irk net) 3-3 i; mdj 'Ollll! irk The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 86 Thursday, January 24, 1980 USPS 045 360 20 Pages in 2 Sections College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 iCarter tells Soviets 5to keep their hands off •the Persian Gulf area M WASHINGTON — Using his State of ^ me Union address to issue a 20th-century IR ersion of the Monroe Doctrine President barter has sent the Soviet Union an une- lltj [uivocal warning: Keep out of the Persian ^1 3ulf, or else. k To back up his tough words the president ’V?;| aid he intends to push for legislation to Ip inance the resumption of draft registration ind end "unwarranted restraints’ on America’s intelligence agencies. « i' “An attempt by any outside force to gain Control of the Persian Gulf region will be Woegarded as an assault on the vital interests the United States of America” Carter rvTfeid affirming what may one day come to he Rpfcalled the Carter Doctrine. In his nationally televised message to a int session of Congress Wednesday night JMie president said “such an assault will he _-|cpelled by use of any means necessary r deluding military force. I Carter’s warning sounding much like cjjlresident James Monroe’s 1823 demand ^European colonial powers leave the New |M|world alone drew a round of applause from "■idle senators and representatives. In the face of the Soviet Union’s inter- Miention in Afghanistan and the anti- 111 Americanism in Iran foreign affairs domin- ®/(Bted Carter’s message right from the start. Giving the Kremlin a taste of its own Nl propaganda rhetoric Carter accused the Soviet Union of seeking “colonial con quest” in defiance of the rest of the world. “The Soviet Union must realize that its decision to use military force in Afghanis tan will be costly to every political and economic relationship it values’ he said. Carter said the Soviet occupation force in Afghanistan was threatening an area of “great strategic importance with more than two-thirds of the world’s exportable oil. “The Soviet Union is now attempting to consolidate a strategic position he said. “Therefore it poses a grave threat to the free movement of Middle East oil.” Carter who received warm applause dur ing and at the end of his speech hinted he expects a prolonged superpower confronta tion similar to the long-drawn-out Cold War conflict that followed World War II. “This situation demands careful thought steady nerves and resolute action — not only for this year but for many years to come” he said. In a move to put teeth into his warning to the Kremlin Carter said he will ask Con gress for funds so the United States can resume registering youths for the draft. Carter has the authority under the Selec tive Service Act to resume the draft but Congress must allocate funds to finance such a move. Congress also must approve reimposition of the draft itself. “I will send legislation and budget prop osals to the Congress next month so that we can begin registration and then meet future mobilization needs rapidly if they arise” he said. But the president said he doubted that the actual draft would be reimposed. He said he felt “volunteer forces are adequate for current defense needs. Carter also appealed to Congress for “clear and quick passage” of a new charter defining the authority and accountability of America’s intelligence agencies. “We will guarantee that abuses will not recur but we must remove unwarranted restraints on our ability to collect intelli gence and to tighten our controls on sensi tive intelligence information” he said. Carter said the United States “will never rest” until the 50 American captives at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran are freed. “If the American hostages are harmed a severe price will be paid he warned. But the president said he would try to persuade Iran’s leaders “the real danger to their nation” comes not from the United States but from the Soviet Union. Carter reaffirmed his previous support for human rights detente and SALT but such issues took a back seat to his calls for a strong America capable of containing the Kremlin. [Election to decide bond issue wion jail expansion Saturday ffl By RICHARD OLIVER 141(| General Assignments Reporter [ga|| Brad Smith is a man with an important ^Rjob to do, but he has no place to do it. M l Smith is the 272nd District Court judge, and since April of last year, he has held ffliourt in everywhere from a bank meeting “oom to the Brazos Center Lecture Room muse he doesn t have a courtroom. Saturday’s Brazos County bond election ay change that. Brazos County voters are asked to con- ider two propositions on one bond issue: i —$8.6 million in bonds for the purpose of constructing additions and improve- ■feients to the existing courthouse and jail M building. Lffl —$1.4 million in bonds for the purpose MHif purchasing, constructing, reconstruct- Ing, remodeling and equipping of property |jj||ifor parking and additional office space. a t Although passage of the first proposition Nil guarantee Smith a new courtroom, iounty officials say the modification of the jail building is the most important item to e voted on. “The main thing that’s brought the issue _~avote is the jail,” said Dick Holmgreen, |Jj||!Brazos County judge. “Our jail standards do not meet the standard of the Texas Jail il»j| Standards Commission. So, as you can see, ■fl the situation has become critical.” jWlj The Brazos County jail had three re views last year by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, and each time it failed to ! meet a number of major physical facility requirements. After the last inspection, [ Brazos County was put on notice by the Commission that certain requirements must be met, such as expanded jail facilities to meet the growth of the county, or they will issue a remedial order. Smith said such an order would be diffi- ltf| cult to follow. j “The most important thing, of course, is JHIthe jail,” he said. “If we don’t do something about it, and the citizens don’t pass the Ik issue, some outside force is going to make I Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Jan. 24, the 24th day gi] Floxannc Smith Senate passes bill to add lights to aerobics track By MERIL EDWARDS Campus Staff In their first meeting of the semester Wednesday night, The Texas A&M Uni versity Student Senate passed bills for lights on the aerobics track, longer postal service hours and preregistration prefer ence for seniors. Brad Smith, vice president for student services, presented a need for six addition al lights on the aerobics track. Smith said the track has eroded resulting in hidden hazards to students who jog at night. “These new lights will make the dark places at least visible,” Smith said. “We re not trying to light up the whole place. We want to make it safer so joggers won’t be twisting their ankles and running into trees.” Smith said a jogger was raped in a dark spot on the aerobics track before Christmas last semester. Smith asked the Senate to support the additional lights and to recommend that $3,250 from student service fee reserves be used to cover the costs of half of these lights. The bill passed. Another bill Smith brought before the Senate asked that A&M negotiate with the Memorial Student Center postal service for longer hours. The MSC post office window is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays. Smith’s bill pushed for an eight hour work day and a few hours on Saturday. Smith said he talked to the postmaster whose main objection was that the self cen ter postal service on the west wall of the post office is always open and it cost $20,000 to install. “The postmaster doesn’t think extending the hours will help,” Smith said. “He thinks the personnel should be increased. ” The bill passed with the recommenda tion that other alternatives other than ex tended hours be studied as possible solu tions to long lines. In other action John Calhoun, vice presi dent for academic affairs, said A&M’s pre sent system of preregistration fails to ack nowledge that seniors and graduates need to complete certain upper level classes for graduation. “Some departments force seniors to pre register later in the week,” Calhoun said. “This force them to go through add/drops which places a burden on them.” The bill passed giving seniors and gradu ates (95 hours or more) an opportunity to preregister on Monday in order to get the classes they need for graduation. Other business included the emergency passing of the consumer guide funding bill. A consumer guide listing services in the community was printed by student senate last semester. The bill said that money would be drawn from program develop ment and the external affairs committee. The final item of business was the intro duction of a night exam awareness bill. Calhoun urged adoption of a notation in the class schedule booklet to tell students before registration if any night exams were scheduled. American farmer is hurt by embargo, specialist says The surplus grain caused by the U.S. embargo will have little effect on the overall U.S. economy, said Dr. Roland Smith, a Texas A&M economic special ist in grain marketing, but has already hurt the American farmer. , Smith said in an interview that the lower grain prices due to the embargo will probably not reach the American consumer. Bread, for example, has ab out four cents of wheat in an 80 cent loaf, Smith said. Much of the cost of bread, he said, is in baking and shipping. Lower meat prices could result due to the embargo, he said, but the effect will not be felt for another six to twelve months. He said that it takes that long to increase herd size to take advantage of lower feedgrain prices. But, any price decrease in grain products and the goods they affect will probably be offset by inflation, he said. Smith said that the embargo has hurt the American farmer already. The un certainty that the embargo creates has dropped prices on the grain market. A bushel of corn was selling for $2.80 be fore the embargo, he said, but immedi ately after dropped to $2.65. Proposed government action has helped the price to rebound to $2.70 a bushel. But at the current price of $2.70, Smith said, far mers are losing $2,000 for every 1,000 acres of corn. He said many farmers will have to make a change in their lifestyle to accommodate the loss of income. The embargo removes an entire mar ket frorp the farmer, he said. Farmers who have not been in the business long and are in debt to a great extent will be the hardest hit. Farmers who have paid off a large portion of their mortgage can cut back on their living expenses and make it. “Nobody is going to lose their farm as a result of the embargo but some will have to made drastic changes in the way they live,” Smith said. Smith said Mexico has announced plans to buy more American grain. Chi na and India may make some purchases and take some of the surplus grain, he said. Government programs will help les sen the embargo’s impact on the farmer, he said, but will add to the uncertainty of the market in the long run. The prop osed programs of more foreign-aid ship ments, increased government buying and greater gasbhol production are all designed to alleviate the surplus. It would be better to have the govern ment buy up all the Russian grain con tracts and store it, he said. In that way, he said, the grain will be isolated off tbe market and prices will be supported. “Nevertheless, the embargo does hurt the Russians,” said Smith, “They relied heavily on the United States for imported wheat. ” Of the 35 million tons of grain that the Soviet Union was pre dicted to import, 25 million tons were to have come from the United States. U.S. grain makes up only 12 percent of Rus sian needs, but much of that was to be used for livestock production, he said. The embargo will put more meat into the Russian market in the short run, he said. They will have to slaughter some animals before they reach true market able weight to decrease Russian herd size. Smith said that the United States will have to wait and see how effective the embargo is. “Although I don’t think the embargo will bring the Russians to their knees, it will make them stop and think about the consequences of their ac tions,” he said. Despite the effect the embargo has on the farming economy, the outlook for grain and agriculture is optimistic, he said. “We are still going to have a record year as far as grain exports go,” he said, “we just won’t have a fantastic year as earlier thought.” Smith said that the agricultural outlook for the 1980s is still optimistic. It was just more optimistic, he said, before the embargo.