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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1979)
And you should see this place when it s full udent Lot 50, by Zachry Engineering Center, is nsidered “fair ground" to try to park. The row closest to the center is for staff. So, students trying to find a parking place on campus are finding trou ble instead of parking slots. Due to construction, about 600 student and faculty parking spaces were blocked off last semester. And because of this, park ing — always at a premium — has become a prize to the Swiftest. Battalion photo by Bill Wilson Battalion Friday, January 26, 1979 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Amazing magical feats? Illusionist Andre Kole didn’t fool Battalion reviewer Roy Bragg. The magician appeared Thursday night at A&M Con solidated High School. Turn to page 5. CS council argues, passes new rates By KEVIN HIGGINBOTHAM Battalion Reporter Discussion of an electricity rate ordi nance turned the College Station City Council meeting into a shouting match Thursday night. After an hour of argument, the council closed the public hearing on the matter and unanimously passed the ordinances. The arguments centered on the 10 per cent discount on electricity rates for com mercial users. Members of a local apartment managers association said that a cost-of-service study was needed to tell whether the 10 percent discount would be sufficient. “I don’t know if 10, 15, or 4 percent is equitable," said Charles R. Harty, presi dent of the apartment association. “I don’t think anyone can know without a cost-of- service analysis.” The council objected that a cost analysis of this type would take from six months to a year. “If the discount is found not to be enough, this can be adjusted,” Council man James Dozier said. “But if we lose money, how do we get it back?” John Denison, president of Electrical Power Engineers Inc., added that it would not be fair to bill every residential cus tomer for the cost it takes to supply the electrical service. “Government is here to do things equit ably,” Dqnison said, “not just cost-wise.” Other arguments over the utility ordi nance concerned whether master metered apartment complexes should receive commercial or residential utility rates. Master metered complexes, those in which the entire complex is serviced under one meter, were considered to be residential customers under the proposed ordinance. Bill Sisson, another member of the apartment association, had presented ar guments to the council Wednesday for giv ing such complexes the commercial rates. The apartment association listed as rea sons 25 cost savings to the utility company that should make the complexes qualify for the 10 percent discount. The list included greater efficiency and fewer day-to-day operational costs for the utility company. The council refused to review the argu ments again. “We’ve heard those arguments,” said Mayor Lorence Bravenec. “Must we be continually harangued and harangued over this?” “This council always assumed that the discount applied to submeter and not mas ter meter complexes, Bravenec said. Dorothy DuBois, student liaison to the council, also agreed that apartments should be considered commercial. “They are one entity dispersing services to many and because of this they should get the 10 percent discount,” DuBois said. DuBois said that in the long run it will be the tenants who will be affected. . Duane Kraemer and his graduate assistant, lieved to be the first born by this transfer, but the il Kinney, hold the first embryonic transfer pup- unusual pedigree of the other two is certain. is. The beagle puppy Kinney is holding is be- Battalion photo by Bill Wilson &M produces successful anine embryo transplant Student predicts fall of Iran government t -'i il By CATHY KIRKHAM Battalion Reporter wo healthy Labrador Retriever pup- bom Dec. 15 at Texas A&M Univer- ire the result of one of the first known issful canine embiyo transfers. . Duane Kraemer, professor of vet- ary physiology and pharmacology, and Kinney, a graduate veterinary stu- ^ have researched canine embryo fers since last January, aas A&M researchers have conducted st successful transfers of primate and embryos in the world. They also led is in cattle and horse transfers, insfers are done surgically with dogs |ats but not with cattle or horses,” ler said. explained the procedure: surgical process begins by exposing iproductive tract of the donor mother ; opening both ends of the uterine Tl. ' f luid is then flushed through the rine horn, washing the embryo onto a ss plate. !h< microscopic embiyo is injected into reproductive tract of the host mother. ! surgical transfer between donor and |s done within 30 minutes. A cattle yo can be stored 24 hours in a culture I to its transfer. j drugs or hormones are used to pre- the uterus of the host mother for the yo, he said. However, the injection i host mother must be done while she | the same stage of the cycle as the mother is, so the embryo will be pted. transfer takes place 12 to 15 days | conception. emer said five canine transfers have | attempted, resulting in two pregnan- first pregnancy involved four em- land yielded a litter of one. The sec- involved 10 embryos, yielding a litter i puppies. It is impossible to prove the puppy is 5 result of an actual transfer and not di- bffspring,’ Kraemer said. “All you can Itry to rule out the possibility that the ■mother is also the genetic mother. This is done by observation and blood typ ing.” Kraemer said the adult dogs used in these experiments have been developed in animal colonies exclusively for biomedical research. The animals in these colonies are pro duced by frozen semen under the direc tion of Stephen Seger at the Institute of Comparative Medicine in Houston, he said. Kinney said the reasons for research in the area of embryo transfer are twofold: “By preserving genetically defected off spring, many genetic diseases can be studied — especially those that may be related to humans. “Also, when the process is perfected, embryos from endangered species may be transfered to domestic animals.” She said that by superovulating em bryos through the use of hormones, many more offspring may be produced. The concept of embryo transfer is com pletely different from the test-tube baby approach, Kraemer said. In the latter, the embryo is replaced in the same uterus and never changes its genetic environment. By KEITH TAYLOR Battalion Reporter An Iranian student attending Texas A&M University says the present head of the Iranian government is “a puppet of the shah,” and predicts the present govern ment will not last more than a few months. The student, who asks to be referred to as Hasan, says the civilian Regency Coun cil appointed by the shah is not what the people want. “The people are fighting for democracy and independence,” he says. The people of Iran want the freedoms and rights of all people guaranteed, Hasan says. He says the shah will not return to Iran because, “The people will not let him. People would like to punish him.” He says the people of Iran are angry over the Shah’s “fascist” regime and his imprisonment of “thousands of innocent people.” Barbecue, bronc riding, bull dogging China’s premier to see ‘Texas’ HOUSTON — In Texas it’s known as “putting on the dog” and Luke Van Dries plans to put on quite a “dog” for China’s vice premier, Teng Hsiao- ping. Teng will arrive in Houston next Friday as part of a Chinese delegation expected to discuss trade opportunities with the United States but he also will have a chance to observe some Texas culture at Van Dries’ Round-up Rodeo at nearby Simonton. “Normally, when folks come down here from the North — or especially when they come from overseas — they expect Texas to be the Old, Wild West,” Van Dries said. “We try to ac commodate. “We’re gonna put a show on for him. We re gonna feed him barbecue. We re gonna put on a full-scale rodeo includ ing bareback, calf roping, saddle bronc riding, bull dogging. We’re gonna have country-western music.” The Houston Chamber of Com merce, one of several organizations hosting Teng, was debating whether to present him a cowboy hat or a fancy Western-style belt buckle or both. Van Dries declined to discuss secu rity — “Let’s just say it’s closed to the public” — or how much he will be paid. Van Dries, 53, who entertained Egyptian President Anwar Sadat two years ago, expects the Chinese vice premier to be easy to please. “It’ll be just like our regular Saturday night,” he said. “Cowboys will be out there competing against their own money plus some money we’re adding to the pot.” His daughters, Kitty, 17, and Kelly, 16, will carry the United States and Texas flags on horseback in the opening ceremony and will participate in the girls barrel-racing competition. Edward Dozier, owner Dozier’s Re staurant in the rodeo complex and Muriel Monk, manager, are planning the barbecue for Teng and his entour age, expected to total 500 persons. “They’ll have beef, sausage and ribs, potato salad and ranch-style barbecue beans and bread,” Monk said. “They’re gonna have beer and coffee and soft drinks or whatever.” But down the road at the Simonton Drive-In grocery, Ronnie Tondre ad mitted he was unaware a powerful foreign leader was coming. Life in Simonton, a suburb of 300 some 40 miles west of downtown, is like that. “It’s kind of quiet here,” Tondre said. It’s also easy-going about the political implications of thawing Chinese- American relations — and just about everything else. “It don’t make any difference to me. He’s coming anyway,” Tondre said. “We might learn something from him. It’s the coming thing, I imagine. Just have to go along with it. “I’d a whole lot rather be entertain ing them and being friendly than being against them. To heck with all that ar guing. ” The shah released political prisoners only because he was forced to by the pro tests of the people, Hasan says. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi left the country on Jan. 16 on a vactation to Egypt, Morocco and the United States. Hasan says Ayatollah Khomeini is very progressive and would make a good leader to replace the present government. (See related story, page 8.) Khomeini is the religious leader of the Shiite Moslem sect; 93 percent of the Ira nian population belongs to this sect. Kho meini wants to establish Iran as an Islamic republic. The Texas A&M student says that until a new government is installed, the people would have to fear SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, in the United States and Iran. “SAVAK is a tool of oppression,” Hasan says. He says he does not think any SAVAK agents are on the Texas A&M campus now, but says they have been in the past. He says the agents tried to infiltrate Ira nian student organizations on campus. Hasan says when the shah was in Iran, dissident students faced the possibility of imprisonment if they returned to Iran from the United States. The confusion and demonstrations in Iran now would probably allow a student dissident to return without fear of arrest, he says. Another Iranian student, referred to as Reza, says there has been talk of a demon stration on the Texas A&M campus, but nothing has been planned. He says he thinks a demonstration here would receive student support. Reza says many students stopped by the Iranian Students Association booth in the Memorial Student Center last semester and showed support for their cause. Hasan says there had been no previous demonstrations here because of the lack of publicity and media coverage. Hasan says many of the demonstrations in the United States were anti-American because of U.S. government policy. “Of course we were against the U.S. policy supporting the shah. It is important to realize we are not against the American people, but the policy of the American government.” Professor says Iran army plus 2 leaders equals war A Texas A&M University political sci ence professor says the United States and the Soviet Union might intervene if civil war breaks out in Iran. Dr. Kwang H. Ro said that unless the Iranian military takes a neutral stand in the controversy between Premier Shahpour Bakhtiar and religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, the violence will con tinue. Khomeini, who was expected to return to Iran today, has postponed his departure until Sunday because the pro-shah army has closed the airports to keep him from returning from exile. Ro said there should be a “strong con frontation” between the two men. The Iranian military is now supporting the government of Bakhtiar, whom the shah appointed before he left the country on Jan. 16. The Bakhtiar government wants to set up a parliamentary monarchy with the shah as a figure-head; Khomeini wants Iran to be an Islamic Republic, Ro said. He said the people in Iran do not like the Bakhtiar government because it was appointed by the shah, although it is much freer in comparison to the shah’s regime. Ro predicted that unless the military as sumes neutrality and allows the people to choose their own government, civil war will break out in Iran. There could also be intervention by the Palestinian Liberation Organization or the Afghanistan government should civil war begin, he said. Ro said a government set up by Kho meini would hurt the United States be cause the country would change it’s status from an ally to a neutral country. He said that despite neutraltiy, trade should continue between Iran and the United States. He also doubted that the oil trade would be affected after the govern ment is stabilized.