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Thursday, March 22, 1979
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Aggies try again
The Texas A&M baseball team
will play Minnesota this after
noon following a game between
Arizona and Minnesota, which
begins at noon. The games will
be played at Olsen Field.
Scheduled Texas A&M games
against Minnesota and Arizona
were canceled due to wet
grounds Wednesday. These
games will not be rescheduled.
raeli parliament
peace treaty
| United Press International
^Though angry and chagrined, Egypt still
* §pns tq >ign a peace treaty with Israel de-
■ite Pi me Minister Menachem Begin s
iclaraton that Israel will never allow a
I'rMBmian state or return to its old bor-
Begin s tough comments, made partly to
uage domestic critics, partly in re-
^■to earlier Egyptian statements,
with the first unofficial hints
m th Palestine Liberation Organiza-
that it may reconsider its opposition to
s peace treaty if it leads to true Palesti-
%n self-determination.
| JBegip s keynote address to the Knesset
'effect set the stage for the next diploma-
| struggle with Egypt by listing three
—“llhereby serve notice that the gov-
nment of Israel will never return to the
rders of June 4, 1967,” Begin said. Is-
il sMed the Jordanian West Bank, Gaza
fip, Sinai Desert and Syrian Golan
Mghts in the 1967 war.
l-r-“Jerusalem is united as the eternal
pital of Israel and it will never be di-
A Palestinian state will never rise in
■Samaria (the West Bank) and the
J r 'P'
i How do I know this?” Begin asked.
Vf Won’t agree to it. We won’t allow it.
iewill not make it possible.”
pt Mr. Begin said violates the peace
nr
framework reached at Camp David and
corrupts the atmosphere we hoped would
prevail at the time of treaty signing, ” com
plained Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa
Khalil in Cairo.
Asked if Begin s statement would
change President Anwar Sadat’s plan to fly
to Washington for the treaty signing
Monday, Khalil said, “I don’t think so.”
The authoritative newspaper al Ahram
said Wednesday Sadat will stop overnight
in Madrid Saturday for talks with King
Juan Carlos and government leaders.
As Begin spoke in Jerusalem, a senior
PLO official in Beirut who declined to be
named said the group may reconsider its
opposition to the Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty, despite comments from the Pales
tinian leadership to the contrary.
The statement by the official, who is
considered a moderate, was made pri
vately and was not approved by the PLO
leadership.
Besides some heated heckling from
Communist members of the Knesset, Be-
gin’s remarks also were challenged by the
opposition Labor Party, which ruled Israel
from its birth in 1948 until Begin s election
in May 1977.
In his speech. Labor leader Shimon
Peres praised the government for its
peacemaking efforts, but criticized the
proposed self-government plan for the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
“Do we want the army to rule forever
over an occupied population that does not
want us?” Peres asked.
Labor instead will propose an alternate
motion calling for recognition of Palesti
nian rights by territorial compromise —
Labor’s term for retention of strategic
areas now under Israeli control and return
of densely populated zones.
In other Middle East developments:
— Administration sources in Washing
ton said that when President Carter of
fered increased arms sales during Israel-
Egypt negotiations last year at Camp
David, he emphasized Egypt’s need to
meet its domestic economic problems.
The United States has decided it will
not sell Egypt the advanced F-16 fighter-
bombers it requested, the sources said,
but the sale of other sophisticated
weapons, including submarines, is still
being studied.
— Iraq called on Arab opponents of the
peace pact to gather in Baghdad March 27
to decide on punitive measures against
Egypt. There are indications they will get
strong Soviet support.
— The state-run Damascus Radio said
Syrian President Hafez Assad had re
ceived a message from Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev concerning “the agree
ment among the Camp David parties to
find a unilateral treaty between Egypt and
Israel.” The Jordan news agency said King
Hussein had received a similar message
from the Soviet leadership.
ort filibuster puts
n-lawyers in Bar
United Press Intenational
flN — Sometimes less wins more in
|as Legislature.
ioyd Doggett, D-Austin, staged a
kree-hour and 30-minute filibuster
linst a bill sponsored by the world
istcr champion Wednesday and won a
Oncession to include non-lawyers on
Ird of directors of the State Bar of
en. Bill Meier, D-Euless, set a world
or| with his 43-hour filibuster in 1977
: did not win any changes in the bill he
5sed.
Doggett termed “significant process” the
ireeinent to have the governor name six
rliwyers to serve with 30 directors
Red from lawyers’ ranks, and said he
lieves the House will go even further and
iire legislative overview of Bar spend-
Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby negotiated a
compromise with Stat Bar President Cul
len Smith of Waco in an office just off the
Senate chamber while Doggett, attired in
tennis shoes, talked on about his plan to
allow the governor to appoint nine non
lawyers to serve on the board that regulates
lawyers.
Under the Sunset Act the Bar and other
agencies up for review this year must be
recreated by the 1979 Legislature or go out
of existence.
Meier won an 18-13 vote to table an
amendment that would have required the
bar to place the mandatory dues it collects
from lawyers into the state treasury, and
obtain legislative approval for its spending
plans.
After the compromise on non-lawyers
serving as directors, the Senate sent the bill
to the House on a 27-4 vote.
tt plans election section
lident elections crank up again next
Iteek with filing for student government,
DCS A, and yell leader positions.
Elections will be April 9 and 10.
yan and College Station will hold city
Icil and school board elections April 7.
In conjunction with the elections. The
^Jlion is planning a special election tab-
oid, “For the Voters.” It will appear April
^Iformation on city candidates and can
didates for yell leader, student body presi-
jdent the five student government vice
"l|Bsidents, Residence Hall Association
president, and Off-Campus Student As-
Tption president will appear in the sec-
tion.
Candidates for these positions will be
given questionnaires when they file and
have until 10 p.m. Thursday, March 29, to
turn them in. The Battalion can not publish
any questionaire that comes in after this
deadline.
Pictures of the candidates for the tabloid
will be made 7-9 p.m. March 27-29, in
Room 216 of the Reed McDonald Building.
City candidates will be contacted by The
Battalion about their questionaires and pic
tures.
To be fair to all parties. The Battalion will
not accept letters that raise questions about
a candidate after April 4.
An alternative proposed by Sen. A.R.
Schwartz, D-Galveston, to reform the
agency along the lines recommended by
the Sunset Commission and limit the
amount lawyers can be assessed to be able
to practice law was defeated 25-5.
Schwartz called the bar “that great socal
club in the sky” and said the agency repre
sents only establishment lawyers.
Doggett complained the Bar wants to be
exempted from the restrictions placed on
agencies that police other professions.
“The history of the State Bar is the his
tory of a sacred cow plodding through the
halls of the Legislature,” Doggett said.
“They think the can keep things just the
way they are without any reforms at all.”
Sen. W. E. Snelson, D-Midland, said
the Legislature might just as well scrap the
Sunset process if they are not going to
adopt recommendations such as the
suggestion for legislative oversight of State
Bar spending.
Meier said putting the Bar under the
appropriations procss most state agencies
go through would increase costs and cut
efficiency.
“I can understand the position of the Bar
wanting to keep their money so they can
pay their executive director what they want
and to determine what country clubs to
belong to,” Snelson said.
In earlier action Wednesday, the Senate
refused on a 17-14 vote to consider a bill by
Sen. William T. Moore, D-Bryan, to pro
tect contractors from liability suits for de
fects in their workmanship.
Moore drew angry charges of trying to
mislead senators about the measure in an
altercation with Sen. A.R. Schwartz,
D-Galveston, Monday and he refused to
answer questions about the bill Wednes
day.
Jpeechless chimps still learn
Ike humans ? professor says
By J. TRIGG CRAWFORD
Battalion Reporter
Bn’s unique ability to move his tongue
■peak was the primary reason for his
>l|tion into today’s homo sapien, but the
and humans still share the same
ing capacity. Dr. Roger Fouts said at a
It Issues presentation Wednesday.
Itihis lecture “Interspecies Communica-
fton,’ the professor of Psychology and as-
fociic professor of Zoology at the Uni-
!' e rsfty of Oklahoma said that his studies
fiinjpanzees have shown their ability to
Ji®ph| ign language and use it effectively for
ttmiiunication with humans.
■^Bishoe, a chimp that Fouts and his col-
/guts taught sign languege is an example
’f thf capacity of chimps to learn like hu-
ashoe is able to talk to us,” Fouts said,
learned just like an adult would,
hgh sequential moves. And she is an
i now. She is a person, has a personal-
feind should be treated like one. ”
Fonts said that although humans and
ps have many similarities, including
compositions with only a 0.2 percent
ence, the difference is in the size and
^elopment of the two lobes of their
Dr. Roger Fouts
“Humans and chimps have the same
capacity for learning,” Fouts said. “Both
sides of the brain in either specie have the
same function. The right side of the brain is
the area where the instincts and non-verbal
processes are housed. This is almost the
same in humans and chimps.
“But the right side of the brain controls
the processes that happen step by step.
Man’s ability to use his tongue for speaking
has come about because the left side of his
brain became dominant and facilitated the
motor movement of his hands and his
tongue,” he said.
“The left side of the brain controls the
functions of the right side of the body, and
the right controls the left. We have two of
just about everything, so they are con
trolled by different sides of the brain.
“But since we only have one tongue, its
use became lateralized to the left side.
Thus the left side of the human brain be
came the dominant side.”
As humans evolved and used their
tongue for communication and talking, the
left lobe grew more dominant. But the
brain of the chimps remained relatively
equal in its responsibilities.
Fouts said that although chimps are
being taught sign language because they
can’t speak our language, it is not impossi
ble that they too will someday be able to
use their tongue for communication.
“Even now we are seeing asymmetry in
chimps brains,” Fouts said. “Perhaps in 4
or 5 million years — perhaps then we will
see tongue wagging in chimps.”
All eyes on Isis
Falconer John Karger had no problem holding these
Bowie Elementary School children’s attention Wed
nesday as he commanded Isis, one of his many birds
to perform. Karger rehabilitates injured birds and is
one of a handful of persons in the country who has a
permit to keep eagles. He is also famous for training
Baretta’s cockatoo, Fred, and was a main attraction
at the Renaissance Festival. Karger will speak to
night at 7 p.m, in the auditorium at the College of
Veterinary Medicine. His presentation, “Birds of
Prey and Their Future,” featuring eagles and fal
cons, is sponsored by the Brazos Valley Museum and
open to the public.
Battalion photo by Jeanne Graham
‘Elephants’ to lock tusks
in Consol stadium tonight
By RUTH GRAVES
Battalion Reporter
Two teams of dead elephants, otherwise
known as Corps seniors, will battle it out in
football tonight in Texas A&M University’s
eighth annual Elephant Bowl.
A team composed of seniors from the
Aggie Band and Air Force outfits will op
pose a team of seniors from Army, Navy
and Marine outfits at 7:30 p.m. at A&M
Consolidated stadium.
Tickets for the game cost $1, and may be
purchased at the Memorial Student Center
box office or at the gate. All proceeds will
be given to the local Heart Fund, said Mark
Hryhorchuk, the senior in charge of this
year’s Elephant Bowl.
The purpose of the game is “not to raise
money for the Corps or the University, but
for some group in the community, ’’ he said.
The Elephant Bowl raised about $15,000
each year for the past two years. This year,
however, is not expected to produce as
much money because part of the Elephant
Bowl proceeds will go to pay for the use of
the A&M Consolidated stadium.
The two teams are usually coached by
senior members of the Aggie football team.
This year the Air Force-Band team’s head
coach is Russell Mikeska and the Army-
Navy-Marine team’s head coach is Mark
Dennard, who was a senior on the 1977
Aggie football team. Each head coach chose
his own assistants.
The officials, Hryhorchuk said, will be
referees who officiate high school and col
lege games.
The yell leaders for the game, however,
were chosen by a lottery of interested
Corps freshmen. The Officers of the Day
(ODs) were also chosen from a group of
freshmen.
The freshmen ODs, in mockery of the
senior ODs at Aggie football games, “like to
get themselves decorated with all kinds of
medals,” Hryhorchuk said.
Attention shutter bugs: entries
now accepted for Salon ’79
By BETH YOUNG
Battalion Reporter
Today is the first day for turning in
entries for Salon ’79. The annual photog
raphy contest is sponsored by the Memo
rial Student Center Camera Committee.
Deadline for entering prints is Monday.
The contest, held each spring, is open to
students of all colleges and universities in
Texas. The frill photo contest is for Texas
A&M University students only.
There will be 11 categories for prints in
both black and white and color: candid por
traits, formal portraits, photojournalism,
sports, nature, still life, human interest,
commercial, architectural, landscape and
experimental. Only two prints may be
entered in each category and there will be a
$1 entry fee for each print.
The contest is open to color and mona-
chrome prints.
Black and white prints be judged se
parately from color prints.
Each photograph must be the original
work of the photographer whose signature
appears on the entry blank. All information
requested on the entry label must be com
plete and attached to the back of each
entry. No photograph that has been used in
a previous Salon may be entered.
Prints should be turned in at a table set
up at MSC today and Friday from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
Students who wish to submit their pho
tographs on Monday should bring them to
Student Programs Office (Room 216 of the
MSC).
Judging of the photographs is scheduled
for March 31 in the MSC. Visitors are wel
come to attend the preliminary morning
judging, but the final afternoon judging will
be closed to the public. Three ribbons will
be awarded in each category.
A plaque, plus $50, will be awarded to
the best-of-showprints in both the black
and white and color categories.
Award-winning photographs will be dis
played in the MSC Gallery April 2-20.
For more information, contact Room 216
of the MSC or call 845-1515.