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Rattaijon Friday, November 3, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Disagreement on a disagreement • Texas A&M students from the Middle East differ in their opinions of the causes of the disputes in their homeland. See page 4. • Two cosmonauts completed the longest manned space flight in his tory Thursday- 5. -139 days. See page • A scientist suggests that some UFOs are insects in natural electric fields. See page 6. R’s it* first Hh: about )d of. interview, eer Plan- r Tower. lanzania war with vows Amin United Press Internationul DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Tanza- ian President Julius Nyerere vowed liursday to “hit back’ at Ugandan Presi- ent Idi Amin whose forces invaded his ountry, but disclosed that Tanzanian round forces had shot down five of their wnwar planes by mistake. This man is a mshenzi (barbarian),’ lyerere said of the Ugandan leader, with /homhe has been at odds since 1971. “He as killed so many people in Uganda we lust hit back at him.’ Nyerere, speaking to a meeting of the uling Revolution Party, called on the anzanian people to await government di- ectiveson what shoidd be done “until we ave finally gotten rid of this snake from ir house.” Amin said Wednesday that his troops, lacked by tanks and heavy artillery, had ized a 710-square-mile triangular chunk if northwestern Tanzania in only 25 min- ites. He said it was a “retaliatory invasion hat reportedly drove Tanzanian forces ram Ugandan soil. Nyerere explained that because of Jgandas bombing raids against Tanzania ast week, Tanzanian ground forces on uty near their common border had been Teague to be operated on I Rep. Olin E. "Tiger' Teague will Jndergo prostatic surgery today in a lethesda, Md., hospital. Although Teague entered the hospital let. 20, doctors postponed surgery until ley cleared up a urinary infection which ey thought might have interfered. The decision to perform surgery was lade Thursday. Teague has been conducting business rom his hospital bed. A spokesman from is Bryan office said he is expected to re am to his office after the operation.' This is the third time Teague has been lospitalized since September, when he uffered a mild stroke. Teague, who has served in the House of lepresentatives for more than 30 years, is Retiring at the end of this year. put on alert for further attacks. He said that last Friday Tanzanian air force planes strayed off course and became lost over the town of Musoma. As they turned back, Nyerere said, ground forces shot down five Tanzanian jets. Nyerere said it was an “unfortunate but understandable incident because the ground forces could not distingiush Tan zanian planes from Ugandan ones. Both countries are supplied with warplanes from the Soviet Union. Nyerere said that because of Uganda’s invasion of Tanzania the government has no option but to strike back at Amin. “We have the capacity to hit back,” the Tanzanian leader said. “We have a reason to hit back at him, and we have the deter mination to hit back at him.’’ Diplomatic sources said earlier that Tanzania has informed the United States and other foreign powers that it is prepar ing a major offensive aimed at wiping out the Ugandan armed force occupying northwestern Tanzania. The U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam said five American archaeologists from Brown University in Rhode Island escaped from the area of the fighting and had safely reached the town of Mwanza across Lake Victoria. The embassy said three American missionaries in the region had been con tacted and were a safe distance from the fighting. Eight other Americans could not be reached, but the embassy said “there is no cause for alarm.” The Ugandan broadcast said the cap tured land would become a permanent re gion of Uganda and its residents subordi nates of Amin. “All the Tanzanians in the captured area up to River Kagera must know that they are under the direct rule of the conqueror of the British Empire, Field Marshal Amin, the radio said. The broadcast said Uganda “captured 710 square miles of Tanzanian land in a supersonic speed of 25 minutes only — a record in world history.” The Kagera River delineates a triangular wedge of territory jutting south from the straight 100-inil.e border. between Tan zania and Uganda. The Dar es Salaam government has charged the Ugandan attack was launched Monday, and that fighting raged through out the day Wednesday around the town of Kyaka, 18 miles south of the border. Fred, Ginger, is that you? Marvin Chernosky and Debbie Jordan displayed their disco-dancing abilities Thursday afternoon by the Rudder Fountain. Chernosky, instructor for Free University, and Jordan were one of three couples participating in a disco demonstration pro moting the MSC Basement Coffeehouse’s Sunday disco night. Battalion photo by Ava King Regents OK new housing Construction of a new women’s dormi tory at Texas A&M University received final approval Thursday with the award of a $4,889,540 contract to H&G Construction Co. of Abilene. The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents let the contract at a called session to allow immediate start of work on the facilities to make possible completion in time for the start of classes next fall. The dormitories will accommodate 512 students. In related action, the regents sold Texas A&M University Housing System Reve nue Bonds totaling $4.5 million to Racher Pierce Refsnes Inc. and Associated of Dal las at an effective interest rate of 6.34584 percent. The bonds will provide partial funding for the new facilities. Texas A&M President Jarvis E. Miller said the new dormitory will help alleviate the University s major support problem: on-campus housing for women. More than 10,000 women attend Texas A&M. Miller said that Texas A&M has an un usually high ratio — about 98 percent — of full-time students, meaning it has greater demands for campus housing that most other universities. The new facilities will give Texas A&M the capability of accommodating nearly 10,000 students on University-owned property, including 33 dormitories and 845 family apartments. With the additional facility, 3,050 women may be housed in dormitories. ‘Chiliheads’ to invade Terlingua Chinese, Vietnamese reportedly fighting United Press International MOSCOW — Top Vietnamese leaders met Thursday with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Alexei Kosygin amid reports that heavy fighting broken out on the Vietnam-China border. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the Kremlin talks between Brezhnev and Kosygin and Vietnamese Communist Party chief Le Duan and Premier Pham Van Dong were taking place “in an atmo sphere of cordiality, comradely frankness and mutual respect. The Soviets have strongly backed Vietnam in its troubles with China and its border war with neighboring Cambodia. Although the Tass report made no men tion of Radio Hanoi reports of heavy fight ing between Vietnamese and Chinese troops, the Soviet agency, in a thinly veil ed reference to China it said, “The sides noted with concern negative moments in the development of the international situa tion — in particular in the Far East and in Southeast Asia. “In their common opinion, the policy of repulsing aggressive ambitions and at tempts of rude pressure on independent states is jhe only correct and substantiated policy. The Soviets, chief suppliers of military and civilian aid to Vietnam, have de nounced Peking harshly in recent months over its handling of the dispute with com munist Vietnam. United Press International TERLINGUA, Texas — Up to 10,000 “chiliheads” are expected to converge on the West:Texas ghost town of'Terlingua this weekend to cook up champion-style chili, drink beer, dance and partake of other frivolous activities, including a Mex ican fence climbing contest. The cause of this mass exodus to a desert hamlet 60 miles from anywhere is the 12th World Championship Chili Cookoff, origi nated by Dallas newspaper columnist Frank X. Tolbert, who says the event will be kicked off at 2 p.m. Saturday by the playing of a Mexican “beheading song.” Tolbert said he found a rare copy of the sheet music for the “Deguello,” played during Mexican Gen. Santa Anna’s attack on the Alamo in 1836, while he was re searching a book in Mexico. He said the playing of the blood curdling song — which was used by Mexi can troops to signify the calvalry’s battle to the death — will herald the start of the cookoff. Besides the chili cooking — which has drawn champion chefs from 25 states, three Mexican states, two Canadian prov inces and two Indian tribes — the gather ing will feature a peculiar martini contest, a Comanche Trail jog-walk, wet T-shirt contest and, for the first time, a Mexican fence climbing competition. The fence climbing contest was a late addition after Immigration Commissioner Leonel Castillo announced plans to build the so-called “Tortilla Curtain” walls at El Paso, San Diego, Calif., and San Luis, Ariz., to keep Mexican aliens out of the United States. “We’ve got the fence covered with sheets and we re going to unveil a 12- foot-high section of steel chain fence erected near the huge outdoor stage at Glenn Pepper’s Villa de la Mina Hotel in Arriba Terlingua,” Tolbert said. “This will give a test similar to the proposed U.S. Tortilla Curtain between this country and Mexico. “Contestants may jump, crawl, pole vault or tunnel under the fence. Tom Tierney, supervisor of the contest, said, “you may even use wire cutters on the fence and, in this event, it’ll be quickly repaired.” Last year, Houston stockbroker Tom Griffin emerged as the world champion with his concoction, “Buzzard Breath Chili,” featuring dried, ground-up Mexi can red ants and a few generous flicks of his cigar ashes. Tolbert added that in an effort to quiet griping by some chili cooks about past judging, Richardson certified public ac countant Jim Beach would keep score and certify the honesty of the judging this year. Named as judges were Gov. Overton James of the Chicashaw Indian Nation, former astronaut James Lovell, poet Im- ogene Twitty (a mythical character created by Tolbert) and Stanley Marsh 3, an ec centric Amarillo rancher who has a collec tion of Cadillacs, camels and llamas in the pasture at his “Toad Hall” ranch. Marsh, in keeping with elaborate cos tuming and play acting which have be come part of chili cookoffs over the past decade, plans to dress as Pancho Villa and lead a pack of hairless dogs painted to look like little Mexican bandits, with one dog made up as Sen. John Tower, one of last year’s judges. Carter arranges meeting with Begin United Press International NEW YORK — President Carter, re versing a week of denials by the White House, arranged a meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during a brief campaign swing through New York City. Carter announced the meeting as he completed a political address on the steps of the Federal Building in Manhattan, as an audience of thousands looked on. The president was campaigning for the state’s Democrats, including Gov. Hugh Carey, up for election on Tuesday. He was to head to Michigan later in the day for more stumping. Begin and Carter have been at odds for more than a week since the Israeli Cabinet’s decision to strengthen Jewish settlements on occupied Arab lands. Car ter opposes the settlements and the State Department has viewed the development as a potential obstacle to a peace settle ment with Egypt. The meeting came at Carter’s invitation. Carter and Begin arranged to meet at the Manhattan home of former Demo cratic National Committee Finance Chairman Arthur Krim, where a luncheon-fundraiser was being conducted for Democratic candidates. The White House had denied all week that a meeting between the two would take place, but Thursday, as he arrived in the nation’s largest city. Carter hedged. Asked if his path and Begin s might cross Thursday, Carter replied, “We ll let you know later. He called Begin “a great friend” and reminded reporters that the Israeli leader was not on an official state visit. Begin was in New York to accept a “Fam ily of Man” award from the Council of Churches of New York City. It came gift wrapped Someone will find a surprise gift, or at least gift wrapping, on Church Street north of the Texas A&M University campus. He can expect no lack of materials for wrapping fish or house-breaking pup pies for some time. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. SMU game ... Yell practice site announced Midnight Yell Practice for the Texas A&M-Southern Methodist University football game will be in the parking lot of The Circle Disco, (previously The Old Theatre), at the corner of Harry Hines Boulevard and Northwest Highway, in Dallas. The club will also be the site of the Pig Push, the annual dance sponsored by Texas Women’s University for members of the Corps of Cadets. The dance was moved from its traditional location on the TWU campus by mutual agreement between TWU and the Corps in an effort to increase attendance, said Steve Manley, Corps public relations officer. Seats available on bus to SMU Seats are still available on the Brazos County A&M Club’s charter bus to the Texas A&M-SMU football game Saturday. John Richards, trip coordinator, says the bus will leave parking lot 60 at 9 a. m. Saturday and will return after the game. Cost is $12 per person. The telephone number for reservations is 845-1311. Ben R. Finney Ben R. Finney, an anthropology professor at the University of Hawaii, gave a slide presentation depicting scenes from his 3,000-mile voyage from the Hawaiian Islands to Tahiti. The trip, made without a compass, took Finney and his crew about 32 days. Finney said the purpose of the trip was to try to re-trace one of the ancient voyages that was recorded in Polynesian legends over a thousand years ago, using the stars as an only guide. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.