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he Battalion Vol. 72 No. 172 I think it! Images Clements urges Senate to reject SALT II treaty Wednesday, August 1, 1979 College Station, Texas UPSP 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Weather Partly cloudy skies and warm with a high in the upper 90’s and a low in the mid 70’s. Winds will be S.S.E. at 10-15 m.p.h. 20% chance of rain. e « Internalimil »N - Alan fly broke an, day night aij to a 61 Rangers. ()v e a fly hi i left fieldoff ern after tin ' bases on " and John Hi ?le by id three inning ■ run. 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Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill mage Record fire razes Houston apartments United Press International JOUSTON — Several hundred apart- nt dwellers were left stunned and meless Tuesday by a raging fire that nesses said started on a wood shingle rror madeil )fwhere men were working and spread Jidly through 25 buildings causing an es- ated $20 million in damage, rank W. Tyler was seriously injured in wind-whipped, seven-alarm Jilaze that rted at Woodway Square about 3 p.m. lesday. He suffered second-degree [raS oVer half his body while trying to Classifie r 1 ' bis personal beongings, officials said. 345-2611 Btwas listed in fair condition at a hospi- He was one of a dozen residents and jefighters hurt or overcome by smoke in fire that was brought under control in fcr hours by 300 firefighters using 70 ISed Willi | eces of equipment. tinfl Fnodi FireChiefV - E ' R°§ ers said the fire was ^ Be of the biggest in the city’s history and I3X, ftmage tentatively was estimated at $20 pillion. The cause remained under inves- fcation and two workmen who were re- i7:00P1i lacing an air conditioner on the roof were questioned. iSDAY SPECIAL ried Steak i Gravy itatoes and one other table aad and But or Tea Many residents, a substantial number of hich were young couples or singles, were way at work when the fire started. One woman said that by the time she made it home, it was too late. “We got there, looked across the bayou and ours was already to the ground,” she said. “It was awful,” said Virginia Hodge, who drove by to check on her sister’s apartment, which was destroyed. “There was lots of smoke. You could see it from a good way away.” “When you looked out the window in the back, you could see all the roofs were on fire, caved in,” said Mike McGrath, 21, who heard about the fire at work and rushed home to remove his belongings. His apartment escaped destruction. “It was just too much fire, too fast, ” said Deputy Fire Chief Robert Clayton as the blaze smouldered through the night. “We pulled just about everything we could pos sibly pull witout stripping the city.” Officials said roughly one-third of the ci ty’s firefighting equipment — plus a dozen pieces from surrounding communities — were used to fight the blaze in 14 mph winds. Clayton said the fire seemed to stop only when it ran out of wood shingles. Ironically, the City Council — hours be fore the fire started — had tabled a propo sal to tighten building code fire-proofing requirements for wood-shingle construc tion. Oilslick nearing Texas; Coast Guard orders floating harrier erected SPECIAL EVENINl <EY 1 with y Sauce I Dressing ■ead - Butte' jr Tea 3ravy oice of any jetable United Press International CORPUS CHRISTI — Two ribbon leens of oil, the lead edge of a huge oil ick massing in the Gulf of Mexico since a Mexican oil well blew out on June 3, Jioved to within 90 miles of U.S. waters Tuesday and the Coast Guard ordered in po 612-foot floating barriers as a pre- iautionary measure. Although a spokesman for a 200-man am from a dozen federal, state and local tencies still declined to predict if the oil [light make landfall in Texas, the U.S. Re use Team readied its equipment. The team has predicted that a one-by- Ive mile patch of sheen leading the huge plick could arrive 30 to 40 miles offshore at e U.S.-Mexico border at Brownsville, exas, by Friday. Roger Meacham, from the environ mental Protection Agency’s Region VI Sice in Dallas, said daily flights over the lick n specially equipped planes were Ontinuing to monitor progress of the il slick — moving northward in patches rom where the Mexican oil well is gushing 10,000 barrels a day in the Bay of Cam- >eche. United Press International WASHINGTON — Gov. William Cle ments Jr., a former deputy secretary of de fense, called Tuesday for Senate rejection of the SALT II pact and the reopening of negotiations with the Soviet Union. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Republican gov ernor said he was appearing not in “a par tisan role” but “as an interested American who feels deeply that this SALT treaty is not in the best interest of our nation.” Clements, who held the high defense post from 1973 to January 1977 under former Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, said he strongly favors nu clear arms limitations. But he said the strategic arms limitation pact should be rejected by the Senate be cause the United States “is falling behind” the Soviet Union in military power and would be further weakened by the treaty. The treaty, he said, would allow the Russians to proceed with military pro grams just as they had already planned but would not allow the United States to go ahead with needed weapons programs. “We may well be setting the stage for an atomic confrontation between the United States and Russia,” he said. Such a con frontation, he said, could occur in the early 1980’s. “We in the United States are in greater danger today than we were in December 1941 — after Pearl Harbor,” Clements said. In urging the treaty not be ratified, Clements said negotiations should be reopened to make six major changes. Schlesinger says windfall tax needed United Press International WASHINGTON — Declaring that the United States is running out of time. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger Tuesday urged the Senate Finance Com mittee to approve the windfall oil profits tax. Schlesinger said the revenues from the tax are needed to help finance develop ment of alternate sources of energy. “The problems we face today are very serious,” Schlesinger said. “We are run ning out of time. ” Schlesinger said it would be difficult to achieve President Carter’s target of keep ing imports under 8.5 million barrels, but it was not impossible. He said the nation spent $42 billion for imported oil in 1978, and predicted Americans would spend $60 billion this year and $70 billion in 1980 — and even more if the Organization of Petroleum Ex porting Countries raises prices again. He also conceded under questioning he administration has no comprehensive energy plan, but added, “A comprehen sive energy plan is difficult to achieve sim ply because it touches everyone.” The committee was not expected to act on the oil profits bill before Congress leaves later this week for its traditional August vacation. These included: —Replacement of a provision alowing the Soviet Union, but not the United States, to have 308 “heavy” intercontinen tal ballistics missiles with one allowing both countries to have that number. —Limiting the number of Soviet “Backfire” manned bombers by counting them as strategic nuclear delivery vehi cles. —The removal of range limitations on U.S. sea-and ground-launched cruise missiles that are not to be deployed prior to 1982. —Clarifying the definition of prohibited “mobile ICBM launchers” to allow each side to have 308 launching sites for “mul tiple aim point” missiles. —Prohibition of the encoding of tele metry, so that both sides can read com munications between missiles and control lers. —Inclusion of “on site” inspection for both parties so each can better verify the other’s compliance with the treaty. With those changes, Clements said he would “fully support” the SALT II pact if the Senate also gave its support to strengthening U.S. strategic weapons'pro- grams to help restore the balance of mili tary power between the two countries. Such a commitment, he said, would cost about $25 billion more a year for “the next several years” but “we assure ourselves that we will avoid the ‘crisis of confronta tion’ that otherwise is probable in the early 1980’s.” The testimony drew praise from Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, who asked Cle ments whether he believed the U.S. negotiating position had been weakened by President Carter’s scrappin; of the B-l bomber and other weapons programs. “The answer is yes — I don’t think there is any question about it,” Clements said. Given away $142 million Financial aid head retiring Bob Logan figures he has given away $142 million to Texas A&M University students. After 16 years, he figures it’s time to quit. Nearly 136,000 students have attended the University on scholarships, grants and loans Logan has handed out since organizing the student financial aid office in 1963. Logan retires August 31. In his first year Texas A&M gave 498 students awards totaling $478,000. Last year 9,600 students received $15.2 million. Much of the aid now comes from federally-insured loans and federally-funded grants. The generosity of former stu dents continues to provide large numbers of scholarships and the gratitude of students sometimes results in even more gifts. Logan likes to tell the story of one cadet who received a scholarship and called on the donor “just to say thank you.” That visit and the student’s courtesy led to additional contributions and scholarships for another 40 students over the next 10 years. Contributions by former students supported a loan fund and scholarships long before the Texas Opportunity Plan (TOP) or government insured loans became available. Student repayments allowed the early loan fund to “turn over” rapidly. The percentage of Texas A&M students repaying fed- end loans today is far above the national average, prompt ing the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to send investigators to learn why. “The basic ingredient is the caliber of student at Texas A&M. The trainging they received at home — from par ents, church and school — is responsible,” Logan said, who will be honored with an Aug. 8 reception and dinner at the Brazos Center. “I think the university still tries to instill a sense of responsibility, a sense of comradeship in its students,” said the 1940 Texas A&M graduate. “This leads to a recog nition of duty, that if an Aggie does something that’s de trimental, it affects all Aggies. “We also have an office motto: A loan is paid the day it’s made,” Logan said. “If the loan is made correctly, the borrower understands his responsibility. We treat them as adults.” A retired U.S. Army colonel who specialized in person nel research, Logan said he has seen a philosophical change in the public during his student aid directorship. When Logan and Joyce Kutach, temporary clerk who still works in financial aid, opened the office in 1963, “we worked on the basis that support would be provided to a family’s and student’s efforts to meet his educational costs. A stipulation was that the student receiving aid was ex pected to work and earn part of the cost. Dining hall jobs were the standard work offering,” he said. Some students still put themselves through, under work-study programs. But the majority now come from families which never saved for college educations. They instead borrow to cover college expenses much as if they were buying a new car. Under federally-insured loan, the U.S. government guarantees the interest. The student aid office brought together loan and schol arship operations from the Association of Former Students and development, fiscal and placement offices. Federal dollars began arriving in quantity with the 1965 higher education amendments. Texas’ TOP program, now called the Hinson-Hazlewood College Student Loan program, was enacted in 1967-68. At about the same time, a Texas A&M program was born that Logan says “contributed tremendously to the growth here, in both quantity and quality of students.” Academic Services formed General studies, the Academic Counsel ing Center, preprofessional advising and related activities will be combined in a new unit at Texas A&M University to be known as Academic Services. The action is designed to provide more effective response to student counseling needs, said university officials. The new Academic Services unit will be directed by Dr. Garland Bayliss, associate professor of history. The veteran faculty member was nominated for the post by Dr. John M. Prescott, vice president for academic affairs and appointed by Presi dent Jarvis Miller. The appointment takes effect August 1. “Along with a variety of student serv ices, Academic Services will expand to provide assistance to faculty members who desire to improve their teaching and coun seling abilities,” Prescott said. The Academic Services office will as similate the functions of the former Gen eral Studies Program with its other opera tions. Students in the General Studies Program have not declared a major area of study, are undecided on a major, or are changing majors. The Academic Counseling Center and summer new student conference also will be included in Academic Services. “This new grouping of tasks under a re spected teacher-counselor will continue a tradition of good counseling that has been attained by the Academic Counseling Center,” Prescott said. The unit will also provide general guidance to students pre paring to enter professional schools with the understanding that those students will continue to receive the majority of coun seling from the individual departments. “Academic Services will also coordinate, advise and counsel students for the various competitive awards, such as the Danforth, Rockefeller and Rhodes scholarships,” Prescott said. Other responsibilities will also include advanced placement, co-ordination of credit by examination, institutional re search on student characteristics, per formance and academic survival, counsel ing and teaching seminars. Only her hairdresser knows Sherry Chamblee, a senior at Texas A&M models a hairstyle given to her by a stylist in a hair show in Dallas last weekend. Al though it looks like a hat. Sher ry’s hair is wrapped around wire to give us a glimpse of the “hairstyle of the future.” Battalion photo by Amy Davis Meacham said a report that monitoring team that has been in Corpus Christi three weeks still has not predicted that any of the oil would strike Texas, contrary to a nationwide report by one television net work. Meacham said that a strip of sheen was spotted from the air as close as 15 miles from the Mexican coast. Reports from Mexico indicated the oil well might con tinue to feed the slick until September or October when the well can be capped. “Going farther toward Tampico there were numerous ribbons of sheen with some mousse (oil globules), and offshore from Tampico there were sheens with heavy concentrations of moussee,” he said. But they ran into bad weather so the plane had to turn around and come back to Corpus yesterday.” Meacham said the Coast Guard was br inging in from the Adantic Strike team, headquartered in Elizabeth City, N.C., two 612-foot floating barriers, commonly called booms — one of which would be used to contain any oil and the other de signed to contain and mop up oil.