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
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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.