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The Battalion Vol. 71 No. 150 14 Pages Thursday, May 4, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Thursday: • Got any summer plans? p.9. • Para-mutuel betting — yea or nay, P-2. Soccer — a new SWC sport? p. 14. :e uerrillas attack ^French U.N. base United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon—Palestinian guer- llas attacked the field headquarters of Irench U.N. peace-keeping forces in re, climaxing a day of clashes that left as iany as nine people dead. The battles Tuesday marked the third id worst day of fighting between Arab errillasand U.N. forces pledged to keep em from infiltrating to the border and [tacking Israel. “Were not anti-Palestinian or anti- raeli or anti-anybody,” Col. Jean Jenegaux, the French spokesman, said in Ire. “We made it clear that we are going 6Oil U-N. mandate—which means Pkcu fepingarmed men out. . .it seems this is ping to continue, and there will be fur- "pler dead. ’ But a spokesman for the leftist Lebanese nilitia countered: “We warn these forces za not to oppose us again. Let this be a threat. ” In separate fighting, Palestinians in the port of Sidon, north of Tyre, battled Syrian troops from the Arab League force that ended the Lebanese civil war. Four people died in that fighting, which erupted from a personal quarrel, said re porters at the scene. In a third incident, a bomb planted in a car near a crowded cafe wounded as many as 40 people in the northern Lebanese town ofZghorta, home of former Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh. Reports from French officials and dip lomats in Beirut differed from a later ver sion of the fighting supplied by a spokes man at U.N. headquarters in New York. The Beirut reports said that as many as nine people werre killed during the day on both sides. The spokesman in New York said one French soldier died, five were &-M co-eds still n intensive care 16 Oi, Con: ■Two Texas A&M University students k still in intensive care in Houston’s I jthodist Hospital neuro-sensory center cause of head injuries they received in a accident last Friday. Another student ured in the collision is in Bryan’s St. eph Hospital. The accident occured on 1 60. Eynthia Hertz and Barbara Miller were separate cars that collided head-on jut one-half mile west of College Sta- n. Both were taken directly to the hos- al in the Houston Medical Center after ^ “accident late Friday afternoon. rHospital spokesmen said Hertz is in se- Rus condition. She is “acutely ill and her Ital signs are unstable. /OnlMiller is in fair condition. She is con scious but may be “uncomfortable and still in some pain. However, her vital signs are stable and indicators for her recovery are favorable. The Opera and Performing Arts Society has begun a collection among its members to send flowers to Miller, who is an OPAS member. Joy Krueger, also injured in the wreck, was taken to St. Joseph for surgery Friday night. Hospital officials say Krueger is in satisfactory condition. Colleen Vanderhider, another student, was in the car with Miller when the acci dent occurred. She was taken to St. Joseph where she was treated for lacerations and released after observation. missing and seven were wounded, includ ing the French commander, Col. Jean Sal- van. Salvan was reported in serious condition in a Beirut hospital. The flare-up came two days after Israeli forces turned over 220 square miles of south Lebanon to the United Nations troops and withdrew to a “security line’’ three to six miles inside Lebanon. The French opened fire on guerrillas seeking to cross U.N. lines in at least two separate incidents arount Tyre, and Senegalese U.N. troops fired on two guer rillas in a third incident, U.N. officials in Beirut said. The attack on the French barracks, re portedly by guerrillas firing machine guns mounted on speeding jeeps, followed at least one of these clashes. “Palestinian elements opened fire on the French United Nations troops in the Tyre barracks and in the city of Tyre,’ the spokesman in New York said. “The French troops returned the fire. ” The exchange lasted for half an hour. Six French soldiers were wounded and one of them died two hours later. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim is sued a statement in New York that said he was “profoundly concerned” about the at tacks and “deeply anxious about the fate of those still missing. Waldheim dispatched the U.N. force commander, Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Erskine of Ghana, who was in New York for a Security Council meeting, back to Lebanon. The U.N. spokesman in New York said trouble began when Palestinian troops fired at a French vehicle two miles north east of Tyre. Beirut reports said the U.N. forces intercepted guerrillas trying to slip through their lines. * Want a bite? This colt, who will be three months old on May 13, is the first ever to be conceived as the result of an embryo transfer. Steve Vogelsang, a graduate animal science student, used three horses as part \of his research on embryo transfers in horses to get this unique colt. Last year. Eyes of Texas, a quarter horse stallion owned by TAMU Horse Center was bred to TAMU Rayetta, a quarter Battalion photo by Liz Baily horse mare also owned by the Horse Center. When the resulting embryo was a few days old, it was transferred into a quarter horse mare then owned by the TAMU Vet School. The colt is as yet unnamed and officials in the TAMU horse pro gram do not know if the American Quarter Horse Association will consent to register the colt even though it is purebred. Desegregation probe continues un Day speakers it kvarn of it to 1 I United Press International J I Americans across the nation greeted the ■sing sun Wednesday with cheers, danc- JP wg, prayers and speeches to celebrate Sun ■I if lay and launch a solar energy age. i Despite the lighthearted tone of the fes- ■ ra wities, there were serious notes as many leakers warned the nation faces a crisis if does not turn to solar energy from oil, tural gas, coal and nuclear power. Actor Robert Redford told a crowd of fellow solar energy enthusiasts in New lork’s United Nations Plaza that energy $1 ![|om the sun “can’t be embargoed by any • ll1 ' ' Rreign nation” and “isn’t subject to black- Lb 0r P ower failures. ” " ■ Barry Commoner, a leading solar advo- te, told a sunrise service at the Lincoln Jemorial that America’s need to switch to [fenewable energy sources is just as vital an isue in 1978 as the elimination of slavery as in the 1860s. President Carter and Energy Secretary Janies Schlesinger came in for sharp criti- LCism from members of Congress for their ilure to put more stress on solar energy . gf.and other renewable power supplies. Atop Cadillac Mountain in Maine, sev- , *|»[sral hundred hikers gathered before dawn if to greet the sun’s rays as they first touched Lb. wd the United States. Overcast skies blocked Hie dramatic sunrise the hikers hoped to Minority students interviewed crisis 7j .Vlfl lines a few years back at service stations during the gasoline shortage, the power blackout that crippled New York City last summer and the recent national coal strike. “In a solar society, he said, “even a major power failure would not turn out all the lights. The sun will always work. The sun will never increase its price on a heat ing bill. “It won’t pollute our air or foul our riv ers. Solar energy can’t be embargoed by any foreign nation. It isn’t subject to blackouts or power failures,” the actor said. Andrew Young, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, compared the solar movement to the civil rights movement, in which he was an active participant. Senate By MARILYN BROWN Health, Education and Welfare inves tigators continued their desegregation probe at Texas A&M University Wednes day in closed meetings with minority stu dents. HEW investigator Troy Coleman re fused to admit reporters to listen to the interviews. Coleman said he felt the presence of anyone outside the student organizations would impede the discussions by making the students fe£l inhibited about express ing their views. “We want the information to be as accu rate as possible, Coleman said. The investigators are meeting with stu dents from minority groups, athletics, stu dent government and with other student leaders. Coleman said he and Mimi Lee, another HEW investigator, are asking questions concerning admissions and recruitment of minority students, minority student per ceptions of financial aid, counseling and tutorial services available to them. The investigations are taking place in 18 colleges and universities in Texas, includ ing Prairie View A&M, Texas Tech, and the University of Texas. “If we find segregation is being prac ticed in Texas, all of the 150-plus institu tions of higher learning in the state will have to follow corrective action plans which will be laid out for the state,” Cole man said. “We want to ensure the actuality of equal educational opportunity,” he added. Investigators will return May 22 to meet with administrators. “These discussions are extremely seri ous,” said Special Assistant to the Presi dent Stephen Pringle. If segregation was found to exist and Texas A&M did not solve the problems, he said, it could ulti mately lead to a loss of federal funds. Coleman said the universities would have ample time to correct the situation before such an extreme measure would be taken. Larry Jarrett, president of Black Cul ture Advanced and Unified at Texas A&M, requests funds to save KAMU- FM vi,< .Lb. Sliced ■Jf,. ;d. ww pi u arietyof age if 3 see, but they performed an ancient Indian sun dance as the clouds turned bright at |:22 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Rep. Richard Ottinger, D-N.Y., told tile Maine gathering that the mid-30s chill |top 1,530-foot Cadillac Mountain was much the same reaction we get whenever to mention solar energy in Washington. ” In Washington, where the Sun Day movement was born, an estimated 500 people gathered on the steps of the Lin coln Memorial at 5:30 a.m. under a new non. They burst into cheers 48 minutes ter when the orange orb of the sun rose over the Reflecting Pool in a cloudless, leep blue sky. In St. Louis, about 200 gathered for a unrise service under the city’s Gateway frch beside the Mississippi River. Commoner told the Washington group t was fitting that their sunrise service ihould be held under the gaze of Abraham incoln’s statue. Slavery was ignored by Residents before Lincoln just as the need o turn to solar energy has been largely gnored by recent presidents, including Harter, he said. There is something as deep and as fun- lamental as the question of slavery that tands before the country, and it has to do vith solar energy,” Commoner said. “If Mr. Carter and Schlesinger won’t Salk about solar energy, it’s time that we did.” Light from Earth’s nearest star spilled through the girders of the 59th Street Bridge in New York to the “Sun-nnn- tmn-nnn” chant of about 500 people in the U.N. Plaza. Redford reminded his audience of long By ANDY WILLIAMS Battalion Staff The student senate asked Texas A&M Board of Regents to provide funds for KAMU-FM in a resolution passed Wed nesday night. President Jarvis Miller said last week that he planned to present a budget to the board which would force closure of the sta tion. The bill passed in a 56-1 vote. Senators also elected Tom Paterson executive vice president and Marc Watts judicial board chairman. The two were elected after a 10-minute executive session during which the vote was held. Speaker Johnny Lane offered to make the count of the vote public when it was stated that a private vote was in viola tion of the Texas Open Meetings Law. Lane said he had not known of the lav/. Both Paterson and Watts, nominated by Battalion photo by Ben Po Marc Watts (left) was elected judicial board chairman and Tom Paterson executive vice president at Wednesday’s student senate meeting. Student Body President Bobby Tucker, ran unopposed. A bill recommending the installation of washers and dryers in dormitories with no laundry facilities also passed. Kevin Patterson, sponsor of the bill, said a recent student government survey showed that many students found the present facilities unsatisfactory. Judy Rippel was appointed the new rec ording secretary by Lane. In other business, the senate approved a bill requiring candidates for office in elec tions run by the election commission to file a $1 filing fee. The election commission is authorized to run all student government election and races of any student organization which requests its aid. The senate defeated a bill which would have required the Athletic Department to provide closed circuit television coverage of home Texas A&M athletic events when more than 100 students were unable to get seats. The bill was designed to allow all pur chasers of the All-Sports Pass to see the games, according to senator John R. Ken nedy, sponsor of the legislation. Holding one of the $25 passes does not guarantee a seat to all basketball and baseball games. A bill failed that supported a system of classifying students for football ticket dis tribution by the first two digits of their ID cards. Students will continue to draw tick ets in an order determined by their number of credit hours. The senate failed by one vote to endorse a U.S. House bill that would give a tax credit for college tuition to middle-income families. The bill has not been approved by either house of the U.S. Congress. said Coleman asked general questions about the areas under investigation, and Lee asked personal questions which clarified points made by the students. Richard Lewis, a leader of the black group, said the main thrust of Wednes day’s meeting was admissions policies and recruitment of minority students. Lewis said he thought the main reason more black students don’t come to Texas A&M is a lack of communication between the school and prospective black students. “Blacks don t have a tradition or heri tage of coming here,” he said. Lewis said he thinks the admissions standards are fair, but they should be made more flexi ble because minority students as a group do not score as high as white students on college entrance tests. He said SAT tests are slanted toward the “white middle class environment,” making it more difficult for minority students to score the required 800. Lewis said he thinks the administration “should look at high school standings, the motivation of the individual, and other things. “The University has a probationary summer session system in which a student can enter Texas A&M without meeting the SAT requirement. If the student maintains a 2.0 Grade Point Ratio he can remain in school. Jarrett said one problem with this program is that few students know about it. Pringle said he feels no one should re ceive unfair treatment from the Univer sity, but neither should anyone receive special treatment. He said the administra tion is currently working with the Associa tion of Former Students to “set up mecha nisms to attract additional minority stu dents to A&M.” University officials maintian that Texas A&M is not segregated. Lewis said, “This University is going to have to desegregate. They’re going to have to recruit minority students with the same vigor with which they recruit black athletes.” He said the University needs to hire more black faculty members, to appoint a black assistant director for admissions, and to hire a black or Mexican-American re cruiter who can communicate with minor ity students and let them know about Texas A&M. Pringle said he thinks the social environment at Texas A&M doesn’t attract black students. He said Houston is the only large city near Texas A&M from which to draw minority students. The University of Houston and Texas Southern University provide much competition for qualified students, he added, and many choose to go to the Houston schools. Student leaders have complained that the administration did not properly notify them of the meetings. Lewis said he was asked the day before the meeting to gather some students. The group had to go to four conference rooms Wednesday before they could find the proper room in which the discussions were being held. Jarrett said members of the administra tion told him they didn’t know when the investigators were coming. “I simply didn’t know, Pringle said. However, Coleman said he wrote two letters last month to President Jarvis Mil ler’s office notifying them of the HEW visits. The letters asked the President to select student leader to meet with them, he said. He said the letter of April 26 said HEW would visit this weec and later in May. “The administration has oeen nebulous—they’ve been anything but irect with us,” Jarrett said. Duval political machine lives United Press International SAN DIEGO, Texas — The Duke of Duval, George B. Parr, is dead. His nephew. Archer, is behind bars. Two of the Carrillo brothers and several other former movers and shakers of the Duval County political machine also are in prison. But the same tumultuous style of poli tics that marked the political machine lives on in the upcoming election. Charges of dirty politics already have surfaced and Texas Rangers and state poll watchers likely will be in place again this election, as they have been for decades. Democracy has been slow coming to Duval County. Frank J. Garcia, 41, a can didate for county judge in Saturday’s Democratic primary, contends it still has not arrived — that former Rep. Oscar Car rillo still has his hand in county govern ment. Incumbent Judge Gilbert Uresti, how ever, contends his administration has been “democracy in action.” Both county judge candidates accuse the other of being supported by the machine. “I’ve got a good clean record,” Uresti said. “All my opponent can do is attack my record because he doesn’t have a record. If there is a political machine in this county, it’s supporting him (Garcia), not me.” Walter Meek, former long-time county clerk and lifelong friend of the later elder Parr, questions whether democracy can work in a county where a predominantly Spanish-speaking population containing many illiterates and impoverished families left government to a strong leader for six decades. Meek says all three years out from under the heavy handed rule of the Parrs land Carrillos has done for the county is elect “a bunch of incompetents,” headed by Uresti, and leave a large power vacuum that has yet to be filled. “Democracy is not all it’s cracked up to be,” says. Meek, 77.