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The Battalion Serving the Texas A&M University community Vol. 74 No. 32 12 Pages Tuesday, October 14, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 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, it. God soH 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. ght when* 215,000given to rights organization ost but we’rtij xl year butill ist wanted H d Series. Hsi Nobel recipient donates money Morgan, 'dd ruling came 1 United Press International 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 ly,” Morgan ti-terrorist law, said he will give the ed among tapOOO in prize money to his rights orga- his congrataifcon. , Nobel Prize in Physics and the , c .7 e J|l Prize in Chemistry, recognized as it six ““JHghest honors open to scientists worl- e p aimgwi ■ were announce d today by aratednbs,*® yeden’s Royal Academy of Sciences in r i —cti a nningfortkHjm ml. As with the 1980 Peace Prize announced appy smile onctay in Oslo, Norway, the physics and it-game e^iistry awards are worth $215,000 each, whale ot a he-award system was set up under the will ’hey simply ti® 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. The Weather Yesterday Today High 84 High 85 Low 54 Low .... 52 Humidity. . . . 75% Humidity ...48% Rain .. 0.0 inches Chance of rain. . . .. . none 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 lleyball he Univei y, October 1’ re Main Flo? 'CtlISC funds ayers eapa»g- iall over 1® 1 m 1 nmkudgeted SERVP dozens f The MSC Council approved $22,000 lost ofadnin 01 ^ 1 s P ec > a l projects Monday, to be tnded from the MSC Enrichment Fund, he council also approved changes in direc- " ■■ *^>rate committee budgets. T1 . C. 1’ 1 1 J; 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; ns 5p.m. reminded» 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. it drugs, ii 1 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, ome special projects which committees tic teams to pj an nee( j more funds than are games, id t “We be at ices are ight but arj need then 1 !( theyha'i many ’ bones ilable through normal council financing. 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 Shoot-out wounds 15 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.