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Wednesday
SOCIAL DANCE CLUB: There will be a Social Dance Club meet-
ng at room 266 in G. Rollie White Coliseum from 7:00-10:00 p.m.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Applications for freshman student
government aids will be taken today. Anyone is urged to apply.
DANCE ARTS SOCIETY: The Dance Arts Society is now offering a
Men’s Movement Class for guys interested in limbering up and learn
ing the basic moves of dance. The class begins September 11 and will
be held on Monday nights from 8 to 8:30. The registration meeting
will be held today in Room 267 of G. Rollie White Coliseum at
7:30p.m.
AG COMMUNICATORS OF TOMORROW: All Ag-Journalism
majors are welcome to come to the Ag Communicators of Tomorrow
meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Journalism library on the third floor of
Reed McDonald.
ACCOUNTING SOCIETY: The accounting society will meet at 7:00
p.m. in Rudder Theater.
ANTHROPOLOGY CLUB: The Anthropology club will meet at 8
p.m. in room 303, Bolton Hall. Dr. Harry Shafer will present a slide
show from the summer field school in Mimbres Valley, New Mexico.
BAHA’I CLUB: Anyone is welcome to the orientation and social hour
for the Baha’i club at 7:30 p.m. in room 140A of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
PANHANDLE AREA: The Panhandle Area Hometown Club will
meet in room 401,Rudder at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday
WATER SKI CLUB: There will he a water ski club meeting tonight
in room 224 of the Memorial Student Center. New members are
urged to attend.
0PA RUSH: A&M’s service sorority, OPA, invites all prospective
pledges to come and find out what OPA has to offer at 6:30 p.m. in
room 145 of the Memorial Student Center.
PRINTS: Students will be able to check out art prints from the
Sterling C. Evans Library between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. today.
The art prints, available only to students for one semester should
be returned by December 1.
MOVIE: “First Men in the Moon,’’ a story of an English expedition
to the moon more than 60 years ago will he aired at 8:00 and 10:30
p.m. in room 601, Rudder Tower. Price is 50 cents.
A&M CYCLING TEAM: All bikies interested in bicycle racing is
urged to attend the meeting at 7:30 p.m. in room 704A Rudder
tower.
Friday
DEADLINE: The deadline for applying for graduate and under
graduate degrees to be awarded in December is today.
DEADLINE: Today is the last day to audition for Singing Cadets,
Century Singers, and Reveliers.
THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1978
Employees must talk
for GSA probe to work
WASHINGTON — An investiga
tion into the General Services Ad
ministration payoff scandal will be
successful only if GSA employees
targeted for indictment will testify as
government witnesses, sources say.
Much of the outcome of the crimi
nal investigation of the payoff scandal
depends on obtaining cooperation
from GSA employees under investi
gation. The employees could be
granted immunity from prosecution
or lenient sentences in return for
their testimonies.
Although investigators found mill
ions of dollars in GSA officials’ bank
accounts, it would be difficult to
prove the money was from bribes, a
Justice Department source said.
“There is an honor among
thieves” and those being probed
may take the approach they will
“sink or swim together,” the source
said.
“We’ve got to get cooperation —
that’s what you need to make the
case.”
President Carter was briefed
on the investigation Monday. A
top Justice Department official said
“substantial progress” is being made
toward grand jury indictments.
Carter scheduled the White
House meeting “to be updated on
generally what has been happen
ing,” GSA Director Jay Solomon
told reporters afterward. He said
Carter also “wanted to give his sup
port to me,” Solomon said.
Carter met with Solomon and
Deputy Attorney General Benjamin
Civiletti prior to departing for his
Camp David retreat.
Solomon said he expects about 50
bribery and fraud indictments to re
sult from the grand jury investiga
tion. GSA employees have been
charged with accepting millions of
dollars in payoffs from government
contractors. Losses to the govern
ment have totaled at least $66 million
in fraud, he said.
“I can’t speculate as to any timing
on criminal proceedings being insti
tuted but all I can say is we are mak
ing substantial progress,” Civiletti
said when asked when the indict
ments could be expected.
Civiletti was also asked whether
Robert Griffin, former deputy GSA
administrator, was exempt from the
investigation. Solomon fired Griffin
earlier this summer in a move that
created tension between the White
House and House Speaker Thomas
O’Neill, a close personal friend of
Griffin.
“No one is exempt either inside
or outside the government,”
Civiletti said. “We wouldn’t be af
raid to pursue Mr. Griffin or any
one . .
But Civiletti did not say Griffin
was under investigation, and there
was no indication he was implicated.
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IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF
OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER
TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE
ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN
MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE
THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND
ALTERATIONS.
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MAKE IT FIT!”
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FBI agent sues the bureau
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United Press Internationa]
WASHINGTON — One of the
FBI’s first woman agents has filed a
class action complaint charging the
bureau with sex discrimination, it
was disclosed today.
Christine Hansen filed the com
plaint in 1977 when she quit the
FBI after serving as an agent for five
years, FBI and Civil Service Com
mission officials said.
Although the administrative
complaint was filed a year ago, it has
drawn no public attention until
now. One of Hansen’s lawyers,
Richard Sharp, refused to comment
on the complaint except to confirm
that it was filed.
“No way are we going to talk
about it,” said an FBI spokesman.
Sources would only say the com
plaint involved discrimination in
employment, but the Washington
Star reported that an 80-page brief
was filed alleging discrimination in
recruitment, training and employ
ment of women agents.
A spokesman for the Civil Service
Commission said that after the com
plaint was filed, Ms. Hansen took
the matter to the commission’s fed
eral appeals authority, which cer
tified that it was a legitimate class
action case.
The Star said a number of other
women still in the bureau have ag
reed to become parties to the com
plaint.
Ms. Hansen joined the bureau in
1972, but resigned after being trans-
fered from Washington to Phoenix,
Ariz., last year. She had advance
degrees in law and journalism and
was considered to be one of the top
woman agents, with one of her as
signments including investigating
alleged theft of government docu
ments by the Church of Scientology
— a probe that led to 11 recent in
dictments, FBI officials said.
The Star said Ms. Hansen com
plained she was transferred to
Phoenix against her wishes merely
because there was a need for a
“woman” there.
Although the General Accounting
Office reported recently women ac
counted for 37 percent of the
bureau’s total work force, it said
99.1 percent of those were in low-
echelon, secretarial or clerical posi
tions.
At the start of 1977, the GAO
said, only 70 of the bureau’s approx
imately 8,500 agents were women.
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rug, crime punishment
^called challenge by Baker
United Press International
j AUSTIN — Republican Jim
Baker Tuesday called crime the
,jr biggest challenge facing Texas to-
M lay, and proposed a five-point prog-
nisnek am Jj e sa j ( ] wou j c l Strengthen the
hOUSC' tate s fight against drug traffic and
er/dryl ssure uniform punishment for per-
340 ons convicted of crimes.
, ;i Baker, campaigning against
—)emocrat Mark White for Texas
— ttorney general, said his crime pro-
nE$ losals are the most detailed ever
— ^ (resented by a political candidate in
—'■^■exas. These five proposals are
, Bontained in a 37-page position
] °l) jf aper -
” “Many candidates are leery of
utting their names on detailed
foposals like this because they
ow in doing so it invites close in-
ection by the press and the pub
ic,” he said.
Baker suggested re-allocating per-
nnel of the Department of Public
iafety to put more emphasis on cur-
iling drug traffic. He noted two-
irds of the heroin entering the
United States comes through Texas
ivhile the state has only 124 officers
in its narcotic division. He also sug
gested requiring uniform sentencing
for persons convicted of crimes, re
structuring the parole system to re
quire persons to serve one-third
of their sentence before qualifying
for parole, establishing a program
for juvenile offenders and making it
J iossible for what Baker called “ca-
eer criminals’ to be sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
“What I’m talking about doing is
re-allocating resources,” he told a
news conference. “I think it’s tragic
that we have more DPS personnel
weighing vehicles than we have
fighting drug traffic. We have basi
cally abdicated the fight against
drugs to the federal government.”
Baker said public opinion surveys
made by television stations in Hous
ton and Dallas show him trailing
White by about 15 percentage
point. But 41 percent of the voters
polled were undecided, he added.
Baker said he anticipates spend
ing between $750,000 and $1 mill
ion during his campaign, but said
that he does not expect to outspend
White in the race.
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Morning classes 10-1
Afternoon classes 2-5
Evening classes 7-10
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