Like many Texas A&M University students, Morty Webb, a sophomore
in marine biology, works parttime. One of Webb’s jobs at the Shirt
Shoppe in College Station is ironing transfers on T-shirts. After a cus
tomer selects the design and lettering he wants Webb places the shirt on
a hot iron plate. After lining up the letters and transfers he presses the
shirt with a hot iron press for a few seconds. Presto — the design is
permanent and the custom-made T-shirt is ready to wear.
Battalion photos by Lynn Blanco
5S.
Day-ducks’ week
Special activities — from ses
sions with lawyers to sessions
with bubble gum — are
scheduled this week for the
23,000 students who live off
campus. For details see page 6.
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Vol. 72 No. 38
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Tuesday, October 24, 1978
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(BEIRUT — Prime Minister Selim al
Ross and a special government committee
jlonday began a study of the roots of the
.ebanese conflict as a prelude to promot-
Jg understanding, but cease-fire
liolations underlined the difficulties
iad.
Hoss and other cabinet ministers also
lanned to draw up a time-table for im-
lementation of the resolutions of a recent
irab foreign minister’s parley which
ketched the broad lines of a peace plan for
rar-tom Lebanon.
The resolutions called for collection of
weapons from the country’s militias,
trengthening of the central government
nd “balanced” restructuring of the
-ebanese army.
As Hoss and his colleagues met, rightist
radio reports spoke of intermittent sniper
and rocket-propelled grenade exchanges
in Beirut’s Christian suburbs of Dikwaneh
and Sinn el Fil.
The area was the scene of sporadic artil
lery and tank fire over the weekend.
The pro-Syrian newspaper As Safir
quoted a government minister as saying
the Hoss committee “will start from
scratch” studying the origins of the conflict
and discuss a timetable to implement the
Arab resolutions.
Residents of Beirut’s southeastern
Christian suburbs reported sporadic shell
explosions Sunday morning and again after
dark, but there was no major breakdown
in the Oct. 7 cease-fire that quelled the
worst fighting in Beirut’s history.
Sniping and occasional rocket-prepelled
grenade fire flared on the fringe of the city
and in the Beirut port area.
The renewed fighting raised doubts
about the effectiveness of the long-term
peace framework sealed last week by Arab
foreign ministers in the Lebanese hill
town of Beit Eddine.
Despite the rising tension in the sub
urbs, the main eastern Beirut neighbor
hood of Ashrafiyeh was virtually calm.
Militiamen supervised the removal of the
first of dozens of buses placed at key inter
sections during the recent fighting as
shields against sniper fire.
Under the gaze of Saudi troops, Chris
tian and Moslem housewives mixed peace
fully while standing in line to get water
from a tanker truck. The city’s water mains
were damaged in the fighting.
Bryan agrees to fund
may OK information
By LYLE LOVETT
Battalion Reporter
The Bryan City Council Monday agreed
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prelims*
compel to study the possiblity of a rewards pro-
u s till I* ?am in an attempt to curb criminal ac-
jjut d(i tivity in the city.
neettii^ The council has considered providing
$500 for information leading to the arrest
Teague still
hospitalized
Congressman Olin E. “Tiger” Teague
iremained in a Bethesda, Md., hospital
•Monday awaiting surgery for prostate
| trouble.
| A spokesman for the Congressman’s
[Washington office said doctors are trying
| to “clear up an urinary infection before
|tbey can operate.” Teague entered the
[liospital on Oct. 20 for the surgery.
I This is the third time Teague has been
jliospitalized since September when he suf-
jfered a minor stroke.
| He continues to conduct business from
bis hospital room and is expected to return
to work after the surgery.
Teague, who has served in the House of
Representatives for more than 30 years, is
etiring at the end of this year.
airport,
rewards
and conviction of persons involved in
burglaries, and would add the reward to
$500 offered by Anco Insurance Co. of
Bryan.
But Councilman Henry Seale suggested
a more permanent rewards program
Monday, whereby a trust would be fi
nanced by contributions from the commu
nity and rewards funded from interest
payments.
Council members approved, adding
that the program should provide different
rewards for different types of burglary.
Smith said the plan should include violent
crimes as well.
Seale, Councilman Peyton Waller and
police chief Joe Ellisor were appointed to
investigate such a program. Seale said
anyone could invest in the trust and inter
est payments would fund rewards. After a
few years, investors could get their money
back, he said.
“We can get a big pot of money, ” Mayor
Richard Smith said, “and make a reward
where a man or woman will not hesitate
and say, T saw this take place.’”
The council asked for citizen input. “We
do want the public to get involved,”
Councilman Wayne Gibson said.
Action on the program was deferred
until the next meeting with the under
will
standing that the committee
“vigorously pursue” the new plan.
The council passed an agreement sup
porting improvements at Easterwood Air
port, aimed at bringing it up to federal
standards for a regional airport.
Under this agreement, Bryan, College
Station and Brazos County will each con
tribute $30,000 annually for the next five
years — a total of $450,000 — added to
$1.9 million provided by the Federal Avi
ation Administration.
The improvements will cost approxi
mately $2.4 million. FAA funding for such
projects is limited to 80 percent of the total
cost.
In other action, the council awarded a
bid to construct a new spillway, embank
ments and channel improvements at
Municipal Lake to Malek Construction
Co. Inc. The lake is being dredged and
cleaned to eliminate aresenic pollution.
The council also passed an ordinance
that will lower speed limits to 35 mph on
Briarcrest and to 45 mph on FM 1175 to
Hwy. 158.
The council also voted to renew the ci
ty’s contract with the Brazos Valley Mental
Health and Mental Retardation board of
trustees, to provide $11,000 funding for
the 1978-79 fiscal year.
Sino-Japanese treaty
raises Communist ire
United Press International
TOKYO — Japan and China signed a
peace and friendship treaty Monday and
Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping
told Emperor Hirohito that Peking will
“let bygones be bygones” and try to build
peaceful relations.
The accord signed by Teng and
Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda
brought cries of condemnation from
diehard anti-Communists and cold, angry
Silence from Moscow.
Imperial Household Agency officials
said Teng, the 74-year-old No. 3 man in
the Chinese Communist Party, was guest
at a luncheon given by Hirohito at the
moat-surrounded Imperial Palace.
The officials said the 77-year-old
Hirohito welcomed Teng to Japan and
said, “There was a temporary unfortunate
event in the long history of relations be
tween our two nations.”
Hirohito’s reference apparently meant
Japan’s aggression against China that de
veloped into World War II.
The luncheon was held after Teng and
his wife had an audience with Hirohito,
who was clad in a Western-style suit; Teng
wore a Chinese tunic. They shook hands
before they took seats feeing each other.
Earlier, Teng and Fukuda smiled as
their foreign ministers signed the treaty
ratification papers in a simple ceremony at
Fukuda’s official residence.
Then the champagne flowed and Teng,
the man in Peking who masterminded the
pact, gleefully shouted the traditional
Japanese toast: “Kampai.”
The 10-year treaty ended three decades
of mistrust between Asia’s two giants as a
result of Japan’s attempt to conquer China
during World War II.
It binds the nations not to go to war and
to settle all disputes peacefully. To the
anger of the Soviet Union, it contains a
clause saying that both Japan and China
oppose hegemony in Asia by any country.
Hegemony is China’s long-standing code
word for Russian aggression.
The treaty had the blessing of the
United States and was angrily opposed by
the Soviet Union since it opened the door
for a massive influx of Japanese help to
build up China’s backward economy.
The two countries already are working
out details of an $80 billion deal to swap
$40 billion worth of advanced Japanese in
dustrial machinery for $40 billion of
Chinese oil and coal over the next 13
years.
Ambassadors from 26 countries were in
vited to the signing, but the United States
United Press International
HOUSTON — A federal judge Monday
sentenced former University of Houston
financial analyst Samuel Harwell and his
half-brother, Patrick Sullivan, to four
years in prison on their guilty pleas of
fraud in connection with the school’s
short-term investments.
Judge Carl O. Bue allowed the men to
remain free on bond until the U. S. Bureau
of Prisons designates the prison where
they will be jailed and the date they will
be required to surrender.
Harwell was charged with mail fraud.
Sullivan was charged with fraud by wire.
Maximum sentences were five years in
prison and a $1,000 fine.
was excluded because it maintains dip
lomatic relations with the Chinese gov
ernment in Taiwan.
Absent along with the Soviet Union
were most of their East European allies.
Teng’s arrival Sunday for an eight-day
visit dominated every newspaper in Tokyo
Monday, except the Japanese Communist
Party newspaper Akahata.
Bands of Japanese rightists, clad in
World War II Army uniforms, roamed the
streets of Tokyo in loud speaker-equipped
trucks, screaming, “Down with Com
munist China. ”
Forewarned of the demonstrations, the
goverment mounted the heaviest security
operation in Japanese history, outstripping
even the precautions taken for President
Ford’s 1974 visit.
“I know the things I have done are
wrong. I know I have to pay for them. I
will accept anything you decide,” Harwell
told Bue.
Sullivan’s lawyer, Philip Deitch of Los
Angeles, told Bue he was negotiating for
restitution to the university by Sullivan.
The amount was not disclosed.
Sullivan and Harwell pleaded guilty to
the charges stemming from a $15.2 million
deposit of the university’s money in a
California bank.
UH officials have estimated that the
school lost about $14.8 million from Har
well’s speculations and bookkeeping inac
curacies.
Former UH analysts
get prison sentences
Creating a castle
Painting boxes for a castle is only one of many
preparations for the Class of ’80 Halloween Mas
querade Ball. The event will be 8-12 p.m. Saturday
in the Zachry Engineering Center after the Rice
University football game. Students are, from left,
Steve Bennett, Susan Clerihew, David Hruzek,
Valerie Rivera and Daniel Poland.
Battalion photo by Paige Beasley
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