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Vol. 74 No. 74
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Monday, December 15, 1980
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jiALI, Indonesia— Indonesia President
to, leader of the world’s largest Mos-
C3F Of! ra nation, opened the OPEC summit
king today with a plea to Iran and Iraq
jnd the first war ever between members
lie powerful oil group in the interests of
|mic unity.
But delegates from the two Middle East
■^acateMnroilucing nations nearly came to blows
prtly before start of the dil ministers
Teting — the first high-level OPEC
tiering since the Iran-Iraq war began
irly three months ago on Sept. 22.
n a glaring reminder of the war, Iran left
mpty chair at its table, graced by a large
Bture of its oil minister, Mohammed
’audgoyan, who is being held by Iraq as a
|lsoner of war.
|To ease the prospect of verbal conflict,
fpnference organizers changed the
Iphabetical order of seating, inserting In-
Jiesian delegates between those from
ifaii and Iraq.
Mr r *j n a speech opening the session on the
|i island holiday resort of Bali, Suharto,
|ad of the world’s largest Moslem nation,
ma-WAV pid the unity of the 13-nation Organization
)f Petroleum Exporting Nations and the
L rests 0 f th e Third World were jeopar-
r . rT n : p by the conflict.
hf) S ] l‘l would like to make an honest appeal to
^ our beloved brothers who are now in dis-
pte, Iran and Iraq, to seek the best con-
[vable solution to their conflict as soon as
sible,” he said.
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On behalf of the “140 million Indonesian
people who believe in God almighty,”
Suharto urged a solution to the Middle East
conflict, saying it threatened the stability of
OPEC and would retard the development
of Third World nations.
“In conformity with the teachings of
Islam and Mohammad the prophet, let us
settle the dispute between us like we settle
it among brothers,” Suharto said.
A key question before the delegates is
whether to continue the price freeze
adopted earlier this year. One proposal
would have the freeze maintained with
Saudi Arabia hiking its crude prices from
$30 to $32, which would make prices
charged by the cartel members more uni
form. The prices range from the Saudis’ $30
to $37 charged by Libya. The Saudis contri
bute a fifth of U.S. imports.
The start of the meeting was delayed for
40 minutes while the oil ministers huddled
in a back room in an attempt to avoid a
free-for-all at the conference.
Conference sources said the Iranians and
Iraqis “were on the point of clashing by
hand and were just pulled back. ”
One source said the quarrel began dur
ing an attempt to fix the agenda for the
meeting, scheduled to last two days with
the possibility of a one-day extension.
“We re not going to discuss your agenda,
we’re here to discuss the war and our (cap
tured) oil minister, ” the source quoted an
unidentified Iranian delegate as saying.
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ing her thanks to her mother at the graduation ceremony Saturday. students who were graduated in two ceremonies Friday and Saturday.
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ani-Sadr criticizes Carter
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ith the American hostages nearing their second Christmas in
tivity, Iran’s President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr accused Presi-
ht Carter of lacking motivation to end the hostage crisis and
ssibly wanting to leave the problem to the incoming Reagan
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A White House spokesman termed “ludicrous” the statement,
ladcast on the CBS “60 Minutes” program Sunday night. “We
n’t dignify it with a comment,” the spokesman said.
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Id in a cryptic statement he did not know where the Americans,
)\v in their 408th day of captivity, were being held.
“When I say I don’t know, it doesn’t mean that Tm completely
mrant of the situation, ” Bani-Sadr said.
T know that they have been taken to various cities throughout
ran. And I have asked questions and investigated the treatment
liey’re receiving and their health.
When I say I don’t know,” he said, “I’m referring to the
(Bestion of responsibility. I am not at all responsible for their
nation.”
Bani-Sadr repeated his belief that the seizing of the Americans,
hich re opposed, has backfired and the Iranians “became hos-
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But he said Carter no longer seemed interested in getting the
hostages freed.
“It is probably true that Jimmy Carter wanted to solve the
problem and free the hostages in the past,’’ Banifiadr said. “But
there is a difference between Jimmy Carter before the elections
and Jimmy Carter after the elections. That is, the motivation to
bring about the release of the hostages is gone.
“I think he (Carter) either wants to solve the problem in such a
way that criticism against him is minimized, or he will leave the
problem for Mr. Reagan.”
In Washington, U.S. officials waited for the formal Iranian
reponse to the latest U.S. proposals on meeting the four condi
tions for the release of the hostages.
In Tehran, the Rev. Phale Hayle of Columbus, Ohio, at the
head of a delegation of black clergymen, sought a meeting with
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as part of a bid to establish ties with
Islamic religious leaders.
Hayle restated the group’s intention not to bring up the hos
tages, but said in a telephone interview with UPI in London, “We
will talk about it if the subject is brought up.’
He said the delegation expects to stay in Iran “a few more days. ”
A&M graduates a record 2,082;
ambassador proposes trade zone
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University can graduate about 15 students a mi
nute.
' Quick as that seems, the 4-second walk across stage represents
four years — or more — of work.
Texas A&M graduated 2,082 students in two ceremonies Fri
day and Saturday, a record number for December graduation. Of
those, 289 received master’s degrees and 87 earned doctorates.
Among undergraduates, 299 were graduated with honors.
A man who Was graduated from Texas A&M 15 years before,
almost to the day, told the new graduates they should be builders.
Ambassador Albelardo L. Valdez said that although his degree
from Texas A&M is in civil engineering, he builds bridges in a
different setting, among foreign nations.
As U. S. chief of protocol, Valdez greets foreign dignitaries who
visit America and works with 142 ambassadors stationed in
Washington, D.C.
He proposed the United States and Mexico create a free trade
zone that would extend 200 miles on either side of the United
States-Mexico border.
“We need to become more innovative in our approach to trad
ing with other countries, ” Valdez said, adding that such a common
market would be a “great boon to free trade in this hemisphere
and a great step forward.”
Eventually, he said, the experiment could be expanded to a
common market for the whole Western Hemisphere.
“We must increase economic opportunity in this hemisphere
through free trade, ” he said. The free trade zone would help both
Mexico and the United States, he said.
“I believe that such a zone would help attract industry to both
sides of the border and to provide badly needed jobs on both
sides,” he said.
He said the graduates stood at the beginning of a new era, the
era of development. He said the world, whose population is
expected to hit 61/2 billion in 20 years, must be developed to meets
its increasing needs for food and jobs.
Also during the weekend military commissions were earned by
83 graduates in separate ceremonies addressed by Lt. Gen. Wil
liam R. Richardson, commander of the Army’s Combined Arms
Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The commissioning ceremony included presentation of the
Doherty Award to Michael A. Snow, a 1980 spring graduate on
active duty as an Army second lieutenant. The $3,000 award is
presented to an individual whose Corps of Cadets career personi
fies the “soldier, statesman, knightly gentleman” ideals of Lawr
ence Sullivan Ross, president of Texas A&M from 1891 to 1898
and formerly governor of Texas.
Millions honor Lennon Sunday
Photo by Larry Chandler
Texas A&M students and area residents pay their last tribute to the late
John Lennon in a candle-light ceremony at Bee Creek Park Sunday.
United Press International
On the day millions of rock fans
gathered solemnly to honor the memory
of John Lennon, a man who sang about
peace, shots rang out in New York’s
Central Park and hysterical English
teen-agers stormed a stage in Liverpool.
While fans sang “All you need is love”
Sunday, Lennon’s accused killer feared
for his own life. Mark David Chapman’s
attorney said death threats had been
scrawled on his cell wall and Chapman
was afraid someone would try to poison
him.
In Los Angeles, a St. Louis man was
held for allegedly threatening the life of
Yoke Ono, Lennon’s widow, and former
Beatle Ringo Starr.
Ironically, Sunday’s shootings in
Central Park occurred within a quarter
mile of where Lennon was gunned
down outside his home, the ultra
exclusive Dakota apartment building, a
week ago today.
Police said John Loney and Philip
Guiffre of Brooklyn were leaving the
Central Park memorial service attended
by more than 100,000 people when they
were shot after allegedly telling a drug
seller to leave the ceremony. They were
not seriously wounded.
Coincidentally, some of the nearly
3,000 people gathered on Cricket Hill in
Chicago’s Lincoln Park to honor Len
non carried signs that read, “Handguns
kill people.”
The scene in Liverpool — hometown
of Lennon, Starr, Paul McCartney and
George Harrison — was hauntingly like
1964 when the foursome known as the
Beatles had just started on their way to
becoming the most popular rock group
in history.
A mass of surging, hysterical teen
agers stormed a stage during a candle
light vigil for Lennon attended by more
than 30,000 people. Police said about
150 people, most of them girls 13 to 17
years old, were treated for shock and
hysteria.
“It was just like the Beatle era all over
again,” said Hazel Abbott, 48, a nurse
who treated some of the teen-agers. “It
was the same old scenes — young girls
were collapsing with total hysteria.
“I was on duty in 1964 when the Bea
tles had their civic reception in Liver
pool and it was just the same this time
around,” she said.
Elsewhere, tens of thousands of Bea
tle fans in Seattle, Los Angeles, Phi
ladelphia, Miami, Detroit, and Mem
phis, Tenn., also paid homage in si
lence, beginning at 2 p.m. EST, as re
quested by Miss Ono.
Simultaneously, somber crowds in
Raleigh, N.C., Atlanta, Hartford,
Conn., Concord, N.H., Cincinnati,
Columbia, S.C., and numerous other
communities across the nation fell silent
for 10 minutes.
Some 1,500 Beatles fans traded
albums and memories at a convention in
Boston and U.S. radio stations sand
wiched the vigil of silence between
hours of Beatles’ songs. Millions more
around the world joined the observance
— if only by keeping silent for 10 mi
nutes of mourning. Flags in New York
City flew at half staff.
In Morrison, Colo., some 4,500 peo
ple gathered at the Red Rocks
Ampitheatre, where in the mid-’60s the
Beatles made their only appearance in
the Denver area. After a period of si
lence, the audience members — some
weeping—sang “Give Peace a Chance”
while holding their hands above their
heads and swaying to the music.
At the end of the silent vigil in
Miami’s Bicentennial Park, most of the
3,000 fans held up two-finger peace
signs and the band played, “Give Peace
a Chance.”
The vigil, attended by more than
1,000 people, at Kennedy Square in
downtown Detroit came to a close with
someone shouting, “He lives.” The
crowd cheered.
Passes for shuttle bus
to be issued at Rudder
Shuttle bus passes for the spring semes
ter will be issued at Rudder Tower instead
of the University Police station as in pre
vious semesters.
The change is being made to relieve the
congestion at the police station and to make
it more convenient for students to pick up
their passes, Don Powell, assistant director
of business services, said.
Beginning Jan. 12, a special table will be
set up near Rudder Exhibit Hall where the
passes will be issued to students who pre
sent a spring semester fee slip or receipt
from the fiscal office.
After the first week of classes, passes
may be picked up at the Office of Business
Services, 103 Rudder Tower. Students who
prefer to purchase coupon books (10 rides
for $5) can do so at the fiscal office.
Shuttle bus routes for the spring semes
ter will remain the same as for the fall.
Prices for bus passes will also remain un
changed at $38 for students and $50 for
faculty and staff, with a special rate of $55
for student and spouse passes.
Persons who did not purchase a pass
when registering for the spring semester
may purchase one at the fiscal office.
Legal req uirem en ts
delay cabinet picks
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Ronald Reagan’s
Cabinet selection may be out of his hands
now, and legal requirements are holding
up final announcement of a full Reagan
team, an aide indicates.
The president-elect worked at his Pacific
Palisades home Sunday on correspond
ence, dictation and memos, West Coast
press spokesman Joe Holmes said.
Asked if Reagan was working on final
Cabinet selections. Holmes said, “He’s
gone through his part of the process. I don’t
think there’s much more he can do.”
Holmes’ statement, on which he did not
elaborate, would indicate Reagan has
named his choices, they have accepted and
both parties are awaiting word on security
clearance from the FBI and possible legal
entanglements with conflict of interest
laws.
Eight Cabinet and top adviser appoint
ments were announced last week during
Reagan’s low-profile visit to Washington.
As he was leaving the capital Saturday to
spend the Christmas holidays in California,
Reagan told reporters he hoped to name
the rest of the Cabinet this week.
Retired Gen. Alexander Haig, chief of
staff during the final days of Richard Nix
on’s presidency, remained Reagan’s choice
for secretary of state, sources said, despite
initial nervousness about the former NATO
commander’s ties to Nixon and Watergate.
Jewel Lafontant, a black lawyer from
Chicago and former deputy solicitor gener
al, was mentioned as a leading contender
for secretary of housing and urban develop
ment.
James Watt, president of the Mountain
States Legal Foundation in Denver, a
group formed by brewer Joseph Coors to
fight environmentalists on Western land
issues, was reported to be one of those
being considered for interior secretary, as
is Rep. Manuel Lujan, R-N.M.