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Vol. 74 No. 73
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Friday, December 12, 1980 USPS 045 360
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Reagan Cabinet only half-formed so far
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — President-elect Ronald
Hn is wrestling with the problem of a Cabinet
Hpiali-formed.
||eagan, who chose not to attend the Thursday
lews conference in which eight Cabinet and top
dviscr nominees were introduced to reporters,
aid later he was “very pleased” with his choices.
[Til be more pleased when we can name the rest
Itliem,” said the president-elect, who has been
logged by questions about who the top members of
Bministration will be since he was elected Nov.
I Reagan refused to comment on reports from
^informed sources that retired Gen. Alexander
gis his top choice for secretary of state and the
eason for silence is that Haig is still complet-
Igthc paperwork required of a potential Cabinet
Bber.
! "I can’t talk about any specifics or anyone, as I
Bren t so far. You’ve done a great job guessing
head all so far,” Reagan said.
Beagan, who planned to end his second post-
jfection Washington trip Saturday, scheduled
letings with senators and his staff today after
weiving his daily national security briefing.
Reagan has appeared increasingly irritated as
selection process drags on and as reporters pelt
|at every opportunity about progress in com-
g the Cabinet formation task, which he had
predicted would be finished by Dec. 1.
At least two potential nominees dropped out of
the Cabinet sweepstakes because of exceptional
burdens imposed by conflict-of-interest laws. A top
choice to head the Department of Labor was re
ported to have met obstacles in receiving his FBI
clearance.
The still vacant Cabinet offices include secretar
ies for state, interior, agriculture, housing and
urban development, labor, education and energy.
Press spokesman James Brady said no nominees
would be announced today.
The appointments announced Thursday were:
Caspar Weinberger, Richard Nixon’s secretary of
health, education and welfare, for defense secretar-
y; William French Smith, Reagan’s personal
lawyer, for attorney general; New York stockbroker
Donald T. Regan for treasury secretary; Drew
Lewis, deputy director of the Republican National
Committee, for transportation secretary.
William Casey, former Securities and Exchange
Commission chairman, for CIA director; Sen.
Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., for health and human
services; Rep. David Stockman, R-Mich., for
Office of Management and Budget, and Malcolm
Baldrige, a Connecticut manufacturer, for com
merce.
Here is a look at the eight nominees announced
Thursday:
Caspar Weinberger, 63— defense secretary
Weinberger, a San Francisco lawyer and a long
time friend of Reagan, is a magna cum laude gradu
ate of Harvard and Harvard Law School and is
currently vice president of the Bechtel Corp.
He headed the Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, the Federal Trade Commission
and the Office of Management and Budget during
the Nixon administration.
Donald T. Regan, 61 — treasury secretary
Regan is president of Merrill Lynch (x Co., the
largest investment brokerage firm in the country,
which often advertises it is “bullish on America.”
Regan (pronounced Ree-gun) was bom in Cam
bridge, Mass., and went to Harvard.
He was a lieutenant colonel with the Marine
Corps during World War II, and joined Merrill
Lynch in 1946 as an account executive. He became
its president 10 years ago.
William French Smith, 63 — attorney general
Smith, who resides in Los Angeles, is Reagan’s
personal lawyer and one of a handful of long-time
Reagan confidants. Smith has specialized in the
management side of labor relations law.
Smith graduated from UCLA summacum laude
in 1939 and from law school at Harvard three years
later.
Malcolm “Mac” Baldrige, 58 — commerce sec
retary
Baldrige is chairman and chief executive officer
of Scovill Inc. He took over the financially troubled
brass mill in Waterbury, Conn., in the 1960s and
turned it into a diversified international manufac
turer.
Baldrige, a Yale graduate and former rodeo cow
boy, headed George Bush’s 1980 Connecticut Re
publican primary campaign.
Richard S. Schweiker, 54 — health and human
services secretary
Schweiker is a senator from Pennsylvania who
had already decided to leave Congress after 20
years. When Reagan was running for president four
years ago, he amazed conservatives by picking
Schweiker as his running mate.
During most of his four terms in the House and
two in the Senate, Schweiker was a moderate Re
publican. His opposition to some of Richard Nix
on’s programs got him on the GOP president’s
“enemies list.” By 1977, his rating by one liberal
group dropped to only 15 percent.
Andrew “Drew” Lewis, 49 — transportation sec
retary
Lewis never has held public office, but is known
in Pennsylvania as a “pel’s pol,” an adept political
organizer and also founder of Lewis and Associates,
a management and financial consulting firm.
Schweiker’s boyhood best friend, Lewis was
educated at Harvard Business School. In 1976, he
helped President Gerald Ford fight off Reagan’s
challenge for the GOP presidential nomination in
Pennsylvania.
This time around, Reagan managed to secure 51
of the state’s 83 Republican GOP convention dele
gates because of Lewis’ methodical groundwork.
William Casey, 67 — CIA director
Casey is a New York tax lawyer and was Ronald
Reagan’s 1980 campaign manager. He served as
chief of secret intelligence for the European theater
of the Office of Strategic Services, the CIA’s prede
cessor.
Casey joined the Reagan team in February,
replacing the deposed John Sears. A highpriced
corporate lawyer, Casey has written books on sub
jects from tax law to the American revolution.
In 1971, Richard Nixon appointed him to head
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
David Stockman, 34 — budget director
Stockman is a Republican congressman from
Michigan who is respected by liberals and moder
ates for his erudite research. Stockman has amassed
a flawless conservative record during his three
terms in office.
The west Michigan lawmaker graduated cum
laude from Michigan State University in 1968,
went on to Harvard Divinity School and later
attended Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
Stockman propped Reagan for his debate with
President Carter as a stand-in for Carter.
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
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Cathy McMahon and Keith Smith check the list of graduates on the
bulletin board outside of Heaton Hall Thursday. Those names with a
black dot by them are cleared to receive diplomas in graduation exercises
this weekend. Names without a dot must clear up some problem on their
record before they can graduate. A listing beside each name without a dot
informs the student who to talk to in order to clear up the problem.
two Lennon fans commit suicide
United Press International
NEW YORK — Yoko Ono, concerned
0 5 S Over the suicides of at least two Beatles fans
u since the death of John Lennon, is begging
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pair.
|‘‘I’m just afraid that instead of what John
K I believed in, people will think of his
,Kth as the end of something,” Miss Ono
OjOoJjliid in an interview with the New York
* * 2 a oi) Daily News published Thursday.
3 I “They are sending me telegrams saying
® n | jj«•' (tat this is the end of an era and everything.
5) § ® nj- ® ut it was just starting, and we know that
3 ^ p the ‘80s is up to each one of us.”
* ° o 3 ^ii Mark David Chapman, the Beatles fana-
s® 5 J r | accused of killing Lennon, is under a
2 2® jjuieide watch, himself, in a Manhattan
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ceived numerous death threats. Fearing
“another Jack Ruby,” police outfitted him
with a bulletproof vest Thursday before
hustling the accused killer into Manhattan
Criminal Court.
Chapman’s first court-appointed lawyer
quit Thursday and sources said he too had
received death threats. Chapman’s new
lawyer, Jonathan Marks — a Beatles fan —
said he would “absolutely not” accept
police protection.
“I feel enormous sympathy for John Len
non’s family and his friends, and I also feel a
great deal of compassion for Mr. Chap
man,” said Marks.
“Tm very much looking forward to repre
senting a man who — more than anybody
else I can think of — needs a lawyer and a
friend very badly.”
Miss Ono said life without her husband is
“hard. I wish I could tell you how hard it
is.” But she begged the rock star’s fans not
to regard his death as “the end of some
thing. ”
Two Lennon fans — Colleen Costello,
16, of Brooksville, Fla., and Michael E.
Craig, 30, of Salt Lake City — committed
suicide after hearing of Lennon’s death.
Miss Ono called for a 10-minute silent
prayer vigil for the slain rock star at 2 p.m.
EST Sunday “wherever you are. ” Lennon’s
body was cremated Wednesday and there
will be no funeral service.
Lennon’s accused killer, who has
attempted suicide at least twice in his life,
is being checked by guards every 15 mi
nutes to make sure he does not attempt to
kill himself while he undergoes psychiatric
tests to determine his competency to stand
trial.
He and his first court-appointed attor
ney, Herbert Adelberg, have been the sub
ject of numerous death threats, law en
forcement sources said.
This case “is becoming something of an
albatross for me,” Adelberg told the court
in asking to be relieved from Chapman’s
case.
Adelberg said he could not afford the
time from his one-man practice that Chap
man’s case would require. He made no
mention in court of threats on his life. But
sources said that was the reason behind his
request and he had been placed under
police guard.
Marks, 37, a former assistant U.S. attor
ney, met with Chapman for an hour, but
refused to discuss what his client told him,
or what kind of defense he planned. Chap
man’s defense will be paid for by the courts.
Solicitors suspect in burgl
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By MARCY BOYCE
B Battalion Staff
■Police are not sure whether a rash of burglaries in the
Vance Apartments at the end of November are related
agazine subscription solicitors working in the area,
|ege Station police said.
ere is no evidence positively linking the solicitors to
burglaries in which television sets and stereo equip-
jht were the items most frequently stolen, College
jtion Police Lt. Mike Patterson said.
However, Patterson said, the solicitors are possible
spects because several victims of the burglaries re-
Wed that the people who came to their door seemed
lore interested in their apartment than in selling maga-
lirif subscriptions.
[“They’d get though with their spiel and then start
Jang questions about the house, who lived there and
fiether or not they (the residents) were going home for
inksgiving,” Patterson said.
lome reports from the people who were burglarized
lid they later noticed tiny X’s inked on their doors and
Sieved them to be signals to burglars who returned to
§! complex later.
fiut whether or not the solicitors were responsible for
iburglaries, College Station Police Lt. Ron Miller said,
icouid not say one way or the other. ”
Three people selling magazines were arrested at some
duplexes on Lodgepole and Ponderosa at the beginning of
this month for failing to have a solicitor’s license, Patter
son said.
A woman from Arlington, a man from Middleton,
Conn., and an 18-year-old girl from Canton, Ohio, were
identified, fined and then released, Patterson said. They
left town that same day before College Station Police were
able to issue a warrant for them, he said.
The problem with even legitimate magazine companies
is that they frequently hire personnel without knowing
their background, Miller said.
“Most of them (the companies) have some guy running
it who may even be headquartered in another state, and
10-12 salesmen working for them who could be anybody
from anywhere,” he said.
“The companies are legit, but the trouble is that they’ve
got personnel problems just like other companies.”
The best precaution against solicitation-burglary
schemes is for residents to just not ever open their doors
to anyone they don’t know and especially to not ever let
them come inside, Miller said.
“Buy your magazines in a store,” he said.
But if you still want to buy products from salesmen,
Patterson’s advice is for residents to ask to see a solicitor’s
license. And if they refuse, don’t talk to them.
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Residents also should read what the solicitors show
them and make sure it is valid, Patterson said. Many
salesmen carry laminated cards which they show as
licenses, but in fact are not, he said.
College Station solicitor’s permits look more like re
ceipts than a driver’s license. They are 3X8 light green
slips of paper with brown and blue lettering and the City
of College Station printed on them.
Any other type of permit or license is not valid, Patter
son said.
The police officer presently is working with the College
Station city attorney to change what he termed a couple of
weaknesses in the city’s solicitor’s license.
One of them is that there is no time limitation on the
license which would curtail solicitation to specific times of
the day. Patterson said he would like to see the College
Station ficense carry a provision which would limit solici
tation possibly between 9 a.m and 8 p.m.
He said he also is working to get another provision
which would require the license to be shown upon de
mand by any police officer or potential customer solicited.
These changes hopefully will eliminate some of the
problems surrounding solicitation in the area, but resi
dents should still be leery of any door-to-door salesman,
Patterson said.
Senate vote blocks
ZIP code change
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The expanded nine
digit ZIP code got stuck in the Senate’s
Christmas tree and lost four numbers, but
it may reappear intact by next summer.
On a 90-0 vote Thursday — a margin
designed to impress House conferees who
will consider the issue today or Monday —
the Senate blocked Postal Service use of a
nine-digit ZIP code until at least June 1 of
next year.
But it also allowed the Postal Service,
which wanted the new system in place by
February, to buy new equipment and
otherwise prepare for the new system. In
the meantime, opponents said, the quasi
independent Postal Service must better
show the need for adding four digits to the
existing five.
Congress has no authority over postal
operations, except to withhold funds, and
the original measure sponsored by Sens.
David Durenberger, R-Minn., and Roger
Jepsen, R-Iowa, would have stopped the
Postal Service from doing anything to start
the system until next September.
That would have prevented the Postal
Service from buying its first $316 million
worth of optical scanners to handle the nine
digits.
The issue normally would not have come
up in the current lame duck session, but
senators have been using a vital govern
ment funding resolution to attach their pet
projects, such as the ZIP code bill, as if they
were ornaments to a Christmas tree.
Under a Senate compromise, postal offi
cials can buy the equipment and use it for
the five-digit zip.
The Postal Service says the new system
will save money for it and for business mail
ers, who produce 80 percent of first class
mail, and will make service more efficient
and reliable.
Members of both houses have gained
political mileage out of opposition to a nine
digit zip, and the 10-digit toll-free phone
number to call to find out the new codes.
Durenberger, who said he would change
his mind if the Postal Service makes a bet
ter case, admitted the issue “turned on my
political button” when he first heard about
it three months ago.
The only senator to defend the new ZIP
was John Glenn, D-Ohio, who said he ori
ginally opposed it. Glenn said the new,
voluntary ZIP code — really only four new
numbers added to the existing five —
would save $597 million by 1987, with a
total cost to business of between $40 mil
lion and $80 million.
Durenberger said it would cost commer
cial mailers $1 billion.
Arguing against “scare tactics” by oppo
nents, who cited Americans’ objection to
numbers, Glenn said people don’t mind
using the 12 or 14 numbers on each of their
credit cards or the 12 numbers it can take to
dial an international call in seconds. The
real question, he said, is: “Do you want
better service at less cost?”
But Jepsen warned, “Unless changes are
made, I’m afraid the nine-digit ZIP code
will become the 1981 version of the Susan
B. Anthony dollar.”
Directories
for 1980-’81
available
The 1980-’81 campus directories are
now available in the office of Student
Publications, 216 Reed McDonald.
Students who paid for a directory at
registration must show their fee slips in
order to pick one up.
Students who did not pay for a direc
tory at registration can buy one for
$3.50.
Student dies in accident
A Texas A&M University computer sci
ence major, John Ernest Orgeron, 20, died
Friday in Beaumont from injuries sus
tained in an automobile accident Nov. 29.
He was a resident of Port Arthur.
Silver Taps for Orgeron will be on Feb.
Safety precautions
for holidays pushed
Off-campus students leaving for the holi
days should take precautions to safeguard
their homes before they leave, local author
ities say.
Police patrol of apartments will be dou
ble during the upcoming Christmas vaca
tion, College Station Police Lt. Ron Miller
said.
But he warned students and others who
might be leaving town to take extra precau
tions so that their apartments and houses
will not be burglarized.
“They need to take valuables with them
... small t.v.’s and stereos. Go ahead and
load them up, if possible,” he said.
He said if possible residents should
leave a car parked in the driveway, leave a
fight on and stop all newspapers so that it
appears someone is home. And, even bet
ter, would be to have a friend or neighbor
periodically make sure everything is all
right, he said.
To help save energy and cut electricity
bills in empty houses and apartments over
the holidays, the College Station city hall
has issued these suggestions:
1) If your apartment has central heating,
set the thermostat lower than usual.
2) Turn off unneccessary appliances. If
you leave the refrigerator on, set the ther
mostat on a “vacation setting. ” If you shut
off the refrigerator, leave the door open to
avoid mildew.
3) If you have an electric hot water hea
ter, put it on its lowest setting or turn it off
completely. Water heaters are large users
of electricity.
4) .If you have a fireplace, make sure the
damper is closed so cold air doesn’t enter
the house.
5) If you turn your water or heat off, be
sure you drain the water from the pipes so
you don’t run the risk of your pipes
freezing.