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Vol. 74 No. 22
14 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, September 30, 1980
College Station, Texas
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our players cleared; fifth appears today
By RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
our of the five Texas A&M University football players called
>re separate Student Affairs’ hearings Monday were cleared of
guilt in an investigation of drug use after their accuser did not
ear at the meetings.
fifth player will appear today at 10 a.m. before a hearing
I.
Defensive starters Doug Carr and Leandrew Brown were
ftd Monday morning after two 15-minute meetings, and fel-
Jteammates Jay Dale and Stuart Clark were cleared after
eting with Bill Kibler, assistant director of Student Affairs,
jin the day.
Sophomore Kenny Ingram was asked to appear again this morn
ing for an undisclosed reason. The defensive lineman did not show
up for the team’s afternoon practice, but was scheduled to play in
Monday’s junior varsity game.
The four players had not been suspended from the team.
The five players were implicated in a letter sent to the Student
Affairs office by former teammate Cal Peveto during the middle of
last week. University sources said Monday. Peveto was dismissed
from the team last Wednesday, and was not present at Monday’s
meetings although he was reportedly asked to attend.
Texas A&M Head Coach Tom Wilson said Friday he wouldn’t
decide on any more suspensions until after the Monday hearings.
Last week, defensive players Peveto and Elroy Steen were
dismissed from the team in the wake of a drug investigation of the
ballteam.
Free safety Darrell Adams had been dismissed, but was
allowed to return to the team after a Student Affairs board deter
mined the pills found in his room after a search of Cain Hall were
prescription drugs.
Offensive lineman Tim Ward said Monday the team is getting
over the surprise of the dismissals.
“It’s (the attitude of the team) pretty good,” he said. “We’ve
gotten over the initial shock. What I think is Wilson is getting
people who want to play the game because they love it. I think
some guys were not playing because they loved it. They weren’t
playing to their full potential. ”
Ward said the players are looking forward to the Texas Tech
game Saturday.
“Yeah, we got a few surprises for ’em (Tech),” he said. “Every
body on the team is tired of hearing that we’re not worth a damn. ”
Ward added that Wilson hasn’t referred to the drug problem
much at practices.
“He hasn’t really been saying much at all about it, ” he said. “It’s
been a pretty normal week. He said that all this stuff is going on,
but to get out there and forget about it.”
Wilson said in a news conference Monday that there would be
several changes in the Aggie lineup, but he wouldn’t announce
them until Thursday or Friday.
“Late in the week they realized it was all for good, and we had
one of our better workouts last Friday,” said Wilson. “They know
we won’t put up with it now, and I think they’re getting ready to
play football the rest of the season.”
Iran threatens to bomb
Arab nations that help Iraq
United Press International
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iran threatened to
bomb any Arab nation aiding Iraq and
Tehran’s “hanging judge” warned the 52
American hostages will not be freed soon
despite the Persian Gulf war.
In Tokyo, the Foreign Ministry today
reported the Iranian town of Khurram-
shahr had fallen to the advancing Iraqis and
was reduced to rubble after days of
fighting.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said Iraqi
tanks and armored vehicles had rumbled
into the contested port city and the
Japanese consul general and his personnel
were evacuating.
In Cairo, Egypt appealed for U.S. inter
vention and said its armed forces were
ready to defend the other countries in the
Persian Gulf from any attack.
At the United Nations, a well-informed
Middle East diplomat warned today the
war could “linger on for a long time” in a
situation he characterized as “disastrous for
the whole area.”
The war moved into its ninth day with
Tehran not responding to a U.N. Security
Council plea to end hostilities despite
Iraq’s saying it was ready to cease firing
“immediately” if Iran did the same.
With the hostages nearing their 12th
month in captivity, Iran’s revolutionary
judge Sadegh Khalkhali, who has conde
mned hundreds of counter-revolutionaries
to death, warned the war will not accelerate
the release of the Americans, now in their
332nd day of detention.
“If the U.S.A. thinks an attack will be
useful in saving the hostages, I disagree,”
Khalkhali said in a visit to the front Mon
day. “We are not afraid of these attacks, and
not one individual hostage will be freed in
the near future.”
The major fighting was centered in oil-
rich Khuzistan province — in the pro
vince’s port city of Khurramshahr and near
by refinery town of Abadan, both of which
Iraq has claimed it has captured. Iran has
contested the claims, calling the reported
taking of Abadan “a deranged lie.”
Iraq Monday claimed capture of a key
Iranian air base and knocked out three
bridges near Dizful, 55 miles inside Iran,
the deepest Iraqi penetration. It admitted
losing two warplanes in widespread action.
In the air war, Iranian warplanes struck
the Iraqi oil terminals at Kirkuk, and the
cities of Basra and Fao at the mouth of the
Shatt al-Arab waterway. Tehran said its
forces were counter attacking on the north
ern front.
The fiery Iranian pledge to spread the
war throughout the Persian Gulf and
beyond came as Washington announced
President Carter was considering sending
the latest AWACS (Airborne Warning and
Control System) aircraft to Saudi Arabia.
The sophisticated AWACS communica
tions planes can coordinate fighter and
bomber activity and information on enemy
aircraft.
The Washington announcement left
open the possibility of using warplanes to
protect the Strait of Hormuz through which
40 percent of the world’s oil passes.
The specter of war spreading to other
Persian Gulf states was raised by Iran’s
Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai, who
accused Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Jordan “and
other similar states” of helping Iraq. He
said Iran would “consider them as being in
a state of war” if the aid continued.
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Sasser, a junior also from Edinburg, helps Van keep in
shape by holding his feet and keeping count.
Carter considers sending planes
to Saudi Arabia for Persian Gulf
Fish filing
ends today
___ United Press International
RFYKJAVIK, Iceland — Jaromir Wag-
jcame in on a wing and a prayer —
Wly. He landed in Iceland, standing on
elwing of his aircraft to end a six-hour
ght across a stretch of the Atlantic,
jg just love risks, ” the 41 year-old Czech-
ifn daredevil told a crowd of Icelanders as
landed Monday in Reykjavik on the
ird stop of his attempt to cross the Atlan-
Itanding on the wing of his plane.
Keeping his balance with the aid of straps
id a handlebar, Wagner and his twin-
■ne De Havilland Islander plane landed
ter a six-hour flight from the Faroe Is-
ftds.
JjVagner, who lives in Geissen, West
ermany, spent the night in the Icelandic
pital preparing for the chilliest part of his
'limey over Greenland. The first thing he
id when he checked into his hotel was to
ke a hot bath.
he makes it all the way to Canada and
en New York, Wagner will earn a line in
te record books as the first person ever to
cross the Atlantic standing on top of a
plane.
After touring New York, he plans to fly
home again — sitting down.
Decked out in a skin diver’s suit and
leather clothes to shield himself from the
extreme cold at flying altitudes, the father
of four keeps his grip with the help of two
leather straps and a metal bar welded to the
wing span.
Cruising toward Greenland, the adven
turer’s pilot plans to take a southerly route
at low altitudes in order to avoid the deadly
cold of the ice cap that forms the bulk of
Greenland.
Wagner’s wife Maria admitted she was
worried about risk he is taking during the
next leg of his attempt.
“I’m a bit afraid, what with the cold and
the wind on the passage over the ice,” she
said.
Wagner’s attempt has so far taken him
from West Germany to Aberdeen, Scot
land, and then to the Faroe Islands before
landing in Iceland.
The deadline for filing for candidacy in
the freshmen class officer election is 5 p. m.
today. Candidates must file in 216A Memo
rial Student Center, with a filing fee of $1
required from each candidate.
The Class of ’84 officers will be chosen
during an election from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
on Oct. 15.
Seven at-large student senate positions
will also be voted on at that time.
Class of ’84 officers include president,
vice-president, secretary-treasurer and so
cial secretary.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter is considering sending
highly sophisticated communications aircraft and crews to Saudi
Arabia for possible use in the Persian Gulf area.
But a Pentagon official Monday night said “no final decision has
been made” on whether to dispatch the Air Force Airborne
Warning and Control System airplanes to Saudi Arabia.
The planes, known as AWACS, are highly sophisticated air
borne communications and control systems that can coordinate
fighter and bomber plane activity and information on hostile
aircraft and defenses, and act as combat control centers.
Such planes are now deployed in Egypt, and deployment to
Saudi Arabia would leave open the possibility of using fighter
aircraft to protect the Strait of Hormuz through which tankers
pass with vital oil supplies to the West.
While the Saudis have been been extremely sensitive about a
military presence in their country, this would not be the first time
American AWACS were sent there.
Two of the Boeing flying command centers spent six weeks in
Saudi Arabia last spring working with Saudi Arabian air force
planes.
Administration sources said a minimum of two planes would be
dispatched to Saudi Arabia, if such a decision is made, to provide
backup in case of any malfunction to either aircraft.
The United States already has two aircraft carriers in the Per
sian Gulf and Indian Ocean as part of the sustained U.S. naval
presence since the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Word that Carter was considering sending the planes to Saudi
Arabia came after the president and top officials briefed congres
sional leaders on possible action to deal with the Iraq-Iran war.
“There is a general feeling that the allies must participate in
whatever actions we take,” Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., said after
the White House briefing for the congressional leadership.
Diplomatic sources said, however, the British believe it is not
yet necessary or useful to have a joint naval task force in the area.
Carter traveled to New York City Monday to reassure its poli
tical leaders and its heavily Jewish voting bloc his commitment to
them “will never waver” in a second presidential term.
He also denounced Ronald Reagan and Republican leaders for
having “turned their backs on American women” by opposing the
Equal Rights Amendment and using the same “states’ rights”
argument civil rights foes used 20 years ago.
Carter’s next campaign trip, Wednesday, will be to Detroit,
Flint, Mich., and New York. He will return to Washington
Wednesday night.
randrna wins diapers to planes
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ELLINGHAM, Wash. — Marie Usitalo
Booked on sweepstake contests. She’s
)n everything from a $28,000 airplane to
•zens of diapers.
[Til tell you, it’s just fun to go to the
ailbox. Every day is Christmas,” says
rs Usitalo, who mails in about 300 con
st entries a month.
un the past week, I’ve won 12 dozen
apers and an AM-FM stereo radio worth
out $300,” she said. Other recent sweep-
ake winnings included two wallets and
'6 pairs of windshield wipers.
■ ve won barbecue sets, radios, three
ffleras and an awful lot of T-shirts, ” she
Ided. “That’s always the last prize, and
'frybody around is wearing my T-shirts.”
But her biggest win came last November
ken Usitalo entered a soft-drink company
•btest, offering as the grand prize a
8,000 Piper Tomahawk two-seat sport
be.
P only sent four entries, and there were
ooo ntries,” she said in amazement.
I she won the plane — plus $ 1,500 worth
lying lessons.
[he plane was delivered to a Seattle-area
jeld and Usitalo, accompanied by
pilot, flew it home to Bellingham where it
has been “tied down,” awaiting a buyer.
Usitalo, a grandmother (“Just don’t put
my age in the paper!”), doesn’t want to
learn to fly and has offered her prize for sale
for $18,500.
“I can’t transfer the flying lessons, so I
guess I’ll lose those,” she said.
Of course, winning a big prize can be
expensive.
She’s had to pay $9,000 in taxes on what
she jokingly refers to as “my lemon.” In
addition, she must pay $18 a month as a
moorage fee and $285 a year for insurance.
But the costs haven’t stopped the plucky
grandmother from the sweepstake game.
“Some people play golf, other people
bowl. I sweepstake,” she said. “It just hap
pens to be my hobby. Besides, you have to
make an investment to get anything back. ”
The past year’s investment included
$900 for stamps and envelopes. She knows
that, because like all frequent contest win
ners soon learn, she can deduct from her
income tax the amount spent to enter.
“It’s so dam much fun,” she said, “espe
cially when you win.”
Castillo favors alien schooling
By SUE McNEILL
Battalion Reporter
Illegal alien children should be educated because “education is
good for society,” a former immigration commissioner said.
Leonel Castillo, former Commissioner of United States Immig
ration and Naturalization Service, spoke in Rudder Tower Mon
day night.
Sponsored by MSC Political Forum and MSC CAMAC, Castil
lo’s presentation dealt with the issue of educating undocumented
alien children.
Although the actual number of undocumented aliens living in
the United States is unknown, the figure is estimated to be
between 3 million and 6 million, with at least half being Mexican,
he said.
Contrary to beliefs in the Sunbelt, Mexicans do not make up the
majority of immigrants, Castillo said. The numbers also include
Cubans, Vietnamese, and Chinese. However, there is a backlog
of 20,000 Mexicans waiting to gain entrance to the United States,
he added.
Anyone born in the United States is a legal citizen, although his
parents may not be. Since the parents in these cases are illegal,
they are afraid to register their children in school becuase they are
afraid of being detected. If caught, the parents can be deported,
but the children cannot be deported if they are legal citizens.
The issue of educating undocumented alien children has not
been a big issue in the presidential campaign, but the nominees
have stated opinions on the issue, Castillo said.
Reagan favors legalizing aliens on a temporary basis so they can
work temporarily, Castillo said. Carter, on the other hand, is for
complete legalization of undocumented aliens since the Demo
crats oppose the idea of temporary workers.
Illegal aliens comprise a significant part of the work force,
Castillo said. He said they help business because they supply a
great deal of unskilled labor.
Even though the issue has not been in debate in the presiden
tial campaigns, it has been under debate in Texas. Castillo de
bated with Texas Attorney General Mark White on the Today
Show last week. Castillo said White, “wants the all the kiddies to
go to school, he just doesn’t want to pay for it.”
Castillo said the education of undocumented children is “not an
Leonel Castillo
easy issue ... it goes into a number of interesting and complex
questions.” One such question concerns funding.
Those opposing say educating the children will bankrupt the
schools because the parents who are illegal aliens do not pay
school taxes and could not provide the extra tax revenues. Castillo
argues that all people living in the United States — documented
or undocumented — pay taxes in some form. He said that the
property tax, for example, cannot be avoided because it is automa
tically included as part of a person’s rent.
Castillo also said that illegal aliens who work have federal
witholding taxes taken out of their paycheck as well as Social
Security taxes. Because illegal aliens are afraid of getting caught,
Castillo said they do not apply for Social Security even though
they pay the taxes.
“Mexicans are paying and not receiving any benefits,” Castillo
said.
Another problem with educating illegal alien children is finding
bilingual teachers for the children who do not speak English,
Castillo said. He said Houston has a need for more than 400
bilingual teachers, but has only 84 in training. Castillo said there is
a “tremendous need” for more bilingual teachers.
The problem of educating these children arose in 1975 when
the Texas Legislature changed the laws providing for public edu
cation. The law before 1975 stated that any resident of Texas was
entitled to free public education. In 1975 the legislature changed
the law and determined that only U.S. citizens were entitled to
free public education.
“The problem is, is that law just?” Castillo said, adding that as a
result of that law thousands of illiterate children are “sitting in
their homes throughout Texas.”
“The only state that does not allow these kids to go to school is
Texas,” Castillo said.
Surprisingly enough, Castillo said, the people opposed to edu
cating illegal alien children are Mexican Americans. For example,
in Brownsville, a Mexican border town, the school superinten
dent, students, and school board are mostly Mexican American
and they are all opposed, he said.
A recent Federal Court ruling allows the children to go to
school at least until the issue is settled.