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Battauon Tuesday, February 20, 1979 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Off-season training What do professional football players do in the off-season? At least one is working toward a col lege degree. See page 6. China halts attack; Viets claim victory United Press International BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnam’s prime minister has predicted a complete victory over Chinese invaders, whose penetration appeared today to have halted 6 miles inside Vietnamese territory. However, Western intelligence experts monitoring the battles between the Asian enemies said today reports of a Chinese withdrawal from Vietnam “appear a little premature.” Combat planes from both the Chinese and Vietnamese air forces resumed air strikes again at dawn today, intelligence sources said. Analysts said the strikes ap peared aimed at troop concentrations. There was no sign, however, that Hanoi intended to commit its regular forces to the front against China. Vietnam is be lieved to have just four reserve combat di visions — roughly 35,000 soldiers — be tween Hanoi and the Chinese frontier to the north. The Vietnam News Agency distributed the text of a speech by Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, delivered Sunday in Cambodia. “The Vietnamese people will absolutely win final victory,” Dong said. Vietnam said it had “wiped out” 3,500 Chinese troops and 80 tanks. Professional analysts in Bangkok said Vietnamese army regulars had been held back since the Chinese invasion began last Saturday, and the Peking forces had met opposition only from militia, guerrillas and other Vietnamese irregular forces. “China seems on the edge of a decision now,” said one source today. “They can push ahead and try to force the Vietnamese to commit those divisions, or they can pull out.” There were widespread — but uncon firmed — reports Peking had already or dered a phased withdrawal of its troops from Vietnam. But, “those reports appear a little pre mature,’’ said a Western source in Bangkok today. In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Sanao Sonoda told Parliament today Ja pan’s Embassy in China had been told Peking felt it “was forced’ to invade Vietnam. Radio Hanoi and other official Vietnamese media, which first reported the invasion had halted Sunday, today re ported continued fighting along the 450- mile-wide border with China. It said Chinese troops used “chemical shells” in attacks on four eastern Vietnamese districts, but gave no further details. In Vietnam’s northwestern corner prov ince capital of Lao Cai, 155 miles from Hanoi, Vietnamese forces destroyed two Chinese pontoon bridges across the Red and Nam Thi rivers, “throwing hundreds of Chinese troops into the turbulent water,” Radio Hanoi said. Russia blames U.S., Japan for prompting China attack man gs/< Mr. and Mrs. Peachum’s shop supplies clothing for beggars who wish to be dressed to fit their role. Here Mrs. Peachum (Kayce Glasse) and a prosnec- h've beggar. Filch (Jorge del Angel), toss some of the merchandise about. The two appear in the Aggie 90 90 90 filler says research rital to curb hunger 90 colors' 29. S Choosing to be beggars Players’ production of Threepenny Opera, which begins today in Rudder Theater at 8 p.m. and runs through Saturday. Tickets are $2 for students and $3 for others. Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco United Press International DALLAS — Texas A&M University isident Jarvis E. Miller Monday said ence and technology will be important any short-term plan to cure problems of rid hunger, but that controlling the pulation is the long-term goal. Miller, keynoting a hearing of the Pres- en ts Commission on World Hunger, a commitment on the parts of world ernments to cure hunger is essential. Over the short term — the next gener- — I believe that the United States, ®1> Canada and Western Europe can elop the know-how and production pability to supply the food deficiencies |me less developed countries,” Miller But they can do this only with a mas- ; commitment of resources to support earch and development. While the “Mem is one of production, the distribu- . the marketing and the ability of the developed countries to pay the farm- & of the producer countries for the prod- * they need also are essential, oe said one way to attack the problem 'vorldwide food shortages is to increase affluence of all countries, me U.S. government must assist in solving this problem by helping the gov ernments in less developed countries train their people to develop small industries, tourism and relatively small but eco nomically viable farms,” he said. “In addition, we could help them de velop internal credit and market struc tures whereby they could finance, pro duce and sell their products at some level of profit.” However, Miller said, “Over the long term, nothing is more important than find ing and implementing ways to stabilize the growth rate.” He added that there is an indication that greater affluence results in fewer births. Miller recently initiated action to in crease Texas A&M’s programs of agricul tural and technical assistance abroad. He said more programs are needed such as the one contemplated between Texas A&M’s Agricultural Experiment Station and its Agricultural Extension Service and the government of Saudi Arabia. He said the SaUfdi government has expressed interest in a chain of agricultural experi ment stations throughout its country, and that Texas A&M would help the Saudis organize it. United Press International - HRAN — Iran, faced with rising w ing opposition to Ayatollah Ruhollah Pacini, Monday warned that it would essly crush “satanic” anti-Islamic , erna l factions, apparently including the )in muni s ts. in a bizarre act of international dip- eliif 1** ^ anc f ec f over the ransacked Is- pPlomatic mission to its new Moslem a'estinian leader Yasser Arafat, who n ot one cup of oil would reach Israel South Africa. tel) 6 are ce f e f )ra ^i n g the raising of our ere on our first embassy, the Bureau wtine, Arafat said as he raised the r n „ii w hite and green PLO flag over balcony. JP u ty Premier Ibrahim Yazdi the t k' 011 °^ w hether Iran would follow this ich ^ the Palestinians direct aid mone y ar, d weapons would be dis- « a later date. j) S ar y 1.000 foreigners, mostly Ameri- ifd H ® r ' tons ’ Qoit Iran Monday in the fitj i a y. °f a major evacuation. The e t ? rolHtary airlift was virtually com- ’ Hut U.S. Embassy officials said i tt ]i evacaa ti on of up to 6,000 people c °ntinue at least through Wednes- iens a ;* c °nd government warning on the 1 1 1Ve domestic situation, Prime Mehdi Bazarean told >nist ^mu er ln ' s t-led oil workers the revolution that drove the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from the throne would collapse un less the country began to export petro leum products shortly. Bazargan, in a weekend interview, promised that Iran would resume exports as quickly as possible to most of its former customers — including the United States. But anti-Americanism still ran high in the country. So far 9 out of 10 Iranian workers have obeyed the ayatollah’s request to return to wor k — a major victory for the religious leader since many oil workers are consid ered leftist. Oil sources said 67,000 work ers were back on the job and producing enough petroleum to meet domestic needs. Khomeini issued a blunt warning to the nation today that a “very sensitive” situa tion still prevailed and satanic elements who are worse than the shah were still try ing to create problems. In an apparent reference to left-wing radicals and Communists he said, I won tolerate anyone who is anti-Islamic. e will crush them. His remarks apparently were aimed specifically at the left-wing Fedayeen group that has refused to surrender weapons looted from army and police ar senals and that has reportedly been stir ring up problems among oil workers in the south. United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet Union ac cused the United States today of encourag ing the Chinese attack on Vietnam and said the Carter administration’s comments on the war have been hypocritical and am bivalent. The Communist Party daily, Pravda, in an editorial labeled “aggressor in the pil lory,” said the timing of the Chinese attack was “determined by the position taken by MSC Council chooses more officers for ’79 Six new Memorial Student Center Council officers were elected last night to join President Brooks Herring in heading up the 30th MSC Council. They will take office in April. Keith Shurtleff was elected coordinator of funds, Steve Stayer director of opera tions and Mary Elizabeth Herring comptroller. The vice president of administration is Brian Gross; vice president of programs is Teresa Beshara, and director of projects is Cindy Williams. Two offices, the vice president of finance and director of public relations, were left open for further applicants who can start applying in two weeks. Responsibilities of council members include advising in the operations of the MSC Complex as well as serving as a policy-making body for the 20 MSC pro gramming committees. Western powers and Japan” during Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping’s visit to the United States. The article, according to Pravda, was by Alexei Petrov, a pseudonym that indicates it was written at higher government levels and channeled to Pravda for publication. The Tass news agency ran a translation of the article early today. “The timing of the incursion into Vietnam was determined by the position taken by some Western powers and Japan. During Teng Hsiao-ping’s recent trip to Washington and Tokyo he bluntly re vealed plans to teach Vietnam a bloody lesson,” it said. “In talks with some of his American friends Teng went even farther and di vulged details of these plans. It is not ruled out that (his) American friends, and this is how he calls them now, answered with frankness to frankness. There were those among these friends who would like to teach Vietnam a lesson and belatedly punish the Vietnamese for the ignomini ous defeat sustained by the American mili tary in Vietnam.” There was no indication in Moscow Monday the Soviet Union planned to move against China, although it repeated its ultimatum issued a day earlier that Pek ing should pull out of Vietnam “before it is too late.” A report from an unofficial Soviet source said the Soviet army had canceled all leaves and ordered soldiers to return to barracks, although Western military specialists said they saw no evidence of a step up in military activity. The Pravda commentary noted that dur ing Teng’s visit to the United States, his plans to launch an attack on Vietnam were apparent. “Sounding more than ambiguous against the background of Peking’s perfidious ag gression against a socialist country are the hypocritical calls by the United States to all sides to display restraint, although this appeal should have been clearly addressed to China.” A&M police step up towing of violators Carter to describe ‘low-key’ approach ran vows to crush groups *at oppose Islam beliefs By JEAN LONGSERRE Battalion Reporter Texas A&M University police have begun a “tow-away” program this month to rid the campus of unregistered cars that have been given an “excessive” number of tickets and chronic illegal parkers. Russ McDonald, University Police chief, defined excessive tickets as more than three, and chronic illegal parkers as students who have registered their cars, but have more than five unpaid tickets. “We have too many unregistered vehi cles that are operating regularly on cam pus,” McDonald said. “If we can get the unregistered vehicles off campus, the people who paid to park here won’t have the parking problem they do now.” McDonald said parking is available, but most people park where they want to, re gardless of legality. “People just don’t like to park far away from campus,” he said. “The $5 fine doesn’t seem to mean anything to them.” McDonald said the University uses A-l Wrecker Service in Bryan to tow the cars. The cars are taken from the University to the wrecker service’s shop, where a person must pay $20 for release of his car. “We have always towed vehicles for chronic violations, but we are just towing more because we are getting tired of all the unregistered vehicles on campus, as well as the chronic violators,” McDonald said. “So far this month, we have towed maybe 100 vehicles.” McDonald said the usual number of cars towed is fewer than 25 per month. “We don’t like to do this because it is so time-consuming,” he said. “If we tow 100 cars we lose about 100 man hours.” McDonald said that one reason for the slow process is that the car’s contents and damages must be inventoried before the car is towed away. “We do this to protect ourselves, the students, and the wrecking service,” he said. “As long as we have these records, we can’t be held responsible for any dam ages or lost items that were not the result of the towing.” McDonald said the towing program also aids in collecting on unpaid tickets. “When the students go down to the wrecker service, they have to identify themselves to get their cars,” he said. “We send down an officer to get those iden tities, so that we can bill the violators for their unpaid tickets.” McDonald said illegally parked cars will be towed away more than once if neces sary. “If a violator parks on campus again, then we will keep towing away his car until he gets the message,” he said. “All they have to do is come in here, pay their fine and buy a parking permit.” McDonald said the parking permits are prorated. “They go down in price the first of every month,” he said. The price of a student parking permit valid from February to May is $12. United Press International WASHINGTON — In a major foreign policy address today, President Carter will try to explain his low-key method of han dling crises in Iran and Indochina despite “outraged screams” from some quarters for dramatic U.S. action. The president worked on the speech at Camp David, Monday as he wound up his weekend stay and prepared to return to the White House. Carter will deliver it today in an appear ance at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he will receive an honorary degree. The president had planned to use the platform to spotlight the forthcoming strategic arms agreement, but decided to expand the theme of “quiet diplomacy” as a result of international upheavals such as the Moslem revolution in Iran and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. A White House aide said the address will deal with the relationship of those events to overall U.S. foreign policy. For the two years since he took office, Carter has been plagued by critics who complain of a lack of leadership and urge him to act more forcefully in times of crisis. Carter’s standing in opinion polls has plunged, leading aides to admit the presi dent is taking a “political beating” and has an image problem because the public doesn’t understand his low-key approach to foreign affairs. Political observers say his failure to move dramatically encourages a percep tion of Carter as a weak president, rather than as a sensible peacemaker who resists precipitous action in crises. His defenders point out that he has not committed American troops to fight in lands where U.S. interests are not directly involved. U.S. presidents in the recent past have been quick to react with a flexing of America’s military might in times of crisis — but not always to long-term political advantage. Gerald Ford received a boost in the polls when he resorted to a show of strength in reaction to the Mayaguez inci dent with Cambodia — but that action later was widely criticized. But a senior White House aide says Car ter’s behind-the-scenes diplomacy is pay ing off and has kept the United States out of international conflicts as well as clear of the turbulent internal affairs of emerging nations. By LORI SHULER Reporter Pillow fights. Tricycle drag races. Massages. Those aren’t scenes from an X-rated film. Friday night, 80 cam pus organizations will turn the Memorial Student Center into the fourth annual All Nite Fair, com plete with all of the above. The title of the theme of this year’s fair is “Shades of the Twen ties.” It will include three perform ances by the Loco Motion Acrobatic Circus at 9 p.m., 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. in the MSC lounge. The Cir cus is coming in conjunction with the Recreation Committee and will also have a “teaser" performance Friday afternoon. The fair, which will last from 7 ' * ' p.m. to 3 a.m., will also include judo and dance demonstrations, sponge throwing, a cake walk and a plant walk and many other booths and activities. There will be a 50 cent cover charge, and 10 cents per ticket will be charged to participate in some activities. In addition to giving prizes at the booths, the All Nite Fair Committee will choose winners for the best booths and twenties costumes. Mary Helen Vetter, chairman of the All Nite Fair Committee, said the fair has grown from 35 commit tees in 1975 to the 80 organizations involved this year. The first fair was the Centennial Fair, held in celeb ration of Texas A&M’s 100th an niversary in 1976. Vetter said the first two fairs a.m. lasted all night. But it was found that activity fells offby 3 a. m., so the hours were shortened. Last year 6,800 people attended the feir, and this year Vetter expects at least 7,000. David Ruiz, a member of the All Nite Fair Committee, said the feir is improving because groups outside the MSC are participating. Dorms and recognized organiza tions are invited to participate. But they must follow a few basic rules — no money or liquor for prizes, no messy activity and cleaning up when the feir is over. Ruiz said one organization is planning to have participants shoot water guns at candles. It is setting up its own drainage system so as not 1 to fall into the “messy” category.