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/ * I... Jo\. 72 No. 78 0 Pages Battalio Friday, January 19, 1979 News Dept. 845-2611 'College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611 Boston tickets on sale Monday Tickets for the performance of the rock group Boston will go on sale Monday in the Rudder Box Office. The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Ticket prices are $6, $7.50 and $8. Flu field trials halfway over By JULIE SMILEY Battalion Reporter Russian Flu researchers from Baylor Col lege of Medicine packed blood samples and syringes and left Texas A&M University Wednesday evening, but they will be back for more blood. Dr. Robert Couch, director of the In fluenza Research Center (IRC) in Houston which is part of Baylor College of Medicine, and his team of researchers re turned to Houston after three days of col lecting blood samples in the Commons. Participants in the flu vaccine field trial may continue to give blood at Beutel Health Center Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning. The flu vaccine field trial, which started in November, is a cooperative experiment between Texas A&M and the IRC to test the effectiveness of two types of Russian Flu vaccine. Dr. John M. Quarles, assistant professor of medicine at Texas A&M, is associate investigator with Couch. In November, 2, 112 volunteers gave blood samples and had drops of one of two types of Russian Flu vaccine, or a dummy vaccine, placed on the back of their throats. Participants receive $10 for every blood sample given and $3 for every illness report card they complete and return to re searchers. Bill Bomar, a sophomore petroleum en gineering major from Denton, said he has earned $29 so far by giving two blood sam ples and returning three illness report cards. He said he was hesitant at first to take the vaccine, but also said it was worth the risk because he hasn t been sick. Couch said the field trial is not over yet and participants will have another chance to earn $10 in March when the researchers return to TAMU for a third round of blood samples. Meanwhile, illness report cards will be mailed each week to participants during the flu season, Couch said. Couch called the field trial a success so far. He said over 1,200 participants have given blood in the Commons between Monday and Wednesday, and also said he hopes about 550 more will before Saturday morning. An estimated $200,000 will be paid to participants, Couch said. The entire project is federally funded through the Na tional Institute of Health at a cost of about $300,000. He said use of blood samples from every participant may make this field trial the largest and most intensive in the United States. The flii field trial is testing the effective ness of two types of Russian Flu vaccine. Couch said Texas A&M is a “natural place to test because of the large number of healthy young people on campus. He also said the last serious epidemic of the Russian Flu in the United State's was in 1952. Since people born after that have' not been exposed to the Russian Flu. People' 26 years olel and younger are most suscepti ble. Twenty-nine case's of the' Russian Flu have been reported to Beutel Health Cen ter at Tt*xas A&M, but none of the cases were participants in the field trial, said Dr. John Zahradnik, an associate with Couch. Zahraelnik saiel Russian Flu cases were reported at Texas A&M in December and there mav be more soon. S cruuuuummm! 1th that cry, these members of the Aggie Rugby Team prepare to do ittle. The team’s first and second squads were practicing “down ’n dirty” in the drill field mud yesterday for a match this weekend in Houston. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Iranian student faces U.S. deportation |)avis case judge considers mistrial United Press International lOUSTON — State District Judge llace Moore has started weighing his Itto produce a verdict or send home a ( now in its fourth day of debating rder-for-hire charges against Fort rtf millionaire T. Cullen Davis, pthe jury proves unable to reach ifiimity on guilt or innocence, a mistrial be declared and prosecutors have said will exercise their option to retry /is on charges he offered $25,000 to e bis divorce judge killed, fhen the jury retired for the night irsday, after 20 hours and no decision, ore said his job may soon be the very icate application of increasing amounts •ressure. First, Moore — who emphasized he was not criticizing the jury for lengthy deliber ation — said he will start requiring more jurors’ questions to be more specific, an unmistakable hint to move along. The seven-man, five-woman panel has asked and —- so far without question — received rereading of testimony or replay ing of tapes of conversations Davis’ chief accuser and friend-turned-informant, David McCrory. “What we re doing now is just reading the whole transcript over again, Moore said. “It doesn’t seem to be producing any results. I’m going to start requiring them to tell me if there is a dispute or if they just don’t remember. “Ordinarily, we require more formality with the note-writing. This one has been so long, they just don’t remember. It’s just humanly impossible to remember, so the rules have to be eased, he said. Next, Moore will ask the jury foreman how deeply the panel is divided. “I thought yesterday I might do it today, but they didn’t give me time, Moore said. “I missed lunch looking for testimony (to answer jury questions). I’m thinking today I might poll them tomorrow (Friday), if I can get a word in. “I’d ask the foreman, ‘What combina tion of 12 are you? Later, he could ask each juror. “I go down the row and talk to each juror personally. ‘What is your thought on the matter. Do you think you can reach a ^-income housing planned .S. seeks HUD fund renewal verdict?’ If all of them say there’s no way, the time frame becomes very important.” If the panel after several days reported itself undecided, Moore might consider the final step down the road toward possi ble impasse and mistrial —- a special in struction reminding the jury of its respon sibility. He said that amounts to telling the jury “Y’all sit down and work this thing out so we don’t have to do it again,” but he said he will be hesitant because “it’s a danger ous thing to do. In any case, although there are no clear legal guidelines, Moore said he expects to keep the jury at least through Sunday. “If the jury is dismissed too soon, the defendant will be in jeopardy,” Moore said. “That means he can’t be tried for this again. He’s entitled to a not guilty verdict if that’s the verdict the jury is going to reach." United Press International SAN ANTONIO — In possibly, its first move against Iranian student demon strations in the United States, the gov ernment Thursday began proceedings to deport an Iranian who led a group of chanting marchers to the Alamo Wednes day. Hossein Jahanfar, 29, was arrested by undercover Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service undercover agents at the end of a two-hour march from San Antonio Col lege Wednesday. The agents said Jahanfar was suspected of taking part in a violent demonstration outside the shah’s Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion earlier this month. One undercover agent, who kept Jahan far under surveillance during the march, said the arrest was part of Attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell s recent get-tough policy against Iranian demonstrations in the United States, and that heretofore the INS has paid little attention to Iranian student visas. Jahanfar, who had not retained an attor ney by midday Thursday, spent the night in the Bexar County Jail in lieu of $40,000 bond, pending civil proceedings that would remove him from the country. Edward Molina, assistant director of enforcement for the INS, said grounds for Jahanfar s deportation would be that his By DOUG GRAHAM Battalion Staff ollege Station city officials are iraging construction of low-income using units in order to receive a 30,000 community development grant 1979. City planner Jim Callaway said he hopes it action taken in building the housing jjects will help secure the grant. The Department of Housing and Urban Jvelopment dropped the city’s 1978 int “because of their (College Station’s) Mof performance, and lack in housing, ack in a viable housing plan,” HUD o more action n Tenneco line United Press International CONCORD, N.H. — Tenneco an- unced Thursday it will not appeal a fed- Kruling turning off the tap on its pro ved $5 billion liquefied natural gas peline from Canada to Albany, N. Y. Hnneco had until Wednesday to appeal >t month’s Energy Department ruling fning down permission for it to import gerian natural gas for the 498-mile Bine. A Tenneco spokesman said in a lephone interview from Houston the mpany had decided not to ask for a re aring on the ruling, but would make no rther comment. The pipeline was to begin at St. John’s, ew Brunswick, and enter the United ates at Calais, Maine. The pipeline was |tos.s through Maine, New Hampshire id northern Massachusetts. The company first applied to build the Kline in 1976. It wanted to import 1 lllin cubic feet of natural gas per day for ) pars beginning in 1983. supervisor H.K. Berrey said “Over the three years they’ve been in our program, they’ve done nothing to help lower income families,” he said. Callaway said the problem was not in the city’s motivation. For instance, HUD’s previous rent subsidy program failed be cause HUD estimates of rent costs in Col lege Station were too low, Callaway said. During the three years the program was administered, he said, not one dwelling was rented. Despite the fact that the city doesn’t feel at fault, it is taking certain steps to secure this year’s grant, Callaway said. Two groups are trying to build HUD- approved low-income rent-assistance apartment projects. These units, said Jim Callaway, will be rented at market prices. But for a low- income occupant, any rent higher than 25 percent of his income will be paid by HUD. One project was proposed by Eddie Chew, a College Station resident. The council rezoned Chew’s land to permit construction of the project. Callaway said Chew will be competing regionally in Texas for HUD money to build the project, so his financing is uncer tain. A consortium of New York lawyers, rep resented by former HUD employee Clyde Emmons from Arlington, is trying to build another project in College Station, said John Emerson of the Brazos Valley De velopment Council. Its financing scheme differs with Chew’s and hinges on city council cooperation. But tight cooperation may be difficult. Callaway said the city council voted by a narrow 4-3 margin to enter into negotia tions with Emmons’s consortium. The council was divided, Callaway said, because the consortium wants the city to set up a housing association. The associa tion will be a kind of partnership to finance construction using tax-free bonds. Callaway said that the consortium would retain the ownership and profits of the project. Except for those two areas, the housing association resembles HUD’s preference: a housing authority. HUD prefers housing authorities be cause they are less subject to market con ditions in rent, Callaway said. But “I don’t think that’s what the council wants for Col lege Station,” he added. “There are not enough people in Col lege Station to warrant such a program,” Emerson agreed. “The need for a housing authority isn’t there.” Callaway said he hopes that the city council’s recent resolution supporting Chew and its vote to enter negotiations with Emmons will be evidence of good faith with HUD officials in Dallas. But HUD supervisor Berrey said that “just a resolution would be insufficient. We want to see substantial progress before we release the block grant.” He said that substantial progress meant the projects would have secured firm' financing to begin construction. The application process begins on Feb. 28 when College Station has to file a per formance report, said Berrey. The actual application is due April 7, he added. Callaway said that he hopes HUD will take progress into account all the way up until June when the decision on the grant will be made. College Station would use the funds for anything from street repair and construc tion to house rehabilitation. But the city has not determined exactly how it will spend the money if it gets the grant, Callaway said. “We re working on how we ll use the money right now. ” UT to fight HEW ruling of sexism United Press International AUSTIN — With $40 million in federal funds in jeopardy, the Uni versity of Texas says it will fight a Health, Education and Welfare rul ing that the school was guilty of sex discrimination. The ruling came more than one year after a federal court said the university had not discriminated against former art instructor Janet Berry. UT officials Thursday received a 35-page HEW report on the 9-year-old case, concluding the fed eral agency had found the university violated federal guidelines prohibit ing job discrimination on the basis of sex. The report said UT gave higher pay and quicker promotions to four males with qualifications equal to Berry’s. “The decision of the (HEW) Re viewing Authority is in direct con flict with the decision of the federal court which, using the same factual evidence, found on all counts that the university did not discriminate against Ms. Berry,” university pres ident Lorenb Rogers said. HEW ruled UT is ineligible for any award, contract or subcontract funded in whole or in part with fed eral funds from any agency of the United States or for extensions on existing contracts and subcontracts until the school changes personnel and employment policies to end sex discrimination. Rogers said school officials re ceived the final HEW decision more than a year after a federal district court’s Aug. 24, 1977, ruling against Berry’s lawsuit for damages. “Apparently the HEW Adminis trative Reviewing Authority has de cided to ignore the decision of the federal court and to rely instead on their interpretation of the facts,” Rogers said. “The university does not accept HEW’s conclusion that the university is in non-compliance and intends to continue to pursue this matter to its just conclusion. “In the interim, the university will take all necessary steps to ensure its continued eligibility for federal grants and contracts.” UT officials said Berry resigned her job as an assistant professor of art on Monday. She had been on leave of, absence during the fall semester and is living in Missouri. Berry was hired by UT in 1964 and granted tenure in 1970. In 1971 she filed a sex discrimination com plaint with HEW. She filed a law suit in federal court three years later. UT currently receives $40 million a year in federal funds. visa expired on Dec. 31 and that he did not re-enroll as a student at San Antonio Col lege for the current semester. Molina said agents in Los Angeles and San Antonio also were attempting to iden tify Jahanfar as a mustachioed man shown in a news photograph as he kicked down a fence during the Beverly Hills rioting. “We have already served him with an order to show cause and an order of ar rest,” Molina said. “Bond was established. Now we start into the regular administra tive court procedures to deport him. Jahanfar led a march of about 25 Iranian students who ignored angry objections from several townspeople and American students on the march to the Alamo Wed nesday afternoon. He shouted through a bullhorn, asking for American support to ban the shah from the United States. Jahanfar, who had identified himself as “Hossein Ehia in interviews prior to the march, told UPI Wednesday, “Eve been a student a year.” But Molina said he no longer was a student at the junior college. Molina indicated Jahanfar s alleged par ticipation in the Beverly Hills demonstra tion would be an integral part of deporta tion proceedings. “The only thing we have that is concrete is he was on a television program on Jan. 5, at which time he was asked if he partici pated in the Los Angeles deal and he ac knowledged he’d been there, but refused to comment on whether he had partici-, pated,” Molina said. “We re working on it and we re trying to identify him as the one and the same that appears in this United Press International photograph that we got out of the Wash ington Post. One of the agents in Los Angeles is working on it. Arrested for biting an officer United Press International AUSTIN — A Department of Public Safety officer told a 23-year-old man that Gov. Bill Clements was not home. The man and his dog then began biting the officer, authorities said. Douglas Maler Gomillion Thursday was charged with assault and suspicion of lu nacy. Gomillion and his dog reportedly went to the Governor’s Mansion Thursday and told DPS officer Nolan Crow, 63, he wanted to see Clements. Crow said Cle ments was not home and when he tried to direct the visitor to the Capitol, Gomillion and his Collie allegedly attacked. It took three more officers to restrain the in truder. A Clements’ spokesman said said Crow was treated at a local hospital for a cut hand and chest and leg injuries. The governor and his wife have not moved into the mansion, preferring to stay at a downtown hotel until their furniture is shipped from Dallas.