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Vpl. 72 No. 120
Tuesday, March 27, 1979
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
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Money, not police
This man is the highest-
ranking Latin American in the
U.S. State Department, and he
says economic aid — not Tortilla
Curtains — can stop the north
ward flow of illegal aliens. See
page 6 for more details.
ong road to peace
gins with treaty
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Anwar Sadat and
)I;eij|ii hem Begin, old enemies brought
ogether by a determined Jimmy Carter,
et out today on a path of peace that could
irove as perilous as the road to war they
raviled four fateful times.
“We have no illusions — we have
dreams, prayers, yes — but no illu-
ions, ’ a frank President Carter said at
Monday’s signing of the first peace treaty
letween Israel and an Arab nation.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Is-
aehj Prime Minister Manachem Begin,
isiting Capitol Hill this morning to ex-
llaij the treaty to members of Congress,
lledged an end to three decades of war
ietw(«n their ancient peoples.
Sadat, the ex-general who launched
he |973 Yom Kippur War; and Begin, the
rgun gunman who once had a $40,000
»uaty on his head, began their journey of
reminding one another of the two
ougliest hurdles before them.
Salat called for creation of a full-fledged
’aleltinian state on the Israeli-occupied
Yesl Bank and Gaza Strip. Begin insisted
Rfioly city of Jerusalem would never
av@ Jewish hands.
In the Arab world, angry Palestinians
emlinded vengeance.
“I want Carter, Begin and Sadat to know
that no one can burn oirr fingers,” Palesti
nian leader Yasser Arafat said in Beirut.
“Begin should know that I will chop off" his
hands.’
And the 22-member Arab League —
thrown into turmoil by Sadat’s lone wolf
decision to sign a treaty with Israel — met
in Bagdad, Iraq, today to discuss sanctions
against Egypt.
Hundreds of thousands of delirious Is
raelis danced in the streets, sang Hebrew
songs and shouted “mazel tov!” — good
luck. But a grenade, apparently thrown by
Arab guerrillas, exploded in the old walled
city of Jerusalem, injuring 15 people.
Egyptians huddled in cafes and homes
to watch the treaty signing on television,
but saved their public jubilation for Sadat’s
triumphant return from Washington.
Sadat and Begin leaned across a 19th
Century mahogany desk at 2:10 p.m. EST
Monday to sign page after page of the vol
uminous treaty package in English, Arabic
and Hebrew.
Then a triumphant Carter, beaming as
he sat between the men with the White
House’s bare, gnarled trees as a backdrop,
scrawled his name as a witness.
“We have won, at last, the first step of
peace,” Carter said as television cameras
beamed the event live to millions around
the globe.
Sadat said “a new dawn is emerging out
of the darkness of the past,” and Begin
foretold a time of “no more war, no more
bloodshed, no more bereavement.”
The euphoria was tempered, however,
by signs the tough Egyptian-Israeli treaty
talks would seem a breeze compared with
the next stage in the peace process —
negotiations for an overall Mideast settle
ment.
Diplomatic observers warned that fail
ure of the coming talks — set to start a
month after the treaty goes into effect two
weeks from Monday — could sabotage the
fragile peace fashioned by Carter, Sadat
and Begin.
And the chanting of hundreds of pro-
Arab demonstrators in Lafayette Park
across from the White House during the
ceremony was a grim reminder of the
troubles awaiting Sadat and Begin back
home.
Carter conceded the treaty will not au
tomatically bring peace to a turbulent land
where Jews, Asyrians, Babylonians,
Greeks, Romans, Turks and Arabs have
vbloodied the desert sands for three mil-
lenia.
ounty judge makes
avis mistrial official
United Press International
F0RT WORTH — Tarrant County’s
Oil W^Rjstrative judge Monday officially in-
)[a firmed attorneys in the T. Cullen Davis
03 isj jivorce trial that the long-running case —
saaMft'fited already to have cost taxpayers
15Jon — Has been declared a mistrial
d|liat the presiding judge has with-
from the case.
Judge Charles Murray, who has overall
sponsibility for all civil proceedings in
ie county, said District Judge John Bar-
jon’i order declaring the mistrial had not
yet been received.
“But I talked to Judge Barron this morn
ing and he said he mailed the order Satur
day.
Barron, a crusty Bryan judge, was ap
pointed by Murray after District Judge Joe
Eidson withdrew from the case because of
charges being filed against Davis for solic
itation of his murder.
Davis’ trial on the charges ended in a
mistrial in Houston earlier this year. A
new trial date has not been set.
Barron stormed angrily out of Fort
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Worth Thursday proclaiming he was going
to declare a mistrial because a county
prosecutor had impugned his honor by
confiscating testimony and exhibits about
the Texas millionaire’s financial holdings
while the divorce case was in progress.
But the judge relented and attorneys
planned for a resumption of the trial
Monday. That hope disappeared when
Dallas and Fort Worth newspapers re
ported Barron had met privately in his
hotel room on at least two occasions with
Davis while the trial was in progress.
This time Barron said the news media
had “impugned my integrity.” He insisted
he had done nothing wrong and that he
had invited Davis in the hope of persuad
ing him to agree on a settlement in the
complex case.
But Judge Murray questioned the ac
tivities.
“I never, repeat never, discuss any part
of a case with a litigant unless both attor
neys are present and I never do it except
in the courtroom or in my chambers,” he
said. “Here in this case, it’s easy to see
that people will suspect something and
nobody can really say nothing happened.
It hurts the system.”
&M Regents meet today
New designation could boost Prairie View statewide, nationally
Bystanders (foreground) argued, at times heatedly,
over the Arab student protesters’ right to demon
strate on the Texas A&M campus. The Arab stu
dents said they were protesting the Middle East
peace treaty, signed Monday.
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Arab students protest pact,
draw spectator opposition
By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion StaiT
A group of about 20 Arab students
staged a demonstration in front of Rud
der Fountain here at noon Monday to
protest the signing of the Egypt-Isreal
peace agreement.
The students were mainly protesting
what they felt is a lack of attention to
Palestinian rights by the treaty. They
carried signs saying, “No Peace without
the Palestinians,” “Free Palestine,”
and “We Shall Overcome.” The dem
onstrators also carried a Palestinian
flag.
“We are opposed to the whole prin
ciple of the treaty, ” a spokesman for the
protesters said. He said he did not want
to be identified. “All of the Camp
David accords are being refused by the
Arab states. They are not dealing with
crux of the issue which is the Palesti
nian rights.
“No promise was put in the treaty to
give recognition of their plight. There
were only vague statements about the
freedom of the Palestinians.”
They are also opposed to Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat’s acceptance of
the treaty, according to their spokes
man. He said Sadat has betrayed the
Egyptian people by not revealing the
tenets of the treaty to them. The
spokesman said Sadat agreed to sign
the treaty without consulting the Egyp
tian congress.
One of the protesters, Samer Younis,
a mechanical engineering and man
agement major, said Sadat agreed with
or compromised on three of the treaty
tenets that will be harmful to the Pales
tinian people.
The tenets would have set up an of
fice on the Gaza Strip to guarantee the
rights of Palestinians living in that area,
allowed Egyptain oil to be exported to
Israel, and allowed the exchange of
Egyptain and Israeli ambassadors.
He said Sadat agreed to disregard
the Palestinian rights office, let Egyp
tian oil be sold to Israel through the
United States, and allow the ambas
sadors to be exchanged before the Is
raelis left occupied territory.
Another protester said the peace
treaty is an ego trip for Sadat and that
he signed it for prestige.
The spokesman said the protesters
were a representative group from many
Arab countries with sympathizers from
Europe, Latin America and the United
States.
He said the demonstration was not
meant to disrupt the campus and that
yyas why the group did not chant slo
gans or answer antagonists. He said the
Arab students felt Americans only re
ceived the Israeli view of the Mid-East
conflict and the protest was meant to
draw attention to their viewpoint.
A group of American students were
on hand for the demonstration and had
a protest of their own against the Arab
protest. They unfurled an American
flag and sang the National Anthem.
Amid laughing, some shouted “Kill
communists,” “Israel forever,” and
“The shah is alive and well.
“The deal is they don’t have the right
to protest in their own country, so they
come over here to protest,” one of the
American protesters said. “That’s not
right. ” He also said he did not want to
be identified.
Another of the American protesters
said he did not know why he was dem
onstrating against the Arabs.
The Arab group had a permit for the
demonstration.
erations Feb. 28, the morning after the two-story
building burned. Battalion photo by lee Roy Leschper Jr.
By STEVE LEE
and DIANE BLAKE
Battalion Staff
Prairie View A&M University may as
sume statewide, or even national promi
nence if a proposal by its president is ap
proved by the Texas A&M University Sys
tem Board of Regents and, in turn, the
State Legislature.
Regents Monday heard recom
mendations by Dr. Alvin I. Thomas, pres
ident of Prairie View, to make the school a
“special purpose” university. This title
would allow Prairie View students to be
“put into the mainstream” of middle-class
society, Thomas said.
The statements were made during one
of four committee meetings held during
the day, which were in preparation for to
day’s regular board meeting.
Regents also discussed alternative fates
of the old Board of Directors Quarters,
which was damaged by fire in February.
In addition, the Planning and Building
Committee decided to recommend that
regents appropriate funds for a detailed
design of the new Medical Sciences Build
ing.
Thomas said the special purpose desig
nation for Prairie View would clarify that
the school serves students statewide and
not just students from the Gulf Coast area.
He said the school wouldn’t stop at placing
students in jobs on the state level, but
would also aim for the national market.
The designation will provide a base for
the school to deal with problems, such as
standardized tests, which Thomas said are
harder on minorities. He said Texas
Southern University, a predominantly
black university in Houston, is a special
purpose school and has had success with
its programs.
Regent Joe H. Reynolds said he had
questioned Thomas before about the pos-
Regent H.C. Bell Jr.
sibility of a “watered-down” curriculum
with the new designation, but Thomas said
the curriculum would be stronger. Re
gents identified a problem with the word
ing of the proposal, saying they will prob
ably consult with Bob Cherry, secretary to
the board and legislative liaison, before it
is presented to the Legislature.
The Board also discussed whether to de
stroy or restore the old Board of Directors
Quarters.
President Jarvis E. Miller recom
mended that the site be cleared for new
construction later.
The new building could house the part
of the development office, the University
Press, and/or an art gallery. Miller re
ported. A dormitory could also be built at
the site, he said.
Also suggested was a plan to buy and
equip two temporary metal buildings for
$50,000, to be used as offices. Regent
H.C. Bell Jr. argued that mobile home
buildings would be more economical.
Bell directed Howard L. Vestal, vice
president for business affairs, to get esti
mates on costs of the mobile homes for a
report to the board today.
Another alternative would repair the
existing building. Bell suggested that an
eight-man committee headed by Regent
Royce C. Wisenbaker be appointed to
study the feasibility of the renovation.
Regent Alfred I. Davies opposed the
renovation.
“You kid yourself about keeping some
thing for posterity, he said. “It’s just an
old frame house. Who cares about where
the board met in 1917?”
Wisenbaker agreed.
“I’m an engineer, and it would be my
inclination to bulldoze it down. I wasn’t
taught how to measure sentiment.”
Other items to be recommended for ac
ceptance are:
—An appropriation of $650,000 to sup
plement the $170,000 already appropri
ated for the design of the Medical Sciences
building.
—A bid of $2,888,700 by H&G Con
struction Co. Inc. of Abilene, for 11 stu
dent apartment buildings with eight units
each. The bid includes cost of moveable
wall partitions and was submitted by the
same company now building the modular
dormitories.
—A bid of $34,860 by Hamilton-
Woodard Construction Co. of Bryan to
give Heaton Hall a “facelift.”
—Appropriation of $20,000 for design
for lighting C.E. Olsen Field. The total
cost for the project is estimated at about
$323,000. The lighting is needed so Texas
A&M can be eligible to host Southwest
Conference baseball tournaments. Bell
said.
—Bids of $114,731.45 by Abel Contract
Furniture Co. Inc. of Austin; $42,135.44
by Rockford Furniture & Carpets Inc. of
Austin; and $17,727.30 by Fingers Office
Furniture of Houston for office and class
room furniture.
—A bid of $495,000 by Ed A. Wilson
Inc. of Fort Worth for a slaughterhouse at
Tarleton State University.