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See Focus for all the entertainment 1 Undefeated Ag gymnasts get ready for home meet See page 13 ine Barraiion 11 Clapsof as adt sufferinJ A Serving the University community II Vol. 75 No. 84 USPS 045360 32 Pages In 2 Sections College Station, Texas Thursday, January 28, 1982 '0 p.m. Reagan stresses tax laws United Press International I WASHINGTON — President Reagan says he won’t raise taxes, but he s planning to try to raise revenue with new tax laws designed to gather in all the money now lawfully due the government. B Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said Wednesday the government plans to hire 5,000 more Internal Re venue Service agents to help collect taxes. P And, he said, it also will propose to withhold taxes on dividends and in- ISC Boil terest as it is paid, rather than waiting he mioii:; U ntil the end of the tax year. K These were among a package of proposals by which the administra- )OOOC tion. hopes to raise nearly $32 billion in 1983 and 1984 combined, accord- , ing to Treasury figures, by closing “loopholes,” increasing enforcement and speeding up collections of taxes due. ■ President Reagan in his State of the Union message ruled out excise or other general tax increases. Tf: One part of the package will tight- ^en the rules under which corpora tions now pay minimum income tax. As a result, Regan said, “Every com pany that earns money will pay a tax. If your’re losing money you won’t pay a tax.” ij Under the administration’s plan, 5 percent of taxes due on interest and dividend income would be withheld “at the source” — by the corporation paying the dividend, or the bank paying the interest. I*; However, people over 65 with a tax liability of $500 or less — or elderly couples, together earning less than $14,907 (in 1983) — would be exempt from the withholding requirement. General freed in police raid United Press International ROME — A' police anti-terrorist squad freed U.S. Army Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier from his Red Bri gades terrorist gang kidnappers to day, police said. The NATO general was in good condition after 42 days in captivity, they said. Officers said the police raiders found Dozier guarded by five Red Brigades members in an apartment in the northern city of Padua, 310 miles north of the capital. All five terrorists were arrested, they said. They said no injuries were re ported in the raid. Dozier, 50, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades Dec. 17 from his home in Verona, 46 miles west of Padua. The operation to free the general took place at 11:30 a.m. local time (5:30 a.m EST), police said, after the raiders had put the apartment under surveillance Wednesday night. “We’ve found Dozier in good health,” a police spokesman said. In Washington, a State Depart ment spokesman confirmed Dozier had been freed and said the Rome Embassy’s deputy chief of mission was with the general. “A member of our embassy staff in Rome is now with him,” State Depart ment spokesman Joe Reap. “Ambassador Maxwell Rabb has expressed our gratitude to the Italian government for their efforts to obtain General Dozier’s release,” Reap said. Dozier, chief of administration and logistics at NATO’s southern Europe land force headquarters, was kidnapped from his Verona apart ment by four Red Brigades members disguised as plumbers who knocked him unconscious, stuffed him into a box, and hauled him away in a truck. The liberation of the general marked the first time police have freed a Red Brigades’ captive since the gang was formed 11 years ago. Senate keeps mum on Board Can it be? staff photo by Eric Mitchell While sitting by the fountains near Harring ton Tower, Laura Langham, a freshman who hopes to enter the Forestry department, dis plays her loyalties to both Austin and Texas A&M on the back of her t-shirt. Allen to begin SCON A 27 K® Soviet foreign policy topic by Bill Robinson Battalion Staff Former U.S. presidential adviser Richard Allen will head a list of international luminaries speaking at the 27th Student Conference on National Affairs. | The conference, established at Texas A&M Uni versity in 1955, is held annually to discuss topics of international significance. Perspectives on the fore ign policy of the Soviet Union will be the topic of “CONA 27 which begins Feb. 10. Student delegates to the conference come from round the world, including the Soviet Union, West Germany, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Kuwait, the ominican Republic and most of the United States. All speeches as well as delegates’ round table ^discussions take place in the Memorial Student enter Complex and are open to the public. Allen was invited to present the American side of soviet foreign policy because of his experience in IjU.S.-Soviet relations, said Terry Quirk, SCONA 27 chairman. However, Allen is perhaps better known for the controversy surrounding his dismissal as President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Adviser in January. A Japanese writer gave Allen $1,000 after arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan, which he never turned over to the Treasury Department. Allen also received three Seiko watches worth about $400. In addition, it was discovered in an FBI investiga tion that Allen had provided inaccurate informa tion on his financial disclosure report filed last Feb ruary with the Office of Government Ethics. In an incident Allen called a “dumb mistake,” he listed the sale date of his international consulting business as 1978 rather than 1981, thus avoiding disclosure of the company’s worth and its sale price. Allen took a leave of absence in November and resigned after senior administration officials raised doubts over his judgement and his effectiveness to the Administration. He will give the opening address for SCONA Feb. 10 at 2:45 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. Speeches by other figures in the field of Soviet foreign policy will take place in Rudder Theater. Presenting the Russian view of Soviet foreign policy and the balance of power will be Minister Oleg M. Sokolov, second in command to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Also presenting Soviet views will be Longin Patu- siak, deputy director of the Research Institute on Contemporary Capitalism in Poland. He will ex plain Soviet policy in Eastern Europe. Dr. Roger E. Kanet, a political science professor and member of the Russian and East Europe Cen ter at the University of Illinois, will discuss Soviet policy in developing nations. Kanet has a fellowship at the Russian Institute on Communist Affairs at Columbia University. See SCONA page 16 by Tim Foarde Battalion Staff It didn’t take long Wednesday night for the student senate to knock down a resolution protesting the method in which the Texas A&M University Board of Regents recently hired Athletic Director Jackie Sher rill. The resolution, submitted by sena tors Jim Harris and Adren Pilger, de nounced the “despicable and unethic al procedure” endorsed by the re gents in the search and hiring of the new AD. An amendment to the resolution proposing to soften its language also was voted down. Senators did, however, approve a bill recommending the allocation of approximately $3,600 to buy two ex ercise machines for the weight room in East Kyle. Dr. John Koldus, Uni versity vice president for student ser vices, will review the proposal before a purchase is made. After the meeting, discussion of the defeated proposal continued. Student Government Communica tions Director Lilli Dollinger said the fact that the senate did not approve the resolution does not mean the senators condone the regents’ action. Dollinger said many senators do not think it is the senate’s place to comment on the subject (of regents’ actions) and the resolution would not have made any difference. Both sides of the debate were well represented, Dollinger said. Based on this, she said, the senate made the choice not to make a statement. However, Student Body President Ken Johnson said he was dis appointed with the brevity and sub stantive content of the debate. He said Harris and Pilger approached the subject wholeheartedly in the right way. Unfortunately, Johnson said, the language in their resolution was too strong for many senators to approve. Harris said although the senate cannot present one opinion that rep resents all 35,000 students, it still has staff photo by Kyle Thomas Fred Seals, defends the Board of Regents at the Student Gov ernment meeting. the duty to speak against the board’s unpopular action. “We feel students on campus have an opinion and the student govern ment should be the one to present this opinion to the board of regents,” Har ris said. “I can’t believe that 35,000 students didn’t want something said.” Harris said that while he believes some senators think it isn’t the sen ate’s place to rebuke the board of re gents, others are reluctant to speak against the regents. “There’s a lot of people in here who don’t have the guts to say what we said,” Harris said. “They’re not will ing to put their names or the name of the senate on the line.” The resolution’s other sponsor, Adren Pilger, said many senators were afraid of how the resolution would be interpreted. “Now I’m wor ried about how this (the 53-15 failure of the resolution) will be interpreted,” he said. Fred Seals, graduate off-campus senator, said the regents make the rules and are entitled to change them. “The Board of Regents can do any thing it wants,” he said. “If Vandiver didn’t like what the Board did, he could either resign or swallow his pride and stay on.” ommission pursues art development inside by Sherry A. Evans Battalion Reporter An arts program at Texas A&M University good enough to make people drive 200 miles out of their way to see it is the goal of the Texas A&M Commission on the Visual Arts, an orga nizer of the commission said. J. Wayne Stark, special assistant to the Uni versity president for cultural development and an organizer of the visual arts commission, along with six others connected with the com mission’s work, recently returned from a fact finding tour that should help move the Univer sity toward that goal. The group toured several East Coast museums including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum, Har vard University, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University and the Yale Uni versity Art Gallery. A major priority of the commission involves the construction of a museum to house the Texas A&M art collection. “We can’t accept anything if we don’t have a place to put it,” Stark said. Texas A&M is one of the few universities in the nation without an art museum, Stark said. The purpose of the tour was to answer such questions as what kind of art Texas A&M should specialize in; where to find qualified staffing, professionals and architects for a museum and how to correctly provide lighting, guards and insurance for the facility, Stark said. The majority of Texas A&M’s art collection currently is located in the main lounge of the Memorial Student Center. Stark said the assemblage includes a “valuable and important collection of Texas artists,” including works by E.M. “Buck” Schiwetz. Many other pieces such as prints, sketches, sculptures and Wedgewood commemorative china plates are on display all over campus. Stark said. Paintings from the collection have been hung in the offices of the president, the vice presidents and the chancellor. With the museum in the planning stages, the commission still must decide how to raise funds for such an undertaking, Stark said. Financial backing for the museum will have to be depen dent on contributions from “people who would like to see more art at A&M — interested pa rents, friends and graduates of A&M,” he said. Although still collecting and tabulating notes from the trip, Stark said the group obtained “a great paradox of ideas which should be very useful.” The commission currently has plans to tour Midwest museums in February and the West Coast in March. Besides developing plans for a museum at Texas A&M, the commission is studying such projects as recommending a form of continuing support for the commission’s work and study ing the feasibility of a “percent for art” program See ARTS page 16 Classified P a g e 8 etc page 16 Local P a g e 3 National P a ge 10 Opinions page 2 State P a g e 6 Sports P a ge 13 What’s Up P a ge 11 forecast Today’s forecast: mostly cloudy skies with a high in the mid-60s; low in the upper 40s. Friday’s fore cast also includes cloudy skies with no significant temperature change.