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Vol. 74 No. 32
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Tuesday, October 14, 1980
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raq claims victory on front
United Press International
BASRA, Iraq — Iraqi troops pressed deeper into the
fields of Khuzistan today, slogging toward Abadan and
huge oil refinery. Iran admitted battles with rebellious
9 tfdish tribesmen inside its territory, and Iraq claimed a
£ :tory on the central front.
Hi’s official Pars news agency, revealing the first out-
sak of ethnic rebellion within its borders since its war
down deep th Iraq began 23 days ago, said Kurdish tribesmen
they re stup illed 20 Iranians and injured 50 others in a series of
/fore and 11! acks around Urumieh, near the Turkish border in
ry again toniErthwest Iran. It said 80 “rebels” were killed in the
t there s uhes last Saturday,
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erious ways ®- i n its daily military communique, said an Iranian
eet awa; at Deloran, 18 miles into Iran on the central front,
uthabatinl s § estr °y e d in overnight fighting.
iflaid three tanks and 15 other vehicles were des-
, was cr\ ,y et | 07 Iranian soldiers were killed and 92 were
. >iinded in fighting on all fronts. Iraqi warplanes, Bagh-
\eu ‘ ie *Kaid, destroyed a railway station on the line from
t. I hose . ,j iran to Djzfol an( J other targets without loss,
ney keep mm
Iran said it shot down a sixth Iraqi plane in Monday
night’s attack on Iran’s Kharg island oil terminal in the
Persian Gulf.
In the southern sector, where Iraqi forces were battling
toward Abadan, Iraq said it shot down a helicopter gun-
ship, part of Iran’s stubborn defense of the major city on
the Shattal-Arab waterway.
Iran’s revelation of the Kurdish outbreak was the first
evidence that not all of Iran’s restive minorities have
rallied behind the Tehran government in the conflict with
Iraq.
It said Kurds, who have been in active revolt against
Tehran for years in demanding automony for their area,
killed and wounded Iranian regular army troops, irregular
Revolutionary Guards and civilians in planned attacks on
military targets and a radio-television station.
Battle reports from both sides were scanty today. But
ground action was concentrated near Abadan, one of
Iraq’s key original objectives in the war.
The Iraqi troops thrust north toward Ahvaz and south
toward Abadan in a classic two-pronged drive aimed at
Iran’s oil jugular.
The new Iraqi push, which began Friday, cut the main
road between the two oil centers and knocked out part of
six pipelines leading from Abadan’s domestic refinery,
largest in the Middle East.
Iran conceded some oil workers in Ahvaz had fled and
warned they would be shot as deserters.
Iran’s Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Rajai Monday
again rejected a U.N. call for a cease-fire “so long as the
enemy is on our soil. ”
“Abadan is finished,” an Iraqi divisional commander
told a group of British correspondents, as he watched his
troops broaden the bridgehead across the Karun, which
separates Abadan and its sister city port mf Khurram-
shahr, where Iranian defenders fought on.
Iraq’s taking of Abadan and finally Khurramshahr
would go a long way toward control of the Shatt al-Arab
waterway, the southwestern boundary between the two
OPEC nations. If Ahvaz also fell as well as the reportedly
besieged city of Dizful farther north, Iran’s domestic oil
network would seriously be pinched.
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carried Hon STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Nobel
iced back i ace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel
r room floor Argentina, a human rights champion
for intemev'Mwas jailed for 14 months under an
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ed among tapOOO in prize money to his rights orga-
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of the inventor of dynamite, Swede Alfred
Nobel, who left $9 million to finance the
prizes.
Announcing the peace award to Perez
Esquivel, the Nobel Committee praised
the 48-year-old former architecture profes
sor as “a light in the darkness” in an Argen
tina tom by civil war, terrorism and oppres
sion.
Perez Esquivel, founder of the Christian
Servicio Paz y Justicia group that acts as an
umbrella organization for human rights
activities throughout Latin America, said
all the prize money would go to the group.
The group, working closely with church
authorities critical of the human-rights
situation in Latin America, provides legal
and practical help to workers and labor
organizations.
Perez Esquivel, who charged in a 1979
interview he was “hit in the testicles” and
given cold showers while in prison, said
although he has been a candidate for the
Nobel Peace Prize the past three years,
receiving it was like being “splashed with a
bucket of cold water.”
“I didn’t expect it. I am really surprised, ”
he said in Buenos Aires.
The committee said Perez Esquivel,
whose name was suggested to the Nobel
Committee by the British Quaker Society,
won the honor for the same reasons Soviet
physicist Andrei Sakharov was given the
Peace Prize in 1975.
“He champions a solution of Argentina’s
grievous problems that dispenses with the
use of violence and is a spokesman for a
revival of respect for human rights,” the
committee said.
“The views he represents carry a vital
message to many other countries, not least
in Latin America, where social and political
problems as yet unsolved have resulted in
an escalation of the use of violence.”
The second Argentine to win the Nobel
Peace Prize, Perez Esquivel gave up his
architecture career in 1974 to devote all his
time to human rights. He was arrested
without charge by Argentine authorities in
the spring of 1977 and released 14 months
later.
“This prize is not given to me in particu
lar, but to the the poor of Latin America,
the country folk, workers and those who
work for a more humane and just world,”
the Nobel laureate said.
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Staff photo by Jeff Kerber
Its just a little blood...
Jane Boyd, a junior from Corsicana, keeps a stiff upper lip as she gives
blood for the Aggie Blood Drive. The Drive will continue through the end
of this week, in room 212 of the MSC, in front of the Commons and near
the fish pond. Sponsors hope to collect over 2,000 pints.
i Bergland delivers ‘carbon’Carter policy speech
■ I By 1.17 NEWLIN fill in part of the record with the news “that might be announced China. He predicted the announcement would, however, re- as a marketplace and trying to solve the pr
aid’s ., „ , , Battalion Staff today” that the United States has just signed a trade pact with focus attention on Reagan’s problems with China and Taiwan, farmer, as well as continued emphasis on co
:ry
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
When President Carter delivers his major farm policy speech in
e next week or so, Aggies can say they heard it here first.
Bob Bergland, U.S. secretary of agriculture, previewed his
ss’ speech Monday for about 400 gathered in Rudder Theater
rthe MSC Political Forum program.
ically, the speech praised Carter’s performance in agricul-
ind depicted challenger Ronald Reagan as an unknown quan-
e same speech, modified to fit the speaker’s department, is
g pushed across the country by most of the president’s
et.
resident Carter has a record that speaks for itself,” said
and, who was on a two-day swing through Texas. But he did
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part of the record with the news “that might be ;
today” that the United States has just signed a trade pact with
China. The pact was announced several hours before Bergland
spoke here.
That new contract and expanded purchases of farm products by
Mexico will help boost the United States’ exports for 1980 near the
$40 billion mark.
“That’s about 75 percent higher than during the Republicans’
best year,” he said. In a press conference after his speech, Berg
land said the announcement’s timing — just three weeks before
the election — was not political.
He said the trade pact with China began during the Nixon years
and continued in the Ford and Carter administration, but the
timing of the announcement had been left to the discretion of
The fund’s board of directors will meet
rday to consider the special project re
ts, which included proposals:
—for the MSC Video Committee to pur-
e the videotaped BBC-Time series of
espeare’s plays, at a cost of $10,000;
for $8,000 for the MSC Travel Com-
P fl v , t tUfiKee to loan money for education-related
d for dri$P s b y students;
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furnish
— for the MSC Outdoor Recreation
)■ The „ffi :onimittee to begin an annual Outdoor
I , | ecture Series. The first lecture requires
' i pe L , 3>000; similar amounts will be requested
, thls j [ ,1 years to come;
le on clu __ to SU pp}y an an nual $1,000 scholar-
Jip to the Miss Texas A&M University
•^ageant, a project of the MSC Hospitality
KMnmittee.
Another prosposal asked the Enrich-
ii n . jj^ent Fund be used to help finance a scho-
J ' jBhip for Texas A&M College Bowl parti-
■"•y; Sfie Jipants.
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cision as 1 The amounts are being requested simul-
mceiscalbaneously because Enrichment Fund
ion. bnors are asking for specific projects to
at there aiinderwrite, said Emen Haby, MSC Coun-
-s are all fep president.
’ 6 ; ■ j | The Enrichment Fund was established
1979 to provide an additional source of
iney for MSC Directorate committees,
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In other council business, members
(proved 13 revised directorate committee
Igets.
?Most comittees were confined to a net
ease or decrease of five percent,” said
ith Shurtleff, MSC vice president of fi-
lance, “but the big buck committees (for
mple, Town Hall and the Opera and
'erforming Arts Society).may need a 20 to
B percent increase.”
Texans to vote on
bingo amendment
This is part one of a nine-part United
Press International series of reports on
nine proposed amendments to the state
constitution being presented to Texas
voters Nov. 4. The full series will be
continued each day in The Battalion.
United Press International
AU STIN, Texas — After years of con
sideration, Texas legislators are pre
senting the state’s voters with an oppor
tunity to decide whether bingo for char
itable purposes should be legalized.
If approved, Amendment No. 4
churches, is waging a campaign against
the amendment.
Wood said bingo — even if conducted
for charitable purposes — is gambling,
which always has been staunchly dis
couraged by the Baptist Church.
“Churches and service organizations
have no business being in the gambling
business,” Wood said. “Perhaps chur
ches would be better off without paroc
hial schools than to keep them open
with bingo profits.”
Phil Strickland, associate director of
the Texas Baptist Christian Life Com-
Election ’80
would give cities and counties the op
tion to authorize churches, synagogues,
nonprofit organizations and other frater
nal groups to conduct bingo games.
Sen. A.R. Schwartz, D-Galveston, is
author of the legislation placing the
amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot. He
originally sought to make bingo for char
itable purposes legalized throughout
the state, but later acquiesced to give
local entities the option of deciding for
themselves.
The amendment calls for each bingo
operator to own the building where the
game is played and to employ his own
staff.
As usual. Baptists across the state are
vehemently opposed to the legalization
of bingo. Presnall Wood, editor of the
Baptist Standard, which is distributed
to almost 400,000 Texas Baptists and
mission, said his organization also vehe
mently opposed the bingo amendment.
He said bingo tends to victimize the
poor, since the average income of the
typical bingo player is less than $5,000 a
year.
Those who run charities, however,
dispute the Baptists’ claims.
Bob Mazer, executive director of the
United Cerebral Palsy Association in
San Antonio, where bingo is legal, said
$80,000 of his $115,00 annual budget
comes from bingo game profits.
Mazer said provisions in the amend
ment provide enough safeguards to
avoid the fears of Baptists and other peo
ple opposed to legalized bingo. He said
the owndership provision would pre
clude transient profiteers from conduct
ing bingo games, and the tough regula
tions in the amendment would make
bingo games “honest all over the state.”
China. He predicted the announcement would, however, re
focus attention on Reagan’s problems with China and Taiwan,
which he termed an “absolute mess. ” Reagan and his vice pres
idential candidate, George Bush, made different statements ab
out the two countries while Bush was visiting there.
Bergland said the incident points out Reagan’s main weakness
— his foreign policy inexperience and still-fuzzy stand on issues.
“Governor Reagan is an unknown quantity,” Bergland said.
“He has made some general statements, but the fact is we do not
know. ”
He said he has challenged Reagan to select somebody to debate
agriculture policy with him. So far that offer has been refused.
If Carter is re-elected, Bergland said, “There will be an exten
sion of what has been started.” That means recognizing the world
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as a marketplace and trying to solve the problems of the small
farmer, as well as continued emphasis on consumption and high
technology. Bergland was not specific about particular programs
in his speech, but political speeches rarely get specific.
Earlier in the day Bergland played a bit of politics with mem
bers of the American Agricultural Movement. After the
announcement of a farm and ranch group to support Carter, about
20 AAM members walked out of a breakfast meeting in Temple.
Bergland said the protests are their way to gain visibility.
“They do not represent the mainstream of agriculture in
Texas,” he said. “It’s not an offense, it’s a part of the process.”
In the name of good, clean politics, however, he did autograph
one protestor’s “Dump Carter” sign.
Commandos catch hijackers
United Press International
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Elite comman
dos, sent in by Turkey’s tough new military
junta which boasts a nocompromise stand
with terrorists, stormed a hijacked jetliner
in pre-dawn darkness today, capturing five
right-wing terrorists and rescuing about
100 hostages.
Martial law authorities said four of the
hijackers and 11 hostages were wounded,
but none seriously, in a brief shootout on
the Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 at blacked-
out Diyarbakir Airport in eastern Turkey.
The rescue took five minutes.
Unconfirmed reports said an American
and an Italian were among the injured pas
sengers; another American passenger be
lieved not injured was identified as W.F.
“Bill” Wassmann of New York City, a rep
resentative of the Great Lakes Carbon
Corp.
A woman passenger told reporters there
were more than five hijackers involved.
The air pirates, thought to be Iranians,
but later described as Turks, comman
deered the plane on a flight from Istanbul
to Ankara with 148 passengers and seven
crew members.
They demanded to be flown to Tehran or
Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, but the pilot said
he did not have enough fuel for an interna
tional flight and landed at Diyarbakir,
where they released 40 women, six chil
dren and seven elderly men.
The pilot, who reportedly was pistol-
whipped by a terrorist, said some Iranian
passengers cooperated with the hijackers
when they took over the plane.
Witnesses said the hijackers spoke Tur
kish, but Iranians in northern Iran speak
the same dialect. They threatened to blow
up the aircraft if it was not refueled.
A spokesman said specially trained Tur
kish troops moved in shortly before dawn
today and entered the plane by a rear door.
Reporters said they heard a brief burst of
automatic fire and the rescue took less than
five minutes.
The spokesman said at least three of the
hijackers were armed — one with a Soviet-
made Kalashnikov rifle and two with hand
guns.
Student wants record of minor
By NANCY ANDERSEN
Battalion Staff
Though the University catalog requires students in some ma
jors to pick a minor field of study, no official recognition of
academic minors is made on student transcripts.
But recently, in the student senate, a bill was introduced that, if
approved by the University and the Coordinating Board in Au
stin, would require the Registrar’s Office to document academic
minors on transcripts.
Since being introduced, the bill has started a major controversy
in the senate.
It all started when Phil Hannah, liberal arts senator, found out
he would receive no recognition of completing a minor in business
administration. At his adviser’s suggestion, Hannah said he de
cided to give students who are completing minors some recogni
tion via a senate bill.
But this bill was voted unfavorably out of the academic affairs
committee. Hannah said he doesn’t understand the difficulty
involved with passing his bill.
Students completing minors should receive some recognition
of this in the form of official documentation, he said.
“I don’t want to create anything new, just give those students
that are doing something a little recognition,” he added.
However, Kathleen Miller, vice president for academic affairs,
said there are several problems with the bill. First, she ques
tioned the neccesity of official documentation when all the courses
completed by a student are listed on his transcript.
Also, there is a trend away from putting anything other than a
student’s name, address and course work on a transcript, Miller
said.
There are other problems because the bill is not clear, she said.
As the bill is written, she said, every college would have to set up
minors, which would require a lot of manpower.
The bill reads: “Whereas many students have minors outside of
their major fields of study, and whereas there is no official
documentation of the completion of these minors, therefore be it
resolved that the Registrar’s Office place the student’s minor, if
applicable, on the official transcript, in order to insure proper and
official recognition of (a) completed minor.”
But minors do exist, according to the University catalog. It
states under certain majors that “To ensure additional depth and
breadth, all students (in that major) must select a minor field of
study from departments or divisions within or outside of the
College of Liberal Arts, consisting of a minimum of 12 hours or
course work, at least half of which must be in upper division (300
and 400 level) courses.”
But two things would have to happen before the bill could be
implemented if it is passed by the student senate.
First, the administration would have to recognize minors.
Then, the Coordinating Board in Austin would have to approve
placing minors on transcripts.
Board approval seems unlikely. Cooper said, because “the
Coordinating Board is moving away from display type groupings.