what’s up?
Monday
PANHANDLE HOMETOWN CLUB: Will have a meeting at 8 p.m.
in Room 230, MSC.
MSCARTS COMMITTEE: Presents “Cousin, Cousine,” at 8 p.m. in
Rudder Theater.
LECTURE: There will be an oceanography and biology graduate
lecture by Barrie Dale at 3:30 p.m. in Room 112, O&M Building.
ECONOMICS LECTURE: Israel Kirtzner will give an economics
lecture at 3 p.m. in Room 401, Rudder Tower.
BAHA’I CLUB: Invites everyone to “Peace Corps Presentation,’’ at
7:30 p.m. in Room 504, Rudder Tower.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: Will discuss oil rig dives. Today is the last day
to sign up for the Christmas vacation Florida diving trip.
CROSS COUNTRY: The men’s team will run in the SWC Meet at
Fayetteville, Ark.
VOLLEYBALL: The women’s team will play at Texas Lutheran in
Seguin.
Tuesday
AG ECO CLUB: Will have a Halloween party with a costume contest,
prizes and beer at the Quonset Hut from 8-12 p.m.
BREAD FOR THE WORLD: Is sponsoring a trick-or-treat for UN
ICEF. All who would like to participate should meet at 7:30 p. m. in
Room 701, Rudder Tower. From there they will leave to go trick-
or-treating in the community. Refreshments will be served at 9:30
p.m.
BAHA’I CLUB: Welcomes everyone to a film strip presentation of
Baha’i Club objectives at 7:30 p.m. in Room 504, Rudder Tower.
PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST: Will be held at Rudder Fountain
at 11 a.m. Everyone is invited to enter the contest.
UNIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES: Chancellor Jack K. Williams will
speak on “The Code of Honor: Duelling in the Old South,’’ at 8 p.m.
in Room 601, Rudder Tower.
AGGIE CINEMA: “Psycho, ” Alfred Hitchcock’s classic of terror and
suspense involves a young couple fleeing from embezzlement
charges. The couple is stranded in an out-of-the-way motel run by a
lunatic. The movie will be shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Wednesday
POLITICAL FORUM: Presents Earl Butz, Former Secretary of Ag
riculture. Butz will speak on “Agriculture-Where Politics and Eco
nomics Clash,” at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. Admission is 25 cents
for students and 50 cents for non-students.
BAHA’I CLUB: Invites everyone for a free International Dance and
Food at 7:30 p.m. in Room 231, MSC.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: Will have a speaker on assertiveness
training. The upcoming field trip will be discussed at 8 p.m. in
Room 206, MSC.
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THE BATTALION Page 7
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1978
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Two constitutional
amendments being submitted to
voters Nov. 7 could save money for
suburban homeowners and those
who install solar or wind powered
energy devices on their homes.
If voters approve Amendment No.
4, one of the nine proposals on the
long ballot, the Legislature will be
authorized to exempt from property
taxes any solar or wind powered
energy devices Texans use in their
homes.
The constitution currently per
mits exemptions for government
owned property and church prop
erty and authorizes special home
stead exemptions for persons over
65, but requires payment of pro
perty taxes on all other property.
The move to exempt solar and
wind powered energy devices was
prompted by the shortage of natural
gas and oil, the most popular fuels for
home heating and a key ingredient in
generation of electricity by utilities
in the state.
Backers of the amendment say the
tax breaks could encourage
homeowners to invest in solar
energy devices such as water heat
ers, which would reduce the drain on
remaining natural gas resources.
Opponents contend, however, the
exemption would merely shift the tax
burden to other taxpayers since local
governments are not likely to reduce
expenditures because of the new
exemptions.
Amendment No. 8 would expand
the authority of water districts,
known in some areas as municipal
utility districts, to permit the dis
tricts to spend tax revenue and issue
bonds to provide fire fighting serv
ices to areas they serve.
The districts currently are limited
to providing water and sewer serv
ices, and many of the subdivisions
they serve are outside city limits and
have no fire protection.
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mericanologists”, Jimmy Carter’s
le policy toward Russia probably
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“1 don’t regard President Carter as
weak president, ” said Georgi Ar-
ov, director of the Institute on
S.A. and Canada Studies in a re
nt interview. “But he has not
wed himself to be a strong presi-
int, either. ”
Arbatov, an alternate member of
e Communist Party Central
ommittee, is said to compete with
natoly Dobrynin, Soviet ambas-
idor to Washington, in assessing
S. political developments for the
remlin.
A frequent visitor to the United
ates, Arbatov said he and his col-
agues find Carter’s Soviet policy
11 of vacillations with no firm direc-
«. This, he said, probably was not
usual for a new president.
My colleagues and I recently
made a study of American presidents
and how long it took for their policy
toward the Soviet Union to emerge, ”
he said.
He said it usually took about two
years, “through the midterm elec
tions of the first term, for the admin
istration’s policy to become clearly
defined.”
Soviet leaders are worried, he
said, that the ambiguity of Carter’s
policy has permitted conservative
U.S. politicians to grow in influence.
The critical test will be whether
Carter can persuade the Senate to
ratify the new, but still incomplete,
U.S.-Soviet pact to limit strategic
arms.
If the Senate approves a SALT
treaty, Arbatov said, the atmosphere
of mutual relations will improve sub
stantially and progress can be ex
pected in other areas. Should it be
rejected, mutual ties will suffer
badly.
“If SALT fails,” Arbatov said, “it
shouldn’t, in principle, prevent
progress in other areas. But it would
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As a result, fire insurance rates for
the suburban areas are higher than in
areas which have municipal fire pro
tection.
Biggest impact of the amendment
would be in Harris and adjoining
counties, where about 425 of the
state’s nearly 1,000 water districts
are located.
A House committee studying the
problem concluded fire insurance
rates outside cities could be signifi
cantly reduced by allowing water
districts to install water lines suffi
cient to serve fire hydrants, and for
the districts to provide fire fighting
services.
Although some of the areas served
by water districts have volunteer fire
departments, constitutional restric
tions prohibit the districts from in
stalling fire hydrants on their water
lines, making firefighting difficult.
Opponents contend residents of
water districts already face high taxes
and should not have to bear the
additional burden of financing
firefighting operations by the dis
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be unhealthy and I don’t know how
long the readiness on our side to
work for improvement of relations
would last.”
Arbatov denied the Soviet Union
wants to build up a presidential chal
lenger for 1980 — namely Sen. Ed
ward Kennedy, D.-Mass. —because
Cartef has been difficult to deal with.
Kennedy recently visited Moscow
and conferred with President Leonid
Brezhnev.
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