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Tuesday, February 9, 1982
Polish leader says
goals to offset U.S.
United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Military
leader Gen. W T ojciech Jaruzelski said
Poland must mobilize economic, poli
tical and moral forces to combat
Washington’s attempt to spark a se
rious internal conflict in his country.
The general said Monday the Un
ited States was trying to undermine
Poland as part of the its political and
economic confrontation with the
Soviet Union, Warsaw Television re
ported.
At the same time, the military gov
ernment published in all Polish news
papers Monday sweeping goals for
economic recovery and political sta
bility, ordering ministers to submit
detailed plans by April.
The plans of the council of minis
ters meeting extended across econo
mic and political life, calling for re
views of wages, pensions, public
transport, communications, the
media, science and industry.
In what one diplomat called a
cosmetic lifting of restrictions, the
military authorities said diplomats
could now travel thoughout the coun
try if they give 24 hours’ notice, and
removed guards from some Western
embassies.
Warsaw Radio said registration for
compulsory labor of all unemployed
men between the ages of 18 and 45,
ordered shortly after the Dec. 13 de
claration of martial law, got under
way throughout the country.
Jaruzelski spoke Monday as the
chairman of a Warsaw conference of
provincial governors, mayors of large
towns and commissars of the Com
mittee for the Defense of the Home
land.
“The Reagan administration,” he
said, “hopes that sanctions might cre
ate dissatisfaction in the country and
bring about the serious internal con
flict expected before Dec. 13,” the
date of the Polish military crackdown.
“Poland has to prevent this by all
forces — economic, political and mor
al — to emerge from the crisis,”
Jaruzelski said.
Haig seeks to break up
security conference
fencing around the added to the gloom of a wet and
building construction dreary Monday.
oughnecking
Rig crew school growing
United Press International
MADRID, Spain — Secretary of
State Alexander Haig won West Ger
man support for a speech today
attacking Poland’s martial law and
planned to force the European secur
ity conference to break up until
November, U.S. officials said.
Haig spent two hours late Monday
with West German Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher on the eve of
the resumption of the 35-nation con
ference and U.S. officials said they
agreed on effective coordination of
strategies on Poland.
Diplomats said there was a West
ern and neutral consensus for ad
journing the meeting in two or three
weeks. The United States wanted the
conference halted until November to
show Moscow and Warsaw there can
be no business as usual as long as rep
ression continues in Poland.
“We are willing to go on for two or
three weeds’’ before breaking up the
meeting, a senior U.S. delegate said.
A neutral delegate said the Soviets
probably would go along with a sus
pension but the Soviet news agency
Tass said in Moscow the United States
would be to blame if a debate over
Poland derailed the Madrid talks.
The conference, following up the
1975 Helsinki Accords on security
and cooperation in Europe, wasjolted
by a “fatal threat” when the military
took power in Poland, Haig said.
Meanwhile, Eastern and Western
officials settled down to what
threatened to be an all-night meeting
to fix the order of speakers for Tues
day’s 100th session of the 15-month-
old conference.
Eighteen Western delegates were
on the list, and the Polish chairman,
Deputy Foreign Minister Jozef Wie-
jaz, had a separate list of Warsaw Pact
speakers, delegates said.
Haig won full support from Spain
to make Poland the main subject for
the remainder of the talks, U.S. offi
cials said. The schedule was only fixed
for this week and a tough battle over
the rest of the meeting was foreseen
by Western diplomats.
“No matter how many obstacles in
the procedural work put up by the
East, the outcome here will be that the
West can in the end state its protests
over events in Poland,” a neutral dele
gate said.
by Michele Rowland
Battalion Reporter
The success of a first-of-its-kind
hool for oilfield roughnecks, spon-
ored by the Texas Engineering Ex-
ension Service, has prompted offi-
ials to slightly alter school hours so
hat two student groups, instead of
me, may receive the unique rig crew
raining.
One group begins the training
^ irogram in Abilene at 6:30 a.m. and
viHmjshes at 2:30 p.m., while another
roup will use the facilities from 3
m. to 11 p.m.
Each class has an enrollment
apacity of 25; however, thousands
ore than this apply.
The Texas Engineering Extension
rvice, part of the Texas A&M Uni-
ersity System, operates the school
nd receives over 5,000 applicants for
ach semester, TEEX Director James
Bradley said.
Applicants come from all over the
lation and from many foreign coun
tries, Bradley said.
In a 5,000-square-foot building,
donated by the Abilene Industrial
Foundation, students attend lectures
on first aid, fire-fighting, rig safety,
equipment care, drilling muds, pipe
rack and drill line operations and
working in high places. The Founda
tion also donated 64 acres of land to
the school.
The Abilene chapter of Interna
tional Drilling Contractors donated a
115-foot rig and drilling equipment.
A majority of the school’s first gra
duating class — which was graduated
in December — is now employed by
drilling contractors in the Abilene-
Midland area, said Bill Moore, mem
bership director of the International
Association of Drilling Contactors in
Houston.
A common problem for graduates,
finding jobs and better-than-average
wages, is no problem for graduates of
the TEEX school since each graduate
is guaranteed a job by the I ADC.
Graduates working in the Abilene
area all began at a minimum salary of
$10 per hour, contrasted to the aver
age wage of around $5.50 per hour,
Bradley said.
Four of the graduates started at
$40,000 a year, he added.
Hands-on experience is one reason
graduates draw higher pay. Gradu
ates from the school spent 60 percent
of their required 160 hours working
on the school’s rig. They’re consi
dered, then, to have the equivalent of
nine months’ experience, Bradley
said.
The graduates are also infinitely
more promotable, Moore said. “One
may be an assistant driller in one
year,” he said.
To be accepted in the school, appli
cants must be 18 upon completion of
the course and must be in good health
and capable of lifting 100 pounds.
Tuition for the six-week course is
$500.
Experiment in progress
Jay Klements, a graduate student in
English from Laurel, Maryland, catches
some sleep in the
Center main lounge.
photo by Eileen Manton
Memorial Student
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‘Health center policies bring few complaints’
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by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
Since September it’s been more ex
pensive to be sick in Aggieland, but
the health center pharmacist says she
hasn’t heard many complaints.
The A.P. Beutel Health Center be
gan charging for prescriptions in Sep
tember.
Sophia C. Chan, health center
pharmacist, said she has not heard
many complaints from students about
having to pay for medication. She said
students realize that free medication
is not feasible for a health center.
The number of patients seen and
the number of prescriptions given de
creased during January 1982. The
center saw 676 fewer students and
made 1,228 fewer prescriptions in
January 1982 than in January 1981.
Dr. Claude B. Goswick Jr., health
center director, said he doesn’t be
lieve the new charges deter students
from getting health care and pre
scriptions.
He said the decrease in number of
patients may be due to the revised
policy on giving class excuses.
At the same time the center began
charging for prescriptions, it also
stopped giving class excuses to stu
dents who came to the health center
without a note from the student’s in
structor.
Now a student’s instructor must
send a written request to the health
center to get a class excuse for the
student.
The new 7 policy on class excuses
cuts down on the number of unneces
sary visits by students, Goswick said.
Some students were there primarily
for class excuses, he said.
Before the center began charging
for prescriptions, Goswick said, the
center needed more money than it
received through other sources. In
stead of raising students’ health cen
ter fees, the center charges the cost of
the drugs.
Goswick said the prescriptions are
priced according to what the health
center pays for them. He said the cen
ter does not compete with local drug
stores. Since the health center buys its
drugs on a state contract, he said, the
cost to the center is often less than
what a drug store must pay.
The cost of the prescriptions strict
ly covers the cost of the drug and the
packaging cost, GoswTck said.
“We do not count in salaries of
pharmacists. We simply make ex
penses.”
The center receives its main in
come from student health center fees
and from student service fees pro
vided by the student government.
The center contracts to do army
physicals as well as physicals for com
panies that are hiring students and
also makes first aid kits on request.
Goswick said the health center now
can stock a greater variety of drugs
than it could previously afford. He
said physicians can get in a rut when
they are limited to prescribing only
the drugs available.
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