lidden U.S.
fficials flee
rom Iran
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Aided by forged
luments and Canadian diplomats, six
lerican officials who hid in the Canadian
ibassy in Tehran for nearly three months
aped from Iran. Their clandestine exist-
:e was a secret tightly held by their fami-
i, U.S. and Canadian officials and three
lerican clergymen.
[he State Department announcement
esday of the escape was deliberately
irseand unrevealing apparently because
lerembassies in Iran played a role in the
eofthe six Americans as well as in some
lier unreported escapes,
fhe State Department identified the six
Mark], Lijek, a consular officer, and his
eCora Amburn Lijek, a consular assis-
it, both of Falls Church Va.; Robert G.
ders, a consular officer of Port Charlotte
i,; Henry Lee Schatz, the agricultural
ache of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Joseph D.
lord, a consular office, and his wife
1 thleen F. Stafford, a consular assistant,
1 :hof Crossville Tenn.
Itwas believed the six were taken to the
S. Air Base at Rhine-Main, West Ger-
ny for complete physical check-ups
or to their return to the United States.
eState Department told relatives they
rein Frankfort, which is near the U.S.
e.
| itate Department spokesman Hodding
i rtersaid, “It is my own impression that
six are in good shape physically. The
ape of the six Americans was first re-
i led Tuesday in a French-language Mon-
al newspaper, La Presse, in a report
m its Washington correspondent Jean
leticr.
fr| Darter said, “it would not be useful” to
eout the details of their concealment or
ivthey actually left Tehran. But some
ails were pieced together from family
niibers and Canadian officials.
Dandian Prime Minister Joe Clark said
j i Americans came to the Canadian
ibassy soon after the U.S. Embassy com-
and was taken over Nov. 4.
The Americans were merged into the
nadian diplomatic staff and performed
final embassy duties. But as the hostage
sis dragged on it became apparent their
:ret would eventually become known to
: Iranians.
At least one private American citizen
io bad been allowed to leave Iran earlier
dseveral U.S. news organizations some
nericans were being concealed in a
^ sndly embassy in Tehran. But the State
ipartment refused to provide the media
lb a precise list of the hostages.
United Press International was told one
ison for the secrecy was the possibility
me Americans might be “stashed away”
Tehran and the United States did not
mttogive the Iranians any help in discov-
ingthem.
The families of the six were aware they
:rein hiding in Tehran but kept quiet at a
ire when the relatives of the hostages
ride the U.S. Embassy compound be-
me reasonably well known through
edia exposure.
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit
id be and two other clergymen who went
Tehran to conduct Christmas services for
ehostages were told “confidentially” ab-
itthe six by U.S. officials.
“They wanted us to know that because
eywanted to be sure that on the outside
ance that we were able to bring the hos-
gesoutwith us, these people weren’t left
1 hind,” he said.
Officials said the escape required some
rged Iranian visas supplied to the Cana-
mEmbassy by American sources.
When the last American was out on Sun-
iy the Canadian government announced
embassy was being closed and the re
aming four Canadian diplomats were
ing withdrawn ostensibly as a form of
otest against the holding of diplomatic
istages. But actually it was a move to
event the Canadians from becoming hos-
;es like the 50 Americans who remain in
• p U.S. compound.
Almanac
United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 30, the 30th
lay of 1980 with 336 to follow.
The moon is approaching its full phase.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president
fthe United States, was born Jan. 30,
582.
■ On this date in history: In 1835 a de-
anged painter, Richard Lawrence, fired
'voshots at President Andrew Jackson but
feed.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler, destined to be-
bme the all-powerful dictator of World
Wrr II, was named chancellor of the Third
leich.
In 1948, Indian leader Mohandas Gan-
Ihi was assassinated by a Plindu extremist-
lunging India’s millions into mourning.
In 1979, the Iranian government autho
red the return of Ayatollah Khomeini and
le United States ordered evacuation of all
^pendents.
A thought for the day:. President Frank-
'uD. Roosevelt said: “The truth is found
'hen men are free to pursue it. ”
Silver Taps will he held for Steve Sikora
110:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5. Sikora, a
Iphomore transfer student from Crosby,
fe Monday from extensive injuries he
offered in an automobile accident.
The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 90 Wednesday, January 30, 1980 USPS 045 360
14 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
Forest of iron
A construction worker peers from behind a row of iron rods which will
form the backbone of a concrete wall within the Academic Agencies
Building now under construction on the Texas A&M campus.
Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Pastorini asks Bum,
Oilers to trade him
United Press International
HOUSTON — Houston Oilers quarter
back Dan Pastorini has asked Coach Bum
Phillips to trade him to Denver, Oakland,
Los Angeles, or San Francisco before next
season, a newspaper reported today.
“I love it here but I want out” Pastorini
told the Houston Chronicle in a copyright
story.
Pastorini, 30, has been an Oiler ever
since completing his career at the Universi
ty of Santa Clara in California in 1971.
He has completed two years of a six-year
contract at a reported $300,000 to $340,000
a year.
Pastorini, who quarterbacked the Oilers
into the American Football Conference
championship game the last two seasons,
avoided specific explanations. But he indi
cated he had a disagreement with Oilers
owner K. S. “Bud” Adams.
Pastorini, who already was known to be
unhappy because Adams never visited him
during his frequent hospital stays due to
football injuries, was believed to have
sought early payment of deferred monies.
In addition, the 6-3, 205-pound quarter
back bought a racing car and had planned to
race it personally during the off season, but
the Oilers exercised a contract option to
forbid Pastorini from racing.
“That auto racing is not the problem but
it’s part of the problem” Pastorini said. “It
would just be an off-season job. ”
In earlier years, Pastorini had expressed
interest in leaving the team because he was
unhappy with the city, but he said that is
not the issue now.
“I’ve made many friends here and would
like to stay here,” Pastorini said. Pastorini
completed 163 of324 passes for 2,090 yards
and 14 touchdowns during the 1979 season.
During the 1978 playoffs despite injuries
he completed 32 of 44 passes against Miami
and New England to spark upset wins.
If Pastorini’s request is honored third-
year backup quarterback Gifford Neilsen
would inherit the job.
“Gifford can do the job” Pastorini said.
Pastorini said he chose the four cities
because has friends and family in the San
Francisco Bay area.
President s report
forecasts recession
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
told Congress today the American people
can improve their standard of living only by
making the economy more efficient and
less dependent on foreign oil.
That was a central theme of the presi
dent’s 300-page annual Economic Report
to Congress which attempted to give the
American people some harsh economics
lessons for an election year.
The report, as did Carter’s 1981 budget
proposal sent to Congress Monday, said “a
mild recession” appears to be in store for
the economy with unemployment rising to
7.5 percent.
It says inflation at the consumer level is
likely to decline only slowly from its recent
13 percent annual rate to about 10.4 per
cent during 1980. Food prices, the report
said, probably will rise about the same rate
as overall inflation. It said energy prices are
likely to increase less rapidly than their
37.4 percent annual rate of 1979.
And the rate of climb of housing prices
may “moderate somewhat” early in 1980,
the report said.
One of the bleakest messages in the re
port is that international oil price increases
during 1979 and 1980 are siphoning rough
ly $45 billion out of the American economy
— just as though they were a tax — and
there is no way Americans can be fully
compensated for the loss.
The report said the reason is if Americans
receive wage increases to fully compensate
themselves for higher oil prices they will be
sparking a further wage-price spiral involv
ing greater inflation.
“Improvements in our living standards
can only be achieved by making our eco
nomy more efficient and less dependent on
imported oil, ” Carter said in a preamble to
the report.
The report said increased incentives for
business investment are one important way
to improve the economy’s productivity or
efficiency.
But Carter’s economic advisers have de
cided not to ask for such incentives now
because they are in effect tax cuts and
would in the short run make it harder to
control inflation.
The same goes for a tax cut for indi
viduals. Scbultze said it is not certain there
will be a recession, although his forecasts
call for one. If taxes are cut when the eco
nomy is not slowing he said inflation could
become further imbedded in the economy.
645 A&M employees
to be terminated by fall
By DEBBIE NELSON
Campus Staff
Administrators will reduce the number
of employees on the Texas A&M University
System payroll by 5 percent before August,
1980, the board of regents decided Tues
day. That means that, by the end of next
summer, 645 employees will lose their
jobs.
Based on the Tan. 31, 1979 payroll roster,
the employee cut will be in accordance
with Gov. William P. Clements’ program
for effectiveness and efficiency in Texas
government.
William B. Lancaster, TAMU Payroll
Services Manager, set employment for Jan.
31, 1979 at 12,905 people for all units head
quartered at Texas A&M.
This includes employees at all extension
stations in the state and all campuses within
the university system except Prairie View
A&M and Tarleton State. Under the new
plan, 645 of these 12,905 people will be cut
from the payroll.
The new policy will allow for adjustment
for changes in enrollment, research con
tracts, and teaching demand, “without
diminishing the order of excellence, the
resolution stated.
Chancellor Frank Hubert said the de
crease could be determined by taking em
ployment in any month during the 1978
calendar year and restricting it 5 percent.
However, he added the University system
cannot restrict employment in areas where
it would “seriously impair services it is leg
ally required to provide,” to businesses and
government, or seasonal employment such
as crop harvesting.
Dr. Haskell M. Monroe, dean of facul
ties at Texas A&M, told the Board of Re
gents the faculty growth rate is already
slower than the student growth rate, a poli
cy he termed “efficient in the spirit of what
the governor is calling for. ”
Faculty reductions would cause difficul
ty in finding enough class space in introduc
tory tlasses such as math and chemistry, as
well as in petroleum engineering and
accounting courses where space is already
scarce, Monroe said.
Another board action was approving
promotion of 79 Texas A&M University
personnel and confirming tenure of 58 fa
culty members.
The Board of Regents also approved the
purchase of a $625,000 eight-passenger air
plane.
Harry E. Raisor, manager of aviation ser
vices at the University-owned Easterwood
Airport, said the aircraft will he used by
members of the Texas A&M University
System on any business required by the
system.
The new Beechcraft airplane, along with
the two already owned, allows rapid trans
port of several people in one plane, which
holds costs down, Raisor said. Also, the
airplanes can travel to locations where com
mercial airlines do not.
Sherry Broughton, aircraft scheduler at
Easterwood, said the three University sys
tem airplanes are often used for flights to
different extension services. Trips by con
struction committees and groups touring
various facilities ar also common, Brought
on said.
A fourth aircraft, which the new plane is
meant to replace, was smaller — holding
five passengers with baggage — than the
1973 six- to ten-passenger plane just purch
ased, Raisor said.
The old Piper-Navajo was also limited in
range by the amount of fuel it could carry,
Raisor commented. Another disadvantage
of the craft was it required dual pilot qualifi
cations with the other two airplanes. The
new Beechcraft is the same brand as the
two previously-owned planes.
Construction of the new Medical Scien
ces Building was approved to begin in Feb
ruary, Wesley Peel, director of planning
and design for the Texas A&M University
System, said.
Peel said the $14.8-million project will
be located across the street from the Veter
inary Medicine Building. The center
should be completed by Campbell Con
struction Co. of Tyler in 30 months.
The Medical Sciences Building will in
clude the family community medicine sec
tion, labs, and environmental rooms which
had been in question of approval due to
inadequate funding.
The hoard also awarded a contract to
Bernard Johnson, of Houston, to begin de
tailed design of the new Engineering
Laboratory Center Wednesday. The
$605,000 final design should be completed
by June, Peel said. Bids for construction
should be presented to the Board of Re
gents in September. Construction of the
30-month project should begin next fall.
Peel added.
Regent H. C. Bell, Jr., said the com
pleted engineering lab will be the “most
modern testing, lab and research center in
engineering in the world as we know it
today.”
B-CSpolitics gain interest;
filing deadline approaches
By LAURA CORTEZ
Cily Staff
Election day is three months away, and
various political campaigns in the Bryan-
College Station area and throughout the
state are gaining momentum.
Neely Lewis, Democratic Party chair
man for Brazos County, said that since the
deadline to file for office is not until Mon
day, it is hard to tell how the races look at
this point. However, he said that certain
ones are beginning to take shape in the
Bryan-College Station area.
The race for state senator between Kent
Caperton and Bill Moore, both Democrats
from Bryan, is gaining a great deal of local
interest, Lewis said.
Caperton, who has submitted his res
ignation as Bryan municipal court judge, is
hoping to unseat Bill Moore, who has
served as senator for three years.
Lewis said that two popular Bryan
Democrats, Phil Gramm and State Repre
sentative Bill Presnal, face no organized
opposition to their bids for re-election at
this time.
He also said that although there seems to
be little opposition at this time to the
Democrats running for re-election to coun
ty posts, some democrats have expressed to
him the desire to run, and he expects a fair
amount of opposition by the filing deadine.
“But we just won’t be sure though until
they come forth and put their name on the
dotted line,” Lewis said.
Dr. N. A. McNiel, Republican Party
Chairman for Brazos County, said that he
has heard from some area Republicans that
they plan to run for county office, but they
have not yet filed.
Currently all elected county offices are
held by Democrats, and according to Lewis
and McNiel, there never has been a Re
publican office-holder.
McNiel said he feels that thing will
change this year.
McNiel also said the Republican Party in
Brazos county is hoping for opposition to
Phil Gramm, but has yet to fine! anyone to
run against him.
Both Lewis and McNiel also said that the
race for railroad commissioner is an impor
tant race in Texas.
“The Railroad Commission elections are
the most critical ones in Texas right now
because the commission regulates oil and
gas,” Lewis said.
The way the Railroad Commission race
looks at this point, Jim Hightower, D-
Denison, will be running against incum
bent Jim Nugent, D-Kerrville, and Buddy
Temple, D-Diboll, will be running against
incumbent John Poerner, D-Hondo.
Writer’s cramp
This campus police officer allows nothing, not even
writer’s cramp, to stand in the way of performing his
duty, writing parking tickets. University police say
they write an average of 450 parking tickets per day
at five dollars per violation.
Photo bv Paul Childress