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The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 4
16 Pages
Thursday, September 6, 1979
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
Weather
Partly cloudy, mild and humid today with a 20%
chance of afternoon or late afternoon showers or
thundershowers. High today low 90’s with the low
in the mid 70’s. Winds will be Easterly at 8-12
m.p.h. diminishing to less than 5 m.p.h. tonight.
U.S. warns Soviets
over troops in Cuba
United Press Internationa]
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance warned the Soviet Union
Wednesday the stationing of up to 3,000
combat troops on Cuba is a serious matter
and indicated the Kremlin may be asked to
remove them.
“We regard this (the presence of a
Soviet combat brigade) as a very serious
matter, affecting our relations with the
Soviet Union,” Vance told a press confer
ence.
“The presence of this unit runs counter
to long-held American policies, ” he said in
a statement.
Asked whether in his talks with Soviet
officials he had or will ask the Kremlin to
remove those troops, Vance’s response in
dicated the administration may ask the
Soviets to do just that.
“I will not be satisfied with the mainte
nance of the status quo,” he said, and reit
erated U.S. “serious concern” over the
combat nature of the Soviet troops now in
Cuba.
The State Department said this week
U.S. intelligence had detected the pres
ence of the combat troops in Cuba — only
90 miles from Florida — and said the
troops did not represent a threat to the
United States.
But the department expressed strong
concern over their presence.
Senate Republican Leader Howard
Baker of Tennessee, meanwhile, said
Wednesday that the presence of the Soviet
troops should be considered a drawback to
possible passage of the U.S.-Soviet
strategic arms treaty.
“Yes, it (the troop presence) has an ef
fect. You can’t consider SALT in isola
tion,” Baker said.
Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd
of West Virginia disagreed, saying the
troop presence “should not have an impact
on the merits of the treaty.”
The administration has protested to the
Soviet Union and has apparently decided
the next move is up to the Russians.
The Presidential Review Committee —
limited to Cabinet-level advisers — met
for 90 minutes Tuesday at the White
House amid unusual secrecy, with the
White House refusing even to identify the
participants or to confirm the session.
Sources said the committee consisted of
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Secretary
of Defense Harold Brown, National Secu
rity Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and CIA
Director Stansfield Turner.
Planning lack cause
of space data loss?
Mrs. John Pardue. Cindy is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Morris.
Battalion photo by Pamela Kamas
United Press International
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The U.S.
Space Agency was hazy Wednesday in its
public statements about exactly how
NASA failed to get cooperation from the
Soviets that would have prevented a star
tling loss of crucial data from Pioneer 11.
The space agency has announced that 10
minutes of data were swamped Monday by
radio traffic from a Soviet satellite with 100
to 1,000 times the power of Pioneer’s in
credibly weak signals from 1 billion miles
in space.
At the request of the U.S. State De
partment, the Soviets turned off three
satellites during important periods Satur
day when Pioneer made its closest ap-
looning’ fine a bummer
Misdemeanors can cost $200
proach to Saturn, the planet farthest from
Earth ydt reached by a probe.
But on Monday when the spacecraft in
spected Saturn’s moon. Titan, the Soviets
did not interrupt operation of a new Cos
mos satellite, launched last week, because
nobody asked them to do so.
Charles Hall, manager of the $100 mil
lion Pioneer project, said he was certain
the Soviets would have cooperated, had
they known their new satellite would
interfere with reception at the Madrid re
ceiving station at the critical period.
According to a NASA spokesman, either
the proper person in the space agency was
not informed about the new satellite, or
that person failed to realize it would cause
trouble, or somebody failed to transmit
the message to Moscow.
NASA was able to send the spacecraft
swinging around Jupiter on a precise
course over 2 billion miles and 77 months
to Saturn, but Hall said the agency still
could not eliminate human error.
“It’s a case of too many cooks spoiling
the broth, or of somebody not paying
enough to attention to detail,” chief
project scientist John Wolfe said.
Loss of the data was the first major dis
appointment in Pioneer’s performance
since its launch in 1973. The data was es
sential to Pioneer’s report about Titan, the
last place in the solar system scientists
think the possibility of life exists.
The key question is whether the satel
lite surface is warm enough, and what
NASA lost were the infrared mea
surements that would have provided tem
peratures.
However, NASA will have another
chance to get them. The Voyager I
spacecraft, the second probe of Saturn and
its moons, will arrive there in November
1980.
Wolfe said interference with signals in
deep space is increasingly becoming a se
rious problem. Hundreds of satellites cur
rently are broadcasting as they circle
Earth in the feeble radio paths of a dozen
distant spacecraft now operating.
He said the World Administrative Radio
Conference, which meets every 20 years,
will be meeting again this fell in Geneva,
and may consider the problem.
By Doug Graham
' Battalion Staff
I pill moon can cost a student up to
‘1 in Bryan, a quick review of Bryan
linances reveals.
Though “mooning” (proffering posterior
noramas) may be fun, it and other acts of
ident exuberance can end up costing
Tile a bit.
[Mooning, for instance, comes is one of
^misdemeanors in the Disorderly Con-
I category, and requires posting of a
Doubtless the British would consider
the up-to-$200 fine a bum deal.
Other fiin and games also fell under the
heading of Disorderly Conduct, and re
quire posting of the same bond and may
end up costing the same.
Hostile activities — such as brawling
and shooting the finger — come under
Fighting and Offensive Gesture or Dis
lay, respectively. In these instances,
oth participants are hit with $60 bonds.
Another hostile action that involves dis
turbing the peace has something to do
with an obnoxious odor. Whether that
means going without a shower for two
weeks, or setting off a stink-bomb, is not
clear.
Using foul language in the presence of
or toward a police officer can result in the
same $200 fine. The Bryan police officer
explaining the ordinances, who desired to
remain anonymous, said he personally
does not care what a subject calls him, but
will arrest anyone if the language disturbs
others.
For example, over-spirited students
might commit assault by threatening a UT
student with sawing his horns off.
Following through on the threat would
lead to the second charge of physical as
sault, or battery. To be charged with bat
tery, a person need only shove or spit on
the victim.
A charge that often accompanies the
previous two is public intoxication. A per
son doesn’t have to be legally drunk to
draw this charge. If, in the officer’s opin
ion, the person is sufficiently intoxicated
and considered to be a danger to himself
ar others, he can be arrested.
“This doesn’t include only getting drunk
.and into a fight, but getting drunk and
lying in a gutter where you might get rol
led,” the officer explained.
Public intoxication is a little more eco
nomical than other charges; the bond is
only $50.
Stereo aficionados fear that old party-
killer, the disorderly noise ordinance. The
penalties for breaking this ordinance are
the same as for disorderly conduct, and
may cost the violator an unpleasant $200
fine.
If the wild bunch decides to carry the
festivities to a Bryan public park, then it
can be nabbed for having alchoholic bev
erages in a city park.
Even the discreet art of gambling can
bring the bloodhounds.
It seems all the normal varieties of Texas
A&M University fun are stifled by law.
Even the recidivistic reactionaries who
indulge in the high school art of toilet-
papering yards are not immune from
Bryan codes. A possible $200 in fines can
wipe out a budget.
The bond required of someone charged
with shoplifting items worth less than $5 is
$200.
That means that while it isn’t kosher to
squeeze the toilet tissue, it’s worse to walk
out of the store without paying for it, or
decorate someone’s yard with it.
The fines resulting from such tomfool
ery aren’t exactly Charmin’.
indents to save on game, official says
By DIANE BLAKE
Battalion Reporter
Because the cost of tickets for Texas
University’s “home-away-from-
me" football game was not included in
! student coupon book, students want-
fig tickets for Saturday’s game must buy
as they would for an out-of-town
for the Texas A&M-Brigham
joung University game, to be played
urdayatRice Stadium in Houston, can
cpurchased for $4.25 at the ticket office
nG, Rollie White Coliseum. This game’s
ticket cost was not included in the coupon
book because “we did not want to force the
students to buy tickets and have to drive
90 miles to see the game,” said Wally
Groff, associate athletic director.
Groff said it was felt fewer students than
usual would attend the game, so “we re
saving about 10,000 students $4.25 each.”
Although about 73 percent of the student
body usually buys coupon books, only
about 10,000 students, or about 33 per
cent, are expected to attend Saturday’s
game.
The $ 17-coupon books cover the cost of
the other four home games at $4.25 each.
Groff said the books would have cost
$21.25 if Saturday’s game had been in
cluded.
Season ticket books also do not include
tickets for the Texas A&M-BYU game.
Tickets for the game will be on sale
through Friday.
Football ticket prices rose this year be
cause the Southwest Conference’s new
minimum road game ticket fee was in
creased from $8 to $8.50, the associate ath
letic director said. Prices for Texas A&M
home games were raised to match road
game ticket fees. Students pay half price.
In the past five years Texas A&M foot
ball ticket prices have steadily increased as
the use of Student Service fees for ath
letics was phased out. The change was re
quested by Student Government because
using the fees was “forcing every student
to support athletics,” Groff said.
About 15 percent of the total revenues
come from student ticket sales, and 46.5
percent from other ticket sales, Groff said.
The rest comes from gifts, scholarships
and bowl receipts.
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“Lee Hoy neschper Jr.
Nursing home fire
Bryan firemen trade their hoses for brooms
and vacuums to clear water from the Leisure
Lodge Nursing Home, 2001 29th St. in Bryan.
An automatic sprinkler system doused one
wing of the nursing home when a large laun
dry dryer caught fire. A home administrator
said the sprinkler system extinguished the fire
before the firemen arrived.