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Vol. 72 No. 110
8 Pages
Tuesday, March 6, 1979
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
oto by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
flameworking as a hobby about 20 years ago and it is now his full-time
occupation. He travels around molding glass tubes in an oxygen-propane
flame to make ships, dragons, crucifixes, sombreroed campesinos taking
their siestas and a menagerie of glass animals.
.S. proposals unacceptable to Knesset
arter to meet with Sadat in Egypt
to pill
J com United Press International
il offjH ASHINGTON — President Carter
T fy to Egypt Wednesday and on to Is-
lel Saturday in hopes of salvaging a Mid-
BEast peace, the White House an-
pvlouliced Monday.
Byithout a major effort such as this, the
irospects for failure are almost over-
iiarieslhel ing,’ White House press secretary
8, atIdy Powell told reporters.
houscB^ter w jjj mee { w ith Egyptian Presi-
■ tl " 1 lent Anwar Sadat and with Israeli officials,
s ‘ Powell said. But he said there are cur-
ip B:i«] y
no plans for three-way meetings in-
rolving Carter, Sadat and Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin.
B'he President believes that we must
lot allow the prospects for peace which
^ ieemed so bright last September to con-
inue to dim and perhaps to vanish,” a
White House statement said. “If we do,
the judgment of history and of our chil
dren will rightly condemn us.”
The announcement came after Carter
made further peace proposals to Israel,
which were not accepted by the Israeli
Cabinet. Carter also held a 10-minute
meeting with Begin in the Oval Office.
The Israeli Cabinet Monday accepted
two proposals made by Prime Minister
Menachem Begin designed to break the
deadlock in the Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty talks but failed to approve the two
American suggestions.
Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin
announced the decision of the Cabinet fol
lowing a five and one-half hour special ses
sion.
There was no indication of the nature of
Begin s suggestions or how closely they re
sembled the two American proposals
presented to Begin by President Carter
Sunday.
The communique quoted Yadin as say
ing he “stressed that the Cabinet had ap
proved the prime ministers suggestions
and not the American recommendations.
Powell said Carter s meeting with
Sadat, scheduled for Thursday afternoon,
has been set up to provide Sadat “oppor
tunity to discuss these ideas and difficult
issues unresolved.”
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin met with Carter for about 10 min
utes, and Powell spoke with reporters af
terwards.
Begin discussed where the negotiations
go from here during his brief meeting with
Carter in the Oval Office, Powell said.
“Israel has responded favorably to
American suggestions to help resolve
some remaining differences, said Powell.
Israeli officials in Washington said the
American suggestions that were not ac
cepted by the Israeli Cabinet are:
—One dealing with Article 6 of the pro
posed Israel-Egypt treaty text, which
deals with the other treaty obligations that
both nations have. Egypt has insisted on
langauage which would give its defense
obligations to the Arab League prece
dence over the Israeli treaty.
—A change in the protocol accompany
ing the treaty that would clarify the issues
left unsettled in the text, including propo
sal of a “target date for setting up Palesti
nian self-rule in Israeli occupied ter
ritories.
Begin earlier called Egypt’s demand to
give precedence to its Arab defense com
mitments “a breach of the treaty and said
that would make the treaty a “sham docu
ment.
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is necessity, professor says
; By KEVIN D. HIGGINBOTHAM
Battalion Reporter
> B'or Dr. Paul Christensen, establishing
nis own publishing company wasn’t the
culmination of a life’s dream. It was more a
matter of necessity.
■I never thought it would be neces-
iM',’’ said Christensen, an English profes-
Bat Texas A&M University. “Now I see
■s not only necessary but as a sort of
missionary work.
Si grew up naively about writing. I al
ways thought that if you had the talent
you’d get published.
■If anything the avenues of print today
are dosed except to a few. The names
ne\er change on the big presses; Mario
■o’s always on it, Michener’s always on
it and the diet and sex manuals are always
on it,” he said.
■As long as the situation persists where
aRrge nation is not publishing its writers,
■re will be these home remedies.”
■’he Cedar House Press is Christensen’s
pome remedy for the Southwest.
• ■long with his wife, his brother-in-law,
another poet in Austin and several others,
■istensen recently bought an old home
in Bryan. He plans to move in and reno
vate it to house the press.
■he home to be used for the press will
■moved to an area cleared behind Chris-
■en’s house on South Sims Street in
^Everything is ready for the move except
!■ weather, Christensen said. All that is
n e< led now is about a week of sunshine to
^wup the ground at the house’s new site.
■The Cedar House Press is an idea that
«as had to wait before, though. It is, in
'act, an idea that was born two years ago
°n a mimeograph machine.
''■n 1977, Christensen, a poet himself.
published a book of his own poetry, “Old
and Lost Rivers,” to see how a venture of
this sort would be received in the area.
According to Christensen, many small
presses remain at the mimeograph stage
their entire life. His first book was well-
received, though, and gave him the im
petus to expand his operation.
For the first year of operation the press
will concentrate on publishing books of
poetry, Christensen said. Books of prose
will come later after the press is more es
tablished.
Christensen said that initially he will
contact poets whose work he knows, and
offer them a chance for publication. Later,
however, Christensen said the press will
begin accepting unsolicited works and rate
each on its own merits.
“We’re not interested in traditional
poetry,” he said. “Our emphasis will be
spirit-of-place books — books which raise
a specific awareness of an area. ”
Christensen has hopes of publishing at
least four books of poetry during the first
year of operation. Ideally the four books
will reflect the Indian, the Hispanic, the
native and the newcomer points of view in
the Southwest, he said.
“We don’t want the poet to just hint at
something. We want him to be faithful in
his work. In some way the poet and the
place will be bound together; how he re
flects his place will be the emphasis of the
books.”
Christensen said that after the first year
the press will begin applying for grant
money to subsidize the operation.
Grants up to $6,000 a year are available
through the National Endowment of the
Arts for small presses. In order to qualify
for the grant money, though, the small
press must first be in operation for at least
one year.
“Presses like this rarely, if ever, get into
the black,” Christensen said. “You only
make money by doing something that rein
forces the status quo, rarely by challanging
it — that’s the nature of the American cul
ture.”
Christensen is not discouraged because
of the bleak financial opportunities with
his new press. He sees the venture more
as something that has to be done than a
way to make money.
He does, however, expect the press to
generate some revenue through sales of
subscriptions.
“The public should realize that in 10 to
15 years the small press will be their ac
cess to literature,” he said.
Christensen described his printing
equipment as sm£lT but commercial with
four-color and good photographic
capabilities.
The press will initially be run on an AM
1250 offset press, but there are plans to
buy a small letterpress to be used for head
lines and covers, he said.
The format, or overall appearance, of
books will reflect the “simplicity, yet se
riousness of our attitudes,” Christensen
said.
Several ideas currently under consid
eration are the use of natural inks and a
type face that may be free-hand in style.
Future plans for the Cedar House Press
include splitting the operation into two
parts — one in Texas and one in Cam
peche, Mexico.
“Our sensibility is bi-national,” Christ
ensen said.
“We don’t want to recognize national
boundaries. We are, after all, talking
about one earth.”
KAMU opens
Festival ’79
successfully
A first night total of $410 was
pledged to KAMU, Texas A&M
University’s public broadcasting af
filiate, during the opening hours of
Festival ’79, two weeks of special
programming aimed at creating
greater interest in and support for
local public television.
“The response from viewers thus
far has been overwhelming,” said
Jean Herbert-Wiesenburg, promo
tion and development coordinator
for the station. “The phones started
ringing and just didn’t stop until
well after the conclusion of Saturday
night’s programs.”
The best in PBS and local pro
grams will continue to be presented"
through March 18 as part of the pub
lic broadcasting festival. The con
clusion of Festival 79 will be a non
stop 28-hour marathon, featuring
exceptional programs and live and
prerecorded appeals from Bryan-
College Station and various loca
tions around the country.
The theme for the two-week
event, according to Wiesenburg, is
that public broadcasting offers “TV
worth staying home for.”
Persons interested in pledging
support for public television should
phone the station at 845-5611.
Border-line winners
Tim Scott, who appears very able
to put the shot and throw the discus,
is part of the Aggie track team that
won the Border Olympics this
weekend in Laredo. See page 7.
Iran resumes
exporting of oil
United Press International
TEHRAN — Iran resumed pumping oil
to the world Monday for the first time in 69
days, loading a supertanker bound for
Japan with 230,000 tons of crude in the
government’s most tangible demonstra
tion of its authority.
But the symbolic return to ryjrmal con
trasted with the execution ofrseven more
top officials of the ousted royal regime, in
cluding four generals, two officials of the
SAVAK secret police and a member of the
defunct parliament.
The resumption of oil exports was timed
to coincide with the 12th anniversary of
the death of Mohammed Mossadegh, the
anti-shah premier who nationalized Iran’s
petroleum industry in 1951.
The resumption marked a major break
through for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
and his hand-picked Prime Minister,
Mehdi Bazargan, who overcame opposi
tion from the radical left wing said to be in
control of some key oil installations.
Officials said the total oil production for
Monday topped 1.7 million barrels, just
about all of it bound for the holds of the
supertanker World Ambassador at the
offshore Abadan terminal off Kharg Island
in the Persian Gulf.
Hassan Nassir, chief of the Iranian Oil
Co., personally started the oil flowing for
the first time in 69 days, since Iran’s
60,000 oil workers went on strike to press
for the oust of Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahlavi.
In Toyko the buyers of the the oil being
loaded Monday, Mitsui and Co., declined
comment on the price, but industry
sources said it agreed to pay $20 a barrel
for Iranian light and $18.50 for Iranian
heavy. The price was well above the
$13.33 a barrel set by Organization of Pe
troleum Exporting Countries.
Chief government spokesman Abbas
Amir Entezam said the maximum produc
tion target — about 6 million barrels a day
— was set “to demonstrate our
capabilities” but he emphasized that the
export level would be “readjusted in ac
cordance with the country’s real needs for
oil revenue.”
In Washington, an aide to Energy Sec
retary James Schlesinger said, “I would be
enormously skeptical about any number
like that (nearly 6 million barrels a day).
Our expectations have been, given the fact
that foreign technicians have been re
quired, 2 million to 3 million barrels. Iran
has an internal need of 700,000 barrels.
That number has to be looked on with
some very major scrutiny.”
Four other tankers awaited their turn
for oil, the second of which was to be
loaded Monday afternoon and bound for
Rotterdam. Officials said it will receive
160,000 tons light and 160,000 tons of
heavy crude.
The Kayhan newspaper, in an oil
analysis last week, said Iran would draw on
6 million barrels of crude oil in storage
tanks on Kharg Island and other offshore
export .terminals to bridge the period of
time required for the resumption of full
production.
In Ahmabasbad, 60 miles west of
Tehran, there was a massive tribute for
Mossadegh, who was buried there during
the shah’s reign without honors. But
Monday, Iranians representing a wide
spectrum of political opinion, led by Pre
mier Bazargan and his entire Cabinet,
joined in the tribute.
In 1953, forces backing Mossadegh
briefly seized power from the shah, forcing
him to flee. But within days royalist forces
counterattacked in a move widely attrib
uted to CIA intervention. The years after
Mossadegh’s oust marked an increase of
the shah’s power.
Even as oil poured into World Ambas
sador, a revplutionary Islamic court exe
cuted seven more supporters of the ousted
regime, bringing to at least 24 the number
of known summary death sentences car
ried out by Khomeini’s revolutionary
courts.
China claims
pullout; Viets
deny report
United Press International
China formally announced Monday that
it has succeeded in punishing Vietnam and
is withdrawing its invasion forces back into
China. Vietnam insisted that there was no
pullout and promised to continue the
fighting.
The official New China News Agency
said in a dispatch from Peking that begin
ning Monday, all Chinese frontier troops
are withdrawing to Chinese territory.
“Chinese frontier troops,” the agency
said, “have attained the goals set for them
since they were compelled to launch a
counterattack in selfdefense on Feb. 17
against ceaseless armed provocations and
incursions of the Vietnamese aggressors
against China.”
The withdrawal statement coincided
with every available report from Hanoi in
dicating Vietnam would attack the with
drawing Chinese.
Military analysts in Bangkok said the
withdrawal could be the toughest part of
the Chinese offensive. Vietnamese forces,
they said, almost certainly will attack the
troops and try to turn withdrawal into a
rout.
To protect against this, the Chinese
statement warned that the Vietnamese
“must make no more armed provocations
and incursions along the Chinese border
after the withdrawal of the Chinese fron
tier troops.
“The Chinese government solemnly
states that the Chinese side reserves the
right to strike back again in self-defense in
case of a recurrence of such Vietnamese
activities.”
But in sharp contrast with the slashing
criticism of Vietnam, the Chinese state
ment asked Hanoi to “speedily hold
negotiations to discuss ways of ensuring
peace and tranquility along the border.”
Angelo Russo, a senior industrial distribution major, loads 8-track tapes of
recorded music into the automated tape player that performs most of the
“disc jockey” chores at KAMU-FM, Texas A&M’s educational radio sta
tion. Battalion photo by Hurlie Collier