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e 12 1982 Swimmers take a dive at Houston swim meet See page 13 Globetrotters hit the court in G. Rollie See page 12 The Battalion "liddlt i and H'|, conf* the C ' 11 homfl slosttcf. Serving the University community Voi. 75 No. 81 USPS 045360 14 Pages College Station, Texas Monday, January 25, 1982 eagan •«orms ^council # __ United Press International WASHINGTON — President ■Reagan will establish a White House council to determine policy on such controversial legal issues as tax- txempt status for private schools and I the Equal Rights Amendment, a pub- lifhed report said. I The Washington Post said in its ■mday edition the new panel — which is not yet in operation — will Enable administration officials to con sider political and other issues before legal decisions are made. ■ “There is high political — and for Ihat matter policy — content in a lot of Rhese issues,” the Post quoted an un- pentified admministration official as v i ying - I The newspaper said the adminis tration did not act earlier because of ■pposition from Attorney General william French. It said the presi- Went’s senior advisors had been Jjirguing for some time establishing a Cabinet council on legal affairs at the white House. K The move was made because of fai lures of coordination on the tax ex- 4:0C-JVj5inpt questions and the ERA, the Post SjOO-Sisaid. g,^ I Until now the White House has and poli- ecisions at staff ied to consider the policy a tical aspects of legal decision meetings. “You couldn’t properly treat with gal matters in those meetings,” the tost quoted an official as saying. There wasn’t time.” Stayin ’ Alive Staff photo by Peter Rocha Yaicha, the daughter of graduate student Bill Glynn of Bryan, practices her disco moves in front of the Chemistry building. -Centennial Aggies in Capitol party [ tre | , by Laura Williams tre J Battalion Staff tre I Gov. Bill Clements is having a party tre i Monday and Texas A&M University is invited. tre ', Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry and the 601 • “Ross Volunteers will represent the j University at a celebration of the State tor iii ■'Capitol’s 100th birthday. The celeb- 601iation was to begin at 11 a.m. on the 601 * Capitol steps. ■ Corps Commandant James R. Grove' Woodall and his wife Gloria will rep- ; resent University President Frank E. Vandiver at the celebration. Vandiv- ? er, who served on the Capitol Centen nial Committee that laid the plans for Texas Government Awareness Day, is unable to attend. The ceremony schedule includes music by the University of Texas band, which will lead off the parade to the Capitol. The Austin Highlanders Pipe Band will also play. Eight members of Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry will escort the horse-drawn carriage in which Cle ments and his wife will ride to the Capitol. Also riding in the carriage will be the Lord and Lady Provost of Aberdeen, Scotland, representing the Scottish contributions to the building of the Capitol. Scottish masons ;b anoi ;ann«; by 982' 16 of helped build the structure in 1882. Thirty members of the Ross Volunteers will form a saber arch for the occupants of the carriage to walk through. The saber arch will stretch from the dismount point up to the podium on the Capitol steps. Dr. William Livingston, professor of government and vice president and dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, will give the keynote speech entitled, “Texas Government — Its Strength, Effectiveness and Continuity.” Other activities throughout the day will include slide shows on the history of the building, special tours of the Capitol, a Texas Artists of the Year display and performances by high school choirs. New battles brewing as Congress returns United Press International WASHINGTON — The 97th Con gress returns today for its second ses sion, facing a year of ugly battles over social issues and demands from Presi dent Reagan for even greater cuts in domestic spending. Issues that were barely mentioned in the 1981 session — abortion, school prayer and school busing — are almost certain to become major bat tlegrounds in 1982. But the old issues — budget cuts, taxes and military spending — won’t go away. Reagan is expected to ask for even deeper cuts in domestic spend ing this year, and a hefty increase in military spending. This hodge-podge of tough deci sions is made even more complicated by an economy that is deteriorating, with unemployment edging toward 9 percent. Adding even further to the year’s political pain is the fact that the year will end with all 435 House mem bers and 33 senators facing election. “Last year, I urged the Senate to postpone the so-called ‘emotional issues’ — that is, busing, abortion, prayer in public schools — until the end of the session,” Sen. Howard Baker said Sunday. “This year I intend to encourage them to do it in the early part of the session,” Baker, R-Tenn., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The majority leader continued, “Now that may mean January, Febru ary, perhaps even March are going to be a very tumultuous and disorderly time in the Senate, but these are na tional issues that must be debated.” The first week of the year will be more form than substance. No legisla tive floor business was scheduled although some hearings were planned. Two joint sessions were scheduled this week. Reagan was to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night. And on Thursday a joint ses sion was planned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s birth. The Cuban connection Dealer gets port use United Press International MIAMI — Fidel Castro’s govern ment helped a drug dealer smuggle narcotics into the United States in re turn for his delivering weapons to re volutionaries in Colombia, where he hoped to become prime minister, fed eral authorities say. Authorities identified the smug gler as Jaime Guillot Lara, 35, a Col ombian who owns a $300,000 home in Miami. A federal grandjury in Miami has indicted him on marijuana con spiracy charges and he is currently in a Mexico City jail. The Drug Enforcement Adminis tration said Cuban President Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul, met secretly with Guillot last year and granted him access to Cuban ports for refueling, repairing and evading the U.S. Coast Guard, the Miami Herald reported. In exchange, the smuggler would run weapons and munitions to the left-wing April 19 Movement — the M-19 guerrillas — in Colombia, U.S. authorities said. The M-19 drew world attention in February 1980 when its members seized the Domini can Republic’s embassy in Bogata and held diplomats including U.S. ambas sador Diego Ascencio captive for 61 days. “This is the first time that I can remember that material (indicating a Castro role in drug trafficking) would come out in open judicial proceedings — and it will,” said U.S. Attorney Atlee Wampler III. The DEA said Guillot was a “major drug trafficker” and wants to be the next prime minister of his native Col ombia, where he is wanted for murder. “This is the first time we have had a major supplier of drugs, now in dicted, who is definitely involved with an outfit such as the M-19,” DFLA su pervisor John McCutcheon said. “We proved that the M-19s are us ing narcotics to overthrow the gov ernment of Colombia, that Cubans are providing them with weapons. and that the man we indicted was to become the next prime minister,” said DEA agent Evelino Fernandez. The Cuban connection developed after another Colombian drug traf ficker, Johnny Crump, introduced Guillot to Cuban diplomat Gonzalo Bezol. Guillot, Bezol and the diplo mat’s chauffeur, described as former chief of demolition for Cuban forces in Angola, met with Raul Castro, Cuba’s armed forces minister, last year in Nicaragua, the DEA said. Soon afterward, a vessel owned by Guillot delivered 200 tons of weapons to the guerrillas. When U.S. Customs and DEA agents arrested Crump last week on narcotics trafficking charges, he had documents linking him to Cuban offi cials, police said. Bond was set at $3 million. Twice in November 1981, one of Guillot’s vessels, the Monarcha, met with a weapons-laden ship called the Karina, taking on guns and muni tions, investigators said. Burger calls for systems to decrease court backlog United Press International CHICAGO — Warning that a liti gation explosion is producing an overwhelming backlog of cases nationwide, Chief Justice Warren Burger is calling for a major national effort to settle disputes outside of courtrooms. Making his annual State of the Judiciary address Sunday to the American Bar Association, Burger urged the creation of mediation and arbitration systems for settling hun dreds of thousands of civil cases that otherwise may slow the wheels of jus tice to a snail’s pace. The chief justice told about 800 lawyers attending the ABA’s mid year convention that attorneys have a responsibility to provide clients with an acceptable result in the shortest time, with the least possible expense and with a minimum of stress. “Our litigation exlosion during this generation is suggested by a few fi gures: from 1940 to 1981, annual fed eral district court civil case filings in creased from about 35,000 to 180,000,” he noted. “The real mean ing of these figures emerges when we see that federal civil cases increased almost six times as fast as our popula tion.” The proposal by the nation’s top judicial officer to drastically slash the number of civil suits that clog court dockets parallels recommendations he made in recent years aimed at re ducing the endless number of appeals filed by convicted felons. “One reason our courts have be come overburdened is that Amer icans are increasingly turning to the courts for relief from a range of per sonal distresses and anxieties,” Bur ger asserted. “The courts have been expected to fill the void created by the decline of church, family and neighborhood unity. “We need to consider moving some cases from the adversary system to administrative processes, like work men’s compensation, or to mediation, conciliation and especially arbitra tion,” Burger said. He called on the ABA to launch a major study of the situation with a commission that would include repre sentatives from the legal profession, business and other disciplines. inside Classified . page 10 Local . . page 3 National . page8 Opinions . . page 2 Sports . page 11 State • • page 3 What’s L p • page 6 Poles find new life in Texas difficult Editor’s note: This is the first of problems they face now and the a two-part series on Polish plans they’ve made for the refugees in San Antonio, the future. by Daniel Puckett Battalion Staff SAN ANTONIO — He pumps gas and washes cars but his eyes seldom betray any discontent. Mark was a professional soccer player until he decided he wanted a more permanent job. After a few years of training, he became a mining engineer and supervised the planning of new mining projects for 10 years. Then things started to go wrong and he and his wife decided they had to get out. Posing as tourists off for a weekend in Austria, they packed overnight bags and took a train to Vienna. For this couple, there’s no turning back. For a while he asks his new neighbors to call him Mark, his real name is Maciej, and he is one of the 38 Polish refugees placed in San Antonio by the U.S. Catholic Conference. The USCC’s Refugee Resettlement Program has helped a number of the refugees start a new life in the United States since things began to go awry, in Poland. But although they say they do not regret leaving Poland, not everything is going well. They are living in a country in which the language, culture and laws are unfamiliar, and this unfamiliarity causes them problems every day. Since Dec. 13, when martial law was imposed in Poland, they have been completely cut off from their homeland, isolated from friends and families. For some of them, especially those from the more troubled regions such as Katowice and Gdansk, the communications blackout means not knowing if a brother was hurt in a police action at his mine. It means not knowing whether a friend, who was a Solidarity organizer, is free, imprisoned or dead. However, despite the problems, despite the menial jobs into which they are forced by their lack of English and the low standard of living for which thosejobs can pay, they seem happy. Happy to be free, happy to be safe, happy to know that no soldier will knock on the door at midnight and no unseen apparatchik is monitoring what they say. They are, most of them, filled with hope and ambitious plans for the future. Yet they are still haunted by events of the recent past, and. See REFUGEES page 3 forecast Today’s forecast: Partly cloudy and warm. High today in the low-70s; low tonight in the upper 30s. Tues day’s forecast: partly cloudy again with the high in the upper 60s.