Vol. 71 No. 148
10 Pages
Battalion
Tuesday, May 2, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611
College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Tuesday
• Dogs have hang-ups too. p. 3
• Three generations of women Aggies
p. 5
• KAMU-FM — the final sign-off? p. 2
arter begins talks
with Israeli leader
United Press International
ASHINGTON—Israeli Prime Minis-
Menachem Begin, expressing hope
negotiations can progress toward
in the Mideast, arrived Monday for
tings with President Carter and other
S. officials.
arrived at Andrews Air Force
and was welcomed by Secretary of
Gyms Vance, who reaffirmed the
dean commitment to Israeli security.
_,Ve do hope the peace process will con-
|e so that we can achieve real peace in
)
the Middle East,” Begin said. In brief air
port statements, both Begin and Vance re
ferred to the official reason for Be gin’s visit
to the United States—the 30th anniversary
of the independence of the state of Israel. .
“This is a momentous occasion for all
free men of good will,” said Begin, who
arrived from New York aboard an Israeli
Air Force Boeing 707 with an Israeli flag
flying from the left side of the cockpit.
Vance said the American commitment
to the security of Israel “is a commitment
on which Isreal can depend.”
Among other top U.S. officials welcom
ing Begin were Middle East mediator
Alfred Atherton Jr.; Assistant Secretary of
State Harold Saunders, and U.S. ambas
sador to Israel Samuel Lewis.
Begin and Vance then drove to the State
Department without answering questions
from reporters at the airport. Begin ar
ranged to meet President Carter at the
White House at 1:30 p.m. EDT and then
attend a White House reception for the
30th anniversary celebration.
angerous cargoes could
e diverted around cities
By BETH CALHOUN
roposed ordinance to divert trucks car-
|g hazardous materials around Bryan
jCollege Station was discussed Monday
Bryan City Council study committee.
e proposed hazardous cargo routes
: tie east bypass (Highway 6), the west
lass (FM 2818) and two sections of
hway 21 that lie outside the bypasses,
hey also include sections of Turkey
[(
s
Creek, Finfeather, Palasota and Groes-
beck streets.
A major provision in the ordinance
would require trucks to obtain a permit
before traveling on roads not included in
the cargo route.
Bryan Fire Chief Don VanHuss said the
permit would enable him to know where
carriers of hazardous materials are going to
and coming from. VanHuss said a permit
would establish a specific route for each
>ollege courses for
igh school discussed
c
By MICHELLE BURROWES
durational programs for elementary
high school student were discussed by
A&M Consolidated School Board Cur-
ilum committee Monday night.
)ne program, the High School Enrich-
nt Program, is co-sponsored by area
schools and Texas A&M University,
standing high school students take
versify courses for high school elective
fits.
his year, 10 Consolidated students are
icipating in the program. To qualify, a
lent must have an overall average of 90
hove, or a SAT score of 1200 or higher.
)r. B.L. Shapiro, director of the Uni-
sity honors program, told board mem-
that HSEP serves as a bridge be
en high school and college. Many stu-
its have trouble adjusting to college, he
1, and the HSEP could help alleviate
oe of these problems,
fhapiro said the most popular courses
in the mathematics department. The
ond most popular courses are the sci-
:es.
The board passed a motion supporting
EP that instructs counselors to search
qualified students and notify students
1 parents by mail.
The curriculum committee also pre
ted a proposal to bring a “clustered ap-
)ach to the Middle School’s Gifted &
lented Program. The cluster approach
>uld separate exceptional students from
:ir regular calsses for one to three class
riods per day.
For example, students excelling in math
mid be allowed to take high school
;ebra in place of eighth-grade math.
On the elementary level, clustering
)uld occur within individual classrooms,
mr to seven accelerated students would
selected in each classroom.
ear gas drives
Jtay residents
rom dormitory
Some 200 residents of Utay Hall were
reed to evacuate their rooms last night
hen a tear gas cannister was released on
e first floor of the dormitory.
Ben Tharp, head resident, said that at
iproximately 12:30 a.m. a cloud of tear
is filled the dormitory sending residents
-eing outside. One student jumped from
ie second floor and was treated and re-
ased from the University health center
r a heel injury. Another student was
leafed for eye irritation.
University Police Sgt. John McDonald
lid that a class B misdemeanor charge
ill be filed in the case — punishable by
fine, imprisonment, or both. But
cDonald said it will be up to University
ministrators what will be done about the
cident.
McDonald said he has no suspects pres-
ntly in the case. However, he said he
Ians to trace a lot number on the tear gas
annister. He said that tear gas is not a
controlled substance” and can be bought
t even local hardware stores.
David Carson, president of Utay, said
ames of three witnesses have been given
3 University police. Carson said residents
f the dorm want to press charges,
j There will be a military and campus
olice investigation,” Carson said.
McDonald said that there have been
I jimilar incidents at the dorm in the past
ew weeks, but that this is the most seri-
|)US.
The board requested impact statements
from the administration outlining conse
quences that might arise if the school
utilizes the cluster program.
Bruce Robeck, board president, also
announced that the eighth A&M Consoli
dated Mexico Study-trip will depart June
29. Twenty-three students will spend 18
days in Mexico City and Pachuca, and will
receive one quarter’s credit for the classes
they will attend there. Areas of study in
clude music, dancing, cooking, art, history
and languages.
The students have been busy raising the
money needed to finance the trip. They
have held an aluminum can collection, a
swimming meet and a bridge tournament
to raise funds. The approximate cost per
student is $499.
The board passed a motion to employ
two landscape architects to develop pre-.
liminary plans for landscaping at A&M
Consolidated High School.
Trustee Lambert Wilkes opposed the
motion and said other architects should
have been given a chance to submit bids
for the work.
carrier that would enable the fire chief to
watch for possible hazards.
Several businessmen, while agreeing on
proposed routes and the need for regula
tion, want to exempt carriers delivering in
Bryan from the permit system.
They said they are concerned with the
possibility of not being able to reach their
carriers and inform them of “safe” routes.
There is also controversy over defi
nitions in the proposed ordinance. Defi
nitions of words used on truck warning
signs, such as flammable and dangerous,
are not provided in the ordinance.
Charles Mundy of the Penwalt Corp.
said he would like to see the ordinance
rewritten to include the Department of
Transportation’s definition of hazardous.
“What’s the good of trying to control
one or two (hazardous materials) if you
can’t control all of them?” Mundy stud.
Businessmen and councilmen also dis
agreed on the classification of hazardous
and non-hazardous materials.
Under the proposed ordinance, hazard
ous cargo is “any substance carrying a De
partment of Transportation Class A or B
poison, corrosive liquid, oxidizing or
flammable solid, liquid anhydrous am
monia or radioactive label or designation.”
Non-hazardous cargoes would be any
flammable gases and liquids, or any
pressurized gases not falling under the
hazardous definition. Trucks carrying
these materials would not need permits to
travel in Bryan.
However, the proposed ordinance says
these trucks must use the most direct
routes, must not pass within 600 feet of a
school, hospital or nursing home and must
not park in residential areas.
Councilman Henry Seale said the coun
cil should use the transportation depart
ment’s definitions concerning warning
signs on trucks. He also said the council
must work on an acceptible format for the
permits.
Selling solar savings
object of ‘Sun
By LINDA SULLIVAN
Bi-annually Americans advance
and set back clocks in accordance
with Daylight Savings Time; even
so, Congress has issued yet another
time jumble for Wednesday, May 3.
Wednesday has been nationally
proclaimed Sun Day to enlighten
the public on the capacities of solar
energy. Texas A&M University rep
resentatives are initiating several
events to increase solar energy
awarness in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area.
Dr. Guy Franceschini, a profes
sor in the meteorology department,
said local efforts to promote Sun
Day have been rather Toose-
jointed” due to approaching final
exams on the University campus.
Even so, a solar energy open
house will be held all day Wednes
day in the mall of the Zachry Engi
neering Center. The open house
will consist of about 20 commercial
displays set up by assorted manufac
turers and distributors of solar
.energy systems.
In addition to exhibits, a poster
contest will be held. Entries from
local junior and senior high schools
will be judged according to the rep
resentation of the Sun Day theme.
A sunrise breakfast at 5:30 a.m. in
Hensel Park will begin the Sun Day
festivities. At 7:30 p.m., a slide
presentation of the applications of
solar energy will be shown in the
Texas A&M Architecture Au
ditorium. Both the breakfast and the
slide show are co-sponsored by the
Brazos Valley Sierra Club the Texas
A&M chapter of the American Soci
ety of Landscape Architects. Both
are open to the public.
Franceschini highlighted a recent
6-month solar radiation study at
Texas A&M to point out the prox
imity of solar energy. With his re
sults he concluded that adequate
amounts of solar energy in Bryan-
College Station could support most
of the area’s hot water needs.
Franceschini attributes the lack of
available solar energy equipment to
inadequte marketing.
“People aren’t using it enough
because the commercial world isn’t
selling it,” he said.
Franceschini said his basic studies
prove the need for a specific obser
vance of solar energy within all
communities to increase the public
awareness . While this first celebra
tion of Sun Day might be over
looked by many, Franceschini said
he expects greater participation next
year. “By then commerce will get
into the act,” he said, “and Sun Day
will inevitably blossom.“
J
Two charged as spies
for Hanoi begin trial
United Press International
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—An American and
a Vietnamese, charged with spying for the
Hanoi government, faced trial Monday in
a case made controversial by the use of
wiretap evidence.
Ronald Louis Humphrey, a former U.S.
Information Agency officer, and David
Truong, a young Vietamese expatriate,
could receive maximum sentences of life
in prison if convicted on the most serious
of seven counts against them.
The trial in America’s only postwar spy
case involving the Communist govern
ment of Vietnam comes on the third an
niversary of the end of direct U.S. military
involvement in the war in Southeast Asia.
Humphrey is accused of stealing secret
State Department cables and passing them
to Truong, who allegedly gave them to
couriers to deliver to Vietnamese officals
in Paris.
It was after more than eight months of
surveillance on Humphrey and Truong
that the two were indicted Jan. 31 and ar
rested amid widespread publicity.
Later, after hearing testimony from At
torney General Griffin Bell that he “was
trying to protect the nation,” U.S. District
Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. approved the
admissibility of evidence gathered from
warrantless wiretaps and searches.
Since that ruling, the Senate has passed
a bill to prohibit electronic surveillance in
the United States without a court order.
A group of former anti-war protesters,
calling themselves the Vietnam Trial Sup
port Committee, said Sunday there are
“political motivations” behind the Justice
Department’s case against Humphrey and
Truong.
“We believe this case gravely disrupts
efforts toward postwar reconciliations be
tween the United States and Vietnam and
attempts to justify the continuing refusal of
the United States to grant reconstruction
aid,” the group said in a statement.
They also charged the administration is
using the case “as a vehicle to claim the
inherent presidential right, without court
approval” to order wiretaps, television
surveillance or mail opening in the name
of national security.
The American Civil Liberties Union
also has filed suit against Bell, FBI Direc
tor Clarence Kelley and two other FBI of
ficials for violating the constitutional rights
of four persons whose telephone conversa
tions were overheard as a result of the
wiretap on Truong’s phone.
Truong, 32, is the son of a former
Vietnamese peace candidate who was
jailed after losing an election to former
President Nguyen Van Thieu in the late
1960s. Humphrey’s wife and children are
Vietnamese, and he was working to free a
son from Vietnam while the alleged es
pionage occurred.
In a revised indictment, the two were
charged with one count of conspiring “to
injure the national defense” and with one
count of espionage, each carrying a
maximum life sentence; with one count of
conspiracy, with two counts of stealing
government documents, with failing to
register as agents of a foreign government
and with delivering government docu
ments to an unauthorized person.
Spy for Soviets in
prisoner exchange
‘Sooey Ducks!’
Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley
Gary Lamb, who is a student trainer for the Aggie
Basketball team, leads his version of the Arkansas
yell, “Sooey Pigs.” Lamb, who has named himself
“King Duck,” is seen here leading the yell, called
“Sooey Ducks” to those Aggies present at the Ar
kansas baseball game. All the Aggies present
enjoyed performing the yell, to the dislike of Ar
kansas fans. The yell must have helped, since the
Aggie baseball team won the conference cham
pionship for the second consecutive year.
United Press International
BERLIN—Robert G. Thompson, con
victed by a U.S. court 13 years ago of spy
ing for the Soviet Union, was taken to U.S.
mission headquarters Monday to be
traded for an American held in an East
German prison in part of a three-nation
prisoner exchange.
Thompson, accompanied by East Ger
man lawyer Wolfgang Vogel and Shabtai
Kalmanowitz, aide to a wealthy Israeli
member of parliament who inititated the
deal, flew from New York overnight to
Frankfurt, where they changed to a plane
bound for West Berlin.
At West Berlin’s Tegel Airport, the
three men slipped through the terminal to
two waiting U.S. State Department cars
that whisked away at high speed just as a
reporter spotted them.
The cars took them to the headquarters
of the U.S. mission in the suburb of
jZehlendorf.
A mission spokesman said they would
wait there for the East Germans to deliver
Windom, Minn., college student Alan van
Norman, jailed last summer for trying to
smuggle an East German family out of the
country.
Thompson, who walked to freedom
from Lewisburg, Pa., federal penitentiary
Sunday and flew on a commerical airliner
to West Germany, said he would do it all
over again.
Tf I had to do it again, I would not
change one day,” the heavy-set, bearded
Thompson, 42, said on release. “You see
how the sun shines? That’s how I feel.”
Thompson, who was serving a 30-year
sentence for passing secrets to Moscow,
thanked all the people involved in the
prisoner swap and said:
“Now I want to go home and be at peace
with the world.”
Thompson—who says he was born in
Leipzig, East Germany and was a major in
Soviet intelligence—said he considered
himself retired and was anxious to go
home and to have his “first beer in 13
years and perhaps see my first woman.”
Last week, East German advisers per
suaded Mozambique to free an Israeli civi
lian pilot, Miron Marcus, who had been
imprisoned for 18 months in the African
nation.
State Department officials and Jewish
leaders have expressed hope the swap in
volving Thompson will be a prelude for
trades involving Lawrence Lunt, a CIA
employee imprisoned in Cuba, and Jewish
dissident Anatoly Shcharansky jailed 13
months in Russia.