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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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