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U. S. tells Jordan ‘stay out’
United Press International
BASRA, Iraq — Iraqi artillery hammered Abadan into
smoke and flames today, and armored columns massed for
an assault on the beleaguered Iranian refinery town.
The United States warned Jordan, which has pledged
support for Iraq, against getting involved in the conflict
and against sending Iraq any U. S.-supplied weapons in
the Jordanian arsenal.
The New York Times said in a dispatch from Tehran the
war has turned embattled President Abolhassan Bani-
Sadr into a national hero with Iranians rallying behind
him, obeying his call to donate blood and cash for the war
effort.
Cars are remaining off the streets and lights go out
promptly at 7 p.m., but the report noted food shortages in
stores and growing lines for kerosene and cooking oil.
As the war ground into its 17th day, observers said
Abadan may be Iraq’s final strategic target and a possible
crucial bargaining chip in negotiations with the Iranians.
The battle for the key refining town began before the
shooting died down in Khurramshahr, 25 miles to the
north, where Iraqi troops controlled the port area but
were still flushing out die-hard Iranian defenders from the
city center.
Iraqi field guns on the outskirts of Khurramshahr
arched shells over the city at targets in Abadan, which
under the late shah became a symbol of Iran’s technolo
gical independence and oil wealth.
UPI correspondent Alvin Webb in Baghdad said Iraqis
brought up mechanized reinforcements, including tanks
by the score to Basra, apparently in anticipation of cros
sing into Iran for an assault on Abadan.
Iran said it shot down two Iraqi MiGs attacking Abadan
Tuesday, and Iraq said it had destroyed an oil depot and
damaged “an enemy tanker” in an exchange of fire.
Despite eyewitness account from Western reporters,
Iran angrily lashed out at reports that Khurramshahr had
fallen.
Iranian acting Chief of Staff Gen. Valyollah Fallahi said
Iraqi forces failed in three attempts to take Khurramshahr
and had left behind many dead while Iranian troops were
“engaged in mopping up in the city.”
Fallahi claimed Tehran would soon be ready to coun
terattack and was capable of “regaining the borders,”
where he said Iranian troops had cut Iraqi forces from 12
divisions to seven.
He advocated complete destruction of Iraqi forces “so
that this aggressive creature will not be able to pose a
threat to our country.”
Baghdad Radio announced Iranian jets Tuesday “sav
agely raided civilian targets in Sulaimaniya” in the moun
tains of Kurdistan in northeastern Iraq. The raids “caused
the death of seven people and wounded 37 others,” the
communique said.
There were signs other Arab states were becoming
increasingly involved in the conflict.
Jordan Tuesday turned over its major port to Iraqi ships
and assigned civilian transport vehicles for the resupply of
Iraq and Jordan’s King Hussein proclaimed his opposition
to Iran’s “racial fanaticism.”
But Syria lashed out at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
as “power hungry. ” Syria and Iraq are run by rival factions
of the Ba’athist party and have been at odds for years.
The commander of the Iranian air force vowed revenge
on Jordan, saying “we shall defeat Iraq and those who help
her, like the traitor King Hussein of Jordan.”
Government rests
Defense wants immediate
case in Brilab
verdict of innocent
United Press International
HOUSTON — Embarrassed govern
ment prosecutors have closed their Brilab
case against House Speaker Billy Clayton,
and mildly jubilant defense attorneys want
the presiding judge to bring the trial to an
immediate end with a directed verdict of
innocent.
The government rested its case Tuesday
and if it had hoped to close its presentation
with ringing condemnations, those plans
went seriously wrong.
The prosecution’s own witnesses repe
atedly refused to say Clayton would ever
accept a bribe under any circumstances.
Clayton is charged with accepting a $5,000
from labor leader L.G. Moore and under
cover informant Joseph Hauser in ex
change for influencing the award of Texas’
lucrative state employees’ insurance con
tract.
Clayton acknowleges he accepted
$5,000, but said he was going to give it
back.
U.S. District Judge Robert O’Conor
planned a 10 a. m. hearing to argue whether
the government had proved its allegations.
O'Conor can rule the government failed to
prove its case and dismiss all charges; or he
can rule only some elements of the allega
tions have been demonstrated and con
tinue the trial on only those charges; or he
can rule that all of the allegations need to be
refuted by defense testimony — at which
time the defense would have to begin its
case.
The last four witnesses the prosecution
presented — Clayton aide Rusty Kelley,
Clayton campaign treasurer Connie Saatb-
off. Chip Holt of the Secretary of State’s
office and Bob Johnson, formerly of the
state employees retirement system board
— fell far short of condemning Clayton.
Kelley said Clayton never told him to
give the money back, but he also said he
thought Clayton might have been dis
tracted. Kelley said he felt loyal to the
speaker and thought he was basically
honest.
Saathoff said she was never advised of the
$5,000 at all, but also said it was not uncom
mon for money to be returned without her
ever knowing about it. She also said
Clayton was a very concerned “taskmaster”
about making campaign money reports.
Holt said campaign funding laws require
reporting contributions but said Clayton
did not break campaign funding laws by
delaying reporting or returning it. He also
said Clayton technically may not even have
“accepted” the money.
The final witness, Johnson, said he
would have politely thrown Hauser out of
his office, but he also said Clayton had a
special political problem with Moore, a
labor man whose support Clayton needed
to run for governor.
Johnson said it sounded to him like
Moore “boxed” Clayton in and that Clayton
was trying to handle him politely. Johnson
clearly indicated he thought Clayton’s con
duct could be interpreted as legal and
proper.
“There’s no way Bill Clayton would take
any money from anybody to do anything
wrong,” Johnson said. “You’re not gonna
buy Billy Wayne Clayton for $5,000, $5
million or $50 million.”
Defense lawyer Roy Minton, cross-
examining Johnson, asked Johnson to char
acterize Hauser.
“He’s a con man,” Johnson said. “It
(Hauser’s talk) is bull.”
Johnson testified Clayton’s only express
ed interest in the insurance, in “two or
three” conversations, was saving state
money. He said the insurance bidding fin
ally was reopened and the new deal saved
the state $17 million.
t Carter to decide next week if big push worth money
United Press International
President Carter’s whereabouts during the final two weeks
)efore Nov. 4 will pinpoint the states in which he feels he is
railing — but must win.
Mickey Kantor, Carter’s state campaign chief in California, said
Tuesday the president’s strategists will decide late next week
Whether to spend the time and money required for a major effort
p win Ronald Reagan’s home state, or concede its 45 electoral
rc>tes to the Republican nominee.
Similar decisions will have to be made in other close states
A'here a big final push might give Carter the needed impetus for
dctory. Currently, according to Kantor, they include Florida,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Texas.
A new CBS-New York Times poll in California showed Reagan
with 40 percent to Carter’s 28 percent. Independent John Ander
son had 11 percent, a big 19 percent were undecided and the rest
went to minor candidates.
“If Ronald Reagan, in his own state, can only get 40 percent four
weeks before the election, he’s in trouble,” Kantor said. “Ander
son is fading away.”
Carter was spending today at the White House, while Reagan
planned campaign events in Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, and
Anderson scheduled a trip to Columbus, Ohio.
Anderson said Tuesday Carter has a well-founded fear he is
losing the election, and the independent candidate offered him
self as the only viable alternative to Reagan.
Reagan chided Carter for his tough campaign talk and said the
president “owes the country an apology” for saying a Reagan
presidency would divide the nation “black from white, Jew from
Christian, North from South, rural from urban.”
But Carter aides indicated the attacks will continue.
Carter press secretary Jody Powell said the campaign considers
it essential to “focus on the idea of Governor Reagan as president, ”
and during the next four weeks will let the American people know
“just exactly what Governor Reagan would do as president and
how it would affect their lives.”
He indicated Carter will remain on the attack when he resumes
campaigning Thursday and Friday in Tennessee, North Carolina
and Florida.
Reagan, in fact, tempered one of his own remarks Tuesday. He
called Carter “a badly misinformed and prejudiced man. ” But in a
television interview later said he did not mean to convey he thinks
Carter is a bigot — only that “maybe he’s prejudiced against me
because I’m running for president.”
Reagan campaigned late Tuesday at a “Save Our Steel” rally in
Steubenville, Ohio, where he accused the president of stealing
his plan to revitalize the steel industry.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Cartcr
welcomed Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu
Shagari to the White House Tuesday and
jne two leaders pledged to work for black
Bajority rule in Southwest Africa, known as
Namibia.
||The sun-splashed ceremony on the
South Lawn provided a bit of embarrass
ment for the host when the door on the
American limousine carrying Shagari stuck
ind he had to crawl out the opposite side.
to help Nigeria
Shagari’s trip to the United States is his
first state visit outside Africa since he be
came the first democratically elected presi
dent in Nigeria, the most powerful of the
black African nations and America’s No. 2
oil supplier.
“We are particularly gratified to cooper
ate with Nigeria in helping to establish a
new democracy in Zimbabwe, ” Carter said
in his remarks. “This must be followed by
the same commitment to see the same de
velopment of majority rule and interracial
cooperation in Namibia.”
Shagari expressed the same sentiments,
saying, “I hope that we will dedicate our
best efforts toward the achievement of
similar solutions in Namibia and elsewhere
in that area of the African continent.”
“The relationship between our two na
tions is growing,” Carter said. “Our trade
increases every year enormously.”
‘Only One Date a Semester’ bill
on agenda of student senate
By NANCY ANDERSEN
K Battalion Staff
i Students tired of paying $50 for a football game date book which
may only be used once, may have a chance to buy date tickets on a
gamc-by-game basis.
E The “Only One Date a Semester” bill to be introduced at the
student senate meeting Wednesday will recommend that the
Athletic Department sell individual date tickets at the same time
student tickets are picked up. Only one ticket would be sold per
student ticket.
1 Allowing students to buy date tickets as they need them may
not only save Aggies some money, but it may also discourage
[scalping, said bill sponsor Janet Golub.
H The bill will be on first reading and, unless placed on emergen
cy, it will not be acted on until the next meeting, Friday, Oct. 24.
E Bills which may be acted on are documentation of an academic
minor, row indication of Texas A&M University parking lots, a
basement competitiveness resolution and evaluation of the
change in Silver Taps.
1 The documentation bill would require the Registrar’s Office to
record a student’s minor on his official transcript. Currently,
there is no official record, said bill sponsor Phil Hannah.
4 Hannah also sponsored the parking indicators bill which recom
mends that the University Police put row markers in nine of the
larger parking lots.
Students parking in these lots for extended periods of time have
difficulty finding their cars, Hannah said.
The latter two bills were held in committee for the past two
senate meetings and probably will remain there, said Eric Lang
ford, vice president for student services.
The Basement competitiveness resolution would request that
permission be granted for the Basement Coffeehouse to apply for
a permit to sell beer on weekends. The bill’s purpose is to make
the coffeehouse, which features well-known entertainers like
Shake Russell, more competitive with similar off-campus estab
lishments serving liquor.
Langford said this will be held until more research can be done.
This might include student surveys and visiting other schools with
similar establishments.
The Silver Taps evaluation will review the policy change legis
lated by the senate last semester. The frequency of Silver Taps
was changed from the Tuesday following a student’s death, to not
more than once a month.
This bill will probably be held until after November or Decem
ber because there haven’t been enough Silver Taps held to evalu
ate the change, Langford said.
Alternative to capping
Doctor creates smiles
United Press International
NEW YORK — Dr. James Eisdor-
fer’s specialty is making people smile.
He smiles as he recalls some of his
patients — a teen-age girl from New
Jersey who never smiled outside her
house, a Staten Island housewife who
always talked with her hand in front of
her face, a young boy with a football
injury, a television anouncer and plenty
of models.
“I give them immediate smiles,” Eis-
dorfer said.
Eisdorfer is one of about 10 percent of
the nation’s dentists who now are restor
ing chipped, lined, stained, pitted or
crooked teeth with a method tbat is fas
ter and less expensive than capping.
The method, composite resin restora
tion, entails using a mixture of silica and
quartz — compounds previously used
only to fill cavities in front teeth — to
paint over various flaws. After the thick
mixture sets, which takes about 10 mi
nutes, the dentist uses disks to “sculpt”
the tooth into the desired shape.
Eisdorfer said his work costs about
half as much as capping a tooth, a long,
often painful process that involves
grinding a tooth down to a stub and then
crowning it with a cap of porcelain filled
with gold.
While capping can run $500 to $600 a
tooth and take a minimum of three or
fours hours per tooth with multiple
visits required, painting costs $200-
Besides the professional
smilers, patients who
appear in Eisdorfer’s Man
hattan office include truck
drivers, little league base
ball players, housewives
and shy teen-agers with
gaping spaces between
their front teeth.
$250 and often can take less than an hour
to restore a tooth, Eisdorfer said.
Eisdorfer also is confident that his
work lasts “in excess of five years,”
which is about how long he has been
using the process. None of his patients
thus far have needed new work, he said.
“But nothing lasts forever,” Eisdorfer
said. “Crowns have to be redone when
the gum grows up” exposing the line
between the cap and the tooth stub, he
said.
Eisdorfer, who received his degree in
dentistry from New York University in
1973 and then specialized in capping
during an internship at Mount Fiore
Hospital in New York, does not believe
resin restoration will replace capping
entirely, but said he thinks it is a practic
al alternative.
The process is particularly practical
for persons who want their teeth
changed solely for cosmetic purposes —
models, performers or television perso
nalities whose smiles are their livings.
“There’s no destroying a perfectly
sound tooth by filing it to a stub,” Eis
dorfer said. “You clean the tooth and
then you put the mixture over it.”
Eisdorfer said he has never had a case
where decay developed under the mix
ture.
Besides the professional smilers, pa
tients who appear in Eisdorfer’s Man
hattan office include trucks drivers, lit
tle league baseball players, housewives
and shy teen-agers with gaping spaces
between their front teeth.
One singer from Venezuala was very
pleased with his work.
“She sent me two album covers, a
before and an after — with a big smile,”
• Eisdorfer said.