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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
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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