‘Cure’ the cure
Nitrite is a preservative used
in hot dogs, hams and other
meats. The federal government
may ban its use as a possible
cancer-causer, but it has no sub-
The Battalion
Cutting A&M
If the budget approved by
Congressional conferees goes
into effect, Texas A&M Univer
sity could lose some guaranteed
research funds. But first both
stitute. Will botulism spread
worldwide? See page 7.
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Congress and the president
must approve. See page 5.
J eace settlement gets
jraise and rejection
United Press International
The unveiling of a Middle East bluep-
t for peace brought unrestrained — but
t unanimous — praise from both Repub-
ans and Democrats, especially for Pres-
nt Carter’s role in the negotiations.
The whole world and all mankind will
;athe a sigh of rebel that the road to
ace has been opened by the three lead-
with great credit to our own presi-
nt, and that the specter of war and other
gers are beginning to be dispelled in
is, perhaps the most critical area for
ace in the world, ” said Sen. Jacob Javits,
N.Y.
Javits, who is Jewish, called it “gratify
ing that he had forecast a successful
mmit and supported Carter's risking it,
dsaid it is an enormous tribute to Pres-
nt (Anwar) Sadat and Prime Minister
Jlenachem) Begin that they have attained
|is historic result.
But Sen. James Abourezk, D-S.D., of
“banese descent, was not as optimistic:
The framework for peace in the Middle
last really doesn’t amount to much be-
pise the countries who should be parties
that, for example the Palestinians, the
Jrdanians and the Syrians, were not pre-
f nt at Camp David.
“I think there’s a great deal of danger
y I. I would hope that everything would
lork out but it seems to me that it’s very,
my dangerous. The separate agreement
etween Egypt and Israel has a great de-
abilizing effect throughout the Middle
ast,” he said.
Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass., said
“substantive steps’ still are needed before
peace can be realized and he expressed
hope other Arab countries would join the
process.
Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd
commended Sadat and Begin “for their
courage and flexibility’ and said he hoped
“the spirit of Camp David will continue in
the days ahead and will extend to all of the
countries of the Middle East.”
Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, the
GOP leader, said Carter called him in
Huntsville, Tenn., three hours before the
agreement was announced, to inform him
of the accords.
“It was a great victory for President Car
ter and if future negotiations produce a
permanent peace it will be a great victory
for the world,” Baker said.
However, Syria and the Palestine Lib
eration Organization Monday quickly re
jected the Camp David agreements. Op
position mounted in Israel and Jordan’s
King Hussein flew back home from a
swing abroad apparently for urgent con
ferences on the accords.
The PLO said there can be no Middle
East peace without the PLO, and vowed
its guerrillas would press on with their
“armed resistance" in the Israeli-occupied
territories. Syria’s Damascus Radio de
nounced Egypt for entering into a “unilat
eral peace treaty
In Tripoli, thousands of Libyans de
monstrated in the streets, chanting slogans
calling for the assassination of Sadat on
charges of selling out the Arab cause.
In Israel, opposition to the agreements
signed in Washington by Prime Minister
Menachem Begin and Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat mounted within hours after
the results of the summit became known
in Israel shortly after dawn.
A critical parliamentary debate loomed
over what Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan
called the “crucial decision” — whether
peace was more important than Jewish set
tlements in occupied territories.
Begin told the nation in a radio inter
view from Washington that he will abide
by any decision made by the parliament.
Jordan’s King Hussein, who had been
scheduled to fly to Morocco from Majorca,
suddenly changed his plans and flew back
to Amman, apparently for urgent consulta
tions on the Middle East summit.
In Cairo the general secretariat of
Sadat’s Naitonal Democrtic Party met in
emergency session to examine reports on
the Camp David accords,
Egyptian government-controlled news
papers put out extra editions attempting to
sell the Camp David accords to the Egyp
tian public. But mention was made of the
reported resignation of Foreign Minister
Ibrahim Kamel, who is traveling with
President Anwar Sadat in Washington.
In London, the British foreign office
hailed the Camp David summit agreement
as “a considerable achievement” on the
part of President Carter and said that all
three leaders are “to be congratulated.”
ryan man gets Republican
ounty sheriff nomination
By JAMIE AITKEN
Battalion City Editor
Bryan resident Bill Owens received the
iRepublican nomination for Brazos County
Iskeriffbya one-vote “lukewarm” majority
Monday.
Owens, who has been twice defeated for
file county sheriff positon by the late J.W.
Hamilton, was elected on four votes of the
Brazos County Republican executive
committee. One member voted against
Owens while two abstained.
The 13-member committee postponed
consideration of Owens earlier this month
when the candidate did not appear at the
nomination proceedings. Owens said at
the time he wanted the committee to be
able to discuss his qualifications freely
among themselves.
The committee turned to Owens after
learning three unsuccessful Democratic
hopefuls for the sheriff nomination were
ineligible to run on the Republican ticket
since they had voted in the Democratic
primary.
Republican County Chairman Dr.
Charles Squire said the one-vote majority
given Owens showed that there were still
questions among some committee mem
bers as to Owens qualifications.
“It (the vote) reflects a lukewarm at
titude towards Mr. Owens’ capabilities,”
Squire said. “It’s nothing personal what
soever. There is a genuine worry to his
health, his age, his lack of experience and
in work as a law enforcement officer.
“These things will certainly be of con
cern to the citizens of Brazos County and I
think that this is something that they will
have to decide when the time comes.”
Squire said monetary support for the
65-year-old candidate will be minimal.
“The Republican Party, of course, in a
general way backs all those that are nomi
nated and have been selected in
primaries, some more enthusiastically
than others,” he said. “I don’t envisage
any large sum of money being spent on
this campaign for the simple reason that
we don’t have but a total of $800 to spread
over many fine candidates.
Owens, who has worked as a private de
tective, faces Democratic nominee Bobby
Yeager in the November election. Yeager
has been acting sheriff of Brazos County
since the death of J.W. Hamilton this
summer.
Just nosing around
If you look hard enough, you can find just about
anything. Sugar, a cocker spaniel, discovered this
turtle owned by Richard McGilvray, a senior en
vironmental design major at Texas A&M.
Briscoe sees problems from gas bill
Hill’s daughter takes
no voters for granted
United Press International
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. —
Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe predicts the
Carter administration’s compromise
energy bill will create problems for intras
tate gas markets but says he will not lead
Southern governors in a protest of the pol
icy.
Interviewed Monday at the Southern
Governors Conference, Briscoe said prop
onents of a House-Senate compromise on
five-year phased deregulation of gas prices
probably have the votes to pass the pac
kage in a crucial Senate vote Tuesday. The
Senate is scheduled to vote then on a mo
tion to recommit the plan to the joint
committee, which could well kill it for the
year.
Briscoe said when he hosted the confer
ence in San Antonio last year the southern
governors went on record as favoring de
regulation. A year later, he said, the pac
kage that has emerged from congressional
committees would only complicate the na
tion’s already critical energy problems.
“It's not deregulation. It’s a very simple
problem. It extends control and expands
control to the intrastate market to gas pro
duced and consumed within a state for the
first time, Briscoe said.
Existing federal law does not apply to
intrastate gas sales. Briscoe said Texas,
Oklahoma and Louisiana “have an ample
supply of natural gas” for instate use “be
cause of the free market system” for locally
produced gas.
He said the Carter package would ex
tend existing interstate controls to include
intrastate gas sales, creating shortages that
do not now exist for dealers in gas-
producing states.
The bill — being considered by senators
Monday — would phase out federal price
controls on newly produced natural gas by
1985. At the same time, it would extend
the control system for the first time to
sales of gas within the state of production
— the intrastate market that has been
control-free and has had considerably
higher prices than sales across state lines.
Briscoe said a major administrative ob
jection to the proposed energy bill cen
tered on its provision that the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission could
classify various types of gas — fitting them
into 17 to 21 different classifications and
setting different prices for “new fields
and “extensions of old fields.
Briscoe said he still hopes the bill might
be recommitted to a joint panel for
simplification, and that the southerners re
ject the argument that a complex bill is
better than none.
Martha Hill Clark, following the popu
lar family campaign style, stumped for her
father’s gubernatorial drive Monday in
Brazos county.
The daughter of Democratic hopeful
John Hill briefly met with Democratic
Party leaders at the Brazos County Cour
thouse. Clark is leading one of five cara
vans headed up by Hill family members to
reach 270 rural Texas cities and towns this
week.
Meanwhile, Hill is visiting 22 cities this
week. He is followed, incidently, by his
opponent’s “Objective Observation” task
force that is charged with keeping an ear to
Hill’s promises and allegations.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill
Clements has said his follow-Hi 11 convoy is
listening for any false charges made by the
Democrat. The “Objective Observation”
officials are to hold a press conference to
refute any “untrue allegations”.
Mrs. Clark said yesterday she is happy
with the Hill campaign, but cautioned
supporters that voters cannot be taken for
granted.
“A lot of people are saying, ‘What are
ya’ll doing out here. I thought you had this
thing about won,” Mrs. Clark recounted.
“Well, we do feel good about the race, but
the people of Texas are not anybody you
can take for granted. You can’t take their
support for granted.”
Democratic County Chairman Neeley
Lewis also was pleased with the party’s
statewide showing and credited the Hill
campaign with last weekend’s “very suc
cessful” Democratic convention in Fort
Worth.
“I think by all reports it was one of the
most harmonious Democratic conventions
on record,” Lewis said. “I think in large
measure that it is a tribute to John Hill and
his fine staff for being able to work with all
the segments of the Democratic Party.
“Brazos County was well-represented, I
think, at the convention,” he said. “We
did very, very well and I’m very pleased
with the results.”
The Hill campaign will continue its
“CHOOSE John Hill” (Courthouse Offi
cials Organized to Support the Election of
John Hill) drive this week, ending the
statewide campaign swing Sept. 22.
Teague returns to hospital
U.S. Rep. Olin E. “Tiger Teague is
conducting business over the phone in his
hospital room in Bethesda Naval Hospital,
an aide in Washington said this morning.
The 6th District congressman entered
the hospital Monday afternoon for tests.
His assistant said the testing might take
several days and could not predict when
the 68-year-old Teague might leave the
hospital.
Complications from a stroke suffered
Sept. 14 prompted the hospitalization, she
said. Teague remained at home in
Bethesda, Md., after the stroke, which af
fected his speech.
A dinner and science symposium
scheduled here this past weekend to honor
Teague were canceled after his stroke.
The aide said he has continued to im
prove and is in good spirits.
“I think the doctors were happy with his
progress,” she said.
During the last five years, Teague has
been hospitalized at Bethesda Hospital
two times for observaion and rest, and his
left foot was amputated in 1977 after com
plications from combat wounds suffered in
World War II.
Teague announced last year that he
would not run for re-election after this
term, which ends 32 years of service in
Congress.
Begin says U.S.
pledges air bases
United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime
Minister Menachem Begin said
Monday the United States pledged
to build two air bases in the Negev
desert to replace the two installa
tions Israel will surrender to Egypt
as part of a peace agreement.
Begin made the remarks in a
news conference with Israeli repor
ters in Washington broadcast live to
Israel.
“The United States will build two
alternative airfields in the Negev,
not far from those in Sinai (that Is
rael is giving up),” he said in the
first disclosure of details of the ac
cords signed with Egyptian Presi
dent Anwar Sadat Sunday.
“We will not leave the Sinai air
fields as long as the new ones are not
fully operational. Begin said.
The prime minister said the first
Israeli withdrawal from Sinai would
begin three to six months after the
accord is signed. He said the pact
could be signed in less than three
months from now, possibly by
Christmas.
Israeli troops would withdraw to a
north-south line running from El
Arish on the Mediterranean coast to
Ras Muhammed at the tip of the
Sinai peninsula in the first phase, he
said.
In the second stage, Israeli troops
would pull back to the old interna
tional boundary that ran southeast
from the Rafah area to near Eilat on
the Red Sea.
But Begin and Foreign Minister
Moshe Dayan before him made it
clear the burden now rested on the
people of Israel to make a “crucial
decision” whether peace is more
important than Jewish settlements
in occupied Arab lands. A tough bat
tle lay ahead in the Knesset which
will convene Sept. 25.
“Everything the Knesset decides
will be carried out, Begin said.
“We are in the hands of the Knes
set. We must accept the verdict of
the Knesset as is. This is the very
soul of democracy.”
He said he and Sadat exchanged
documents about Jerusalem and
that the Israeli position is the Holy
City “will remain inseparable
forever as the capital of the state of
Israel. This position will never be
changed.”
Begin denied news reports saying
Israel agreed to halt settlement ac
tivity on the West Bank for five
years. He said there only was a
promise to stop building expanding
or building settlements during the
period of peace negotiations.
“There is no such commitment
and none would have been given,
he said. “It is inconceivable that we
would give such a commitment for
five years. We did commit ourselves
for the duration of the peace talks.”
MSC council to ask
for more authority
By MARILYN FAULKENBERRY
Battalion Staff
In its first meeting of the fall
semester, the Memorial Student
Center Council and Directorate ap
proved a proposal to ask the vice
president for student services for
authority over space usage and ac
ceptance of gifts in the MSC.
The proposal would return au
thority to the Council and Directo
rate to consider and accept gifts to
the MSC and to determine the use
of free space in the center.
That authority is listed in the
MSC Council Constitution and
Bylaws, but in practice, that juris
diction has belonged to the Univer
sity Center Board, comprised of fa
culty and staff, since 1974. J. Wayne
Stark, MSC Director and secretary-
treasurer for the Council and Di
rectorate, said the University Cen
ter Board meets only about once a
year, and described it as a “dead
body.”
“It only meets when someone
brings up something they’re un
happy about,” he said.
Two new positions were created
by the Council to assist the vice
president of finance in carrying out
his duties. The Director of Funds
will have council status and the
Comptroller will help the various
MSC committees with fiscal mat
ters. Both of the positions are pro
visionary, and if satisfactory, will be
instituted on a permanent basis.
Dr. John J. Koldus, vice presi
dent for student services, can ap
prove the proposal, or he can send it
to the University president.
The Council approved budgets
for Aggie Cinema, Political Forum,
Great Issues and the Outdoor Re
creation Committee. Speakers were
approved for SCONA, Political
Forum and Great Issues. SCONA
speakers were app>roved with the
request that the group would seek
liberal speakers to balance the con
servative program for their upcom
ing conference on America s
economy.
The budget for Political Forum
was discussed, and an increase was
approved for admission prices. This
summer the Council allowed the
club to accept up to $5,000 in dona
tions. Of the donations, $2,500 can
be used to pay for the Ronald
Reagan program this fall, with the
stipulation that the group will seek a
liberal speaker of the same caliber
for the spring.
Reagan is asking a $5,000 fee, and
the average fee Political Forum pays
is $800. Stark said he plans to "try
and talk the Reagan people down.
If Political Forum is unable to raise
the necessary funds, their spring
budget may be in jeopardy.
The council also reviewed execu
tive committee dealing for the
summer including the purchase of a
12-foot by 12-foot movie screen for
the Basement Coffeehouse.
The council approved the Out
door Recreation request for a $1,000
overall increase in rental fees to buy
more general camping supplies.