Battalion
Vol.75 No. 14
12 Pages
Serving the Texas AScM University community
Friday, September 18, 1981
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Moderates ask
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United Press International
ASHINGTON — Moderate House
^publicans who stood by President
agan in earlier budget fights say they
|y oppose his new plans to cut spend-
g unless the president slashes deeper
info the defense budget.
(The group said Thursday they want
Sagan to cut defense next year by more
than four times his proposed $2 billion.
|“We reached the conclusion that $9
jlion was a reasonable figure,” said
Sep Carl Pursell, R-Mich., chairman of
the group of more than 30 northern Re
publicans.
■ Known as the “gypsy moths,” they
^delivered their message to House GOP
ader Bob Michel of Illinois Wednes-
night and at a news conference on
Spitol Hill Thursday.
Reagan told reporters Thursday he
uid resist pressures to cut any more
hn $2 billion from Pentagon spending
kt year.
The president could not have won his
r budget fights without the solid
port of Republicans and withdrawal
oisupport by the moderate group would
likely endanger his chances of getting
the cuts he wants.
■Congress already has cut $35 billion
pm fiscal 1982 spending, but the admi-
fctration is seeking about $16 billion in
[ditional reductions to keep the 1982
jficit from exceeding Reagan’s goal of
42.5 billion.
■ Reagan outlined a list of proposed
[new budget cuts for his Cabinet Thurs
day, including postponement of cost-of-
living increases in Social Security and
other programs next year.
The delay would affect recipients of
such benefits as Supplemental Security
Income; black lung; railroad retire
ment; veterans, military and federal
worker pensions; food stamps and nutri
tion allowances, as well as the old-age
pensions of Social Security.
Such a deferral would result in sav
ings of $5 billion, officials said.
Reagan’s budget proposals, which
have not been officially submitted, also
would include closing the Energy and
Education departments and trimming
the federal payroll by 75,000 jobs
through attrition and dismissals.
It was learned the president also is
considering phasing out general re
venue sharing by 1984 and tbe Compre
hensive Employment and Training Act
job-training program by Sept. 30, 1982.
The “gypsy moths said they had
received no official response from the
White House yet, but said budget dire
ctor David Stockman is on their side.
Rep. Tom Tauke, R-Iowa, said the mod
erate Republicans realize further cuts
must be made in the budget to hold
down the federal deficit.
He said the group would support
further budget cuts of around $20 bil
lion if the president includes a $9 billion
chunk from defense spending.
“Otherwise, we would have consid
erable difficulty supporting the pack
age,” Tauke said.
Gig ’em Aggies!
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Senior Yell Leader Norris Hodgin leads a crowd of about 4500
students in yells at Thursday night s yell practice for the Boston
College game. The Texas A&M football team travels to Boston
College this weekend for its second game of the season. Yell
practices for out-of-town games are held each Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
while home game practices are at midnight Friday before the game.
Soviet minister to meet Haig
Gromyko arrives for U.N. session
Athletes searching
for student tutors
I BY ANNE OLIVER
Battalion Reporter
he Texas A&M Athletic Depart-
gBient is looking for students to hire as
Iptors for University athletes.
i f. Between 75 and 100 students have
already responded to the department’s
advertisements in local newspapers.
But, Leroy Sutherland, scholastic su-
||ervisor of athletic facilities, said at this
I time he is not sure how many students
the department actually will use.
II “Anybody willing to answer the ad
l|sbeen added to our payroll systems,”
he said. “It really depends upon what
meets they could teach and their
jwailability over the semester.”
|The department needs tutors in
Inost every major subject area.
Khdergraduate students are paid $4 an
[hour and graduate students are paid $5
an hour. The athletic department pays
for the tutors with no charge to the
||tliletes.
■Associate Athletic Director Wally
Groff said the department spent
128,587 on the tutorial program during
|980-81. Of this, $23,584 was for male
ihletes and $5,003 was for female
Ihletes.
Although the department is looking
Ijimarily for sophomores to fill the tuto
rial positions, Sutherland said “most of
the students who have applied for the
jobs have been at least juniors or
seniors.”
Sutherland estimates the depart
ment now has 125 student tutors for
various subjects. “We average probably
between 20 and 30 tutors every evening
— Sunday through Thursday,” he said.
He said many athletes take advan
tage of the tutoring service. “In the past
almost every student involved in the
athletic program has used a tutor at
some point,” he said.
If a student athlete needs tutorial
assistance, he must notify Sutherland 24
hours in advance. “Between my secret
ary and me, we try to get someone to
help them,” he said.
Freshman athletes are required to
attend two study halls, and students on
scholastic probation must attend four.
Tutoring sessions are not meant to
take the place of classes, Groff said.
“The tutors are supposed to supplement
class activity, not take the place of it, ”
he said.
“We require a little more of our
athletes than the average student — we
consider it a protection of our invest
ment, therefore we feel it’s a very legiti
mate expense,” Groff said.
United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko, advocating “deepening detente,”
arrived Thursday night for today’s session of the Un
ited Nations and the first high-level Soviet meetings
with the Reagan administration.
Gromyko, avoiding any controversial comments on
arriving, will take advantage of the U.N. session to
meet Secretary of State Alexander Haig Sept. 23 and
Sept. 28.
“It is our firm conviction,” Gromyko said, “it is
possible, despite the complicated international situa
tion, to overcome the present tensions and safeguard
peace.”
Heated debate at the U.N. General Assembly had
been predicted for today’s session finalizing its agenda
and credentials of delegations, with the Soviet Union
angrily denouncing the U.S. idea of debating alleged
use of Soviet chemical weapons in Afghanistan and
Cambodia.
Gromyko said on arrival Soviet policy aimed at “re
duction of both nuclear and conventional armaments,
settling the existing conflicts and crisis situations and
preventing new ones, deepening detente and de
veloping peaceful cooperation among nations. ”
The veteran diplomat said, “We are prepared for a
dialogue dnd Co-operation with all responsible political
and social forces, with all those who share the concern
over the present state of world affairs and seek to
strengthen peace and security.”
Gromyko, who speaks to the assembly next Tuesday
one day after Haig, said he would promote those
themes during a General Assembly session facing sev
eral divisive issues.
Arab nations said they would question Israel’s
credentials today but not try to deny them. But a
challenge already had been made to the credentials of
the Cambodian delegation.
The United Nations still recognizes the representa
tives of the Pol Pot government, but Vietnam made a
formal request to replace it with a four-member de
legation of the Heng Samrin government in Phnom
Penh.
A key diplomatic battle shaped up over whether to
debate the internal strife in El Salvador arid promote
reconciliation between the rebels and the ruling junta.
Diplomatic sources said Mexico and France, who
officially recognized the rebels Aug. 28, were promot
ing the idea, supported by Cuba, Nicaragua and
others. They held three meetings to get support from
Scandinavian and African delegations.
Nine other Latin-American countries oppose any
recognition of the rebels and officially transmitted the
statement to U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
last week. The United States also backs the junta and is
likely to oppose the move.
Court supports Oswald exhumation
United Press International
FORT WORTH, Texas — With an
appeals court bolstering efforts by the
widow of Lee Harvey Oswald to open
his grave, his brother’s attorneys are
preparing to block her while her
lawyers ready documents to ensure her
success.
Following Thursday’s stunning vic
tory in efforts to open the accused pres
idential assassin’s Fort Worth grave,
attorneys for Robert Oswald and Marina
Oswald Porter prepared to return to the
courts today.
The Oswald attorneys planned to
seek a temporary restraining order
against Porter and a Fort Worth cemet
ery to prevent any attempt to open the
grave pending an appeal of Thursday’s
ruling. Porter’s lawyers prepared to
oppose them.
The court dissolved a temporary in
junction issued a year ago by District
Judge James E. Wright banning British
author “Michael Eddowes and all per
sons in active concert or participation
with him from seeking to exhume and
reautopsy the remains of Lee Harvey
Oswald.”
The court’s ruling was a sweeping re
buke to Wright’s ruling and efforts by
Robert Oswald to halt an exhumation of
the body of the man accused of assassi
nating President John F. Kennedy.
In Rockwall, Texas, Oswald’s widow
was excited but cautious. She has filed
Campus groups raising funds to
travel costs for Reveille to road
cover
games
4jJ
Staff photo by Becky Swanson
Patrice Owens, Mosher Hall treasurer, presents Reveille a $259 check to
help defray costs of traveling to and attending football games. Beside
I Owens is Kelly Simmons, Mosher Hall president; Drew Laningham,
* mascot corporal; and Mark Morris, Company E-2 executive officer.
By BARBIE WOELFEL
Battalion Reporter
Her cue is “Hullabaloo, Caneck,
Caneck!” She barks with a sense of pride
and loyalty, and that bark will be heard
at every Aggie football game this year —
provided that enough funds are raised
to send her out of town.
Arrangements have already been
made to send Texas A&M mascot Re
veille IV and Drew Laningham, mascot
corporal, to Boston, Mass, on a com
mercial flight this weekend to see the
Texas Aggies play the Boston College
Eagles. The total cost for both Reveille
and the mascot corporal will be about
$450, Laningham said.
But, Company E-2, the mascot com
pany of the Texas A&M Corps of
Cadets, is in need of funds to send Re
veille and Laningham to future away
games. The University allocates $400 a
year to cover Reveille’s expenses;
however, this fund covers only vet and
feed bills.
Several campus groups are trying to
help with fund-raising efforts.
“Mosher, Spence and Briggs dorms
are competing in a fund raiser to see
which dorm can collect the most money
for travel expenses on out-of-town
games for Reveille and me,” said
Laningham, a sophomore computer sci
ence major from Conroe.
In the past, former students also have
made donations to help with Reveille’s
travel expenses.
The trip to California for the Texas
A&M-Cal Berkeley football game was
funded by former members of Company
E-2, class of 1970, along with some
money taken from the Reveille Fund,
Laningham said.
“Reveille and I flew to Oakland on a
commercial flight and stayed in the
Hyatt Regency,” Laningham said. “She
stayed with me the entire time.
“During the trips. Reveille never
leaves my sight,” he said. “I take care of
her the entire time. She is a well-
behaved dog, so I rarely have trouble
with her.”
At all Southwest Conference games.
Reveille flies with the Aggie Club on a
chartered plane, receiving the care and
attention from everyone on the flight.
Laningham assumed the position of
mascot corporal in April on Parent’s
Day. The position calls for outstanding
leadership abilities, athletic qualities
and high academic standing.
“Reveille spent the entire summer
with my family and me on Lake Con
roe,” Laningham said. “She got very
attached to my twin brothers, and my
Mom really treated her well. ”
The six-year-old registered collie was
donated to the University in 1975 by
Dr. T. L. Godwin of Deer Park.
her own lawsuit against her former
brother-in-law, charging Oswald’s body
had been illegally removed from the
grave and either cremated or secreted
in a mausoleum.
Porter’s Dallas attorneys, Jerry Pitt
man and Michael Pezzulli, were elated.
“Based upon the information we have
received regarding the opinion of the
Court of Appeals in Fort Worth, it
appears the only interested party is
Marina Oswald Porter, our client, and
so we are going to immediately take all
steps legally necessary to have the trial
court grant our request to allow Mrs.
Porter the right the exhume the body
contained in the grave,” Pittman said.
Observers of the complex legal case
told UPI the appeals court ruling
appeared to be a technical victory for
Eddowes but bolstered Mrs. Porter’s
lawsuit immensely. She had withdrawn
her permission from Eddowes when she
filed her lawsuit.
Robert Oswald of Wichita Falls,
Texas, refused comment on the Thurs
day ruling.
His attorney, Kenneth L. Campbell,
said they would ask the Appeals Court
for a rehearing on the matter and if the
request were denied, they would go to
the Texas Supreme Court.
“Marina has withdrawn her consent
from Mr. Eddowes so his suit is really
moot anyway. I don’t think this will
have any effect on Marina’s case be
cause it is a completely separate action.
It’s kind of hard to comprehend that the
court is saying a brother has no legal
right in preserving the remains of his
brother,” said Campbell.
The appeals court rejected Robert
Oswald’s claim that he could veto the
exhumation.
“A surviving brother of a deceased
does not have the right to control the
remains of his deceased brother’s body
so long as there is a surviving wife, chil
dren or parents of the deceased,” the
court ruled.
The Thursday ruling was Eddowes’
first victory in numerous attempts to
receive legal permission to open the
Oswald grave.
He contends a Soviet secret agent
assumed Oswald’s identity after
Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union
in 1959, then returned to Dallas and
shot Kennedy.
Regents to deliberate
appropriations for
design, construction
Texas A&M System regents Sunday
will discuss appropriations for prelimin
ary designs of a Halbouty Geosciences
Building expansion and construction of
the Medical Sciences Library.
The Facilities Planning and Con
struction committee of the Texas A&M
System Board of Regents will meet at
1:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center regents quarters.
Total cost of the proposed 40,000-
square-foot addition to the geosciences
building is an estimated $7 million.
Building cost of the College of Medi
cine’s Medical Sciences Library is an
estimated $11,300,000.
The committee also will discuss
awarding a contract for the conversion
of the Animal Husbandry Pavilion. The
total cost of the conversion is an esti
mated $2,407,000.
The committee’s recommendation is
subject to approval by the full board.
The group also will review a master
plan for the west campus and a feasibil
ity study for additional modular dormi
tories.
The regents will meet Monday as a
committee of the whole to discuss an
appropriation to appeal a court decision
that forces the University to reveal the
names of candidates that were consi
dered for the University presidency.
Other topics to be discussed in Mon
day’s closed session include rules gov-*
erning the Optional Retirement Prog
ram and the appointment of a dean to
the College of Science.
The full board will meet Tuesday at
8:30 a.m. to receive the committees’
recommendations.