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The Weather Yesterday Today High 55 High ....57 Low 37 Low ....33 Rain . 1.00 inches Chance of rain . . . .. .0% we were i s hard to ti said Camplj i yards with k Ken Stable iy statistically rol offense st ileagan: into Capitol swing, )ut won’t discuss cabinet r or later, said. had its chaiK ass was interct and passing, vent 12 of 23 d a United Press International VASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan, promised a six- _nth “honeymoon” by the Democratic opposition, e . , h ers with Republican members of Congress for a vic- y lunch, then pays a call on Chief Justice Warren ger. : and twice ( president-elect, meantime, insisted he has not yet i down sitmti: e j ve( j Cabinet recommendations from his close coterie rritory. lalifomia businessmen advisers and will not be discus- 1 we could if! = possible choices until he has the lists of top candi es to mull over. le declined comment on press speculation Sen. John ver, R-Texas, may be named secretary of defense, ver, who is in line to be chairman of the Senate Armed j-vices Committee, has not ruled out taking the post if it iffered, and has discussed it with the transition corn- tee. Spending a few days in Washington before heading AT T 31 U in. back to California for the Thanksgiving holiday, Reagan will lunch today with Senate and House members and dine later with GOP snators and their wives. Accompanied by Vice President-elect George Bush, Reagan plunged into a round of visits Tuesday with Re publican and Democratic leaders and happily found the loyal opposition ready to join in bipartisan cooperation — for a period at least. Rep. Thomas O’Neill, the House’s Democratic speak er, called his meeting with Reagan “excellent,” and prom ised a “six months’ honeymoon” from criticism, and to work with the president-elect to improve the economy. “I like him,” said O’Neill after his first meeting with Reagan. But he cautioned Reagan his previous experience as governor of California was “minor league. ” “This is the big leagues,” O’Neill said, repeating his comment for reporters. “I think he was a little surprised I said that.” Reagan has shied away from tipping his hand on future administration policy, but under questioning Tuesday he made it clear he favored the anti-busing rider on an appropriations bill approved by both houses of Congress, and would sign it if he were president. President Carter is being urged by Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and black civil rights leaders to veto the measure. Tuesday night, Reagan hosted a dinner at the F Street Club, for area political and civic leaders including District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, and Govs. Harry Hughes of Maryland and John Dalton of Virginia. “Simply, what we tried to do was have a dinner for representative people of Washington, D.C., as a city, to let them know that we re not only coming here as an officeholder on sort of detached service, but that we in tended to be members of the community, ” Reagan said. ehran says onditions ninim um United Press International A senior member of Iran’s hostage com- ssion, raising the possibility Tehran will |ke additional demands of the United tes, said the release of the 52 captive , nericans might still be a long way off. can eat Ali Novari, governor of Iran’s central ^LM nk and a hostage commission member, d Sioux Falls, S.D. radio station KXRB thin three days the group might com- :te its study of the U. S. response to Iran’s •ms for releasing the hostages, now in sir 382nd day of captivity. Silver Taps bill up for vote \ I6-3380 ;sthetic 're mak- ieve if irrow. curate- jautiful 1 us the erb es tan :asy ve le ien on- iral If the U.S. government abides to the conditions that have been set forth by Iranian parliament, then there is a good ssibility of the release of the hostages,” ivari said in Tehran in a telephone inter- iw. But mariy Iranian officials believe the nditions are a “bare minimum,” Novari d. “If the U.S. government does not ide to them, then there would be another* ver for extremism.” Iran’s four conditions for the hostages’ lease are a pledge of non-interference in anian affairs — which the United States s said is not a problem, and three de- ands involving complicated legal ques- 1ns, Iran wants the late shah’s wealth re- rned, Iran’s assets in the United States frozen and all financial claims against an dropped. The Washington Post reported today the icision for the release of the hostages now is with Prime Minister Mohammad Ali ajai, not with the Majlis, the Iranian par- iment. Quoting sources in Washington and hran, the Post said it appears there will neither immediate rejection or accept- ice of the American response to the Ira- an demands, but further negotiations. Novari, a confidant of President Abolhas- nBani-Sadr, said it is unclear how much U.S. government “wants to concede” to i the hostages. By NANCY ANDERSEN Battalion Staff All campus facilities may close from 10 to 11 p.m. on Tuesdays when Silver Taps is held if the student senate passes the Silver Taps Enhancement bill today. Tracy Cox, vice president for finance and sponsor of the bill, said the facilities which are open during Silver Taps can disrupt the ceremony. Cox also sponsored the Campus Beautification Bill which also will be voted on. This bill would recommend that appropriate action be taken to clean up the rut paths created by continous pedestrian traffic. These paths degrade the beauty of the campus, Cox said, and the bill would recommend cleaning up two paths by the Fish Pond and one behind Zachry Engineering Center. The senate will also hear three bills and a constitutional amend ment on first reading. Unless placed on emergency, no action will be taken on these. The “Is There a Doctor in the House Bill” would recommend increasing the student service fee of $33.50 by $3.75 effective Fall 1981. Bill sponsor Janet Golub said, “The A.P. Buetel Health Center is severely understaffed, with six doctors seeing between 400 and 500 patients per day. As a result of this staffing problem, students are required to wait in lines for two to three hours in order to see a doctor.” The written bill reads: “The quality of health care is substan dard as a result of doctors rushing patients in and out in order to see everyone as quickly as possible. The cost per student to hire each additional doctor would be approximately 75 cents, and by hiring an additional five doctors, the operation of the health center would be greatly facilitated, resulting in less waiting and better care at a cost of only $3.75 per student per semester. ” The Biblioteque Bill would recommend changing the library hours to 8 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 12 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday, with the reserve room open for studying from 9 a.m. to noon. Changing the hours would provide much needed late-night- ■ study facilities, said John Varney, bill sponsor. He said the cost of keeping the main library open later is relatively small. The COSGA Budget Appropriations Bill would grant the exter nal affairs committee some funds for its first conference on Stu dent Government associations in the spring. The constitutional amendment would create an international student senate seat. Over 1,500 students from 86 different coun tries attend Texas A&M University, said Tim Cavell, amendment sponsor. Creating a special seat would be an effort to show a positive, active attempt at incorporating the international student body into the mainstream of life at Texas A&M. The amendment will be handled like a bill by the senate and if it passes, the student body will vote on it during spring elections. The Happy Hour Bill, which was on first reading at the last meeting, is being held in committee. It would recommend ex tending the hours students may run computer programs free from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday to 5:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. The bill also recommends distributing printed information ab out the location and hours of all computer facilities available to computer-related classes. Today’s meeting is in 204 Harrington at 7:30 p.m. Need for heat causes flood By BOBBY SWANSON Battalion Reporter The Law Hall Flood did not last forty days and forty nights, but Greg Lord and Chris Romero may spend that much time trying to get their third-floor room back in order after a Monday accident. Romero said he and Lord were bleeding the line on the radiator in their room to turn on the heater when a faucet blew off, send ing hot water across the room. Lord called University maintenance af ter his attempts to replace the faucet failed. The men said they knew the heating in the dormitory would not be turned on until after Thanksgiving, so they decided to do it themselves like other students had done. “We knew what we were doing; we ve done it before,” Romero said. The guys next door were just cooking, but we were really freezing.” A superviser from University mainte nance came twenty minutes later, but the water was not shut off for over an hour, Romero said. “We had to wait until the pressure went down enough to get the petcock (faucet) back on, and the plumber said it would only take a few minutes but it took almost an hour,” Romero said. Many Law Hall residents began to help each other move carpet, furniture, stereo equipment and clothing after the water be gan to spill into other rooms. “We only kept it in the room twenty minutes, max, and then it went in the hall and down the stairs to the first floor,” Romero said. “Everyone lost something that lived on this side of the dorm. ” A University maintenance worker said six inches of water was standing in spots. The water was vacuumed and mopped up. Most of the water from the 200- to 300- pound pressure line was removed by Tues day afternoon, but several students’ carpets and belongings were still outside to dry. Monica Christen, assistant North Area coordinator, said there is no way to esti mate damage to the dormitory until the rest of the water is removed and examinations of the walls, floors and carpet can be made. “Being an older building, the water may do a great deal of damage* but we really don’t know right now,” Christen said. The carpet in the halls had been replaced this summer. All the halls on the south side of the dormitory were water soaked, Christen said. Fred Rogers, who lives next door to Romero and Lord, said he came back to the dormitory Monday afternoon to find “everyone scrambling around the dorm with wet legs. “I couldn’t figure out what was going on until some said there was a busted pipe up there. “I was a little worried, but someone had already put my guitar and carpet up so I started helping out,” Rogers said. “It ran down the walls into the closets. Everyone lost something.” Staff photo by Jeff Kerber 1980-81 Undergraduate Catalogs are in short supply, especially since no more will be printed. 1980-82 Undergraduate Catalogs will be available in early January. Catalogs in demand more than anticipated The Texas A&M University reg istrar’s office is asking students to hang on to their 1980-81 undergraduate cata logs. Of the 70,000 catalogs that arrived last January, few remain. “We don’t have any catalogs left to pass out at the desk or to mail,” said Linda Busby, informational representa tive for admissions and records. The 1981-82 catalogs will be available in early January,. Busby said. In the meantime, faculty and students who don’t need their catalogs any longer should send them to the registrar’s office through campus mail or recycle them to a friend. “There just wasn’t any way to antici pate the demand, Busby said. Plenty of 1979-80 catalogs were saved for student demand this year, but 1980- 81 catalogs won’t be available. “I think we have a .dozen saved for historical purposes,” Busby said. Often, students throw away their catalogs at the end of the semester and assume they can get another one from the registrar’s office. Not so this year. “We have very* very few,” Busby said. “We re down to handing out re jects.” Students who need copies of curricu lum plans from catalogs should request copies from the office of the dean of their college. Victims of tax frauds include famous stars United Press International BOSTON — Federal authorities today sought eight people charged in a $20 mil lion fraud scheme involving the sale of tax shelters to such luminaries as the late Elvis Presley. Five others surrendered before a U.S. magistrate Tuesday night. All 13 suspects — seven of them prominent tax attorneys — were due to be arraigned later in U.S. District Court. Justice Department officials said Presley invested $505,000 in the alleged scheme, in which investors were given limited part nership interests in a Wyoming coal mining venture—even though the coal was owned by the federal government. Other alleged victims were identified as actress Margaux Hemingway, basketball star Spencer Haywood, “Candid Camera” originator Allen Funt, and former Mary land Attorney General Francis Burch. Authorities issued 13 arrest warrants Fri- day when a federal grand jury returned the secret indictment, but the five who appeared in court surrendered voluntarily. The indictment said the men used false documents to sell partnership interests in the coal mining venture. A civil suit filed earlier by the Securities and Exchange Commission says the partnerships col lected $20 million cash and sold $112 mil lion of allegedly unregistered securities. d- as ludio cers, aftires. HA Thefts in Briggs Hall becoming habitual .) y,.-r- w "-/yV y r / Ay//^v '//y yy y// yy /At/ A ' ' - < ' ''" -yy mf 1 '" -i ■ yfl t § S ’ >- Staff photo I 111 1 cpll item because there is no way Jewelry can be an easy-to-steal, easy-to-seu suffered losse s of over to mark most pieces. Briggs Hall residents n $300 in cash as well as jewelry and clothes due o e By BERNIE FETTE More than $300 in cash along with jewelry and clothes have been stolen from Briggs Hall residents in the past month, and both Head Resident Patty Johnson and Detective Ken Nicholas say they be lieve someone living in the dorm is re sponsible for the thefts. “For the past month or month and a half, there has been a series of thefts at least once a week in Briggs Hall,” Assistant Area Coordinator John White said. Lt. Josie Hoelscher, who is in charge of investigations for the University Police De partment, and Nicholas spoke to Briggs re sidents on security measures Monday night. Nicholas stressed as the first and most important measure the need to lock doors at all times, especially “communal” dorm rooms used as frequent meeting places. “In a college atmosphere where every body’s your friend and you’re in close quar ters, you have a tendency to begin to trust people,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with trusting people as long as it’s a valid trust.” Nicholas suggested engraving personal property with the student’s driver’s license number as a means of deterring theft. After the number is engraved on the item, the student receives an “Operation ID” sticker which can be displayed on a door or window. “When that thief sees that Operation ID sticker, he’s not going to touch that stuff because he knows it won’t fence, it won’t bring money on the street,” Nicholas said. The stickers can be picked up at the Uni versity Police Department where the en graving can also be done. Although that solves the problem of identifying some property, jewelry — a lot of which cannot be engraved for easy iden tification — is another matter. All a thief has to do with jewelry is take it to a pawn shop. Nicholas said most of the pawn shops in this area are somewhat wary of taking jewelry. “But if he (the thief) goes to Houston with it, it’s gone. ” Photographing the jewelry and locking it in a safe place were suggested, but there are no such places for safekeeping in Briggs, as Nicholas pointed out. Nicholas said the first step in fighting this probleih is to develop active participation among the dorm residents. “If you see something weird going on, call us,” he said. “It’s better to make a mistake than to let a crime go unreported“. The biggest problem experienced by the University Police in fighting thefts, Hoels cher said, is that “nobody reports them to us.” However, she said, more thefts are reported in the area of the quad than on the north side of the campus. Although there is no minimum dollar value needed to warrant an investigation, a theft of considerable loss will take priority over a lesser one, Nicholas said. There are some cases, Nicholas said, that are over two years old. It’s not that they’ve been thrown out, it’s just that more infor mation will be needed before an investiga tion can begin. Some personnel such as maintainence workers and custodians have clearance to enter the rooms whether they are locked or not, to do their work and then leave, but Nicholas said he doesn’t believe they are contributing to the theft problem. There are regulations against workers going in and out of empty rooms at present because “some of those people would be working until four in the morning if that were the case,” Nicholas said. Briggs head resident Patty Johnson said she believes someone living in the dorm is just “seizing the opportunities.” Those opportunities were illustrated by a check of the rooms during the meeting Monday which found nearly a third of the doors on the bottom three empty floors were left unlocked. The main reason to take an active rather than a reactive position on the theft prob lem, Nicholas said, is that a 33 present recovery rate after the property has been stolen is the best possible at this time, which means that the other 67 percent will probably never be seen again. Any groups or dorms interested in hav ing a seminar similar to the one conducted for Briggs can set one up by contacting the University Police Department. Stripper haven being created by lady club owner United Press International BALTIMORE — Stripteasers, go-go girls and other exotic performers need a place to retire just like anyone else. With that in mind, the owner of the Two O’clock Club wants to convert the faltering town of Navajo, Ariz., into a retirement haven for aging exotics who are ready to hang up their G-strings. Elena Suhomlin, who bought the X- rated club two years ago from well-known stripper Blaze Star, said Tuesday Navajo would be the perfect retirement spot for such performers. Miss Suhomlin read about Navajo being for sale Saturday in a Washington newspap er. Within hours, she sent a telegram to Frances Greer, whose family owns the town, asking for a price on the community. Harry Van Valin, general manager of the Two O’clock Club, agrees with Miss Suhomlin that strippers and those in simi lar pursuits are discriminated against by society, and need a place to seek refuge in later years. “We feel the girls suffer a lot of social abuses while they work,” he said. “They have trouble getting credit, have to live like nomads and are otherwise treated like second-class citizens. This would give them a place to live in peace. They wouldn’t be ostracized.”