Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 34
32 Pages in 2 Sections
Thursday, October 16, 1980
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2 ■ Spurt order disputed
Si LULAC joins suit
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the flow of alien children will be granted.
“LULAC also is questioning the jurisdic
tion of Judge Filemon Vela in this matter,”
Bonilla said. “We agree with the attorneys
for the alien children that any question re
garding the impact of local school districts
should be dealt with before Judge Wood-
row Seals of Houston, where the original
decision was rendered.”
The temporary order that barred non
citizen children from enrolling in Brown
sville schools had no effect on alien stu
dents already attending classes, but it im
mediately drew criticism from attorneys
who are members of the Hispanic rights
advocacy group Texas Rural Legal Aid Inc.
Linda Yanez, the group’s attorney in
Brownsville, and Peter Schey of Washing
ton D.C., another Texas Rural Legal Aid
Inc. attorney who led the fight to have the
state educate non-citizen chidren free of
charge, said Vela lacked jurisdiction.
Bonilla said Schey and Yanez have work
ed closely with the Center For Immigrants
in Houston, which is attempting to carry on
the battle in federal court, but is extremely
low on funds for court costs.
“There is a very dire need for funding
and support,” Bonilla said, “and LULAC is
calling for contributions to offset the legal
costs.
“This is not for attorneys’ fees,” he said,
“because they are donating their services.
The call is for funds for costs of transcripts,
filing fees, and the usual run of court costs
and expenses incurred in the ordinary pre
paration of cases of this magnitude.”
0 b6C0HK■■ United Press International
ers in ^CORPUS CHRISTI — The League of
l 178.5 Jnited Latin American Citizens has joined
seeond-kfitfi attorneys disputing the legality of a
)onnieI ederal judge’s restraining order allowing
he Brownsville School District to refuse to
jofthe dmit any more children of illegal aliens.
;rs to tj “LULAC is calling on the Brownsville
jit. Hoil ndependent School District to admit the
20rectpshildren of undocumented workers,”
of four ciiULAC President Ruben Bonilla, a Cor-
iptions »us Christi attorney, said Wednesday,
iandhelipfrhe school district cannot document
n, the ihat the children will disrupt or diminish
Whitvfhe educational process.”
‘ception>: The Brownsville district — contending
ging 15-he flow of non-citizen children was damag-
twoTDing the quality of education and placing
finitely Sindue hardship on its 33 overcrowded
attack tohools — was the first district in the state
a all tea:h seek relief from a Houston judge’s order
raging ftriking down a 1975 law that had prohi-
ds passrtited use of state funds for education of
ie . Uegal alien children.
o outstmfe Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell re-
IbackViWed the Brownsville district’s request,
try,AbflPt in refusing to stay the order of U.S.
nee nii'ltostnct Judge Woodrow Seals of Houston,
while Powell left the school system the option of
with replying to an “appropriate district court”
for relief.
expecli Brownsville school attorney Tony Mar-
strenglfiez last week secured a temporary res-
ilthou^Bning or fi er from U.S. District Judge
iCS liltelHpmon Vela of Brownsville; it went into
effect Monday and it is to extend until
Tuesday, when a hearing is scheduled to
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Iraq blocks all routes
to oil city of Abadan
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United Press International
BASRA, Iraq — Iraq says its forces have
expe^ cut all routes leading to Abadan in daylong
ne w fighting, isolating the oil refinery stron
ghold from the rest of Iran.
>nseis f Fierce fighting flared on all fronts
Jense 1 Wednesday with both sides widely step-
ains imping U p the air war and Iran claiming its
; to paratroopers wiped out “more than 1,000”
it ca 11 Iraqis at Ham in the mountainous central
es an 1 ' war Z one.
on. v But the main battle was for Abadan, the
•s ga' f .biggest oil refinery in the Middle East, and
the C^the focus of Iraqi air and artillery bombard-
primf'iment since the first week of the 25-day war.
robletfj-After a day of fighting by ground and air
schooljBces, the Iraqi commander of the south-
/en t^em battle zone said his forces secured all
routes leading to Abadan, the Iraqi News
Agency reported Wednesday night.
The commander said control of the roads
^^jnetwork “occupies a great strategic import-
ce to cut communications among Abadan
and other parts of Iran, particularly the
S' capital Tehran,’ the Iraqi dispatch said.
^ In reporting the cutting of tbe roads, the
T dispatch said, “The Iraqi troops, which
i crossed the strategic Karun River last Fri-
Jpjl day, completed its control over the triangle
that connects Abadan with Ahvaz, Bandar-
, _ sah and Tehran.”
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p Iraqi planes blew up all six oil pipelines
^ carrying vital fuel to Tehran and Iraqi
f troops “marching towards” Abadan con
trolled Abadan radio station, it said.
0 Iraq, however, made no claim to have
0 entered the city itself.
Sa ^ troo P s attempting to adv-
ance nearer the city were forced to retreat
at 6.p.m. local time and the inhabitants of
Abadan had turned the city into an “armed
stronghold.” The Iraqis retaliated by shell
ing residential areas of Abadan, killing a
number of civilians, including women and
children, Tehran Radio said.
As the fighting raged in the heat of the
Persian Gulf, the U.N. Security Council
met in New York in special session to dis
cuss the war and Iran in a surprise
announcement said its prime minister,
Mohammed Ali Rajai, would go to the Un
ited Nations to argue Iran’s case Friday.
Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Ali Shams Arda-
kani said the case would be “an acid test for
the whole Third World, whether the Un
ited Nations can succeed in peace-making
efforts.”
But he rejected a reporter’s question ab
out whether Iran was coming to the United
Nations because it was losing the war.
“Iran, historically, is the graveyard of
invaders,” he replied.
Iraq bombed the oil refineries at Tabriz,
the biggest town in northwestern Iran. Ira
nian planes hit Baghdad for the second
straight day and Iraq reported seven other
air raids from the far northeast to the south
eastern town of Kut, 100 miles below
Baghdad.
Tehran Radio, in one of the most sweep
ing claims of the war, said Iranian airborne
troops “killed more than 1,000 of the Iraqi
Baathist mercenaries” in the Ham region,
250 miles north of Abadan, and knocked
out 11 tanks, five enemy bunkers and an
Iraqi communications installation.
Lawyer ‘didn’t recognize’ bribe
United Press International
HOUSTON — A lawyer charged in the Brilab case,
insisting there is a big difference between influencing
people and bribing them, has testified he only realized
after several months that the men he was dealing with on
an insurance contract might not have honest intentions.
Austin law partners Randall Wood and Donald Ray
spent Wednesday on the stand in federal court, trying to
explain the meanings of conversations secretly recorded
by the FBI in late 1979 and early 1980.
Both admitted some of their remarks to FBI informant
Joseph Hauser, who was posing as a Prudential Insurance
agent, were embarrassing or inappropriate, but said the
contents really proved their innocence.
Ray and U.S. Attorney Ron Woods sparred most of the
day about the meanings of spreading “influence” and
“knowing what to do” to reopen bidding on the $76 mil
lion state contract.
“I will tell you what is not on those (tape) transcripts,”
Ray said as the prosecutor ended his questioning.
“Sure, go ahead,” Woods replied.
“You don’t have anything on those tapes where I tell
anybody I am going to bribe anybody or where I ask
anybody for any money to bribe anybody,” Ray said. “If
you do, I wish you would play it to the jury.”
“Do you agree that people don’t routinely use the word
‘bribe’ when they are discussing matters like that?”
Woods asked.
“I don’t know because I’ve never been engaged in that
kind of conduct,” Ray said.
Ray had testified he was “practicing law and trying to
make a living” when he was approached to help find out
how the $76 million state employees insurance contract
could be rebid.
“I didn’t realize the FBI was doing this scam,” he
testified. “I didn’t realize Mr. Hauser was trying to say
something on tape that would make me appear to say
something that sounded bad. I didn’t know that.
“When I say, ‘we know what to do’ I was saying that we
are a law firm and we understand how to practice law.”
“All you were doing was legal work for them?” Woods
asked.
“Yes,” Ray said, explaining that there is “a big differ
ence between influencing people and bribing them.”
Asked by a prosecutor to explain how jurors could
“discern in these tapes when you are telling the truth and
when you are not,” Ray paused, said, “well,” and never
finished his answer.
Ray said he did not know Hauser was an informant.
“It’s important because Mr. Hauser can make some
statements like ‘do you need some money to operate?’ and
‘do you need some money to see some people to advance
some money?’ that I didn’t catch,” Ray testified.
Wood testified Hauser repeatedly steered conversa
tions toward Clayton, even though the lawyers told him
Clayton was not important to reopening the contract.
Defense lawyers contend Hauser wanted to catch a “big
fish” to obtain leniency on a racketeering conviction he
faced in Arizona.
Ray insisted he turned down offers of money to “grease
the way” with state officials and only began to realize after
months of dealing with Hauser and undercover FBI
agents that they might be trying to “buy” the insurance
package rather than win it with the lowest bid.
Ray and Wood said they were embarrassed by refer
ences to another Austin lawyer and former Clayton aide
whom they described on tape as having made $300,000
“practicing influence” after quitting Clayton’s employ
ment.
“It’s really been brought home to me in the last few
months how dangerous or how inappropriate it is to say
things about somebody that’s not true, that you don’t
really know about and I wish I could take back what I said
about Jack Gullahom,” Ray testified.
Ray, Wood, Clayton and Deer Park union official L.G.
Moore were indicted June 12 on charges they conspired
to improperly influence handling of the state insurance
contract. Clayton has yet to testify. Moore will be tried
later.
Carter, Reagan to attend
A1 Smith charity dinner
United Press International
President Carter and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan
will finally appear on the same platform tonight — but the political
oratory will be muted.
Even as the League of Women Voters breathes new life into the
near-extinct possibility of a Carter-Reagan debate, the two major
candidates will be honored guests at the famed Al Smith dinner in
New York.
Before heading for New York and the dinner, Carter had cam
paign stops in Hartford, Conn., and Hempstead, N.Y., and
Reagan scheduled an appearance in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The dinner, sponsored by the New York archdiocese to benefit
Catholic Charities, is an annual affair. But because Smith was
governor of New York and a Democratic presidential candidate as
well as a prominent Roman Catholic, it has become traditional for
the major candidates to attend in election years.
Both Carter and Reagan will speak, but not address each other
or answer questions.
The league said Wednesday it will decide by Friday whether
independent candidate John Anderson has dropped below its
qualifying level of 15 percent in the polls. He had dropped to 8
percent in the latest Gallup Poll this week, and at least one or two
more surveys are due soon.
Carter’s campaign chairman Robert Strauss wired a new debate
challenge to Reagan Wednesday as the Republican nominee barn
stormed the industrial centers of the Great Lakes region.
And Carter said in New Jersey he would “take any reasonable
format, time, place, to debate Governor Reagan.”
But Reagan’s campaign chief, William Casey, raised the three-
way issue once again. In reply to Strauss’ telegram, he said the
GOP nominee has accepted an invitation to a three-way debate at
the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia, and urged Carter to
accept that one.
The league’s spokeswoman said the week of Oct. 26 in Cleve
land has been set for the next debate if the candidates agree to
hold it.
Sen. Edward Kennedy campaigned jointly with Carter
Wednesday in Massachusetts, where Carter’s victory depends
largely on the size of the Anderson vote, and New Jersey, urging
the crowds to vote Democratic.
Reagan told a cheering crowd of about 5,000 in the Lima, Ohio,
town square, “We now know what Mr. Carter plans to do with
four more years. Catch your breath, hold on to your hat and grab
your wallets because Jimmy Carter’s analysis means his answer is
higher taxes.”
About 4,000 people cheered enthusiastically at an airport rally
later in the Akron area. But there also were boos, from some 75
union demonstrators when Reagan, former Screen Actors Guild
president, called them “my fellow union members.”
Anderson said Wednesday a legal memo deliberately leaked by
President Carter’s campaign hurt his effort to obtain bank loans,
but he has borrowed enough from individuals for the television
ads he needs.
He raised the possibility of a suit against the Carter-Mondale
campaign if legal evidence is found the memo was deliberately
leaked to hurt his campaign.
Heatwave
cost 1,265
U.S. deaths
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The government
estimates last summer’s searing heat wave
and drought cost 1,265 lives and caused
nearly $20 billion in losses ranging from
withered crops to buckled highways.
Extra electricity use alone added $1.3
bilfion to the nation’s power bills. Total
electricity use was 5.5 percent above nor
mal from the end of June to early August.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration reported Wednesday that
most of those who died from the heat wave
were either elderly or poor, or both, and
lived in non-air-conditioned homes. Mis
souri recorded the greatest number of
deaths at 311.
The administration said the heat-related
deaths were seven times greater than
normal.
The heat wave began in mid-June in
southwest Texas and spread northeast
ward. By the second week of July, most of
the central third of the United States was
experiencing 100-degree temperatures.
The administration said the hot weather
expanded to the Ohio Valley and mid-
Atlantic region in mid-July and covered
most of the eastern United States through
early September.
1,795vote in freshmen elections
Nussbaum, Cross in run-off
Joe Nussbaum and Jay Cross will be in a
run-off election for Class of’84 president on
Tuesday. Election Commission officials
counted 1,795 ballots from Wednesday’s
freshman elections.
Nussbaum and Cross were the two top
vote-getters in a field of 15 candidates for
class president. Runoffs on Tuesday will
also determine the offices of vice president,
secretary/treasurer and social secretary.
Wednesday’s preliminary election also saw
the election of seven freshman student
senators. Straight plurality vote deter
mines senate seats, so no runoff is neces
sary.
Jill Mutschler and Greg Griffin will vie
for the vice presidency of the freshman
class.
Jay Still and Melissa McDaniel will con
tend for secretary/treasurer, and Charles
Viktorin and Barbara Brunner will run off
for social secretary.
Student senators for the freshmen will be
Judy Marcotte, Cliff Brown, BiU Montgom
ery, George Boozalis, Danny Coolidge,
John Benson and Robert Alvarado. They
will take their seats at the next Senate
meeting Wednesday.
Tuesday’s runoff will be held from 9
a.m.-6:30 p.m. Polling stations will be the
same as for the primary election: Sbisa Din
ing Hall, Corps Guardroom, Commons,
Harrington Center, and the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Not all ballots counted had votes for each
position. Vote totals for the various runoff
contenders, along with the percentages of
votes cast for the office, are listed below.
President
Joe Nussbaum 476 (27.6%)
Jay Cross 198(11.5%)
Vice president
Jill Mutschler 446 (27.3%)
Greg Griffen 284 (17.4%)
Secretary/treasurer
Jay Still 549 (34.1%)
Melissa McDaniel 304 (18.9%)
Social secretary
Barbara Brunner 448 (27.7%)
Charles Viktorin 369 (22.8%)
Senators
Percentages reflect percentage of the total
number of votes cast for the seven senate
seats.
Judy Marcotte 652 (6.1%)
George Boozalis 591 (5.5%)
Bill Montgomery 533 (5.0%)
Danny Coolidge 493 (4.6%)
Cliff Brown 426 (4.0%)
John Benson 394 (3.7%)
Robert Alvarado 353 (3.3%)
Election Commissioner Leah Whitby
said those campaigning in the runoffs may
leave their campaign signs and posters up,
but all other candidates must have their
materials down by Friday afternoon.
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How many can I vote lorr
Freshman Linda Sampson seeks some advice on how to Freshmen voted Wednesday on 83 candidates for II
fill out her ballot from election worker David Arber. offices; runoffs will be held Tuesday, Oct. 21.