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: I i The Battalion I ■— ~ J Vol. 73 No. 139 Tuesday, April 15, 1980 USPS 045 360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 i . licome tax leadline s today United Press International WASHINGTON — Today marks the ||ne for filing federal income tax re- ns And while Uncle Sam has paid out a » penny in refunds so far, he should do ter by the taxpayers who waited until i last minute to file. People who owe money generally file >r,” said IRS spokesman Larry Batdorf. 3y April 4, roughly two in every three Hican taxpayers had filed their returns phe overwhelming majority of them eiyed refunds. Thanks largely to infla- ijthose refunds were averaging $590.53 up $100 from a year ago. ■the 93 million or so Americans who : Jxpected to file returns, about 2 per- itl-or roughly 1.8 million taxpayers — Ibe audited. Those who make more than ),(XK) a year have the greatest chance, ■hough today is the filing deadline, tax- yers can receive a 60-day extension t^ply for the asking, ” an official said, by m| out a 4868 form and mailing one copy ihe IRS before midnight tonight. rh< taxpayer should send in a second py of the extension form with his com- ited tax return before June 16. lailer wins 'ulitzer for Executioner’ United Press International NEW YORK — Norman Mailer, who ote a controversial “true life novel” ab- t a convicted killer with a death wish, and ioston Globe columnist who writes about rsonal problems won 1980 Pulitzer izes. In all, the Globe took three Pulit- rs. Gannett Co. Inc. won the Public Service fil'd, the Philadelphia Inquirer won its ;th Pulitzer in six years and the spot news lotography award went to United Press ternational. jpe UPI photograph showed a firing uad in Sananda, Iran, executing Kurdish bels and two former police officers of the jposed shah. The photographer’s name as'withheld for his own safety. Mailer won the fiction prize — his cond — for “The Executioner’s Song,” a See related story, page 7 ovel based on the last months of executed lller Gary Gilmore. His first was in 1969 > r Hie Armies of the Night.” Mailer, 57, who lives in Brooklyn, said ||vas happy about the award, although Dmewhat bothered by the controversy ver the technique he used. It is called a “true life novel” on the title Ike, though the material for the book was Mten from many documentary sources on he killer. Mailer said he would have added an ex- Efiation to the book if he had known how ||bh controversy it would cause when he ||his publisher, Little Brown and Co., 'eblished the work as fiction. |T care about the book, and when there is controversy over something you care ab- Kj you d rather the controversy be about pcentral merits and not something you o-kler a side issue,” he said. Ifhe Globe’s awards in the special local ffiorting, commentary and criticism cate- l| e s marked the second time a newspap- B>as won three Pulitzers in the same year. New York Times accomplished the feat n 11978. ghe Pulitzer Committee cited Gannett its series on financial contributions to he Pauline Fathers. &he staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer Jr the distinguished general-local report- ■ tor the newspaper’s coverage of the j|f ear accident at Three Mile Island, ghher prizes were awarded to: I|r;Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles )tanord of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times ° f r ,la tional reporting for their investigation Bho Church of Scientology. R~Madeleine Blais of the Miami Herald B eature writing — stories about families V individual achievements that have Beared in the newspaper’s Tropic maga- Joel Brinkley and Jay Mather of the isville Courier-Journal for internation- (Jpurnalism for their reporting and photo- on Cambodia. K Bobert L. Bartley of the Wall Street f°r distinguished editorial writing. B-Don Wright of the Miami News for B^uence in editorial cartooning. ■-Erwin H. Hagler of the Dallas Times er ald for feature photography for a series |the western cowboy ■"Lanford Wilson for drama for his ro- B^hccomedy, “Talley’s Folly.” ■7 ..on F. Litwack for history for his Aft ’ Been in the Storm So Long: The 'jermath of Slavery.” ■''Edmund Morris for biography for his ■ r ’ Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. "s i ^ 0na ld Justice for poetry for his Pected Poems.” c. ^^euglas R. Hofstadter for non-fiction p, work, “Godel, Escher, Bach: An fir i i 9°^en Braid, ” a book of mathema- ^ Philosophy. What goes up... Pat Callihan, co-captain for the Texas A&M men’s gymnastics team, dismounts after a routine on the high bar. Callihan and other team members will exhibit their talents during a program in the Memo rial Student Center lounge at noon on Saturday. Texas A&M currently is ranked second in the con ference in men’s gymnastics. Photo by Jane North ‘Kramer’ wins 5 Oscars; Hoffman takes best actor United Press International HOLLYWOOD — “Kramer vs. Kram er” — a film of a man, a woman and their small son rebuilding a web of love broken by divorce — swept the Academy Awards Monday night, taking five Oscars including best picture of 1979, best actor for Dustin Hoffman and best supporting actress for Meryl Streep. Sally Field won the best actress award tor her portrayal of a spunky Southern mill worker, trying to manage her family and a struggling labor union, in Norma Rae. Veteran performer Melvyn Douglas, 79, who made his first movie 49 years ago, won the supporting actor award for his perform ance as a dying presidential crony in Being There.” “Well, the soap opera won, commented Hoffman — winning for the first time, after four nominations going back to “The Gra duate” in 1967. He was honored for his portrayal of a loving father in “Kramer,” which also took the statuettes for best screenplay taken from another medium and best direction. Streep, a swiftly rising star, won for her portrait of an independent woman deter mined to both build a life outside of mar riage and reclaim her small son. “They said this couldn’t be done,” said Field, who was long held back by her old image as TV’s “flying nun.” Douglas, best known as a suave, sophisti cated leading man of the 1930s, was not present to collect his second Oscar. He had been nominated three times, and won the supporting actor Oscar in 1963 in “Hud.” Robert Benton won the director’s award for “Kramer,” and then followed up with a second Oscar for the film’s script, as the best screenplay adapted from another medium. “Kramer,” a box office smash, was the expected winner for best picture. The chief competition came from “All That Jazz,” Bob Fosse’s musical based on his own flirtations with women and death, which came in second in the Oscar sweep- stakes, with four awards — best adapted score, art direction, costume design and film editing. “Apocalypse Now” — Francis Ford Cop pola’s lavish vision of the Vietnam War as a circus of death, drugs and rock n’ roll — collected two, best sound and best cinema tography to Vittorio Storaro. The best original song Oscar went to “It Goes Like It Goes,” from “Norma Rae, ” by Norman Gimbel and David Shire. The best original screenplay award went to Steve Tesich, who came to the United States as a teen-ager and drew on his youth in Bloomington, Ind., for “Breaking Away,” the tale of four non-college youths growing up in a university town. The best foreign language film award went to West Germany’s “Tin Drum,” from the novel by Gunter Grass. Hoffman, his voice breaking, presented a special award to Sir Alec Guinness for Guinness’ career advancing the art of screen acting, which drew a standing ovation from the crowd. Guinness became the only performer to be honored with such an award after win ning an Oscar on his own. He strode on stage to the strains of the march from “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” for which he won the best actor award in 1957. The visual effects Oscar went to “Alien,” the story of a monstrous extra-terrestrial taking over a spaceship. Israelis hope for solution United Press international Begin said about the date. “We must try to WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minis- fulfill it.” ter Menachem Begin says he hopes to use He also pledged to try to reach agree- his meetings with President Carter begin- ment with Carter on ways to speed up the ning today to quicken the pace of the stalled discussions but “in any case we will always negotiations on Palestinian autonomy. be prepared to continue negotiations to The critical discussions about the future reach agreement.” of the Arabs living in the occupied territor- Begin meets the president twice today ies are targeted to end in less than six weeks and will be the guest of honor at a White and Begin said he wants to speed up the House dinner tonight. His schedule closely talks. follows that of Sadat who met with Carter The Israeli leader however, is said to be a Ln of against the proposal agreed to by Garter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that the meetings be shifted from the Middle East to Washington. “We shall do our best to bring about an acceleration of the pace of the negotiations and creating the possibility of fulfilment of the second part of the Camp David agree ment,” Begin said on arrival in the United States Monday. The autonomy plan deals with the future government for the 1.1 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. Under the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty signed last year, the autonomy talks are to be completed by May 26. “This is a goal,” 111C IMacil ICcuaci ciiau j^iana a kjl congressional meetings before returning to Israel Thursday. Israel’s Cabinet gave Begin wide- ranging authority to discuss all proposals in the talks with Carter, but sources said rather than moving the autonomy negotia tions to Washington, Begin favors alternat ing meetings in Cairo, Jerusalem and Washington. On the question of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, another issue sure to be discussed, Begin indicated before leaving Israel that he will refuse to consider a temporary freeze on settlements to ease tensions during the weeks left for the autonomy talks. Burt Lance trial goes to jury soon United Press International (; ATLANTA — Bert Lance is “delighted” his bank fraud case will probably go to the jury by Wednesday afternoon in the trial’s 14th week. Before deliberations begin, attorneys for both sides must give their closing argu ments and U.S. District Judge Charles A. Moye Jr. must give the six-man, six-woman panel instructions on the law. The defense for Lance and his three co defendants, now charged with only 19 of the original 33 counts, rested Monday afternoon. “I’m delighted it’s over,” Lance said as he left the courtroom. “I’m just glad it didn’t take us long to refute 13 weeks” of government testimony. Lance’s defense took only 234 days. He spent more than a day on the stand himself, fielding questions and denying he broke any laws. He told of his rise for government reorganization. His testimony was bolstered by the plaudits of some heavyweight character witnesses, including: Lillian Carter, Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., and Tom Cousins, Atlanta real estate magnate and owner of the Atlanta Flames hockey team. The court threw out another charge against Lance co-defendant Thomas Mitch ell Monday, narrowing the list of counts from the original 33 outlined in the indict ment to 19. Of the remaining counts, Lance is charged with 10 counts of misapplication of bank funds, which carries a maximum pen alty of five years in prison and-or $5,000 fine on each count, and two counts of mak ing false statements to banks, which carries a maximum of two years in prison and-or $5,000 on each count. Mitchell faces four counts of making false statements to banks relating to written re ceipts for stocks he removed from the Calhoun First National Bank, which Lance once headed, where they secured Lance loans. Six counts remain against co-defendant Richard T. Carr, including four misapplica tion counts and two false statements to banks, and four counts remain against H. Jackson Mullins, including three misappli cations and one false statement. Court deals blow to Texas United Press International WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has dealt what could be a death blow to three Amtrak trains discontinued in last year’s reorganization of the country’s rail passenger service. The court rejected an appeal by Minne sota seeking to revive the Chicago-Houston Lone Star, the Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha and the Chicago-Miami Floridian. In November, the court turned down an appeal from Kansas asking temporary re newal of service on the trains, which served dozens of cities in the Midwest and South. Among them were Dallas, Houston, Birmingham, Louisville, Nashville, Mont gomery, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Minneapolis and Chicago. Amtrak said it would have lost $200,000 a day operating the trains. Kansas, Minnesota and Nashville initial ly brought suit to keep the trains moving, arguing that dropping them would cause irreparable harm to communities they served. The three routes originally were sche duled to be shut down on Oct. 1 as part of Amtrak’s reorganization plan. But U.S. District Judge Frank Theis of Wichita, Kan., issued a temporary order barring Amtrak their termination. Minnesota renewed the appeal in the Supreme Court, arguing the U.S. transpor tation secretary should have considered the impact on communities before drawing up a plan for shutting down service. When Amtrak decided in August 1979 to discontinue six passenger trains, several states asked that service continue until the secretary complied with the National En vironmental Policy Act which requires an assessment of the impact of major federal actions. Theis ordered the trains to continue tem porarily, but following Congress’ passage of the Amtrak Reorganization Act, he dis solved his order. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding Congress’ passage of the 1979 act had settled the issue. Minnesota Attorney General Warren Spannaus told the Supreme Court that since the 1979 reorganization act did not repeal the environmental policy act, train service should be renewed until the secret ary complied with the environmental act’s procedural requirements. Opposing review, the federal govern ment maintained the environmental act’s requirements apply only to agency — not congressional — actions. Castro stalls Cuban airlift United Press International Cuban President Fidel Castro has charged some Cubans holed up in the Peruvian Embassy have no right to leave, stalling the airlift of the Cubans from Havana. In Washington, President Carter accused Castro of obstructing the exodus. Bad weather off Florida Monday forced Cuban exiles in Miami to aban don plans to sail a mercy fleet of small boats with relief supplies to their esti mated 10,800 countrymen crammed into the tiny Peruvian Embassy com pound. Carter announced the United States would offer exile to 3,500 of the Cubans and called on Europe and Latin America to ease a “humanitarian crisis” by open ing doors to the rest of the people inside the embassy.