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The Battalion as l| ir Vol. 73 No. 93 Monday, February 4, 1980 USPS 045 360 14 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 foasu ity law curtails A&M ambulance By BECKY SWANSON City Staff The phone rings at the University ambu lance squad room in the basement of the Beutel Health Center. Q “University ambulance.” “Hello, this is Cheryl at Treehouse, number 64,” an urgent voice said, “My roommate slipped in the shower and hit her head on the tub — she’s out cold and 1 there’s blood coming from her nose and r ears.” “I’m sorry, Cheryl, but were not allowed to answer calls in College Station, ” ^ the squad leader said, “We ll call the Col lege Station ambulance for you. Just cover your roommate with a blanket and don’t try to move her — the city ambulance will be there in a few minutes.” This is typical of the calls received by the University ambulance service — and of the response given to off-campus students. In a classic struggle for power and money, the city of College Station seems to have won the first round, leaving off- campus students caught between the proverbial rock and hard spot. A new city ordinance and a policy de veloped by the College Station Fire De partment — after the Texas A&M Univer sity health center bought and staffed its ambulance to provide free emergency medical and transportation service to all students — prohibits the university ambu lance from servicing off-campus students who are residents of College Station. Fire department officials say the Univer sity is eligible to apply for a permit to oper ate in the city, but the final “OK” must come from the city council. However, the prospect of the health cen ter receiving a permit doesn’t look good, judging from comments made by several city councilmen who are adamant about not letting “hot rodders” “play EMT” in “our city.” A Bryan Fire Department official sum med up his department’s policy toward the university ambulance this way: “We re not haggling over who picks up the patient, . . . because if we did that then we’d be playing politics with someone else’s life.” Bryan officials have welcomed the uni versity ambulance to serve students in their city in any capacity, offering full cooperation and all help necessary to aid the new service. Officials of student health services and the College Station Fire Department have agreed on a policy which prohibits the uni versity ambulance from answering emergency calls to off-campus students. Dr. Claude Goswick, director of student health services, said he met with the ambu lance coordinators from Bryan, College Station and the Texas A&M Emergency Care Team (TAMECT) last summer to dis cuss the purchase of the health center’s new ambulance. Steve Borron, TAMECT squad leader and acting ambulance coordinator for the university, said the first meeting was held to discuss the equipment and staffing for the new ambidance. No problems or pro tests from College Station officials were Cont’d on page 12 Andy Schwaller, Martha Chapa and Brian Willis (1-r), emergency medical equipment on the ambulance for emergency service. technicians for the A.P. Beutel Health Center, prepare emergency Staff photo by Cindy Colvin Prosecutors prepare evidence for probe 2 i [TiHfl \0> i United Press International WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are expected to begin presenting evidence soon to grand juries in four cities on a still growing public corruption scandal in whiclr eight members of Congress and more than 20 other public officials are under investi gation, well-informed sources say. The sources said some phases of the two- year investigation have not been com pleted and the money involved, nearly $700,000, is still being traced, suggesting others may be implicated in the biggest corruption probe since Watergate. Indictments are not expected to be sought during February because of the in vestigative work still to be done, one source said. In the meantime, authorities will begin providing evidence to grand juries in New York, Washington, Newark and Philadelphia. One senator and seven members of the House of Representatives were identified as targets of the FBI investigation in which public officials were observed or photo graphed accepting bribes, often in $50,000 amounts. Sources said the congressmen were “very business like” at meetings where money changed hands; some put the cash in their pockets, some in briefcases and some in paper bags. But one member of Congress was caught by a hidden movie camera nervously stuf fing $50,000 in his pockets. Turning to FBI undercover agents, pos ing as representatives of a favor-seeking Arab sheik, the congressman asked “whether anybody could see any of the money” sticking out of his clothes, sources said. Among those under investigation are Sen. Harrison Williams Jr., D-N.J.; and Reps. John Jenrette Jr., D-S.C., Richard Kelly, R-Fla., John Murphy, D-N.Y., Frank Thompson Jr., D-N.J., and three Pennsylvania Democrats, Raymond Led- erer, Michael Myers and John Murtha. Sources said the cases against Kelly, Jen rette and possibly other congressmen Arizona offers aid to New Mexico United Press International PHOENIX, Ariz. — Gov. Bruce Babbitt says the Arizona State Peniten tiary could house up to 40 maximum security prisoners displaced by the bloody weekend uprising at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Babbitt told reporters late Sunday he had offered assistance to New Mexico Gov. Bruce King. “I told him I thought we could try and help him, Babbitt said. “We have a new cellblock coming up. New Mexico is a good neighbor. When we can help them and be consistent with our own needs, we are glad to.” Ellis MacDougall, Arizona’s director of corrections, told Babbitt there would be room for about 40 prisoners from New Mexico because of a new 200-cell block that is opening at the Arizona State Penitentiary in Florence, about 50 miles south of Phoenix. The governor said he would know “within one or two days’ whether the prisoners would be shipped to Arizona. The transfer of prisoners between states “is relatively routine,” he said. He said New Meixco would pay for the transfer and maintenance of its pris oners, who are camped outside their gutted cellblocks in frigid tempera tures. Inmate recalls riot United Press International SANTA FE, N.M. — A inmate who called himself fortunate to have sur vived one of the nation’s worst prison uprisings said he was repeatedly raped and beaten by the ringleaders of the 36-hour ordeal. “I’m in shock,” said Robert Mosley, 21. “When this thing started, people just turned into animals. I’m lucky to be here." . Mosley, visibly shaken by the inci dent, said he was awakened early Satur day morning by the clamor of a group of inmates who seized two guards during a routine bed check. A short time later, he said, the ringleaders came to his floor and dragged him and his cellmates from their cell. “They put hoods over my head and bound my arms with strips of cloth,” he said. “They tied me in a fetal position. ” Mosley said at least 10 inmates sex ually assaulted him and he also suffered a sprained knee and cuts during the attacks by ringleaders of the uprising. “They picked on us because of our age and physical build,” he said. Mosley finally managed to escape by working loose the cloth around his arms, then rubbing it against a railing. when State Police SWAT teams and National Guardsmen finally mounted their siege Sunday to regain control of the institution, Mosley said, he wan dered around inside the building for about 15 minutes. He said when police finally found him, “one of them almost shot me.” Hostages who were taken to St. Vin cent’s hospital in Santa Fe after their release refused to talk to reporters. “We re under orders not to talk and as long as I’m an employee of this prison system, I’ll obey that order,” said guard Elton Correy. The wife of another, Capt. Gregorio Roybal, hung up on a reporter who attempted to talk to her husband. would be considered in Washington, with prosecutors in New York and Newark handling evidence against the remaining members of Congress. Sources said neither Williams nor Murtha actually accepted any bribe money and some of the other congressmen may have taken bribes indirectly -— through aides or other intermediaries. But all eight members under investiga tion made some agreement to trade their influence to the bribe-paying undercover agents, sources said. At least four of the congressmen were introduced to the undercover agents by Howard Criden, a Philadelphia lawyer and former state prosecutor, the sources said. Criden, who arranged some of the pay ments in return for supposed congressional influence on immigration matters, began cooperating with federal investigators on Saturday when confronted with the evi dence against him. Most of the payoffs to congressmen occured in 1979 but one was made as re cently as January, sources said. Williams issued a statement Sunday saying he had retained a lawyer and would not comment further. Jenrette, Thomp son, Kelly and Murtha denied taking bribes; the others could not be reached for comment. Republican officials, noting that seven of the eight congressmen were Democrats, promptly called for an investigation by con gressional ethics committees. ‘We laid out the red carpet’ United Press International BIG SPRING, Texas — Leroy Tillery didn’t invite a Utah-based movie company to this west Texas town, but he knew what to do once it arrived. “We laid out the red carpet for them,” said Tillery, recently hired, as executive vice president of the Big Spring Chamber of Commerce. The story began a few weeks back when Chuck Sellier, executive producer of SchickSunn Classic Productions Inc. of Salt Lake City, drove through Big Spring en route to Harlingen, Texas, on a trip to in spect abandoned air bases. The veteran movie and television pro ducer had virtually narrowed his choice to Harlingen or Las Cruces, N.M., as sites for a film tentatively titled “Hangar 18.” The film, about two American astronauts whose craft collides with a UFO, requires an abandoned air base because the script calls for the UFO to be taken to a hangar for secret inspection by NASA scientists. “We came here and it was just a fluke,” said publicity man Rej Jackson. “One per son said, T remember my cousin saying there was an air base at Big Spring, Texas. We just didn’t want to count it out. ” What they found was Big Spring Indust rial Park, which until its closure in Septem ber 1977 was Webb Air Force Base. By AMY DAVIS Campus Reporter If mother nature permits, the expansion of G. Rollie White Coliseum should be ready for use by the beginning of the fall semester, said Dr. Leonard Ponder, head of the Health and Physical Education de partment. The addition, which will be partly three and partly four-stories, will connect with the Kyle Field expansion and will double the current space used by the department. Ponder said the addition is “a tremen dous outlay and more than sorely needed. As of now, people are stashed in nooks and crannies.” For instance, the woman’s locker room has been lacking in space for a number of years. The addition will more than double the existing space and will also add a faculty dressing area, he said. Administrative offices will also receive “This air base was really quite spooky,” Jackson said. “We were able to walk through buildings. The furniture was still in place. Names were still on the chalk board. Chuck fell in Tove with it. “We totally scoured the place and it came up 100 percent. And these people are just wonderful. They just bent over back ward.’ The city provided motel and apartment accommodations, helped with some of the labor at the air base and rented the facility to the movie company for $20,000. Several residents and more than 800 people from as far away as New Mexico have signed up to be extras. Eventually, more than 3,000 extras — who will each receive $25 for a nine-hour day — may be used in the film. Like all the movies produced by Schick Sunn Productions (which grossed nearly $40 million in 1979), the film will be G- rated. It is budgeted at just over $3 million, a small amount as modern productions go, but Leroy Tiller isn’t complaining. “That’s $3 million of new money that somebody else is bringing to town and dropping off here,” he said. “It’s kinda like tourist dollars; ids made somewhere else, brought into your town and dropped off. Everybody gets a piece of it.” Although the film script is being rewrit- some relief from the “crunch,” Ponder said. There will be new space for the intra mural office complex and the Required Physical Education department. Health Education is a fairly new depart ment here, he said. It concentrates on maintaining a healthy body by techniques learned in the classroom. “They have had nothing,” he said. “The classes have been held in hallways and closets.” The expansion will give that department three classrooms, three seminar rooms and a lecture ampitheater, he said. “This will allow us to offer more sections of classes that we desperately need more of,” he said. Ponder said the laboratory complex, housing the human performance, motor behavior and mechanical analysis labor atories, will be updated and vastly im proved, and when finished, will “rival any ten and the starring roles have not been cast, film director Henning Schellerup, a native of Denmark, is expected to begin shooting in mid to late February. Schellerup will be backed by a crew of about 55 people whose average age is 29, Jackson said, and expects to finish shooting by May. An art director already has painted a large “18” on the side of a hangar and the paint has been aged to match the structure. Jackson flew in recently and was captivated by the work. “I almost got whiplash when I saw the ‘18’ on the building,” he said. “I didn’t know it had been done. It fit in beautifully. For movie people, we’ve died and gone to heaven.” First Lady Rosalynn Carter has come out strongly in favor of registration of women along with men. White House aides indi cated that Carter may take the same stand. A group of 300 Democratic women sup porters who met with Carter Saturday later voted overwhelmingly by a show of hands in favor of registering women. But sam plings of Republican women indicate they are opposed to the move. — Almanac United Press International Today is Monday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 1980 with 331 to follow. The moon is moving toward its last 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. Famed American trans-Atlantic flyer Charles A. Lindbergh was born Feb. 4, 1902. Actress Ida Lupino was born on this date in 1918. On this date in history: In 1901, Maj. William Gorgas laun ched a U.S. Army campaign to wipe out yellow fever in Cuba. In 1938, Adolf Hitler seized control of the German army and put Nazi officers in key posts as part of a plan which was to cause World War II. In 1974, Patricia Hearst 19-year-old daughter of San Francisco publisher Randolph Hearst was spirited away from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., by urban guerrillas. In 1977, 11 people were killed and nearly 200 injured when an elevated train jumped the tract and crashed into a street below in downtown Chicago. A thought for the day. American au thor Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, said, “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. - G. Rollie expansion should be ready Carter to take stand on drafting United Press International WASHINGTON — President Carter says he has decided whether women should be registered along with men for the military draft, but he has not disclosed his decision. Carter was expected to make his views known early this week, perhaps when he meets with Democratic congressional lead ers Tuesday morning. Speaker Thomas O’Neill already has said the House will not pass legislation requiring the registration of women. The president told reporters he made a decision on female registration when he and his wife returned to the White House Sunday evening from a weekend at Camp David. by fall in the country.” New recreational facilities will include 14 handball/racquetball courts, two large multi-purpose rooms for activities such as fencing, figure control and wrestling, and a dance studio. Five more basketball courts will also be added, some of them will be used for vol leyball and other games when they are not being used for basketball, he said. “I think for the first time we are going to be able to have facilities open for students to just walk in and use. Right now, they are used to the hilt and from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. there is hardly a room that is not in use,” Ponder said. Ponder said the construction is still on the most current schedule, and he is anti cipating a completion by the middle of July. “We will use the summer to make the massive move and then begin use in the fall.”