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I t many •seasons „„ e t( >S0,ci| ir Bowj; V in coach lt lionor,j ’ ^l-confei, ll 'v times j °ach oft|) e j players J i IT *•/ i i O I CL ft ri • • • # 00 0 0 U 00 00 00 , • • 0 m 0 " 0 # # | 0 0 0i # « 0 0 ;,£? 0 # « ■ 0 0 0 i • « 0 0 0 # # I 0 0 ♦ s # ! 0 • i • • • • 0 0 0 0 0 0 « • I s : 00 00 i # 00 00 # Battalion photo by Liz Newlin The Battalion USPS 045 360 Monday, December 3, 1979 Vol. 73 No. 64 Phone 845-2611 College Station, Texas 12 Pages Aggie go home If you’ve come to the campus to go to class today, you shouldn’t have. A holiday has been declared by University President Jarvis E. Mil ler because of Saturday’s football victory over the University of Texas. Today’s tests and assign ments have been moved back to the next meeting of the classes they are connected with. g victory keeps exas Sugar-free >1UB By SEAN PETTY Battalion Sports Editor can lead a horse with sugar, but that be true of Longhorns. ie Aggies Saturday upset the sixth- Texas Longhorns, 13-7 to end an ise disappointing season and knock lout of the Sugar Bowl. I Aggies gave the Horns a dose of ■own medicine. They whipped Texas Biively and moved the ball at will It the No. 3 defensive unit in the na- B Aggies needed some untimely Texas Bes to knock the Horns out of a tie for iSouthwest Conference title and send m lo the Sun Bowl in El Paso to face lington. If the Longhorons had won, i Ivould have played No. 1 ranked Ala- »lin New Orleans. ■the Texas band members who wore Bt Bama buttons can chunk those for I the Huskies” buttons, thanks to the Iminded Ags. I kicking foot of David Hardy and the etfcet of tailback Curtis Dickey supplied |Iggies with the winning points while defense allowed the heralded Horns y|even points. Hardy kicked field goals and 23 yards while Dickey had the Ing touchdown, turning a pass-option nto a 20-yard touchdown run. e mayhem that followed the Aggie vic- ras unmatched even by the aftermath the Penn State game earlier this year. ad coach Tom Wilson had a hard time ng the tears back. Dickey’s tears of iness kept him quiet, ras clear that beating Texas had lifted leavy burden of a long season that d have been a losing one if the Aggies t upset the Horns. But Wilson and ntire Aggie team pulled off the miracle nded with a 6-5 season, e knew if we executed well and did we could we would win,” Wilson said as tears rolled down his cheeks and what seemed like every old Aggie in the world offered congratulations. “Texas is a great team and we have all the respect in the world for them. Our guys just wanted this game and they went out and got it.” Asked how this win ranked in his short career as a head coach, Wilson said, “Well, yeah... I would have to say it was my big gest win.” Aggie quarterback Mike Mosley, who sliced up the Texas defense with well- executed drives, echoed that sentiment. “Heck yeah, this win is 10 times better than Penn State,” Mosley said. Mosley was taken out the week before against TCU because he couldn’t move the team. But Saturday he showed why he was considered for all-conference honors. He compeleted nine of 18 passes for 95 yards. Most completions went to Gerald Carter on a rollout pattern that the Horns couldn’t stop. But it was the Aggie offensive line that did what it took to move out Texas’ top defensive linemen. Bill Acker and Steve McMichael, and allowed fullback David Hill to go up the middle for important yar dage. “Our offensive line has had some bad things said about them but they did a great job against Texas today,” Mosley said. “Texas outweighed our line but our guys just fought and beat them. Everybody just gave 110 percent on both sides of the line.” Statistically, the game couldn’t have been more even. Both teams managed 15 first downs. The Horns had 164 yards rushing on 49 carries while the Ags had 161 yards on 51 carries. The Horns had 112 yards passing, compared to the Ags 95 yards. The Horns were penalized four times for 50 yards and the Ags were penalized five times for 51 yards. Texas freshman quarter back Rick Mclvor completed seven of 26 passes with one interception while Mosley was nine for 18 with one interception. “I don’t think I played a great game but I did play consistently and that’s what we needed,” Mosley said. What was consistent was the Ag defense, which played the entire game intensely and gave up only seven points to the Horns. “I feel good,” said senior defensive end Jacob Green, who had one of his best days as an Aggie. “I can be proud becuase I know we re better than a lot of bowl teams and we showed it today.” T don’t know of a better defensive player in the country,” Wilson said of Green. “We’ve always been proud of our de fense,” said senior James Zachery. “Our defense was put together while Texas’ ma tured together over the years. Mclvor just couldn’t do anything with tackles breathing down his throat. I don’t think that (injured A.J. “Jam“) Jones or (injured quarterback Donnie) Little would have made a differ ence. “We all made an agreement before the game that we would do whatever it takes to win and everyone did today. Carter, who was one of the keys to the A&M offense, caught numerous passes and looks to be headed for a pro career. “They were just playing us man-to-man and we knew they couldn t cover us like that all day,” Carter said. “We didn’t even go through all the passes that we had put in this week because the rollout was working so well. “This win sure takes away a lot of the pain of the season. ” The win over Texas set the Aggies on their way to a hopeful spring and a good recruiting year and uh, by the way, gave all Aggies a day off from school. .S. post in Tripoli captured Libyans take embassy rs Sf, United Press International EIRUT, Lebanon — The anti- srican violence sweeping the Islamic Id has spread to Libya, where a mob of Iranian students stormed and sacked American Embassy, forcing its diplo ic staff to flee. pibya’s official news agency confirmed embassy was overrun Sunday, but de- 1 a State Department report from shington that the compound was burned to the ground. The State Department said the entire embassy staff, including 12 American di plomats, escaped unharmed and had taken “safe refuge” elsewhere in Tripoli. A spokesman said the staffers managed to destroy all classified material before they fled the embassy. The spokesman said Libya did nothing to protect the embassy from the mob and that the United States has lodged a protest in graduating seniors asked ) return library materials Today is the deadline set by Texas f&M University libraries for graduat- ng students to return materials. The deadline also applies to stu- lents who have art works checked out rom the Sterling C. Evans Library’s ending print collection. Prints should >e returned at the first floor checkout counter, according to Emma Perry, circulation division head. The deadline will allow library per sonnel time to clear students for Dec. 14-15 graduation. Students are liable for the replacement cost of prints from the lending collection. “the strongest terms” with the Libyan gov ernment. The embassy had not been protected by a Marine guard contingent because the Li byans had objected to the presence of U.S. military personnel in Triopli. The Tripoli embassy was the second U.S. mission to be destroyed in the Mos lem world in the past 10 days. Last week, mobs invaded and burned the American embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, in an attack in which two U.S. military personnel were killed. The incident at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli was also the third demonstration outside an American embassy since Friday. Troops dispersed a mob which tried to storm the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait Friday, and Syrian soldiers keeping the peace in Lebanon dispersed an anti-American de monstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The State Department said the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tropoli began when about 2,000 Libyan students began demon strating at Green Square, a public gather ing place in the capital. Aggie cheers reach a deafening roar as fans sity of Texas Longhorns. For more photos of watch the final seconds tick off during Texas the game, see pages 6 and 11. A&M’s 13-7 victory Saturday over the Univer- Battalion photo by Lee Roy Lcschpcr Jr Wilson given new contract at regents meeting Friday By KEITH TAYLOR and LOUIE ARTHUR Battalion Staff The Texas A&M University Sys tem Board of Regents Friday gave the Texas A&M head football coach, Tom Wilson, a new contract through 1982. The board also voted to discon tinue installment payments on the board plan at University dining halls. Wilson said Saturday, “I’m very pleased with the contract. I think it will add a lot of stability to our program.” The regents voted to discontinue installment payments for board plan on the recommendation of Howard Vestal, vice president for business affairs. Vestal said many students think they can drop the board plan by not paying the installments. When they do, it causes problems in bookkeep ing and is too expensive for the Uni versity. He also said most students were capable of paying for the plan in one payment. The resolution passed by the board would allow students who could show hardship to pay on an installment plan. The board also voted to raise the summer freshman conference fee from $7 to $9 to cover increased ex penses. The regents approved a rent of $224 a month on the married student dormitories now under construc tion. Residents of the new dorms will have to pay their own electricity costs, unlike residents in the old dorms. In other action, the regents unani mously passed all agenda items dis cussed at Thursday’s planning and building committee meeting, in cluding: — a decision to delay any action on construction of a new dormitory at Texas A&M until further informa tion is available for consideration. — a $22,000 appropriation for de sign of site development and new parking lots at Kyle Field. — acceptance of a $359,000 Fed eral Aviation Administration Grant for Easterwood Airport improve ments. — a $43,000 appropriation for de sign of a Meat Science and Technolo gy Center at Texas A&M. The new Kyle Field parking lots would provide 321 new parking spaces and 213 overflow spaces adja cent to the stadium. The lots are ex pected to be ready for use by next fall. Other Kyle Field improvements include a grass football practice field, a new entrance driveway and land scaping around the stadium. The FAA grant for Easterwood Airport will be used to assist in financing for improved lighting, a new aircraft parking hangar, and runway extension and improve ment. The regents also approved a prop osed $11,000 appropriation for 20- inch cast bronze letters spelling “Sterling C. Evans Library” to be placed on the front of the new lib rary. In other business, the regents made Dr. Thomas M. Ferguson a professor emeritus. Ferguson is a poultry science professor with the Texas Agricultural Extension Ser vice. to San Antonio hospital for recovery Shah flown United Press Internationa] SAN ANTONIO — The deposed shah of Iran has en- l tered the largest Air Force hospital in the nation amid the tightest possible security and secrecy. : Without prior warning to San Antonio or Texas officials, ; Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi early yseterday was flown I via Air Force VIP jetliner to Wilford Hall Medical Center ; at Lackland Air Force Base. Lackland was chosen for its impeccable security and because of “concern for the hos tages,” government officials said. Though the shah was admitted to a suite in the hospital, there were unconfirmed reports by KMOL-TV in San Antonio late last night the shah had been moved to a “hospitality” house located on base grounds. Base officials would not deny or confirm the reports. The cancer-stricken deposed monarch, accused by his people of atrocities and the theft of millions of dollars during his 37-year reign, will stay in south Texas for an indefinite “period of recuperation, ” White House officials said. Wilford Hall, in a city with five major military installations, offers specialized treatment facilities for cancer. “The United States government has agreed, for huma nitarian reasons, to provide a secure convalescence facil ity where he (the shah) can recuperate pending further travel plans,” White House spokesman Jody Powell said. The government, however, did not pay for the shah’s trip to San Antonio, a State Department spokesman said. The shah will be billed for the flight and for his hospitali zation under standard Department of Defense billing procedures, though the spokesman said he did not know what the total of those bills might be. The shah, brought from the New York Hospital- Comell Medical Center before dawn Sunday on the sur prise presidential order, appeared in good spirits, said Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, D-Texas, who met with the former ruler in his new hospital room. “The man looks fine from the standpoint of health, and he conveyed a heart-felt sense of gratitude for the Amer ican people,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said he felt it would have been “improper" to interrogate the shah about how long he would remain in the United States and where he would seek permanent asylum. And government officials offered little information in that regard. The shah and his advisers were scheduled to hold a news Conference Sunday afternoon, but it was canceled without reason and reporters were ordered off the base, which was then closed officially to all members of the news media. Powell said American doctors in New York had said “the shah should not undertake a prolonged trip and that he needs a period of recuperation under medical supervi sion. ’ Lt. Col. Mike Terrill, public affairs officer at Lackland, said no one in San Antonio would make any further com ments about the shah or his condition, and that any statements would come from the state and defense de partments in Washington.