The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 142
14 Pages
Friday, April 18, 1980
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
Bike-A-Thon rescheduled
The Cystic Fibrosis Bike-A-Thon has been resche
duled for Sunday, April 20, after being rained out
last Sunday. Registration for the 30 mile ride will
begin at 12:30 p.m. at the Manor East Mall parking
lot. Sponsor sheets and ride regulations are still
available at area McDonald’s, Pizza Huts and U-
Tote’M stores, Bike-A-Thon chairman Mo Moser
said. Riders will compete for 10-speed bicycles,
trophies, and t-shirts.
Military action is next, Carter warns Iran
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — President
Irterhas raised the ante in his high-stakes
attic with Iran, putting the strongest
mphasis yet on America’s threat of milit-
jy action.
And the next step, Carter said, is some
orjof military action against the Iranians.
The latest bans: Starting today, no Amer-
ans except journalists can travel to Iran
,ithout a special permit; a week from now,
noney transfers between Americans and
ran will be forbidden; effective immedi-
tely, all imports from Iran are prohibited.
Carter, in a 40-minute news conference
Thursday, also said he will ask Congress for
power to confiscate the $8 billion in Iranian
assets that U.S. institutions hold. He wants
to give the money to families of the hos
tages and others with claims against
Tehran.
And he said military goods Iran ordered
will be used by U.S. forces or sold to
others.
In outlining these steps, the president
placed stronger emphasis on the possibili
ty of military action than he has before.
He said he has one more set of economic
[ran is preparing
for U.S. actions
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giyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said Iran is
afraid of an economic blockade and cal-
edon “men and women, young and old” to
-je ready to wage a guerrilla war to defend
heir country.
Khomeini made his remarks in a speech
’hursday that preceded but anticipated
’resident Carter’s announcement of new
tern action aimed at gaining the release
> he 50 American hostages, held captive for
j 67 days.
Carter banned imports from Iran and
\ ravel there by Americans and warned that
he only next step for the United States
would be some sort of military action.’
I|Iran should not be beset by fears be-
ause they want to besiege it economically
•r militarily,” Khomeini said in speech
|foadcast by Tehran Radio and monitored
>ythe BBC in London. “We are not afraid
if an economic blockade. ”
gde said, “Carter’s main concern is to be
president for another four years in order to
commit crimes for another four years,
b Khomeini noted that America’s allies had
not rallied in force behind Washington’s
rail for sanctions against Iran, saying “no-
hody has responded to him. Not everybody
is|Carter’s servant or subservient to the
U.S. A.”
ifjThe peoples are in agreement with us,
with the exception of some governments,
such as the Iraqi government, ” Khomeini
said It will be disgraceful for Europe to be
subservient to Carter in order to gain votes
for him.”
There have been growing tensions be
tween Iran and Iraq in recent days, and
Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi
hinted in Copenhagen that his government
would not object to a U. S. naval blockade of
Iranian ports.
Khomeini said that should Iran be attack
ed, “all the inhabitants of the country —
men and women, young and old — should
rise in its defense.”
He said such a threat “is a very slight
possibility because the great powers know
that they should not launch an attack now, ”
but added, “It is still a possibility.”
“Therefore, we should be ready in num
bers and equipment,” he said, adding that
Iranians “should be in total readiness for
guerrilla warfare.”
Khomeini then launched into a verbal
attack against Iraq, saying its leaders “are
rotten elements.”
President Abolhassan BaniSadr, who re
turned from a tour of the tense border with
Iraq, also reiterated the Islamic regime’s
intention to topple Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein, adding fuel to the conflict.
Khomeini said Hussein “does not have a
sane mind” and called on Arab nations to
join Iran “to work for God and Islam.”
West Germany advised its nationals in
Iran to send their families home amid in
dications the Bonn government would back
the U. S. sanctions against Iran even if other
nations in the Common Market do not.
Reagan criticizes
Carter’s policies
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fenUUSTON — Ronald Reagan sums up
["resident Carters’ responses to the Iranian
Jpitants w ith a liberal rephrasing of a Ted-
6y Roosevelt saying:
|| The trouble with this administration is
f|iat it walks stickly and carries a big soft. ”
gAReagan told an enthusiastic crowd ofsup-
iPrters in Nederland, Texas, that Carter’s
are those of appeasement that
torch from “crisis to crisis.”
■ Jtle GOP presidential front-runner-
^topaigned Thursday in Nederland on>
. e Gulf Coast and Houston after a morn-i
IP ln Bismarck, N.D., where he got a
' 0zen convention delegates.
Man plans
to journey
around globe
Pikti-t. United Press International
^NER, Va. — Lloyd Sumner knows
Christopher Columbus must have felt
ow years ago.
People thought Columbus was crazy
in t-K pro P° sed filing around the globe
K 15th century. Likewise, nobody
Rft f ^ amed f° r thinking Sumner a bit
■rns lf^ 16 journe y ^ as ma PP ed out l° r
He plans to spend the next two years of
n k 6 traveling 200,000 miles, employing
, Uc means as an ostrich, roller skates,
n g-glider, unicycle, rickshaw, bullock,
Pcrsonic jet and camel.
Around the world in 80 ways, he
flipped.
|Ljhe resourceful Sumner begins his quest
K a 7 1° travel around the globe by using
' r V conceivable mode of transportation
“toaginable.
S/^yway it is possible to move a human
Py from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’, I’ll do it,”
cjj K ^ u mner, 36, who graduated from the
gj'wvcrsity of Virginia with an engineering
I Sunaner s journey will begin aboard a
T balloon in Riner, a village he calls
■ R 6 i s n °t traveling.
e P' a ns to hop “monkeystyle from
gyee-to-tree across the jungles of Africa. A
T n Powered bicycle capable of speeds of
(a . o 55 mph will take him across the
™e states.
Reagan was lukewarm about Carter’s
newest actions against Iran for the holding
of the American hostages.
The sanctions “could have an effect,
Reagan said, “but they all could have been
done more effectively five months ago.”
Asked what the president should do
now, Reagan responded, “he himself said
he is now approaching the point in which
military alternatives would be considered.
And that could include a blockade, mining
and things of that kind.
“Naturally, all of us want it done in such a
way that we would hope that we would not
be in a position to escalate into a war that no
one wants.”
The former California governor again de
clined to make other recommendations,
saying he does not know the options avail
able to the president. Reagan has declined
to accept a White House briefing on the
crisis because, he said, he probably would
learn nothing new and might be bound to
secrecy on some data.
In North Dakota the issue was agricul
ture, and Reagan said consumers may have
to help bail out financially-pinched
growers.
An increase in the cost of food at the
grocery store would help give the farmer a
“fair return,” Reagan told reporters in Bis
marck after he spoke to GOP convention
delegates.
“You can’t make them operate at a loss,
give them no fair return on what they’re
doing,” he said.
Reagan indicated that a rise in the price
of food would barely hurt.
“What I’m saying is it would not be any
considerable addition to the inflated prices
of today to give them (farmers) a fair return
would not necessarily result in a tremen
dous increase in food prices.
Reagan claimed the administration has a
“cheap food policy that for political pur
poses is aimed at the consumer and that
does not recognize the problems of the
farmer.
“I am a farmer,” he told supporters.
Reagan grazes 30 head of cattle on his 600-
acre home in the Santa Barbara hills north
of Los Angeles.
The campaign announced that Reagan
will make a special trip to Ohio Sunday to
meet with Gov. James Rhodes, who’s ex
pected to offer Reagan his endorsement.
Reagan also formed a policy council to
advise him on national policy issues. It will
be headed by former-Secretary of the
Treasury William Simon, and includes
many former members of the Nixon and
Ford administration.
sanctions in mind — banning what little
American food and medicine Iran now gets
and trying to cut off Tehran’s access to in
ternational communication facilities.
“If this additional set of sanctions that I
have described to you today and the con
certed actions of our allies is not success
ful,” Carter said, “Then the only next step
available that I can see would be some sort
of military action, which is the prerogative
and the right of the United States under
these circumstances.”
“The authorities in Iran should realize
that the availability of peaceful measures.
like the patience of the American people, is
running out,” Carter warned. “The Amer
ican hostages must be freed.”
Although Carter did not say what specific
military steps he has in mind, the Pentagon
stands ready on several fronts: Lay explo
sive mines in Iranian harbors so no oil can
come out and no goods can go in; form a
blockade across the Persian Gulf and pre
vent Iranian ships from crossing; bomb port
facilities that handle oil and refineries, or
bomb military installations and equipment.
These steps have been discussed at
length and officials have noted drawbacks
in each, but Carter indicated at the news
conference he may feel he has no choice in
the end.
He declined to set a deadline for military
action. But when asked about Iranian state
ments that the captives may be discussed
by the new parliament in July, the presi
dent replied, “I would think that would be
an excessive time for us to wait.”
Carter used a carrot and stick approach
with the allies, who are under American
pressure to reduce trade and diplomatic
relations with Iran.
“I think they have performed adequate
ly,” he said, adding that he expects stron
ger actions from them in coming weeks.
As for the effect a blockade would have
on the allies — some of whom import oil
from Iran — Carter said such a step “would
be severe in its consequences for Iran and
much less severe for any individual custom
er of Iran’s. ”
He added, “We are still attempting to
avoid that kind of action — but I cannot
preclude that option for the future.”
Whitney Hall, 3, seems more interested in the goodies her mother is
holding than in the music the University Symphonic Band is playing. The
band presented a “brown bag lunch” concert at the Rudder Fountain
Everybody's a critic
earlier this week. Whitney and Caroline are the daughter and wife of
chemistry professor Michael Hall.
Staff photos by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Emergency demonstration today
By BRIAN BLALOCK
Campus Reporter
Imagine a sniper attack on campus in
which several people are injured. But after
being bandaged, the victims get up and
walk away.
Confused? Don’t be. It will only be a
demonstration by members of the Texas
A&M University Emergency Care Team
(ECT).
The demonstration, which will be held
Friday at 12:30 p.m. by Rudder Fountain,
is the class project of Susan Greer, a junior
Industrial Education major from Houston,
and Cheri Trahan, a sophomore Health
Education major from Nederland. Both are
enrolled in the H.E. 319, the emergency
medical techniques class at Texas A&M.
Trahan said the demonstration is de
signed to help benefit other class members
and also members of the ECT in the hand
ling of such an emergency.
A number of students from the ECT and
first aid classes, Greer said, will be made up
Caperton says Moore
ignores elderly
By LAURA CORTEZ
City Staff
State senatorial candidate Kent
Caperton has charged that his oppo
nent, State Sen. William T. Bill
Moore has neglected senior citizen in
terests.
But despite charges that Moore is “an
enemy of the aged,” the senator has
received the support of many senior
citizens in Texas.
At a press conference in Marlin this
week, Caperton said, ‘Bill Moore has
been an enemy of older Texans for 31
years.
“Moore consistently has opposed
issues which would provide our senior
citizens with some economic relief,”
Caperton said.
However, Moore recently received
the endorsement of the Brazos Senior
Citizens Association and the Texas Re
tired Employees Association (TREA).
E.M. Scott, president of the TREA
said it was because of Moore’s work in
the Senate that legislation was passed
that granted retired state employees in
creased benefits.
“The retired state employees of Texas
— and as a matter of fact, the retired
teachers — do not have a better friend
than Bill Moore. He has always worked
hard for us and for the elderly,” Scott
said.
Caperton said Moore voted against
the generic drug substitution bill that
would have reduced prescription costs
for senior citizens as well as other
citizens.
Caperton said estimates show this bill
would save Texas consumers approxi
mately $40 million per year, and be
cause of this he would give this issue top
priority.
Moore has also opposed utility bill
relief and a school property tax exemp
tion to elderly people on fixed incomes,
and has opposed raising the mandatory
retirement age to 70, Caperton said.
to simulate actual injuries that might occur
from a sniper attack on campus.
She said the students will not only re
semble gun-shot victims, but several will
be faking heart attacks and some will have
fake head injuries from falling downstairs.
Greer said the demonstration would
allow all those participating to practice
their techniques in bandaging wounds and
dealing with other types of injuries.
The demonstration, Greer said, would
help inform students there is a program at
Texas A&M University that trains students
to handle emergencies.
“We want to show that there are people
around who do know what to do in the case
of an emergency,” she said.
Trahan said part of the demonstration
would also include use of the University
ambulance and its equipment, which is
run by the ECT from the Beutel Health
Center.
Greer said other demonstrations of this
type have been held in the past, but this is
the first to be held on the campus.
She said the University Police and
emergency medical teams in the areas had
been notified about the demonstration in
case someone calls them, thinking that the
show is a real emergency.
Carter expects
inflation to slow
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President Carter predicts the gathering
recession will be mild and short and says
there is “a good chance for a sizeable de
crease” in the inflation rate during the
summer.
Although more bad inflation news can be
expected in the next few months, Carter
said during a news conference Thursday,
there is “no reason for fear or despair.”
“We are beginning to make some prog
ress,” he said. “Beginning this summer,
there is a good chance for a sizable decrease
in the inflation rate.
“If we can have a limit — a fairly substan
tial limit, say a 20 percent increase on
OPEC energy costs and some reduction,
say 2 percent in mortgage rates on homes
— we anticipate a substantial reduction in
the inflation rate within the next few
months.
I’m talking about a reduction of 8 per
cent or more. Those are two big ‘ifs’ but I
don t think they are beyond the realm of
expectation. I have a very good feeling ab
out the future this year — about controlling
inflation and reducing interest rates.”
He said there are signs of the beginnings
of a recession, but he feels it will be “mild
and short.”
Sen. Edward Kennedy, DMass., attack
ed Carter’s “handwringing” approach to
the economic problems, an approach he
said has thrown some segments of the U.S.
work force into a depression, particularly
construction and auto workers.
The administration Thursday announced
plans to help the sagging housing industry
and to help small banks meet the credit
needs of small business and farm cus
tomers.