The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 40
12 Pages
Friday, October 24, 1980
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:o be set, Iran says
United Press International
LONDON — Iranian leaders indicated there will be no last-
|nute demands imposed for freeing the U.S. hostages, and
one banks for the Americans to call home were readied at a U. S.
litary hospital in West Germany. But U.S. officials cautioned
rinst hope the ordeal was nearing an end.
‘I think we’re all best served by not jumping to over-optimistic
ndusions,” White House press secretary Jody Powell said
hursday in Washington, as hopes were buoyed for the release of
he Americans held since Nov. 4 when the U.S. Embassy in
rlhran was seized by 400 Islamic militants.
Iln Wiesbaden, West Germany, phone banks were readied in
hewing of the U.S. military hospital used early in the 356-day
nsis when some hostages were freed. U.S. officials in Wash in g-
Bn, however, said such preparations were “normal readiness
Bans.”
i One of the Iranian leaders, head of the seven-member par-
mentary hostage commission, told UPI in a telephone inter-
liew from London Iran does not plan to set stiffer terms for the
rilease of the hostages.
“The parliament will set conditions within the framework of
principles set by the Imam (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini),’’ Hoj-
jatoleslam Mousavi Khoyeni said.
Asked if that meant the new terms will not be stiffer, Khoyeni
said, “They will not be higher,” and said Iran did not consider any
of its terms to be “stiff.”
The president of the Iranian parliament, Hojjatoleslam Hashe-
mi Rafsanjani, said the parliament — which is to meet Sunday
about the hostages — may add new conditions to be met by the
United States, but may set the captives free after getting Amer
ican guarantees the conditions will be met later.
Khomeini’s conditions for the release of the hostages, made in a
speech Sept. 12, are that the United States:
—Return the shah’s wealth.
—Unfreeze the more than $8 billion of Iranian assets in Amer
ican banks.
—Pledge not to interfere in Iranian affairs.
—Promise not to make any claims against Iran as a result of the
hostage issue.
Canales loss ‘worst’ ever
United Press International
1 HOUSTON — The Justice Department,
Stung by the acquittal of its first three Bri-
ilab defendants, Thursday faced future trials
stuck with the same type of evidence and
the same swindler as its key witness.
I But the U.S. attorney who lost the trial
involving House Speaker Bill Clayton went
Brward with the presentation of evidence
to grand jurors based on the swindler-
■imed-informant’s work and said more in-
fdictments would be returned and prose-
•cuted.
ij “There will be more indictments,” said
B.A. “Tony” Canales, who described his
sfailure to convict Clayton or two co-
Idefendants of bribery-related charges as
the biggest trial loss of his career.
E The grand jury that indicted Clayton last
June reconvened and worked during the
inal hours of his trial studying evidence
gathered by informant Joseph Hauser in
o other areas — municipal government
and labor unions.
Tapes of 80-odd conversations secretly
recorded by Hauser in 1979 and played
during Clayton’s six-week trial were re
pleat with references to efforts to bribe
public and labor officials in Texas, Oklaho
ma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and
Tennessee.
Already indicted and facing trial Dec. 1 is
L.G. Moore, a five-state representative of
the Union of Operating Engineers. It was
Moore, the government charges, who pro
vided Hauser access to Clayton and other
officials in position to influence selection of
insurance companies that would provide
group policies.
Hauser, a Polish immigrant whose insur
ance scams defrauded policy holders from
Florida to California, posed as a Beverly
Hills-based Prudential Insurance consul
tant willing to split millions of dollars in
commissions in order to get the business.
Moore, president of the Deer Park
school board, “swallowed the bait” in the
words of his defense lawyer. During final
arguments in Clayton’s trial, one defense
attorney said the government had pre
sented enough evidence “to convict poor
L.G. from here to Corpus Christi and
back.”
Moore’s trial on racketeering, fraud,
conspiracy and extortion charges in the
Clayton investigation was scheduled sepa
rately by U.S. District Judge Robert O’Co
nor Jr. after Moore said he could give “be
neficial” testimony to his co-defendants.
However, after his case was severed and
Moore was given limited immunity for his
testimony, Canales appealed and won and
Moore refused to testify.
Hauser was sent to prison last November
and FBI undercover agents, posing as his
business associates, continued dealing with
the officials to whom they had been led by
Moore.
Tree transplant
photo by Pat O’Malley
A new row of trees is appearing on the drill field as a
result of a tree relocation operation taken on by the
Physical Plant. The trees are coming from the south side
parking lot of Zachry which is being expanded. The large
truck is owned by Big Trees of Houston, a company
which specializes in transplanting trees.
eagan starts debate briefs
United Press International
Ronald Reagan was spending today at his
iddleburg, Va., estate, and President
arter prepared to take off on a new two-
day campaign swing through three crucial
states — New Jersey, Michigan and Ohio.
The Republican candidate completed
four days of campaigning, partly in Carter’s
home-base South, late Thursday.
He scrubbed plans for another swing to
day to begin briefing sessions for the pres
idential debate Tuesday and to screen a
new 30-minute paid television speech on
the economy, to be aired on ABC-TV at
10:30 p.m. EDT.
Carter began his day Thursday by meet
ing with representatives of a blue-collar
union, the Service Employees Internation
al, which has endorsed him, then — after a
shorter meeting with the New York Board
of Rabbis, which has not — he accepted the
endorsement of Southern Christian
Leadership Conference President Joseph
Lowery. Former SCLC President Ralph
David Abernathy is one of three prominent
blacks who have endorsed Reagan.
Carter climaxed the day by meeting with
150 enthusiastic black ministers, who
cheered and loudly applauded his every
statement and ended up singing the hymn
“Amazing Grace” with him. Reagan, in
Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee,
Thursday tried to refocus his campaign on
Carter by saying the president’s economic
record has meant “misery and despair” to
millions of Americans.
“One of the most critical campaign issues
is Jimmy Carter’s demonstrated inability to
govern our nation,” he said at one point.
“At home and abroad the failure of his
leadership in the White House brings to
issue the question of whether or not —
speaking bluntly — Jimmy Carter is com
petent to handle the job.”
Most television viewers next Tuesday
night will see a two-way confrontation be
tween Carter and Reagan.
But not some 3.5 million Americans with
access to Cable News Network, which has
invited independent John Anderson to par
ticipate in its live coverage of the debate
and to answer the same questions. The new
network will cut into its coverage of the
Cleveland debate to give the independent,
in Washington, a chance to voice his own
answers.
CBS anchorman Walter Cronldte asked
the two principals what looked like a soft
question in separate interviews, but it
proved to be a tough one to answer.
What were their greatest weaknesses, he
wanted to know.
Reagan said: “I’m a soft touch (pause). I
don’t know how to answer that. I obvious
ly have them, but, uh, it is true that it’s,
uh, it’s difficult for me to say no.”
Carter: “Well, I think obviously, uh, it’s
a difficult thing to ever point out, uh, our
own weaknesses. I’ve got a need in a, uh,
campaign year to draw this country
together. Obviously the closeness of the
campaign has shown that even after three
and a half years I’ve not been able to arouse
overwhelming political support. I think
we’ve, uh, not explained adequately to the
American people the difficulty of the, uh,
some of the challenges.”
Regents meet
to consider
new building
The Texas A&M University System
Board of Regents is scheduled to hold a
called special meeting today to consider a
program of requirements for a new horti-
cultural/forest science building for Texas
A&M University.
University officials will present an over
view of the proposed project and request an
appropriation for preliminary design.
The meeting was requested to facilitate
the planning and construction schedule for
the project.
Four budgetary items also will be consi
dered by the regents, including a request
to allocate $1,000 in University Available
Fund money to the System Administra
tion budget.
The board will meet at 1:30 p .m. in the
Board of Regents Annex at the Memorial
Student Center.
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WASHINGTON — Daylight Saving
Time, an idea late sleeper Benjamin Frank
lin brought back from France, ends Sunday
when most of the United States returns to
Standard Time — and regains the hour lost
last spring.
The official change occurs at 2 a. m. local
time Sunday, when the time instantly be
comes 1 a.m. Most people find it easier to
set their clocks back one hour Saturday
night.
“Spring forward, fall back” is a phrase
many use to remember which way to set
their clocks.
Under the 1966 Uniform Time Act admi
nistered by the Transportation Depart
ment, Standard Time is observed from the
last Sunday in October until the last Sun
day in April.
Benjamin Franklin is generally credited
with bringing the idea of Daylight Time to
the United States. As minister to France,
he wrote an article extolling the benefits of
correlating an extra hour of daylight with
the time most people work.
“Franklin was a night person and used to
sleep late,” said Robert Ross, an attorney
with the Transportation Department. “The
way the story goes, he woke up one morn
ing and saw sunlight streaming in through
the window, and it struck him that he had
wasted it.”
The 1966 law allows states and territories
to exempt themselves from using Daylight
Time if they wish. Areas that do not
observe it are Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa and
the portion of Indiana in the Eastern Time
Zone — 81 of the state’s 92 counties.
Daylight Saving Time was first formally
observed in this country in 1918 to con
serve resources during World War I, and
was used again during World War II.
In 1973, during the Arab oil embargo,
the country went on year-round Daylight
Time, but that was scrapped following pro
tests children were walking to school in the
dark during the winter.
Congress put March and April on Day
light Saving Time in 1974 and 1975, but
then rejected a department recommenda
tion to give that an extended trial of two
more years.
“It’s a good idea to have those two
months on DST, but that has a lot of region
al ramifications and Congress elected not to
pick up on those recommendations in
1975,” Ross said.
Based on information available at the
time, the country could have saved the
equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day if
the country had been put on daylight time
in March and April, he said.
Ross said the Transportation Depart
ment regulates the Uniform Time Act be
cause time zones originally were started by
the railroads 97 years ago to regulate their
schedules.
By TERRY DURAN
Battalion Keporter
Over a thousand Texas A&M University
students may not get to vote in the upcom
ing November election unless a mix-up in
the registration process is straightened out.
Brazos County Tax Assessor-Collector
Gerald “Buddy” Winn said Wednesday
afternoon he might have received as many
as 1,200 unacceptable registration cards
before the Oct. 5 registration deadline. He
said on-campus students who put their post
office box number or their parents’ home
address in the space marked “permanent
residence address” would be ineligible to
vote in Brazos County unless this was cor
rected.
The registration application has two
blanks for the voter’s address. The first is
labeled, “PERMANENT RESIDENCE
ADDRESS: Street address and apartment
number; if none, describe location of resi
dence:”
The second block is labeled, “If mail can
not be delivered to permanent residence
address, provide mailing address.”
Winn said state voting laws require list
ing of the actual location of residence —
such as a dorm name and room number —
rather than just a mailing address, even
though Texas A&M University is a precinct
separate from the rest of the Bryan-College
Station community.
Winn said students who filled out their
card with a post office box number or their
parents’ address should go to the county
courthouse at North Texas Avenue and
26th St. to correct their cards. He urged
those who can go in person to the court
house to do so rather than calling; he says
his office is understaffed already.
Those whose cards have already been
sent to their home counties need to send
that county’s registrar a request for an
absentee ballot. Winn said this needs to be
done immediately to beat the Oct. 31 dead
line.
Brazos County Republican Chairman
Katye Kowierschke said the party’s execu
tive committee has volunteered to assist
Winn’s office in correcting the ineligible
registration cards. She said students could
call the Republican party headquarters at
696-0682 to get their registration data in
order.
Winn said he has received between 100
and 200 cards that were ineligible due to a
post office box number listed as a perma
nent address, and about another 1,000 with
the parents’ home address listed.
He said he has already mailed about 250
cards with parents’ addresses back to the
home counties.
“We tried to make every effort,” Winn
said, “but we only have one full-time and
three part-time employees working on vo
ter registration. The three (computer) ter
minals are going full time, eight in the
morning to eight at night.”
Winn said his office had finished enter
ing the acceptable cards’ information into
the computers Wednesday afternoon, ex
cept for about 200 county residents on rural
routes.
Two deputy registrars, Pam Doss and
Betty Miller, said they had not been
advised of the address policy until just re
cently. A third registrar, Lauren Harrison,
said Winn had told her of the policy and
that she had told all the voters she had
registered to fill in the correct information.
Harrison said she thought the problem
stemmed primarily from unsupervised reg
istration card pick-up spots.
Clayton barbecue
set for Nov. 22
An appreciation barbecue for House
Speaker Bill Clayton — cleared this week
on federal racketeering charges — has been
rescheduled for Nov. 22.
Irene Little, a graduate student in edu
cational psychology, said the money
raising event is set for the Texas Hall of
Fame at 11 a.m. that Saturday, the day of
the Texas Christian University football
game.
Little, the organizer of the barbecue,
announced the new date Thursday, the day
after Clayton was found innocent in Hous
ton federal court. She said the barbecue is
expected to attract Texas A&M University
students, former students and other sup
porters of Clayton. The legislator gradu
ated from Texas A&M in 1950.
The barbecue was postponed in October
because Clayton could not attend. He had
to be in Austin on weekends to attend
budget sessions scheduled then since he
was in court during the week.
Little was happy about Clayton’s inno
cent verdict, but she said the appreciation
dinner would have been held even if the
speaker had been found guilty.
“He’s been good to A&M, and we’re
loyal to him in return,” she said. “We
wanted to tell him, ‘We’ll stand behind you
no matter what.”’