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4 the ■yeai pres- "He | raj ;o,”a The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 84 10 Pages Tuesday, January 22, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 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 United Press International 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 United Press International 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- The almanac am. artitff npoi —*1 iary22 uary $ lary 21 lary 21 0 p.i"' anada expels Soviet diplomats United Press International cial “in a sensitive position” who allegedly OTTAWA, Canada Canada has expel- sold American secrets to the Soviet Union. 3(1 three Soviet diplomats on spy charges Canadian External Affairs Minister Flora pa case involving a U.S. government offi- MacDonald said Monday the three Soviet 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 United Press International 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.