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| (W iSHINGTON — President Carter,
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fcjnday warning that “compromises will
Handatory” by the United States, Israel
[Egypt if a crucial summit meeting is to
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|out them no progress can be
1,” Carter said before boarding his
ipter on the south lawn of the White
|se for a mid-day flight to the presiden-
retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin
fountains.
lo one can insure the degree of suc-
i|\ve might enjoy,’ Carter told a crowd
r hite House officials and reporters,
’here is no cause for excessive op-
but there is no cause for despair.’
Hr said he was encouraged to the de-
that both President Sadat and Israeli
refnier Menachem Begin are determined
lake progress.
ter said during the Camp David con-
[nce — which is being billed by aides as
ended — the principals will retire
ito seclusion from events in the outside
irld to make an unprecedented effort to
ik the Middle East stalemate.
iVery important decisions will be made
Tis. working with our advisers, for peace
[lie Middle East,” Carter said.
hile he did not allude to the specific
iblems ahead, Carter said “the issues
complicated, and the disagreements
deep.
he three leaders will attempt to work
it a "framework for peace” in the Middle
|st, based on three key issues dominat-
that region.
The nature of peaceful relations that
would exist between Israel and its
neighbors in a peace settlement.
—The question of Israeli withdrawal
from occupied territories and the security
arrangements that would accompany that
withdrawal.
—The settlement of issues dealing with
the Palestinian dimension of the Arab-
Israeli conflict.
During his absence, Carter said Con
gress would have the opportunity to make
important decisions, specifically on energy
legislation that has been stalled for
months.
Before entering the helicopter, Carter
appealed to the American people and the
people of the world to pray for the suc
cessful outcome of the summit talks.
Begin and Sadat are due to fly to Wash
ington Tuesday, and meet Carter Tuesday
afternoon at Camp David.
But chances for a major breakthrough
were slight, with many observers saying a
statement of principles — no matter how
vaguely worded — for an overall peace
settlement is the most that can be
achieved.
Some say Carter may have to settle for
less — such as a simple declaration by the
Israeli and Egyptian leaders to resume the
currently stalemated negotiations.
Carter was heading for the secluded,
heavily guarded mountaintop retreat at
noon Monday. Begin flew to New York
City Sunday to meet with Jewish leaders
and rest up for the summit, and was
scheduled to arrive at Andrews Air Force
Base Tuesday afternoon and go by helicop
ter to Camp David.
Sadat was flying directly to Washington
from Cairo Tuesday, also to be taken by
helicopter to the retreat.
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United Press International
[HOUSTON — Rosalynn Carter, mak-
her first campaign appearance in two
irs, Monday used the traditional Labor
^holiday as an occasion to pump up the
sident’s sagging political image in a
■ Hite that helped send him to the White
• [House.
I ^The partisan political tour — paid for by
Democratic party and participating
ndidates — was aimed principally at
osting Congressman Bob Krueger’s vis-
ility in his race against 18-year Senate
teran. Republican John Tower.
Krueger accompanied the first lady on
whirlwind three-city tour.
, JShe also made appearances on behalf of
Helson Wolff’s match against Republican
• »mn Loeffler in the San Antonio area; the
mallas match between Jim Mattox and
! fformer Nixon White House staffer Tom
lauken and incumbent Democrat Bob
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Gammage of Houston’s race against Dr.
Ron Paul in Houston.
But at each occasion Mrs. Carter spoke
of her husband and the Carter administra
tion’s goals of doing more and doing it bet
ter for the people.
“Jimmy Carter is a fighter and he
doesn’t give up,” she said to responsive
Democrat crowds in all three cities.
“What he doesn’t get this year (in ad
ministration programs) he’ll be be back
with next year. This what we all want. We
have our opportunities and obligations to
the people. Working together we can
make our country a better place than it
already is,” she said.
In Houston, after her appearance at the
beer garden, Mrs. Carter attended a
$25-a-head reception for Gammage at Rice
University, then met with Gammage cam
paign workers at a third stop before flying
back to Washington.
exas holiday deaths
mong nation’s worst
United Press International
AUSTIN - From a comparatively safe
beginning, the Labor Day holiday in Texas
las turned out to be one of the most
leadly in the nation.
Fi ■ !■ Before the weekend began at 6 p.m.
I I ■riday the Department of Public Safety
I I wad predicted 43 persons would die in traf-
r n
Students urged
to register now
Citing the continuing possibility
of a mail strike or slow-down, the
Educational Testing Service has ad
vised students planning to take ad
missions tests for graduate and pro
fessional schools to register for them
immediately.
Pre-law adviser Professor J.M.
Nance says if applications are de
layed in the mail, it could be impos
sible for students to take the test
when they want.
Registration deadlines include:
—the Medical College Admission
Test, Sept. 1
—Dental Admission Test, Sept.
11
—Law School Admission Test,
Sept. 14
—Graduate Management Admis
sion Test, Sept. 21
—Graduate Record Examination,
Sept. 28.
Late registration deadlines are
generally one week after the regular
deadlines.
He accidents by midnight Monday, but in
the early hours of the holiday it appeared
that estimate might be excessive.
Sunday, however, the reports started
flowing in from across the state and the
death count started to climb toward the
number the DPS projected.
By midmorning Sunday the Texas toll
already was 37. Only California, with its
traditionally high death toll, exceeded the
Texas number. At midmorning Sunday the
California fatality list was at 48.
Although most of the deaths were re
corded in single and multipule car crashes,
at least five pedestrians were hit by cars
and were killed, three died in motorcycle
accidents and another one was killed in a
car-bicycle accident.
Three infant children also died during
the weekend; one falling out of a moving
car, another was backed over by a driver
and the third died in a two-car collision.
The Texas Department of Public Safety
blamed alcohol and speeding for the state’s
high number of fatalities and began issuing
warnings as early as Saturday for motorists
to slow down and stop drinking and driv-
ing-
“I would suspect we re going to get
pretty close to the estimate before it’s all
over, ” said DPS spokesman Jim Robinson.
“If people would slow down and avoid
drinking we perhaps can turn this thing
around.”
The DPS said relatively few persons
died across the state in the early hours of
the counting period late Friday and early
Saturday.
By early evening Saturday the DPS said
it had received reports of only 10 highway
deaths throughout the state as motorists
began taking advantage of the holiday.
Head ‘em up, move ‘em out
Buildings moved Monday when workers began transporting the old
barracks located behind Reed McDonald Building. The job took
most of the afternoon because the workers had to wait for cars to
be moved to make way for the building. A wrecker was eventually
called to move cars out of the way. This building was moved about
100 yards in the direction of Zachry Engineering Center where a
spot has been prepared for it.
Battalion photo by J. Wagner Tynes
Labor Day ‘little to celebrate’
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary
Ray Marshall marked Labor Day by calling
1978 “a very good year” for the American
worker. But bis assessment was not uni
versally held, either by labor leaders or
politicians.
“So far, 1978 has been a very good year
for the working people of America, ” Mar-,
shall said. He noted particularly the
number of new jobs created by administra
tion programs and the drop in the jobless
rate — although he conceded unemploy
ment among the minorities, teen-agers
and women remained “still too high.
Others, however, found less to cele
brate. They noted congressional defeats of
key labor legislation, growing criticism of
the White House by labor leaders, con
tinuing high inflation, and the growth of
both anti-union sentiment and well-
financed, organized opposition.
“The dreams of working men and
women to achieve a better life for them
selves and their children is fast becoming
the unattainable American dream,” said
Republican national chairman Bill Brock, a
former Tennessee senator who has tried to
win over blue-collar support for the GOP.
“American working men and women
have very little to celebrate this Labor
Day,” he said.
AFL-CIO President George Meany said
the American labor movement has “been
under concerted attack” for the past two
years and now is “the target of a vicious,
distorted and unfair barrage of prop
aganda.”
Kenneth Blaylock, president of the
300,000-member American Federation of
Government Employees, said President
Carter’s insistence that an October pay
raise be limited to 5.5 percent made Labor
Day “a somewhat painful time to count
blessings. ”
“Until unionism is accepted in the pub
lic sector,,there will continue to be police
arrests of otherwise law-abiding citizens,
hostility and — perhaps — violence, said
Firefighters President W. Howard
McClennan, head of the AFL-CIO
public-employees department.
The taxpayer rebellion doesn’t help
either, said Jerry Wurf, president of the
American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees that speaks for
thousands of public employees facing job
cuts to appease taxpayers.
“Irrational measures now gaining popu
larity are an ill-advised response to the
needs of workers who carry the load for fat
cats,” Wurf said.
David Fitzmaurice, president of the
International Union of Electrical Workers,
used the holiday to call for action, warn
ing, “Neither workers nor unions have
reason to be complacent on Labor Day
1978.”
Attorney
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Attorney General
Griffin Bell believes the nation’s lawyers
are improving in their ability and integrity
but deplores the fact that in cities they no
longer provide free work as a public serv
ice.
“I have found in my life that lawyers are
as ethical a group of people I have ever
known,” Bell told UPI in an interview. “I
think the law profession compares fa
vorably with journalists and doctors.”
A former Atlanta lawyer who also served
as a judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals, Bell defends the profession and
also has taken steps to upgrade it since
President Carter named him to head the
Justice Department last year.
As to Chief Justice Warren Burger’s
statement that half the nation’s trial
lawyers are incompetent. Bell thinks he
merely meant they are not as good as they
should be. If Burger meant outright in
competence, Bell would say 10 percent.
But Bell conceded Burger may have re
ceived reliable information from judges
around the country. While there is now a
trend toward training lawyers for trial
work, heretofore they got their trial train
ing in court — starting green.
Bell himself is setting up seminars to
train Justice Department lawyers in trail
work.
Bell says he does not agree with all the
criticisms President Carter made in his
speech about lawyers in Los Angeles, but
believes they are valid if taken as a list of
improvements lawyers should seek to
achieve.
Bell said he gained a fresh view of the
profession by returning to private practice
in 1976 after serving 14- 1 A years as an ap
pellate judge. He found “significant”
changes.
One change, he said, was the huge in
crease in the use of a process called “dis
covery” that lawyers on one side of a civil
suit use to get records and other evidence
from the other side to help prepare for
trial.
“Cases were discovered to death rather
than being put on trial,” Bell said. He
added judges did little to halt the abuse
and this meant big cases would “stay in
discovery” for up to five years before
reaching trial.
“The powerful influence of business
thinking at every level of government and
in all aspects of our lives, from health care
to sports, holds no rich promises for work
ing people and their families,”
Fitzmaurice said.
United Rubber Workers President
Peter Bommarito said labor has spent the
first eight months of 1978 being patient,
adding, “Our patience is wearing thin, but
our determination is growing stronger.”
Heath Larry, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, saluted the
American worker as “an indispensable
partner and ally” in trying to curb inflation
and preserve a private enterprise
economy.
general
“Now this is terribly expensive and a
great cause of delay,” Bell said.
“Second,” Bell said, “the idea of being
appointed to criminal cases as part of your
duty as a lawyer was a thing of the past.”
Bell noted that the custom of assigning
lawyers to represent criminal defendants
who could not afford to hire one was re
placed by having tax-paid public defenders
in most cities.
“I think they ought to be willing to take
criminal defense appointments,” Bell said.
But he added that criminal law has be
come “so complicated that a lawyer who
does not regularly engage in that type of
practice may be accused of being an in
adequate lawyer.”
“He might be sued, if he loses the
case,” Bell said. “So that makes lawyers
shy of taking these cases.”
“The last great change I saw was,
lawyers had generally gone out of the legal
aid business,” Bell said.
“They didn’t need to worry about repre
senting the poor in civil litigation because
that burden had been shifted to the gov
ernment through the Legal Services Cor
poration .”
Bell was not a Rip Van Winkle returning
from a 14-V£year sleep, but as a judge he
handled only appeals — a field that
provides “a fairly narrow view of law prac
tice,” he said.
“I’d read about them in newspapers but
it had never occurred to me what an im
pact — what changes had been made —
because of those two things, public defen
ders and the change in legal aid.”
The American Bar Association, Bell
said, now wants the federal government to
finance all public defenders used in crimi
nal cases, even in state and local courts.
But Bell said lawyers are members of a
learned profession that is a “service pro
fession” that is committed to represent the
rich and the poor and see that there is
equal justice between them.
“The end is, there’s nothing that the
lawyer does that he’s not paid for,” Bell
said. He warned fellow lawyers they
should guard against acquiring such an im
age.
“If we ever get that image, we ll not be
thought as much of as we are now,” he
said.
defends lawyers
Giving Sully a hand
The tradition of shining up the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross in
front of the Academic Building was upheld by the freshmen of Old
Army Cock Company C-2. The statue was polished for the Silver
Taps ceremony which will be held at 10:30 tonight.
Battalion photo by Beth Calhoun