be either Singapore or Malaysian citizens.
Miners, negotiators
continue to barter
Arab nations agree
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United Press International
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822-6421 eement condemning Anwar Sadat
i> but the Egyptian president brushed
le their anger and called on Israel to
ke concessions at the Cairo parley next
N. Ambassador Andrew Young said
day Middle East developments may
potentially out of control. ” In London,
aeli Prime Minister Menabem Begin
Sealed to European leaders to support
i peace contacts between Israel and
ypt.
faq walked out of the Arab hard-liner
nmit in Tripoli, Libya, because of
gstanding hostility with Syria and fail-
i to reach agreement on a joint position.
The walkout dashed hopes of a unified
lical Arab stand, but Syria, Libya,
^eria, Southern Yemen and the two
ijor Palestinian groups said they would
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sign a statement later in the day condemn
ing Sadat.
One Palestinian leader said the joint
statement calls for a total break in the
diplomatic relations with Egypt. ” If Syria
signs the agreement, it would greatly di
minish the chance of reconvening the
Geneva Middle East pekee conference.
In Amman, Jordan, King Hussein said
he planned to visit Syria and perhaps
Egypt in an attempt to overcome the bit
ter divisions plaguing the Arab world.
Hussein, in an NBC-TV “Meet the
Press’ broadcast from Amman, said Jor
dan’s goal is “trying to hold everybody to
gether if we can, and it is probably an im
possible position.”
Sadat, in an interview with UPI and
Britain’s Independent Television News,
said the Arab radicals “will never influence
anything in the Arab world. All this shout
ing will not influence the whole position of
Arab solidarity at all.
Sadat, puffing calmly on his pipe, called
on Israel to make a concession in the
long-stalemated Middle East dispute.
He said Israel must “face the conse
quences if it stands by its flat refusal to
withdraw from all occupied Arab lands and
allow the establishment of a Palestinian
state.
Asked whether this meant the verbal
nonaggression pact made with Israel in his
milestone visit to Jerusalem last month
might be in jeopardy, Sadat said:
“For sure. Right, right, right. They the
Israelis should come to Cairo with the an
swer to my peace initiative in their poc
kets.
Young, in an interview on CBS-TV s
“Face the Nation, said the United States
may have to “pick up the pieces” following
the dramatic diplomatic developments in
the Middle East.
The American role at the Cairo peace
conference may be “to try and keep the
overall situation in perspective,” Young
said. - -
Begin ended two days of talks with
British Prime Minister James Callaghan
Sunday and at a dinner for his host urged
European leaders to support the peace
contacts between Israel and Egypt without
exerting undue diplomatic pressure.
In Moscow, Philip Habib, U.S. State
Department expert on the Middle East,
met today with his counterparts in the
Soviet Foreign Ministry.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A midnight strike
deadline looms for 130,000 coal miners,
with negotiators for the United Mine
Workers and coal operators still disagree
ing on a number of crucial non-wage is
sues.
Chief federal mediator Wayne Horvitz
called the bargainers back to the table to
day, but indicated at the end of meetings
Sunday that much work remained to be
done.
“We’ve got some hard problems, Hor
vitz said. “We re working on them. That’s
the name of this process.
“We re dealing with substantive issues,”
he added.
Some miners in Ohio and West Virginia
did not wait for the midnight deadline and
began the walkout early. Similar moves
were expected elsewhere.
The effects of a strike were not expected
to be felt immediately by consumers be
cause most utilities had built up large
stockpiles of coal to carry them through for
at least the first few weeks.
Both UMW President Arnold Miller
and Joseph Brennan, president of the
Bituminous Coal Operators of America,
indicated Horvitz’s assessment was cor
rect.
“Were talking,” Miller responded to
reporters as he left the bargaining room at
the Capital Hilton Hotel when asked if any
progress was made. That compared with
comments by Miller earlier in that day
that progress was being made.
Brennan said “interesting discussions”
had taken place, and, when asked if any
agreement had been reached on major is
sues, replied: “You don’t reach agreement
on substantive issues until you tie it all
up.”
Horvitz also said no discussions had
been held on a possible extension of the
current 3-year contract beyond the 12:01
a.m. Tuesday deadline.
Unless such an extension was made, the
miners were set to walk out, even if
agreement were reached, since it will take
about two weeks to ratify a contract and
miners have a tradition of not working
without a ratified contract.
Earlier Sunday Miller left open the pos
sibility of an extension, saying it would be
possible if there was considerable move
ment on major issues.
The two major issues are wildcat strikes,
in which individual union locals walk out,
and the financial viability of the union’s
welfare and pension funds.
The union wants miners to be able to
strike individual mines over local griev
ances, and the BCOA is asking for penal
ties against wildcat strikers. The welfare
and pension funds are affected because
they are funded by a fee on coal pro
duction which is cut back by a strike.
Wages appeared not to be a main point.
UMWA members now receive top pay of
$7.88 per hour, or $315.40 for a 40-hour
work week.
6 husband-wife pairs teaching
Married couples team-teaching
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By SUSAN HUNT
|Dr. Mary Lenn Miller does her thing
I Dr. Warren Dixon does his thing and
netimes they do it together., .in the
issroom.
jMiller and Dixon, who instruct in the
Jlitical science department, are among
out 16 married couples teaching in the
ne department at Texas A&M Univer-
|The College of Liberal Arts, for exam-
i, has at least eight teaching couples,
iree couples teach in the College of
lucation and two in Geosciences. The
illeges of Medicines, Veterinary Med-
(ne and Science each have one couple.
jUnlike the others, the Miller/Dixon pair
lam-teaches. While some teaching
luples prefer not to work together, Mil-
jrand Dixon have found the practice re-
Jarding.
I Dixon paces from one of the chalk boards
the other lecturing and writing non
lop. Miller listens intently, nodding in
ireement, occasionally adding to or
rilying some point.
Sometimes she lectures and he ob
serves.
The team-teaching concept began for
the pair with their controversy over the
correct approach to teaching a public pol
icy and policymaking course. Each wanted
to approach the subject differently, so they
decided to unite.
Their combined efforts bring to the stu
dents his expertise in public policy and
hers in European politics.
“We first intended to be adversaries,”
Miller said. Now they usually compare
their lectures outside of class and resolve
the differences there, rather than in the
classroom. Their students agree that this
teaching method is both interesting and
effective.
The couple met in 1975. Dixon had
taught in the political science department
eight years before Miller’s employment
there. They married shortly after.
Miller did not take her husband s name,
and the difference in their names helps
eliminate confusion in the department.
Conflict over names is only a minor fac-
lagle Award presented
to University Saturday
Texas A&M University was cited Satur-
®y by the Invest-in-America Council for
5 new program to combat “economic il-
teraey.”
The council’s prestigious American
igle Award was presented to the univer-
y by U.S. Rep. Olin E. (Tiger) Teague,
ho is a past recipient along with former
fresident Gerald Ford and former Trea-
iry Secretary William Simon.
Texas A&M is the first institution to be
iven the award, symbolized by a 21-inch
jeplica of an American bald eagle in flight.
ie university received the award for es-
blishment of the Center for Education
d Research in Free Enterprise, which
dll conduct full-scale integrated economic
ducation programs at both the public and
college levels, as well as for the general
public.
Texas A&M President Jarvis E. Miller
formally accepted the award at a luncheon
keynoted by George Bush, former con
gressman and first chief of the U. S. liaison
office in Peking.
“We are convinced that one of the most
serious problems this nation faces today is
economic illiteracy,” Miller said. “We
pledge our full commitment to furthering
the ideals of free enterprise.”
The Center for Education and Research
in Free Enterprise was established earlier
this year with a $250,000 gift from Texas
A&M’s 60,000-member Association of
Former Students and operates strictly
through private support.
tor to overcome for couples who work to
gether. They must also consider per
sonalities and competition.
Dixon and Miller agree that “neither of
us has a strong personality ” and working
together has been a “pure advantage.”
Miller admitted a little competitive spirit
in the classroom but career competition
was eliminated because Dixon’s position at
the university was tenured before Miller’s
arrival.
In contrast, Drs. Michael and Mary
Herron have established a different
work-marriage situation. They are both in
the College of Veterinary Medicine, but
because of their “strong personalities,”
they mutually agreed not to work together
because of the strain it could cause.
Dr. Steve and Gloria Gagola both teach
math in the College of Science. She said
that the situation is possibly “not the best
for either one, ” but that in their case it has
worked out well so far. One area of compe
tition is eliminated for this couple because
each receives the same salary.
For the Dixons, home life is as har
monious as their professional lives. They
are together at work more than most
couples, but they make no conscious effort
to be apart at other times.
He likes to do some of the interior deco
rating and yard work and she especially
likes to cook. Their “division of labor is not
necessarily' for traditional reasons, but for
convenience,” Miller said. Their compati
bility at home and at school was just a
“natural happening” which, he said, “is
probably due to the fact that we married
later than most couples.” Miller was 27
and Dixon was 34 when they married.
Dixon and Miller say the key to combin
ing marriage and career successfully is
probably common interests.
Dixon says that being politically-
oriented allows the couple to communi
cate more effectively, because they are in
terested in the same things. He contrasts
this to a couple whose communication is
stifled because their careers are so di
verse.
Miller says that her marriage, by uniting
personal career and home life, “comes
close to what a marriage ought to be.”
Volleyball, anyone?
Concert-goers who attended Friday’s Town Hall
presentation entertained themselves during in
termission with what might have been the world’s
largest volleyball game. A beach ball was a wel
come change from the usual concert frisbees.
Battalion photo by Bernard Gor
Ugandan pilots being trained
by Fort Worth company
United Press Internationa]
WASHINGTON — Bell Helicopter,
which has been training nine Ugandan
government helicopter pilots in Fort
Worth, Texas, has contracted to train 40
more Ugandans next year, according to
Scripps League Newspapers.
The story said the nine were among 24
members of President Idi Amin’s Police
Air Wing issued A-2 priority visas at the
U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya,
Sept. 28.
Two of the 24 were refused entry at
New York’s Kennedy airport, but the
other 22 are being trained at various
American sites in flying, mechanics and
communications, said the story by Scripps
Washington correspondent Lee Roderick.
He said presence of the Ugandans is an
embarrassment to the State Department.
President Carter has said human rights
violations in the African country “dis
gusted the entire civilized world.”
The story said the training program in
Texas has been stopped as a result of offi
cial requests, but apparently other such
programs and planned future programs
still are in doubt.
Twelve members of the Ugandan air
police received pilot training at Bell
Helicopter in Fort Worth Oct. 10-Nov.
18, the story said. Since then, nine of
them have been training at nearby Oak
Grove Airport, owned by M. H. “Pappy”
Spinks who has been under government
pressure to stop the training.
Spinks told Roderick in a telephone
interview: “I don’t want to lose 40 con
tracts for next year — that’s what we’ve
contracted for from Uganda. And we 11
probably lose them if we have to stop this
training.”
He said the first of Amin’s pilots were
trained at his field “five or six years ago,”
and “the State Department just wants to
save face by having me do the job they
should do.” He maintained the pilots were
being trained only for commercial work.
He said he told the State Department
he would stop the program “if they get me
an official request” although his school
would lose $13,000 as a result.
Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Texas, delivered
three letters last week in the Fort Worth
area. Two were written by the State De
partment and were given to Spinks and to
F. Shoemate of the ACME School of
Aeronautics, which has been teaching air
craft mechanics to nine additional Ugan
dans. The third letter, written by Mattox,
was delivered to Bell Helicopter.
Also, the Federal Aviation Administra
tion “at the quiet request of the State De
partment late last week agreed to withhold
airmen’s certification of the Ugandans
training at the facilities.
As a result of these official actions, it
said, both Spinks and Shoemate agreed to
stop further training, according to Mattox
after a meeting with them.