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professor operated on the Rus
sian black market last winter —
but only once. See Dr. Jerome
Loving’s story on page 2.
Friday, October 6, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Jouse sustains
arter s veto
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House voted
Irsday to sustain President Carter's
of a $10.2 billion public works bill
he called inflationary, giving him yet
|ther victory as the congressional ses-
draws to an end.
)th House Speaker Thomas O'Neill
Senate Democratic Leader Robert
^1 had warned Carter against the politi-
consequences of killing the legislation,
he defied his own party’s leadership in
it he called a need to hold down infla-
and stop wasteful government spend-
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llie art of compromise is not in the lex-
lofthe White House on this matter,”
eill said in a speech on the floor of the
ise moments before the vote."It is a
stion of integrity and the dignity of this
itution.
. . . Jkechairman of the sub-committee that
nship Serie Lj bill said no attempt would be
ie to pass another bill this year and that
^ were substantial questions whether
legislation would be revived next year.
[Continuing resolution will be offered
^teep current programs going at the
level.
lad the House reversed ( arter, the
ite would have made its override at-
ipt later Thursday. To overturn a pres-
itial veto, both houses need a two-
rds majority. Since the House sus-
icd, no Senate vote is needed.
Hiis has not been an easy decision to
te," Carter told reporters in the Oval
!, "but I have a deep commitment to
\.« Vn irol unnecessary' spending and infla-
Carter continued his intensive lobbying
of Congress to sustain the veto, calling to
the lawmakers’ attention the September
rise in wholesale prices reported Thurs
day.
The president was also described by
aides as “personally outraged" by the
House leaderships efforts to counter his
veto. Thursday, O’Neill said the vote in
his chamber will be “pretty close.”
In his veto message, Carter pointed out
the bill’s most objectionable feature: it
would add 27 new projects and restore six
others halted last year.
"These added water projects represent a
total long-term commitment, including in
flation, of $1.8 billion in excess of those I
opposed,’ Carter said. “Yet only a little
more than $100 million is appropriated in
this bill for these projects.”
He said one of the projects would
provide most of its benefits for one catfish
farm.
Carter said the energy research and de
velopment portions of the measure are ac
ceptable and important. He urged Con
gress to develop "a responsible bill’’ yet
this session. And with that, he strode from
the Oval Office.
Chairman Tom Bevill, D-Ala., of the
House Public Works subcommittee that
produced the bill said there probably
would be no bill at all if the veto is sus
tained. And it is unlikely, he added, that
his panel would try to produce another bill
next year.
‘Row, Row, Row your boat?"
About 15 students were practicing paddling strokes for canoeing Thurs
day night in the Rudder Complex fountain, as part of a canoeing seminar
sponsored by the Outdoor Recreation Committee. All of the students
were beginners. Some were sponsored by the Recreation Committee.
For more information about the trip, call the committee at the student
programs office. Battalion photo by Beth Breaker
Tickets for 3 away games are scarce
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will continue this process, no matter
unpleasant it is, as long as Congress
ds me unacceptable legislation that is
fiscal responsibili-
" lim |U compatible with
lie said
O’Neill warned that Carter’s long-
stalled energy legislation, now near pas
sage, could be threatened by a fight with
Congress. "There has to be some bitter
ness, some rancor out there that I don’t
like to see brewing,” O’Neill said.
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* 1 WASHINGTON — The Senate Thurs-
I passed overwhelmingly the biggest
iding chit ne y^ ' n the nation’s history — $16
admissii run nation’s armed forces.
‘ W ith sti f f e , Senate acted by a vote of 86-3 and
tirrenl „ military' appropriations bill
House-Senate conference to resolve a
ages are 5 IS ‘of differences.
we vote passage, the Senate de-
t permit a rnove by Sen. McGovern,
n excessi ^ t°trim 1 percent from the overall
ted.
ppriation.
ssued otll 1 0 y, ern sa 'd the proposed cut would
™y a slight challenge, some would
ress syste even ‘symbolic’ to the Pentagon to re-
nounceia 'tt* 6 oi the fat and work a little
d pu keeping an eye on the R,,s ‘
hours h y ™ hinese and also the American
''ant the United States to be as strong
cont| gjr as the Russians and the
• ,ern, f !u ld McG °vem. “But I would
on ofru ee ie American dollar become as
he pern ° as th e German mark and the
Conlei “eseyen.”
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the bill, opposed any further cuts, how
ever, saying it would be “a guess at best”
as to how the McGovern move would af
fect defense programs.
Senate consideration of the mammoth
year spending was due with only a handful
of amendments offered.
Early in the debate, which began late
Wednesday evening, the Senate approved
by voice vote a proposal by Sen. Mike
Gravel, D-Alaska, to add $700,000 to
study the feasibility of a sea-level canal
across Central America.
One of the most contentious issues of
the annual defense debate was resolved by
President Carter’s veto Aug. 14 of an au
thorization of $2 billion for a nuclear car
rier.
When the House failed to override the
veto Sept. 7, the Senate Appropriations
Committee deleted $2 billion from the bill
for the carrier.
The Senate added $85 million, without
objection from any senator, to pay travel
expenses of military wives and dependents
of junior grade officers.
By MICHELLE SCUDDER
Battalion Staff
Good football tickets are hard to come
by for home football games, but any tickets
at all are going to be hard to come by for
three of Texas A&M University’s away
games.
Only 4,672 student tickets will be avail
able for the University of Houston game in
Houston, Oct. 14. Those tickets go on sale
Monday. The other half of the tickets sent
by UH for the game have been allocated
for season ticket holders, Aggie Club
members, faculty and individual ticket
purchasers.
The University of Arkansas is sending
3,025 tickets for the Arkansas game in Lit
tle Rock, Ark., Nov. 18. However, only
840 tickets have been allocated for stu
dents and half of those will be used by The
Texas Aggie Band.
And only 7,783 tickets will be available
to students for the University of Texas
game in Austin, Dec. 2. Texas is sending
15,859 tickets for the game, but only half
will be distributed to students.
Wally Groff, assistant athletic director
for business affairs said that at least half of
the tickets received for out- of- town
games are guaranteed for students, except
for the Arkansas game. Groff said that only
840 tickets were allocated to students out
of the 3,025 sent, because that is the
number of tickets students have bought in
the past for that game.
Groff said his office has refunded 3,000
ticket orders to the general public for the
Arkansas game and 2,500 for the Texas
game because of the scarcity of tickets.
Students shouldn’t have any problem
obtaining tickets for the Southern
Methodist University game in Dallas,
Nov. 4, because 22,401 tickets will be
available.
Newsweek reporter: Camp David
f uming point for Carter presidency
By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion Reporter
eirJ** 1 ei Y Garter helped his sag-
Cai'T^y * )y settjn g U P the
and f i Vid ta ^ s > in which Egypt
for a 8 ree 4 to work together
said Tk^’j 3 Was hington reporter
^Thursday night.
betZ ateVer else happens to Carter
dencv k 1 |° W and 1980> his P res i*
diviL S a T ayS goin S to k ave to he
Davidl"! partS: before Camp
Cam p David '”
s Pondem n W Ute House corre-
Tf? P° rnas DeFrank.
v ersitv 3 67 Texas A&M Uni-
a meeting ,ate> Spoke Thursday at
F °rum aLT nSOred by Poll tical
during the day • ,0urna b srn classes
Camn lyT'K Sa », d *hat before the
'kat Cart' * a ks ^ ast rnon th Presi-
w ashimV er »T as written-ofT’ in
fended ev” ^ Carter had of-
iec ! « f »a- ry rS’dta“ d was the sub -
stnelltfdLrk 5 rld himself of the
P e ned at r> as resu h of what hap-
p ‘"»«wd ‘" np Davld -" ,he re -
Blide cl''. 1 ,"I' David success has
Resident n r t. a “l 01,6 formidable
i^ eF ^ nk said - The C.S.
ginnin„ ! f i S° red Carter at the be-
Will ^ve L i S . te r?' he ^id. but it
now. aKe oitti more seriously
-Aj-giliy problems 1..^
lomas DeFrank
White House Reporter
before Camp David are still staring
him in the face,” he said. “The only
thing that has really changed since
Camp David are the polls. ’ He said
the largest problem now facing Car
ter is inflation.
“If Carter does not put together a
wage-price system that works, it is
going to go back to the old what
have you done for me lately? situa
tion, DeFrank said.
Carter’s second largest problem is
convincing his Democratic consti
tuency to take a more conservative
stance. The former Battalion editor
predicted large budget cuts in 1980.
“There are going to be a lot of so
cial programs that will go right down
the drain,” he said, adding this
would infuriate the blacks, labor,
teachers and liberals. DeFrank said
Carter must convince these people
that a conservative stance is the best
one to take.
He said the president must also
settle a strategic arms limitations
agreement and stabilize the dollar.
The Newsweek reporter said Car
ter’s lower eschelon staff is causing
problems he must solve. DeFrank
described the staff as mediocre.
“It is kind of reverse Darwinism,
instead of survival of the fittest, it is
survival of the least fit; the least ca
pable,” he said.
DeFrank, who has covered three
presidents, said Carter’s main prob
lem during his first year was that he
tried to do too much too soon. He
said Carter raised the hopes of the
people too high and was not able to
keep his promises.
Carter has now realized he can
not work so fast, he said, and has
stabilized his presidency In the last
four months and has coordinated his
staff. Because of Carter’s reasses-
ment of priorities, he has been able
to finish his energy bill after 20
months of work. He has also chalked
up other legislative victories in the
past four months,
“Camp David does not guarantee
his re-election,” DeFrank said.
“Carter has plenty of time between
to help or hurt his re-election.”
Groff said the ticket situation differs
from school to school depending on the
prospects of the team and stadium size.
Groff said the number of tickets that
visiting schools send each other stays the
same from year to year but in most cases
“we need a lot more than they do.”
For example, Groff said that Texas
A&M sent Texas Tech 6,266 tickets for the
game Saturday. "We need to take care of
our folks at home, and do the best we can
when we re on the road,” he said.
The University of Houston game will be
on close circuit television in G. Rollie
White Coli seum for about $2, Groff said.
The Arkansas and Texas games have a
chance of being on close circuit on a cost
basis only if they’re not on television,” he
said. .
Groff said there may be a problem with
the Corps because the Corps trip is to Aus
tin for the Texas game, Dec. 2. “The ticket
distribution may not be enough for the
sophomores and freshmen,” he said.
Bob Kamensky, Corps commander, said
that cadets who are unable to get tickets
for that game will still be required to make
the trip. Kamensky said there is a possibil
ity of putting a proposal before the student
senate get freshmen ticket allocation for
the game. He said freshmen suffer the
most, because sophomores have an out
side chance of getting tickets.
“We wouldn’t ask for any date tickets,
but strictly for the number of freshman
cadets,” Kamensky said.
Tickets are available to students for out-
of- town games on a first come, first serve
basis, on the seniority system. Seniors get
tickets on Monday, juniors on Tuesday,
sophomores on Wednesday and freshmen
on Thursday. Six tickets is the maximum
number anyone may pick up at one time.
Clements says no to state income taxes
and paying for education of illegal aliens
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
Texas gubernatorial candidate Bill Cle
ments suggested constitutional amend
ments to solve state problems during a
Thursday luncheon in College Station.
Clements suggested putting Texas
right-to-work laws and a package he calls
his “Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights” into the
Texas constitution. He also said he sup-
orts a U.S. constitutional amendment
anning deficit spending.
Clements said he wants Texas to adopt
amendments allowing referendums and in-
titiatives giving citizens veto power over
legislation. Clements said that if enough
signatures were gathered on petitions, laws
could be put to statewide votes which could
enact, or strike down, laws now on the
books.
He said he feels this is a way to put power
back into the hands of the people.
By DOUG ERCK
Battalion Reporter
Attorney General John Hill appeared in
Bryan for a noon luncheon Thursday,
meeting with many of his Bryan suppor
ters and their guests.
The Democratic gubernatorial candi
date spoke to more than 130 persons at the
First Federal Savings and Loan of Bryan,
thanking them for their support in the
primary.
Hill touched lightly on the prison sys
tem, nuclear disposal, oil and gas, agricul
ture and education. He avoided most
comments about Republican Bill Cle
ments, only saying that Clements rarely
discusses political issues and concentrates
on personality fights. Hill also warned, be
fore predicting a November victory, that
“they will say anything and do anything,”
referring to the Republicans.
Hill expressed his concern over the
present crowded condition of the state
prison system, saying that the number of
inmates is phenomenal.
“We have the largest number of con
victs of all the states and though a speedy
trial act will make the whole system a little
better, it may also increase the number of
convicts,” Hill said.
He said the state should require a two-
thirds majority in both the Senate and
House to pass a tax bill. He also said he
wants an amendment banning any state in
come taxes.
The final element of his rights package is
an amendment allowing taxpayers to call
elections to ratify or reject tax increases by
local governments.
Clements also said he wants to protect
right-to-work laws by making them a con
stitutional amendment in Texas. He said
that would hinder union attempts to repeal
the laws.
Right-to-work laws are legislation that
prevent unions from requiring member
ship of employees. Clements said freedom
of choice in joining a union is important to
Texans and that he will fight on-going at
tempts to repeal right-to-work legislation.
Clements said if elected, he would push
all of this legislation on an emergency basis
He clarified that his concern was not to
be more lax with the inmates, but some
thing has to be done with cramped condi
tions.
The disposal of nuclear waste in Texas
and the right to veto such disposal was a
major topic for Hill.
“I am concerned about the disposal of
nuclear waste in our state,” he said. “I
think we will be given the veto right on
this soon. If we do not, I will get an early
implementation of such a veto in my ad
ministration to get the ball on our side.”
Hill said he wants to get public educa
tion out of the courts and back into the
legislature. He said no one knows the im
portant impact of higher education than
the people in Brazos County.
“Texas A&M will always have a friend in
John Hill,” he said. “We are proud of
A&M and all it has done for the state of
Texas. We are going to work hard on the
energy and agricultural fronts and thanks
to A&M we have much of the knowledge
needed.
“We need strong leadership to write a
farm bill to give the farmers a break,” he
said. “Good leadership has always been
the platform of the Democratic Party and
we intend to keep it that way.”
and that he would support a movement to
place a ban on deficit spending in the U.S.
Constitution. Article V of the Constitution
says two-thirds of the states are needed to
hold a constitutional convention. Twenty-
three states have passed resolutions in
favor of the convention.
Clements said Texas has done well with
its prohibition against deficit spending and
the United States needs such a ban, too.
He predicted the convention will come
to pass in the wake of Proposition 13 of
California.
He did say, though, that Proposition 13
was inappropriate for Texas.
Clements discussed several issues after
his prepared remarks. He said that al
though in the future the Texas legislature
may need to meet every year, he is opposed
to such a move now or in the next four or
five years.
One reporter asked about the Webb
County corruption case published in the
Dallas Morning News. The paper reported
this week that Hill has been hesitant to
investigate corruption in the West Texas
county. Clements said the article was not a
product of his campaign staff, as Hill
charged. “It (the charge) is an outright fab
rication, it’ a lie,” he stated.
Clements also commented on a recent
Tyler court case in which the state was
forced to pay the cost of education for chil
dren of illegal aliens.
“If the case is not re-tested before I’m
governor,” he said, “I’ll make sure it will
be.” He said he wondered why persons
weren’t deported if they were found to be
illegal aliens.
Cinema outlaws
chaws, tobacco
Aggie Cinema has enacted a new
policy which prohibits anyone with
tobacco products from entering a
movie it sponsors.
Gina Casas, chairman of Aggie
Cinema, said the policy was created
because tobacco spit stains were
found in Rudder Auditorium after
Saturday night’s movie.
Casas said that more people-
-including one policeman--were
watching the crowd for misconduct
than at any previous Cimena per
formance. The auditorium was dam
aged at the previous midnight
movie.
But with the increased security,
Casas said, the tobacco chewing still
took place, so the new policy had to
be enacted.
Hill says he’s concerned
over crowded state jails