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Anti-abortionists don’t show sup­ The Battalion port, p. 4. Monday, January 23, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611 Metcalfs men lose again, p. 8. College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611 Committee checks leaders’ grades By KIM TYSON mittee shall have an overall grade point “We aren’t sure whether well have Battalion Campus Editor ratio of at least 2.500 at the time of their problems with senators saying they won’t Grade qualifications for student gov­ election or appointment and post at least a sign to have their grades released,” King ernment members will be checked, says 2.000 GPR during their term of office.” said. Allison King, vice president of rules and (The Battalion incorrectly reported this as Paterson said he though most members regulations. “during their first term of office in a story would sign if they felt the requirement was King said Friday she set up a credentials last Thursday.) justified. He said the fact that both the committee to check mid-year grade aver­ constitution and the University Rides and “Members of the student senate must ages, after rumors circulated that certain regulations have grade requirements student leaders do not meet grade have an overall grade point ratio of at would make students feel this was jus­ least 2.250 at the time of their election and standards required to hold office. tified. maintain a 2.000 GPR during their term of Tom Paterson, the committee’s chair­ Eugene Lyles, assistant student legal office.” man, said he plans to issue waivers to all adviser, said that legally the grades can’t student government members at Wed­ King had previously not acted, she said, be checked without consent but that refus­ nesday’s student senate meeting. because she felt it was not her delegated ing to have their grades checked would The waiver would permit the registrar’s duty. She said she also plans a constitu­ make students eligible for removal by the office to see if grades meet the minimum tional by-laws revision to formally tell stu­ judicial board. The judicial board has final requirement stated in the constitution. dents that student government is respon­ authority to rule on constitutional Grades cannot be checked without written sible for seeing whether their grades meet violations. consent according to privacy laws regard­ academic standards of their offices. A writ of mandmus was filed Thursday ing access to personal records. King said Paterson will report directly ordering King to act, but was withdrawn The constitution states, “All members of to her, and that she will report his findings after she announced she had set up the the student government executive com­ to the senate. committee. Begin blasts Sadat’s speech Israel won’t attend talks United Press International Secretary of State Cyrus Vance returned Atherton is remaining in the Middle East. JERUSALEM - Israel says it will not at­ to Washington Sunday from a Middle East He will continue working on a statement tend military talks in Cairo, bringing all mission. A senior official aboard his plane of principles that was under discussion in direct negotiations with Egypt to a halt. said direct talks woidd resume in one week Jerusalem, But a senior U.S. official predicts the two to 10 days with the United States acting as nations will resume peace talks within 10 mediator. He said the rhetoric of both In Sadat’s speech Saturday, he called for days. sides would cool and the talks eventually total withdrawal from land occupied by Is­ Prime Minister Menahem Begin, after a would progress slowly and quietly. raeli in the 1967 war and recognition of 3 1/2-hour cabinet meeting Sunday, an­ The official, who could not be iden­ Palestinian rights to self-determination, nounced Israel would postpone the depar­ tified, also said the United States “would two points repeatedly rejected by Israel. ture of its delegation to the defense minis­ be willing to take a look at” Sadat’s request ters’ conference in Cairo. He said it was for sophisticated American weapons, in­ Begin said Israel is interested in a “suit­ because of Egyptian President Anwar cluding fighter planes. able atmosphere for the calm conduct of Sadat’s tough speech Saturday. U.S. Undersecretary of State Alfred negotiations.” In his speech, Sadat told his Parliament Egypt would fight “until the end of the world” if Israel refuses to withdraw from captured Arab land. He asked for sophisti­ cated American arms, like those included Russians complete in Israel’s arsenal. “Before the Eqyptian people’s assem­ bly, President Sadat made an extremist, aggressive speech and addressed ul­ first in-space docking timatums to Israel that are totally unac­ ceptable,” Begin said. United Press International Cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Begin today was scheduled to address MOSCOW - The Soviet Union has ac­ Georgy Grechko “conducted observations the Knessest, Israel’s parliament, on the complished another space first by docking and control over tethering and linkup,” stalled peace moves. Sadat was meeting a pilotless space capsule with a manned it said. with Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel orbiting space laboratory. The Soyuz 26 cosmonauts blasted into to “reassess the situation,” the official The Progress 1 linked up with the space Dec. 10 and boarded the Salyut Cairo daily Al Ahram said. Salyut 6 space station early Sunday, deliv­ Dec. 11. They were joined Jan. 11 by the ering fuel and other supplies to two Soyuz Soyuz 27 cosmonauts, making history’s Begin s announcement Sunday, which 26 cosmonauts now in their seventh week first double space docking. halted all direct negotiations between in orbit. The operation gave the Soviets at least a Egypt and Israel, followed Sadat’s surprise The official Tass news agency said it was temporary lead in space shuttles over the recall of Egyptian delegates from a foreign Battlaion photo by Jamie Aitken the first time a robot spacecraft had carried United States, which will not launch its ministers’ meeting in Jerusalem last week. out an automatic docking to deliver first shuttle until next year. The U.S. shut­ Despite their harsh statements, both supplies to a manned station in orbit. maintenance workers fill a wheelbarrow full of tle will regularly ,carry men, equipment sides left open the possibility of resuming But it was not thought to involve a and satellites to and from orbit on missions peace talks. leaves gathered in front of the Academic Building. breakthrough in technology because the lasting up to a month, while the Soviets Soviets are believed to carry out even the are concentrating on long-term stays in dockings of manned capsules by ground space. 'rimary, caucus season limited control. Tass said that after unloading fuel, life “The mutual search, rendezvous, support and scientific materials from the tethering and linkup of the spacecraft was Progress, the cosmonauts will reload the carried out automatically with the use of robot craft with their waste and it will be onboard radio-technical means and com­ sent into the dense layers of the atmo­ Party reforms favor Carter puting devices,” Tass said. sphere to burn up. United Press International limit the primary and caucus season, wipe As it stands now, at the end of two long frame in 1976 are forbidden to move out­ WASHINGTON - Any Democrat think- out often-mischieveous, cross-over days of debate: side it in 1980. The primary-caucus period g of challenging President Carter for the primaries and devise a complex system for The 1980 Democratic caucus and pri­ in 1976 was more than 20 weeks. Carter Congress to battle arty nomination two years from now can delegate allocation. mary season should run 13 weeks from the partisans were all for this one. nd little to cheer about in the work of the Now the reforms go to the Democratic second Tuesday in March to the second The ruling will have no bearing on so- arty’s special panel on delegate selection. National Committee for routine review. Tuesday in June. A special exemption for called “beauty contest” primaries that do The 58-member Winograd Commission The process was not smooth, and there New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation pri­ not award delegates. over Panama treaty enciled in the final changes on two years were frequent complaints that the lan­ mary was expected, however. States that To win delegates in future primaries or of reform work Sunday. It managed to guage was inexplicable. selected delegates in that 13-week time caucuses, a candidate now must exceed an United Press International legislation has been stalled with some of escalating threshold of vote percentages - WASHINGTON - Formal action on the the treaty’s best-known opponents in the another Carter-backed move. In 1976 that Panama Canal treaties was beginning this vanguard. threshold was 15 percent of the vote. It week in two Senate committees. But at As a result, it appears the Senate may be also was optional. In 1980, the threshold least one senator thinks the issue’s shock tied up all week on the proposed sweeping Scotland police find five will be 15 percent up to the second Tues­ waves already are causing delaying tactics overhaul of the archaic statutes. day, go to 20 percent by the second Tues­ on the Senate floor. The House planned action on 14 bills day in May and rise to 25 percent thereaf­ Ratification preliminaries on the canal this week, almost all of them routine. The ter. For primaries, the thresholds are accords were the major business of the major one - if it clears the Rules Commit­ mandatory. For caucuses, the rules are first full week of the 95th Congress’s sec­ tee - would tighten up existing procedures more flexible. ond session. The Foreign Relations Com­ for offshore oil or other type exploration. N! bodies scattered in snow There is an asterisk, however. To pre­ United Press International brother and the brother’s common-law mittee began its work on the documents identifying the suspect until he is formally vent a winner-take-all situation in the EDINBURGH, Scotland - Police have and the more hawkish Armed Services charged. wife. event only one candidate exceeds the low found five bodies scattered through- Police, battling a weekend blizzard, Committee started three days of hearings threshold, the commission said a percent­ )ut snowbound Scotland in a a bizarre Police already had found the body of found another woman’s body Sunday near on it. age of the delegates will be awarded to the The Armed Services Committee has no A&M’s tuition W. nurder case involving a former member of former MP Walter Scott-Elliot, 82. he was a power station on the road from Comrie second-place finisher. Parliament and his wife. educated at Eton with World War I serv­ to St. Fillens, 58 miles northwest of Edin­ jurisdiction over the treaties, but there could be a damaging impact if it should A suspect in the case was scheduled for ice in the elite Cold Stream Guards. Also burgh. She was believed to be Mrs. The escalating percentages will make it make an adverse report on the military court appearance today. British law bars discovered were the bodies of his butler’s Scott-Elliot. tougher to mount late challenges to Car­ rates favorably and operational impact of the treaties. Saturday they had found the body of a ter. The strict 13-week selection limit will President Carter has said he is not will­ man on an estate 10 miles from the Scot­ stop any hopeful from building ing to accept any amendments, which land home of Scott-Elliot. It was believed momentum in caucuses before New in comparison would require new negotiations with the University ranks seventh to have been David Wright, a gardener Hampshire - something Carter did in Republic of Panama. But many Senate in­ Texas A&M University’s rates for tui­ wfio once worked for the Scott-Elliots. 1976. The investigation moved to Scotland siders believe ratification probably cannot tion, fees and room and board compare in support, gifts received Jan. 15 after police in London broke into State at-large delegate spots will be be obtained without them. favorably with those of other major public Scott-Elliot’s posh apartment to find it used to address deficiencies in the number One key foreign relations member may institutions of higher learning, according Texas A&M University ranks seventh ransacked, bloodstained and robbed of an­ of women or minority delegates. The be the committee’s lowest-ranking to results of a national survey. among the nation’s public institutions in linois topped Texas A&M in the business tique porcelain, jewelry, cash and credit commission also agreed to increase each Republican-Senate minority leader How­ Only 15 of 131 institutions responding eceiving gifts and other support from pri­ and industry category, while the top spots cards. delegation by 10 percent to provide voting ard Baker, who in an interview on NBC- to a survey by the National Association of VEI vate sources, reveals a survey by Brakeley, in amounts of money received from alumni The search for the Scott-Elliots linked rights to state party officials and elected TV’s Face the Nation Sunday warned State Universities and Land-Grant Col­ John Price Jones Inc., a development- are held by Michigan State and Wisconsin. their disappearance to the Christmas Day officeholders. This means at least 300 there is a “tough fight” and uncertain out­ leges (NASULGC) showed lower totals related firm based in New York. In percentage of alumni donating to their discovery of the body of a woman dressed more delegates will attend the 1980 con­ come ahead. than the $410 reported by Texas A&M for Texas A&M’s ranking was based on alma mater, Texas A&M ranks second, in man’s clothing in a stream at Dumfries, vention. He said following a trip to Panama dur­ tuition and fees for resident students. 1975- 76 gifts totaling $14.4 million. The with 37 percent, topped only by Georgia 60 miles south of Edinburgh. ing the recess he would support the ac­ Texas A&M was one of 53 institutions 1976- 77 total, which will not be reflected Tech at 41.8 percent. She was identified as Mary Goggle, Open primary states - Michigan, Wis­ cords and work for their ratification - if which did not increase resident tuition and in national surveys until next year, is $15.5 Texas A&M placed seventh in the cate­ common-law wife of Donald Hall, 37, the consin and Montana in 1976 - which allow certain changes were made. fees this year and one of 50 which held the million. gory for foundation assistance. The leading brother of Scott-Elliot’s butler, Archibald Republicans to vote for Democratic candi­ Meanwhile, Sen. Edward Kennedy, line on slich expenses for non-resident While ranking seventh nationally over­ institutions are Minnesota, Michigan, Hall. dates and vice versa, will have to discon­ D-Mass., and others feel the floor fight students. all, Texas A&M placed third in two Wisconsin, California at San Francisco, Donald Hall’s body was found naked tinue that practice or drop their primaries. over the treaties may already be under In room and board, the university ranks categories: support from business and in- California at Los Angeles and California at and hooded in the trunk of a car outside a Party officials say the crossovers have way. Kennedy’s effort to win action on as the 60th most economical of the insti tui­ 00 dustry, and alumni. Only Michigan and Il­ Berkeley. hotel 40 miles north of Edinburgh Jan. 16. fouled results of their contests in the past. amendments to the criminal code reform tions included in the NASULGC . 'L.