The Battalion
Vol. 71 No. 116
8 Pages
Wednesday, March 15, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Wednesday
The miners’ side, p. 2.
Clipper readies for sea, p. 3.
Aggies win big, p. 7.
-.linger crisis
redicted from
.tioniH
Spergy costs
ial To-BjFrom United Press International and University
eldnerR News reports
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — In-
Coo'iBasing energy costs, which already have
attlJven hundreds of farmers from their
idy IikI, could produce a hunger crisis unless
HI pe state acts immediately, Rep. Luther
eleu-Bes, D-El Paso, said Tuesday.
ecta&Rones, vice chairman of the House Sub-
: committee on Alternate Sources of Energy
|Agriculture, made the comment during
ibcommittee meeting.
ie price of natural gas has increased as
[jauch as 700 percent in some parts of the
jte and is continuing to increase, Jones
|d. He said should the price of natural
increase to $2.50 per thousand cubic
t, another 8,000 farmers will be forced
jtof agriculture.
The rising cost of energy and particu-
y of natural gas has already had a major
act upon agriculture in Texas and in
country as a whole, driving hundreds
farmers off the land and taking
usands of acres out of production,”
es said.
exas is extremely sensitive to energy
ts, Harry Kunkel, Texas A&M dean of
culture, said Monday.
Jin 1976, formers spent $700 million for
lls. During that time net incomes were
|y $900 million,” Kunkel said. “Many
ducers are operating at a very low
fit margin.
|Any further effect in energy costs will
ly put many of the young producers
| of business, ” he told the opening ses-
of .ae House Subcommittee on Alter-
Sources of Energy for Agriculture.
lunfcel’s presentation opened a two-day
ring to review new developments in
(cultural energy.
|‘We at Texas A&M are deeply con-
ted about the growth of agriculture,”
jsaid. “In the past few years we saw the
\atest infusion of youth into agriculture
ft we have every seen. Those caught in
problem of price and profit are likely
* turn to other occupations because of
\ disenchantment. ’ ’
'I in total U.S. production, Texas pro-
j) :es 11 percent of the catde, 30-50 per-
I it of the sorghum, 28-38 percent of the
A ton, 20-22 percent of the rice and 5
Jj rcent of the wheat, Kunkel said.
\ More than 60 percent of those crops
A ye to be irrigated, which means a great
al of energy consumption, he said.
While costs continually rise, net income
*5 jtlie former lias scarecely changed since
ii97Q, Kunkel said , claimig that Texas ag-
d lulture has been “whip-sawed by low
| ollar values, droughts, inflation, along
jth high costs of fertilizer, equipment
energy.”
ones said he is convinced that the al-
ative sources of energy can be found,
t what is lacking is leadership.
ey have
basic knowledge required to make this
sible, we have refused to give the sci-
ists the hinds required to convert this
, Bowledge into practical, efficient equip-
' Dent to do the job, ” he said.
Foyt victory still in doubt
after Aggieland 250
While A. J. Foyt’s win this weekend in the Aggieland 250 is being con
tested, there’s little doubt about who won the second race of the two-
part Texas Race of Champions. John Foster of Odessa receives the
victor’s kiss from Miss Texas World Speedway, Texas A&M University
junior Sandra Schumacher.
Battalion photo by Tim Raven
By BILL WILSON
As it stands now, A. J. Foyt has won his
142nd United States Auto Club victory by
winning the Aggieland 250.
Bobby Allison, who finished 13 seconds
behind Foyt to take second place, is pro
testing the race. Allison claims he ran one
more lap than Foyt. The protest will be
resolved this week in Indianapolis.
In the qualifying round, Foyt’s Buick ran
the two-mile oval in 41.96 seconds or
171.92 mph. The time was good enough to
take the pole position from Terry Ryan and
set a new Texas World Speedway record for
USAC stock cars. Foyt established the old
record back in 1973 at 171.551 mph.
After qaulifying, Foyt was hit at Daytona
Speedway on Feb. 19. His car flipped
end-over-end five times and Foyt came out
with a broken collarbone and a separated
shoulder.
“I honestly didn’t know how long I could
race,” Foyt said. “I knew I could only drive
as long as my shoulder would let me. We
did everything we could to help the car
steer and handle easier. It practically drove
itself. But it still takes a lot out of a
bunged-up shoulder.”
Ryan, of Davenport, Iowa, had been the
leader before Foyt’s trial run. Ryan’s best
lap time was 167.676 mph and it was good
enough to keep him on the first row at the
start of the race.
Ryan used his front-row position to grab
the first-lap lead from Foyt. Foyt got back
into the lead for the next eight laps, but
from that point until lap 34 no one was able
keep ahead of the pack for more than nine
laps.
Allison, who brought his American
Motors Matador over from Hueytown,
Ala., and Foyt juggled the lead until Bay
Darnell, the defending Texas 500 champ,
grabbed the lead when Allison took a pit
stop on the 64th lap. Foyt regained the lead
on lap 72 and never relinguished it.
The Allison-Foyt decision will not affect
the outcome for the rest of the field. Gary
Bowsher will still finish third and receive
the $3,000 that goes with it. He finished
one lap behind the two leaders.
Joe Ruttman picked up fourth-place
money after his Pontiac went 122 laps. Billy
Hagen charged from 21st in the field of 30
to take home fifth. Ramo Stott pleased his
fan club by driving his lucky No. 7 Volare to
sixth place.
Ken Rowley and Kevin Housby, also in
Israel strikes Palestinians
in heavy Lebanon offensive
United Press International
Israeli forces attacking by land, sea and
air swept across souther Lebanon today in
a massive search-and-destroy strike
Nixon administration
^warned of Koreagate,
$ investigators say
g n
neo
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House investigators
id today they have documents showing
S. intelligence officials warned the
ixon administration in 1971 that South
orea had plans to buy influence in Con-
'ess.
Moreover, they said, American officials
i Seoul reported President Park Chung
ee was involved in the planning and at
ie point had rejected a proposal to put
ce dealer Tongsun Park in command of
ie Washington lobbying operation.
Details of the newly declassified infor-
lation were expected to be made public
>day at the first in a series of public hear-
;s by the House International Relations
[ibcommitttee, headed by Rep. Donald
raser, D-Minn.
Seoul’s government has consistently
enied the Korean president or any other
officials were involved in influence-
mying. Tongsun Park insisted anew
uesday after testifying to the Senate
(thics Committee that he never served as
n agent of the Korean CIA and that he
ad not bribed congressmen with
750,000 worth of campaign contributions
tir business proceeds.
The House investigators said they did
lot think Park was at any of the strategy
meetings described in the U.S. docu-
nents. But they said the material
suggested Park worked with the Korean
CIA for years and simply was not on the
ayroll as a formal employee or agent.
In a prepared opening statement,
Fraser said information drawn from U.S.
intelligence reports shows that “in the fall
of 1970 secret strategy meetings were held
in the Blue House (tfie presidential man
sion) for the purpose of making plans for
expanding and centralizing covert lobbying
operations in the United States.
The highest officials of the government
attended, including President Park on at
least one occasion .... A plan was pres
ented at the first Blue House meeting
which would have placed Tongsun Park in
charge of all lobbying in the United States,
including that of the KCIA.
“President Park and his advisers re
jected this plan because of objections from
a rival faction . . . but with a view toward
centralizing the control of lobbying under
Presdient Park, a special foreign policy re
view board was established to supervise
and coodinate several separate opera
tions.”
As to what was known by American offi
cials in Washington, Fraser’s statement
said, “that by 1971 American representa
tives in Seoul were sending detailed re
ports to Washington about lobbying plans
and activities. The reports, giving the
names of persons involved and describing
what they were doing, were distributed to
executive branch officials up to and in-
cludidng the Cabinet level.”
Despite these reports, Nixon adminis
tration offficials “failed to take adequate
measures to halt or prevent the activities
for “unclear reasons,” he said.
against Palestinian strongholds. Israel said
the troops would remain in Lebanon “as
long as necessary.”
The invasion, aimed at fulfilling Prime
Minister Menachem Begin s vow to “cut
off the evil arm” of terrorism, ranged over
the length of the 64-mile border and cut
five miles inside Lebanese territory.
Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman
said the immediate goal of Israel’s biggest
military offensive since the 1973 October
war was to establish a defensive strip four
to six miles deep along the rocky, hilly
frontier to prevent the Palestinians from
using it as a staging area.
“We will stary as long as necessary,”
Weizman said. He added, however, “We
don’t want to occupy southern Lebanon. ”
Weizman and the armed forces chief of
staff, Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur, said they
hoped Syria would understand the opera
tion was limited and would not send its
forces stationed in Lebanon to engage the
Israelis — an action that could touch off a
new war.
Israeli troops supported by tanks, ar
mored personnel carriers, artillery, com
bat jets and gunboats off the Lebanese
coast swept across southern Lebanon from
the Mediterranean Sea to the foothills of
Mount Hermon in what Weizman call a
“search, destroy and defend operation.”
The Palestinian Liberation Organization
estimated some 25,000 Israeli troops were
involved.
Reports from the border area said Pales-
tinia gunner retaliated against Israel, firing
Soviet-made Katyusha rockets across the
frontier at the northern towns of Kiryat,
Shemona and Metulla.
Reports reaching Israeli officials siad the
attack caused neither casualties nor dam-
age.
The Israeli forces, Gur said, “will see to
it that southern Lebanon will never agains
be used by Al F^tah as a base of opera
tions. We inend to establish a 7-to-10
kilometer 4-to-6 mile strip along the bor
der to defend the area.”
Al Fatah is the military arm of the PLO,
which claimed responsibility for the ter
rorist raid that killed 32 Israelis last Satur
day just north of Tel Aviv.
Weizman and Gur said first reports
showed the Israeli attack today was suc
cessful. They said infantry forces had oc
cupied several terrorist bases north of the
central and eastern frontier regions,
Volares, finished seventh and eighth. John
Haver finished ninth and Ryan earned
$1,000 for 10th place. Bob Schacht, in his
Laguna, was the only other racer still run
ning when Foyt took the checkered flag.
The two-part Texas Race of Champions,
a showcase for Texas talent, ran before and
after the Aggieland 250. The first 50-mile
segment went to Tom Williams of Schertz,
Texas. Williams also drove in the Aggieland
250, but came out with a blown head gas
ket. The second 50 miles were won by John
Foster of Odessa. Williams finished second
in a race.
New coal contract
awaits UMW okay
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The 39-man United
Mine Workers bargaining council rushed
back to the nation’s capital today to vote on
the latest agreement to end the 100-day
coal strike.
Union leaders are hopeful of speeding
up the cumbersome ratification process,
which took nearly 10 days when it was
used two weeks ago. Nationwide rank and
file voting this time could occur as early as
Monday.
Bargainers for the UMW and Bitumin
ous Goal Operators Association, who con
ducted talks withoni federal mediators
since Taft-Hartley back-to-work order was
issued Thursday, announced the new set
tlement at mid-afternoon Tuesday.
UMW President Arnold Miller and
chief industry negotiator Nicholas Camicia
both expressed hope the new terms would
be ratified.
“We think we have a package that would
be very good for the union, very good for
the country,’ Camicia said. Miller said he
thought the bargaining council would ap
prove the pact.
The new document won immediate
praise from President Carter, described
by a spokesman as “pleased and
encouraged.”
The pact included several major conces
sions by the industry — including those
involving crucial issues of work stability,
pensions and health care.
If quick approval is reached, a union
spokesman gave the following scenario for
further ratification activity:
Thursday: Contract explained to district
officials in Washington.
iy - Tsifl
encountering “fair resistance’ in the
sweep.
“We have inflicted appreciable casual
ties to the enemy,” Weizman said. He
admitted the Israelis also suffered casual-
ites, but would give no figures.
“We have a few casualties, they have
more,” he said.
An authoritative Israeli military source
said, “The enemy has sustained scores of
dead.”
But PLO officials in Beirut disputed the
Israeli victory cliams and said the guerril
las were holding their ground and inflict
ing “heavy losses” on the Israelis at some
points.
Pressed repeatedly about whether Is
rael will keep its troops in southern Leba
non since previous smaller operations
have failed to keep the terrorists from re
turning to the frontier region, Weizman
said at one point:
“Nobody wants to stay there. No one
ever thought of southern Lebanon as part
of Israel. Up to now, there has been no
pressure to withdraw.”
An Israeli military corresponsdent rid
ing with the troops said the forces were
ordered to ignore civilians — a statement
later backed up by Weizman — and to
concentrate on the estimated 6,000 ter
rorists thought to be in the region.
Israeli settlers along the frontier took to
their concrete shelters when the fighting
started.
Israel hinted for two days before the
strike that it would avenge Saturday’s ter
rorist attack. Begin said Israel would “cut
off the arm” of the guerrilla movement
once and for all.
Palestinian officials in Beirut said an Is
raeli force had established a beachead
south of the ancient bibheal port of Tyre
and was locked in fierce combat with guer
rilla forces. They said the nearby
Rashidieh refugee camp was heavily bom
barded by planes, heavy artillery and Is-
raaeli gunboats offshore.
Lebanese Prime Minister Selim Al Hoss
angrily denounced the Israili action as hav
ing “no justification whatsoever” and
called on the nations fo the world to con
demn it.
In Cairo, Egyptian newspapers bitterly
condemned Israel for shrugging off ap
peals for restraint from the United States
and President Anwar Sadat and de
nounced Begin as a “new Hitler.”
Battalion photo by Susan Webb
Staying to study?
An uncommon sight this week
during spring break is a student
studying. Actually, junior Reina
Mendez was photographed out
side Bolton Hall last week finish
ing last-minute reading before
leaving the books behind for a
week.
Friday: District officials pass on infor
mation to leaders of union locals.
Saturday: Meeting of union local mem
berships, followed by mandatory 48-hour
waiting period.
Monday: Voting.
The major points in the new agreement
were:
— Elimination of a work stabilization
clause that would have imposed penalties
against miners who lead wildcat strikes.
— Lowering, to a maximum fo $200 a
year for working miners and $150 a year
for pensioners, the amount to be paid for
doctor’s visits and drugs under the health
care plan. The rejected contract called for
annual deductibles of between $300 and
$700. Hospitalization would remain
entirely covered by the plan.
— A guaranteed wage increase of $2.40
an hour over the three-year period, boost
ing the average miner’s wage from $7.80
an hour to $10.20. The figures include a
cost of living adjustment.
— Immediate increase in pensions to
$275 a month for miners covered by the
1950 Pension Trust, instead of phasing in
the hike over three years.
In return, the industry won a local-
option production incentive clause allow
ing individual mining companies to pay
bonuses to miners who dig more coal than
a set target. The cluase would affect only
companies where union locals voted in
favor of such payments.
The provision upset Ken Conoway,
president of a local at Powhatan Point,
Ohio. “It will mean more injuries and
more fatalities because miners would be
getting paid to take an extra chance,” he
said.
Texas A&M
expected to lead
enrollment gains
Texas A&M University is projected to
have the largest enrollment gains among
the state’s public senior colleges and uni
versities during the next decade.
Forecasts by the Coordinating Board,
Texas College and University System,
show Texas A&M increasing its enroll
ment by 4,284 students by 1987, for a total
that year of 33,132. CB figures also indi
cate Texas A&M will become the state’s
second largest university within two years,
passing the University of Houston.
Texas A&M has been a national leader
in enrollment gains throughout the 70s,
going from 14,684 in 1970 to 29,848 last
fall.
The CB projections show Texas A&M
increases of approximately 1,000 students
for each of the next three years, followed
by gains of about 200 students annually for
the next seven years.
Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller said
the University’s recent experience in
growth situation puts the institution in an
excellent position to cope with the antici
pated increases.
“Additional facilities are expected to be
available to accommodate this projected
growth — in terms of both classrooms and
laboratories and housing,” Miller said.
He pointed out the private sector has
responded effectively to what was once a
housing problem in the community, with
considerable construction in all categories
— apartments, duplexes and single-family
units.
Texas A&M currently has the capability
of housing more students on campus than
any other institution in Texas.
CB estimates show no changes during
the next 10 years for the University of
Texas at Austin, which has the state’s
largest enrollment, 41,660. The Univer
sity of Houston (main campus) is expected
to increase from its current 29,297 stu
dents to 32,149 by 1987, while Texas Tech
is projected to go from 22,358 to 23, 732
and UT-Arlington, 17,201 to 20,070.
Those are the only institutions among the
37 institutions listed which include figures
in excess of 20,000
The school with the second largest
projected enrollment increase is Pan
American'Uriiversity with 3,969 going
from 8,106 to 12,075. The University of
Houston at Clear Lake is expected to in
crease its enrollment by 3,804 students,
from 4,830 to 8,634, while UT-San Antonio
is expected to jump from 7,849 to 11,614
for an increase of 3,765.