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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
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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.
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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
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Today’s forecast: mostly cloudy
skies with a high in the mid-60s;
low in the upper 40s. Friday’s fore
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