Randall, 18, to meet the state re- six months after they are hired. it 0 (l The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 122 8 Pages Friday, March 21, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 oore declines to appear with Caperton Senator says ‘no’ to local invitation and to debate challenge ;et cuts ^better’ than 'll., n . • n 3 . Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. “We must get inflation under control. It the bigger threat to poor people and it ^^K’Please see ‘budget’ on page 7 (l 0 3 3 gay 1 4 (I hreatens the whole agenda if you don’t leal with it,” he said. The official was responding to questions oncerning Carter’s forthcoming budget uts that are expected to sharply reduce aid o the cities, youth employment and other lBf|n rehabilitation programs, pou will get a dismantling of those prog ams and a casting aside of the whole agen- la” if inflation persists, the official said. The official also said “unless the Demo- xatic Party gives evidence it is concerned |vith how tax dollars are spent, it is going to indermine a national consensus.” Press secretary Jody Powell told repor- ers Thursday he did not know “if any prog am would be a complete casualty.” As to why Carter did not slash defense pending in the anti-inflation process, 3 owcll replied, “The security of our coun- ryhas to be the president’s No. 1 priority.” ®DOE sets state goals ^for gas use United Press International ’ WASHINGTON — The Energy Depart- 9 meat Thursday announced the voluntary gasoline-saving targets it wants states to .meet this spring, ranging from 2.8 million ^ gallons for California to 45,746 for Alaska. The department hopes Texans will save 2.1 billion gallons. The targets are designed to achieve Pres et ident Carter’s goal of holding American 3 gasoline use down to a daily average of 7 million barrels this year. I Carter announced his goal last week as part of the inflation control package. The na h° na l target is 400,000 barrels a day less than average 1979 use — a 5.5 percent saving. Hip current conservation trends persist, In goal should be met easily. Recent statis- u/ tics have shown weekly declines in gasoline 0 consumption of about 8 percent. : Although the state targets are voluntary. Carter has said he might make them man- datory if there is a supply shortage and he already has power to take such a step. In the Southwest, Arkansas’ goal was set O at 320 million gallons; Colorado, 377 mil lion; Louisiana, 519 million. New Mexico, 200 million; Oklahoma, 480 million; and 0 Wyoming, 96.1 million. Energy Department officials said the targets were developed in close coopera- ^ tion with state officials and were based on gasoline tax data that states gave the Feder al Highway Administration. Interim targets announced last Decem ber for the first quarter of the year trig- gejed protests and charges of inaccuracy from many states. The new goals are for the second quarter of 1980. By LAURA CORTEZ City Staff State Sen. William T. “Bill” Moore and his opponent Kent Caperton have been in vited to participate in a local “Meet the Candidates” program, but it looks as though Caperton will be the only candidate on hand. The Bryan-College Station Legal Secre taries Association is sponsoring the event, which will take place Tuesday at 6 p.m. Jerry McLennan, a member of the asso ciation, said that Caperton has accepted the invitation, but Moore has not responded. Ann Harris, who handles Moore’s sche dule, said that no invitation for the program had been received, and that Moore would not be able to attend because he already has an engagement on that date. But McLennan said that a letter concern ing the event had been sent to Moore’s law office in Bryan Feb. 21, and that a repre sentative of the association had talked with Moore’s campaign chairman and one of his campaign secretaries, Leah Davis, in January. Davis said she remembers being notified about the program, but that it was too far in advance to make any plans. She added that Moore’s campaign staff did not receive a written invitation, and they hesitate to accept engagements for which they do not have one. McLennan said the program will go on as scheduled, “regardless of who shows up.” She said that if Moore cannot make it and chooses to send a representative instead, that would be fine, but if no one shows up to represent the senator, then Caperton will be the only candidate who will speak. The program will not be a debate, McLennan said. Each candidate will be given 15 minutes to talk about whatever he wishes, and then members of the audience will be invited to ask questions. Moore recently refused a challenge by Caperton to debate, and his spokesman, Jack Bowen, explained why. “Senator Moore is traveling all through this district discussing the issues with the people. He is running his campaign, and the opposition can run their type of cam paign. There will be no debate. The call for debate is a typical ploy among candidates that are losing campaigns and want to gain name identity. Senator Moore will con tinue to travel the district and discuss the issues one on one with his constituents, and will not engage in mudslinging of any sort regardless of what his opponent does.” Caperton’s response to Moore’s refusal to debate is to hold a series of five press conferences throughout the district to dis Spring has sprung This robin was playing his role as the herald of was officially the first day of spring. spring on the Texas A&M campus Thursday, which staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper jr. Sartre still hospitalized cuss the issues he views as most important. “I believe the people of this district have a right to expect a free discussion of the major issues of this campaign. And since Mr. Moore refuses to discuss these issues in an open forum, I will take the issues to the public in a different way,” Caperton said. The first of his series of press conferences was held Wednesday in Conroe concerning education, which he referred to as “the single most important service that state government provides its citizens.” He said that school finance needs must be taken care of before limited tax dollars are spent on less urgent programs. He said there are many problems with the education system in Texas, such as in adequate state funding, insufficient educa tor salaries and burdensome local property taxes. He said that if spending was reduced in other areas, more money could be directed toward education. “We’ve simply taken a band-aid approach to a situation that needs major surgery.” Sen. Bill Moore Three arrested in Alamo assault United Press international SAN ANTONIO — It was 145 years ago this month that a vastly outnumbered group of colonists and soldiers died defend ing the Alamo against a Mexican army. To day the city jail holds three self-styled re volutionaries repelled in their own blood less assault on Texas’ most revered shrine. The two men and one woman, members of the “Revolutionary May Day Brigade,” were charged late Thursday with desecrat ing a venerated object — the flag — for their 30-minute siege in which they tore down the American and Texas flags and shouted slogans from atop the “hated monument to slavery.” They said the communist-affiliated “bri gade” was traveling the country for a three- month period on behalf of the Revolution ary May Day Committee, drumming up support for May 1 demonstrations when the streets nationwide “would be flaming. ” The trio had scrambled up the walls of the historic mission Thursday afternoon, showering obscenities and leaflets on an angry crowd of 200 that exhorted police to “get ‘em down.” After a tense standoff in which armed police hovered overhead in a helicopter and watched from nearby rooftops, fearing at first that the three were armed, officers used ladders to climb the back walls of Alamo, handcuffed the trio and led them down to the ground. “You better taken them away,” one onlooker shouted. “You better not let us get ahold of them. ” The American and Texas flags quickly were run back up the flagpoles flanking the facade of the 226-year-old monument as the three were taken away. At least four other people joined in the chanting and argued with members of the crowd, and three of them later were arrested for disorderly conduct. “Today the Texas Revolutionary May Day Brigade has scaled the walls of the Alamo — hated monument to slavery, the U.S. plunder of Mexico and vicious oppres sion of the Chicano people,” the leaflets said, “And from its roof, raised the red flag and banner reading: Down with the capit alist system and the exploitation, national oppression and inequality it thrives on. ” Earlier this week in Beckley, W.Va., 18 “brigaders” were arrested for waving red flags outside the courthouse in a demon stration that ended with fistfights involving hundreds of townspeople, including women armed with umbrellas. Two other people were arrested earlier this month in Birmingham, Ala., after briefly occupying a 120,000 pound statue of the mythological god Vulcan. Charged for taking down the flags and jailed on $1,000 bond each were Abigail B. Bayer, 33, of Houston; Hayden Steele Fisher, 30, of Houston; and Damian Garcia, 30, no address given. Arrested for disorderly conduct and re leased on $200 bond each were William Grant Chavez, 33, of San Jose, Calif.; James Daniel Callahan, 21, of Oakland, Calif.; and Cary Patrick Clements, 21, of Westminster, Calif. Callahan said the three who scaled the Alamo walls told him they were threatened by a police officer who said he wanted to toss them off the steep stone walls. “One cop said ‘This country’s fallen to pieces. We should have blown you off the wall, ” Callahan said. “The guy said ‘We ought to tie the flags around your necks and throw you off. I’m going to get all of your addresses and go to your homes and shoot every one of you, and don’t think I’m kid ding either. ’” Another officer, Callahan claimed, told them “This puts you on the level of the Iranians — the lowest form of life.” “We re proud to be on the level of the Iranians in their struggle,” Callahan said. The Battle of the Alamo, which began Feb. 23, 1835, and ended 13 days later with the deaths of all 187 men inside, gave Tex ans time to prepare for other battles and provided the rallying cry “Remember the Alamo.” Federal bank supports co-ops United Press International PARIS — Jean-Paul Sartre’s health is improving, but the 74-year-old philo sopher will undergo several more days of treatment in a hospital for a lung ailment, aides said today. Sartre, who was stricken at his home on Thursday, spent a good night at Broussais Hospital where doctors were treating him for pulmonary edema and high blood press ure. He had a long talk Thursday evening with friends and his adopted daughter, Arlette El Kaim, his aides said. A close friend of Sartre said the play wright, novelist and philosopher had diffi culty breathing Thursday and was hospital ized as a “precautionary” measure. His condition improved witb emergency oxygen treatment. At his family’s request, the hospital declined to issue official re ports on his condition. The government radio said Sartre was stricken with pulmonary edema, which affects people suffering from hypertension and a weak heart. Symptoms include filling of the lungs and continuous coughing. Sartre, who was known to use ampheta mines while writing, popularized the prin ciples of existentialism, which holds that man is a responsible being adrift in a mean ingless universe. A prolific writer, Sartre produced plays. novels and film scripts, as well as philo sophical treatises. He rejected the Nobel Prize for Litera ture when it was offered to him in 1964, as well as other literary honors. He also refused to accept the French Legion of Honor for his World War II re sistance activity and spurned membership in the Communist Party despite his Marxist views. Among his best known works are “Nausea,” published in 1938, “The Wall” in 1939, “Being and Nothingness” in 1943, and “No Exit.” United Press International WASHINGTON — A new bank opening its doors today was created by Congress to lend consumers $300 million to form cooperatives that will repair cars, buy food, find housing and fight the high cost of living. Carol Greenwald, president of the Na tional Consumer Cooperative Bank, said the institution “will aggressively plan how to make cooperatives a significant alterna tive for the consumers of this country.” The bank, she predicted, will be “taking the consumer movement forward by a quantum leap.” The bank was authorized in a law signed by President Carter in August 1978. Backers of the bank had contended, and Congress agreed, the growth of co-ops had been hindered by their lack of financial and technical assistance. In addition to providing loans to coopera tives at prevailing interest rates, the bank will offer advances and technical assistance to help people organize co-ops. It is autho rized to invest up to $300 million in co-ops during the next five years, and can borrow up to $3 billion from other capital sources. It has $37 million earmarked for loans the first year and was to begin accepting appli cations as soon as the doors opened at noon (EST). Under the terms of its charter, the loan money will be repaid to the Treasury and the bank eventually will be owned by the cooperatives themselves. Miss Greenwald said the bank “will help consumers organize in those segments of the economy that are hurting consumers, in areas like home repair, auto repair, food services and areas of health care. We will look at those groups in society who are suffering most — the elderly, low-income people, inner city residents, and families. “We can set standards for the economy. If we will it, it is no dream,” she said. The bank estimates one of every three Americans already belongs to a co-op, rang ing from credit unions and rural electric co-ops to health care associations. A consumer co-op is technically defined as a business owned by its customers on a non-profit basis. Each member has one vote in its operation and management and any profits are returned to members as re funds, discounts or other relief from stan dard prices.