The Battauon
Vol. 72 No. 4
16 Pages
Wednesday, Septembers, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
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ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md.
— Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, arriv
ing for crucial Middle East peace talks,
said Tuesday the time for “worn out ideas”
is over and “reason” must prevail in his
discussions this week with President Car
ter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin.
“Together,” said Sadat, “we shall over
come.”
Arriving in an Egyptair Boeing 707 at
Andrews Air Force Base approximately
two hours before Begin, Sadat, dressed in
a dark suit, was welcomed by Vice Presi
dent Walter Mondale and Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance.
Security was heavy, but crowds of flag-
waving wellwishers ringed the fence near
the tarmac as Sadat’s jet touched down.
After briefly acknowledging the crowd,
Sadat explained how he views the role of
the United States in the upcoming summit
at the Camp David presidential retreat.
“All along,” he said, “we have held the
view that this nation is the most qualified
to be a full partner in the peace process.
Your heritage is unique and so is your
global responsibility.
“We come here at a crucial crossroads.
The challenge is tremendous, but we have
no choice except to accept the challenge.
We cannot afford to fail the hopes of na
tion’s all over the world.
“No one,” he continued, “has the right
to block the road to peace. This is no time
for maneuver and worn out ideas.”
Carter, in a solemn mood, settled into
Camp David more than 24 hours before
his high-level guests.
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highlight banquet
honoring Teague
Leaving the White House Monday, he
warned: “Compromises will be mandat
ory. Without them, no progress can be ex
pected.
“My own role will be that of a full part
ner, not trying to impose the will of the
United States on others but searching for
common ground on which agreements can
be reached and searching for exchanges of
compromise that are mutually advantage
ous to all nations involved, ” he said.
Aides said the U.S. objective is to break
through a number of obstacles at the top
political level. If this can be done, then
Begin and Sadat would send new instruc
tions to lower level negotiators who will
carry on the talks in weeks ahead.
Under a virtual media blackout, the
summit participants hope to hold exhaus
tive discussions of the issues.
“We just wanted to go where the tele
phone doesn’t ring,” said one top U.S. of
ficial.
The current violence in Lebanon may
also be reviewed by the three leaders al
though it is not a formal agenda item, offi
cials said.
Carter summoned ambassadors Samuel
Lewis from Israel and Herman Eilts from
Egypt to assist.
Also on the U.S. delegation are Dr.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, presidential adviser
on national security; Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance; William Quandt of the Na
tional Security Council; special presiden
tial Middle East emmissary Alfred Ather
ton;-Harold Saunders, assistant secretary
of state for Near East Affairs, and White
House press secretary Jody Powell.
Vice President Walter Mondale will be
in charge of the executive branch in Car
ter’s absence but probably also will visit
the talks.
The administration has been generally
silent about U.S. proposals that may be
put forward to encourage a breakthrough.
Speculation has centered on a U.S. sec
urity treaty with Israel or stationing of
U.S. troops in the Middle East as part of a
peace-keeping force. Both would require
congressional review and approval.
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Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper, Jr.
Going for a ringer
By CANDICE HILL
Battalion Reporter
Fourteen-ounce New York steaks will
grace the banquet honoring Olin E.
“Tiger” Teague on Sept. 16 in Duncan
Dining Hall. An estimated $10,000 gift
also will be presented to Teague.
The representative will be retiring this
year after more than three decades in
Congress.
“I expect the gift to cost in the
neighborhood of $10,000, probably,” said
Steve Pringle, assistant to the president’s
office.
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Revision this week.
The two sociologists, Bill Stanley and
r. William Kuvlesky, spent 15 months
terviewing black women in rural Texas
fertile series was aired Jan. 23-30, 1977.
vein analysis of the impact of the series —
dramatization of Alex Haley’s search for
his ancestry — showed “Roots’ had a sig
nificant impact.
“Roots gave the black people in our
study something to feel proud about,” said
Stanley, a black graduate student who was
principal investigator for the project. “It
created a link between the black cultures
of then and now.
He said the negative impact of the series
was mostly a temporary reaction.
“Tempers were running fairly high
about that time,” he said.
The Texas A&M researchers selected
Shelby County in rural East Texas for the
study, segregating black families as a
group without regard to social or economic
status, the researcher said.
Three out of four respondents in the
study experienced increased feelings of ra
cial pride, and slightly more than half said
“Roots’ caused them more negative feel
ings about whites, Stanley said.
Kuvlesky pointed out that the study co
vered only a small sampling, raising the
question of how blacks in other parts of the
South and across the country reacted to
the series.
But Pringle is not revealing what it is.
He said that Teague might read The Bat
talion and would find out what gift is
planned.
Tickets for the banquet are being sold
for $25 each. The money will pay for the
meals and for Teague’s gift. Extra money
will be put into a Texas A&M scholarship
in Teague’s name. About 600 tickets have
been sold so far, but Pringle estimated
that 1,200 people will attend the dinner.
The dinner for Olin Teague
has been cancelled, a spokes
man for President Miller’s of
fice reported early today.
Astronaut Joe Allen has been added to
the program of speakers at the banquet.
He will discuss Teague’s interest in space
and science. Allen is associate adminis
trator for the congressional liaison at
NASA. He also recently joined the space
shuttle team.
Three other areas of Teague’s interest
will be discussed at the banquet. U.S.
House of Representatives Majority Leader
Jim Wright will discfiss Teague’s 32-year
congresssional career. Former veterans af
fairs official, Oliver Meadows, will discuss
Teague’s military interests. Teague’s
interests in education, especially his con
tributions to Texas A&M will be discussed
also. Leon Jaworski will be the master of
cermonies.
Letters of appreciation are being sent to
Box OET and they will be presented to
Teague at the banquet. President Carter,
former President Gerald Ford and former
first lady Ladybird Johnson are expected
to send letters. About 200 letters have
been received.
More arrests
likely in strike
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Opposition
leaders charged Tuesday that President
Anastasio Somoza’s forces already have ar
rested almost 700 opponents in a nation
wide crackdown against a general strike,
but the government threatened more ar
rests.
The opposition Conservative Party said
75 political and business opposition lead
ers and 600 civilians were arrested
throughout Nicaragua on suspicion of aid
ing the 12-day strike aimed at ousting
Somoza, whose family has ruled the Cent
ral American nation of 2.4 million people
for 41 years.
“They are trying to reduce the strength
of the strike, ” by arresting opponents, said
Eduardo Chamorro, political secretary of
the Conservative party and a member of
Congress.
The strike started in the provinces Aug.
25 following the successful Sandinista
commando operation at the National
Palace. Business leaders say the strike is
80 percent effective throughout the nation
and that some businessmen are prepared
to continue it for three months.
The National Guard announced Sunday
it had arrested 200 “agitators,” and Presi
dential Press Secretary Rafael Cano said
Monday persons advocating the govern
ment’s overthrow “are liable to be ar
rested, are being arrested and will con
tinue to be arrested. ”
Congressman Chamorro said those ar
rested Monday included Adolfo Calero,
the Notre Dame-educated Coca-Cola
manager in Managua; Pedro Quintanilla, a
lawyer and member of a splinter group
within Somoza’s Liberal Party; Hernaldo
Zuniga, a lawyer from the city of Masaya
and leader of the anti-Somoza Broad Op
position Front.
Also arrested were Santiago Rivas, a
Conservative leader in Matagalpa; Noel
Rivas, vice president of the Chamber of
Commerce; Oscar Tiran, a Conservative
Party leader from Leon.
When asked how long the strike would
last, Manuel Jose Torres, president of the
National Development Institute, one of
the key groups behind the strike said, “We
know of a lot of businessmen who have
taken measures for three months.”
Government radio stations Monday
night stepped up appeals to workers, who
are being paid during the work stoppage,
to return to work.
“Workers, don’t lend yourself to the
political game. Go to work. Don’t support
this political strike,” one announcer said.
The manager of Managua’s biggest
shopping center, Oreste Romero Rojas,
said 78 percent of 200 establishments in
the center were closed Monday.
More than 150 poor people lined up at
the government’s National Institute of
Foreign and Domestic'Trade in downtown
Managua to buy beans, rice and corn.
One old woman said food prices at her
local market had increased 50 percent in
the last two weeks.
“We are going hungry, no one can afford
the prices,” she said.
4
Ice carving
cold business
Ninety percent work and ten percent ta
lent is the way J. W. Maynard describes ice
carving. Some people would disagree.
Maynard, who has been at Texas A&M
University for five years as the assistant
director of food service auxiliaries, learned
the art of ice carving 17 years ago at a chef s
seminar in Houston.
Since then, Manmard has done more
than 30 ice carvings a year. Each carving
takes nearly two hours to complete.
Maynard, who does the ice carvings in
the Memorial Student Center basement,
uses a five-prong ice pick and a wood carv
ing instrument to shape the 300-pound
blocks of ice.
The ice carvings made by Maynard are
used at buffet dinners held at Texas A&M.
The carvings can be used several times
and are stored in the MSC basement
freezer at 10 degrees below zero.
Maynard taught classes in gourmet
cooking and quality cooking at Texas
A&M, but he is not teaching any classes
this semester. Maynard attended Wayland
Baptist College, did post-graduate work at
Cornell University, and recieved his mas
ter’s degree from Southwestern Theologi
cal Seminary.