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' stl[ •HI:. ear. om incli lisK nly 'partit sily lOth nsliip ourd rranf iirria* petri Cosli luntii in mi ,, 1 lily aniei baxia in tit Coif Battaoon Vol. 71 No. 146 12 Pages Friday, April 28, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Inside Friday • The Texas Rangers — the state FBI, p. 3. • The Star Spangled Supernational, p. 12. • Ags take on Arkansas for the SWC baseball championships, p. 12. Russian U.N. diplomat quits United Press International UNITED NATIONS — Arkady hevchenko, the highest-ranking loviet official at the United Nations, as formally quit his job because of )f serious differences with Com- ^0 Inunist ideology and says he will ow settle in the United States. “Shevchenko is welcome to stay,” tate Department spokesman John rattner said in Washington Wed- lesday. Shevchenko, an undersecretary- i ill ;eneral and disarmament expert, eelS lade clear in a statement that he AM rould remain silent about his rift nth Moscow, since his family is in leetl he Soviet Union and he does not d 91 rah to disturb Soviet-American re- itions. iusQ Shevchenko left with $76,000 in Cfci everance pay and benefits “strictly e Sle a accordance with U.N. staff regu- itions,” a U.N. spokesman said. He met with Secretary General [urt Waldheim at the United Na- ions Tuesday night to talk over his ituation and parted after reaching an amicable mutual agreement on as resignation from his $87,000-a- ear post. T now intend to take the neces- uy legal steps to establish resi- ence in the United States, where I ope to be free to lead a normal and iroductive life,” Shevchenko said. Trattner said the Soviet U.N. dip- mat has not yet requested asylum nd may not be required to do so in rder to remain in the United fates. He is free to stay “for a rea- ^jionahfe length of time, ” Trattner aid. He did not elaborate. The paunchy, 47-year-old dip- rocked the United Nations lions! ar ^ er ^i.s month by leaving his of- livith fice abruptly and announcing he had “differences with the Soviet gov ernment and needed a rest. A Soviet spokesman said Shev chenko was being held against his will by “U.S. intelligence services” and Moscow demanded his im mediate return home. But the United State and Russia sought to avoid a public argument on the case for fear of endangering talks between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow. A few days later, Shevchenko reappeared in New York accom panied by an attorney and came on his own to see Waldheim at the United Nations. “I have refused to accept instruc tions from the Soviet Government to go to Moscow on an official trip. I consider they have no right to give such instructions to an offical of the U.N. Secretariat,” the Soviet dip lomat said in his statement. “As is also known, I have serious differences of political philosophy and convictions with the present Soviet system, which have led me to the decision not to accept instruc tions to return to the Soviet Union. ” Shevchenko labeled as false any talk that he was either a ladies man who broke up with his wife, an al coholic with a loose tongue, or a double agent. “Rumors and speculation about - my personal life, past conduct or fu ture intentions are most distres sing,” he said, and could expose his family to serious risks. Shevchenko had no choice but to resign since his U.N. Secretariat post was one assigned to the Soviet Union. A&M officials recommend KAMU-FM go off the air By LIZ NEWLIN Battalion Campus Editor Only the Texas A&M Board of Regents can save KAMU-FM, the University radio station. University President Jarvis Miller said Wednesday that he plans to present a budget to the board that would force the station to go off the air by the end of the fiscal year, Aug. 31. Dr. J.M. Prescott, vice president for academic affairs, said in an interview Wednesday that the budget recommenda tion he made for the station in January still stands and now Miller has affirmed that recommendation. Miller will present the entire University budget to the board at its June 8-9 meeting. The budget goes into effect Sept. 1, 1978. These budget dedsons will not affect student government station KANM be cause its funds come from student service fees. Closing the station would not affect the teaching of broadcasting courses, said Bob Rogers, head of the Communications De partment. Eight students work part-time as disc jockeys for KAMU-FM. Dr. Mel Chastain, director of educa tional broadcasting services, said “I have Two Texas labor leaders indicted no comment on what’s going to happen to the station. That’s pretty obvious. KAMU-FM, which has been on the air less than a year, carries National Public Radio programs. NPR is the radio coun terpart to the Public Broadcasting Service. Montine Clapper, director of station re lations for NPR in Washington, D.C., said the station would lose its NPR affiliation if it goes off the air. “We certainly don’t want to lose KAMU,” Clapper said in a telephone interview Thursday. “KAMU has been very active in our membership program. We would miss them.” Clapper said that if the radio station goes off the air now it could rejoin NPR Igter. “At such time as the station could meet the criteria again, there would be no prob lem in getting the membership.” One re quirement for membership is an annual minimum operating budget of $80,000, which would be eliminated if the board approves the recommended budget. Texas A&M could lose its license to op erate an educational radio station if KAMU-FM folds. The acting chief of the radio branch of the Federal Communica tions Commission, Robert Hayne, said the commission would not renew the license for a station which is not broadcasting. The University’s three-year license for KAMU-FM expires in August 1980. At that time, Hayne said, the license would be open to other applicants. The University could “surrender” its license if KAMU-FM goes off the air, or it could file an application to assign it to somebody. “We usually just wait until the renewal application comes up,” Hayne said. “The renewal could be deferred if we knew the station would be going back on the air after 1980.” Otherwise, he said, “The commis sion may very well deny the renewal ap plication from the University and declare the license open.“ United Press International AUSTIN — A special task force has con cluded its three-month investigation of the Governor’s Office of Migrant Affairs with an indictment against two South Texas labor leaders. Travis Country District Attorney Ronald Earle, who led the investigation, said no more indictments were expected. He said no criminal offenses were found in GOMA’s operations. Brothers Don and Clarence Gray of Har lingen were indicted Thursday for conspir ing to steal more than $10,000 from the state. Assistant District Attorney Steve Brittain said attorney Tom Upchurch has indicated the Grays will surrender to au thorities today in Austin. Earle said he expects to prosecute the case during the first part of the summer. Conviction on the conspiracy charge would mean a prison sentence of two to 10 years and a fine of up to $5,000 for the Grays. In 1973, Gov. Dolph Brisoce appointed Don Gray to a six-year team on the state’s advisory plan for vocation-technical educa tion. Both men already face multiple theft charges in Brownsville in connection with government training grants to Manpower program. “In effect we’ve alleged a misappropria tion of state fonds,” Brittain said. “It in volves their contracting with the Texas Department of Community Affairs to provide on-the-job training in the name of the union, Plumbers and Pipefitters Local No. 823. The union had not authorized them to contract with TDCA and in fact never received the money.” Brittain said the state checks went into a bank account controlled by the Grays. “It ends up in a slush account,” Brittain said. Earle declined comment on whether in vestigators found mismanagement of fed eral grants by COMA or TDCA. “Our role is not to comment on man agement,” he said. Smith wants taxes cut &M desegregation to be investigated There are two ways to win a governor’s race, with money or hard work, said Pre ston Smith, and he is planning to win the hard way. Smith said he did not believe in using money to buy his way into the governor’s seat. If the people want to pick a governor according to the money he has, Smith said, they should pick a Candidate with the highest bid and use the money for the good of the state. He said his top priority for his new ad ministration would be dealing with a re duction in taxes. “The people of Texas are being over taxed,” Smith said. If a surplus exists in the General Revenue Fund when the Legislature convenes, the surplus should be returned to the people by a reduction in sales tax. He said the reduction could cut sales taxes 50 percent. Smith said he favors legislation to give the revenues from a 1 percent sales tax to any county governments and school dis tricts that approve the policy. “This would relieve excessive taxes on property owners, Smith said. Tax dollars should be spent upgrading education at every level, he said, even though there is “fat” in the educational program. He also said the governor’s office should assume greater responsibilities in overall energy policy, and should reduce utility bills by removing the 5 percent sales tax on utilities. Smith expressed great concern about the high crime rate in Texas, and pledged to work with law enforcement officials to develop a Crime Prevention Program “that would work.” Although Smith has only seven to 10 percent of the votes according to recent polls, he said that he is not frustrated with his standing. He said he thinks polls are inadequate because he has not found any one who has been professionally polled. — Janice Stripling ) By CHRIS PICCIONE 6nine-man investigative team from the partment of Health Education and Jfare will begin a week-long investiga- jofTexas A&M University’s desegrega- |policies May 22. ne investigators will also be on the A&M campus May 1 to interview i () rity group students, an HEW official remnants of racial segregation are >d at Texas A&M or at any other state dutions, Texas will be asked to submit atewide desegregation plan in accord i HEW criteria. IEW kinds may also be withheld from as A&M if violations are found until a 1 is approved. This would affect a liber of programs, said Clark Diebel, as A&M controller. be investigators will be checking six is for equal treatment of student and I'ty according to University President |is Miller. The areas are student re- ping, admissions, financial aid, coun- igand tutoring services, athletics, and ■ployment of faculty and staff, filler told Academic Council members idnesday that he believes HEW has al- dy written its report on Texas A&M will be looking for information to jus- their conclusions.” , e don t know what we re in for,” he id. dEW has requested statistics from the [iversity, including the number of nority students on campus and the . ej of minority students who apply for Hission. The only figures the University 1 hirnish are those provided by students untarily at registration, Miller said. 5a ndra Stephens, Equal Opportunity ^•alist, said HEW will take into consid- on the fact that these figures are only ln iates. ^ Texas A&M is required to submit a Se § r egation plan, the plan must “prom- r ealistically to overcome the effects of s ^crimination and to disestablish the nal system.” A few of HEW’s guidelines are that the Portions of black and white high school Oates must be equal to the pro- r- 1 -?! 18 t ^ lat ent er state colleges and uni- la Ic' 65 ’ same percentage of ad . C °^ e 8 e graduates must enter a e school as white students; and that Li^Pprtfon of white students who at- r, l^iooally black institutions be in- H hioWu Sa ^ S knows of no state in iH 6Se guidelines are achieved. He ird ” er guidelines are “just as ab- ijll^ 68 ^okultz, HEW branch chief in ckj 5 S3 ^ i nves figat° rs n °t b> e lat Tit a * I 00 * 35 but are checking to see I t ese gregation effort has been made, fleeted ' S one i°ur Texas schools ons HJ-u-f Speciall y rigorous investiga- EVV has asked for additional data, including information about academic programs and financial resources. “We want to get a complete view of the system — including Prairie View,” Stephens said. Dr. Haskell Monroe, dean of faculties, said he learned of the planned investiga tion April 21. “I believe A&M has acted in good faith in its poiicies of admissions and recruit- yywaV.,” Moxwoe said. “I have no idea if A&M has a segregation problem.” The 1977 Texas A&M fall enrollemnt was 29,414 students, including 111 blacks (0.37 percent) and 224 Spanish-surnamed students (0.83 percent). There were also 917 international students representing 76 countries. These figures, based on an optional ethnic information question on registra tion material, were supplied by the Office of Admissions and Records. Monroe said he feels that Texas A&M has made a genuine effort to hire minority group members. Presently, Texas A&M has 1,831 facutly members: 11 (0.6 percent) are black, 23 (1.25 percent) are Hispanic, 37 (2.0 per cent) are Asian, and 9 (0.49 percent) are American Indian or Alaskan. These figures include faculty employed in Texas A&M agriculture experimentation, engineering extension, and engineering experimenta tion. Monroe said the lack of minority group faculty is due to the lack of qualified appli cants and because possible candidates may receive higher wages elsewhere. Texas A&M does not have a minority recruiting program. The office of admis sions does provide a type of minority in formation service under the direction of Daniel Hernandez, assistant director of admissions. In 1976-77, this service reached more than 200 high schools across the state, in cluding some predominantly black and Mexican-American schools. “We are making contacts with the bigb schools, but it is a slow, tedious process, Hernandez said. “But we have laid the groundwork. ” Hernandez also said that minority stu dents on campus are making efforts to re cruit high school minority groups. Over spring break, minority students from Texas A&M visited 20 high schools. “We have had some people working very actively with minority enrollments, Monroe said. “They haven t always been successful, but our efforts have been con siderable.” After a similar investigation in North Carolina recently, sixteen state universi ties were found to contain vestiges of segregation. Formerly all-white institu tions were found to have a dispro portionately high percentage of white stu dents (91.2 percent) and formerly all-black schools had a similarly high percentage of black students (91.6 percent). In 11 tra ditionally white universities, 2 percent of the faculty was black. North Carolina now must write a plan that will increase the number of blacks at tending traditionally white universities, eliminate the duplications of programs in black and white institutions, increase the number of blacks on faculty and on govern ing boards, and institute programs and re sources that will make black institutions more attractive. Some HEW funds to North Carolina colleges may be stopped if the state fails to write a plan acceptable to HEW. An HEW report says that $10 million of the $68 mil lion from HEW may have financed con tinued segregation in North Carolina dur ing fiscal year 1977. HEW’s desegregation effort began in 1969 when it was alledged that 10 states were still operating segregated higher educational systems. The 10 were Arkan sas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mary land, Mississippi, North Carolina, Okla homa, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The states were charged with violating Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This act states, “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or na tional origin, be excluded from participa tion in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal fi nancial assistance.” HEW ordered the 10 states to comply with the act. The agency took no action when the states submitted unacceptable plans or failed to submit plans, said David Tatel, director of the Office of Civil Rights, in a telephone interview. After a 1973 Supreme Court decision, HEW was told to take enforcement action and “to secure acceptable desegregation plans from the 10 states before commenc ing enforcement proceedings.” The Supreme Court ruled that the plans failed to achieve desegregation April 1, 1977. As a result, HEW extended its in vestigation to other states in the South, including Texas. “If discriminatory practices are found at institutions, immediate corrective action is required,” Tatel said. Hill claims opponent Briscoe ‘running scared’ John Hill, Democratic candidate for Texas governor, Thursday made his last swing through Brazos County before the May 6 primary. At a breakfast Thursday morning he as sured his supporters a victory over incum bent Dolph Driscoe. “We would win the election if it was held tomorrow,” Hill said. “We re ahead in all the polls.” He did not specify which polls he was referring to. Briscoe forces are “running scared” and “know they are behind,” Hill said. Hill attacked Briscoe on several fronts. He criticized Briscoe’s inaccessability to the public and also his spending policy, calling him “the weakest manager of funds” the governor’s office has had. State spending has doubled since Bris coe took office, in 1972, Hill said. Proper fiscal management will stop people from “raking off the top” of federal funds, he added. Hill mentioned Briscoe’s high rate of absence from Austin and promised he would be a “full-time, all-out” governor. He said his educational policy would re lieve the property tax burden on tax payers. Hill said Texas needs a strong voice in determining events in Washington, and said he is confident about the upcoming primary. “We don’t have any real weak spots that we know of,” he said. “We don’t expect to carry Uvalde (Briscoe’s hometown). ’’ Hill urged his supporters to tell the people he will not raise taxes, even though Briscoe says Hill must raise taxes to pay for his planned budget. — Bill Wilson Ehrlichman released from prison 1 United Press International SAFFORD, Ariz. — Smiling and posing for photographers, John D. Ehrlichman, once one of the most powerful men in the nation’s govern ment, left the Safford Federal prison camp Thursday after serving 18 months for Watergate crimes. Ehrlichman, wearing a blue baseball cap, breaker and tan pants, walked out of the minimum security prison at 6 a.m. MST, and was surrounded by reporters in the road. Asked how he felt, he smiled and replied, “can’t you see how I feel?” He declined to answer fother questions, saying he had promised his first interview to a network reporter. “I’m not going to have any statements at all for you this morning. 111 answer all the questions when I do an interview,” he said. “I’ll let you all get pictures. Step back a pace or two, you’ll get pictures until everyone is out of film.” Ehrlichman, who published one novel while in prison, said he would have another book “coming out at Christmas time, a novel.” He waved and said, “I’ll see you all,” as he entered a car with Lois Boyles, a reporter for a Phoenix newspaper, and her son, Vance. Mrs. Boyles, a divorcee, has been friends with Ehrlichman for some time. Ehrlichman is separated from his wife, who lives in Seattle, where he practiced law before joining the Nixon administration. Ehrlichman, 53, was Richard Nixon’s chief domestic adviser. He was described as a model prisoner during the 18 months he spent at the prison in southeastern Airzona, where most of the inmates are illegal aliens and drug offenders. Ehrlichman originally was sentenced to 2.5 to eight years, which was reduced last year to one to four years. The U.S. Parole Commission ap proved his release in December but delayed its effect until today. Ehrlichman entered prison voluntarily on Oct. 28, 1976, while lawyers were still appealing his conviction and those of H.R. Haldeman — the only aide who outranked Ehrlichman in the Nixon White House — and former Attorney General John Mitchel. They went to prison nine months later, when the appeals were denied, and it appeared their paroles will be correspondingly delayed. Ehrlichman served six months beyond the earliest possible parole date, which may indicate what the other Watergate prisoners can expect.