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flepublican leaders ask
r Social Security cuts
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Some Republi
can leaders want President Reagan to
his cost-cutting knife on Social
urity and other entitlement prog-
is, previously considered off-limits
for 1982 spending reductions, sources
sa\
■ They say Senate Republican Leader
Howard Baker of Tennessee and other
) seem: GOP lawmakers, when they meet with
id piWagan today, will suggest $2 billion in
Mnned increases be cut from the prog-
ing2fi-l ranis next year.
mm J Baker indicated Monday he thought
on«,i
Ititlememt programs, which also in
clude federal pensions and Medicare,
uld be considered for possible cuts
[view of rising federal budget deficit
ijections.
Deputy press secretary Larry
cakes, in an interview Monday, said
publican leaders had asked the
ite House to look into the possibility
[trimming the entitlement programs,
he word around the White House is
Bit budget director David Stockman
owas searching for ways to shave the
t-of-living increases in such prog-
and to put a cap on Medicare,
dministration officials have said all
mg the entitlement programs would
me under close scrutiny in the 1983
Id 1984 budgets, but up until now they
J been considered untouchable in
lj82.
■Nineteen Democratic congressmen,
who sided with Reagan on the presi
dent’s first round of budget and tax cuts
this summer, met privately with him
Njonday to discuss his future cutting
is.
ftervvards, they told reporters
agan decided he must reduce spend-
for domestic programs by $18 billion
’rfthefiscal year starting Oct. 1, in order
tnobtain a 1982 federal budget deficit of
$42.5 billion.
■Aides reported $14 billion pared from
the 1982 fiscal year budget is closer to
tfje mark.
■During the weekend, the White
Hjbuse said Reagan would cut only $13
Id's
\
President
pushes for
sale of arms
United Press International
ASHINGTON — President
agan once again is applying his per-
lal lobbying touch to a sensitive, ex
plosive issue — this time his proposed
5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
I Reagan, who earlier this summer
Wed his power of persuasion to win con-
Jjessional approval of his economic
ig forygram, is now pushing the arms sale
■ his first major foreign-policy fight on
Cjipitol Hill.
The president conferred privately
onday with several key senators about
tHe proposed package, which includes
five sophisticated surveillance planes,
"own as AWACS.
! “Right now, if the vote were con-
icted today, I’d say we don’t have the
Ites to support the sale,” Sen. Paul
Itoalt, R-Nev., said afterwards. But, he
|ded, he expects the tide to turn.
Formal notification of the deal,
iposed by Israel, probably will reach
ingress about Oct. 1. After that, Con-
less has 30 days to make up its mind.
, J The deal will go through unless both
, ur Wuses reject it on a majority vote. In
P et |the House, controlled by the Demo-
:o cou
s
lividig
o did
md oi*’
jivisiJ
billion from military spending over
three years, starting with $2 billion in
fiscal 1982.
Parceling out the remainder of the hit
list will be thrashed out between Stock-
man and agency heads this week.
While Reagan musters forces for a
new wave of budget cuts, he is also laun
ching a campaign in support of his prop
osed and endangered $8.5 billion arms
package sale to Saudi Arabia.
Reagan met Monday with 27 senators
who are still keeping an open mind on
the sale the president says would en
hance U.S. security against Soviet en
croachment in the Middle East.
Israel, which has similar planes, is
bitterly opposed to the sale and has
allies on both sides of the aisle lined up
to vote against it.
Rudder lot to be
site of facility
By NANCY FLOECK
Battalion Staff
Members of the Aggie Club, the
Association of Former Students and the
Texas A&M Development Foundation
will soon meet to discuss construction
plans for a new resource center to house
the three organizations.
Construction of the center is still in
the planning stage, and University offi
cials say it will be a few months before
architects can begin the center’s design.
The Texas A&M System Board of
Regents in July approved a proposal to
build the the facility on existing ground
of the Rudder parking lot. But Wesley
E. Peel, University director of facilities
and planning construction, said the
southeast corner of the parking lot may
have to be expanded to accomodate the
center.
Peel said the center will be financed
by funds from the three organizations —
the University is providing only the
space.
“They (members of the three groups)
felt they wanted a place of their own, at
their expense, that would make them
more visible and accessible to the pub
lic,” he said.
Randy Matson, executive director of
the Association of Former Students,
said the three organizations have been
considering the move for about two
years.
The University population and the
former student population have grown
rapidly, he said. And the Forsyth Alum
ni Center, located in the Memorial Stu
dent Center, doesn’t have room to in
crease its staff and add new programs to
accomodate the growth, he said.
He said members of the three organi
zations will meet soon to discuss the
center’s needs and begin its program of
requirements for construction. Those
plans will describe the center’s scope,
justification, budget and time frame and
will include a list of what the center
should contain.
Programs of requirements are then
subject to approval by the regents as is
the appointment of an architect. When
designs are finished and approved by
the three groups and by the regents, the
University will begin accepting bids
from construction companies.
Peel said a multi-story parking garage
to accompany the resource center also is
under consideration. If approved by the
regents, it would be designed to com
plement Rudder Tower and the center,
he said. However, the parking lot ex
pansion, if necessary, and the center
and garage construction, will be done so
that trees and present parking spaces
are not disturbed, he said.
Matson said he is pleased with the
new center’s site, although he likes the
association’s present location in the
MSC and wishes they didn’t need to
move.
Bob Rutledge, director of develop
ment, said it is logical for the three orga
nizations to move to the same building
since all are concerned with raising
funds for the University. The Develop
ment Foundation handles gifts, grants
and donations to the University.
Harry Green, Aggie Club executive
director, said the center will enable the
organizations to share facilities and
coordinate their fund-raising efforts.
Vandalism vs. ?
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
The new Academic and Agency Building on
the Texas A&M campus has been the sight for
some recent vandalism. The sign, spray-
painted in red on the west side of the building,
says “Disarm vs. Armaggeddon,” in reference
to the controversial nuclear arms race. The
literacy of the vandals, among other things, is
questionable, since Armageddon (in reference
to the final battle between good and evil in the
Bible) is misspelled with two g’s.
Intramural costs up
$15 user fee in effect
By NANCY FLOECK
Battalion Staff
The intramural program is charging
user fees because of increased expenses
and growing demand, not because Stu
dent Government cut the department’s
budget, Student Government and in
tramural officials said Monday night.
In a meeting for residence hall repre
sentatives, Dennis Corrington, director
of intramural sports, said salaries and
the cost of supervising intramural
games have caused team entry fees to
increase from $5 to $20.
The department’s 1981-82 share of
student service fees, $436,000 — about
15 percent more than last year’s
$379,781 — isn’t enough to cover the
costs, Corrington said. Demand for the
New look by end of season
Band uniforms to change
its, defeat for the AWACS package
|ems certain.
House GOP Leader Robert Michel
^Illinois said the president is “a realist”
when it comes to the House vote, and it
is ‘pretty accurate” to say there is no
ipe for victory there.
The president wants to sell Saudi
rabiafive Airborne Warning and Com-
Jand System planes, plus enhance
ments for already ordered F-15 fighter-
tembers with Sidewinder air-to-ground
(issiles.
Said Laxalt: “I rather think that by
14e time the president indicates to our
jilleagues in the Senate the basic
tasons why we should go AWACS,
We ll eventually be able to win. But it’s
; to be a very difficult fight.”
| H Senate Republican Leader Howard
I Baker of Tennessee saw Reagan,
together with some 26 other senators
I [ from both parties.
n Baker earlier disputed AWACS
opponents’ claims of 51 Senate votes
[•gainst the sale. “The battle has just
[legun,” Baker said.
I At the State Department, a spokes-
| man said there is no direct linkage be
tween the proposed sale of AWACS
planes to Saudi Arabia and the fate of
liew U.S.-Israeli strategic ties.
I “We seek to establish a comprehen
sive security strategy for the Middle
fast as a region in response to Soviet
|lioves in the area in recent years,” said
epartment spokesman Alan Romberg.
By ELAINE ENGSTROM
Battalion Reporter
The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band will
have a new look by the end of the foot
ball season, says Corps Commander
Kelly Castleberry.
Band members should be wearing
new winter Class A uniforms in time for
the University of Texas game.
The Class A uniform worn by the
Corps consists of winter pants and an
army green jacket worn with a shirt and
tie. The only major change to the uni
form will be a white belt on the hip-
length coat. Jay King, military housing
and purchasing agent, said.
The Class AA uniform also consists of
the same jacket but it is worn with a
tuxedo shirt and bow tie and is used on
more formal occasions.
Castleberry said the major reason for
getting the new uniforms is because the
current ones are getting old.
“The band is one of the most visible
parts of the Corps so they received the
new uniforms first,” Joey Armstrong,
inspector general of the Corps, said.
Castleberry said the uniforms will be
phased in slowly over the next two
years. And King predicted all Texas
A&M cadets will be wearing the new
winter uniform by next school year.
The new uniform looks basically the
same as the current uniform except that
the pants leg will be more tapered and
the jacket will be altered, Castleberry
said. But, the Corps commander said
the changes will definitely be notice
able.
Armstrong said, “The jacket will be
more form fitted with broader shoulders
and a narrower waist. The jacket also
will have a white belt.”
Some Corps uniforms such as the
senior boot uniform date back to World
War II and earlier, Castleberry said.
The new uniform will be a return to an
earlier style.
The federal military services supply
the ROTC uniforms to Texas A&M, and
Corps of Cadets officials issue each
cadet the specified uniforms. Neither
the University nor the individual cadets
incur the cost of the required uniforms.
Every cadet is issued about “$850 to
$900” worth of clothing and accessories.
intramural program is finally surpassing
its funds, he said.
“We should have been raising our
fees a little each year instead of making
this jump, ” Corrington said.
The intramural department’s total
budget last year was about $470,468;
this year it’s $564,650.
During that time, salaries increased
19 percent, from $161,811 to $192,604,
a difference of $30,793, Corrington
said.
Other expenses, such as equipment,
office supplies and employee benefits,
increased 10 percent, Corrington said,
from $95,000 to $105,000. Most of this
will be covered by the $20 entry fee, he
added.
It also costs more to supervise and
organize games, Corrington said. For
example, he said, the average cost for a
football game was $23.26 last year, but
now it’s $32.18.
“The decision to go from $5 to $20 was
strictly mine ... with consultation with
Student Government. When it came
down to it, it was either charge $20 or
not offer the same (quality of) services, ”
Corrington added.
Ken Johnson, student body presi
dent, said the intramural department
had two options: charge only those stu
dents using intramural services or raise
student service fees for all students. The
student service fee was raised $6, to
$39.50, for this school year; if user fees
hadn’t been implemented the fee could
have increased as much as $20, Johnson
said.
Student service fees are included in
students’ fee slips each semester. They
support the MSC Council and Directo
rate, the Personal Counseling Service,
student publications, the A.P. Beutal
Health Center, the student activities
department, the University legal advis
er, the shuttle bus service and the intra
mural department.
Terry Smith, Student Government
vice president for finance, said the $15
user fee increase constitutes a 324 per
cent hike over the $5 fee. This figure
was calculated by multiplying this year’s
estimated 3,260 teams by $20, multi
plying last years 3,075 teams by $5, and
comparing the two figures.
“I hope we can come up with an alter
native plan for next year’s budget,” he
said. “I don’t think it’s fair for the
(teams’ fee) to be raised 324 percent
when other things weren’t raised 324
percent.”
Intramurals also raises money
through its equipment rentals, locker
rentals, guest passes and faculty IDs,
among other things.
Corrington said most of these fees
have also increased, and the depart
ment hopes to raise an additional
$100,000.
Hurricane Harvey may
graze Bermuda today
Corps Commandant Col. James
Woodall said. But, most upperclassmen
also buy additional uniforms with their
own money, Castleberry said. Seniors
also must buy their own boots which
generally cost about $300.
The estimated cost of the coat to be
worn with the new uniform is $65 and
the white belt costs approximately $10,
King said.
United Press International
MIAMI — Hurricane Harvey whip
ped itself into a “dangerous” major
storm moving up the Atlantic and fore
casters warned the western fringes of
the tempest’s 130 mph winds could
affect Bermuda later today.
The Hurricane Center issued an
advisory Monday urging residents of
the resort island to closely monitor the
progress of Harvey, the strongest storm
since Hurricane Allen in 1980, which
devastated Alabama’s Gulf Coast.
At 3 a.m., the hurricane was cen
tered about 240 miles southeast of Ber
muda; moving toward the north and
packing winds of 130 mph, with further
strengthening expected.
The storm was expected to turn gra
dually toward the north-northeast dur
ing the next 24 hours — which would
make the center of Harvey pass east of
Bermuda.
“The center of the Harvey is expected
to pass more than 100 miles east of Ber
muda today and only the western fring
es of the hurricane are expected to affect
the island with showers and possibly a
few squalls,” a hurricane advisory said.
Once Harvey passes Bermuda, Hope
said the storm would head to open sea
where its powerful winds could do no
damage to land.
The storm strengthened rapidly
Monday. At 6 a.m., highest winds were
85 mph, enough to make it only a
minimal hurricane. By noon, however,
winds had jumped to 110 mph and by 9
p.m., they were 130 mph, making it a
“dangerous” storm, forecasters said.
Harvey’s sustained winds were the
strongest since Hurricane Allen sides-
wiped Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and
devastated Alabama’s Gulf Coast in July
1980 with 165-mph winds. Allen was
the second most powerful storm of this
century.
Highest winds in a hurricane this cen
tury were 200 mph, recorded in Hurri
cane Camille, which hit the Mississippi
coast in 1969 and in an unnamed hurri
cane that came through the Florida
Keys on Labor Day, 1935.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Gert
continued to weaken as it sped on an
easterly course across the North Atlan
tic. Its highest sustained winds were
only 40 mph. Late Monday, the center
of Gert was located about 275 miles
west-northwest of the westernmost
Azores.
Forecasters also were watching other
areas of disturbed weather, including a
disorganized system passing through
Nicaragua late Monday located about
700 miles east of Trinidad and another
in the middle of the Atlantic, halfway
between Africa and the Lesser Antilles.
Hope said the hurricane season has
peaked, although hurricanes often de
velop in the second half of the month.
“The second week in September is
the historical peak,” he said. "It histor
ically starts to taper off a little . although
quite a few storms have developed in
the second half of September. They
don’t just abruptly stop coming.
"Lots of times there are a few in Octo
ber and an occasional storm in Novem
ber, which marks the end of the