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isas SW( ,n ds remaintj: two free SMU ln g guard Diy, nsas’ U.S. | ls to play an j noved Arkai s fouled imm came ii 'ts wra^ ._ T in the Mi 3n game. lioppedtoto df game helm Hazorbacks art The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 105 14 Pages Wednesday, February 20, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Break point Brian Joelson, a member of the Texas A&M tennis ranked team from Trinity University. For more on team, stops for a water break during his match A&M’s duel with Trinity, see page 13. Tuesday against Eddie Rees of the Nationally- Panama may arrest shah for Iran, lawyer claims United Press International PANAMA CITY, Panama — A promin ent Panamanian lawyer representing Iran in extradition proceedings against the de posed shah of Iran says the exiled monarch could be arrested once papers are served. Juan Materno Vasquez, former presi dent of Panama’s Supreme Court, said Tuesday the shah’s right to go free on bail depends upon what charges are brought against him by Iran. “Once the demand (for extradition) is made, he will not be able to move because he will be arrested,” Vasquez said. “He may not necessarily go to jail because he could be granted bail.” Vasquez added, however, under Pana manian law the shah could demand the right of habeas corpus to safeguard him against illegal detention or obtain a judicial order granting him temporary immunity from prosecution. “If Panama accepts Iranian charges de manding imprisonment, then the shah must be arrested and all the documents in his possession can be seized,” he said. The office of the presidency and the Ministry of Government and Justice would then decide whether to accept Iran’s charges, Vasquez said. Shah spokesman Mark Morse, reached by telephone on Contadora Island where Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi is staying, refused to comment on the lawyer’s state ments. Vasquez said Panamanian law provides for extradition proceedings when no treaty exists, as in the case of Panama and Iran. But, because Panama has no death pen alty, authorities could refuse to extradite the shah if it were evident he would be executed once he returned to the Islamic Republic, Vasquez said. Vasquez stressed the shah has the legal right to leave Panama before the extradi tion documents from Tehran arrive, but added the proceedings could continue even if the shah was no longer in the country. The shah and his wife Empress Farah have lived on the Pacific resort island since they arrived from the United States Dec. 15. Vandals steal a beer can the city wanted to keep By ANDY WILLIAMS Staff Writer Ordinarily, College Station officials wouldn’t be upset about someone taking a beer can out of one of their parks. But this is different. The top of a bench post which was sculp ted to look like a Coors Light container was sawed and stolen from Oak Park sometime last week, a city park employee says. The sculpture is valued at $350. It is one of several in the park, which is at Stallings and Highway 30. A group of Texas A&M University’s en vironmental design students began sculp ting the tops of the wooden bench posts last October after being hired by College Sta tion. Environmental design professor Rodney Hill said the park department asked him to help find students who were interested in planning some aspects of the party areas of the park. The sculptures are part of that project. The beer can isn’t the first carving to catch a thief s eye. Last fall, someone stole a replica of a Prussian soldier that Hill him self had carved. The figure was later re turned. Steve Bell, a sophomore who is one of the students working on the project, says the group will have to build the figures so as to obstruct the saws. Darrell Williams, another project work er, is also worried about what vandals will do to the park. “One weekend when we were out there, somebody’s party had destroyed the bath room,” he said. “Just ripped the commode and sink off the wall. “That’s not just something that you do and say, oops, look what happened. “It’s their park, man. Why would they do that?” But the students are enjoying the project anyway. Williams says the best times are when there are a lot of workers on the site. The site is divided into seven areas. Two students are assigned to each. Eventually, Hill says, there will be 40 of the sculptures. There are 15 now. The carvings include beer bottles, ham burgers and hot dogs. One group, which is modeling its area after a saloon, sculpted one of a set of dice onto a post. Steve Bell and his partner are fashioning one post into a snake wrapped around a leg. Bell says eventually they hope to extend the snake’s body so that it will serve as the back of the bench and wrap around the other post.’ Salvadorans take hostage United Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Anti-government groups have taken another 120 hostages, raising to 370 the number of people being held in a growing war of nerves between mili tants and the ruling junta. About 40 members of the National Association of Salvadoran Teachers took some 100 people hostage in a peaceful occupation Monday of the Ministry of Education’s employee benefits office in the capital. The teachers demanded an end to alleged repression against their col leagues and the release of two teachers arrested by government forces last week. At least seven teachers have been shot to death this year, allegedly by right-wing ex tremists. Earlier in the day, some 30 mem bers of the leftist Popular Revolu tionary Bloc occupied the Labor Ministry office in Santa Ana, 40 miles west of San Salvador, and took 20 persons hostage, a spokesman for the militants said. Teamsters Union might combine with AFL-CIO Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. POP debates the debate; X)ll says Teds in trouble United Press International lEverything is set for tonight’s debate of the Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire, but another forum in cluding just two of them is under heavy K. IfThe Federal Election Commission has cn its table protests by Senate Republican ||ader Howard Baker, Sen. Robert Dole ind Rep. John Anderson, saying the so- called front-runner debate Saturday in Nashua, N.H., would discriminate against ffiem. he complaints, filed Tuesday, are ed at the Nashua Telegraph, which is iponsoring the one-on-one confrontation letween former California Gov. Ronald Reagan and former U.N. Ambassador urge Bush — the two GOP candidates erally believed to be leading in New mpshire. he three members of Congress are barging the newspaper’s expenditure of ney for the debate is discriminatory be cause it advances the candidacies of Bush and Reagan to the detriment of the other contenders. Dole’s Washington office said late Tues day if the EEC turns down the complaint or fails to act soon, he will seek a court injunc tion to block the affair. Common Cause, the national citizens lobby, also oppose the debate and is seek ing to have it canceled. A new CBS-New York Times national poll found Sen. Edward Kennedy’s pres idential campaign in serious trouble. CBS said that while 75 percent of the Democrats contacted in a poll last June said they had a favorable impression of Kennedy, the fi gure fell to 69 percent in November and plunged to 31 percent Tuesday. The president is riding high, CBS said, and the Democrats polled want him nomin ated by a 3-1 margin. On the Republican side, the poll found Ronald Reagan still leading but with George Bush closing the gap. Another poll, this one confined to New Hampshire, showed Carter with 47 per cent to Kennedy’s 29 percent. California Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. had 6 percent, with 17 percent undecided. On the Republican side. Bush — who registered only 10 percent in a similar poll in October, now had 37 percent to Reagan’s 33 percent, Baker’s 10 percent, Anderson’s 5 percent and former Texas Gov. John Con- nally’s 2 percent. Dole and Illinois Rep. Philip Crane each received less than 1 per cent, with 12 percent undecided. In Charleston, S.C., to campaign for the state’s March 8 primary, California busi nessman Benjamin Fernandez said Bush’s campaign in Puerto Rico “probably was the dirtiest political campaign I have seen in 30 years experience in Republican politics.” Connally, rushing via an interstate high way in Massachusetts from one New Hampshire appearance to another, was pulled over by state police and his driver was given a warning for speeding. United Press International BAL HARBOR, Fla. — After a 23-year breakup, the Teamsters Union and the AFL-CIO have started a negotiating pro cess for the 2-million member union to reaffiliate with the federation. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland said Tuesday special committees have been named to begin direct talks on such a move, which would bring the nation’s largest un ion back to the organinzation that expelled it in 1957. At that time, the federation took the ac tion because the Teamsters would not answer questions about corrupt influence over the union. The two immediate past Teamsters’ presidents, James Hoffa and Dave Beck, have served jail terms after holding their Teamsters’ post. Now, in Kirkland’s effort to have a “re gathering of the clan” in the AFL-CIO, he feels that law enforcement authorities, not the union movement, should monitor ethical standards of unions. “I’m satisfied that the Teamsters are a bona fide trade union that has done fine work in representing its members and I am satisfied that it’s in the best interest of the American trade union movement to bring about the consolidation of all of its legiti mate elements,” Kirkland told a news con ference during the mid-winter meeting of the federation’s executive council. Asked if the Teamsters’ ethical standards were not a concern, Kirkland said such jurisdiction belonged to “the constabulary forces of this country.” “There are ample laws which deal with the supervision of trade unions and the conduct of trade union officers far more so than any other element of our society, ” he said. Reaffiliation of the Teamsters would pro vide the federation with a financial boon in an added $4.6 million annually in per capita dues. Kirkland added, the federation also had contacted the United Auto Workers union and the United Mine Workers union about reaffiliation. The UAW bolted from the federation in a dispute between the late AFL-CIO President George Meany and Walter Reuther, who headed the UAW. The UMW left the old CIO during the days of John L. Lewis. Kirkland said no such bid had been made to the National Education Association even though it is the nation’s second largest un ion. He said there were particular difficul ties in NEA affiliation becasue of a jurisdic tional problem with the rival American Federation of Teachers, which is an AFL- CIO member. In other action Tuesday, the council adopted policy statements backing Presi dent Carter’s assertion the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan poses the greatest threat to the free world since World War II, and endorsed Carter’s call for a boycott of the Moscow Olympics. It also suggested if the International Olympic Committee goes ahead with the Moscow games, the United States should consider pulling out of the IOC. New group to battle student alcoholism By MERIL EDWARDS Campus Staff Student Alcoholics Anonymous and Alanon, a new organization at Texas A&M University, met for the first time Tuesday. AA and Alanon are for stu dents with drinking problems and for those who have friends or family mem bers with drinking problems. Dr. George Bates, a biochemistry professor, is the sponsor of the group. “Several students came to me,” Bates said, “and asked if I would help get AA started on campus. They knew I was involved with the A A Brazos Valley Council and figured I was the logical person to get it under way here.” Bates said the Texas A&M adminis tration was responsive and supportive of the formation of AA and Alanon. There were four students at the first meeting. Bates said. AA and Alanon meets in room 145 of the Memorial Stu dent Center every Tuesday and Friday at noon. “AA is founded on Christian princi ples,” Bates said. “It is a spiritual prog ram, but there is no requirement of a belief in God to be able to come. The only requirement is a desire to stop drinking or the desire to help someone else stop.” The first three steps of the 12 steps of AA are 1) We admitted we were power less over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable. 2) We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3) We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. “AA and Alanon are effective because people enjoy them,” Bates said. “Most receive tremendous spirtual growth and a new way of looking at life. They see they are not trading their drinking days for a dull life, but instead getting a great new life.” Bates said AA and Alanon emphasize sharing, that students express common problems and interests and work toward a solution. He said AA is an anonymous organization so no records are kept and students go by first names only. “It’s natural for students to be reluc tant to come,” he said. “Denial is one of the classic symptoms of alcoholism, but I think that AA being on campus will have a real purpose in making students aware of a possible solution. ” Bates said alcohol, as the cause of auto accidents, is the number one killer of college students.