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Clements urges Senate
to reject SALT II treaty
Wednesday, August 1, 1979
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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.
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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
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^ 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-
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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.
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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.