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Donalds ■ ■« -THRU I'ICE The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 119 8 Pages Tuesday, March 18, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 barter is n Illinois ill take place at DeW^jQ VO T*1 f"0 ouse April 11, 12, ^ V/J. M. L ic interested in the* ients or in the TAMC Bj lub should contact La 45-6841) or Richard United Press International 45-3103) CHICAGO — Ronald Reagan and John - Submitted by Riff ffcson ^ere locked in a tossup race and pdent Carter was favored over Sen. Ed- rd Kennedy in today’s Illinois primary t probably won’t eliminate anyone from 't 1980 presidential chase, ilection officials predicted 2.5 million of (state’s 5.7 million eligible voters — a ■ent record — would turn out for what Jsters said would be another big victory the Democratic president and a tough, at BOP race. Hie weather was favorable — a forecast unny skies with temperatures in the 40s populous northern Illinois and into the elsewhere. /oters in both parties had two ballots to il with. Each had a preference vote — a ;auty contest” — and separate ballots for ional convention delegates. The Republicans elect 92 district dele es and will select 10 more at-large later mr i®te convention. Democrats elect 152 Myy t flps by district and will add 27 later Bon the outcome of the statewide Hilar vote. garter went into the primary well ahead Kennedy — 303 to 165 — in the race for 66 Belegates needed to win the Demo tic momination. Before Illinois Reagan 1167, George Bush 45 and Anderson 13 with 998 needed for the GOP nod. • rae latest statewide public opinion poll, wqago Tribune sampling taken Friday I Saturday, showed Carter leading Ken- iy 56 to 23 percent. Reagan had a narrow to 34 percent lead over Anderson in a ne-state battle, while Bush trailed with oerccnt. laner had lost six points from a poll one ekearlier, but those flipped to the unde ed column, not to Kennedy. Because ttois does not register voters by party, ic said this signaled a big crossover to GOP ballot — with Anderson the likely leficiary. feagan had overtaken Anderson in the jlbnd poll, but the difference remained the survey’s 6 percent margin of or. ks big loser was Bush, who had drop- 1 eight points in a week. But he refused Kcede anything, telling a Springfield Bee Monday: The polls are wrong and I need you to out Tuesday to show these hotshot Isters and upstate political pundits y’re wrong. ” s ; ds<> designed foi hedging that, Bush also said Illinois tion ceremony, spori' jild not doom his candidacy— no matter of some of the goiK'at. He treated Anderson’s recent spurt mtaquirk in a strange political year, and March 21 5:30 p.Di | he would press his campaign to the March 21 6:00 p.m ional convention in Detroit in July, y, March 22 12-3piteinedy also was taking out insurance Ht a popular vote loss. He told repor- s Monday, “We are going to make a very ong showing in the delegate area,” Hp> T think we ll do significantly better n that poll.” glpnedy got his largest public exposure ,y March 22 124pf® e campaign Monday, marching in Chi- Jo’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, p estimated 300,000 gave him and his I Joan a generally warm reception as w walked ahead of Mayor Jane Byrne, b has committed to him the once awe- Blbut now divided local Democratic chine. nderson. Come join (he fun! I un r*, {feagan fight or delegates United Press International CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire ipporters of John Anderson say they will )ntest any decision that keeps the Repub- can presidential candidate from taking vo of the state’s delegates to the GOP , ational convention. ! The Illinois congressman recently de- Med and got a recount of New Hamp- ^.lire’s Feb. 26 Republican primary. When ie ballots were retallied, Anderson nished with 9.82 percent of the vote, only 81 votes shy of 10 percent, j ; Secretary of State William Gardner has lid state law prevents him from awarding uy delegates to a candidate who finished ith less than 10 percent. But Executive Councilor Malcolm IcLane, who represents Anderson’s New lampshire campaign, reads the state’s sta- Tuesday, JfcfM a little differently. McLane said Monday one state law in- gucts the secretary of state to round to the ,, , >i; Nearest whole number, ” which in this case Monday, ^-^id be 10 p ercent . Mondajr ,"^ere going to be filing an appeal in a Monday a y or McLane said. But he added he is not sure whether the appeal would be m in Superior Court or with the Ballot Friday, Sat ^ Commission. March 21,$ ^ ^l 16 Anderson camp loses its appeal, Reagan, the big winner in the New lampshire GOP contest, would walk away ith 15 convention delegates. George Ush would end up with five and Howard gK§r, who has since dropped out of the ice, would receive two. ^ If Anderson wins the appeal, he would i jk J ^awarded two delegates, both of them " ^ W | |>ming from Reagan’s total. ” " The Anderson forces had until 5 p.m. (onday to challenge the recount itself, hey didn’t. 7# ■■1 -•V ni Gordon Echols, associate dean of the College of the “ultimate Q-drop.’ Architecture and Environmental Design, performs w!“w | UlM i mu ■ aim | ■■1M1 1 Hill K. • ■ 8 »1J*I | 1111 Staff photo by Lynn Blanco Dean makes last Q-drop biggest of the semester By MERIT EDWARDS Campus Staff To symbolize the “ultimate Q-drop, two senior environmental design stu dents made a plaster of Paris and card board Q and had Gordon Echols, associ ate dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, drop it from the roof of the architecture build ing Monday. Echols tossed the white, two-foot high letter into the wind at 5 p.m. — the deadline for Texas A&M University stu dents to drop a class without penalty. The letter landed on the sidewalk, but didn’t break. The Q designers, David Applebaum and Bruce Walker, yelled to fellow students on the ground to step on it. Only a few students gathered to watch the drop. Applebaum and Walker said they wanted to see Echols make the very last Q-drop of the semester, by hand and not by computer. “We really wanted to do this to have some fun,” Applebaum said. “Since architecture students are finishing ma jor projects or starting new ones, the main signifigance of the drop is to get endurance and start momentum. And also as a gas-off or giggle period for stu dents and teachers.” Applebaum said they hope to drop the symbolic Q every semester. “We thought of doing this because Dean Echols wrote a letter to The Batta lion a couple of years ago, ” Applebaum said, “and said the only reason to Q- drop should be for medical reasons so we thought it would be appropriate for him to make the last one.” Carter’s new guidelines have advisers in hot seat United Press International WASHINGTON — Some members of Congress are having a problem with the budget portion of President Carter’s new anti-inflation program — they don’t know what it is. Carter’s top economic advisers Monday made their first appearances before Con gress since the president announced his package of budget cuts, credit controls, an oil import fee and expanded monitoring of voluntary wage and price guidelines. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was to be on the firing line before the Sen ate Banking Committee today. At hearings before the banking panel and te Joint Economic Committee, chief infla tion fighter Alfred Kahn and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultz came under heavy questioning ab out the delay in the budget proposals. Carter plans to cut the 1981 budget by about $13 billion in an effort to balance it, but he has not revealed where the cuts will be made. That list is expected to be sent to Congress by the end of the month — after the March 25 New York primary. Sen. Adlai Stevenson, D-Ill., said, “I continue to support the president’s efforts, but it’s difficult to support cuts before you know what they are.” Stevenson was the only senator at the banking committee hearing with kind words for the Carter program. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., the chairman, said if Carter intentionally de layed his budget announcement for politic al reasons, it would be “unforgivable and wrong.” He asked Kahn, “Why don’t you tell us so we can go to work?” Kahn answered, “I’m not privy to politic al decisions. I think people don’t trust me. ’’ But speaking hypothetically, he said, “I think politically it would be worse to inten tionally delay releasing” the budget deci sions. At the Joint Economic Committee hear ing, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., criticized the administration for not moving ahead fast enough after Carter’s announcement Friday. He asked Shultz to say exactly when the revised budget would be ready. Shultz said he couldn’t say exactly, but that budget chief James McIntyre was “making the final decisions on the line items.” A White House spokesman said Carter himself was involved in making the tough decisions on where to slash the budget. Carter told a congressional conference of the National League of Cities Monday his proposed budget cuts are crucial to halting a skyrocketing inflation that “threatens to rage out of control.” He called the anti-inflation program “bit ter medicine” that must be shared by all sectors and said he will consider possible tax cuts once it is certain the 1981 budget will be balanced. In the House, Speaker Thomas O’Neill said Congress will move ahead with its own budget cuts, indicating that Carter’s list will be secondary to the list made up by Democratic leaders... Also Monday, House budget staffers put the finishing touches on recommendations to be made Wednesday by Budget Com mittee Chairman Robert Giaimo, D-Conn. The panel will begin writing the budget without Carter’s detailed proposal and apparently will try to make substantially more reductions than the president prop osed. U. S. to plead case against Iran again United Press International President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr has announced plans to reorganize Iran’s army in an attempt to further consolidate his power, but his opponents took an early lead in election returns for Iran’s parliament. At the same time, the United States re turns to the International Court of Justice in the Hague to press its case against Iran for backing the militants in the holding of 50 American hostages at the occupied U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The hostages are in their 136tb day in captivity. Bani-Sadr went on radio to announce his plans for a reorganization of the army, known to be poorly disciplined since tbe dismantling of the shah’s forces and execu tion of generals following the revolution last year. But at the same time, his opponents in the Islamic Republican Party took a strong lead in scattered returns in the election to the 270-member parliament, the Majlis. The Islamic party is made up of ayatollahs and clerics who generally take a harder line than Bani-Sadr on dealing with the West. Tehran Radio, monitored in London, said Bani-Sadr called the army’s organiza tion an “urgent issue” and warned breaches of discipline would now be “dealt with severely.” The move was seen as an attempt by the president, who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, to have at his disposal an armed force more disciplined and answer- able to authorities than the present Revolu tionary Guards. Bani-Sadr said if any individuals in milit ary uniform form a gathering in the streets this will be regarded as “an act of insubordi- Ford, survivors settle Texas case United Press International AUSTIN — Ford Motor Co., cleared last week of responsibility for the fiery deaths of three people riding in a Pinto, has closed a similar Texas case with out-of-court settle ments variously described as “substantial” and “not large.” Attorneys for the three Texas victims, killed on Jan. 20, 1979, when their 1972 Pinto was rearended and burst into flames, revealed Monday that the settlement had been reached without going to trial. No criminal charges had been filed against the automobile manufacturer in the deaths. Damage awards went to the survivors of Josephine G. Maldonado, 53, of Del Valle and two passengers in her car, Miguel Mireles, 18, and Juan Urbina, 30, of Au stin, and to another passenger who was severely burned in the crash. The driver of the other vehicle was charged with drunk driving and sent to prison. Ford Motor Co. was accused of reckless homicide in a landmark case prompted by the deaths of three Winimac, Ill., teen agers. A jury there last week acquitted the corporation. Lawyers involved in the Texas case said the damage suits were hampered by ques tions about whether some of the victims were dead before the car burst into flames. Don Davis, attorney for the two dead passengers and the one who was burned, said he reached a settlement for a “substan tial amount of money” but that the agree ment with Ford stipulated the dollar amount would not be disclosed. Mack Kidd, attorney for the driver of the Pinto, said Mrs. Maldonado s six children did not want him to divulge the amount paid for her death. He called it “not a large sum of money,” and other sources indi cated the Maldonado suit was settled for $10,000. United Press International WEST LIBERTY, Iowa — Dan Ehl, who describes himself as one of the “hip pies from the ‘60s,” has Muscatine County in a stir over his race for sheriff. Consider some of his pronouncements: —’’The only difference between the police force and the Boy Scouts is the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.” —’’Police officers should all wear buttons saying, ‘Hi, I’m a member of the West Liberty police force. If I am lost, please call the mayor.’” —”1 regularly offend the police. I’ve heard a rumor that if they ever see me walking across the street, and there’s no witnesses. . .” Still, the bearded, long-haired 29-year- old has his admirers among the upright folk in his eastern Iowa County. “There’s days when I listen to the little bastard, and look at the overall situation, and he’s almost got me convinced,” said Norm Singleton, area editor of the Musca tine Journal. Efil is involved in a five-man race for the office of Sheriff Richard Oppelt, a 20-year incumbent who is taking his political licks for allegedly being hard to reach, un cooperative with other law officers and re sponsible for two wrecked patrol cars in the last few months. A satirical columnist for the West Liber ty Index, Ehl regularly takes on the Musca tine County establishment. The column, composed mostly of bon mots, flights of fancy and good-natured jibes, occasionally has raised the hackles of certain citizens. “I could almost be called anachronistic; I believe in flower power,” Ehl said. “There’s a lot of us hippies from the ‘60s just biding our time. “Once I got a letter that said, ‘You ought to be ashamed, you ought to be afraid to go down the alley at night.’ Unsigned, or course. So in my column I said I had hired a handwriting analyst, and he had deter mined the letter writer was genetically de ficient and should write back right away. Among his qualifications for sheriff, Ehl lists his expertise with a BB gun as a child and his ownership of a police dog. Turning serious, though, he proposes adding at least one Hispanic to the police force be cause of the large number of migrant work ers who have settled in Muscatine County. “I’m for the people who have traditional ly not been represented — the normal, average man,” Ehl said. “I’d much rather see an image of police helping people, in stead of arresting people. Law enforcement is like an aspirin covering up the symptoms of a cold; it’s our system that creates crimin als.” Asked about Ehl’s electoral chances, his publisher, Jerry Westra, chortled: “Have you ever heard of an ice cube in Hell?” $5,000 offered for bank bandit United Press International HOUSTON — Police today sought the bandit who fatally shot a 21-year-old woman teller in robbing a bank of an estimated $10,000. Madeline Rae Peters was shot in the head shortly after 11 a. m. Monday and died about an hour and 30 minutes later. Witnesses said a man walked into the Bank of Almeda, disarmed a security guard and took money from each teller except Peters. Peters was on the telephone and, when the bandit reached her window, he told her to hang up, she said “What?” and he shot her, witnesses said. Friends said Peters, known as “Smiley,” had selected a dress Sunday for her August wedding. The Houston Clearing House Asso ciation, which exchanges checks and securities between banks, offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. offi nation or a plot. ” Bani-Sadr has favored finding a solution to the hostage crisis, now in its 20th week, but Iran’s strongman, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has ruled their fate will be up to Iran’s parliament, not expected to convene until May. The president, who received over 70 percent of the vote in the January election to the presidency, has charged the par liamentary elections were marred by fraud and may have to be staged again in places where the allegations proved true. His attempts at organizing a slate of candidates fell far short of the organization shown by the Islamic Party. Results from the first phase of the elec tions, held last Friday, still trickled in but the final outcome was not expected for two weeks. A run-off will be held for seats where no candidate received a majority vote. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, in an interview aired on QBS News Mon day night, said: “I think we are closer to the resolution of the problem” of gaining the release of the Americans. But he added, “It’s unwise to calculate and predict be cause most of the time predictions and mis calculations have destroyed the whole pro cess.” A U.S. Embassy spokesman in the Hague said today’s hearing in the Interna tional Court of Justice on the United States’ case against Iran was the “beginning of the actual case.” Last December, the court ruled Iran violated international law by condoning the seizure of the U.S. Embassy and the taking of its diplomatic personnel hostage. al i 5-4 >ciat >okii i oftl ha' irouc ranc ideli e nt enc< enti, I mol: me f. Flower power sours candidate’s foes