The Battalion
Vol. 71 No. 154
12 Pages
Wednesday, May 10, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Wednesday
H ow the TAMU administration
deals with rape cases p. 3
College Station — the place to play
p. 4
Previews of the SWC baseball tour
nament p. 11
Prairie View A&M plans
10,000-watt radio station
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Monkey business
Graduate student Toni Ziegler of Dallas shows off one of her
wards, a marmoset monkey recently born at Texas A&M as part of a
biomedical research and teaching colony established last year.
Ziegler, other veterinary anatomy students and a variety of Texas
A&M researchers will benefit from the colony since the monkeys
are on the endangered species list and foreign countries have stop
ped selling them to American dealers and institutions.
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Battulion Staff
While Texas A&M University stands a
good chance of losing its FM radio station,
Prairie View A&M is planning to open a
new one.
Prairie View’s station, KPVU, is slated
to be non-commercial and to operate at a
frequency of 91.3. It will have 10,000
watts of power, according to Shirley
Staples, head of the Department of Mass
Communications at the school.
The proposed budget for Texas A&M in
the 1978-79 school year does not include
sufficient funds for its 3,000-watt station,
KAMU-FM, to operate. Officials say the
1.7 percent increase in University operat
ing funds is not enough to support the sta
tion and a growing student body. The
budget will be presented to the Board of
Regents for final approval at their June 8-9
meeting.
The possible closing of KAMU-FM is
not the cause of the opening of the new
station, said Adolph Koenig, an official in
the broadcast facilities division of the De
partment of Health, Education and Wel
fare in Washington, D.C.
If KAMU-FM is closed it will be be
cause of a lack of funds from the Texas
A&M budget, not because of a cessation of
HEW funds.
Prairie View officials are uncertain when
construction will begin on KPVU.
“I see that (opening the station) at least a
year away,” said Dr. C.A. Wood, director
of student publications at Prairie View
A&M and official in charge of publicity
concerning the station.
According to HEW regulations, the sta
tion must be operating by January 1980.
“They have a two-year period from the
date the grant is made to put this thing on
the air, Koenig said. He said a $125,000
grant had been given to Prairie View A&M
Jan. 3 to install a station. He said the
school was required to match the grant
with $44,351 and that construction costs
should amount to around $170,000.
“Broadcasting” magazine reported that
the Federal Communications Commission
granted Prairie View A&M a construction
permit Jan. 23.
Staples said that the station will base its
programming on the results of a survey to
be taken throughout the broadcasting area
of KPVU. She said the prime aim of the
station would be “providing first-class
educational programming to Prairie View
and the surrounding counties.”
Staples said the projected operating
budget for the station for the first year is
$60,800. Don Simons, manager of
KAMU-FM, said the 1977-78 budget for
the Texas A&M station was $115,000. The
operating budgets of both stations are
funded by their universities.
Asked how Prairie View A&M can afford
to operate a radio station, Staples said she
viewed the funding decision as a problem
of priorities
“It’s not a matter of cost, it’s a matter of
wanting it,” she said.
In contrast, Texas A&M officials say
binding does matter.
A Texas A&M University News release
said that state funds for the 1978-79 Texas
A&M budget were appropriated last year
and based on outdated enrollment
figures.
The appropriations are based on a com
plex system in which a certain amount is
alloted to a state university for each stu
dent, with the amounts varying for types
of students. For instance, an engineering
student is considered to be more expen
sive to a university than a liberal arts stu
dent.
Enrollment at Texas A&M has increased
from about 21,500 in 1975 to 29,414 this
spring. Prairie View A&M’s has incresed
from about 4,900 to 5,100 in the same
period.
“The University administration was ad-
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oro found shot to death
United Press International
I ROME — Former Premier Aldo Moro,
Italy’s most influential politician, Tuesday
Bas found shot to death in an auto near the
city’s Communist Party headquarters, 55
days after he was kidnapped by Red
Brigades terrorists.
B Moro’s body, with at least four bullet
wounds in the shcest, was found in the
par compartment of a red French-built
lenault parked about 1000 yards from the
lommunist Party office and a few hundred
ds from his own Christian Democratic
rty headquarters.
First medical reports said Moro had
been dead no more than 24 and no less
than 10 hours before his body was found,
police said the terrorists first shot Moro
and then redressed him in the same clo
thing he was wearing at the time of his
abduction. There were no bullet holes in
either his shirt or suit.
The body was found after police re
ceived an anonymous telephone call say
ing a car rigged with a time bomb had
been parked near the Communist office.
But police found no bomb.
Moro, 61, had been premier of Italy five
times, his last term of office ending in
early 1976. He was considered the most
enure big factor
in Briscoe defeat
00
■ . United Press International
I AUSTIN, Tex. — Political observers say
~~ J jit was the prospect of a too-long tenure,
ptding support of farmers and Mexican-
Imericans and a mini-scandal that ended
Dolph Briscoe’s career as governor.
Despite spending a record $3 million in
Re Democratic primary, Briscoe was de
feated by Attorney General John Hill.
Briscoe, seeking a four-year term which
iwould have given him an unprecedented
10 years in the Governor’s Mansion, took
jnly 41.6 percent of the vote.
Now, like an impolite guest who wears
Jut his hosts’ hospitality, Briscoe finds
himself unceremoniously invited to leave.
Hill and Briscoe aides alike pointed to
[the 10-year issue as the key factor in the
lection.
“We had great difficulty in overcoming
is 10-year thing,” said George Christian,
olitical consultant to Briscoe and former
Iress secretary to President Lyndon
I p Johnson.
I “Just the general feeling that it was time
fcr a change was prevalent. He was carry-
■ng six years of incumbency into this race,
{ |and that gets to be a pretty heavy load.
Briscoe, apparently buoyed by large
rowds at his campaign stops, did not rec-
ignize the change in voter attitudes.
Briscoe emphasized his record of keep-
ng down taxes but his incumbency did not
^ve him the advantage. Christian said
)olls months ago revealed trouble with
mly 38 to 39 percent of voters supporting
he governor’s re-election bid.
Any time an incumbent shows up in
he polls with less than 40 percent you re
n trouble because traditionally the unde-
ided vote doesn’t go to the incumbent,”
Christian said.
The people knew Briscoe well. It
wasn’t a question of not knowing him. We
ust failed to convince enough people that
it was best for the state for him to be in
ffice four more years.”
Ernest Stromberger, Hill’s press secre
tary, agreed.
“Essentially they were dead when they
started,” Stromberger said. “After four
years of Preston Smith and six years of
Briscoe the people were ready for some
one who could make things happen.”
Even Hill’s campaign staff was surprised
at his victory margin, however, particu
larly the 2-to-l vote against Briscoe in
some rural areas and Hill’s lead in tra
ditional Briscoe strongholds of South
Texas.
Hill’s campaign manager, John Rogers,
said the attorney general’s role in negotiat
ing the release of farmers arrested at a pro
test in McAllen was a key factor in his sur
prising victory in the Panhandle area.
Caravans led by Hill’s wife and children
that traveled 13,400 miles campaigning in
rural areas also contributed to his surpris
ing showing.
“We did a lot better in all the rural areas
than we should have, Stromberger said.
Also credited with supplying Hill’s win
ning margin were teachers unhappy about
Briscoe’s opposition to their pay raise de
mands and Mexican-Americans disturbed
about issues as disparate as educational
equality and a controversial plan to put a
new prison near Edinburg are credited for
Hill’s margin.
“The teachers were probably the differ
ence between a runoff and election, ” Ro
gers said. “They manned phone commit
tees in 85 different cities that we know
about. That was undoubtedly a 2-or-3
point difference in the campaign just to get
out the vote.”
Briscoe and Hill campaign analysts are
less certain about what affected the
Mexican-American vote.
“We failed to carry the Mexican-
American vote which we expected to get
in San Antonio, Corpus, the Valley or
anywhere, ’ Christian said. “The
Mexican-American vote has always been a
strong Briscoe vote. This time we lost
Webb County — Briscoe carried that even
in 1968 in his first unsuccessful race for
governor.”
A scandal over management of federal
Manpower programs in South Texas that
led to indictments of two Briscoe aides and
criticism of the Governor’s Office of Mi
grant Affairs contributed to the incum
bent’s problems.
likely successor to Giovanni Leone as
president of the republic in elections
later this year.
The police announcement of Moro’s
death brought an outpouring of na
tionwide grief and anger reminiscent of
the dark days in the United States after the
assassination of President John F. Ken
nedy in 1963.
Television announcers sobbed as they
reported that Moro’s body, swathed in
plaid blankets, had been found. Romans
thronged into the streets and poured into
churches to pray.
The news sent shock waves around the
world.
In Washington, President Carter said
“his murder is a contemptible and cow
ardly act. His death advances no cause but
that of mindless anarchy.”
Both houses of the French parliament
suspended their sessions. The European
parliament in Strasbourg observed a min
ute of silence and adjourned its session.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau expressed “anguish and sorrow”
vised that the FM operation had the low
est priority,” the Texas A&M news release
states. “On the basis of that assessment,
the possibility has been advanced of dis
continuing the radio service to allow
maximum funding of television service.”
Since that time, President Jarvis Miller
has approved a budget which would force
closure of KAMU-FM.
Simons said that no mention had been
made of transferring the equipment from
KAMU-FM to KPVU. Koenig said that if
KAMU-FM is permanently unable to go
back on the air, it is possible that the ma
terials would revert to HEW. He said that
it would depend on several factors, mainly
whether other use can be made of the
equipment. The situation is “not as if it is
going to be repossessed,” Koenig said.
Students no longer
in intensive
care
Two Texas A&M University students
have been removed fiom intensive care at
Methodist Hospital’s neuro-sensory center
in Houston, and have been placed in in
termediate care at the hospital.
Barbara Miller and Cynthia Hertz were
rushed to Houston April 28 with head in
juries they suffered in a head-on collision
west of College Station on FM 60. Three
other Texas A&M students were injured in
the wreck and have been released from St.
Joseph Hospital in Bryan.
Both Miller and Hertz are in fair condi
tion. Hertz was listed in serious condition
until early this week.
Miller has been in fair condition the
entire time at the hospital, but was kept in
intensive care until this week.
Both are conscious and in some pain,
but their vital signs are within normal
limits, said a hospital spokesperson.
The two were in opposite cars when the
wreck occurred. Hertz was in a car with
Gary Woodring, also a student, when it
collided with a tractor-trailer truck, skid
ded almost sidewasy down the highway,
and glanced off the car containing Miller
and two other students.
Edwards wants recount
of all Canadians and West German
Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
condemned the dilling as “cowardly mur
der.” News of Moro’s death broke shortly
after 9 a.m. EST and almost immediately a
crowd of about 5,000 persons, many of
them wailing and crying, converged on the
site where the body was found.
Police and riot-equipped troopers had
to use force to keep the crowds back
while army sappers checked the car and
Moro’s body for possible booby-trap
bombs.
Thousands gathered on the cobblestone
Piazza del Gesu outside Christian Demo
cratic headquarters chanting, “Death to
the reds, death to Curcio.” Renato Curcio,
founder of the Red Brigades underground
guerrilla army which kidnapped Moro, is
on trial with 13 other brigade members in
Turin.
A considerable quantity of sand was
found in the cuffs of his dark trousers, in
dicating Moro had been forced to walk or
had been dragged along a beach before
being shot.
By United Press International
BRYAN, Texas —A district judge Tuesday
night ordered a recount in the 6th Con-
gressional District Democratic primary, a
move requested by candidate Chet Ed
wards.
Edwards, who near-complete figures
showed to be 471 votes behind leader Ron
Godbey and 55 ballots behind second-
place finisher Phil Gramm, filled for the
recount about 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The recount order was issued by 85th
District Judge John M. Barron Sr. a short
firhe later.
The 6th Congressional District primary
is the closest of congressional primaries
this year, with the three top candidates all
receiving votes in the 22,000 range in their
bids to succeed 32-year veteran Olin
Teague, D.-Texas.
An election official said he expected the
recount could be completed within two
days.
No official winner has yet been declared
in the race as the state Democratic com
mittee has not certified the election.
In near-complete figures released late
Monday, Ron Godbey had 22,743 votes
with Phil Gramm close with 22,327, fol
lowed by Chet Edwards with 22,272.
Lagging behind were Don McNeil, Kay
Jones and Bill Power.
“If the current vote totals hold up, I will
be in a runoff with Ron Godbey,” Gramm
said late Monday at College Station. “I
personally hope that there will be no re
count as I believe the loss of time will give
Godbey an advantage.”
Mexico credited for
drug overdose drop
Battalion photo by J. Wagner Tynes
Is it a bird, a plane ?
Worrying over (Inals didn’t seem to stop this high-diver from hurl
ing himself from the 10-meter board at Wofford Cain Pool Tues
day. Or perhaps he had just flunked a crucial test and he was
trying to....
United Press International
WASHINGTON — White House and
state government officials Tuesday praised
Mexico’s war on narcotics and urged Con
gress to streamline their own operations.
Peter Bourne, special assistant to the
president for health issues, credited the
Mexican government’s efforts to destroy
marijuana crops for the drop in American
drug overdose deaths and scarcity of pure
marijuana.
“Most of the credit goes to the vigorous
eradication program the Mexicans have
implemented,’ Bourne told a Senate
foreign relations sub-committee.
Attorney General Toney Anaya of New
Mexico, who called his state “a conduit for
drug traffic,” said “I certainly commend
the Mexican government for the support
they have provided.
But U.S. federal efforts are another mat
ter, Anaya said.
“Congress is going to have to streamline
its attack against narcotics coming across
the border,” he said. “We should be able
to declare war on narcotics traffic as
Mexico has.”
Anaya said there are so many federal
agencies involved in the campaign against
drug traffic that some agents “try to trip up
other agencies.”
“Hopefully we have been able to put an
end to this kind of jealousy,” he said. “But
we have a long way to go to get everyone
pulling together. We still have a long way
to go in coming to grips with the prob
lem. ”
Anaya said Congress should give finan
cial support to Mexico’s efforts to find suit
able replacement crops for Mexican
marijuana cultivators.
He said Mexico “is committed to eradi
cation of the marijuana crops. They are
trying to identify and locate the labs in
Mexico. They are developing an intelli
gence network that will be on lone in a few
months. This is very key, and should be
supported.”
Bourne said he agreed with Anaya’s
general views. But he cautioned that “ex
pectations about what we can do in inter
dicting drugs at the border should not be
raised too high.”
Bourne said the administration is con
cerned about eradicating marijuana while
it is growing, treatment of drug addicts,
and a crackdown on sellers.
D.R. Dickerson, deputy commissioner
of the U.S. Customs Service, estimated
between 50 and 75 aircraft “cross our air
space on any given day delivering narco
tics.”
Dickerson said the job of seizing the
massive drug traffic from Mexico is stag
gering. But he said last year, American
agencies seized 1.6 million pounds of
marijuana, 16,000 pounds of hashish, 300
pounds of heroin and 951 pounds of
cocaine along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Keith Stroup, national director of the
National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws, denounced the use of the
herbicide paraquat on Mexican marijuana
fields, claiming it poisons American
marijuana smokers.
Calling it “nothing less than a form of
cultural genocide,” Stroup said, “Appar
ently the government believes that be
cause marijuana remains classified as an
illicit substance in most parts of this coun
try, they can justify a program of poisoning
U.S. citizens who smoke marijuana.”
Anaya said,” Mexican officials are taking
additional steps to avoid any health prob
lems, but at this point they are not con
vinced there are any.”
Police dog
subpoenaed in
brutality case
United Press International
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — The arresting
officer’s reply to charges of mistreating a
suspect is likely to be brief.
Sultan is somewhat different from the
other officers on the force. He’s a police
dog— not a misnamed German shepherd,
but a Doberman pincher who serves on
the police force.
He was subpoenaed recently to appear
in the trial of a robbery suspect he helped
arrest.
The suspect is charging police brutality.
He allegedly was bitten by a Sultan, who
is, after all, a police brute.
The officer who handles Sultan, Bobby
George, served the subpoena on the
Doberman, who confirmed receipt with an
inky paw print, promising to appear in
Vista Superior Court June 5.
“At least we don’t have to pay him time
and a half for overtime,” said Police Chief
Rolf Henze.