3D O 3 The Battalion Serving the Texas A&M University community Vol. 74 No. 30 Friday, October 10, 1980 USPS 045 360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 The Weather Yesterday Today High 86 High 88 Low 60 Low 55 Humidity. . . 75% Humidity ...90% Rain .. 0.0 inches Chance of rain. . . Gosh, this is interesting... Sophomore Pam Park is testimony to the fact that some- tions were good ... she had plans to catch up on her times even the best made plans go awry. Park’s inten- studies, but ends up catching up on her sleep. |J. S. - Soviet grain contract ends; China chosen as replacement (S) „ United Press International ^WASHINGTON — In a new slap at tb Mviets, the United States and China are 01 ige verge of signing a three-year grain con tract that could send up to 9 million tons c wheat and com to the Chinese annually v.S. officials say. This pact, in effect, would replace om | (|jpe United States has had with the Sovie § Union for the last five years. The U.S. fjBoviet grain contract expires this year an< £|S not expected to be extended. ' W, States has for some tinn tbecn conducting discussions with the Peo 'Jiff 5 Republic of China on the possibh ^p es °fU.S. grain, ” a White House spokes Pin said Thursday night. “Those discus Spns are continuing and the prospects fo p agreement are encouraging. ” An official said the impact on domestic prices would be "minimal” and the issue “has been carefully considered. ” The official said the agreement, being negotiated by U.S. and Chinese officials in Peking, could involve between 6 million and 9 million tons a year during the life of the three-year agreement. Officials said the agreement, which could be signed during the next week, would follow the lines of a five-year con tract with the Soviet Union. The Russian agreement, announced Oct. 20, 1975, and effective Oct. 1, 1976, is now in its fifth and final year. It requires the Kremlin to buy at least 6 million tons of American grain annually, half com and half wheat. The Soviets may buy up to 8 million tons without American approval. Carter embargoed 17 million tons of grain sales last Jan. 4, in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. That grain had been approved by the administration on top of the minimum of 8 million tons. Despite the partial embargo, Carter abided by minimum terms of the agree ment with the Soviets for its fourth and fifth years. Russia bought nearly 8 million tons for the fourth year and so far has bought 7.7 million tons for the fifth year, which began Oct. 1. Officials say it is unlikely the U.S.-Soviet grain agreement — designed to reduce the impact of erratic Russian purchases on world grain markets — will be extended. Bullock condones Clayton’s actions United Press International HOUSTON — State Comptroller Bob Bullock says personal knowledge of a union official would have made him suspicious of $5,000 handed over as an ostensible contri bution, but he believes he would have handled the situation much as House Speaker Bill Clayton did. Clayton’s acceptance last November of the cash, which he later said he intended to return, led to the Brilab charges he is now defending himself against in federal court. Bullock, characterizing himself as a li beral whose political beliefs are at polar opposites from those of the west Texas Democrat, testified Thursday he knew of a no more honest man in state politics than the three-term speaker. Bullock’s voice boomed across the cour troom as he offered a rambling explanation of how he would have reacted to the $5,000 contribution offer from Houston labor lead er L.G. Moore and FBI informant Joseph Hauser, who was posing as an insurance salesman when the pair met with Clayton last fall. “In this case, knowing what I know about that labor man, he’s a pretty brassy fellow, and if he had come into my office with a fellow that I didn’t know and offered me $5,000 before he even talked insurance to me, I would have thrown him out, ” Bullock testified. “But if he had come in after he had pre sented that (insurance) program and I thought it was worthy and I thought it was good and I thought there was a possibility Texas might save money on it, and then he said, T want to make you a contribution,’ I would probably take it from L. G., ” Bullock said. “But now something else. I know L.G. I know it wasn’t L.G.’s money. I don’t think Billy (Clayton) would know it, but I would because Billy is on the other side of the spectrum. He doesn’t know anything about labor. I know labor. I know what they give. I know what L. G. gives and if he came in and said, ‘Here’s $5,000 from me and I want to make a contribution to you,’ you know what I would do? “I would put it in a drawer and I would keep it there and the next time I saw him I would say, ‘L.G., come here. You and I better have a little talk. That ain’t your money, friend, and here it is back.’” Clayton has said he was embarrassed by the contribution and ordered it kept in a locked drawer for months until he could return it. Because it was neither returned nor reported by Jan. 15, prosecutors said it was a bribe in exchange for help in switch ing a $76 million state employees’ insur ance contract to a company favored by Moore. During questioning by prosecutors, Bul lock said he would have returned the money only in person and would not have mailed it or discussed the incident on the telephone with Moore until he could "look him in the eye” and explain such financial support was not necessary. Bullock testified he not only considers Clayton the most honest member of the Texas House, but he said he would “stake my life” on the honesty of Clayton’s co defendants, Austin law partners and former Bullock employees Randall Wood and Donald Ray, accused by the government of aiding the alleged bribery scheme. Better late than never Kick-off at 10:30 p.m. Persons holding some temporary-seating tickets to the Texas A&M-Houston football game will be seated in Astrodome Auxili ary Field Level sections 101A and 101B, an Athletic Department spokesman said Thursday. The spokesman said the seating arrangement will mean sta dium workers will not have to set up the chairs for general admission ticket holders. Temporary-seat ticket holders are asked to enter through the west entrance. Kickoff for Saturday’s game is still set at approximately 10:30 p.m., due to the Houston Astros’ National League playoff game earlier in the day. Football fans are being asked to monitor the progress of the baseball game. Texas A&M and Houston should start their game no sooner than four hours after the end of the baseball game. It will take three hours to convert the stadium to a football configura tion, and players and coaches want at least an hour to warm up on the stadium surface. Fans should not leave for the stadium any earlier than 90 minutes prior to the anticipated kickoff time, in order to minimize traffic problems. Houston officials are projecting one of the city’s worst-ever traffic jams around the Astrodome Saturday night, as 50,000 departing baseball fans run into 50,000 incoming football fans. Yell practice site found Finding a place to have midnight yell practice at Houston before the Texas A&M-Houston football game has been as diffi cult as determining the starting time for the game. Yell practice will be held at the Whiskey River Club, located at Gessner and Westheimer in Houston. The trouble with midnight yell practice is the Aggies’ fault, according to Mark Outlaw, head yell leader at Texas A&M. “We called many places in Houston, including the Astrodome, trying to find a place to hold yell practice, ” Outlaw said. “We were turned down by all the places except the Whiskey River Club. The main reason we were not allowed to use the places we called is because most of the places have heard we leave a lot of trash. “The management of Whiskey River was nice enough to let us use their parking lot,” Outlaw added, “so the least we can do is clean up after ourselves when we leave. Bad conduct and exces sive litter will make it even tougher to find a place for yell practice next year.” The trouble with the starting time is being caused by the Houston Astros’ quest for the National League baseball cham pionship. The Astros’ afternoon start will cause a delay of the scheduled 7:30 p.m. kickoff time, since about four hours is needed to convert the field from a baseball to a football arrangement. The game is expected to get under way between 10:30 and 11:30 Saturday night. Missing colonel said dead; u 8 v> ? 0 1 z c , . Upited Press International « 10 u 5 AN ANTONIO — Col. Charles Shelton o ® ® 13: oo V 0 ,*. 0WT1 ov er Laos 15 years ago on his S’f 2 5;■ ‘d birthday and the only Air Force ■§ ^ n 5^5! aSUalty t ^ le Vietnam War still un- 5'ao f ' ounte d for — is legally dead in the eyes 5 S | IS )!" a military review board, but his heart- 6 3 I. i J ^ r< Ti n V ^ e sa y s b er quest will never end. W Tk j Uree-member board voted 2-1 ursday to recommend that the Air Force 1Shelton killed in action. „ le decision, which came after three O O (/) _i Hx; 0 3 3 1C Sg pi mm O ^ 8 c . I 2. £ ? ? I - n * rr^ n ' te ^ Press International = p o 2 'AGHDAD, Iraq — Iranian aircraft : S ^ arne d across northern Iraq in fierce z s tnkes that killed 13 people, and Iraqi war- P anes pounded vital Iranian cities on the uthern front banking the Shatt al-Arab erway, the Baghdad military said today. o of ’* s Circes besieged the city u . .* z bd in an apparent effort to cut the a i nes ^at carry crude oil, heating oil ] f o' J *5; . gasoline to Iran’s capital of Tehran. But i . an Cja imed it had blunted the Iraqi offen- f JJ Ve along the 400-mile Persian Gulf war S front. !■ ;s M O ~ 0 r+ - T c * , 92. -i § 5T *■ 0 | a = 0I I!?!* ! in A Baghdad military statement said Ira nian aircraft swept over a 160-mile stretch of northern Iraq at Mosul, Kirkuk, and Suleimaniya, killing 13 people and wound ing 11 others. But Iraqi fire shot down five of the raid ing aircraft, the military said. One crashed into a house in Mosul, killing a woman and a child. Iran’s thrust, starting late Thursday and continuing early today, was aimed at “civi lian installations and housing areas,” Iraq said. Iraqi jets inflicted “big losses” on Iran “in both its military and economic installa tions” across the southern war front be tween Dizful and Ahvaz, Baghdad said. The Iraqi military reported the “setting ablaze of the Dez refinery, near Khurram- shahr, and destruction of enemy concentra tions” between Ruheima and Ahvaz, about 80 miles northeast of the huge Abadan oil refinery on the waterway. While Iran said it had blunted the Iraqi offensive, it was also reported seeking di plomatic visas for delegates to present their views on the war at the United Nations in New York. ® s ■ Widow denies plotting Chinese coup ® * s 0) S 3 3 I 3 » 0 , PFlTTMri ™ „ United Press International i . i then , The late Chairman Mao Tse-tungs wife, who led Ibre-tri 'i nous Cang of Four, turned on a judge in anger in secret ^ plenty ln ^ erro 8 at '°ns, and refused to cooperate or admit she £ jfxky t0 overt brow the government, Japanese news reports said ! io!s of jj! Mari' 0 J 0n ^~ awaitec * trial the Gang of Four, in prison since °T Conch i u * n * s expected to start early next month and uoti the end °f the year, the Kyodo news agency said, Th rk hinese sources ' renort . binese Foreign Ministry refused to comment on the monfi, ru ut ^ our ’ ^ ed by Mao’s widow, Jiang Qing, but last sn P p. i lna established an extraordinary 35-judge court and a ^Prosecutor’s office. ts f i 0 .. re P or t e d the prosecutors have been grilling the dcfen- issenfi }° try t° obtain confessions, viewed as politically b"1 beforli e trial can start. joopg e £ an 8 members, and especially Jiang, have refused to in? j nt e ’ and Mao’s widow even “turned upon the judge dur- it Rogations and closed-door hearings, Kyodo said. There have been diplomatic reports the potentially explosive trial has been delayed by Jiang’s refusal to admit her guilt and her threat to tell all she knows about the ruling Communist Party and some of its leaders. Jiang and her colleagues, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen, are charged with trying to overthrow the gov ernment and establish a fascist dictatorship. All the charges carry the death penalty and Chinese officials recently indicated the maximum sentence could be passed on some or all of the gang members, who virtually ruled China during Mao’s declining years until they were overthrown in a power struggle in 1976. Legal experts believe if they receive the death sentence, it will be quickly commuted to lengthy imprisonment. Six followers of the late Defense Minister and Mao’s one-time heir apparent, Lin Biao, will also stand trial at the same time. The charges against them are similar, but they face the additional accusation of trying to murder Mao. wife denies decision not to resume trade with Vietnam or allow that country a seat in the United Nations until all Vietnam-era military personnel were accounted for. She insisted the reverse has been true in offical government actions concerning Vietnam since Carter took office. Her attorney, Walter E. Shjeflo of San Diego, said the board declined to tell them what kinds of evidence prompted the deci sion. “There is no requirement that they give us the rationale. They merely have to give us the decision and the vote,” Shjeflo said, adding that he believed the split vote re sulted because “somebody was not con vinced by what someone else was con vinced by.” Shelton earlier had indicated she would contest the review board’s decision in civil court if it deemed Shelton dead, but Thurs day she said: “I don’t know; I’ll have to think about it a while.” She said no matter what turn her quest takes, it will continue. “I have been living 15 years without him,” she said, “I can go on. I feel like I should find out what happened, whether he’s dead or alive.” Shelton, who will receive 55 percent of her husband’s retirement pay if he is de clared legally dead, said her children have “kept my faith up.” Flu season descends once again Beutel treats colds By TERRI COULSON Battalion Reporter Sore throat, runny nose, coughing, sneezing. Chances are that if you go to A.P. Beutel Health Center with these symp toms, you will be referred to the cold clinic. The cold clinic is a service of the health center, operated primarily by nurses, that only treats patients with cold symp toms. Its purpose is to filter out those patients who do not need to see a doctor. This reduces the waiting time for patients, and lightens the daily case loads of the doctors. “When the students come in to the cold clinic, they are seen by a nurse,” Dr. Claude B. Goswick Jr., director of the health center, said. “She evaluates without really diagnosing their problem.” If she sees a problem while examining a student, then she will send the student around to see a doctor, he said. “If any antibiotics are in order, she sends them around to the front, also,” Goswick said. Goswick said that, as often as they can, they try to operate an express clinic. “As much as possible, one of the physicians works in the cold clinic area so that those students who would otherwise be referred around to the front can be seen right there,” he said. “We’ve been so terribly busy lately up front, as compared to the cold clinic, that it really hasn’t been feasible to have somebody seeing patients down there. So the ones that need to see a doctor are sent up front and put in the stack,” he said. “We try to go by sign-in times as far as waiting is concerned, ” Goswick said. “We don’t like the waiting times anymore than anybody else. I know how unpopular it is, but it is just physic ally impossible to see that many students in a day, by that small number of physicians.” Goswick said that if the cold is uncomplicated, the student is given over-the-counter medications at the cold clinic. Flu epidemic predicted By TERRI COULSON Battalion Reporter The flu season is almost upon us, and this year it is predicted to be a bad one. A major flu epidemic is forecasted for the Houston area, according to Baylor University College of Medicine expert Dr. Robert Couch. Since Baylor and Texas A&M University do studies on a collaborative effort, what Couch forecasted for Houston should apply to this area also, said Dr. J. M. Quarles Jr., a Texas A&M microbiologist. “We’ve found in the past that our overall results in terms of what’s happening are very much like in Houston,” Quarles said. “Frequently it shows up in Houston a week or two earfier. Couch said that the most common types will be the A-Brazil and A-Bangkok flu strains. Scientists from Texas A&M and Baylor will continue to test anti-flu vaccine on campus next month as part of an on-going research project that two years ago included 2,000 students in the nation’s first major human testing of anti-Russian flu vac cines. Tests on student volunteers will be done with live, attenu ated vaccines, which give a person a mild dose of the disease in order to trigger immunity without causing illness, said Quarles. Volunteers for the flu research program are recruited through an advertisement in The Battalion. They are asked to sign a consent form before receiving the vaccine. The vaccine is given in the form of nose drops. After a certain amount of time the students are asked to come back to give blood samples. Volunteers receive $10 for each blood sample given.