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The Battalion Viewpoint Monday / Top of the News Texas A&M University Lenin Prize winner Soviet propagandists have always had the nerve of a cat burglar. When it comes to throwing stones, it never bothers them that they live in a fragile glass house. Commenting on the Israeli peace plan of offering limited autonomy to Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan River, the Soviet news agency Tass voiced righteous indignation. It declared that maintaining Israeli troops in the area would amount to a “military occupation,” and that a “fictitious autonomy” would violate the “legitimate national rights” of the Palestinians. Look who’s talking! Moscow ought to know about occupation and autonomy. It still keeps about 60,000 Russian troops in Hungary, some 40,000 in Czechoslovakia and 30,000 in East Germany. And the autonomy of those countries is decidedly fictitious. Nothing of importance goes on without the Kremlin’s permission. And if the local puppet chiefs get out of hand, the tanks come rolling in. Moscow dislikes any peace plan for the Middle East because it does not want peace in that region. It wants Soviet influence. And to bemoan the idea of control by one country over another deserves this year’s Lenin Prize in hypocrisy. Worcester Mass. Telegram January 30, 1978 ' mi, DCWT JUST STM© THERE, NMOOK... Go CALL THE'GUINNESS &OOK. of WORLD RECCRRS!" ' Campus Concert pianist to perform Concert pianist Andre Watts will appear in College Station Tuesday Jan. 31, in the Opera and Performing Arts Society’s first performawd of the semester. Watts’ concert begins at 8:15 p.m. in Rudder Ku ditorium. Tickets and information are available at the Memorial Sir ' dent Center box office, 845-2916. Russian artwork presented 1,000 gion, [deal Houst The Arts Committee of Texas A&M will be bringing the exilel I Russian poet and art critic, Constantin Kuzminsky, and Texas poet an! I translator, Grady Hillman, to the Rudder Theater, Wednesday, Feb I 8, at 8 p.m. Their program, titled “Forbidden Arts From Leningrad, is a multi-media presentation of poetry, music, and artwork by someol' the greatest contemporary Russian dissidents alive today. Admissions $1 with advance tickets on sale at the Rudder Box Office A&M aftwo Mounted Calvary places third Who’s Who in the 6th District race By JIM CRAWLEY The Democratic Primary is 103 days away. In the next three months a small group of people will shake hands, plead for money, make promises, spend money and appear on the evening news. These will be the candidates for the Democratic nod in the Sixth Congressional District. And if tradition is sustained, the lucky winner will represent the area in Washington. The candidate list now totals four men and a woman. Another might be added to the list before next Monday at 6 p.m., when official filing for the primary ends. The district covers seven counties, plus portions of four other counties. Dispersed in the area are three federally designated metropolitan areas which contribute an urban flavor to the district. Between the metroplex of Dallas-Ft. Worth in the north and the twin cities of Bryan-College Station in the south, the district’s popula tion is centered around rural farm com munities. This mixture of urban and rural makes for a strange type of politics that includes the varying issues of farmers and suburba nites. Candidates will try to tight-rope their way between the needs of the in creasingly political farmers and the con servative, middle-class suburb dwellers of the north. The northern tier of counties in the dis trict is the key to success for the candi dates. Tarrant and Dallas counties can make or break a political hopeful in the district. Since the early ’70s a population shift has occurred within the metroplex. Politics New residents and inner-city refugees are moving toward the south, as opposed to the northern suburbs of Richardson and Garland, as they did in the 60s. This shift lias displaced the Sixth’s traditional popu lation base in Brazos County and the rural farm communities. This shift is evident in the current can didates for the position. Only one is basing his campaign in the Bryan-College Station area and even he is spending enormous amounts of time campaigning in the north. The other candidates reside in either Dal las, Tarrant or Johnson counties and have centered their campaign efforts in these counties near Dallas. Chet Edwards, 26 and the youngest candidate, casts himself as the work ingman’s candidate. Edwards, a former aide to retiring Congressman Olin E. “Tiger” Teague, has vowed to work at a different job once a week until the pri mary. Ron Godbey, 43 and the oldest candi date, is a man-for-all-seasons. He is an at torney with a widely known face in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area because of his work as a meteorologist for a Ft. Worth televi sion station. His campaign literature states that he also is qualified as a teacher, is a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserve and was born in a rural farm community. He also ran against Teague in the 1976 pri mary, taking nearly 40 percent of the vote. Phil Gramm, a Texas A&M economist on leave of absence, can only be described as conservative. On everything. In 1976, he took on Senator Lloyd Bentsen and lost by a wide margin. A large conservative push by the Reagan supporters in the Re publican primary held the same day took away much of Gramm’s right-wing sup port. Don McNiel, an Alvarado farmer- rancher-businessman, could be a sleeper. He is rumored to be holding a large cam paign purse to fire a media barrage near the end of the campaign season. The mystery candidate of the year has to be Kay Jones, the lone woman in the race. The press conference announcing her can didacy was less than impressive as she seemed to struggle with the issues. Since the press conference, her campaign has been low-key. Nothing has been received at The Battalion from her campaign office. On the morning of May 7 relief will be on the faces of these five people. One be cause he won and the others because they won’t have another six months of cam- pai gn ing. Jim Crawley will be contributing a col umn each Wednesday profiling candidates in the various state and local political races this spring. Women shouldn’t be just "lucky’ for health services Editor: I write this in response to your recent article on the gynecologic care offered at this campus. The article was quite inform ative and gave the students a little that men don’t have to worry about, the problems are important nevertheless. Ms. Rives, what woidd have happened if your mother had needed this type of 2 insight „ . X‘ar e wh^ ns he vv^s pregnant .^vith you and issue. JL .. was not ‘Tu.cky enough toJiave been able understand the numerous problems thBsjg^’ Jv.' ,'f .V-. health center has, especially being under staffed. However, one point in the article greatly upset me. “According to Assistant Director of Stu dent Affairs, Toby Rives, Texas A&M women are ‘lucky’ to have the services now available. ” This type of attitude is not needed on this, or any other, college cam pus. No woman is “lucky” to have a por tion of the services needed available. Gynecologic care is just as important as flu care. It has been reported several times that the flu is a major reason for a visit to the health center. All the students are suscep tible to it. It is quite obvious why it is a problem. Yet, are we to believe that just because only 10,000 women are suscepti ble to gynecologic problems it is less im portant? No sir, Ms. Rives, this is not the case. The women on this campus are just as hu man, just as important, and just as much a part of this school as any male on campus. I strongly suggest you reevaluate your at titude on this subject. No person is “lucky” to have anything that should be theirs by right in the first place. It was pleasant to hear Dr. Goswick feels that there is a “distince possibility” for a gynecology clinic at'-Texas A&M sometime in the future. I hope this is in the near future. Who knows, with a little bit of cooperation from the Student Affairs office, we women at TAMU may even by “lucky enough to receive the same medi cal care as the males on this campus. Even though the women have special problems Cindy Caudle, ’81 Rape overlooked? Editor: Imagine, if you will, this news story going out on the UPI Wire Service some time in the future: COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (UPI) — Five female students were attacked in a third floor study carrel of Mosher Hall on the Texas A&M Univer sity campus late Tuesday night. Three of the girls died of wounds sustained when a man, described to be in his late 20s, entered the carrel wielding a knife. Cam pus police. . . Pretty scary, huh? Never happen at A&M, right? WRONG! Sometime during the semester, almost everyone hears about a supposed rape or suicide or something. Sometimes the story comes from more than one source, but no one ever sees any thing in the Batt about it. In the last three semesters here, I remember reading of one suicide and two attempted rapes. The administration acts very proud of this rec ord, as well they should, if it were true. But I feel there are more attempted rapes and suicides and such on this campus than the administration is willing to admit, or the Batt is willing to look into. Many of my friends, some of which are not even jour nalism majors, feel the same way. I can understand why the administra tion wouldn’t want such unbecoming things talked about or printed, but that doesn’t change the fact if they happen. Slouch Earle by Jim Jo-7y . . AND ABOUT WHEN AN ASSIGNMENT COMES DUE, I GO AND DROP THE COURSE AND ADD THE COURSE IN A DIFFERENT SECTION! I CAN DO THIS FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS, THEREBY POSTPONING THE COURSE THAT LONG!” which I believe they do, they should be reported 1) Because it lets people know that they are not necessarily safe from such things if they come to this University, and 2) it wpuld help make people, such as, my self, less skeptic about University policies, opinion^ ynd the like. ' “L : r I know there are some hard core (corps?) Aggies out there who are scream ing blasphemy right now. They’re saying that A&M doesn’t have those types of problems, and if I don’t like it I can leave. Well, I am here to tell you zombies that I love A&M as much as you if not more, and it really upsets me, as it should you, that the University should even think of cover ing up things that are not symptoms of a bad school. A&M is a great school, but people-wise, it is no more stable or men tally superior than Texas or Tech or Rice. I feel anyone who goes here should be proud of his school, but they shouldn’t blindly follow or believe everything they hear, and they should not say howdy or A&M, love it or leave it, because BIG BROTHER tells them to. — Charlie Andrews, ’80 Ags dont boo Editor: I think that it is great that the fricks had such a large turnout at the recent t.u. bas ketball game. I am sure that the class of ‘81 composed a major portion of the crowd, because everytime the referee made a controversial call against the tenacious Aggie roundballers, the fricks booed. The good Ag upperclassmen didn’t boo because they know better. DON’T THEY? —Jay Gilbert, ’80 No increase seen Editor: I am writing in reference to the article in Wednesday’s paper concerning the minimum wage law and students em ployed by the University. I happen to be one of the unfortunate employees whose wages were not affected by the minimum wage increase which became effective Jan. 1. The aforementioned article was the first I had heard about this gross injustice. After calling the business office of the de partment I work for to verify the ruling, I found out that I am still making $2.38 an hour, an amount I consider to be a pit tance. I take this opportunity to express my incredulity, disappointment, rage and disgust at this inconsideration. Why is it that “Struggling” college stu dents are always treated like second-class citizens? Do the State Legislature and the director of personnel at the University think that student labor is inferior to other staff? Do they think that the cost of living is less for students? Do they think it’s easy carrying a 15-hour course load and work ing 20 hours a week? If this be the case, I ve got news for them. It’s not easy going to work in the after noon while all your sane friends go back to their room for a nap or to get their frisbee. We pay as much (or more) for groceries at Skaggs and other stores in the area, and it’s downright expensive for a student to do business with any of the local banks. Believe me, it’s hard to get up for those 8-o’clocks every morning, having block- scheduled all your classes from 8-12 in order to wc~k 1-5 every afternoon. I very muc,. enjoy my job on campus, and I had planned on working there until I graduate. However, waiting another eight months to get a pay raise which is still well under the minimum now set for the rest of the staff sounds like an unfair burden and a raw deal. Come on, Mr. Smith, students are people, too — fight for our rights! I don’t know about the rest of your stu dent employees, but I’m mad as hell, and we re fools to put up with this any longer. — Mary Robinson, ’80 Land wanted back Editor: I m writing this letter in response to the editorial by Lee Roy Leschper which ap peared in the Jan. 20 edition of the Battal ion. I wish to express disagreement with the concluding half of Mr. Leschper’s editorial, in which he suggests that the Arab-Israeli conflict is rooted in dispute over ideology, rather than in dispute over geography. Israeli borders have been thorns in the flesh of the Arab world since their creation at the end of WW II. The British Foreign Office should have forseen the conflicts cer tain to arise from giving away land to which they had no legitimate claim and, more importantly, which contained the for- centuries-fought-over city of Jerusalem. It is indeed paradoxical that at a time when the British had only just vanquished one Master Race they should be so eager to help a Chosen People perform acts which, when the Germans tried them, the British labeled “aggressive. The repatriation of the Chosen People to their ancestral homeland, which had not been predominantly Jewish since prior to the time of Alfred the Great, left many natives of Palestine homeless. For those Arabs who could not understand how, overnight, their homes had become the Promised Land for the Chosen People, there were British rifles to clarify things. The very creation by foreigners of a state for foreigners to be located in the center of the Arab world was a slap in the face to the Arab world. The Israelis, the foreigners for whom the state was created, have added injury to insult through their occupation of the West Bank of the Jordan and the Gaza Strip. The natives of Denmark and Norway did not welcome the Nazi occupation of their countries, nor was the rest of the world willing to tolerate Nazi presence in Scan- danavia, in spite of the fact that the Master Race pointed to Scandanavia as its ancestral birthplace. In much the same way, the Palestinian Arabs do not welcome the Is raeli occupants of what was once their land, in spite of the fact that Palestine is the Biblical, ancestral homeland of the Jews. Just as the Allied Powers saw the total de struction of the Nazi War Machine to be the only solution to Nazi aggression, many Arabs see the total destruction of Israel to be the only solution to Zionist aggression. The Arab-Israeli problem is not the re sult of ideological differences. From the seventh century A.D. forward, history is filled with accounts of Moslems refusing to war on Jews and vice versa because they are, in the words of a Moslem general of the Crusades, “of the same blood.” Yassir i Arafat has stated repeatedly that he has no quarrel with Jews, on with Zionists. The problem in the Middle East stems from the fact that, shortly after WW II, the British stole a strategic piece of land from the Palestineans to give to the Zionists. Now the Palestineans want their land back. — Daniel E. Wheeler, ’78 V. Parson’s Mounted Calvary placed third in the Southwest Expositi® U 1 ! and Fat Stock Show parade in Fort Worth Friday. The vokmteei U^ e: organization composed of seniors and juniors from the corps also tota K ou * in the grand entry at the rodeo and fat stock show. Members stayed at homes provided by the Aggie Mother’s Club. Nation / auce part." Hestc Be 1 Statio item. Relief in Ohio, Michigan As federal and state disaster relief crews work around the clock to rescue people in Michigan from snow-buried homes. Army troops an! equipment were flown into Ohio Sunday. The pre-dawn mercun plunged into the 20-degree-below-zero range in North Dakota an! Minnesota, with Dubuque, Iowa, spared from the brunt of the three- day blizzard, recorded a mid-morning minus 5. Temperatures also plunged below freezing from Central Texas to central Florida, as wean residents struggle in the Midwest against the blizzard that has claimed 93 dead.. 60,000 pounds of surplus government food will be broughlii by the Coast Guard from Washington to Cincinnati. 3( el si m d< Americans, Canadian evacuated th Five Americans and one Canadian were evacuated Sunday from Warden’s Grove near Dubawnt Lake in Canada’s Northwest Ter ritories after an object believed to he from a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite was found nearby, military officials said. The six were under contract to the territorial government to do wildlife and weather studies. They were being taken to the territorial capitol of Yellowknife accompanied by Dr. S.W. Cavender, a nuclear medicine specialist from Las Vegas, Nev. The black, man-made object thought to be from the satellite was found Saturday about 750 miles northeast of Edmon ton, Alberta and about two miles from Warden’s Grove, officials said. “That’s why we are removing them, because that black object maybe radioactive,- said 'Maj- Victor Keating, a spokesman for the Nam*) militaiV base near Edmonton. Cosmos-954 fell out of orbit and plunged into the atmosphere over the Nortlwvest Territories Tuesday prompt ing a joint U.S.-Canadian search for debris from the spy satellite, fueled by 100 pounds of enriched uranium 235. g< p< m I § § I Plan set to strip South Korea Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Texas, has written President Carter and House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill about his plans to strip South Korea of “major” U.S. foreign aid to insure the presence of Tongsun Pari before a committee investigating alleged influence buying in Con-: gress. Mattox told Carter and O’Neill he was planning to offer an amendment to the budget to delete all “major funds destined for South Korea,” including more than $800 million in military equipment scheduled to be left behind when the 2nd Infantry Division leaves. “Given the level of United States aid to South Korea in its aggregate this year,” wrote Mattox to O’Neill in a letter dated Jan. 27, “such action may not be enough inducement to gain cooperation from South Korea and insure that the (investigative) committee and its counsel, Leon Jaworski, have access to Tongsun Park and (foi mer ambassador! Kim Don Jo for interrogation.” $ I D D I fS) World Disasters hit Italy, Britain In Italy the most serious flooding in nine years has left Venice under four feet of water, and in Britain Sunday, the worst weather of the winter lashed, leaving cars and trains marooned in blizzards. Four » deaths were reported in Italy and two storm-related deaths in Britain, In Spain, rescue workers Sunday found the bodies of two crewmen from a fishing ship that broke up in gale-force winds off Vigo Saturday | All main roads and “innumerable minor roads were blocked in Scot land, an Automobile Association spokesman said. Weather Cloudy with light rain today. High today mid-40’s, low to night near 40. High tomorrow mid-40’s. Winds from the North East at 6-12 mph. 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