The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 137
10 Pages
Friday, April 11, 1980
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
Crack closes Cain Pool
The Wofford Cain Swimming Pool will be closed
to swimmers until a crack in it can be fixed. The floor
cracked last week when water was put into the pool.
The area around the outdoor pool will be open for
sunbathing from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays. The
Downs Natatorium, an indoor pool located next
door, will be open from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Iran drags hostages
into battle with Iraq
Wire fire
Bryan
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noon.
house,
firemen search for sparks in the garage of a
set on fire by loose wiring Thursday after-
The fire was confined to the garage of that
located at 705 Churchill, and it caused little
damage. No one was home when the fire broke out.
The fire began when high winds blew city power
lines loose and on to the garage.
Photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
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Iran and Iraq are accusing each other of
being U.S. puppets and the militants hold
ing the American hostages in Tehran are
dragging the captives into the middle of the
conflict between the Moslem neighbors.
Meanwhile, thousands of Iranians are
marching through the streets of Tehran to
day to denounce the United States and
show support for the militants holding the
American hostages. They are chanting
“Death to American imperialism.”
The rally was called by the government
to show national solidarity in the face of
Washington’s move to sever diplomatic re
lations and impose a trade embargo as part
of reprisals against Iran for holding the 50
hostages, in their 160th day of captivity.
In the current battle between Iran and
Iraq, whose armies are facing each other
across their common 800-mile border,
there were no reported clashes Thursday
from either side. There were reports of
skirmishes and air battles earlier this week.
Iran mobilized its navy in waters near
Iraq Thursday.
One of the militants at the American
embassy in Tehran warned the 50 hostages
would be in “grave'danger” if Iraq attacked
Iran, saying an Iraqi attack would inter
preted as aggression by Washington. Ear
lier, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
accused Iraq of being an “American
puppet.”
But hard-line Iraq accused Iran of “ex
pansionism” and said Washington was driv
ing the Iranians into a confrontation, which
would only end in a “black destiny” for
Tehran’s rulers.
The two countries, which are of opposing
Moslem theologies, have been at odds for
decades and a short-lived political accord
was shattered 14 months ago by the Islamic
Revolution, which overthrew the shah.
Their dispute recently flared up over
three stategically placed islands in the
Straits of Hormuz, which were occupied by
Iran during the shah’s regime.
Several Iranian leaders, including
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have openly
pledged to topple the regime of Iraqi Presi
dent Saddam Hussein.
Other nations began to choose sides in
the conflict betweent the United State and
Iran.
The nine-nation European Common
Market asked Iran to state “with precision
and certainty” conditions for freeing the
hostages, now in their sixth month of cap
tivity, and a date for their release. A deci
sion to impose sanctions was postponed un
til after Iran replied.
Argentina, which is not dependent on
Iranian oil, was the first to back Carter’s
call. Foreign Ministry sources in Buenos
Aires said Argentina would close its embas
sy in Tehran.
Responding to the Common Market in
itiative, Japan, Iran’s biggest oil customer,
today recalled its ambassador from Tehran
for consultations.
But, Japanese officials said, Japan will do
nothing in support of the United States that
will endanger its supply of oil from Iran.
Iran has threatened to cut off oil to coun
tries that openly support the American
sanctions against Iran.
Program will honor Jews
By PAUL BARTON
Campus Reporter
Six million Jews who died at the hands of
Nazi oppressors during World War II will
be remembered Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in a
program at the All Faiths Chapel.
The rememberance ceremony is being
sponsored by United Campus Ministries,
the Hillel Foundation and University
Lutheran Church. April 13 is the beginning
of a national Holocaust rememberance
week.
The Rev. Hubert Beck, campus pastor at
| Car towing angers Taos residents
University Lutheran Church said the prog
ram is designed to appeal to anyone with an
interest in humanity, not just the religious.
“It will not be a worship service but a re
membrance,” Beck said.
The program will include readings de
scribing how the persecution arose and
how people reacted to it. The readings will
come from Jewish and Christian authors,
such as German pacifist Dietrich Bonhoef-
fer, along with some from Nazi sources.
There will also be a roll call of the exter
mination camps listing the number that
died at each.
“But we’re not trying to lay a guilt trip on
anyone,” Beck said. Instead the program is
meant to remind people that the oppres
sive spirit lies within everyone and that
society needs to be sensitive to itself to
prevent such a thing from happening again.
“What happened, happened in a highly
civilized country among highly civilized
people,” Beck said.
BY BECKY SWANSON
City Staff
Some residents of Taos Apartments are
upset about having their cars towed from
iffe complex during the past week.
A spokesman for Coyote Wrecker Ser
vice, the company that towed the cars, said
the cars had been parked illegally on the
grass or at yellow-painted curbs.
Residents said there were not enough
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? better fill their freezers with meat now,
j because a recent drop in meat prices is
‘expected to be reversed in a flurry of
food price increases during the coming
; months.
Retail meat prices have dropped
. sharply across much of the country,
plunging to their lowest levels in more
than a year in some areas. In Chicago,
hamburger was selling for $1.19 a
pound.
Grocers reported prices for some cuts
dropped as much as 90 cents a pound in
a week, though most were gradual, and
speculated the reason was costconscious
consumers were just buying less meat.
But the bargains could be short-lived.
In a joint report Thursday, the Coun
cil on Wage and Price Stability and Agri
culture Department predicted food
prices would increase at about a 10 per
cent annual rate during the next three
months.
Leading the way, the agencies said,
will be retail prices for beef and sugar
along with carbonated drinks and other
processed foods that contain sugar.
Poultry, margarine, shortening,
mayonnaise, salad dressings and cook
ing oil should increase at an annual rate
of less than 7 percent, while fruits and
vegetables should rise moderately, the
agencies said.
And retail pork and egg prices should
fall during April, May and June, the
report said.
For the first time in more than two
years, meanwhile, sales at the nation’s
retail stores have fallen for two consecu
tive months.
The Commerce Department re
ported retail sales dropped 1.3 percent
in March. Pointing to a similar decline
in February, economists said the reces
sion may finally be taking hold.
Almost all of the March decline could
be tagged to slumping auto sales, which
fell a hefty 7.2 percent. Traditionally,
when the auto and housing industries
begin to do poorly, other sectors of the
economy soon follow.
In Detroit, the Big Three automobile
companies said nearly 20,000 autowork
ers idled this week in temporary pro
duction cutbacks will return to their
jobs Monday, but industry blue-collar
layoffs will remain above the 200,000
mark.
In other economic news:
— Credit Union National Association
Inc. made an “urgent request” to the
government for permission to charge
more than 15 percent interest on loans.
— Carter said he will veto any tax cut
Congress approves unless he is sure the
fiscal 1981 budget will be balanced.
spaces available for the residents, and
guests who park at the complex increase
the scarcity.
Apartment manager Maura Peters said
there was ample parking at the complex.
She said there were two parking spaces for
each apartment.
There are 54 apartment units in the com
plex.
A count of parking spaces in the Taos lot
showed there were 95 parking spaces, two
of which are occupied by garbage dumps
ters.
One resident, who asked not to be iden
tified. said his car had been towed away
before dawn Monday morning. He said he
parked his car by a yellow-painted curb
Sunday night, and discovered it was mis
sing the next morning.
He said he had been parking in the same
place every Sunday night this semester and
had never been notified that the area was
off limits.
“There aren’t even enough spaces for the
residents, but when guests come over to
study or spend the night, they park in the
lot and take up even more spaces, ” he said.
“Everyone just parks on the grass or
where ever they can find a place.
“I’ve lived here a whole semester and
parked whenever I can find a place. There
aren’t any towing signs and the curbs don’t
have ‘No Parking’ on them.
“We didn’t get any warning that they
were going to start towing cars, they just
did it out of the clear blue sky,” he said.
Peters said Metro Properties, Inc., the
company that manages Taos, Scandia and
Viking apartments, contracted with Coyote
Wrecking Service, owned by Sparky Har
dee, to patrol the parking lots and tow away
cars parked by yellow curbs or on the grass.
The company charges $50 to tow a car from
Taos apartments, and levies a $5 charge for
each day the car is not picked up.
A spokesman for Coyote said the com
pany has towed several cars from the com
plex. Residents reported at least 12 cars
had been towed in the last two weeks.
Another Taos resident, identified only as
Brian, said he caught the wreckers before
they had taken his car and was asked $30 to
have the vehicle unhooked from the wreck
er. He said he told them he only had $20
and they settled for that.
“I offered to move it, but they said I’d
have to pay because they already had it
hooked up,” he said.
A female student who lives at Taos said
she and some other residents had called
Metro Properties complaining about the
shortage of parking spaces and were told
they could park in the Scandia or Viking
lots.
“Those lots are dark at night and it isn’t
safe for a girl to be walking through there,”
she said.
Besides, she said, it is a long way to walk,
especially from Viking which is several
blocks away.
Moore wants tuition
for foreigners raised
By JEFF BRAUN
City Reporter
Tuition for foreign students attending
Texas universities should be raised. State
Senator Bill Moore told the Bryan-College
Station Jaycees at a luncheon Thursday
afternoon.
“I think you ought to get from them what
it costs to educate them,” Moore said, “be
cause the taxpayers in Texas have no busi-
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NEW YORK — Edith Bunker, who sur
vived menopause, a rape attempt and the
dispersal of her family on television’s “All in
4e Family,” is leaving $500,000 to feminist
causes when she dies on the tube.
| Norman Lear, who created Edith and
her bigot husband Archie in 1969, said
flhursday Edith will pass away off screen so
her husband can be “free to pursue other
ections.”
To “lessen the sadness of her passing,”
ar said, Tandem Productions is donating
3,000 to the National Organization for
Women.
■ The Edith Bunker Memorial Fund for
the ERA and Women’s Rights will be used
to help support the drive for ratification of
^the Equal Rights Amendment.
■ “For me, she was the quintessential
housewife who was touched by the
women’s movement,” Lear said of Edith.
“All in the Family” was recycled in 1978
into “Archie Bunker’s Place,” still starring
Carroll O’Connor as Archie, the bigot from
New York City’s borough of Queens. But
Jean Stapleton, who tired of her role, was
only willing to make intermittent appear
ances.
Without her, the writers have been un
able to send Archie home from work at
night. It seemed unlikely Edith would
“leave town to work on tbe Alaska pipe
line,” Lear noted, and divorce was out of
the question.
“Edith wouldn’t leave Archie, and most
importantly ... Archie wouldn’t leave
Edith,” Lear said.
O’Connor, who now produces the show,
was interested in tackling the issue of death
on TV, and decided to kill off Edith, Lear
said.
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WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secret
ary Bob Bergland says low farm prices will
not hurt President Carter politically and
the president may even win re-election by
a landslide.
Bergland told a meeting of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors Thursday
Carter would win because the American
people perceive him as a good man, despite
low farm prices.
He said he wondered how Republican
front-runner Ronald Reagan, whom he
characterized as the “rocking chair war
rior,” would deal with that part of Carter’s
image.
“The American people still think Jimmy
Carter is an honest, decent guy who’s good
to his wife and goes to church,” said the
former Minnesota congressman, boasting
of his track record as a political prognosti
cator.
Americans believe Carter will be “care
ful with our kids and our country and our
money,” he added.
“I suspect Jimmy Carter might win the
election in what some may characterize as a
landslide.”
On farm issues, Bergland said the admi
nistration has kept its commitment that
grain prices would be no lower than they
would have been without the embargo of
grain to Russia, even though prices have
been depressed.
“The grain markets are about what most
people expected they would be,” he said.
He said tight credit is the major reason
why prices plunged in March. Speculators
abandoned the commodities markets and
grain buyers have been unable to afford to
hold large inventories because of the high
cost of interest.
Farmers have complained about tight
credit and high interest rates as they plant
their crops this spring.
“The general belief is that the money is
available but the price is high,” said Berg
land, adding there would be enough money
if farmers would spend only what is neces
sary.
ness in picking up the surplus and paying
their way.”
Moore appeared upset because no firm
restrictions have been imposed on Iranian
students since the crisis began.
“I don’t know why we let so many in here
to start with, but apparently even after the
hostages were taken they (foreign students)
were free to come and go as they pleased,”
Moore said.
This week as a result of the brakoff of
diplomatic relations with Iran, 14 Texas
A&M Naval ROTC students were ordered
to leave the country by midnight Friday.
During his speech, Moore also had
praise for the Texas Department of Correc
tions. Moore said that the T.D.C. has the
lowest cost per inmate in the country. “Un
fortunately, they have 28,000 people over
there and they project that in another 10
years they will have 30,000,” Moore said.
He said this increase will require more
money to build additional facilities for the
prison system as well as for hiring addition
al personnel to handle the load.
Moore is campaigning throughout the
19-country Fifth Senatorial district to
retain his senate seat. His opponent is
former Bryan Municipal Judge Kent
Caperton.
2nd KAMU
auction
airs Sunday
By CAROL HANCOCK
Campus Staff
More than $12,000 worth of merchan
dise, close to 100 pieces of artwork and
several thousand dollars worth of goods
and services will be up for bids when the
Second Great KAMU-TV Auction be
gins Sunday.
The auction will be broadcast live for
prime-time viewing through Thursday
starting at 8 p. m. The five-day event can
be seen on Channel 15 on the UHF dial
and on cable in Bryan-College Station,
Brenham, Caldwell, Hearne, Madison-
ville and Somerville.
A wide variety of merchandise, ser
vices and artwork will be offered includ
ing dinners, appliances, pottery, televi
sions, jewelry, children’s toys, and
paintings. Some unusual items include a
stick-mask of Barbara Walters, a basket
ball autographed by the Texas A&M
University basketball team, a personal
ly-made wedding dress and dinner with
Athletic Director Marvin Tate, his wife
and the football team in Cain Hall.
The process for bidding on any items
is as follows:
During the auction, item boards
labeled “K,” “A,” “M,” “U,” Art or Su
per containing six to eight items will be
shown. After the board is shown, bids
are taken on the items on the boards for
30 minutes. There will be no minimum
bids on anything.
If you see an item you would like to
buy, write down its item number and
board location, decide the amount you
would like to bid then call in that bid at
696-2211. After giving your bid, give
your name, address and the telephone
number where you can be reached for
the next 30 minutes.
If you are the highest bidder, your
name will be announced on the air and
your bid will be confirmed by telephone
within 30 minutes. Purchases then need
to be picked up at the station within 24
hours. The pick-up and pay operation
will be open until sign-off Sunday, from
8 a.m. until sign-off Monday through
Thursday and from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Friday.
Cash and personal checks will be
accepted for purchase payments. Sales
tax will be added at time of payment.
A County Store, including an assort
ment of donated lower-priced items,
will also be located at the station. They
will be on sale and may be bought with
out bidding.
All revenue from the auction goes to
ward the operation of KAMU, Texas
A&M’s public broadcasting station.