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College Station, Texas
Monday, January 25, 1982
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.