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he Battalion r ecep{ seiS Vol. 74 No. 175 10 Pages Serving the Texas A&M University community Wednesday, July 15, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 L fexas plans to stop all shipments (,1 )f unsprayed California produce leintnsK; United Press International — Agriculture Commis- ffier Reagan Brown Tuesday imposed Jjjtj. immediate quarantine on the ship- (1, mt of California fruits and vegetables andig O Texas to protect the state against "estation by the Mediterranean fruit Brown said he expects most other uthem states to impose similar Bntines, although some of the states ^Tuesday they were delaying im- sition of such a quarantine of Califor- ■foducts that serve as hosts to the lit fly. == Roadblocks will go up at noon Mon- pon highways entering Texas from Brnia, and national guard and De- Bent of Public Safety troops may be tension United Press International LtpNDON — Prime Minister Mar- BThatcher promised the tradition- Rmarmed British bobbies every Bp-control weapon used in North- Heland and sent six police chiefs to ilfast today for a crash course in an brt to break the back of Britain’s „ uth riots. m. ■ In another step to halt the rampages, nand Yard said it has set up a special mniand center to oversee police nis in combating the rioting that has jtired 518 policemen, resulted in at ast 1,730 arrests and caused an esti- .ated $32 million in damages. used to enforce them if necessary. Brown said. Fruit and vegetables from areas of California outside that state’s Mediter ranean fruit fly quarantine area will be allowed into Texas without fumigation if they have certificates from California officials that the products are from coun ties that are free of the fly, Brown said. If trucks arrive at the Texas roadblocks without certification, they will be de toured to El Paso for fumigation at Texas Department of Agriculture facilities. Fruits and vegetables from the Cali fornia quarantine area will be permitted to enter Texas only if they are fumigated before they leave California and have certificates proving the fumigation, he The rioting by white, black and Asian youths, who went on rampages in more than 30 cities over 11 days, eased today with only two minor outbreaks in Lon don reported. Scotland Yard insisted the incidents “definitely were not riots.’’ In a tough statement in Parliament Tuesday, Thatcher brushed aside argu ments on whether unemployment caused the rioting, saying “it is not a time for detailed analysis — we have a problem” and the first priority was to restore order. Thatcher said before any economic or said. “If we get fruit and vegetables from out of the quarantine area without fumi gation and certification, we re going to confiscate the fruit and destroy it,” Brown said. Brown imposed the quarantine after a conference telephone call with agricul ture officials in other Southern states, and said all had agreed to impose quarantines with the same restrictions. Aerial applications of the pesticide malathion began in California Tuesday, but Texas officials contend the spraying should have been started much earlier to prevent spread of the fruit fly. Some residents threatened to resort to civil disobedience to halt the program social programs would be introduced, the government would give police the full array of anti-riot gear Belfast police have used for 12 years — water can nons, armored personnel carriers, plas tic bullets and tear gas. “We are not going to be able to deal in practice with the economic and social aspects of the situation until law and order is restored and seen to be re stored,” she said. Thatcher then sent officers from six British cities to Belfast to learn anti-riot techniques from security forces who have dealt with street violence in Northern Ireland since 1969. after aerial spraying opponents lost bat tles Monday in the courts. Brown said Monday he and officials from 11 other southern states had been asked by the United States Department of Agriculture to hold off on a quaran tine of California produce as the depart ment worked to get the spraying under way. Brown said any delay in the spraying program would result in California pro duce being allowed into the state only after it had been fumigated. Brown characterized California Gov. Jerry Brown’s refusal to fumigate produce be fore it left the state as “demagoguery of the highest order” because all citrus fruit that goes from Texas to California is fumigated. Tuesday night, about 50 to 100 black youths in the Forest Gate area of east London taunted police and threw a gasoline bomb at a police van. Three youths were arrested. Another group of 50 black and white youths overturned a car in Fulham, west London. “These were definitely not riots,” a Scotland Yard officer said, adding, “order was quickly restored” — a marked contrast to past violence which lasted for hours and resulted in open street battles between gasoline bomb throwing youths and police using tear gas. eases in British youth rioting The Weather Today Tomorrow High 95 High 94 Low 75 Low 75 Chance of rain. 20% Chance of rain. . . . . . . 20% Former student given opportunity in White By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff A former student of Texas A&M University was recently chosen as one of 15 White House Fellows appointed by the Reagan administra tion. Joe Barton, 31, received a bache lor’s degree in industrial engineer ing from Texas A&M in 1972. He and the 14 other White House Fellows for 1981 were selected from more than 1,600 applicants who applied for the positions. After they are chosen, Fellows spend one year working as “special assistants, usually in the office of the president or vice president, or as an assistant to a member of the Cabinet,” said Beryl Hall, spokes man for the program. Fellows also receive an extensive education through their weekly meetings with leaders in govern ment, business, Congress, the media and the Diplomatic Corps, she said. Barton said he became interested in the White House Fellows prog ram about four years ago. “It seemed like something that would be very interesting to do and might have some input into the country.” The White House Fellows prog ram was established in 1964 by Pres ident Johnson. Hall said: “It’s basically an attempt to bring the best and the brightest to Washington for a year and expose them to the highest levels of government, not only to further their own education but to give them a global view of problems in the world today so they can contri- House bute more fully to their communities when they return home.” White House Fellows are chosen through an “unbelievable process,” Hall said in a telephone interview from Washington. Applications are accepted from August through December. They are read by personnel office em ployees and are divided into five categories numbered one through five. Categories one and two are eli minated and the remaining applica tions are read by all former Fellows. The top 110 applicants are then chosen and and divided into groups of 10. These smaller groups are screened by one of 11 regional panels throughout the country. Each regional panel is made up of city and state officials, former Fellows and businessmen, and is responsible for choosing the top three candidates in the region. The 33 national finalists are then interviewed by the President’s Com mission on White House Fellow ships, chaired by Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale. Michel T. Hal- bouty, Class of '30, is a member of this commission. Although the positions for the 1981 Fellows have not been announced, Barton said if he gets the job he prefers, he will be working in the Office of Management and Budget, headed by David Stockman. San Antonio Mayor Henry Cis neros, Class of ’68, was another Texas A&M former student appointed to the White House Fel lows program. He served as a Fellow in the early 1970s. Artistic copies Staff photo by Greg Gammon The MSC Arts Committee will sponsor an un usual art exhibit beginning today in the MSC Gallery. Dana Somoza is considered a pioneer artist in the creation of copier art or “Xerogra phy.” This art is created by using color photo copying machines for the cost of only 5 cents per illustration. Somoza’s work has been published in several publications including the New York Times and the Village Voice. Her work is disting uished by her signature, written in gold ink. An opening reception will be held Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the MSC Gallery. The exhibition, enti tled “Let’s be More Than Friends,” will be on display July 15 through August 16. A&M seeks court ruling on attorney general’s decision By BERNIE FETTE Battalion Staff Texas A&M University legal person nel announced Tuesday that they would seek a court review of Attorney General University plans sent to Austin Six construction and renovation pro jects proposed for the Texas A&M cam pus are being reviewed today in Austin by the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System. Those projects include: a new animal science pavilion, conversion of the ex isting animal science pavilion into a stu dent registration center, a new horticul ture and forest science building, expan sion of the Cyclotron, an observatory for the physics department and a new facil ity for the Texas A&M University Press. All proposed projects have been approved by the Texas A&M Board of Regents and are now subject to approval by the Coordinating Board. Mark White’s ruling which stated that the identities of some 500 candidates for the University presidency must be re leased under the Texas Open Records Act. “We have announced to the Eagle that we prefer the matter have a review by the courts,” said James B. Bond, vice chancellor for legal affairs. John Williams, publisher of the Bryan-College Station Eagle, declined to comment on the dispute. The Eagle in February requested the list of candidates from the Board of Re gents and after the regents refused to release the list, White was asked to de termine whether the list was a public record. White ruled June 16 that the list of 500 initial considerations for the pres idency must be released but that the identities of the finalists for the post could remain cofidential. The Board then requested a clarification of the ruling. Susan Garrison, chairman of the attorney general’s opinion committee reaffirmed White’s ruling last week and again directed the University to release the names of the candidates along with their qualifications. Bond said there are two major reasons for the University requesting a court review. The first, he said, is that “there are no legal precedents to draw from in cases of this type.” Bond said the second factor concerns invasion of privacy. Some of those being considered for the position have the potential for bringing an invasion of privacy suit against the University, he said. A presidential search committee be gan its screening process of the nomina tions and applications for the presiden cy following Dr. Jarvis Miller’s dismis sal by the Board of Regents a year ago. After the committee recommended a list of 34 final considerations to the board, another committee including Board Chairman H.R. “Bum” Bright, Vice Chairman John Blocker, Regent Clyde Wells and System Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert have interviewed candidates for the position. Bright said in May that although the selection process is running slightly be hind schedule, the board still expects to have a new president chosen by Sept. 1. Bond said he believes the case will be reviewed by the courts before that Sept. 1 deadline. Engineers pick Samson for office Texas A&M University Acting Presi dent Charles Samson has been elected a vice president of the National Society of Engineers. Samson will be formally installed this week at the annual meeting of the 80,000-member organization that rep resents all engineering disciplines. He will be one of the society’s five vice presidents representing regions of the nation. The vice presidency is the second major honor bestowed on Samson with in the month. His selection as a Disting uished Engineer was announced by the Texas Engineering Foundation. That award is the most coveted of five grades of membership in the organization. A registered professional engineer, Samson joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1960 and served as head of the civil engineering department from 1964 un til 1979. He has served one year as acting president of the University. He holds academic rank as professor of aerospace engineering and civil en gineering. Parking permits available for faculty By BERNIE FETTE Battalion Staff Parking permits for the fall semester will be available beginning today for fa culty-staff members and any students who have not yet registered for the fall. Director of Traffic and Security Tho mas Parsons said the early-purchase plan for the permits has been offered the last two years, but most faculty-staff members still obtain them in the few days before the beginning of the semester. The purpose of the plan, he said, is to avoid the usual rush near the the begin ning of the fall semester. Faculty-staff members have two op tions for purchasing the permits. They can either register their vehicle in per son at the University Police Depart ment or register through the Universi ty’s mail service. Parsons said the permits would be returned in two to three days if the re gistration was done by mail. Students may purchase the permits only if they have not pre-registered for the fall and only in person at the Univer sity Police Department. The cost is $48 for a one-year permit in the reserved staff lots, $36 for two semesters and $20 for one semester. Cost of the random street permits and student permits is $36 for one year, $27 for two semesters and $15 for one semester. University regulations require that all vehicles must display a valid parking permit by the beginning of each semester. Last year, 6,177 faculty staff permits were issued, but some of those were duplicates since faculty members can register a second vehicle for a $4 charge, Parsons said. Taking the duplicates into account, permits were issued for some 4,000 faculty-staff members. Parsons said there are 4,200 spaces available for faculty-staff, and that almost half of the parking tickets issued each day are for students parking in un authorized reserved areas.