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kil F m All stud for the these v\ the act dures f in 4 p.n REQU k: * • • • • • « • f •••« * • •«« Slouch by Jim Earle Viewpoint ‘Last week? You mean we were supposed to come back last week?” Opinion Khomeini reneged on deal For the second time Ayatollah Khomeini has doublecros- sed President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and made them look foolish and naive. Waldheim, with Carter’s approval, made a “gentleman’s agreement (that) Waldheim’s handpicked commission would go to Tehran and write a report critical of the deposed shah and the United States in return for the release of the 53 American hostages. An old-world diplomat, Waldheim soon learned he was negotiating not with gentlemen but bazaar hagglers. Once the commission was at work digging up anti-American prop aganda, Khomeini reneged, decreeing that the prisoners could be freed only by parliament, not yet elected. Another part of the deal was the commission was to visit all the hostages to determine their condition — that part of the bargain has also been welshed on. Khomeini, who had added blackmail to his other talents, even dreamed up a new outrage: the commission must publish its report before it can meet the hostages. In other words, if its findings aren’t anti-shah and anti-American enough, the captives might suffer. The Carter-Waldheim move to appease Khomeini has degenerated into farce. Before the United States and United Nations lose any more dignity, Waldheim should forbid the commission to publish any of its pro-Iranian report. True, that will not resolve the hostage situation, but it will show the world that even a commission slanted in Iran’s favor couldn’t deal with the crazies there. Scripps-Howard Newspapers small society by Brickman 13? WANT A Ff^P^fZfTY OH ^'/&(ZNa a PNTAL Ct9H~T&3L £>£ R? 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TX 77S43 Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editor or of the writer of the article and are not necessarily those of the University administration or the Board of Regents. The Battalion is a non-profit, self- supporting enterprise operated hy students as a university and community newspaper. Editorial policy is determined hy the editor. The Battalion Monday Texas A&M University March 24, 1980 By JA Political free-for-all overshadow presidential primaries in Illinois Camp | Some usual! Student Centei lored with cu xth annual I onsored by tl lent Associatioi The ISA, whi e organizatior bnal clubs am jA&M Universit By ARNOLD SAWISLAK United Press International CHICAGO — There is a saying that “all politics is local. ” If you want to know what that means in its fullest sense, come to Chicago when an election is coming and the partisan blood is up in the Second City. A touch of background. As the politicoes had it figured out last fall, Illinois was going to decide who was going to get the De mocratic presidential nomination in 1980. The way it was supposed to go was that Ted Kennedy would sweep New England, Jimmy Carter would lock up the southern primaries and Illinois would be the neutral ground on which the Battle of Hastings for this political year would be fought. That isn’t quite the way it happened, but even so Illinois retained enough interest so that it could at least been called "impor tant” if not “crucial. Until the national news media arrived and found out what it really was all about. As it turned out, nobody here really was that interested in who was going to be elected Leader of the Free World in 1980. What Chicago wanted to know was who was going to be the Cook County state’s attorney. More background. When Jane Byrne beat the Democratic machine’s candidate for mayor last year, she also assumed that the political prerequisites of the job, as defined by the late Richard J. Daley, came with it. For Daley, that sometimes included de ciding who was going to run for president, but it always meant deciding who was going to run for clerk of court and state’s attorney. So Mrs. Byrne plunged into national politics, teasing Carter but endorsing Ken nedy. Her not completely graceful per formance caused some grumbling in the ranks and some clumsy talk from Washing ton about cutting off federal largess. But she really dared the lightning by sponsoring an alderman named Ed Burke to run for state’s attorney against Richard M. Daley, son of “da mare. ” Civil war en sued. By the weekend before the primary, it was clear Mayor Byrne not only had a prob lem, but in fact was a large part of it. Both Kennedy and Burke were far behind in the polls, causing fear and trepidation in the ranks of the Chicago precinct captains at the thought that the city might defy the mayor. Mrs. Byrne did not seem to be relating to what was happening. She was going around denouncing Carter in terms that would make Ronald Reagan blanch and declaring airily that as always she would support the presidential candidate of her party. Burke, by this time, was pleading with people not to vote against him just because they hated the mayor. Kennedy, alter per suading the mayor that it was not good form to sav the president of the United States B-al assembly could not march in her St. Patritlfe unc il are chai parade because he was "English, I United Nations convenient to spend part of the #sfe pi S pl a y S p re campaigning in Connecticut. L )m 19 interna He returned for the big parade.individuals rep much of which he somehow manajeW separated from Mrs. Byrne, Rieyadh Chu foblems of im, attracting what are called cheersonl; |f the Internati Bronx. laf/on said the. When the returns came in, Edpreen the ISA went belly up and Mrs. Byrne,a« her press secretary (who also is l hand), "ain’t turning cartwheels. ”P| Kennedy was swamped. None of this confused ( had outlanders bewildered. Two? British reporters cameintoah asked their American counterpartsll an argument. “Colin, here, claimsOj Jich as Turkey, |pen to the pu day until 3 p.r pening cerenrn gdent Jarvis M Bam Moore, St lid others. politics most resembles those ofUeh M the end of on the hand, ini. comparison is with Belfast.- „ memb( Still won't come to terms eh ? Well .boys,... obviously we aft' dealing with a very weak hand of desperados... tees for Inten pibed it as a gether. ” In addition t rafts, posters, juntry backgri Mini Folklore! mm 11:30 a.m hd 11 a.m. to 1 MSG lounge, of ■lent show — c Bednesday. nev Letters Caperton attended A&M, but is no Aggie By DI Cam Both the met ent in the Uni of distorting Ar anian crisis, a spondent for I dd Friday. In a speech < [enter for Free Delta Chi-tl |iional Journali; ry said the U ials, “from Cart luiderstand the anian crisis frt “We have yet lormous force said. There was a < 3 governmen isis in Iran. Ar wd deal of tht Salisbury said the reader the [ought to know ir ind did not liste spondents’ rej “The man on t ie was writing a )e White Hou riting about hir as going on. W iverage and a 3int which to a las colored the fan — even d< Editor: In the March 18 issue of The Battalion, Senate candidate Kent Caperton stressed the importance of the Permanent Universi ty Fund for A&M. I hope Mr. Caperton doesn’t think we re so stupid that we would forget that it was he who went down to Prairie View A&M and said, “A&M is shortchanging Prairie View. At Prairie View, Mr. Caperton (who claims to be an Aggie, but doesn’t act like one) said one thing that “stabs A&M in the back,” then he tells us another thing. The fact is that Caperton was willing to sell us out of some votes at Prairie View. He implied that we should give more of our fund money to Prairie View. Which of our buildings would he give away to Prairie View? Mr. Caperton may have attended this school for awhile, but he’s no AGGIE! Not when he’ll sell us out that cheap! Frank E. Mann III, ’80 Library rules verified Editor: The news story which appeared in The Battalion on Thursday, March 20, concern ing the availability of carrels and lockers in the Evans Library contains some incorrect information which I trust can be corrected by simply setting forth the salient points in the carrel and locker policies approved by Library Council on March 5, 1980. As in the past, carrels may be assigned for the semester to faculty for the purposes of preparing books, papers, or specific re search projects which require heavy use of library materials, and to graduate students who are working on a thesis or dissertation or preparing a proposal for either. A gradu ate student’s eligibility for a carrel must be verified in writing by the chairman of the individual’s committee. Additionally, the carrel policy now pro vides that short-term carrels, two months or less, are also available to faculty and graduate students for research projects. For a short-term carrel assignment, a gra duate student needs written verification from his/her committee chairman that he/ she is working on the professional paper, record or study, or research project report which is required in order to graduate. This provision provides for the assignment of carrels on a short-term basis to graduates The carrel policy does not pre assignment of carrels to seniors, new locker policy approved by the Lil Council does provide that seniors raa)' ginning during the third week of semester, apply for lockers which"! assigned on a first-come, first-served Is Graduate students will have first prii on the assignment of lockers. / / who are not required to write a thesis or dissertation but who are required to write a terminal paper in order to graduate. This new provision makes carrels available to more graduate students than under the previous policy, and graduate students who qualify for short-term carrel assignments may apply for these at the Administration Office, Room 200, Evans Library. The additional carrels and lockers in new library facility have made it for more graduate students to be e| for carrels, and for seniors, for thef time, to be eligible for lockers Copies of the carrel and are available from the Administral Office, Room 200, Evans Libary locker pol« Evelyn M. Assistant Director for Collection Intel \ thotz By Doug Graham me. Calling the Ir 7 Bui