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Wednesday, August 5, 1981
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hninistration position remains the same
adat to request U.S. negotiations with PLO
] f;.V. United Press International
WASHINGTON — Egyptian Presi-
snf Anwar Sadat, in his first meeting
ith President Reagan, will try to con-
nce the United States to drop its ban
1‘dealing directly with the Palesti-
But, in preparation for today’s visit,
iej|Vhite House said U.S. policy to-
ard the PLO, the designated repre-
;ntative for the Palestinians, remains
hat it has been: that the Palestine
iberation Organization is a group that
ritains terrorist elements and the Un
ited States is bound not to negotiate
with the PLO until the organization rec
ognizes Israel’s right to exist.
“It is for Reagan to choose how he
does this. But I shall tell him he should
make contact with the Palestinians,’’
Sadat said at a news conference in Lon
don before flying to Washington.
Before Sadat’s arrival. White House
spokesman David Gergen said, “The
United States has not changed its posi
tion on the PLO.”
The Israeli government, in a state
ment issued last week, said, “The sud
den prominence being given to the
PLO and suggestions it be included in
the Middle-East peace negotiations
shows a misunderstanding of the basic
facts of this organization.
“The PLO is a terror organization
with a single aim — the elimination of
the state of Israel through the use of
violence and force.”
Sadat’s idea to breathe some life into
the frozen negotiations on Palestinian
autonomy on the West Bank rises from
the fact Israel and the PLO — acting
through third parties — have dealt with
each in bringing about a cease-fire in
southern Lebanon.
“I consider this a turning point,”
Sadat said, “and the proper approach
now should be to build on this to bring
about mutual and simultaneous recog
nition of one another. This will open the
door for the comprehensive settlement
we are after.”
However, the formation of a new
Israeli coalition government, involving
concessions by Prime Minister
Menachem Begin to conservative reli
gious parties, appears to have given the
West Bank negotiations a further set
back.
According to a list of policy guide
lines broadcast on the Israeli state radio,
the new government will insist on its
right eventually to institute Israeli
sovereignty over the West Bank of the
Jordan River. It also will continue its
widely challenged policy of settling
Jews in the disputed region.
Sadat is scheduled to be given a full
state welcome today at the White
House, then to have his first meeting
with Reagan.
Secretary of state Alexander Haig is
host for a later working luncheon for
Sadat at the State Department and
there will be separate meetings with
Vice President Bush and Secretary of
Defense Caspar Weinberger.
Sadat is expected to push for an accel
erated delivery of 40 F-16 fighters
Egypt has ordered from the United
States.
Reagan and his wife, Nancy, host a
dinner for President and Mrs. Sadat at
the White House this evening.
summer
ifferent
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
s 5|30 p. m. All you need to do is check
^Be that is posted outside your prof s
Since it’s after 5 p.m. you think
-ou can park in the staff parking lot
ithout getting a parking ticket. Five
by Michcilt unites later you return to you car and
nd-greetings from the police depart-
rc elimiitfient in the form of a $10 parking ticket.
I playoffs i
:ond sumiE p order to avoid the scenario de-
:ribed above students should be aware
fsttnimcr parking regulations. Parking
lies do differ in the summer from the
T htf gul ar school year, said Traffic and
t jguiar scnooi year, saiu in
Jafety Director Tom Parsons.
• During the summer a student can
I nil» n an y stu 4ent lot, regardless of his
U lassification. In the regular school year
, tudents are restricted to parking in the
1 )t designated by the color of their
libition seas'
:k, a Cowbi
r L will seeii
ermit.
Male dorm residents with more than
0 hours, and all female dorm residents
"i" ll re given red stickers. This is consi-
hl ’ M ; ered privileged parking, however; it’s
!? - ,ri lore ofa safety measure for the women,
in an annua
irday niglt
hen sew Uit-campus students with more than
lusand Ow h° ur s get a blue sticker and all other
tudents, those with less than 60 hours,
. et a green sticker,
we haveta^
/on t last tl< Off-campus students can also purch-
end), saic , e a n jgjj t permit that will allow them
tiye assist, p ar k on cam p U s in the evenings.
ndoflikeM' ..
ig that miu Parsons said students can park in
u needto hnost any staff parking lot from 5 p.m.
o 6:30 a.m., weekends and official Uni
round of S ers * t y holidays. Sometimes, he said,
is schedtf hidents will park illegally and explain
beginninE bat they were taking their own person-
it’sSanFri'l holiday,
in the W
on oftherf Exceptions to the rule are the Che-
ild threatemistry Building lot, the Duncan Dining
lall lot, the A. P. Beutel Health Center
ot, the parking garage in Zachary and
it' * 1 Am^ he golf course parking lot.
e preseas*
into what t’’ Students are also prohibited from
ndergovi )arking in reserved or numbered park-
W » at th /', n 8 slots and slots marked for the hand-
s, said' capped,
e league is f
thesespo' p arsons sa id if a student does get a
line if “^cket while parked legally, all they have
ve restrict 0 jt j n an( J discuss it with him.
ts teams. ‘s ome tj mes we Jo ma ke mistakes, but
ve re willing to listen to the student if
here’s a question about the ticket."
Reagan expected to sign tax cut bill soon
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan,
having whipped the Democratic-
dominated House and inspired the Re
publican-controlled Senate, now has
the bills he says are needed to remedy
the economy.
The House Tuesday gave final
approval to biggest tax cut in history —
the second half of Reagan’s economic
recovery plan. Last week, Congress
approved the first half— the president’s
slashed-back budget.
Reagan is expected to sign both bills
into law within the next few days.
On a 282-95 vote, the House
approved the compromise taxcut bill
worked out by House and Senate nego
tiators during a marathon weekend ses
sion. The Senate approved the 33-
month, 25 percent, across-the-board
Take-home pay will be affected
cut Monday on a 67-8 vote.
Just last week, House Democratic
leaders, who were unable to stop
Reagan’s budget plan, thought they
could derail the president’s tax cut with
their alternative package.
But Reagan, after a multifaceted lob
bying effort, which included a national
ly televised address, turned the tables
and won House passage.
The House’s final approval Tuesday
came after unsuccessful efforts by Frost
Belt congressmen to scale back the
nearly $12 billion worth of tax breaks for
oil interests. Similar futile attempts
were made in the Senate.
Since introducing the proposal in
February, Reagan’s taxcut plan has
been revised three times by the admi
nistration and modified in Congress.
The final compromise bill will cost
the Treasury $748.8 billion in lost tax
revenues through 1986.
In addition to the tax cuts for indi
viduals, the plan includes massive tax
reductions for businesses and special in
terests.
Rep. James Shannon, D-Mass., com
plained the only provisions that would
have benefitted northern states — tax
credits for wood-burning stoves and
home-heating costs — were dropped
from the compromise bill while nearly
$12 billion in tax breaks for southern
and western-based oil interests were re
tained.
Shannon called the entire tax pack
age “a riverboat gamble, that will make
every citizen of the United States (suf
fer) if its doesn’t work. ’’
Rep. Barber Conable of New York,
the senior Republican on the tax
writing Ways and Means Committee
and co-sponsor of the president’s taxcut
bill in the House, dismissed these and
other complaints by Democrats as “sour
grapes gamesmanship.”
The first 5 percent installment of the
tax cut for individuals will take effect
Oct. 1, but the impact will be a minus
cule 1.25 percent cut for all of 1981
because it comes in the last quarter of
the year.
Taxpayers will notice a bigger differ
ence in their takehome pay on July 1,
1982, when the second stage — an addi
tional 10 percent tax cut — kicks in for a
cumulative 15 percent reduction from
current levels.
The final 10 percent cut will take
effect July 1, 1983 — totaling a 25 per
cent reduction from current levels.
Because of its across-the-board na
ture, those who pay the most in taxes
will get the biggest tax cut.
System reduces number of University workers by 98
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Repaid . In keeping with Gov. Bill Clements’
. MAIN plan to cut down on the number of state
n-nj iobs, a reduction of nearly 100 positions
is reflected in the Texas A&M Universi-
8 s^'l'ty . System’s new operating budgets
8f^which go into effect Sept. 1.
5 - System Chancellor Frank W.R.
^Hubert said the overall reduction was
^achieved despite the fact that 70 new
j Whai "positions are being added at Texas A&M
r nc University, where a 2,000-student in-
:rease is expected this fall.
/ Ul p|1 " I Hubert said the reductions will not
. Camp^ esult in any layoffs, but rather was
Shims" 0 iccomplished by eliminating positions
ch more ls ^gy became vacant.
j EtC The statewide educational, research
* irsi md public service network will have a
^—Call^jnt decrease of 98 full-time-equivalent
_ g46!'>ositions, the chancellor said. Texas
^ University will have an increase
from ro»
of 70, while Tarleton State University
will gain two, as will the System offices.
The Texas Engineering Experiment
Station will have a reduction of 52 posi
tions; Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, a reduction of 37; Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service, 31; Texas
Engineering Extension Service, 13;
Texas Transportation Institute, 12;
Texas Forest Service, 10; Texas A&M
University at Galveston, 10; and Prairie
View A&M University, 7.
“I’m happy to see us reducing the
number of positions and using the
money for the people who are highly
productive at these institutions,”
Hubert said. “As we acquire additional
research contracts, however, we will
have to add new people, but the con
tracts will generate more funds.”
He emphasized that the reductions
do not mean cutbacks in programs or
services. Total System budgets of $528
million for fiscal year 1982 include in
creased expenditures for all parts of the
System in support of higher enroll
ments and expanded programs.
Texas A&M University, which has
more than doubled its enrollment with
in the decade and has been one of the
fastest growing universities in the na
tion, will continue to grow — but at a
reduced rate as the result of an enroll
ment management policy adopted by
the System Board of Regents.
Provisions to control the number of
students entering Texas A&M have
been adopted by the regents, including
higher Scholastic Aptitude Test re
quirements for all students except those
ranking in the top quarter of their high
school graduating classes.
The restrictions will result in a stu
dent body of even higher quality, Texas
A&M officials predict, while pointing
out that in recent years Texas A&M’s
entering freshman classes have had the
highest SAT averages for any public in
stitution in Texas. The SAT average for
entering freshmen at Texas A&M last
year was 1,026, exceeding the national
average of 891 by 135 points.
The new policy underscores the phi
losophy of Board of Regents Chairman
H.R. “Bum” Bright who has repeatedly
emphasized the need for Texas A&M to
concentrate on qualitative rather than
quantitative growth.
“The Board of Regents now intends
to concentrate on the building of a great
faculty,” he said, noting that research
will be emphasized in concert with
efforts to enhance the University’s
teaching activities.
System official get increase
in 1982 fiscal year budget
In approving System budgets total
ing $528 million last week, the Texas
A&M Board of Regents approved the
following salaries for System and Uni
versity administrators. Current salaries
are in parenthesis.
Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert —
$100,000 ($84,606)
Executive Vice Chancellor for Admi
nistration W.C. Freeman Jr. — $84,351
($77,564)
Deputy Chancellor for Agriculture
Perry L. Adkisson -— $75,000 ($72,000)
Deputy Chancellor for Engineering
John C. Calhoun Jr. — $74,115
($67,735)
Vice Chancellor for Programs Don
Hellriegel — $60,000 (new position)
Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs
James Bond — $60,000 ($56,000)
Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs
Robert G. Cherry — $65,090 ($59,487)
Texas A&M Acting President Charles
H. Samson — $80,000 ($72,415)
Vice President for Academic Affairs
J.M. Prescott — $73,000 ($66,213)
Vice President for Business Affairs
Howard L. Vestal — $64,000 ($56,754)
Vice President for International
Affairs T.R. Greathouse — $57,836
($53,181)
Vice President for Student Services
John J. Koldus — $56,400 ($48,872).