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
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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
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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
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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.