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Billy read
Libya cables
Beating the heat of the dog days
Photo by Randy Clements
Henry, a German Shepherd belonging to Dr. George Huebner of the Building a deterrent to the summer’s heat. Temperatures and prospects
meteorology department, finds the fountain across from the Chemistry for rainfall were expected to remain the same today: high 90s and slight.
Congressmen appeal to Iran
Reports say U. S. violates embargo
United Press International
llran submitted to parliament Wednes
day a letter signed by 180 U.S. congress
men appealing for a speedy resolution of
the 271-day-old hostage crisis. The speak
er, who introduced the document, said
the United States was “telling lies.”
■The letter, which the State Department
said it passed along to the Swiss Embassy
in Tehran, was one of several reported
moves to unsnag the hostage crisis and
nudge parliament closer to its long
-awaited debate on the fate of 52 Americans
held captive since Nov. 4.
I The letter, delivered to the Swiss Em
bassy in Washington earlier this month,
was drafted by Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R.-
N.Y., whose aides described it as a “legis
lator-to-legislator request for clearing up
the hostage matter.”
In Paris, Iranian exiles in contact with
Tehran said the United States was quietly
violating its own boycott of Iran by allow
ing $150 million in American-made spare
parts to be shipped to the Iranian oil
center of Abadjan.
The sources said the spare parts were
sent from Britain in an airlift that began
several weeks ago. They said Washington
hoped it would favorably affect the hostage
crisis whose resolution has been snarled
by President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr’s dif
ferences with his hardline Islamic opposi
tion over the choice of a prime minister.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who
could order the hostages set free, has
ruled that the parliament controlled by
the fundamentalists will decide what to do
with the captives.
But parliament must first name a prime
minister and Bani-Sadr so far has not been
able to come up with a candidate both
loyal to him and acceptable to the fun
damentalists.
While that dispute dragged on — with
Khomeini refusing to become personally
involved — there were reports that Parlia
ment was getting ready to appoint a “hos
tage committee” to review the cases of
each captive in order to lay the ground
work for the debate when it does finally
begin.
Meanwhile, Tehran Radio said the
Swiss Embassy delivered the letter from
the congressmen to Parliament speaker
Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani who later
read it to the deputies, coupling it with his
own denunciation of the United States.
According to the radio, the letter ar
gued that resolving the hostage crisis was
important for Iran as well as the United
States.
“Aware of the important internal issues
facing your government we ask you fer
vently to give the highest and earliest
priority to the issue of the hostages as your
first step in helping solve much greater,
more important and more sensitive dan
gers which the nations of the world and
the world itself are facing,” the radio
quoted the letter as saying.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — FBI documents
show that Billy Carter told the FBI he
read and kept State Department cables
relating to Libya and reported “Jimmy
gave them to me,” a congressman said
Wednesday.
Rep. Harold Sawyer, R-Mich., a mem
ber of the House Judiciary Committee,
said he learned of the cables from inves
tigative papers the Justice Department
gave the panel for its probe of Billy Carter.
Sawyer said the FBI papers show that
Billy Carter mentioned the cables to fed
eral agents to support his claim that he
actually helped the United States by visit
ing Libya in the fall of 1978.
“He then said all State Department
cable traffic dealing with those visits had
been given to him and he had it in his
house,” Sawyer said.
Sawyer quoted Billy Carter as saying
“Jimmy gave them to me.”
Reporters did not see the FBI docu
ments themselves, but Sawyer said he was
certain he was quoting the agents’ report
correctly.
“I’m a trial lawyer and I read documents
very carefully and I remember them very
carefully,” Sawyer said, repeating that
Billy told the agents “Jimmy gave them to
me.”
“I’m very concerned about the cable
traffic situation,” Sawyer said. “Billy Car
ter was questioned by the FBI and securi
ty agents and said he had been furnished
Libyan cable traffic — had them at his
house.”
That means. Sawyer said, that Billy
Carter was either “guilty of a felony by
giving misinformation” to federal agents or
he really was “an agent of Libya who said
he received them (the cables) from the
president of the United States.”
At the White House, national security
adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was asked to
comment on the report Billy had been
given cables. ‘D’Really, come on now,” he
said.
And White House sources, while not
confirming Billy saw State Department
cables, said they had seen cables that
stressed the president’s brother was just a
private citizen on his trips to Libya and
should not get “special courtesies.”
Another new twist to the case arose at
the Justice Department, where sources
said Billy Carter told federal agents he
telephoned the White House last year to
check on the status of C-130 military
transport planes that Libya bought in the
early 1970s. The planes never were de
livered because the U.S. government be
lieves such planes were used for terrorist
activities.
Sources said Billy told Justice Depart
ment investigators in January he had talk
ed with White House appointments sec
retary Philip Wise about the planes. The
sources said Wise told FBI agents in
March he did not recall the conversation.
Rep. Harold Volkmer, D-Mo., said FBI
records show Wise was not at the White
House when Billy called, and Billy was
referred to the State Department. But
Volkmer said the records do not show if he
talked with anyone there.
Billy registered as a foreign agent work
ing on Libya’s behalf July 14, and ack
nowledged he had received $220,000 from
the Khadafy regime. He said the money
was a loan.
He registered only after the Justice
Department began an investigation of his
relationship with Libya. And Attorney
General Benjamin Civiletti said last week
he told the president in June Billy Carter
probably would not be prosecuted if he
did register.
Such activities — and the possibility
Billy had an influence on American policy
toward Libya — have sparked several
investigations on Capitol Hill.
President Carter said in a public state
ment Tuesday he is eager to get the whole
story out.
“I have no doubt complete disclosure of
the facts will clearly demonstrate that at
no time did my brother influence me in
my decisions toward Libya or the policies
of this government toward Libya,” he
said.
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by DEBBIE NELSON
| Besides armadillos, honkytonks and oil wells, Texas
has a new trademark — beautiful women,
i The long-awaited, long-debated “Girls of the South
west Conference” photo essay appears in Playboy’s
September issue.
| Four million copies of the issue will hit newsstands
Tuesday. Playboy circulation manager Mike Murphy
said extra copies of the issue will be sent to Texas and
Arkansas, where big sales are expected.
T Six women from Texas A&M University are among the
three dozens appearing in the magazine. Three remain
fully clothed. Three do not.
Playboy claims to have discovered “the mother lode”
of gorgeous females in the S WC.
i “Beautiful women are there in quantity, gliding across
the sun-baked campuses of the Bible Belt, ” the article
accompanying the photo feature says,
i The Aggie women seem confident of their decision to
pose for Playboy, whether fully clothed ($100), semi-
“It’s not a nasty picture....
; Just because you're in the
magazine doesn't mean you're
[bad."
! nude (from the navel up; $200) or nude ($300).
As computer science major Tamara Follett put it,
fl think Playboy’s a very classy magazine. If any
body’s doing the exploiting, it’s me.” Since posing for
the photos, Follett has received several modeling and
advertising offers.
Penny Baker, a theater arts major, had mixed reac
tions on seeing her picture in Playboy. “I thought it was
pretty good,” she said, but added, T was surprised. Most
)f my friends don’t recognize me. It’s not ‘really’ me. I
lon’t wear my hair parted on the side, the makeup is so
heavy....”
Willa Windwehen, who remained fully clothed for her
picture, said she is little disappointed because her
picture is so small, “but that’s the type of magazine they
are.”
Windwehen said she didn’t disrobe “because of my
■small town background.” Windwehen is from Gonzales,
population 10,000.
Brenda Kepner, a sophomore, also declined to pose in
the nude. “I’m glad I didn’t do anything more than I did.
11 probably would have regretted it,” she said.
Mitzi Gehrs, an English major, said of her picture, “I
liked it.” She added, “It’s not a nasty picture. I don’t
hink that I would regret it.” Gehrs said she thinks posing
for Playboy is an honor.
“Just because you’re in the magazine doesn’t mean
you’re bad.” Gehrs said.
Kelcey Swartz, the other Aggie who posed for the
(magazine, was unavailable for comment.
Playboy photographer David chan caused a stir at
Texas A&M in January when he placed an advertisement
in The Battalion saying Playboy was looking for “a cross
section of women” from the SWC for September’s Back
to Campus issue.
among Playboy’s ‘Girls of
the SWC’
Chan interviewed about 200 Aggie women, recorded
their vital statistics, snapped some Polaroids and noted
applicants’ willingness to pose clothed or unclothed.
Joe Sarocco, assistant to the editor of Playboy in
Chicago, said all told, Chan took pictures of hundreds of
SWC women. Of those, 50 were chosen for photo
sessions.
Playboy chose the photos which would “fit the lay
out,” Sarocco said. “They’re not purposely the best one,
or the ones with the most interesting backgrounds. We
pick the ones that would look best with the other
pictures.”
Most of the Texas A&M women interviewed said their
boyfriends or their roommates first convinced them to go
to the interviews with David Chan. Some of them hope
to use the picture credit on their resumes or to help
them get modeling jobs.
Follett said, “I used to get really jealous when my
boyfriend looked at Playboy. He said, kind of joking,
‘Well, if you’re so jealous, why don’t you pose for the
magazine?”’
Paula Follett, Tamara’s mother, said, “I think it’s
fantastic. I thought it (her daughter’s picture) was
beautiful, beautiful.” Mrs. Follett herself is a former
photographer’s model.
Baker also said her parents were pleased. “My father
said he wasn’t going to buy one,” she said of the
magazine. But she expects him to pick up an issue
anyway.
Gehrs said she hasn’t heard many reactions to the
picture yet. She decided to pose for Playboy when her
boyfriend and his roommate presented the idea to her.
“ We want you to try out for this Playboy thing,”’
Gehrs said the two told her. “I said, ‘You’re crazy.’”
But she eventually was chosen for a photo session. “It
wasn’t like it was real,” Gehrs said.
None of the women expressed regret for posing for the
magazine. Baker and Follett are even being considered
for Playboy honors — a six-week, $10,000 photo session
that Follett called “the opportunity of a lifetime.”
Although most people congratulate the models (if they
recognize them), some people are less than polite.
Follett, who is a cocktail waitress, gets “hassled every
day, every night” at work. After a few drinks, some male
customers get “horribly disgusting.”
But in the days since the issue has been in subscribers’
homes, Follett has autographed at least a dozen copies
and many more cocktail napkins.
Joe Civiletto, now a Texas A&M student Aggie, was
attending Cornell University last year when Playboy ran
a photo feature on “Girls of Ivy League.” Civiletto and
his Cornell fraternity brothers collected autographs of
many of the models in that issue.
“That magazine was kind of adored at our frat,”
Civiletto said. He said he hopes to have SWC models
authograph this year’s copy so he can mail it to Cornell.
Baker, a waitress, said in the past five days about ten
people have recognized her from her Playboy picture.
“Mostly they’re real nice about it,” she said.
She has no qualms about having her picture in
Playboy. “I was just pleased, ” Baker said. “It was a boost
to my ego that they really picked me.”
Employees who work with Kepner “think it’s really
neat” she is a Playboy model, she said.
Of not posing in the nude, Kepner said, “A lot of
people ask me why I didn’t, but my friends say, ‘You’d
better be glad you didn’t.’”
Windwehen said Gonzales townspeople are excited
about her Playboy appearance. “They’ve had a lot of fun
with it,” she said.
Baker and Follett flew to San Antonio Wednesday
One Texas A&M coed, who
works as a cocktail waitress,
gets “hassled every day, every
night” at work.
night to tape a P.M. Magazine television show about
their experiences with Playboy.
All in all, little protest has been raised against the
women representing Texas A&M in the magazine, or
against those from most other SWC schools.
It’s a different story at Baylor. Despite threats of
disciplinary action from Baylor President Abner McCall
against any nude woman representing Baylor in Playboy,
four photos bear the names of Baylor students.
Two of the women are fully clothed, one is semi-nude,
and one is nude.
Joanie Schwabe, Playboy news consultant, said two of
the women graduated and another is “keeping a very low
profile.”
A Baylor public affairs spokesman said a disciplinary
committee is being formed to consider action against the
woman who has not graduated.
Schwabe speculated the committee will procrastinate
until after the woman graduates, after which no action
could be taken.
The committee could, however, threaten her gradua
tion.
McCall gave Playboy plenty of publicity, Schwabe
said. He also raised an “interesting point” on whether a
private school can censor its student newspaper, she
said.
Last spring, after McCall threatened Baylor coeds
with punitive action, the editors of Baylor Lariat (the
student newspaper) printed an editorial advocating free
dom of choice. McCall ordered that the publication not
devote any more space to coverage of the Playboy
controversy.
Editor Jeff Barton, news editor Cyndy Slovak and city
editor Bary Kolar were fired after criticizing McCall’s
attempts to regulate news content in the paper. Barton,
Slovak, and Sheri Sellmeyer (president of the campus
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional
Journalists) later had their scholarships revoked and
were told they were unwelcome at Baylor.
Associate journalism professors Donald Williams and
Dennis Hale resigned in protest, as did most of the
Lariat staff.
Playboy calls McCall’s actions “petty and vindictive.”
Maybe Playboy did discover the mother lode of
beauty in the SWC. But they also admit, “Looking for
beauty in the Bible Belt can get you belted with a
Bible.”
Texas A&M University junior Tamara Follett is one of the girls featured
in Playboy magazine’s September photo feature, “Girls of the Southwest
Conference.” Follett, a junior computing science major from Lake
Jackson, has no regrets about posing for the magazine; “Computers
don’t care,” she said.
Photo courtesy Playboy magazine