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Vol. 73 No. 84
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Tuesday, January 22, 1980
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arter offers to help Iran handle Soviets
Bv United Press International
sident Carter, in a dramatic turn-
it, has offered to work with Iran in
ntering the Soviet threat in Afghanis-
described by Iran’s foreign minister as
danger to the Islamic republic,
iarter, in his annual State of the Union
sage, told Congress Monday the Un-
States has “no basic quarrel with Iran”
the 50 American hostages held in the
besieged U.S. Embassy in Tehran are
freed.
“We are prepared to work with the gov
ernment of Iran to develop a new and
mutually beneficial relationship” after the
hostages are released, Carter said.
It was a reversal of Carter’s position,
stated soon after the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran was taken on Nov. 4 last year, that
Iran’s “slate would not be wiped clean”
even by release of the 50 hostages.
“The destruction of the independence of
Afghanistan government and the occupa
tion by the Soviefy Union has altered the
strategic situation in that part of the world
in a very ominous fashion,” Carter said.
For once, Iran could not disagree. Ira
nian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
said Russian troops have moved within 19
miles of Iran’s southeastern border, posing
a “real danger” to the country, especially
the provinces of Sistan and Baluchistan.
Speaking out on the Soviet intervention
in Afghanistan, Carter said:
Ghotbzadeh, campaigning for this
week’s presidential elections in Iran, said
in a Tehran radio broadcast quoted by the
Kuwaiti news agency, “The Iranian govern
ment cannot remain silent in the face of this
threat to its frontier regions.”
Ghotbzadeh was also quoted by the Brit
ish Broadcasting Corp. as saying Iran is
prepared to give Afghanistan every kind of
aid to end the Soviet intervention.
The Kuwaiti agency said Ghotbzadeh
also expressed fears the Soviets would ex
ploit its 1921 friendship treaty with Iran to
“intervene militarily.” Iran unilaterally re
voked the treaty last year.
There was no word from their militant
captors on the condition of the American
hostages in Tehran as they began their 12th
week in captivity.
The United States renewed its applica
tion for their release before the Interna
tional Court of Justice in The Hague and if
Iran does not respond by Feb. 18, the court
will hear U.S. representatives alone,
according to court first secretary C. Poux.
nvasion, inflation
n Congress’ mind
United Press International
VASHINGTON — President Carter
comted Congress back to town today
hword that persistent inflation rules out
xcut this year and the Soviet invasion of
; Jianistan has raised the price of peace,
n a State of the Union message to Con-
ss Monday, Carter also made a gesture
[ran, saying the United States would he
pared to help that country meet a Soviet
eat if the American hostages are re
set!.
(eyed to a possible new Soviet move,
’ rter asked Congress as its first order of
r : iiness to pass an economic and military
package designed to help Pakistan de-
r d itself
: barter did not give a figure on aid to
ristan, but administration officials said
I would seek $400 million for that pur-
n terms reminiscent of John F. Ken-
ly s inaugural address. Carter said:
We must pay whatever price is required
emain the strongest nation in the world,
at price has increased as the military
iver of our adversary has grown and its
diness to use that power has been made
too evident in Afghanistan.”
The destruction of the independence of
Afghanistan government and the occu-
ion by the Soviet Union has altered the
ategie situation in that part of the world
a very ominous fashion. Carter said.
!n a related move, the Pentagon
nounced Monday B-52 bombers were
ingreconnaissance missions over the In
in Ocean and the Arabian sea.
Carter told the lawmakers “restraining
lation remains my highest domestic
ority.”
He predicted that his wage-price policies
will slow inflation this year, and added, “In
1981 it should be even lower.”
“As for an election year tax reduction.
Carter said, “I recognizes there is interest
in another tax cut this year, but my 1981
budget proposes no tax cuts.”
“As long as double-digit inflation con
tinues and there is no sign of a recession,
our top budgetary priority must be reduc
tion of the deficit,” he said.
Both the foreign policy and defense
proposals in the message were geared to
the new dimension of the Russian invasion
of Afghanistan.
“It has brought the Soviet Union within
striking distances of the Indian Ocean and
even the Persian Gulf. It has eliminated a
buffer between the Soviet Union and Pakis
tan and presented a new threat to Iran,” he
said.
Carter said the United States has “no
basic quarrel with Iran,” and “we are pre
pared to work with the government of Iran
to develop a new and mutually beneficial
relationship” once the American hostages
are freed.
The statement, geared to thwarting any
new Soviet thrust, represented a softening
of Carter’s previous position that “Iran’s
slate would not be wiped clean” even by
release of the 50 American hostages.
Carter personally will deliver a national
ly televised State of the Union address
Wednesday night that will outline his new
foreign policy goals.
The new federal budget will go to Con
gress Jan.. 28 with a projected budget de
ficit of $16.6 billion, half of the current
year’s $33.2 billion shortfall.
Fender bender
Monday’s bad weather caused the owner of this car to collide with another car
on University Drive near the Northgate shopping area. Neither of the drivers
were injured. The National Weather Service has predicted that rain will
continue to fall all day today. Staff photo by Lynn Blanco
Student teachers
unhappy about fees
By AMY DAVIS
City Reporter
Some Texas A&M University students
do not use campus buildings or classrooms,
yet they are required to pay a building use
fee. They are student teachers and they are
unhappy about paying the fee even when
they are off campus doing their work.
Charis Corley, junior education major,
said she is not happy about having to pay
the $90 fee when she teaches next fall.
“I will be living in Katy and will probably
only come on campus once the entire
semester and that is for a conference,” she
said.
“I think it is ridiculous to pay for building
use when you don’t use the building. ”
To receive a degree in education from
Texas A&M, each student must spend a
semester as a student teacher. The stu
dents usually live in the area they are
teaching in and meet twice a month with a
supervisor to discuss their work.
“Many of the student teachers never re
turn to campus the entire semester they are
teaching, ” said Dr. John Morris, director of
student teachers.
Morris said about 60 students are sent to
the Houston area to do their teaching.
“There is no way they are going to come
back here for much of anything. Every
thing they need is in Houston, including
their supervisor,” he said.
Many of the student teachers have com
plained about the fees, Morris said.
Dr. Robert Shutes, head of the Depart
ment of Educational Curriculum and In
struction, said he sees no relief for the stu
dent teachers.
Shutes says he has tried three times over
the last six years to get the policy changed.
“I feel it may be time to appeal again, but
I don’t have much hope that it will be
changed,” he said.
Shutes said he has been told that the
students are charged the fees because some
of them do return to campus at times to talk
with teachers and supervisors.
“That may be considered use, but it ob
viously is not the same use as a student who
spends eight hours a day, five days a week
on campus,” he said.
Gold price drops, dollar rallies
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LONDON — The U.S. dollar opened
stronger today on all major European mar
kets except London, and the price of gold
opened lower in London and Zurich.
In London, gold opened at $812.00 per
ounce, down from $825 at Monday’s close.
The downward trend in London started
Monday afternoon when profit-takers
moved in after gold hit a record $850 an
ounce at the early afternoon price-fixing.
In Zurich, gold opened at $835, down
$15 from Thursday’s record close of $850.
The lower prices in London and Zurich
followed a similar trend in Hong Kong. But
a gold dealer in Zurich said the downward
dip was likely to be only temporary.
“After a lower opening, trading in gold
started picking up and showed all the signs
of becoming as hectic as it was yesterday, ”
the Zurich dealer said.
Afghanistan
Heavy snow forces Russians to airlift equipment and supplies
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Their overland routes cut by snow,
oviet forces have been using massive air-
itts to bring troops and equipment into
fghanistan where food shortages are caus-
gdesertions in Afghan army ranks, U.S.
fficials say.
An American diplomat arriving Monday
|n New Delhi, India, from Kabul said
oviet transport planes were landing at the
ghan capitol’s airport at 10-minute inter-
hh.
“I didn’t see any tanks or anything, just a
lot of men and equipment, the U.S. diplo
mat said, adding Afghan troops working
with the Soviets are now being better sup
plied.
U.S. State Department spokesman Hod-
ding Carter III said Monday Soviet troops
were still meeting civilian resistance and
regular Afghan troops were deserting be
cause of food shortages.
“Civil unrest is continuing,” Carter said.
“Many towns and villages are running out
on food.”
He said intelligence reports reaching
Washington indicate severe winter
weather was hampering Red Army rein
forcement and supply efforts.
Meanwhile, another U.S. diplomat
arriving on the flight from Kabul reported
that an American reporter, Jonathan Kwit-
ney of the Wall Street Journal, was missing
in Afghanistan.
The newspaper in New York confirmed it
had not heard from Kwitney, who recently
published a book on organized crime in the
United States, since before the expulsion of
American reporters from the country
Saturday.
Afghan travelers to India said it appeared
the Soviet-installed Kabul regime was re
fusing to accredit Western journalists until
it “decides how to keep all newsmen but
the ones they want out.”
The diplomat who reported the airlifts
said the number of planes reminded him of
the first days of the Soviet invasion, which
brought an estimated 85,000 Red Army
troops into Afghanistan.
In his State of the Union message. Presi
dent Carter asked Congress as its first order
of business to pass an economic and milit
ary aid package to help Pakistan defend
itself from any Soviet attack. Carter did not
give a figure on aid to Pakistan, but admi
nistration officials said he would seek $400
million.
“The destruction of the independence of
Afghanistan government and the occupa
tion by the Soviet Union has altered the
strategic situation in that part of the world
in a very ominous fashion,” Carter said.
“It has brought the Soviet Union within
striking distances of the Indian Ocean and
even the Persian Gulf. It has eliminated a
buffer between the Soviet Union and Pakis-
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By United Press International
Today is Tuesday Jan. 22, the 22nd day of
1980 with 344 to follow.
The moon is approaching the first
quarter.
The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury and
Venus.
Those born on this date are under the
sign of Aquarius.
British poet Lord Byron was born Jan.
22, 1788.
On this day in history:
In 1789, the first American novel, “The
Power of Sympathy by William Hill
Brown, was published in Boston.
In 1912, the Florida East Coast Railroad
began passenger service from Key West to
the mainland.
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson del
ivered the speech outlining his famous “10
points” — conditions under which he
would urge the United States to enter a
world federation.
In 1968, communist North Korea seized
the U.S. intelligence ship “Pueblo” in the
Sea of Japan and took 83 crewmen captive.
The crew was released 11 months later, and
North Korea kept the vessel.
In 1973, former President Lyndon John
son died at the age of 64.
In 1979, President Carter submitted his
budget for fiscal 80 with a call for “Real
sacrifices” to fight inflation.
A thought for the day: In his first address
to Congress as President after the assassi
nation of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
said: “All I have I would have given gladly
not to be standing here today.”
Silver Taps for Amer Sheikh, a 21-year-
old Texas A&M aerospace engineering ma
jor killed in a car crash in early December,
will be held at 10:30 p.m. today. Sheikh, a
Pakistani, died a week before he was ex
pected to graduate with highest honors
from Texas A&M, and his family was
awarded a posthumous degree last month.
diplomats were expelled from Canada for
using Ottawa as a base for espionage activi
ties against the United States.
MacDonald said the case was the “most
serious case of espionage in Canada since
1946, when a Russian cipher clerk at the
Soviet Embasy in Ottawa was identified as
a link in a massive spy network operating in
the United States, Canada and Europe.
The expulsions were ordered on the
basis of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police
investigation completed last week and sup
ported by the FBI with help from the
American involved. The U.S. Justice De
partment said there were no plans to arrest
the American.
MacDonald said the explusions had no
thing to do with the Soviet invasion of Af
ghanistan.
“The case,” she said, “involved a United
States citizen employed in a sensitive posi
tion in his own country. He was in contact
with the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa and was
paid by the embassy to obtain classified
information. ”
The external affairs minister said the
Canadian police investigation had' deter
mined that the Soviet officials had met clan
destinely with the unidentified American
citizen during a 16-month period.
“Their investigation showed that he used
traditional signal arrangements and dead-
letter boxes in the Ottawa area where ex
changes of information took place and pay
ments of money were paid,” she said.
The espionage case broke just days after
authorities in Japan said they had cracked a
spy ring of Japanese military officers who
supplied information on China to the
Kremlin.
MacDonald said Soviet Ambassador Ale-
xender Yakovlev denied the allegations in
the American spying case, but agreed to
send the diplomats home.
She said she told the Soviet ambassador
that his embassy “has persisted in permit
ting certain officials to abuse their diploma
tic status. . . by engaging in espionage”
despite repeated warnings.
“Despite the explusion of 13 members of
the Soviet embassy in February of 1978 and
the severe warnings of the government of
that time, the embassy had resumed within
months of the 1978 explusion a pattern of
activity violating basic standards of dip
lomatic behavior, MacDonald said.
The three expelled diplomats were iden
tified as Capt. Igor Bardeev, the embassy’s
military and naval attache. Col. Eduard
Aleksanjan, the assistant military attache,
and “Mr. V.I. Sokolov,” an embassy chauf
feur.
fan and presented a new threat to Iran,” he
said.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met in
closed session Monday for ZVz hours with
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
to brief it on the Afghan crisis.
Afterwards, he told reporters military
aid to Pakistan to “stabilize” its borders
would include anti-tank weapons, helicop
ters and field artillery.
In Iran, Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh charged in a Tehran radio
broadcast that Soviet troops in Afghanistan
have moved to within 19 miles of his coun
try’s border, posing a “real danger” to the
southeastern provinces.
Carter beats Kennedy 2 to 1,
Bush eases by Reagan in Iowa
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DES MOINES, Iowa — President
Carter whipped Sen. Edward Kennedy
and George Bush knocked Ronald
Reagan off the top of the Republican hill
in the nation’s first 1980 presidential
test Monday.
Political organization gave Carter vic
tory in the Iowa Democratic precinct
caucuses but it also had a “Made In
Iran” label. Carter was scarping bottom
in the polls when Iranian militants took
Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy
in Tehran.
As the country rallied behind the
president. Carter’s political standing
shot upwards.
The payoff came Monday in the 2,500
neighborhood meetings where lowans
begin the process of selecting national
convention delegates and where Carter
made his first big splash four years ago.
But in 1976, Carter spent more than a
year building support in Iowa. This
year, he beat the Massachusetts senator
by almost two-to-one without spending
a day in Iowa.
Bush’s win was close, but it was an
authentic upset nonetheless. Bush, a
Massachusetts-born transplnated
Texas, grew increasingly optimistic in
the last days of campaigning, but
Reagan went into the caucuses as a favo
rite on the basis of a mid-January poll
that showed him first among Iowa Re
publicans, with Bush third.