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.
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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
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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
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■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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.