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Tuesday, November 13, 1979
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Students , reactions mixed
Congressman s speech canceled
A U.S. representative scheduled to speak at Texas A&M
University Monday night had to cancel due to illness, said
Chuck Mullins, a chairman for Political Forum.
Rep. Toby Moffet was to speak on “Energy Policy: A
Liberal’s Viewpoint” at 8 p.m.
Mullins said there is no rescheduling set for this semes
ter and he was not sure whether Motfet will speak next
semester.
to Iran hostage situation
By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University has remained re
latively calm while protests against Iran
erupt across the state, but a demonstration
on campus is planned for later this week.
Monday afternoon reaction on campus
among American students seemed mixed,
while one Iranian student here said a series
of misunderstandings led to a “big mess ” —
the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran
and the reactions it prompted.
John Elorriaga, a junior in civil engineer
ing, has received a permit from the Office
of the Vice President for Student Services
to hold a peaceful demonstration on cam
pus Wednesday at noon.
“The protest is not against Iranians per
se, but against supporters of Khomeini,”
Elorriaga said. “We are upset with the way
Khomeini is backing the terrorists.
“We are supporting President Carter’s
decision to suspend oil trade with Iran. We
also support the deportation of Iranians in
the U.S. who knowingly demonstrate
against the U.S. We support a policy to
prevent this type of government terrorism.
We want to show other governments that
they can’t blackmail the United States.”
Other students’ opinions of the situation
are mixed, but most agree something
should be done quickly.
“The Iranians should let the hostages go
or kill them,” said Rob Ballinger, a junior
animal science major. “The PLO ought to
go in. I like them. They’re radicals. About
the only thing Carter can do is wait and
negotiate.”
Stacy Wright, another animal science
major, said, “If they kill the hostages, we
should get the Iranians out of here. But I
don’t know if we can do that or not.
“There are some Iranians in my outfit,”
said John Davis, a sophomore building con
struction major in the Corps of Cadets. “I
think of them as my buddies. I know
they’re pretty upset about this. I feel help
less. I hope nothing drastic happens.”
David Scott, a sophomore in finance,
said, “Carter should do something in a hur
ry. Some kind of arrangements should be
made. I don t know what, but something
quick. \
“If they kill those hostages then there
should be war. They don’t have any busi
ness doing that to Americans.”
However, one Iranian student here, who
did not want to be identified, said Amer
icans and Iranians may not be looking deep
enough into the crisis.
“So many little things have come
together to make a big mess,” he said. “I
think it is terrible. It is nonsense to take
over an embassy.”
The Iranian said the people in his coun
try are angry because the United States has
allowed the shah to be treated for cancer in
a New York hospital. He said some do not
believe the shah has cancer.
“The Iranian people are angry over 30
years of being in prison during the shah’s
reign,” he said. He said Iranians think all
Americans support the shah, but that
actually only the U.S. government did.
He said another problem that led to the
crisis was that the U.S. news media did not
realize how strongly the Iranian people feel
about Khomeini. He said the media conde
mned the ayatollah as a murderer because
of the executions he ordered after he be
came the head of the Iranian state.
He also said the Iranian students who
took over the embassy underestimated the
emotion of the American people.
“I think they thought this would make
the world realize the U.S. is helping dicta
tors — people like the shah. Now the whole
world is against them.
“There is no government in Iran. It (the
embassy takeover) is not Iran. It is just the
people who follow Khomeini. They are kids
— uneducated people.
“Khomeini is a religious man. I think he
doesn’t know about politics. He can be a
good adviser, but not a good leader.”
Iranians students here
urged to report status
Iranians students having any ques
tions about reporting to immigration
authorities as ordered by President
Carter should talk to Charles Horn-
stein in the office of the Vice President
for International Affairs.
Hornstein is the immigration and
employment counselor. He said the
Immigration and Naturalization Ser
vice had not yet contacted him about
the presidential order, but he should
hear from the agency soon.
He said any foreign students who
have not reported their working and
college status to him this semester
should do so as soon as possible.
Iran wants U.N.to ask U.S. to return shah
A horseman is born
?*fai't>' Lovelace-Ghandlcr doesn’t leave any doubt he’s enjoying himself
during his first ride on a horse. Marty, 8, was one of 36 local youngsters
participating in this year’s Special Students’ Riding School. This very
jpccial school for very special students will be featured in the Focus
upplement to Thursday’s Battalion. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Lcschper Jr.
United Press International
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran today called for a
meeting of the U.N. Security Council and
requested that U.N. Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim personally intervene to
persuade the United States to return the
deposed shah to Iran.
Acting Foreign Minister Abol Hassan
Bani-Sadr made the request in an “open
letter” to Waldheim, who already has
offered to go to Iran to. help resolve the
deepening Iranian crisis.
Moslem students have held some 90 hos
tages, including 65 Americans, in the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran since Nov. 4 to press
their demand for the shah’s extradition.
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kplains age: ‘I just never died’
The deposed leader is undergoing cancer
treatment in New York.
Bani-Sadr repeated Iran’s stand that the
shah “must be tried in Tehran.
Furthermore, he said, “the United
States must at least accept that the shah is a
criminal” and it must “return the wealth
transferred to the United States by him
(the shah), his family and leaders of the
former regime.”
The newly appointed foreign niiiH.s.tcr
said, “In view of the fact that the United
States government is pushing the world to
the brink of war and Iran ’s Islamic govern
ment sees peace and security of its own
(land), the region and the world in danger,
it (the crisis) demands convening of the
Security Council.
Bani-Sadr told Waldheim, “If only the
United States government accepts the
basic right of a nation and compensates for
the humiliating attitude, then the problem
will automatically be solved.”
Waldheim met with Iranian Charge
d’Affaires Jamal Shemirani at the United
Nations Monday, but U.N. sources were
tight-lipped about the one-hour meeting.
Meanwhile, state television chief Sadeq
Qotbzadeh, a member of the Revolution
ary Council, told reporters Iran would
See related stories p. 6.
accept an international commission to in
quire into the shah’s crimes, but that the
shah must be returned to Iran in any event.
Iran Monday ordered an immediate halt
of oil supplies to the United States, hours
after President Carter announced a ban on
the import of Iranian oil in a response to the
unresolved crisis at the U.S. Embassy.
Carter went on national television to
announce the boycott, which is not ex
pected to effect oil supplies in the United
States. But any longterm cutoff could drive
up the price of gasoline at service station
pumps.
The United States would have to make
up the shortfall of oil from Iran — which
supplies 10 percent of daily U.S. pet
roleum imports — by purchasing at least
some of that oil on the spot market.
“The lives of our people in Iran are at
stake. I must continue to emphasize the
gravity of the situation. We must refuse to
allow terrorism” to dictate U.S. policy, he
said.
Being extremely careful in his language,
Carter thanked angry Americans and offi
cials in this country for using restraint in
their reaction to the volatile situation until
the release of the hostages can be worked
out.
United Press International
IRKADELPHIA, Ark. — The nation’s
pt war veteran, 107-year-old Norman
pgood, was the star at Veteran’s Day
emonies.
isked his secret to longevity Monday,
ISpanish-American War veteran simply
lied, “1 just never did die.”
Ilobgood enlisted in the U.S. Army at
Ihometown of Madisonville, Ky., when
(was 26.
He spent three months in Cuba, but
they were months spent in the interior of
the island near a settlement called Montan-
za and not with Teddy Roosevelt at San
Juan Hill.
Hobgood recalled in an interview sever
al years ago that his closest call came during
a Sunday morning inspection of the Amer
ican troops.
During the inspection, an American sol
dier on the back row was adjusting his rifle
when it went off accidentally and struck a
soldier standing in the front row next to
Hobgood. The soldier’s leg had to be
amputated and he died the following week.
After the war, Hobgood returned to
Kentucky as a school teacher and then went
to Arizona as a copper miner before moving
to Arkansas, where he was twice elected to
the state Legislature.
He tried to re-enlist for World War I, but
was considered too old.
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mascot miffed by theft
By LOUIE ARTHUR
Battalion Staff
Pranks at intercollegiate 1 football games
re usually quite harmless and taken in
ood humor by both sides, but the folks at
be University of Houston aren’t laughing
bout what happened at Kyle Field Oct.
3.
Susan Fairweather, the Houston mascot
ho dresses in a cougar costume for the
;ames, had more than her share of trouble
hat day. Not only was she bitten by Reveil-
, the Texas A&M University mascot, but
he tail to her costume was torn off and
tolen by some zealous cadets.
“It was like rubbing salt in the wound,
airweather said. “I was about to do a
landstand when the guy pushed me down,
fell face-first and he grabbed my tail and
an. We ran after him, but he got lost in the
rowd.”
One of the cheerleaders’ megaphones
rasalso missing after the game. The Uni-
ersity of Houston requested the return of
he missing items because they were
leaded for the next week’s homecoming
lame.
Butwhen Fairweather and Ed Watt, UH
itudent body president, went to pick up
he package at the bus station they weren’t
ntirely pleased with its contents.
“The megaphone was okay, but it wasn’t
he same tail,” Fair-weather said.
She said the tail was so much like hers
hat she knew whoever made it had the real
e.
‘This thing they sent me was made out of
coat hanger with a T-shirt wrapped
iround it and a sock over all of that, Fair-
eathersaid. T made mine with theatrical
viring and polyester filling. Theirs looked
ike it took them about five minutes to con-
itruct.”
She said that she had to make a new tail
or the homecoming game in the few days
hat followed and had to miss some mid
terms because of it.
Steve Wehmeyer and Jean Mercier,
freshmen in Company M-2, said they were
responsible for the “borrowing” of the tail
and the megaphone, but that they had re
turned the real tail.
“We sent it back,” Wehmeyer said. “We
gave it to the upperclassmen (in their out
fit) when they asked us for it. We didn’t
mean anything by it — we just did it for a
joke.”
Mercier said the tail was not a fake and
suggested UH is “playing some kind of
game” with A&M.
“I’m not really sorry,’ Mercier said. “I’d
really just like to forget about it. It was fun
when it happened, but now everybody’s
mad.
“I guess I’ll bring it up when I’m an
upperclassman and tell my fish about the
‘tail’ incident.”
Mercier said he had not been disciplined
for his actions, but the seniors were “kind
of riled” about it.
“We supposedly didn’t know any bet
ter,” Mercier said. “They kind of cut us
some slack.”
Earlier in the day, Fairweather said, she
was bitten by Reveille, who was on a leash
at the time. She said the bite was bad
enough to break the skin.
Fairweather said the cadets handling Re
veille could have controlled the dog, but
they did not. She said several UH alumni
called her and said they saw the incident
and believed the handlers sicced the dog
on her.
Watt said he was “not certain at this
point” what, if any, legal action the school
would take.
“At the very least, we will file a com
plaint with the Southwest Conference,”
Watt said. “But we haven’t ruled out legal
action. We want to wait until emotions die
down a little.”
Watt said that he could understand
school pranks but not physical assault, and
that the whole affair was “an unforgivable
series of actions. ”
Watt said the school could have had Re
veille impounded for three weeks to watch
for rabies, but they realized this action
would not serve any purposes.
“The actions, attitudes and reactions
since the incident are what really bothered
me,” Watt said, “mostly the condoning
attitude by Corps leaders and spirit
leaders.
“We do not hold it against A&M per se,”
he said. “Any complaint will name indi
viduals. I hope this does not represent the
start of any continuing rivalry.”
A&M Student Body President Ronnie
Kapavik said he viewed the whole incident
seriously and felt it shouldn’t be treated as a
joke.
“We have to show good sportsmanship in
order to expect it from others,” Kapavik
said.
Both Larry Manuel, M-2 commander,
and Dillard Stone, deputy corps comman
der, said that, to the best of their know
ledge, the real tail had been returned to
Houston.
Mercier and Wehmeyer said that they
were also responsible for a prank in Hous
ton that has been quite controversial lately.
Wehmeyer said that he and two other
Corps members were riding around Hous
ton in a pickup truck when they passed two
members of the Rice University band, one
male and one female.
Wehmeyer and another Aggie riding in
the back of the truck jumped out and grab
bed the denim hats off the band members
heads, he said.
“We did not touch them,” Wehmeyer
said. “They even waved at us when we
drove off. We were not in our uniforms or
in our underwear.”
Wehmeyer said they had no pranks plan
ned for this week’s game.
Senior privilege
Freshmen from Corps of Cadets company F-l give
Tommy Albright, their commanding officer, a ride
back to the log loading area at the Aggie Bonfire
cutting site Saturday. Freshmen must carry the logs
to the loading area after the upperclassmen cut
down the trees. Battalion photo by Pat O'Malley