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Vol. 73 No. 122
8 Pages
Friday, March 21, 1980
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WASHINGTON — President Carter’s
)al of a balanced budget may result in the
ismantling of some of the New Deal and
real Society programs, but “the bigger
ireat to poor people is inflation,” says a top
/hite House official.
“We’re always trying to do a better job
iththe programs in existence,” the official
ud. “We have not abandoned the goals of
ui social programs’ of Presidents Franklin
l>. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
“We must get inflation under control. It
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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.