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What s up
Tuesday
AGGIE RED CROSS: will hold the Brazos County Blood
Drive, noon to 6 p.ra. at Our Saviors Lutheran Church.
HISTORY CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 507 Rudder. Offi
cers will be elected.
IU-REC SPORTS: will dose archery singles and doubles at 6
p.m. in 159 E. Kyle.
MSG CEPHEID VARIABLE: will meet at 7:50 p.m. in 410
Rudder.
MSC COLLEGE BOWL: will hold orientation for anyone in
terested in membership at 7 p.m. in 704 Rudder,
ON-CAMPUS CATHOLICS NORTHSIDE: will meet at
9:30 p.m. in A-l Lounge to discuss sidewalk evangelism.
SCEC: will meet at 6:45 p.m. at MSC Pulse machines for the
organizational meeting to be held in G. Rollie White.
SIERRA CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder to plan
weekend outing to Big Slough Wilderness area.
STUDENT AFFILIATE OF BRAZOS VALLEY SPCA: will
meet at 6:30 p.m. in 113 Herman Heep Building for nomi
nation of officers.
STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE: will hold a dual-ca
reer relationship workshop on “Social Needs and Leisure
Time.” Locations vary. Interested couples should call 845-
1651.
SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will hold an organizational meeting
at 6:30 p.m. in 274 E. Kyle. People who wish to participate
as coaches or Held persons should attend.
TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m
in 115 Kleberg for officer elections.
TAMU ONE WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. at the Grove.
Wednesday
DEL RIO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m in
507A,B Rudder for officer elections.
HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD HOMETOWN CLUB: will
meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder to discuss officer elections
and Spring party.
PRE-VET SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 Veterinary
Medicine Complex for officer elections.
SAN ANGELO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in 407 Rudder to discuss Special Olympics project.
TEXAS A&M SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in
401 Rudder for officer nominations. Aggiecross details to
be discussed.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet 6 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
at A&M Presbyterian Church for an Aggie Supper.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de
sired publication date.
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Associated Press
I FORT WORTH — John Allen,
Ijeader of a group of intellectuals that
deceives millions of dollars from Fort
Worth millionaire Edward Bass, has
fesigned as chairman of the com
pany that oversees most of the
Iroup’s business ventures.
I Terrell Lamb, a Washington pub
licist, said Allen resigned from Deci
sions Team Ltd. after a March 30
story in The Dallas Morning News
detailing the group’s worldwide
business and cultural activities.
■ Former members of the group
raold the News that Allen and the
Hroup have implemented programs
i they believe will equip them to sur
vive the death of Western ciyiliza-
Hion.
H The group has used money pro
vided by Bass, 39, to fund ranches,
lidentific expeditions and research
Hacilities in eight countries. The
| group's holdings include the multi-
[ Inillion-dollar Caravan of Dreams
I restaurant-theater complex in down-
I: town Fort Worth, underwritten by
Bass.
I In his resignation letter, dated
hi: 8:30-^||rhursday and quoted in the News
“He resigns regularly.
Anytime they (the group)
are threatened with any
kind of exposure he re-
signs. It doesn’t mean any
thing. He can control in
absentia.'’ Carol Cine,
former member of Deci
sions learn, Ltd.
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onday, Allen said: “I am resigning,
Iffective immediately, as director of
the venture capitalist management
corporation Decisions Team Ltd., in
order to free you from any embar-
iassment connected with the mali-
fious and reckless Dallas Morning
^ews story.”
I Allen, 55, has been called perhaps
the world’s last beatnik. He is still
Cerouac-ing across the world in his
Goodwill clothes, living, he says, on
"65 a month and the kindness of
friends, the Fort Worth Star-Tele
ram reported Sunday.
Some former members of Allen’s
roup have gone into hiding be-
ause, they say, they fear reprisals —
ahysical assaults, the ruination of
Iheir careers or bogus criminal
barges.
Both Bass and Allen deny the re
ports of violence, or that Allen has
ny particular control over Bass.
In a telephone interview from
Australia, where he has been for sev
eral months, Bass called such allega
tions regarding Allen a complete
‘fabrication,” the Star-Telegram
said.
“No one has anything else to say at
this point,” Lamb said. “Everyone
onsiders the matter closed.”
Carol Line, a former group mem
ber who has been charged with theft
since leaving her job with Caravan —
a charge she denies —^said Allen’s
resignation is meaningless.
“He resigns regularly,” she said.
“Anytime they (the group) are
threatened with any kind of expo
sure he resigns. It doesn’t mean any-
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thing. He can control in absentia.”
Bass hooked up with Allen’s
group of self-proclaimed artists and
scientists in Santa Fe in about 1973
after leaving Yale University. At that
time the group was made up of as
piring actors, including Bass.
But the group, fertilized with Al
len’s imagination and Bass’s money,
blossomed rapidly into real estate
holdings and projects on four conti
nents and more than 40 different
corporations and legal entities, the
Star-Telegram said.
There are two ranches in Austra
lia, a forest preserve and research
station in Puerto Rico, a conference
center and farm in southern France,
an art gallery in London, a hotel in
Nepal, a conference center in Ari
zona, several related theater troupes
and a “ferro-cement Chinese junk”
sailing the oceans.
In addition, Allen reportedly is
thinking of building a spaceship.
About 11 people, including Allen
and Bass, make up the boards and
officers of most of those companies.
Laurence Veysey, an historian
from the University of California at
Santa Cruz, wrote about the Santa
Fe group in a book on American
communes published in 1973 and
revised in 1978.
He wrote about the commune’s
strict philosophies on work patterns,
meals, personal relationships, even
gardening.
“(Allen)’s domination of the
group is open and for the most part
undisguised,” Veysey wrote. “One
soon realizes that every small prac
tice which makes up this complicated
rhythm of daily life carries the stamp
of his considered approval, and that
the major outlines are wholly the
product of his mind. ... Living here,
one quickly falls into the pattern of
unconsciously wishing for his appro
val in everything one does.”
Friends of Ed Bass say he is un
comfortable with his own wealth and
is psychologically influenced by Al
len.
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