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Vol. 75 No. 66
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Friday, December 4, 1981 DSPS 045 360
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.