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Battalion
Baseball in Bologna
The United States baseball team, coached by Texas A&M’s Tom
Chandler, are 4-0 in the XXV World Amateur Baseball Championship
Tournament in Italy. See the story on page 13.
Vol. 71 No. 191
16 Pages
Wednesday, August 30, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
iJixon won't attend
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By SCOTT PENDLETON
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Obviously, Richard Nixon and Leon
ivorski aren’t the best of friends.
Yet they might have met again if Nixon
daccepted Texas A&M University’s in-
iation to a dinner honoring retiring con-
essman Olin E. Tiger’ Teague.
Jaworski is master of ceremonies of the
lipt. 16 dinner at Texas A&M.
Nixon has not replied to the University,
it an administrative official said he did
II Teague that he would not be attend-
Steve Pringle, assistant to the presi-
Bnfs office at Texas A&M, said that
■ither Nixon nor other prominent na-
mal figures who were invited actually
'The main thing I wanted to do was
ut together a book of letters of apprecia-
| on to present Mr. Teague,’ Pringle said,
resent Mr. Teague, Pringle said.
copy of the invitation sent to Presi-
ent Carter said “letters of appreciation
id gratitude are to be bound and pres-
jyjjl ited to Mr. Teague at the dinner."
* Teague’s Washington office sent Texas
&M a “friends list consisting of a box of
kit 2,500 addressed envelopes. In-
tations were mailed in these, and 1,000
ire to a “university contingent includ-
farmer students and guests at Presi-
■nt Miller’s inauguration ceremonies,
said.
Nixon’s name was not one of the 2,500
Slj*
Carter and Ford will not attend but will
send letters for the book. Ladybird will be
out of the country, but will send a letter,
Pringle said.
He explained that Jaworski was invited
to be master of ceremonies of the dinner
long before the guest invitations were
sent.
“After we realized the possibility of hav
ing both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Jaworski
present, we discussed these things with
Mr. Teague at length,” Pringle said. "He
said that would have been an opportunity
to look forward and let bygones be
bygones and make America a better place
to live.”
Jaworski has been doing anything but
letting bygones be bygones.
“Nixon’s treatment of Watergate in his
book constitutes a masterpiece of evasion,
self-serving declarations, distortion of facts
and erroneous conclusions,’ Jaworski said
in an interview that appeared Sunday in
Parade Magazine.
Jaworski refused to buy a copy of Nix
on’s memoirs “because I knew the man is
incapable of admitting guilt and telling the
complete truth and I am in no way going to
contribute to his royalties. He’s already
living high off the hog with a pension and
benefits at taxpayer’s expense,” the article
said.
Carter death threat
found by motel maid
Heave!
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
mt by Teague s office to the University.
:M0N! iut they have been and still are friends,
ringle said, despite Watergate.
There’s been a lot of discussion about
iviting Mr. Nixon, like it was a very well
iought out process,” Pringle said. “But
iron was not singled out to receive an
mlation. We invited a\\ the chief execu
te officers still alive who served with Mr.
eague. ’’
The University also invited President
arter, former President Gerald Ford,
ad former first lady Ladybird Johnson.
United Press International
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — A motel maid
told police she found a death threat against
President Carter scrawled on a mirror
Monday and that the man in the room
pistol-whipped her and fled, authorities
said Tuesday.
The Secret Service said it was looking
for a man whose description was given by
the maid.
President Carter is scheduled to board
his plane at the Idaho Falls airport Wed
nesday for the flight back to Washington.
Kathe Wagoner, a maid at the Idaho
Falls Ramada Inn, said she went into the
bathroom of a guest’s room Monday to
clean up.
She said the first thing she saw was the
scrawled message on the mirror saying,
“The President will die Thursday. In the
lower right corner there was a picture of
Carter with an “X” across his face.
She said she laid her keys down and
went into the bedroom portion of the room
where she saw the man with a pistol. She
quoted him as saying, “You shouldn’t have
come in here.”
She said he then hit her on the head
with the pistol, knocking her unconscious.
The man was described as being dressed
in a tailored suit and wearing a flashy
necktie. He had an Eastern accent, the
maid said.
Ms. Wagoner was not seriously injured.
Secret Service agents and hotel em
ployees refused to disclose the name of the
person registered in the room.
Carter, vacationing in Wyoming Tues
day, will be in Washington Thursday pre
paring for a meeting with Egyptian Presi
dent Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minis
ter Menachem Begin.
Workers strain against a heavy-duty jack to lift
one of the temporary barracks buildings on Ire
land Street. Four of the buildings will be jacked
up and moved about 100 feet east of their present
location, soon to be the site of the new Academic
Agency Building. The J. R. Neatherlin Co., of
Houston, which employs these workers, will move
the first of those buildings today.
Governors call Carter
decision ‘severe blow’
New accounting rules
force oil, gas disclosures
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Securities and
Exchange Commission Tuesday unani-
kfliously approved new accounting rules
hat would force the nation’s petroleum
companies to disclose to the government
and investors all gas and oil reserves.
“This industry has not been very forth-
aoming in its reporting” of reserves, SEC
Chairman Harold Williams told a news
^inference.
Civil rights suit
names judges
iHT
Williams said the new disclosures will
allow government officials and the invest
ing public to make judgments on oil and
gas reserves using a uniform data base.
It will take about three years to put into
place the new accounting procedures,
Williams said.
Currently, the oil and gas industry uses
two sets of books to keep track of their
reserves — one for the public and the sec
ond for internal purposes and financial
interests.
The first showed proven or “known” re
serves and successful exploration opera
tions while the alternative method showed
exploration, dry holes and forecast the po
tential of reserves not classified as
“known. ”
“Historically,” said an SEC staft report,
“neither method was standardized and
numerous variations of each method have
been developed. This diversity in financial
accounting practices has been a matter of
controversy for many years. ”
The SEC was directed by the 1975
Energy Policy and Conservation Act to
come up with a uniform accounting
method that would allow for an accurate
measure of oil and gas reserves.
The new rules were adopted after the
commission and its staff heard 97 witnes
ses during 12 days of public hearings in
Washington and Houston.
United Press International
BOSTON - Farm state governors un
happy with President Carter’s decision in
creasing the amount of foreign beef on the
U.S. market Tuesday convinced their col
leagues to toughen their criticism of his
action.
The National Governors Association on
a voice vote unanimously adopted a propo
sal calling Carter’s decision “a severe
blow” to the cattle industry.
On Monday, a milder resolution was
approved by the group’s Agriculture
Committee, but it was redrafted overnight
because farm state governors, led by Re
publican Robert Bennett of Kansas,
thought it was too mild.
Carter recently decided to allow 200
million additional pounds of foreign beef
into the United States in what he said was
an effort to lower consumer meat prices.
Cattlemen said the move robbed them of a
chance to make back some of the money
they have lost in recent years.
The governor’s resolution said,“We
share the president’s concern about con
sumer prices and about controlling infla
tion. We believe, however, that the in
crease in beef imports will do little to
lower food prices for consumers — as
shown by the fact that prices at the meat
counter have not dropped. The increase in
import quotas, in fact, could very well
have the oppposite effect, lowering live
stock numbers and raising the price of
meat in the future.”
Gov. J. James Exon, D-Neb., who
heads the agriculture panel, told the clos
ing session of the conference, “Never are
we going to have success in agriculture if
we have government control of agricul
ture. Allow the free market system to
work.
Bennett, whose staff drew up the
tougher statement, said during an inter
view farm state governors felt Carter de
cided to increase beef imports “to make
the American people think he was con
cerned about the cost of living. ”
He said he felt Carter decided to use
farmers and cattlemen as a “whipping boy”
in order to increase his popularity with
other groups.
Bennett said the original proposal had
been “badly watered down by staff mem
bers who drafted the language. He
wouldn’t say who came up with the “unac
ceptable” language, but speculated it was
done by aides trying to reach a common
ground they thought was acceptable to all
sides.
“In this event they watered it down to
such a point that it might as well not be
passed,” he said.
Bennett said some officials had said Car
ter’s recent statement he would not raise
the import limit further was good enough,
but he felt the stronger NGA position was
needed.
“Some feel that is enough, but I don t
think there’s any harm by saying we don t
support use of farmers and cattlemen as
political pawns,” Bennett said.
Gunman kills editor
United Press International
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A gun
man shot and killed prominent Argentine
editor and former politician Horacio
Agulla late Monday night, police sources
said Tuesday.
The sources said the attacker got out of a
taxi, stuck a gun into Agulla’s car and fired
several point-blank shots.
Agulla, the 49-year-old editor of Con-
firmado magazine, died immediately, they
said. The police sources said they were
trying to determine if the assassination
was carried out by terrorists or common
criminals.
They said Agulla was parking in front of
the home of friends when a taxi pulled in
front of his car and another vehicle pulled
in back, blocking any possible path of es
cape.
The killer then got out of the taxi,
walked up to the editor’s car, calmly stuck
a gun through a window and fired several
shots.
He then jumped back in the taxi which
along with the other car sped off, the
sources said.
Agulla, married and the father of three
children, began a long political career in
Cordoba, 440 miles northwest of Buenos
Aires.
He was a provincial representative and a
federal supervisor of Santa Cruz province
and later took part in the creation of the
Popular Federalist Confederation Party in
1971.
United Press International
HOUSTON — Civil rights lawyers have
filed a federal court suit accusing Harris
County Criminal District Court judges of
improperly pressuring defendants into
pleading guilty.
The American Civil Liberties Union suit
filed Monday named Judges Shelly Han
cock and Neil McKay as representative
local judges and charged they “deny free
lawyers to needy defendants if the defen
dants are free on bond.”
Hancock denied the charges, saying he
occasionally granted free court-appointed
legal counsel to defendants free on bond.
He cited a pregnant woman on welfare as
an example. McKay could not be reached
for comment.
“In general, if a man is out on bond, he
is not entitled to a court-appointed attor
ney,” Hancock said, calling the charges of
improper pressure “not true.”
The suit said some county judges, in ef
fect, force defendants to choose between
remaining free on bond or insisting on a
court-appointed lawyer, a privilege nor
mally reserved for persons with no finan
cial resources.
“Many criminal defendants plead solely
because the court will not appoint counsel
and they are unable to retain an attorney
with private resources,” the suit said.
Blood test detects marijuana
\
Over $14 million
in cocaine seized
United Press International
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Customs of
ficials said Tuesday they have arrested a
Tennessee woman arriving at San Juan’s
international airport from South America
with the largest single hand-carried ship
ment of cocaine in memory.
Efrain Picon Jr., acting director of the
U.S. Customs Service at Isla Verde air
port, identified the suspect as Betty J. In
man, 38, of Nashville. Picon said Miss
Inman was arrested last Friday as she ar
rived in Puerto Rico on a regular flight
from Caracas, Venezuela. He added a
routine check of her suitcases revealed 47
pounds of cocaine, valued by the Customs
Service at $14.3 million.
Picon said customs agents at the airport
couldn’t remember ever confiscating such
a large quantity of cocaine from a single
passenger.
He said Miss Iman was turned over to
Drug Enforcement Agency personnel and
taken before U.S. Magistrate Juan Perez
Gimenez, who set bail on the drug charge
at $1 million. She was jailed when she
could not raise the bail.
It was learned, meanwhile, that customs
personnel kept Miss Inman’s arrest secret
and held up the announcement for four
days while they tried to set a trap tor the
persons to whom the drugs were supposed,
to be delivered. Apparently, the attempt
failed.
United Press International
CHICAGO — When Illinois traf
fic officers stop reckless drivers with
glassy eyes, strange smiles and
wisps of smoke in their cars, officials
may be able to prove they were
driving under the influence of
marijuana.
Given an ounce of blood, the Il
linois Department of Public Health
could tell the officials the story.
The department is offering a test
that can detect marijuana in the
bloodstream, something never be
fore offered for police use, a de
partment official said Monday.
The test, which detects the pres
ence of marijuana’s active chemical,
delta-9-tetra hydracannabinol, or
THC, was developed at the IDPH’s
toxicology lab in Chicago, said Dr.
John Spikes, chief toxicologist for
the department.
It will enable police and coroners
to determine whether a person was
under the influence of marijuana at
the time the blood sample was
taken, Spikes said.
“The test is open to any law
enforcement agency in Illinois, on a
service basis,” he said. “They are
welcome to send in a (blood) sam
ple.”
Other labs around the country are
using similar techniques, but only
on a research basis.
Previous detection methods were
able to determine only if a person
had used marijuana sometime in the
past, Spikes said. But the new tech
nique, which took about a year to
develop, tests the blood for the time
the sample is taken.
Toxicologists use organic solvents
to extract THC and a few other
chemicals from the blood sample.
The extract is then dried, added to
ethyl alcohol, and run through a gas
chromatograph to separate the THC
from the other substances.
The suspected THC is then bom
barded with an ionic beam in a mass
spectrometer, and scientists can
compare the way the bombarded
chemical breaks up under the beam
with the way THC is known to disin
tegrate, Spikes said. If they are
alike, the test is positive.
“It’s a good, strong test,” he said.
Dr. Paul Q. Peterson, depart
ment director, said legal guidelines
regulating search and detection pro
cedures — similar to guidelines for
alcohol detection — are needed for
the new test.
The U.S. Supreme Court has up
held the right of police to have
blood samples withdrawn from per
sons under proper conditions.
Spikes said his lab is now working
on a test that could determine not
only if — but to what extent — a
person was under the influence of
the drug at the time the blood sam
ple was taken.
That test could become necessary
if laws are passed establishing “ac
ceptable” limits of marijuana levels
in the blood for drivers or others,
such as those laws used now for al
cohol levels, Spikes said.