The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 91
22 Pages in 2 Sections
Thursday, January 31, 1980
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
Bicycles, motorcycles, mopeds and automobiles are causing traffic prob
lems on Texas A&M’s inner-campus. University administrators are look
ing at the problem and hope to design a solution soon. Meanwhile, the
University Traffic Panel is considering a proposal to make the central
area of campus a walking area for bicyclists.
Photo by Paul Childress
ongress thanks Canada for rescue
United Press International
L/l WASHINGTON — A grateful Congress
0/I s given its thanks to Canada for the dar-
J ;escape from Iran and safe return home
six Americans who will use the privacy of
sver Air Force Base in Delaware to have
eir first meeting with their loved ones.
AirForce Maj. Robert Groom base infor-
L/ ation officer said the six Americans ar-
ved at Dover from West Germany
ednesday afternoon.
After an overnight stay at the base they
meet their families who came to Dela-
IVE are hr the reunion.
'n Friday, the six will travel to Washing-
Students on
SSI grants
still waiting
ton and, at a news conference scheduled for
4 p.m. EST at the State Department, will
tell the story of how they hid tor nearly
three months in the Canadian Embassy and
used forged documents to escape.
The House and Senate approved resolu
tions Wednesday thanking the Canadian
government for protecting the Americans
and helping them escape.
House Speaker Thomas O’Neill, who
speaks from the floor only on special occa
sions, called the escape “an extraordinary
act of courage and friendship.”
“It was truly a humanitarian act and
America will never forget it,” O’Neill said.
Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., said the
Senate resolution represents “a special
thank you to our neighbors of the North.
The decisions they made and the actions
they took saved the lives of six Americans.
Canadian officials shrugged off state
ments by Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh that Canada “will pay” for the
deception which he called a “flagrant viola
tion of international law, a betrayal of Iran,
and a brutal act of espionage. ”
The Americans conferred with State De
partment officials Wednesday night but
spokesmen would give no other details.
State Department spokesman Hodding
Carter said their seclusion was in part to
protect them from “a ravaging horde of
journalists.”
Officials said the six were given physical
checkups at Frankfurt West Germany after
their weekend escape then flew to the U n-
ited States.
The six are Mark J. Lijek, a consular
officer, and his wife Cora Amburn Lijek, a
consular assistant, both of Falls Church
Va.; Joseph D. Stafford, a consular officer,
and his wife, Kathleen F. Stafford, a consu
lar assistant, both of Crossville Tenn.; Hen
ry Lee Schatz, an agricultural attache of
Coeur D Alene, Idaho, and Robert G.
Andres, a consular officer of Port Charlotte,
Fla.
According to what some members of the
group have told relatives in the United
States, they sneaked out the back door of
the U.S. Embassy shortly after the Nov. 4
takeover and made it safely to the Canadian
Embassy.
There they were integrated into the
Canadian diplomatic workforce while bid
ing from Iranian authorities. Apparently
carrying forged Iranians visas and Canadian
passports, they finally left Tehran last
weekend. Canada then closed its embassy
in Iran to avoid retribution.
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Gold falls slightly, dollar up
fo/ By LAURA RUTHERFORD
^/I Campus Reporter
The 500 Texas A&M University students
deceiving the State Student Incentive
Grant may not get the money next year.
Texas will not be eligible for the grant un
less Congress reauthorizes the Higher
Education Act of 1965 to accommodate the
state’s accreditation statute.
Dr. B. G. Johnson, assistant director for
student financial aid, said Texas A&M re
ceives about $91,500 of the $4.1 million
granted to Texas by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
£tj/ Johnson said the grant must be matched
'I by University funds, so Texas A&M uses
|the grant to supplement money that would
already be going to the student. This in
creases available Texas A&M grant money
IVE by one-third, he said.
Texas State Student Incentive Grant
money was impounded last summer be
cause of a U.S. Office of Education ruling.
Texas was not meeting the requirements of
the Higher Education Act, under which
the money is granted, the agency said.
A1976 amendment to the act, effective
in 1978, requires students attending any
non-profit, post-secondary institution to be
le for the grant. But Texas does not
accredit all non-profit, post-secondary in
stitutions. In Texas, those institutions not
accredited do not receive State Student
Incentive Grant money.
i | Texas received the grant money this year
lyjl because of a technical amendment spon
sored by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and signed by
President Carter in October.
The amendment only released the
money for 1979-80.
Dexanne Clohan, a spokesman for Bent-
sen, said Texas should receive the money
l/j| after reauthorization. Clohan said Con
gress would probably just reword the tech
nical amendment so that it will continue
beyond 1980. She added Congress tries to
protect state laws that exist before legisla
tion. Clohan said Congress does not intend
b take control over higher education away
bom the state.
United Press International
LONDON — The price of gold fell
slightly and the dollar rallied today in light
trading on world money markets.
The Almanac\
United Press International
Today is Thursday, Jan. 31, the 31st
day of 1980 with 335 to follow.
The moon is full.
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.
American entertainers Eddie Cantor
and Garry Moore were born on Jan. 31
— Cantor in 1892 and Moore in 1915.
On this date in history:
In 1950, President Harry Truman
announced he had ordered develop
ment of the hydrogen bomb.
In 1958, Explorer 1, the first U.S.
earth satellite, was launched from the
Cape Canaveral missile test center.
In 1961, Ham, a male chimpanzee,
was rocketed into space in a test of the
project Mercury capsule to carry an
American astronaut into orbit.
In 1979, President Carter and
Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Teng
signed agreements to provide the
framework for what the president called
“a new and irreversible course” in
Chinese-American relations.
A thought for the day: In a 1945 mes
sage to Congress on atomic energy,
President Truman said, “The release of
atomic energy constitutes a new force
too revolutionary to consider in the
framework of old ideas.”
“With no fresh news gold remained quiet
and cautious today, ” said a dealer for John
son Matthey bullion brokers in London.
The price of an ounce of gold fell $39 on
the Hong Kong market overnight closing at
$681.
Gold also fell in London and Zurich
opening on the London market at $670 an
ounce down from Wednesday’s close of
$690 an ounce. It started the day in Zurich
at $677 an ounce down from $698 an ounce.
By mid-morning gold fell to $668 an
ounce down $22 from its overnight close.
Meanwhile rumors apparently fueled
the rise in the dollar on most money mar
kets.
“The dollar scored a broad advance all
around this morning following reports that
Russia has a timetable for withdrawal from
Afghanistan,” said a dealer for Barclay’s.
Pastorini
Administrators
look at campus
traffic problems
By CATHY SAATHOFF
Campus Reporter
Recent problems caused by bicycles on
campus have caused the start of a study to
solve them.
Dr. Charles Powell is surveying bicycle
traffic control at universities across the
country to work out a solution to Texas
A&M’s problems with bikes.
Dr. John Koldus, Vice President for Stu
dent Services, asked Powell, his assistant,
to tackle the problem which includes colli
sions between bicycles and pedestrians,
cars and other bicycles.
"We re trying to come up with some
thing that’s a compromise,” Powell said.
Coping with the hikes alone won’t solve the
problem, he said. All forms of traffic enter
ing and leaving campus must be consi
dered.
Paul Bettencourt, Student Senate Vice
President for Rules and Regulations and a
member of the University Traffic Panel,
said finding a solution won’t be easy.
“There’s not a solution that is going to
please everybody, Bettencourt said.
Bettencourt is helping Powell with his
survey by talking to groups on campus ab
out what should be done; Powell is writing
to other schools to find out how they handle
bike traffic.
“We hope we can take the best of what
they ve done and come up with a workable
plan for this campus,” Powell said.
So far, Powell is impressed with the Uni
versity of California at Berkeley’s plan,
which includes specific bike trails and park
ing areas. He said A&M is the only campus
he has seen that mixes bicycle and pedes
trian traffic.
The traffic panel is looking at a proposal
to make the central area of campus a walk
ing area for bikes.
“The traffic panel wants to take action on
this because they see it as a problem,” Bet
tencourt said.
However, the panel will have to hold off
until Powell finishes his investigation.
Tom Parsons, director of security and
traffic for the University Police is against
the idea.
“I personally am opposed to the proposal
put to the traffic committee. Parsons said.
You’re not going to see anything done ’til
Powell finishes his investigation.”
Powell said he could come up with a
workable plan in a month, but it will be
next semester before anything can be done
with it.
Meanwhile, he will visit California to see
how several campuses on the West Coast
are handling traffic. He is also meeting with
city officials from Bryan and College Sta
tion, since the problem isn’t isolated on
campus.
“We could work out a metropolitan bicy
cle plan,” Powell said.
Powell said all forms of traffic must be
included in the study, which is being paid
for with money from the Student Services
fund.
“It’s going to take a lot of cooperation
between people, he said.
Russ McDonald, University Police
Chief, said lack of cooperation is part of the
problem now.
“It’s very hard to enforce bicycle laws,”
McDonald said.
Cyclists are hard to catch, he said, be
cause they can ride between buildings to
evade police cars, and officers on foot can’t
keep up with them.
“No one is going to solve the bicycle
problem except the users themselves,”
Parsons said.
Powell said the final solution may restrict
cyclists.
“Bicycles have to obey the same traffic
regulations as the motor vehicles,” he said.
However, some cyclists on this campus
are trying to have the best of two worlds,
Powell said, by following a mixture of auto
mobile and pedestrian rules, or no rules at
aU.
“It’s what the people are accustomed to
doing,” Powell said.
Powell said the administration encour
ages people to ride bikes, and said most
accidents are not serious, although he has
heard of students losing teeth and breaking
bones.
“I’m looking forward to getting into it,”
Powell said. “Hopefully the final results
will make it livable for everybody.”
Hong Kong and London were the only
markets where the dollar dropped. In
Hong Kong, the dollar closed at 238.80 yen
from 239.35 while the pound sterling was
worth $2.2685 at the opening on the Lon
don market after an overnight .close of
$2.2620.
In Frankfurt the dollar opened at 1.7375
German marks from 1.7350 while in Zurich
the opening of 1.6248 Swiss francs, com
pared with Wednesday’s close of 1.6212.
The dollar was also up in Paris at 4.0645
francs from 4.0635 in Brussels, at 28.8050
Belgian francs from 28.7350 in Amsterdam,
at 1.9185 from 1.9160, and in Milan at
807.40 Italian lire from 806.55.
Gold was traded at prices higher than
$700 an ounce in all exchanges Wednesday
hut dipped into the upper $600 an ounce
range by time of the close.
Regents foresee
no worker firings
By DEBBIE NELSON
Campus Staff
Due to adjustment factors, the Texas
A&M University System is at present
“substantially in compliance” with Gov.
William P. Clements’ request to reduce
employees by five percent, and will not
fire employees due to the resolution,
Chancellor Frank W. R. Hubert said
Wednesday.
Although the board of regents re
solved Tuesday to adopt a policy calling
for a five percent reduction in university
system employees by August 31, 1980,
their resolution also called for adjust
ments for “changes in enrollment and
research contracts” and “contractual
obligations for research and teaching.”
A statement released by Hubert
stated, “In my view, the Texas A&M
University Board of Regents took a posi
tive and responsible position with refer
ence to the Governor’s request for a five
percent reduction in the number of em
ployees between Jan. 31, 1979 and Aug.
31, 1980.”
Hubert said the University system is
in substantial accordance with the prog
ram for efficient and effective manage
ment in state government based on ad
justment for the following factors:
& Increased student enrollment in
the system’s colleges and universities.
— Legal obligations to government,
business and industry for research and
teaching programs already under con
tract.
— Essential services — fire fighting,
fighting crop and forest diseases.
— Maintaining excellence in the sys
tem’s teaching, research and extension
programs.
An article appearing in Tueday’s Bat
talion stated 645 University system em
ployees would lose their jobs before
Aug. 31, 1980. This was an oversimplifi
cation of the facts, Hubert said, and
could cause undue anxiety to University
system employees.
Without the adjustment factors
adopted in the board of regents’ resolu
tion, the figures in the Battalion article
would be correct — five percent of the
employees on Jan. 31, 1979’s University
system payroll, or 645 out of 12,905 em
ployees.
Howeyer, due to the adjustment fac
tors, which Hubert said he believed the
governor would deem important, no fir
ing of employees is anticipated.
Quarterback denies requesting trade
United Press International
HOUSTON — Yes, Dan Pastorini is hav
ing problems with the Houston Oilers and
certain provisions of his contract, but no,
he does not want to be traded, the team
said Wednesday.
Oilers spokesmen said Pastorini, 30, de
nied telling a reporter he had requested a
trade after being told two weeks ago his
$300,000-a-year contract forbade him from
engaging in “activities which may involve
significant risk of personal injury.”
The pro athlete, who drives racing boats,
had sought recently to drive dragsters in
the off-season.
In a statement released Wednesday
afternoon the team did indicate, however,
that there were problems with the quarter
back and that legal action might be taken to
keep him from buying and racing a
dragster.
“Last week,” Oilers owner K. S. “Bud”
Adams Jr. said, “head coach Bum Phillips
had advised him (Pastorini) that he had
instructed Oiler legal counsel” to inform an
automobile dealer that employing Pastorini
to “drive a high speed dragster in competi
tion. . . would be a violation of his
contract. ”
Phillips was out of town Wednesday and
Pastorini’s agent said the quarterback left
town temporarily following the publication
of the Houston Chronicle’s Wednesday
edition.
The newspaper reported that Pastorini
wanted to renegotiate the final four seasons
of his six-year contract or be traded to De
nver, Oakland, San Francisco or Los
Angeles.
“I love it here, but I want out,” Pastorini
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was quoted as saying.
In two interviews with Houston radio
reporters following publication of the story,
Pastorini denied asking to be traded.
The quarterback told KPRC radio that
the contract restriction against him driving
dragsters was “not the problem.”
In the newspaper, however, he said the
restriction was “not the problem but part of
the problem.” He also said he “failed to
read” the stipulation.
Ladd Herczeg, senior vice president and
chief administrative officer of the team,
contacted Pastorini by phone Wednesday.
“Pastorini informed Herczeg that the
newspaper story was untrue and he denied
requesting that he be traded to another
club,” the Oilers said.
The quarterback confirmed to KTRH
radio that he was having contract problems.
“There is a contract dispute,” he said,
“but I haven’t asked to he traded vet.