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Vol. 73 No. 156
Wednesday, May 28, 1980
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
Regents approve fee hikes,
name dean of faculties
by DILLARD STONE
Battalion Editor
Inflation is hitting all Americans in the pocketbook, and
higher education was no exception again Tuesday, as the
Texas A&M University System Board of Regents
approved a slate of fee increases for the System’s four
campuses.
The regents also approved a new dean of faculties for
Texas A&M, named several University buildings and
appropriated funds for the design of several new buildings
on System campuses.
Acting on administrative recommendations, the re
gents authorized room and board increases averaging $80
per semester at Prairie View A&M University, a $60-$70
room rate increase at Texas A&M University-Galveston
and a board increase of $41 per semester for students at
Tarleton State University. Prairie View’s student service
fees were also increase to $60.
Fee increases affecting Texas A&M students were li
mited to a $3.50 raise in the student services fee, from $30
to $33.50. Earlier in the year, the regents had approved
room and board rate increases for the University.
Texas A&M students will also be hit by an increase in
University traffic fines, as the regents approved 100 per
cent increases in the penalties for parking and moving
violations on campus.
New fines will be $20 for moving violations (up from
$10)and$10forparkingviolations(upffom $5). There was
no change made in the $5 late charge.
Dr. Clinton A. Phillips was named Texas A&M’s dean
of faculties. Phillips will succeed Dr. Haskell Monroe,
who is resigning from the University to accept the pres
idency at the University of Texas-El Paso. Phillips has
served at Texas A&M since 1967 and most recently held
the position of associate dean of business administration.
Names for the two modular dormitories under con
struction on Texas A&M’s north side were approved at the
board meeting. One dormitory will bear the name of
Oveta Culp Hobby; the other will be named for Marion J.
Neely.
Hobby, the mother of Texas Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, is
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Class fees OK’d
Several departments received authorization from
the Board of Regents to raise or institute fees to be
charged to students. The regents approved:
— An increase in the Geology 300 Field Geology
field camp fee from $50 to $200;
— The establishment of a $50 field trip fee for
Geology 319;
— The establishment of a $50 field trip fee for
students enrolled in Range Science 604 Grazing
Management and Range Nutrition.
The fees become effective with the 1980-81 school
year.
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chairman of the board of The Houston Post Co. and a past
secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Neely, a 1922 Texas A&M graduate, is a University
distinguished alumnus, and a 25-year member of the
Texas Christian University board of trustees.
The remodeled mechanical engineering shops, ex
pected to be ready for use in the fall, will be named for
J.R. Thompson, a major contributor to the University’s
industrial distribution department.
The board also named the varsity tennis courts in honor
of Omar Smith, a 1937 Texas A&M graduate who ended a
15-year tenure as tennis coach in 1975.
President Jarvis Miller assured the regents that
appropriate ceremonies for dedicating the facilities would
be planned in conjunction with fall home football games.
In other action the board approved allocations of:
-— $152,000 for the detailed design of the Meat Science
and Technology Center, to be located next to and west of
the Kleberg Center;
— $10,000 for a program of requirements for an all
faiths chapel at Prairie View;
— $175,000 for the detailed design of a new 414-bed
dormitory at Texas A&M-Galveston. Funds for the struc
ture will come from a $4.1 million bond issue, also
approved Tuesday by the regents.
The other major personnel matter decided by the board
was the appointment of Dr. Leroy S. Fletcher as associate
dean of engineering. A 1958 Texas A&M graduate,
Fletcher is currently chairman of the mechanical en
gineering department at the University of Virginia.
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Dr. Clint Phillips, Texas A&M University’s new dean of faculties, listens
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JJ.S. ready to sell
lardware to China
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Seeking to bolster
ilitary ties with China, the United States
on the verge of approving several high
chnology items and military-related
[uipment for export to Peking.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown told
hina’s top military official, Geng Biao, at a
elcoming dinner Tuesday night at the Na-
>nal Picture Gallery:
We are now working on concrete cases
volving actual sales and transfers and
)pe to approve some export license appli-
itions during your visit.”
President Carter planned to meet with
eng at the White House later today after
le Chinese visitor calls on Secretary of
iate Edmund Muskie at the State Depart-
ent. Geng is on a 10-day tour of the Un-
id States.
Defense officials said they had received
'hinese inquiries about several possible
archases in the United States of high tech-
ology with both civilian and military appli-
itions as well as some military support
quipment.
Some of the Chinese requests will be
pproved—with export licenses forthcom-
shortly — and some will be denied,
ficials said.
U.S. officials declined immediate details
fwhat may be approved for export.
In the past, they have talked about such
ems as communications and electronics
^uipment, radars, and such relatively
mple equipment as trucks.
Pentagon spokesman Thomas Ross
mphasized the United States has no inten-
of authorizing the sale of any lethal
'eapons to China.
“The ground rules (against lethal
eapons) will not change during this visit,”
loss told reporters.
Geng, in his toast, to Brown denounced
e current Soviet “peace offensive. ”
They (the Soviets) are doing this to lull
e countries opposed to their aggression
ad to weaken the struggle against it,
dshing to divert people’s attention and
Jay down the questions of Afghanistan and
Kampuchea or even delete them from the
agenda of international forums,” Geng
said.
“Together with the people of other coun
tries, including the American people, the
Chinese people are determined to fight un
remittingly against Soviet hegemonist
aggression and expansion and make due
contributions to the defense of world
peace, security and stability,” Geng added.
Meanwhile, a congressional report re
leased Tuesday expressed “serious reserva
tions” about the administration’s policy to
' consider case-by-case sales to China of
selected items with possible military use.
United Press International
President Carter swept four more states
and his spokesman said a new count of dele
gates may give Carter enough to claim the
Democratic presidential nomination today
— a full week ahead of the final primaries of
the 1980 campaign.
Ronald Reagan, with more than enough
delegates already in hand and his opposi
tion gone, padded his margin with three
more primary victories.
According to the UPI count, Carter’s
four-state sweep of Sen. Edward Kennedy
left him slightly more than 30 delegates
short of mathematically clinching re
nomination.
Reagan’s margins were huge — in excess
of 80 percent in Kentucky, Idaho and Neva
da. Carter polled 60 percent or better in
the first two but won with less than a major
ity in Nevada, where a full one-third of
Democratic voters cast ballots for “none of
the above” — or uncommitted delegates.
Carter also won Arkansas’ Democratic-
only contest for his 10th consecutive prim
ary victory over Kennedy, who ran behind
the uncommitted line both there and in
Nevada.
The wins gave Carter and Reagan their
21st primary victories each since New
Hampshire Feb. 26.
Carter probably will have to wait until
Tuesday, the nine-state finale of the prim
ary season, before reaching the 1,666 dele
gates needed for nomination. However,
press secretary Jody Powell claimed Carter
was within four or five delegates of the
magic number and said the White House
will recalculate the figures today —
perhaps pushing him over the top.
Reagan last weekend passed the 998
needed for the Republican nomination,
and his last major opponent, George Bush,
threw in the towel Monday.
Tuesday’s primaries brought Carter’s de
legate total to 1,634 and Kennedy to 850.
Reagan’s total went to 1,058, or 60 more
than needed for the nomination at the GOP
convention in Detroit and Bush added one
to the 270 he had when he announced his
withdrawal this week.
Rep. John Anderson of Illinois, now cam
paigning as an independent, ran ahead of
Bush in Idaho and got two GOP delegates.
Kennedy, who gave little time to the four
states that voted Tuesday and concentrated
on the larger states that choose delegates
next week, said in Charleston, W.Va., he is
“convinced that June 3 can be decisive.
And I’m also convinced a powerful showing
on June 3 by a candidate can’t be denied at
the Democratic convention.”
The voting in the individual primaries:
— Kentucky: 99 percent of precincts re
porting, Carter 160,288 or 67 percent, 38
delegates; Kennedy 54,876 or 23 percent,
12 delegates.
Reagan 78,430 or 83 percent, 27 dele
gates; Bush 6,848 or 7 percent, 0 delegates.
— Idaho: 76 percent. Carter 22,963 or 63
percent; Kennedy 8,231 or 22 percent. De
legates were selected earlier: Carter eight;
Kennedy five; Uncommitted four.
Reagan 61,637 or 85 percent, 15 dele
gates; Bush 2,784 or 4 percent, 0 delegates;
Anderson, 6,119 or 8 percent, two dele
gates.
— Nevada: 85 percent. Carter 21,611 or
38 percent, five delegates; Uncommitted
19,296 or 33 percent, four delegates; Ken
nedy 16,504 or 29 percent, three delegates.
Reagan 29,041 or 83 percent, 14 dele
gates; Uncommitted 3,671 or 11 percent,
two delegates; Bush, 2,202 or 6 percent,
one delegate.
— Arkansas: 90 percent reporting, Car
ter 225,212 or 61 percent, 23 delegates;
Uncommitted 66,155 or 18 percent, five
delegates; Kennedy 64,663 or 17 percent,
five delegates.
The uncommitted vote in Nevada was
the highest in any state this year. It was 9
percent in Idaho and 8 percent in Ken
tucky.
It was an ordeal to vote in Idaho, where
some voters wore masks to protect them
selves from volcanic ash from Mount St.
Helens. In some areas, rain turned the ash
to a sticky mud that made movement diffi
cult.
West shakes from more quakes
United Press International
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. —
The third major earthquake in as
many days swayed buildings in San
Francisco and Los Angeles, rattled
chandeliers in Nevada casinos,
cracked a major dam and raised dam
age and injury tolls in Sierra Nevada
resort areas.
A surface crack in the 100-foot
wide Crowley Lake Dam was disco
vered after the third magnitude 6
quake rocked the Mammoth Lakes
area Tuesday. Two quakes of the
same size Sunday loosed rockslides
and injured at least seven people. At
least three more people were hurt
Tuesday, none seriously.
Fishermen at Convict Lake said
Tuesday’s quake rocked the popular
fishing lake “like it was a bowl full of
water.”
The quakes were part of a rash of
temblors that have rattled an area
from San Francisco to Sacramento to
Los Angeles, as well as several cities
in Nevada since Sunday. Hundreds
of aftershocks followed Tuesday’s
temblor and there have been nearly
80 quakes registering 4 or greater on
the open-ended Richter Scale, moni
tored at Caltech in Pasadena.
Tuesday’s quake was felt for 45
seconds in Fresno, Calif., and build
ings swayed in San Francisco and
Los Angeles, about 300 miles away.
The quake rattled glasses and chan
deliers in some Nevada casinos.
The quakes all were centered in
the Mammoth Lakes region near the
Yosemite Valley in central Cali
fornia.
Hundreds of campers, hikers and
skiers have been evacuated since the
major jolts started Sunday morning.
The latest big shaker hit at 7:51 a.m.,
Tuesday and registered 6 on the
Richter scale.
The Office of Emergency Services
estimated damage to public roads,
bridges, water and sewer lines and
buildings at about $295,000, with
another $105,000 to private homes
and vacation lodges.
The Mammoth Lakes school was
closed due to quake damage and the
road to Crowley Lake Dam was
closed because of boulders shaken
loose.
Only the fact the quakes were cen
tered in a sparsely populated area
kept down the damage to life and
property, officials said.
The most seriously injured were a
young couple from Crestline, Calif.,
who were hiking Sunday with a
church group when they were felled
by a rockslide, the boulders “run
ning right over them,” said a spokes
man at the Fresno hospital where
they were being treated.
Larry Samuels improved to se
rious condition Tuesday with head
injuries and two broken legs. His 8-
month pregnant wife, Belinda, suf
fered a crushed leg and internal in
juries and doctors could not save her
unborn baby.
Damage to the Crowley Lake
Dam was described as a surface crack
in the concrete and officials said they
were keeping a close watch on the
dam, although they said apparently
there was no structural damage.
Crowley Lake is the main dam in
the system that feeds the California
Aqueduct carrying 80 percent of the
water for Los Angeles.
Woman’s 3rd stillborn
heightens canal debate
United Press International
NIAGARA FALLS, N Y. — While resi
dents of the contaminated Love Canal
neighborhood in Niagara Falls debated
whether to boycott a federal health study
that began Tuesday, news came that a resi
dent had her third stillborn child.
Some members of the Love Canal
Homeowners Associtation argued Monday
that the stillbirth was a vivid example of
why homeowners should be given perma
nent homes outside the neighborhood that
rests on a former chemical dump.
An association spokeswoman declined to
identify the woman but said it was her third
stillbirth since she moved to the Love Can
al area.
The Environmental Protection Agency
said it would begin a study Tuesday, ex
pected to cost $4 million to $7 million, to
determine the scientific effects on resi
dents’ health of toxic chemicals, buried by
the Hooker Chemical & Plastics Co. years
ago.
Officials say the tests must be made be
fore the federal government will decide
whether to permanently relocate 700 fami
lies.
Lois Gibbs, head of the homeowners
association, charged Sunday that the deci
sion to permanently relocate residents will
be based on political grounds, not scientific
evidence.
“It sounds like the old state Department
of Health line,” Gibbs said.
“The state finally found some health
effects, but we re still here, ” she said, re
ferring to a study that showed 11 of 36
residents tested had chromosome damage.
“Many of the residents aren’t going to parti
cipate (in the new study) until they get
some guarantees of relocation.”
The follow-up study will take six to nine
months, EPA officials say, and there is no
guarantee that homes in the area will be
bought and families moved.
More indictments expected in Abscam investigation
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Fresh indictments
ivolving congressmen are expected this
veek in the growing scandal stemming
rom the FBI’s undercover investigation
Operation Abscam.”
In the first indictment Tuesday, a New
Jork grand jury charged Rep. Michael
Ozzie” Myers, D-Pa., with accepting
130,000 in bribes from undercover agents.
The indictment also charged Myers
shared another $35,000 with Mayor Angelo
Errichetti of Camden, N.J., Philadelphia
City Councilman Louis Johanson and Phi
ladelphia lawyer Howard Criden.
The four allegedly conspired to promise
for $100,000 to introduce legislation that
would let supposed Arab sheiks — actually
FBI undercover agents — remain in the
United States.
The charges are expected to mark the
start of a series of sweeping and controver
sial indictments against as many as a half
dozen members of Congress in perhaps the
worst scandal to rock Capitol Hill since
Watergate.
Another indictment was possible today
in the unprecedented Abscam investiga
tion in which FBI agents posed as Arab
businessmen and their associates to tempt
politicians to trade their influence for
bribes.
Abscam was named for Abdul Enter
prises Inc., a fictitious firm set up by the
FBI to provide cover for the agents.
“I had no indication it was coming,”
Myers said of the indictment.
The congressmen declined direct com
ment until he had a chance to study the
indictment.
Myers’ Washington lawyer, Plato
Cacheris, accused prosecutors of breaking
a promise to give him advance warning of
the indictment.
“He will plead not guilty,” Cacheris said.
Myers, 36, a second-term congressman,
recently won the Democratic nomination
to seek a third term despite leaks in Febru
ary that brought wide publicity about his
involvement in Abscam.
The indictment accused him of conspira
cy, bribery and interstate travel in aid of a
racketeering enterprise. The other three
defendants were charged with aiding and
abetting a bribe and the other two counts.
All four face maximum penalties, if con
victed of all counts, of 25 years in prison and
$40,000 in fines.
The main evidence against them came
from FBI videotapes of their meetings with
undercover agents, including Myers’ ses
sion last August at the Kennedy Airport
Hilton Hotel in New York where he
allegedly took an envelope stuffed with
$50,000.
The indictment said FBI agents paid
$50,000 to Myers. It said Myers passed
$35,000 of the money to Criden; to Johan
sen, a law partner of Criden; and
Errichetti.
Myers then sought and received another
$35,000 for himself from the undercover
agents, the indictment said.
Errichetti and Criden allegedly served
as unwitting “middlemen” in the investiga
tion, leading FBI agents to Myers and sev
eral other of the politicians implicated.
Criden was charged with six felony
counts last week in the first major Abscam
indictment against three Philadelphia City
Council members, including Johansen, his
private law partner. Besides Myers,
Criden also was alleged to have led under
cover agents to Reps. Raymond Lederer,
D-Pa., John Murphy, D-N.Y., Frank
Thompson, D-N.J., and John Murtha,D-Pa.
Criden’s attorney, former Watergate
prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, said his
client would plead innocent unless he gets
full immunity from prosecution.
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