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Battalion Vol. 72 No. 172 if free ag c 8 Pages lessened J|j| the team, be f°i-e last, me( l* a ) (lidj; •erson said, 'i t0 ev e J t° keep in the pi,,' wanted aat was t lve any plsl ! that said ijj s ac quisitio( i 8>ek Barn' ore last st, la ^ in g gaji|| awarded to c °mmissJ 1S eompens* -mis hopeHJ| icas. V s aid hehadife n g a free Wednesday, July 18, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 'Weather Partly cloudy with a chance of thundershowers. High in the mid 90’s and the low in the mid 70’s. 30% chance of rain. Winds will be Southerly at 5-10 m.p.h. enior women et their hoots if ter five years By ROBIN THOMPSON Battalion Staff While many say that traditions at Texas A&M University are ason. Asy|$eing broken, forgotten, and even ridiculed, one tradition has ently been extended. This fall, for the first time, senior girls in « Corps will be wearing boots. The wearing of riding boots has been a privilege for Corps of ladets seniors since the 1920’s. Although there have been omen in the corps since 1974, they have not been allowed to wear boots. 1; The decision was made by Colonel James Woodall, Comman dant of Cadets, after receiving a report from a special corps committee. §• “After spending three years in the corps,” Woodall said, “we felt that they (the senior women) were intitled to this distinctive niform.” The committee did not actually recommend the boots, he said, ut recommended forming another committee to study the ques- ion. “I felt by doing that, it would delay the decision too long,” oodall said. He made the decision himself, he said, in order to ie. 1 thin!ib give the women time to order and buy their boots before the fall assibly tfo he said, too >PV wi tli tie stai for), I told la sponse was it a great, ki; r-hug andtii ger team. He’s tfr Jemester begins. The boot is a female riding boot, similar to the men’s, and will ! worn with ridings pants or a skirt. lewman is The boots do not have to be custom-made and can be bought in hullabalooisHocal stores or in Houston. This breaks another tradition at Texas A&M. The men’s boots oust be custom-made and cost around $200. The women’s boots ! I would be wouldn't b t. I’d just b cost only $80. •me with tke t on televisii > not been a e’ll be plarai pared - rst base and e around be d duties uitlt ■ever theyn 1-Star game Woodall said there will be nine senior girls in the corps this fall nd they seem “very happy” to have the privilege of wearing loots. However not all of the women are pleased with the boots. Sandra Francis, a senior Biology major in the corps, said she in Seattle, b ^1 not w car the boots and “they’re a waste of time, money and sffort.” Georgia Hughes, a senior aerospace engineering major, said he has mixed emotions about the boots. “At first I was really scared,” she said, but “I want to wear them, I’m very proud. I’m a senior,” Hughes said she has received some ridicule from male corps members already but will not really know how others will react until the fall semester. Somoza resigns to bring peace United Press International MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigned as president of Nicaragua Tuesday and flew to exile in the United States, leaving the country his fam ily ruled for 43 years to guerrilla forces who fought for more than a decade to depose him. A private Lear jet streaked out of Nicaragua carrying the West Point- educated Somoza, his son Anastasio and half-brother Gen. Jose R. Somoza to Homestead Air Force Base near Miami. The State Department said the plane touched down shortly before 10 a.m. at Homestead, which was sealed oft to re porters and photographers. It is expected that Somoza, whose wife is an American citizen and who owns exten sive property in the Miami area, will re main in Florida. “I am presenting my resignation to bring peace to my people,” Somoza said in a mes sage to aweary Nicaraguan Congress called to order just before dawn, and history will say I’m right because I fought against com munism all my life.” Dr. Francisco Urcuyo Maliano, 55, pres ident of the Chamber of deputies, the lower house of Congress, was elected as interim head of state and was to turn the government over to the Sandinista-backed provisional junta. Sergio Ramirez Mercado, leader of the five-member junta, said in Costa Rica that the new rulers would make a triumphant entry in Managua later Tuesday, accom panied by eight Latin American foreign ministers. The radio station of the Sandinista Na tional Liberation Front, a broad-based co alition led by avowed Marxists, announced Somoza’s departure early Tuesday. “The genocidal dictatorship of Somoza has been overthrown and the people of Nicaragua are free, ” the clandestine broad cast said. “The national guard has been an- nihalated.” The Sandinistas, formed in 1963, have waged a sporadic guerrilla war against Somoza with help from Cuba, which trained many of their guerrillas, and the leftist regime in Panama. They are also believed to have received aid from the Palestine Liberation Organiza tion, which last week diverted a U.S. cargo plane bound from Beirut to Costa Rica — which openly supported the Sandinistas — and loaded it with arms apparently for the guerrillas. The arms were never delivered. Since January 1978 an estimated 15,000 persons — mostly civilians — have been killed in fighting between Somoza’a na tional guard and the Sandinistas. Tens of thousands of others were left homeless. The capital of Managua, the only city not controlled by the Sandinistas when Somoza resigned, was quiet Tuesday, and when the 4 a.m. curfew was lifted, national guardsmen who have been patrolling the streets disappeared. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill Georgia Hughes proudly struts across the quad in the boots she earned by making it to her senior year. Huges, an aerospace engineering major, is the first person at A&M to own the new women’s uniform. She is executive officer for Squadron 14, W-l of the Corps of Cadets. nvestigation committee postpones DVTSU violation recommendations May face a tough Congress' United Press International AUSTIN — The House General Inves- igating Committee Tuesday decided to •stpone recommendations on possible ate violations by North Texas State Uni- rsity and its educational foundation until istrict attorneys in Austin and Denton ive had an opportunity to study possible iminal matters. Rep. Richard Slack, D-Pecos and com- ittee chairman, held a short executive ssion and then announced that an inves- igation of alleged misappropriation of state nds at North Texas conducted by the De ment of Public Safety would be turned er to the district attorneys in Travis bounty and in Denton County. Slack then excused the committee until ug. 6. Sack and other committee members, however, indicated that legislative action was imminent, despite whatever the dis trict attorneys finally decide to do. “Whatever they do, we ll still go ahead with our (legislative) program,” he said. A review by the state auditor indicated many donation checks deposited in the North Texas State University Educational Foundation Inc. were made out to North Texas State University and the Texas Col lege of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth and various other departments and activities of the university and medical school. “Most expenditures lack sufticient sup- portative data for clear determination of the purpose of the expenditures,” the auditor’s report said. Mike Ferguson, a member of the state auditor’s ofifice, said “restricted gifts” to the university had been used for other pur poses, and that university funds had been used to pay the operating expenses of the foundation. “They were probably using the monies for somthing other than the donor in tended,” he said. Ferguson also indicated that there was a conflict of interest problem caused by members of the NTSU Board of Regents and administrative university officials also serving in decision-making positions with the foundation. Denton County District Attorney Jerry Cobb said he would examine the DPS re port and the testimony submitted to the House General Investigation Committee before deciding whether to pursue criminal charges. The district attorney said his office also would have to closely examine legal docu ments to find clear definition of how the donated funds should be spent. Cobb also said he would have to confer with the Travis County district attorney but indicated that he would have a determination by Aug. 6 of what action he would take. United Press International STRASBURG, France — Delegates to history’s first elected international parlia ment gathered for the first time Tuesday, forming an embryo congress some hope will lead to a future United States of Europe. The 410 members represent 180 million voters in the nine nations of the European Economic Community, better known as the Common Market, their constituencies extending from French possessions in the Caribbean to the ice-bound island of Greenland. The meeting place is the ornate, modern Palace of Europe in Strasbourg, which long has been at the crossroads of Germanic and Latin cultures — and of wars. With its six languages and spectrum of political views ranging from communist to extreme right, the Parliament could, in the view of its critics, become another talking shop, powerless against the will of national governments. But its defenders hope the Parliament will give a new impetus to the ideal of a united Europe. With the establishment of a common monetary system earlier this year, eight of the EEC members took what may prove to be another step toward that ideal. Many of the parliamentarians them selves come determined to make the new institution independent and effective. “You can’t mobilize 180 million voters and then have such a Parliament do no thing, achieve nothing or (you can) prove that something has changed,” said former Belgian Premier Leo Tindemans, himself a member. Nonetheless, the assembly started life under a tight French rein that could lead to friction as the parliamentarians try to assert their independence. Former French health minister Simone Veil seemed the likeliest candidate to be come the Parliament’s president. Senate members criticize Carter United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Members of the snate Finance Committee returning from tour of a billion-dollar offshore drilling rig lasted President Carter Tuesday for blam- Dorms should be ready for fall semester Construction on the Academic and Agency Building may be running behind, but the modular dorms will be ready to move into On schedule. John Merchant, Manager of the Con- Istruction Division of Systems Facilities, said the women’s dorms are coming along "very well” and they will be completed the first or second week of August. Construction workers are “putting Jfinishing touches on the carpet and paint ing in building A,” Merchant said. Con- (Struction on building B is running about One week behind building A. [ Merchant predicted the completion date for building A will be August 6, and for {building B August 13. I Rain did not delay construction of the |dorms because the buildings were prefab- fricated in San Antonio. I No names for the dorms have been cho sen yet, however the Residence Hall As- Isociation suggested in May that they be jOamed after Emory Bellard and Jack Williams. ing the energy shortage on the domestic oil industry. Committee members indicated Presi dent Carter’s proposals to establish federal programs to foster energy development will face tough scrutiny by Congress. The senators, who return to Washington to deliberate Carter’s proposed 50 percent tax on the windfall profits oil companies expect when domestic price restrictions are removed, criticized Carter’s attack on the oil and gas industry in his speeches outlin ing a new energy policy. “You are not going to do it (achieve energy independence) by jumping on the back of one industry; not by accusing one industry of cheating and profiteering and turning around and asking the same indus try to go to work for the country — it’s just not going to work,” said Sen. Malcom Wal lop, R-Wyo. Committee chairman Sen. Russell Long, D-La accompanied five other senators Monday on a tour of the Shell Oil Co. rig Cognac, the world’s largest offshore plat form, standing in 1,025 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico 15 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi. He said he wanted to demonstrate the huge investments energy producers must make to find new sources of oil and gas. “We gained an impression of what the future is in this industry,” Long said. “It’s a hostile environment and it cost a great deal of money to explore for energy out there. They make big investments and take a big risk.” Long refused to predict what changes if any the Senate would make in the windfall profits tax proposal. “I am in no position to pass judgment at this point. Each person (on the committee) will let his conscience be his guide,” Long said. “But there is no substitute for knowl edge. The truth will make you free.” More than $1 billion has been invested in Cognac, which has yet to pump its first barrel of oil or gas. “It is a magnificent achievement of pri vate enterprise,” said Sen. David Boren, D-Okla. “Private enterprise is going to get more energy per dollar than any govern ment agency we have or any government agency we’ll ever think of. “We are setting the stage for a rip off by giving them (the public) more taxes for more bureaucracy instead of more energy. ’’ He said 40 percent of the expected reve nues from a windfall profits tax would be spent financing Carter’s proposals for fed eral projects to funnel funds back to oil companies for research and development of new energy sources. “I sure would like to see more that capital invested by private enterprise rather than a bureaucracy,” he said. “I don’t see any point in having people pay more money for energy and having the companies sending the money to Washing ton and having Washington send it back to the companies. It’s better to give the com panies the incentive (by eliminating the tax) and shortcircuit the bureaucracy.” Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., —who is not a member of the Finance Committee, but invited by Long to fill an empty spot on the trip — said the Cognac tour showed “what American ingenuity can do, what American ingenuity has to do” to find more energy. Eyes don't tell lies Carlos Madero, a graduate student in Seafood Technology shows a group of restaurant managers how to determine if fish is fresh or has been frozen by looking at the lens of the eye of the fish. The Seafood Technology Department at Texas A&M hosted a seafood, meat, poultry and vegetable seminar last week for restaurant managers. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill World's first elected parliament hopes to hr ing a united Europe