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Joe Holmes, a chemical engineering major at Texes
A&M University, nears the top during the Forestry
Club’s pole climbing contest held last weekend. The
^winners of the the contest will represent Texas A&M
at the Annual Forest Conclave in Blacksberg, Va.,
during the final weekend in March.
Staff photo by Steve Clark
Plant closes; A&M stuck
with radioactive material
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Low-level radioactive waste is piling up
at Texas A&M University because the com
pany with the contract to dispose of it has
decided to close its reprocessing plant.
Several 55-gallon drums of the waste
have been deposited in an area near the
Nuclear Science Center close to Easter-
wood Airport.
The Todd Research and Technical Divi
sion, which had the school’s contract,
announced the closing of its waste repro
cessing center earlier this month after an
accident in which 11 workers were exposed
to radiation.
arter, Reagan come out
on top in New Hampshire
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president Carter scored his third and
burth straight victories over Sen. Edward
(ennedy without leaving the White House
Tuesday, and Ronald Reagan pushed a re-
Kim campaign to the front of the Republi-
an field again.
irecord turnout of New Hampshire vo-
ers in the first state primary of the 1980
presidential campaign dealt Kennedy a
f econd consecutive loss in his own New
* ingland and gave Reagan his first notable
dn of the year over George Bush.
New Hampshire offered the candidates
In 22 Republican and 19 Democratic na-
VRK MED0F1 ional convention delegates, but as it has
,q fefore, the state’s early primary became a
2.0 f 2o f l aajor battlefield for the presidential hope-
d March 1 ^ of both parties.
Reagan, as had been expected, also led
j;, ^ lush and the GOP field in a straw vote
been at the Minnesota precinct caucuses,
ES step in the complicated process by
s: MSC Box Off© 'hich 34 Republican and 75 Democratic
r at the Door degates will be chosen for this summer’s
ational conventions.
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Department of En;!!' democratic caucuses in Minnesota, home
Texas A&M Univeis ate of Vice President Walter Mondale.
Carter’s solid New Hampshire win was
I 'recast in preprimary surveys, but Reagan
Unfounded the pollsters and whacked
ush — reviving what still is a limping and
drt-plagued campaign and slowing the
momentum Bush built in Iowa and Puerto
Rico.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. of California
ran third in the Democratic primary; Sen.
Howard Baker of Tennessee, Reps. John
Anderson and Philip Crane of Illinois, for
mer Gov. John Connally of Texas and Sen.
Bob Dole of Kansas brought up the GOP
field.
With 100 percent of the New Hampshire
vote counted, the Democratic tally
showed: Carter 53,586 or 49 percent; Ken
nedy 41,540 or 38 percent; Brown 10,727
or 10 percent.
Final Republican total were: Reagan
72,734 or 50 percent; Bush 33,304 or 23
percent; Baker 18,760 or 13 percent;
Anderson 14,622 or 10 percent; Crane
2,633 or 2 percent; Connally 2,215 or 2
percent; Dole 608 — less than 1 percent.
Former President Gerald Ford got 380
write-in votes.
Carter got 10 delegates, Kennedy nine.
The GOP breakdown was Reagan 13, Bush
5, Baker and Anderson 2 each.
The total delegate count to date now is 21
for Carter and 19 for Kennedy; 22 each for
Reagan and Bush, six for Baker, two for
Anderson and one for Connally.
Carter now has caucus victories over
Kennedy in Iowa and Maine and the prim
ary in New Hampshire. Primaries in Mas
sachusetts and Vermont Tuesday end the
opening phase of the campaign, followed
State health officials said the center’s offi
cials failed to report the occurrence.
License holders of reprocessing centers are
required to notify the state of major acci
dents within 24 hours.
The center’s job was to degrade the
waste and take it to permanent disposal
sites for low-level radiation. Those sites are
in Washington, South Carolina and
Nevada.
Dr. Richard Neff, director of the campus
Radiological Safety Office, said the Univer
sity has been trying to figure out what to do
with its waste since the company made its
announcement.
He said there are between 150 and 200
labs on campus that use radioactive mate
rials.
It will probably take between two weeks
and a month to find a new company to take
the materials, Neff said. He said his office is
required to take written bids for the job.
The low-level wastes that Texas A&M
generates are of three kinds, Neff told The
Battalion in an interview last fall.
These are the paper, glass, and gloves
used in work with radioactive materials;
organic scintillator fluid, which is used as a
tracer in chemical reactions and in animal
bodies; and the bodies of animals which
were used in labs or otherwise received
doses of radiation.
SG campaigns, elections
set for March and April
By CHARLIE MUSTACHIA
Campus Reporter
In a few weeks, campaign signs will be
seen all over campus and eager candidates
will be persuading fellow students to vote
in their favor.
Campus elections will be held April 1-2.
Sign-up dates for candidates are March 4-7
and March 17.
Bruce Russell, election commissioner,
said students running for student body
president must have a 2.50 overall grade
point ratio. Those running for senate posi
tions must have a 2.25 GPR, and other
positions require a 2.00.
Yell leaders, student body president, the
five vice presidents, student senators, class
officers, RHA representatives, Off-
Campus Aggie representatives and gradu
ate student council representatives will be
elected.
There has been a change in the campaign
expenditures allowed to students running
for offices this year, said Paul Bettencourt,
student vice president of rules and regula
tions.
Candidates, who must finance their own
campaigns, will be required to list accurate
local retail values instead of estimated
values of their campaign expenditures,
Bettencourt said.
Because of the policy change, he said, all
students will start the election with the
same chances.
If a candidate is given campaign tools
such as wood or paper, he must account for
it in his expenditure report, Bettencourt
said.
“In the past, candidates have grossly
overspent,’’ he said. “They would overesti
mate everything.”
U.N. panel meets with
victims of shah’s regime
by a series of Southern primaries in early
March.
Primary day was politically hectic in New
Hampshire even before the votes were
counted.
Brown announced he was skipping the
primaries in March to concentrate on the
April 1 test in Wisconsin. Dole said he was
putting his campaign “on hold.” And
Reagan shocked everybody by sacking his
top campaign staff, including John Sears,
the man who almost guided him to victory
in 1976.
Reagan said the changes were made to
save money — one aide said the campaign
was $600,000 in debt — and to emphasize
personal contact with voters.
It was hard to say whether the post
debate deluge of criticism from other Re
publicans ruined Bush’s chances, but if the
polls were right he lost about a dozen per
centage points in the last days of the cam
paign. Bush said the flap “clearly hurt me,
but I can’t blame the entire loss on it. ”
Carter, sticking to a no-campaign policy
while U.S. hostages are held in Iran, won
with surrogates — the first lady and the
vice president leading the way — and a
campaign that parlayed national unity and
warm friends made in 1976.
Carter said he was “very pleased” and
considered the vote an endorsement of his
policies.
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The United Nations commission’s study
of Iran’s grievances has brought it face-to-
face with Iranians allegedly tortured and
disfigured by the ousted shah’s secret
police. A panel spokeman reported the in
vestigation is proceeding “satisfactorily,”
but Iran’s foreign minister termed it slow.
Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
briefed the ruling Revolutionary Council
on the work of the U.N. panel Tuesday and
at the end of the meeting he said: “The
Iranian nation will never give up its de
mand for the extradition of the deposed
‘Bullet Bob’
to be released
from jail today
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HUNTSVILLE, — Former Dallas Cow
boys all-pro receiver Bob Hayes, who has
spent most of the past year in prison on a
drug conviction, will return to Dallas and
take up a variety of business and charity
projects, his attorney says.
Hayes is scheduled, in the words of
Texas Department of Corrections officials,
to “return to society” today, 321 days after
he arrived to serve a five-year sentence for
delivery of a controlled substance —
cocaine.
Hayes’ attorney, Phil Burleson of Dallas,
said the 1964 Summer Olympics gold med
alist has had several business offers in Dal
las, and has also been approached about a
position with a state agency, which Burle
son declined to name.
Soviet planes
radio congrats
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WASHINGTON — Two Soviet re
connaissance planes astonished the
American naval armada in the Arabian
Sea by radioing congratulations for the
U.S. hockey victory at the winter Olym
pics.
When the two Soviet planes '
approached the aircraft carrier USS
Coral Sea Monday, the flattop launched
an A-7 intercepter plane, according to
usual practice, to escort them out of the
area.
The pilot of the A-7 reported he could
see the Soviet crews making hand sig
nals to listen in to an international radio
frequency, defense officials said Tues
day. When the pilot tuned in, he heard
the Soviet crews congratulating the Un
ited States on the Olympic victory at
Lake Placid.
Defense officials said sailors of
another American aircraft carrier, USS
Nimitz, also made fleeting radio contact
with a Soviet spy ship about the U.S.
hockey team.
shah.”
He also told the Revolutionary Council
the commission’s work was moving “slow
ly,” Radio Tehran reported in a broadcast
monitored by the British Broadcasting
Company in London.
Despite Ghotbzadeh’s statement,
French radio stations reported “a further
thawing of relations” between Tehran and
the United States with the announcement
by Iranian authorities they will re-admit
American reporters.
The Islamic revolutionary regime ousted
U.S. journalists in January because it
claimed the Americans’ reporting was dis
torted and “malicious. ’’ But the ruling body
said it would now re-admit those who can
convince the government of “their impar
tiality’’ in past coverage.
The Radio Tehran report said without
explanation “Panama had said if Iran prom
ises not to execute the shah, it will hand
him over” and said Gotbzadeh responded:
“Punishments worse than execution
could be carried out against the former
shah.”
There was no clarification in the radio
report on when Panama made such a state
ment. The shah has been living since De
cember on Contadora Island in Panama.
Ghotbzadeh also repeated Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini’s statement the yet-to-
be elected Parliament must order the re
lease of the hostages, who were in their
116th day of captivity today. Such an action
would delay the release at least until April.
In a telephone interview from London to
Tehran, the spokesman for the U.N. Com
mission, Samir Sanbar, said the five inter
national jurists spent most of the day in the
Iranian capital meeting with people who
claimed they were tortured by Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s secret police,
SAVAK.
“Over 140 victims of physical abuse
appeared before the commission,” Sanbar
said. “The commission took careful note of
the particulars of every case and observed
the marks of mutilation.
“This was an occasion for the commission
to examine in dramatically live terms the
plight of those involved.’ he said. “The
grievances of the victims were properly re
corded.”
Board won’t hear
appeal for old job
By CAROL THOMAS
Campus Reporter
The Student Publications Board
Tuesday decided not to hear the appeal
of a former Battalion staff member
attempting to get back his job.
Tony Gallucci, sports editor for The
Battalion until two weeks ago, believes
he was fired unjustly by editor Roy
Bragg.
Bragg requested that the board refuse
to hear Gallucci on the grounds that it
did not have the jurisdiction to decide
the matter. The hoard’s by-laws allow
for appointment of the editor, who has
complete editorial authority, including
personnel decisions.
Five board members voted that the
board did not have the jurisdiction to
hear Gallucci and one board member,
Ronnie Kapavik, student body presi
dent, abstained. Board member Dr.
Robert Barzak was not present. Student
board member Bonnie Helwig was also
absent, but her alternate, Deborah
Walker, voted in her place.
Gallucci said prior to the meeting that
appealing to the board was the only way
he knew to get his job back.
“My job was taken away from me un
fairly, and what other recourse do I
have?” Gallucci said.
Bragg said the major reason for firing
Gallucci was that he did not follow in
structions.
“Tony, in some instances, could not
and would not meet the standard for
sports editor,” Bragg said.
Bragg said Gallucci sometimes mis
sed deadlines and also refused to have
the copy editor edit his copy, which is
Battalion policy.
Gallucci said he had planned to re
spond to Bragg’s accusations at the
Board meeting.
“I’ve never had any problems with
the staff before, ” said Gallucci, who has
worked for The Battalion in the past.
After the board refused to hear his
present case, Bob Rogers, head of the
department of communications and
chairman of the Publications Board, said
the only way Gallucci could get his job
back would be to file charges against
Bragg.
“If the board was faced with a com
plaint about the competency of the edi
tor, that would be a different situation, ”
Rogers said.
The by-laws of the Student Publica
tions Board state the board “shall have
the authority to suspend student edi
tors, altough editorial opinions express
ed and the content of publications shall
not in themselves be grounds for sus
pension.”
Rogers said it would be possible to
remove Bragg from the editorship if the
board decided the charges were valid.
“However, if you brought charges
against the editor and he was removed
by the board, the decision for your rein
statement would still be up to the new
editor,” Rogers said.
“I think it’s obvious that reinstate
ment would mean bringing charges
against the editor,” Gallucci said. “I’ll
see you at the next meeting.”