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Battalion art when thei sgow and _ 'nerback bil' -rans Lyle ird will be some Cormack.j^ ^vho has _ t hiladelpliii" ere have t too happj bis as a reinl t to win rim has seen 5| n years witli ack has the - man’s shl dungs ay off," he to take awl al system Serving the Texas A&tAf University community Wednesday, August 27, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Regents OK dorms, appoint new dean Lines and more lines Staff photo by Pat O’Malley That was the order of the day Tuesday as thousands of Texas A&M University students began registering for, adding to or dropping from their class schedules. Late registration ends Friday, while the drop-add period ex tends through Sept. 5. by DILLARD STONE Battalion Staff New dormitories at Texas A&M Univer sity and TAMU-Galveston will be con structed under the terms of $11.7 million worth of contracts awarded Tuesday by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. The regents also sold revenue bonds totaling $12.9 million to finance the facilities. The regents also approved Dr. Keith L. Bryant Jr. as Texas A&M’s new dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Bryant was nomin ated by a University search committee, and he assumed the position immediately. B-F-W Construction Co., Inc., of Tem ple was awarded a $7,506,000 contract to build two new modular dormitories for female students at Texas A&M. The dormitories, the fifth and sixth of modular construction at Texas A&M, will be located in two separate areas of the cam pus. One dormitory, a 300-student facility, will be located behind Aston Hall next to the band drill field. A 240-student dormitory will be built in the grassy area northwest of the Keathley- Fowler-Hughes complex. Ed Peel, System director of facilities, said space limitations and the desire to dis tribute the new residents between campus dining facilities were the reasons the dor mitories would not be built adjacent to each other. Residents of the Northside dormitory will eat in Sbisa Dining Hall, while those in the new dormitory behind Aston will eat in the Commons cafeteria. The new dormitories are expected to be ready in Fall 1981. TAMU-Galveston will gain its second dormitory, housing 414 students, under a $4,217,920 contract awarded to C-Koe Builders, Inc., of Euless. Dr. William Clayton, TAMU-Galveston president, told the regents his enrollment projections indicated that the new dormi tory could be filled easily. The university currently uses its training ship, the Texas Clipper, to house some students. The bond issues to finance the facilities were sold at an effective interest rate of 9.177401 percent. The $8.5 million issue to finance the Texas A&M dorms was sold to Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Inc., of Dallas. Texas Commerce Bank, National Associa tion, of Houston purchased the $4.4. mil lion bonds for the Galveston project. There was some discussion at the meet ing about the high rate of interest estab lished for the bonds, but one regent en couraged the group to adopt the proposed rate anyway. “WeVe been operating at a deficit in this country for 20 years. I suspect that in five years this 9 percent is going to be pretty cheap,” Regent John Blocker of Houston said. As new liberal arts dean, Bryant suc ceeds Dr. W. David Maxwell, who res igned to accept the position as vice presi dent for academic affairs at Clemson Uni versity. Bryant said his immediate plans are to “get moved in” to the dean’s office in Har rington Tower. He declined to give details of any plans he has for Texas A&M ’s liberal arts programs, indicating he would prefer to get settled into the new job before dis cussing his plans. Bryant joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1976 as professor and head of the history department. Also Tuesday, Dr. A. Konrad Eugster was named executive director of the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Labora tory. He succeeds Dr. William Sippel as head of the laboratory which assists Texas veterinarians and public health officials. Sippel retires Sunday. The regents also named a new $7.5- million fine arts complex at Tarleton State University in honor of Board Chairman Clyde Wells, a Tarleton Distinguished Alumnus. Texas A&M’s Equestrian Center Arena was named for N. W. Freeman, for mer chairman of the board of Tenneco, Inc. pongress sends president . 2 billion defense bill Workers feel victory near S trike righ t reco United Press International ■ WASHINGTON — Congress voiced lit- Bppposition to approval of the new $58.2 billion defense authorization legislation, and even less disagreement with pay hikes Hvthe armed services. Bi the Senate, the vote Tuesday in favor j»f the defense bill was 78-2. In the House, itlvas 360-49. The bill now goes for signa- Bre to President Carter, who had asked for about $7 billion less. f In separate actions, the House and Sen- re^ also voted overwhelmingly to override Carter’s veto of a pay increase to Veterans Administration physicians. Iffhe military appropriations bill includes such inducements to armed forces mem bers to stay in the services as higher re enlistment bonuses, increases in per-diem [ravel allowances, and new procedures for Mred pay computation and adjustment. [jEven Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., who along with Sen. Mark Hatfield, R- Ore , cast the only dissenting votes in the Senate Tuesday night, said the 11.7 per cent pay increases for the military were long overdue and a necessary ingredient in retaining the services of qualified military men and women. pBIagent testifies in Brilab United Press International |; HOUSTON — An FBI agent testified in the Brilab case Tuesday that wiretaps re pealed a Houston city councilman was to Ireceive $10,000 for influencing selection of an insurance company to handle the city jeon tract. KSteve Holbrook, the FBI agent who last November asked a federal judge to grant permission to wiretap the telephones of targets in the Brilab case, identified City Councilman Jim Westmoreland as the man who was to receive the bribe. Hol brook did not say whether the payoff was ever made. but prosecutors have referred to three ■parate areas of investigation in the Brilab lease — the city of Houston, politicians at the state capitol, and labor union officials throughout the Southwest. ■ Westmoreland’s attorney tried unsuc- |cessfully last week to close the Brilab pre trial hearing for House Speaker Bill Payton and two co-defendants to the news $hedia. P Holbrook testified that the reference to Westmoreland was overheard after Biretaps were placed on the home and lousiness telephones of suburban Houston linion official L. G. Moore, one of Clay- rfem's co-defendants. The FBI agent said |fne wiretaps revealed details of a transac tion in which Westmoreland was to re- Iceive $10,000 from Moore via John Gar- fett, a port commissioner. But, the tapes Browed Garrett and Moore agreed to keep jlS.OOOfor themselves. 1 During testimony Monday at the hear- |hg, a lawyer for Moore, who was granted a fifeparate trial from the three other defen- Mants in the Brilab case, said his client’s testimony will help exonerate Clayton. ■ Attorney Mike Ramsey testified that Boore could provide statements “exculpa- Ijory or beneficial to Clayton and Austin PMers Randall Wood and Donald Ray if B were tried separately. Chairman John Stennis of the Senate Armed Services Committee argued against counting too much on the pay hikes. “They may, temporarily, help,” he said, “but the basic problems will continue. “A revised form of draft will be necessary to correct our military manpower problems — and there is no time to lose.” Stennis said the bill is “a new start to the most modern weaponry science can devise.” Proxmire argued the conference report hammered out by Senate and House mem bers was full of “budgetary excesses, ” mis placed priorities and inflationary impact. The bill authorizes: — $1.6 billion for the multiple protective basing system of the MX missile in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, and $120 million in new money for civil defense. — $300 million for research and $75 mil lion in procurement funding for a multi role manned bomber replacing the obsoles cent B-52s, to be deployed in 1987. — $37.8 billion for weapon and equip ment procurement, including $16.6 billion for aircraft and helicopters, $8.4 billion for new warships, and $2.3 billion for tanks and other armored vehicles for the Army and Marines. — Nearly $17 billion for military re search, development, testing and evalua tion. — A total active-duty military manpower ceiling of approximately 2 million. The civi lian employee ceiling for the Pentagon would be 986,000. — The Air Force to study various de signs, for a new advanced technology bom ber, the current B-l or a modified version of it. — About $35 million for research on a CX cargo jet transport for the Rapid De ployment Force, providing the defense secretary certifies to Congress the plane would fill military airlift needs before de velopment begins. The measure stipulates no more than 35 percent of new male recruits may be high school dropouts, and restricts recruitment of individuals with lower IQs. In a separate action concerning military personnel, the House passed on a 399-0 vote, and sent to the Senate, legislation to revise military personnel management, pay and benefits. United Press International GDANSK, Poland — Government negotiators told strike leaders at the Lenin Shipyard Tuesday that the regime recog nizes their right to strike — one of the workers’ key demands in the 13-day walk out along the Baltic Coast. Workers cheered the comment by First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski at the two sides’ first negotiating session since the shipyard talks resumed following the past weekend’s Communist Party purge in Warsaw. Jagielski promised the government would issue a new law on labor unions guaranteeing their right to strike when other means to resolve disputes have failed. He apparently was referring to a law gov erning operations of the official labor un ions, not the free trade unions the workers have demanded. But the strikers felt his statement represented a victory anyway. The team of government officials led by Jagielski arrived at the Lenin Shipyard Tuesday for the meeting with leaders of the joint strike committee representing more than 200,000 workers along the Baltic Coast. Jagielski and his team arrived at about 11 a.m. (5 a. m. EDT), one hour later than scheduled. They entered the shipyard through a side entrance and went immedi ately to the conference hall where mem bers of the strikers 19-member presidium were waiting Talks were resumed only after officials yielded to the strikers’ demand for the res toration of full telephone service between Gdansk, which is the center of the workers’ revolt, and the rest of the country. The meeting to try to resolve the 12-day worker unrest that has led to mass stop pages throughout the north and other parts of the country, comes less than 48 hours after Communist Party leader Edward Gierek announced sweeping changes in the country’s political leadership. The call for trade unions free from gov ernment control still tops the list of the workers’ demands, said Florian Wisniews ki, one of the strike leaders. But he said the workers would be ready to compromise on some other points. “We are fully prepared for the talks,” Wisniewski said. Face-to-face negotiations between the strikers and Poland’s new prime minister, Josef Piniatowski, were scuttled only an hour before they were due to start Monday. Strike delegates voted unanimously against talking with the government until phone Close shaves John Ledlow,an Aggie Band freshman from Lafayette, La., gets his introduction to Corps life from barber Ronnie Langham. At right, Ledloe saves a few clippings from his first “fish” haircut. All Corps freshmen are receiving preparation for Corps life this week through the Corps’ Fish Orientation Week. Staff photo by Pat O’Malley links between Gdansk and the rest of the nation were restored. The inter-city dialing system suddenly resumed connecting callers to Gdansk Monday night, after having been out a ..week- ...... s -. Poland’s first deputy prime minister, Mieczyslaw Jagielski, rather than Piniatowski, was expected to head the government team at Tuesday meeting. Piniatowski replaced hard-liner Edward Babiuch as prime minister in Gierek’s purge, in which seven other leaders, in cluding party ideologist Jerzy Lukasiewicz lost their jobs in the biggest shake-up in a decade. Three new deputy prime ministers were appointed and new controllers were put in charge of radio and television to replace the men singled out as being most responsible for the strike wave. The main television news bulletins car ried one of the frankest discussions of the nation’s affairs ever to be screened, obser vers said. The country’s new finance minister, Ma rian Krak, for the first time in public con firmed Poland’s foreign debt amounted to $20 billion — twice the income from Po land’s foreign trade. Both sides to maneuver in Europe United Press International BONN, West Germany — With some quarter-million strikers defying communist leaders in Poland, troops from the world’s superpowers gathered on both sides of the Iron Curtain for the biggest war games mounted in a decade. As Communist Warsaw Pact forces and NATO troops began arriving in East and West Germany for annual fall maneuvers. Western defense experts stressed this year’s extra show of force had “nothing whatsoever to do with Poland.” In East Germany, the maneuvers will begin in the first week of September with 40,000 Warsaw Pact troops in action. Reports in the state-run media said the exercises would concentrate on land-sea maneuvers along the Baltic coast, where farther to the east, Polish strikes in the ports of Gdansk and Szcezcin have plunged the country into crisis. Western defense experts said the Baltic war games, planned long in advance, would not spill over into intervention, as did simi lar maneuvers in 1968 when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. But observers noted the prominent front-page play given the arrival of Czech and Bulgarian troops in East German news papers this week and speculated East European governments, unnerved by the Polish unrest, might play up the maneuv ers as a reminder of the military power at their command. Since 1970, when 100,000 Warsaw Pact troops engaged in East German maneuv ers, the Soviet bloc has limited its regular fall exercises to around 25,000 forces. Under the Helsinki accords signed by East and West in 1975, each side must inform the other about maneuvers involv ing 25,000 or more troops. No Westerners have been asked to view this year’s Warsaw Pact maneuvers, which are paralleled by an even greater show of force by NATO troops in West Germany.