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homeini says American hostages are ‘proven spies'
pate in mass anti-American demonstrations
today.
Khomeini said President Carter was
“considering these (men) as diplomats,
these (men) whose spying has been proven
by evidence.”
“Mr. Carter said the world will rise in
anger if (the students) continue to hold
these diplomats in that den of spying or try
them,” Khomeini said.
“These oppressors see the world in a
different way from what it is, they see it in a
special way out of their spiritual sickness, ”
he said.
“This spiritual sickness is the reason why
they don’t consider our people as part of
the world.”
He also attacked Carter’s decision to
allow the shah to enter the United States
for medical treatment calling it, “political
defeat of international scale for the United
States.”
But, because “Carter’s sickness does not
allow him to understand,” Khomeini said,
the U.S. president failed to appreciate that
his refusal to return the shah was “an even
greater defeat.”
In Washington, the White House had no
immediate comment on Khomeini’s state
ment.
Meanwhile in Washington, administra
tion officials said Tuesday former U.N.
Ambassador Andrew Young has been told
he will be received by Iranian authorities,
and he will fly to Iran to try to secure the
release of the remaining hostages.
The officials said that Young was not
asked by the administration to make the
trip, but volunteered his services in the
belief he would be able to communicate
with Iranian religous authorities.
Administration officials said that they did
not discourage the trip, but they said they
would have preferred to keep the matter in
diplomatic channels. Young, they said, be
lieved that an unconventional approach
might succeed where diplomacy has failed.
Young, the former U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations who resigned Aug. 15,
came to the State Department to receive a
briefing on the situation before leaving for
Iran.
If he succeeds in seeing Iranian author
ities, he would be the first American emis
sary to be received by the ranking leader
ship of Iran. The Revolutionary Council
earlier was forbidden by Ayatollah Ruhol-
lah Khomeini to receive any American
officials, including presidential emissary
Ramsey Clark.
The 10 American hostages released by
Moslem militants flew to freedom in West
Germany Tuesday where they face medical
tests and questions about their 17-day
ordeal.
Iran’s Central Bank, meanwhile, sub
mitted to the ruling Islamic Revolutionary
Council for approval the draft of a monetary
policy that would banish the use of U.S.
dollars against the country’s oil exports.
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Justice dumps Woodall,
enters suit due to Title IX
By RHONDA WATTERS
Battalion Staff
A U.S. Justice Department official said
Tuesday his department has asked to inter
vene in cadet Melanie Zentgraf s sex discri
mination suit against Texas A&M Universi
ty because of its responsibility to enforce
Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.
“We have a responsibility to uphold Title
IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in
education,” said John Wilson, assistant di
rector of public information for the Depart
ment of Justice. “That’s the only reason.”
The Zentgraf case is the first time the
government has tried to enforce Title IX.
“We asked the federal court in Houston
to let us intervene as a plaintiff and join in
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her suit, Wilson said. “If it does allow us to
enter the case, we will file a copy of the suit
ourselves.”
The Justice Department asked to inter
vene on Monday in U.S. District Judge
Ross Sterling’s court.
Wilson said if the Justice Department
files suit, it will ask the court to issue a
permanent injunction against Texas A&M
barring sex discrimination and requiring all
effects of past discrimination be remedied.
The Bryan Eagle reported Tuesday that
Houston U.S. District Clerk Office records
show that the Justice Department also filed
papers Monday to drop Corps Comman
dant James Woodall as a defendant in the
Woodall was originally named as defen
dant along with Texas A&M University;
President Dr. Jarvis Miller; John Koldus,
vice president for student services; and
Robert Kamensky, former Corps com
mander.
James Bond, vice chancellor for legal
affairs for the Texas A&M University Sys
tem, said in a prepared statement quoted
in the Eagle that University officials were
“astonished” that the Justice Department
had agreed to release Woodall as a defen
dant.
Bond said that Justice Department
lawyers would have represented Woodall
because he was an army officer.
However, it seems the department s
attorneys have dropped Woodall so that
they could enter the case on Zentgraf s be
half.
Woodall said he was not in a position to
comment on the situation.
Bond also said that the lawsuit has been
“adequately answered,” and denials have
been made to all Zentgrafs allegations.
Zentgraf said she had not been sure the
government would take any action in her
case, but she was glad it had intervened.
She also said she hoped the action would
bring the case to court more quickly.
The suit was filed last May by the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union on behalf of
Zentgraf and all past, present, and future
female cadets.
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By ANGELIQUE COPELAND
Battalion Reporter
World petroleum supplies could be ex
hausted by 1990 if no new reserves are
found and consumption continues to in
crease at its present rate. Col. Ronald Ter
ry said Tuesday at Texas A&M University.
Terry, Commander of the Human Re
sources Laboratory at Brooks Air Force
Base, spoke on the worldwide energy situa
tion.
The main emphasis of his discussion, he
said, was not to present solutions to the
energy crisis, but to convince people that a
serious problem exists.
“It (the energy crisis) is an invisible crisis
that will have reached critical levels by the
time people really begin to recognize it. By
then, it will be too late to stop a catas
trophe.”
Terry said that more than half the
world’s known oil reserves already have
been used. Increased production of an av
erage of 39 million barrels of oil per year are
needed to postpone exhaustion of the re
sources for 10-15 years, he said.
Terry said this increase would be equiva
lent to the discovery of the resources of a
new United States every year or a new
Saudi Arabia every 3V2 years.
But time, Terry said, not new energy
resources, is the key to the energy crisis.
“We live in an abundance of energy re
sources, but we are delinquent in provid
ing sufficient quantity in useful forms to
sustain desired growth on both world and
domestic scenes,” he said. “Time is as cri
tical as energy and we must use available
time efficiently to sustain the national de
fense and national economy.”
Decreased consumption of oil would
produce only marginal extensions of world
supplies, Terry said. A better solution
would be more efficient use of oil now con
sumed. Terry pointed out that nations such
as West Germany produce at levels of gross
national product comparable to this coun
try while using only half as much oil.
Time is also a major drawback in switch
ing to alternate energy sources, Terry said.
For example, resolving problems for a nuc
lear plant such as plant site, capital, en
vironment, safety, and legislation take up
to 13 years. By this time, Terry said, oil
levels will be dangerously close to exhaus
tion.
Switching the economy to another major
source of energy could take decades also,
Terry said.
Big Bonfire = big bucks;
more money still needed
By BECKY SWANSON
Special to The Battalion
This year’s Bonfire has cost about
$4,500 already and will cost at least
another $1,500, senior redpot Arthur
Wolfskill said Tuesday.
Wolfskill, a mechanized agriculture
major in Company F-2, said the Bon
fire committee receives $2,000 at the
beginning of each year from Memorial
Student Center Bookstore funds, but
this falls far short of the amount
needed.
Last year’s Bonfire cost more than
$6,000, Wolfskill said, and this year’s
will cost at least that much since fuel
and other costs have risen.
“We have to pay for the fuel for all
the big 18-wheelers that haul the
wood,” Wolfskill said, “in addition to
the gas and oil used in the tractors and
chain saws. ”
Wolfskill said most of the trucks.
trailers and heavy equipment are
loaned by construction companies and
the chainsaws belong to individuals
working on the Bonfire.
Most of the money spend goes for
fuel, wire and ax handles, he said, with
each item costing close to $1,000.
Other items that run up the Bonfire
tab are lumber for cross-ties, insur
ance, hotel expenses for truck drivers
and thievery.
Wolfskill said time is a major factor
in soliciting funds for Bonfire. The
redpots, a 12-member committee
which coordinates the construction of
the Bonfire, solicits donations from
local businesses and organizations,
but this is very time consuming, he
said.
“We are always on the look-out for
donations,” he added.
Wolfskill said redpots personally
solicit donations from businesses and
clubs. He said dorms, sororities,
fraternities. Corps outfits, former stu
dents and mothers’ clubs have also
been major contributors to the Bonfire
fund.
Businesses are asked to “sponsor a
roll of baling wire” or contribute any
amount they can, he said.
Many dorms and student organiza
tions have held dances or other activi
ties and donated the money to the
Bonfire committee, Wolfskill said.
Wolfskill explained that additional
expenses in this year’s Bonfire are bills
that have not been received, and the
purchase of more baling wire used to
hold the logs on the stack.
“About 17 or 18 more rolls are
needed,” he said, “depending on the
size of the stack. ”
The cost of the baling wire will be at
least $500, Wolfskill said, and there
are “a lot of little things that add up. ”
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Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M University Corps
of Cadets tradition of quadding now
has a solid foundation.
Concrete blocks located under
neath the shower room windows of
some of the Corps dorms can now be
used for quads.
In a quad, buckets of water are
thrown from an upper-story window
onto the crotch of a spread-eagled
cadet.
The blocks were built to preserve
the dorms.
“The dorms have new carpet, and to
drag water across the carpet would
ruin it,” said senior Ken McGuire,
who headed the project to huild the
blocks.
The solution, he said, was to put
blocks underneath a source of water
like the shower so cadets won’t spill
water on the carpet while carrying it to
windows.
Before McGuire could start build
ing the blocks, he had to get permis
sion from the Corps area coordinator,
Ron Hilton, who readily approved of
the project.
The grounds maintenance depart
ment also had to be consulted. Its
chief concerns were that the blocks
would interfere with water lines or the
growth of nearby plants.
Because shrubs are growing below
the shower room windows of dorms
2,9 and 10, these dorms don’t have
quadding blocks. However, dorms
3,4,5,6,8 and 12 do.
The cost for all seven blocks was
$130, paid by the Corps although
McGuire said some University funds
for the blocks would be appreciated.
The cadets had wanted the blocks
for some time.
The blocks were built the weekend
of Nov. 11 by McGuire, junior Blake
Purcell and sophomore Don Spachek.
Even though quadding isn’t official
ly sanctioned by the University, Hil
ton said doesn’t mind the practice.
“It’s a good way for those guys to
vent off a little steam,” he said.
“Sometimes they get all stressed out. ”
John Koldus, vice president for stu
dent services, said the administration
also has accepted quadding. He said
since there is no one hurt, there’s no
harm done.
“It’s something that goes on,” he
said. “We (the administration) have
accepted it as part of the Corps lifes
tyle.”
McConn defeats Macy in Houston
to end mud-slinging mayoral runoff
United Press International
HOUSTON — Saying he “couldn’t be
more proud,” incumbent Jim McConn, a
debt-plagued homebuilder who spent
$750,000 in a campaign for reelection,
Tuesday defeated his challenger, business
man Louis Macey, in a runoft for mayor of
the nation’s fifth largest city.
The victory gave McConn, 51, a second
two-year term in the $71,000-per-year job
and took Macey, 44, out of public office.
The investor and clothing manufacturer
abandoned his city council seat to chal
lenge McConn.
With 98 percent of the votes counted,
McConn had 88,001 ballots to 69,233 for
Macey.
“We need to get together for two years
and make Houston what it can be,”
McConn said at a victory party. “It’s a
smashing victory, indicating the people of
Houston have confidence in the adminis
tration of Jim McConn. I couldn’t be more
proud.”
Macey said, “I’m most proud of the type
of campaign we conducted. We addressed
the issues directly. I don’t believe that be
cause we re growing we have to give up the
quality of life in this city. ”
Macey said he would worry about his
defeat “for about 15 minutes. And get up in
the morning and start planning the next
campaign. One thing I’m sure of is Louis
Macey will be the next mayor of this city. ”
Municipal elections traditionally are
non-partisan, though McConn is identified
as a Democrat and Macey a Republican.
The general and runoff campaigns were
fought more with insults than issues, at
times comical.
On the night of the Nov. 6 general elec
tion, the candidates exchanged vicious per
sonal criticism with Macey questioning
McConn’s sobriety and McConn compar
ing Macey to Richard Nixon.
Both men talked about the nature of the
campaign Tuesday night.
About the campaign’s style, McConn
said “I’m a very thick-skinned person. And
even when the skin is pierced, I heal fast.
He said, however, he had no hard feelings
toward Macey.
Macey said “There’s been a lot of mud
slung, but it didn’t come from us. I have
nothing to be ashamed of. If I’m not sworn
in in January, we ll be there two years from
now.”
In the general election, McConn outpol-
led Macey 80,412 (41.8 percent) to 56,761
(29.5 percent) but a third candidate, former
U.S. Immigration Commissioner Leonel
Castillo, threw the race into a runoff by
attracting 44,685 votes (23.2 percent). Six
other candidates split the remaining 5.5
percent of the total.
Officials estimated 678,500 persons were
eligible to vote in the mayor’s race.
Macey’s campaign emphasized his suc
cess in business while pointing to
McConn’s debts, and, more specifically, to
the more than 50 percent reduction of the
indebtedness while McConn was serving
his first term.
Macey said McConn provided poor
leadership and did not recognize the prob
lems such as police protection, potholes
and transportation brought about by the
city’s rapid growth. McConn won the sup
port of seven council members during the
runoff and gained a televised endorsement
from Police Chief Harry Caldwell. He also
outspent Macey almost 3-1, with the chal
lenger raising and spending about
$275, ()()().