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Battalion Vol. 73 No. 56 30 Pages in 2 Sections Monday, November 19, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 \> « * Sterling C. Evans (left), former chairman of the Texas A&M University Board of Regents, receives congratulations from President Jarvis Miller at the Evans Library expansion dedication Saturday. Mil ler said it was a privilege to accept the magnificent facility. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill ibrary expansion edicated Saturday By MERIL EDWARDS Battalion StafT Sterling C. Evans told 150 people at the ||ation of the Texas A&M University /expansion Saturday that he wanted i to give more than just books. “I’d like to see us get more money for library, Evans said. “We need more contributions of books, we need by. I’d be for changing the name to asc who contribute. ” Evans said no university is great without |at library. |e $12 million expansion doubled the I of the library. The six story addition laccomodate two million more vol- fe [Cliairman of the Board of Regents Clyde ells presented the library to Texas A&M |to President Dr. Jarvis Miller to serve ■state and the nation. A plaque, engraved with Evans’ quote “A good library is an invitation to learn ing, was presented to commemorate the occasion. Wells said he had been to many cere monies, but none was jnore meaningful than the library dedication. “This is a first class facility, ’ he said. “It represents a giant step forward for A&M. It has a special meaning because the li brary is for everyone in a teaching or learn ing capacity. President Miller said it was a privilege to accept the magnificent library facility and pledged the University’s full utiliza tion and support. “I’m grateful to Mr. Evans’ challenge to Aggies to live up to the very best that is within us,” Miller said. Speaking for the faculty, agricultural engineering professor Dr. Robert Stewart said no single structure could add more to Texas A&M. “I am confident that this library will be the brain and heart of our University, he said. “We can’t adequately teach without strong library resource*.. A-useful knowl edge beyond the campus begins with a base at home.” Dr. J. M. Prescott, vice president for academic affairs, also expressed apprecia tion to those who gave their time and ded ication to make the expansion possible. “I appreciate the results and efforts of the taxpayers, regents, private donators and those who designed and built this magnificent building,” Prescott said. Director of libraries Dr. Irene Hoadley closed the dedication ceremony by saying, “It’s what’s inside a library that counts and our job is to be sure that we make this an invitation to learning.” wiet agent in queen s court Adviser revealed as spy United Press International ONDON — Speaking from a secret ig place somewhere in England, An- n Blunt says he has no plans to leave ountry despite the announcement he Soviet spy for years. Pfcourse I intend to stay in England,” Wit told The Sunday Times newspaper a first public comment made from the Pisclosed hiding place where he plans to jjltlier the controversy. And as soon as present uncertainties resolved, I look forward to resuming work as an art historian, ” said the man ) for 28 years served as royal art adviser il his retirement in 1978. he 72-year-old scholar was stripped of F.Y.I. Group chosen for Bonfire night Town Hall has signed Pure Prairie -■eague to perform for the Bonfire »ncert Nov. 30. The country-rock band will play Friday night at 9 p.m. in G. Rollie Miite Coliseum following Bonfire. Priority tickets will be on sale jhrough Wednesday. Other tickets go •n sale Monday, Nov. 26. Ticket iriceswillbe $3.50, $4.25, and $4.75. Krueger to speak on campus tonight MSC Political Forum will present ob Krueger tonight at 8 p.m. in oom 201 of the Memorial Student enter. Krueger is the United States am- assador at large to Mexico and un- uccessful Senate candidate from exas. Krueger will be speaking on “The eed for Coordination in Mexican nd U.S. Relations.” Admission is free. his knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II last week after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed to Parliament that he was the “fourth man in a celebrated Soviet spy case of the 1950s and 60s. Blunt confessed in 1964 that he was part of the espionage ring that also included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby, who all fled to Moscow, but it had been kept secret for the last 15 years under an agreement with the government. Blunt said he would like an investigation into why the government reneged on its promise, made in the queen’s name, to keep his identity secret- He had been granted immunity for supplying the gov ernment with information after his confes- The three other members of the spy ring were recruited by Blunt at Cam bridge University when they were stu dents and he was teaching there. The ring infiltrated British and American intelli gence at the highest levels, passing Moscow information on the A-bomb. Thatcher decided to publicly expose Blunt amid mounting pressure from par liamentarians following recent publication of books on the Burgess-Maclean-Philby affair that drew heavily on CIA material unavailable in London. Blunt, given 24 hours “courtesy warn ing” by the government, dropped from sight. His lawyer denied speculation he had gone abroad and said he might issue a statement next week. Evidence so far says shroud is authentic United Press International WOONSOCKET, R.I. — The leader of 40 scientific experts who studied the Shroud of Turin in Italy last year says all evidence collected so far indicates the bu rial cloth was used to wrap Christ’s body. “Every one of the scientists I have talked to believe the cloth is authentic. Some say maybe this is a love letter, a tool he (Christ) left behind for the analytical mind,” Thomas D’Muhala said. There is growing circumstantial evi dence the image was “projected” on the cloth — perhaps by a brief flash of radia tion emanating from all parts of the body, he said. D’Muhala, president of Nuclear Technologies Corp. in Amston, Conn., made his comments at a Saturday meeting of the Full Gospel Businessmen s Fellow ship. The extensive testing during six days in October 1978 included X-ray fluores cence, surface sampling, photographic computer analysis and image enhance ment and carbon dating. “We all thought that we’d find it was a forgery and would be packing up our bags in a half-hour. Instead, all of us who were there, at least all those I talked to, are convinced that the burden of proof is now on the skeptic,” D’Muhala said. The participating scientists have first claim on releasing results of their own ex periments in scientific journals. Until they are published, project members are bound to confidentiality. Some of the major and most startling finds are yet to be released, he said. The Shroud is a yellowed strip of linen 14 feet long and 3 feet 7 inches wide. It was found in France in 1350 and is now kept in a silver casket in a chapel in Turin. Some past theories suggested the image was brought about by the body — anointed with oils and spices — being pressed against the cloth. So far, D’Muhala said he is unaware of any traces of spices being found on the cloth. All scientific evidence seems to point toward the theory that a burst of energy from the body scorched the cloth, he said. Taking into account corrections for cloth distortion, the computer specialists were able to construct a statue with lifelike de tail, D’Muhala said. “The same technique just wouldn’t work with a photograph,” he said. 3 captives freed, 10 more expected United Press International TEHRAN, Iran — Moslem students today freed three American hostages from the U.S. Embassy and they left Iran im mediately en route to the United States. Hours later, the official Pars news agency said “10 more hostages, including four women and six blacks, are due to leave the country today,” adding they would be “handed over to the Iranian Foreign Ministry to be expelled.” If the second group were also set fiee, only white American males and some 40 non-Americans would be left as hostages in the compound held by students for the 16th day. The released three, two black Marine sergeants and a woman secretary at the embassy who were shown to reporters Sunday, flew to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a Scandinavian Airlines System flight, a spokesman for SAS said. In Washington, the State Department confirmed the release of Catherine Gross, 22, of Cambridge Springs, Pa., and Marine Sergeants William R. Quarles, 23, of Washington, D.C., and Ladell Maples, 23, of Earle, Ark. Fifty-nine Americans were still held hostage in the embassy by students de manding the return of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Military sources in Frankfurt, West Germany, said all freed hostages, includ ing those already released, would undergo military debriefing and medical examina tion in Frankfurt before returning home. The sources said the freed Americans would be taken to a military installation in the West German city and kept from the press. The SAS plane with the three freed Americans took off from Tehran’s interna tional airport at 8 a.m. (10:30 p.m. CST Sunday). Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said Sun day the remaining Americans in captivity (after the women and blacks are all freed) could be put on trial for spying unless the cancer-stricken shah was extradited to Iran. The 79-year-old religious leader Satur day ordered the students to release black and women hostages not suspected of spy ing because all the world’s blacks are “op pressed” and Islam grants “special rights” to women. The releases came on the 16th day of the ordeal that has become a delicate war of nerves between Washington and Tehran, with the U. S. banning oil imports from Iran and freezing Iranian assets in U.S. banks. After hearing of a threat of possible spy trials for the hostages, a White House offi cial in Washington warned Sunday that placing U.S. diplomatic personnel on trial would be “in violation of the basic standards of international law. ” The official also recalled President Car ter’s statement last week that Iranian au thorities would “be held accountable” for illegal actions. With pictures of Khomeini and anti- American banners as their backdrop, the three hostages released today were brought out Sunday before reporters in the embassy compound. They sat on a makeshift stage table, flanked by Moslem students. Gross and Maples, both in Iran since October, confirmed they had signed a pe tition, publicized earlier by the students, calling on the U. S. government to return the shah to Iran. Gross said her captors had asked her to relay a message to the American govern ment about the Iranian revolution and about the shah. “I have already said I would relay the message,” she said, add ing, “I feel the revolution is great for the people.” “Our conditions here have been veiy good and we haven’t had any problems,” said Gross. Asked how he had passed his time in captivity. Maples said almost nonchal antly, “In the last two weeks, I’ve slept a lot and I’ve read a lot of books. I’ve been eating a lot, too much I would think.” Quarles, in Iran since September, said he had made friends among his captors and they told him about things that had been done during the shah’s regime. “I was saddened about things that happened during the shah’s regime, he said. Both the men said they had been tied during, the early days of their captivity, and Gross also said the most difficult thing was sitting “tied to her chair” for 16 straight hours. They said they had not been other wise mistreated. Khomeini told NBC’s John Hart Sunday the Americans were safe as long as there was a possibility the deposed shah was re turned to Iran to stand trial for treason. But if the crisis dragged on and if rela tions with the United States were rup tured, Khomeini said, any of the remain ing white American men in captivity be lieved to be spies would be put on trial. Doctors say shah must remain in U.S. two more weeks for gallstone surgery United Press Internationa! NEW YORK The deposed shah of Iran will have to stay in the United States for at least two more weeks so surgeons can remove another gallstone they re cently found in his bile duct. Doctors at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center said Thursday the new gallstone surgery, while relatively simple, cannot be performed until the current anti-cancer radiation therapy on the shah is completed, probably “in about two weeks.” Doctors operated on Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, Oct. 24 to remove his gallbladder and gallstones that blocked his bile duct, and at the same time removed a tissue sample from a lymph node in his neck to determine the spread of his lymph network cancer. Dr. Hibbard Williams, chief of medicine at the hospital, and Dr. Benja min Kean, the shah’s personal physician, said they have completed five of 10 planned radiation treatments for the shah. After that, they said, they will be able to perform the new gallstone surgery. They noted that in the original operation a tube was inserted into the shah’s abdomen and “remains in the common bile duct in an ticipation of a procedure to be done in about two weeks. Williams and Kean said in the new op eration, which is expected to be relatively simple, surgeons will insert a probe into the shah’s abdomen in an attempt “to snare or basket’ the remaining stone. If the procedure fails, the doctors said, surgeons will have to wait “at least another month or two” before they can again try to remove the gallstone. Big helmet to fill In trying on big George Woodard’s helmet, young Cody Forman finds that before he can play football for Texas A&M University, either his head is going to have to grow or he will have to find a smaller helmet. For more on the A&M-Arkansas football game, see pages 9 and 10. Battalion photo by Sam Stroder