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i Vol. 75 No. 66 16 Pages Battalion i Serving the Texas A&M University community Friday, December 4, 1981 DSPS 045 360 College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today Tomorrow High 70 High .. .68 Low 38 Low .. .35 Chance of rain. . . . ... 0% Chance of rain . 10% f Texas A&M for Dec. 12 By STEPHANIE WILLIAMS Buttalion Reporter Preparations for the Dec. 12 Inde pendence Bowl game between Texas A&M University and Oklahoma State University are under way. The two teams will meet in Shreve port, La., for the sixth annual bowl game. Football tickets went on sale Wednesday at the athletic ticket office for $12 each. And based on the current demand for tickets, John Smith, Inde pendence Bowl public relations dire ctor, said he’s expecting a sell-out game of 50,250 people. In addition to the Texas Aggie Band and the Oklahoma State band, half- time entertainment will include the readies bowl game 11, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Dec. 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Le Boss ier Hotel, in Bossier City, La. Jim Jeter, assistant executive dire ctor of the Former Students Associa tion, said that because most people going to the game will drive, no orga nized travel arrangements will be made. However, tickets for transportation to the stadium for the game will be sold at the hotel receptions in Bossier City, he said. The theme of the Independence Bowl is The Spirit of Independence. This year’s game is dedicated to Gen eral Omar M. Bradley, the nation’s last five-star general. He died last April. Air Force Academy’s Wings of Blue and the San Diego Chicken, the offi cial mascot of the Independence Bowl. The Wings of Blue will jump on the field from 5,000 feet, wearing strobe lights. Smith said. Pre-game activities will include a team reception at the Barksdale Air Force Base Officer’s Club for the foot ball teams, coaches and staff. A hay ride, kitchen barbecue and pep rally for the public will be at Expo HallatOp.m. Dec. 11. Tickets are $16 and are available at the Texas A&M Sports Information Office. In addition, receptions sponsored by The Aggie Club and the Association of Former Students will be held Dec. If anti-strike law passed Solidarity warns of strike United Press International WARSAW, Poland — Solidarity has threatened a 24-hour shutdown of Poland s economy if the Communist regime passes an anti-strike law and the union says a nationwide general strike of unlimited duration would be its next step. Solidarity’s warnings Thursday were the union’s toughest in its 15-month existence and represent the biggest threatened confrontation with the government. But an anti strike law would deprive the union of one of the first rights it won — and its most potent political weapon. Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski, speaking out strongly against attempts to weaken the Communist Party, said in a speech broadcast on national television: “There can be no conciliation with such forces.” A statement by Lech Walesa and his aides in the union’s leadership said the general strike plan would have to be approved at a meeting next week of the Solidarity’s national commission. But approval seemed assured. Walesa was returning to Warsaw today to meet with mem bers of the Sejm, the national parliament, about the anti strike law demanded last week by the Communist Party Central Committee. The Communist newspaper Trybuna Ludu said the union was being taken over by extremists, and the official news agency PAP said the situation in Poland has again turned dramatic and tense. Besides the strike warning, Walesa and his aides gave a deeply pessimistic report on the progress of negotiations with the government. Although the Solidarity statement did not call for breaking off talks with Jaruzelski’s government, it said any further meetings were unjustified. The union said concessions by the government on a num ber of issues, including free elections for local councils next spring, would be the minimum conditions for national agree ment. Among the conditions were “an end to repression of union ists,” an apparent reference to actions like the government’s forcible assault Wednesday on student strikers in Warsaw. “In case parliament passes a law banning public gather ings, limiting citizens’ travel rights or introducing martial law, and if it bans strikes, then the union will proclaim a 24-hour national protest,” Solidarity said. “If the government uses extraordinary means (to break up any strike), all the chapters of the union should stage an unlimited general strike.” The union has called two previous nationwide walkouts — a one-hour work stoppage Oct. 28 and a four-hour general strike March 27. Neither of those actions, however, carried the threat of escalation to an open-ended protest that could shut down the economy for an indefinite period. The strike statement was approved unanimously by Soli darity’s national executive committee and the union’s 39 re gional chairmen during a meeting in Radom, a city 60 miles south of Warsaw. Reagan budget United Press International WASHINGTON — White House budget officials have a spending propos al in hand to present to President Reagan aimed at giving him what he wants — $4 billion in cuts from 1982 domestic programs. Congressional GOP leaders and administration aides reached agree ment on the plan late Thursday and were hoping to push it through Con gress before a Dec. 15 deadline. They said that this time they believe Reagan will buy it. Reagan vetoed the last such bill passed by Congress and shut down parts of the government for one day due to the lack of funds. At the meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill, the administration was repre sented by budget director David Stock- man, White House chief of staff Jim Baker and congressional liaison Max to see revised proposal today Friedersdorf. They were expected to explain details of the agreement to the president today. House GOP leader Robert Michel of Illinois also said he planned to discuss it with leading Democrats, who hold a majority in the House. The plan was worked out in a series of meetings that began after Reagan vetoed the last budget bill, a $428 bil lion measure that he said contained too much domestic spending. The cuts would also reach deeper into foreign aid than Reagan had wanted. The bill would provide about $10 billion for such aid, instead of the $11.6 billion the administration origin ally wanted. Michel said he was talking with mod erate Republicans and conservative Re publicans, the coalition that has passed Reagan’s previous economic initiatives, to get the GOP proposal through th« House. i He also said he hoped to sell it td House Speaker Thomas O’Neill, D; t Mass. | Michel said he wanted to pass a bill in j the House that would be acceptable t<! ! the Senate and avoid another arduou, 1 House-Senate conference over 198^ spending. Reagan vetoed the last spending bill Congress sent him because it did not cul deeply enough into domestic programs' The veto of the $428 billion measure led to a partial government shutdown fo lack of funding on Nov. 23. To end the shutdown, Congress pas sed a stopgap measure extending fund ing for the government until Dec. 15 Another bill must be produced anc signed by Reagan to keep the govern ment in business past that date. i i 1 i 1 Report tells of Libyan ‘hit team’ entering U.S. United Press International WASHINGTON — Federal security officials said there are reports five Li byan-trained terrorists are in the Un ited States on a mission to assassinate President Reagan or other officials, the New York Times reported today. When asked about the Times story, an FBI spokesman cited a bureau policy not to confirm or deny such reports. The Times said the reports came from an informant, a non-American who said he helped train assassination teams in Libya. The newspaper said the re ports are considered reliable by federal officials and have prompted a nation- Clements deposition set for today United Press International AUSTIN — Despite weeks of protest and vows to appeal the order all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Gov. Bill Clements will give a deposition in a law suit over new congressional district lines. Clements was scheduled this morn ing to give his deposition in the case, two days after trial ended on a lawsuit challenging the new congressional boundaries. The governor’s deposition will be added to the record of the trial. The governor voluntarily ended his legal appeals to escape testifying in the case by announcing at a news confer ence Thursday he would give the de position today as ordered by a three- judge federal panel. “I will give my deposition in the morning, and the reason I’m going to do this is because I see no point in pursuing it any farther,” Clements said at the news conference. Clements’ appeal to the 5th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans did not hold up as the court Thursday rejected his appeal on grounds of execu tive privilege. But the court said the governor could refuse to answer ques tions if he believed the information was privileged. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit want Cle ments to answer questions about the part he played in drawing new congres sional district lines. Some lawmakers have charged the governor threatened to use his veto powers if the lines were not drawn to his liking. The governor said Thursday he would give the attorneys for the plaintiffs the same answers he has given the news media — that his only demand on the reapportionment process was for crea tion of a predominantly black district in Dallas County. “All these other districts I had no thing to do with,” he said. “I’ll answer any question they want to ask me about redistricting. If they get far afield I might say its not relevant.” Clements’ arguments to avoid giving the deposition have been that requiring him to appear will set a bad precedent requiring the governor to appear in thousands of cases in which he is named as chief executive officer of the state. This would reduce the amount of time he and future governors have to attend to state business, he said. "I hate breaking this pattern, I think it’s bad business,” Clements said. “I can foresee the time when as governor all I will do is give depositions.” He said he had checked with former Govs. Allan Shivers, Preston Smith and Dolph Briscoe, and none had been re quired to testify in court cases. wide search for the potential assassins and any Americans who might assist them. In response to reports of possible Libyan infiltration. White House offi cials said Thursday Reagan ordered Sec ret Service protection for his “Big Three” advisers: presidential counselor Edwin Meese, White House chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. The Secret Service had no comment. The newspaper said FBI and Secret Service agents have been questioning Americans who might have past links to Libya, including former Green Berets associated with fugitive ex-CIA man Edwin Wilson, who is accused of illegal ly shipping explosives and running a terror training school for Libya. The informant, who was not identi fied, told the government he worked on specific plans to attack Reagan and other top officials — including plots to shoot down Air Force One with a surface-to- air missile, blow up the president’s limousine with a rocket or attack the president at close-range, the paper said. The paper said Reagan has begun riding in unmarked cars, Air Force One j ; has been fitted with equipment to help i 1 evade a possible missile attack, and Jf ; dummy motorcades filled with security i ( > agents are being staged in Washington. [ j . The ring of security around Reagan, j j| . j Secretary of State Alexander Haig and j K Defense Secretary Caspar Weinbergei ; ; I was tightened earlier out of concern ,j over what officials said were uncon- j firmed reports that Libyan hit squad. 1 : | i I were seeking top-level U.S. targets. ' ' j “Our information regarding th< j threat in recent weeks warrants in creased security precautions, one dr i fense official said, referring to Weinber ’ ger. “Well continue to take pruden and cautious measures to ensure hi security.” T Col. Moammar Khadady, the radiea ■; Libyan leader, has denied sendindj assassination teams to the United State j j or elsewhere to kill U.S. leaders. Although Reagan’s security arrangefj merits were revised after he was shot ir|j an assassination attempt March 30:,1 further intensification has been appa'1 rent since the reports surfaced. i Clayton may seek statewide United Press International AUSTIN — House Speaker Bill Clayton has been telling his supporters privately this week that he will seek the Democratic nomination for land com missioner, but wants to delay the formal announcement a bit longer. However, there has been little ques tion since the 1981 legislative session ended in May that Clayton, who is com pleting an unprecedented fourth con secutive term as speaker, would seek the post. Before the Legislature began its ses sion, Clayton had said he would either seek statewide office in 1982 or retire to his Panhandle farm. This week Clayton has attended a series of politically oriented meetings to privately reveal bis plans. “I’m going to tell them what I’m going to do, but I’m not going to make my formal announcement yet, Clayton said Thursday before a $250-a-person “Texas Salutes Bill Clayton reception began. office “I’ll do that later when I lay 1 out my j platform. When Land Commissioner Bob Arm- ; strong announced early in the year he would not seek re-election, he sparked a flurry of political interest in the race. Democrat Garry Mauro, former ex- ecutive director of the Democratic Par ty in Texas, announced his candidacy and began his campaign in May. Sen. W.E. Snelson, D-Midland, is , expected to announce as a candidate in > the Democratic primary in the next week or two. “He’s ready to go with it,” a Snelson aide said. 'I No Republicans have announced for ! the office yet, but at least two — Rep. ; Milton Fox, R-Houston, and Blanco : County Judge Kent Smith — are con- I sidering entering the campaign. Fox has been traveling the state ! measuring the financing he could attract ; for a statewide race. Wallace may attempt political comeback United Press International MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Gov. George Wallace, the one-time segregationist who now is publicly courting influential blacks, appears to be ready to make another bid for gov ernor in 1982, his chief aide says. “He is nearer to making a decision than he was a few weeks ago, ” said Elvin Stanton. “I’m going to assume he’s going to be involved until he says he is not.” Wallace, probably best known for resistance to integration in the 1960s, now is actively seeking black support. Several black leaders have urged him to run for an unprecedented fourth term. Stanton said he does not know what it will take to win the race, but said “a successful candidate will receive at least a part of the black vote.” Wallace is expected to announce his decision early next year. Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala., told Wallace last week that he wasn’t certain what caused Wallace’s new vigor. He j ; said it might be Wallace’s recent mar- ; riage to a blonde half his age or his ! renewed interest in politics. In any event, Heflin said: “Your I comh is redder now than I’ve seen it in ' j years.” Gov. Fob James, a Democrat, won’t | ! say whether he intends to seek re- j election. He has angered Alabama ; Democrats by supporting President Reagan s economic policies. The 62-year-old, mellowed Wallace j I has insisted in recent years that he was only resisting big government when he : promised “segregation forever” in his 1963 inaugural address and took his “stand in the school house door in a j futile attempt to block school integra- i tion. Addressing a group of black mayors i atTuskegee recently, Wallace said com- i passion dictated decisions made in his 1 administrations.