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The Battalion
Vol. 74 No. 104
I 12 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, February 24, 1981
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
The Weather
Yesterday
High 75
Low 44
Rain none
Today
High 77
Low 50
Chance of rain. . . none
Spanish coup attempt ‘fizzes out
United Press International
MADRID, Spain — Rebellious civil guards released
Spain’s 350 parliamentary deputies today, ending a 17-hour
rightist coup attempt with the sudden surrender of the insur-
ction’s leader.
“Walk out unconcerned,” Antonio Tejero, 47, the Fran
cois! leader of the failed coup, told the deputies before being
taken to civil guard headquarters. “The only thing happening
, here is that I’m going to land 30 or 40 years in jail. ”
been roM The bloodless end of the bizarre coup was a triumph for
Iiieinu| .|p a j n ’ s 5-year-old democracy and a personal victory for King
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taught ip f| The deputies filed out of the Congress of Deputies row by
ow as parliament president Landelino Lavilla, who began the
teizure with a rebel gun at his temple, quietly urged: “Calm,
talm.”
Landelino ordered the deputies to reassemble today to
continue the business of electing a prime minister to end a
Inonth-long leadership crisis.
Thousands of Spaniards crushed behind riot barriers out-
ide the downtown parliament cheered, wept and applauded
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As word of the negotiated surrender boomed from hun
dreds of transistor radios in the crowd at Neptune Plaza,
drivers honked horns. The masses on foot surged forward
against police lines and had to be beaten back by officers on
horseback.
’The rebel leader, Army Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina,
decided to give up his bid for a return to military rule after a
simultaneous rebellion in eastern Spain crumbled and Juan
Carlos stood firm behind democracy.
Tejero, a hardline anticommunist and sworn foe of Basque
home rule, told army negotiators he would release his hos
tages on the condition he be permitted to surrender in the
nearby town of El Pardo where his mentor, dictator Francisco
Franco, lived and in 1975 died.
Tejero demanded that no photographers witness his depar-
ture from the parliament building. He insisted he alone be
held responsible for the dramatic seizure Monday of 350
deputies meeting to elect a new prime minister to end a
monthlong government crisis.
As it became clear that Tejero’s bid to crush democracy had
failed, dozens of his rebel civil guards left the parliament
building. More than 50 jumped from first-floor windows and
were driven off in buses.
The stocky, mustachioed officer earlier permitted 15
female deputies to leave the parhament “to let everyone know
no one had been harmed.”
The death knell for the coup attemp came when King Juan
Carlos, the constitutional head of state of Spain’s 5-year-old
democracy, denounced the attempt to derail Spain’s constitu
tional experiment. The army sent troops loyal to the monarch
to surround the parliament building.
An attempt at a wider insurrection apparently fizzled when
Gen. Jaime Milans del Bosch in Valencia declared a military
government but then pulled his troops and tanks off the
street.
Earlier, sneering at government attempts to end the rebel
lion, Tejero said an army negotiator offered him a plane to
leave Spain but he refused because, “I get very dizzy on
planes.” Twelve hours into the siege, he told a friend by
phone he felt “fresh as a daisy.”
The insurrection failed to spark any widespread support.
There was no action in the Basque country, site of 114 of 128
political killings last year, or any other part of Spain.
Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, who has led Spain’s govern
ment since the death of Franco in 1975, was seized along with
his entire Cabinet as the 350 legislators were voting on
Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo to replace Suarez as prime minister
in an effort to end a month-old government crisis.
In the midst of the debate, Tejero s guardsmen burst into
the Chamber of Deputies, positioned themselves beside each
row of deputies and fired their submachine guns into the
ceiling.
“Nobody move. Everyone on the floor,” Tejero shouted,
firing a pistol and jumping to the podium, said a journalist who
witnessed the takeover, which was eerily broadcast on nation
al radio.
“A lieutenant colonel of the civil guard is right now walking
up to the podium and pointed a pistol at the head of the
parliamentary President Landelino Lavilla,” the broadcast
said.
“Police and more police are coming in. They have sub
machine guns and pistols. We can transmit no more because
they are pointing at us.” >
The civil guard later released three deputies, as crack
antiterrorist troops surrounded the downtown building and
snipers took up positions on nearby rooftops.
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not prepared
By TERRY DURAN
Battalion Staff
The United States and the Soviet Un
ion have returned to the times of the
1962 Cuban missile crisis — but the
U.S. is the underdog this time around,
former naval chief Elmo Zumwalt says.
Zumwalt painted a dark picture of
U.S. military unpreparedness before an
attentive Monday night audience of ab
out 300 in Rudder Auditorium. He also
expressed hope that the new adminis
tration would make a significant start
toward regaining at least equality.
Zumwalt, 60, who served as chief of
naval operations from 1970 to 1974, said
the United States stood only a one-in-
three chance of winning a military con
frontation with the U. S. S.R. He said the
United States had a ten-fold military
edge in 1962; i.e., a war at that time
would have resulted in ten Russian
casualties for every American death.
However, he said, “the tables have
been exactly turned.”
He said the U. S. S. R. has equaled and
surpassed American military strength
by outspending: The Soviets, he said,
spend 18 percent of their gross national
product on the military, as opposed to a
four percent figure for the United
States.
Zumwalt heavily criticized former
President Jimmy Carter for decreasing
military spending, and said it would be
“a long and slow process to rebuild” the
American military. He added the “great
need to fix our economy” might result in
defense spending “less than prudence
would require.
“If (President Ronald) Reagan re
mains in office eight years, we might
regain parity,” he said.
He cited a ten-to-one Russian advan
tage in tanks and a four-to-one naval
numerical edge as evidence of “the de
cades-long struggle that faces this
generation and the next.”
He said the all-volunteer armed
forces “never really had a chance to
work” because Carter let pay scales fall
too far behind what was available in the
civilian world.
He also expressed doubt Reagan
would reinstitute the draft anytime
soon.
Zumwalt said an immediate U.S.
arms buildup would cause the Soviet
Union to “practice partnership, pay lip
service to detente, try to put the sleep
ing giant back to sleep,” rather than
instigate an immediate Soviet attack be
fore the United States regained military
parity or superiority.
He compared the Carter administra
tion’s policies to Neville Chamberlain’s
efforts just before World War II —
efforts which were supposed to bring
about “peace in our time.” Zumwalt
added the People’s Republic of China
was more of an American ally than a
friend of the U.S.S.R., contrary to
popular belief.
Zumwalt said he had “always been a
very strong advocate of women,” and
said what the military often needed was
“a brain, not a body.
“My most vicious and cunning
enemy ever was a Viet Cong woman,”
he said, but he skirted the question of
women in combat positions.
Zumwalt said the KGB (Soviet intel
ligence agency) far surpassed the effi
ciency of the CIA, partly due to the
differences in the two societies.
“No foreign agent trusts us any
more,” he said. “Too many of them got
shot for doing that. ”
The retired admiral condemned de
fense spending cuts that shot down the
B-l bomber, and warned against ratify
ing the SALT II treaty.
“We’ve got four years to cut the dis
crepancy,” he said. “If the next genera
tion can avoid the mistakes and prob
lems this generation had, then the
chances are high for a world where our
form of government can prosper and
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Austin Eisner, age 21 months, seems content as he plays with his toys. His
father, Jurge Eisner, a baker at Duncan Dining Hall, enjoys watching his
son at play.
Hanging around
Staff photo by Chuck Chapman
Pre-medicine major John Mathis has his own ray-catching style — from a hammock between two light poles — as the sun beams down Monday.
Networks help transmit information
By LAURA HATCH
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M Women’s Network and the Texas
A&M Minorities’ Network are just two of the programs
set up to increase communications between the admi
nistration and the faculty, said Dr. Elizabeth Cowan,
assistant to the president.
Rather than being defined organizations, these net
works are a form of communication among and be
tween women and minorities in the University, said
Cowan.
The networks originated last fall when Cowan and
Dr. Clinton Phillips, dean of faculties, were asked by
Acting President Charles Samson to come up with
suggestions of how to increase communication. The
networks were just one of the suggestions made,
Cowan said.
“The over all effort to increase communication is to
benefit as much as possible from our faculty,” Samson
said. “Also, good communication minimizes mis
understanding,” he said.
Faculty receptions, question and answer columns in
Fortnightly, the faculty newsletter, and open discus
sions after Academic Council meetings are also being
used to increase communication, Cowan said.
The faculty receptions, not restricted to women and
minorities, are held periodically in the president’s
home, she said. Invitations are sent out on a rotating
basis and all the colleges are represented. Thirty facul
ty members are invited, Cowan said, and can ask the
University president questions.
The function of the networks is to acquaint new
faculty members with the university and its surround
ings and to help to department heads in their decisions
of hiring if the department heads want help, Cowan
said. They do not provide a means for finding women
and minorities to hire, she said.
“As far as the networks are concerned, if we have
prospective women or minorities, we want them to
have an accurate picture of what it’s like to work
here,” Phillips said. “By talking with people already
in their department, they can know. ”
When a department head has a person he wants to
hire, he can use the network to help get the person
acquainted with the campus and the community by
introducing him to other people. This gives them the
opportunity to ask about non-academic things, such as
what it is like to live in College Station, Cowan said.
“It’s almost incidental that they’re women,” Cowan
said. “What they’re trying to do is bring together
people with common interests. We are concerned
with increasing communications for all members of the
faculty. ”
The networks are “very definitely” working, Dr.
Gwen Ellissalde, veterinary clinical associate, said.
Ellisalde said being out at the veterinary school is
isolates her from other women faculty. Through the
women’s network she is able to get in touch with
women on campus and find out what is available to
both faculty and students. Therefore, she said, she is
more knowledgable about the campus and this makes
her a better teacher.
Some of the ideas the networks want to implement
are help with recruitment for departments, a child
care center for women faculty and acquainting new
women with what is available for them on campus, Dr.
said Mary Herron, associate professor for veterinary
anatomy.
Elissalde said the network also wanted to serve as a
problem-solving group. In some photo essays that de
partments put out, the content may include only
Corps members or only men, she said. The network,
she said, wants to make those in charge of these prog
rams more sensitive to the percentages of women and
minorities involved as faculty or students.
Affirmative action requires ‘good faith'
Staff photo by Brian Tate
By LAURA HATCH
Battalion Reporter
There is evidence that the increase in women and
minority faculty members from last year can be attri
buted to the affirmative action plan and efforts of de
partment heads.
The affirmative action plan was set up in 1978 by the
Department of Labor to enact final regulations for
employment guidelines. The plan requires all federal
contractors to set goals for filling professional positions
with women and minorities.
Texas A&M University has been involved with
affirmative action since 1973. Daniel Hernandez, affir
mative action officer, said employers may be following
the guidefines and goals of the affirmative action plan
but may have problems finding women and minorities
to hire because of past discriminatory practices.
Employers are supposed to align hiring goals with
the number or percent of qualified women or minor
ities available rather than with their general represen
tation within the population.
The regulation of the affirmative action plan is done
by “good faith effort,” Hernandez said. Quotas for
hiring women and minorities are illegal unless they are
assigned by a court.
When there is evidence of a pattern of discrimina
tion, the burden of proof is on the employer who must
show the job criteria are strictly job-related and they
do not have a discriminating effect.
The employer must also be able to show records
documenting those efforts.
“We (Texas A&M) have been urged to try to in
crease our women and minorities,” Dr. Clinton Phil
lips, dean of faculties said. There has been about a 15
percent increase in women in the faculty since last
year. Minority faculty membership increased by about
18 percent.
The first four ranks of faculty, professor, associate
professor, assistant professor and instructor, increased
by 2.8 percent over last year. Women account for 13.3
percent of that increase, while minorities account for
15.6 percent.
Hernandez said each year the departments go
through a self-analysis that summarizes where they
stand in percentages of women and minorities.
In 1977-78 women in the faculty didn’t increase at
all. There was about a three percent increase in men
hired.
A “chilling affect” from discrimination may have
occured in the past that would keep women and minor
ities from applying now, Hernandez said.
The affirmative action office at Texas A&M helps
make available positions known to women and iriinor-
ities, he said.
As a university, Texas A&M is subject to three
federal regulatory agencies.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
is the authority that enforces the Civil Rights Act.
The Department of Labor is the enforement author
ity for three acts which provide for Vietnam veterans,
handicapped people, females and minorities.
The Department of Education enforces the Title IX
and Title VI of the Civil Rights act that protects stu
dents as well as employees.
When a federal contractor is thought to not be
complying with the affirmative action plan, these
agencies go into action, Hernandez said.
The Texas A&M University System has not re
ceived notification of noncompliance, he said.
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