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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
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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
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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
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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.
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. . 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.
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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.
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Americans, Canadian evacuated
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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.
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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.”
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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. Partly cloudy with a chance of rain
through Friday with a slight warming trend.
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