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The Battalion
Serving the University community
75 No. 96 USPS 045360 18 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, February 15, 1982
ore restrictions,
rrests in Poland
United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Private cars
were banned and all public entertain
ment was closed in the city of Poznan
today following the weekend arrest of
194 people for protesting two months
of martial law, Warsaw Radio said.
The demonstration in the western
city of Poznan was the only reported
response to a call by underground
dissidents for protests this weekend
against the military crackdown that
took place Dec. 13, two months ago
Saturday.
In view of the tension, all private
cars have been banned from Poznan
streets starting today and gasoline sta
tions, cinemas, theaters and other-
places of entertainment were closed,
the radio said.
Warsaw was quiet Sunday but au
thorities took no chances and kept ex
tra security patrols on the streets.
Hundreds of Warsaw residents strol
led in downtown parks on the unsea
sonably warm day.
The arrests in Poznan took place
Saturday after crowds “provoked by
pamphlets urging them to assemble”
gathered around Mickiewicza
Square, the radio said.
Hostile shouts were heard and 194
people were arrested, including many
high-school pupils, university stu
dents and unemployed youths, it said.
Courts handed out punishment to
162 people but the radio gave no
further details.
Poles apparently did not heed the
underground’s call to douse lights in
their homes for 15 minutes Saturday
in a symbolic protest and also ignored
a plea to litter the gutters with news
papers — censored under martial
law.
Authorities also imposed new re
strictions, including a stiffer curfew
than in other parts of Poland, on the
port of Gdansk after Jan. 30 rioting in
which 14 people were injured and
205 were arrested.
Pope’s visit to Moslems
canceled due to threat
United Press International
LAGOS, Nigeria—Pope John Paul
jil’s appeal to Moslem leaders for reli
gious tolerance was abruptly canceled
and the pontiff was rushed out of
northern Nigeria because of a secur
ity threat, Vatican officials said.
The meeting with Moslem leaders
| was to have been a key event in the
five-day visit to Nigeria by the pope,
who was nearly assassinated by a Tur
kish gunman in St. Peter’s square last
May.
Vatican officials hustled the pope
out of Kaduna, in the overwhelming
ly Moslem north of Nigeria, after
hearing word Sunday of an unidenti
fied tl Vat, according to two of the
offici; Is, who asked not to be named.
The pope had planned to appeal to
the Moslem leaders “to join hands in
the name of God” and become a
“spearhead” for religious freedom
and tolerance.
Instead he made his address to re
gional government officials in the
VIP lounge at the Kaduna Airport,
.vmle Vatican officials hovered ner
vously waiting for the pontiff to leave
for Lagos.
Matching the Soviets weapon for weapon
‘U.S. needs security’
photo by Jane Hollingsworth
Left flank! March!
In preparation for the Mardi Gras Parade in New
Orleans, on Feb. 21, Lawrence Barnard commands the
Fish Drill Team at Spence Park. Barnard, who was
chosen as commander of the drill team by his fellow
team members, is a freshman marketing major from
Sacramento, Calif.
Priest
gunned
down
United Press International
GUATEMALA CITY — Hooded
gunmen killed an American Catholic
missionary with a spray of sub
machine gun fire, days after another
member of his Christian Brothers
order filed a protest against the army.
James Arnold Miller, 37, of Cus
ter, Wis., died immediately Saturday
in the hail of bullets fired from a
speeding car outside his church
school in Huehuetenango, a provin
cial capital 130 northwest of Guate
mala City, co-workers said.
Miller, whose body was to be re
turned to the United State today, was
the third U.S. churchman killed in
Guatemala in less that seven months.
Another Christian Brothers mis
sionary said a member of the Catholic
order last week filed a complaint at
the local army post because an Indian
attending the school was drafted de
spite a student exemption.
The American, who asked to re
main anonymous, speculated Miller’s
assassination by the hooded gunmen
may have been ordered because of
the complaint, hut conceded he had
no evidence.
“We’re all confused about why they
killed him,” the American missionary
said. “He wasn’t involved in any kind
of politics. He just worked with the
Indians.”
Huehuetenango Bishop Victor
Hugo Martinez, who held a Sunday
mass for the slain brother, said the
church had received no threats be
fore the killing and no group took
responsibility.
Miller, who was hit by six bullets
from submachine guns, had worked
in Nicaragua for eight years before
going to Guatemala in January 1981.
staff photo by John Ryan
Dr. J. Malon Southerland, left, assistant to the president,
greets Peter Osnos, national editor to the Washington Post,
Saturday at the SCONA 27 conference as Loyd Neal, a
sophomore finance major from Corpus Christi looks on.
Council to consider
reorganization proposal
by Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
The United States is determined to
stop Soviet expansion and match the
Soviet Union militarily — no matter
what it takes, the national editor and
former Moscow correspondent of the
■Washington Post said Saturday.
Peter Osnos gave the final speech
of the 27th Student Conference on
National Affairs in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
“It is crazy — when you think ab
out it very long — that the United
States has the capacity to destroy the
Soviet Union many times over ... and
still feel threatened,” he said.
The United States must find a way
to feel secure, he said.
At present, there are no meaning
ful voices of influence in this country
arguing against the defense buildup
oradvocatingthat we search for a new
form of detente with the Soviets,
Osnos said.
“It is full throttle ahead until —
and there is no way of knowing when
and how it will happen — we can de-
dare that the threat has been con
tained,” he said.
If coming on strong to the Soviets
makes President Reagan, his adminis
tration and the American people feel
confident again, then perhaps the
United States will be better prepared
to accept the inescapable realities of
Soviet power, Osnos said. He said that
the Kremlin knows, as the Americans
do, that no matter how long we huff
and puff, the Soviet house will not fall
down.
Osnos said the USSR is un
doubtedly a strong and unyielding
adversary. He said that to believe the
USSR has no restraints on what it is
ready and able to do is to believe the
United States will inevitably have to
stop the Soviets or risk immediate
destruction.
“Wherever we can find it, we must
search for reasonable alternatives to
that choice,” he said.
The problem areas of Soviet-
American relations are becoming
worse, Osnos said. Americans are
hobbled by a combination of pre
judice, ignorance and antagonism for
Soviet ideology.
“We are baffled by the Russians;
we can’t abide their methods, there
fore we despise them.”
Osnos said Reagan’s policy of “un
remitting hostility” toward the Soviets
is the easiest policy to adopt in dealing
with an enemy as far removed from
the United States as Russia.
However, Osnos said consistency is
a problem, as evidenced by Reagan’s
lifting of the grain embargo imposed
by former President Jimmy Carter on
the grounds that it discriminated
against U.S. farmers.
“Even for a man of Reagan’s deep
ly held beliefs, the virtues of consis
tency are outweighed by the necessi
ties of domestic politics,” he said.
by Jane G. Brust
and
Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
Another MSC Council reorganiza
tion, to be proposed tonight, could
have the council absorb the MSC Di
rectorate and thus increase the re
sponsibility of the council president.
Council members will meet in the
216T MSC at 7:30.
Rather than one council vice presi
dent of programs overseeing activi
ties of the 19 MSC committees (which
comprise the directorate) and MSC
special projects committees, four
council vice presidents of programs
would oversee the committees.
Committees would be divided into
areas of education, culture, entertain
ment and recreation, and each group
would be assigned to one vice presi
dent.
The four vice presidents would
take on the combined responsibilities
of present directorate programs coor
dinators and the vice president of
programs.
The council president would take
on the responsibility of the present
vice president of programs in that he
would meet regularly with the four
proposed vice presidents of programs
and the directorate committee chair
men to discuss committee and project
activities.
Specifically, the proposal would
alleviate the positions of the seven di
rectorate programs coordinators, and
increase the number of council vice
presidents of programs from one to
four.
Council President Doug Dedeker
and Vice President of Programs Craig
Hanks developed the proposal after
evaluating the relationships between
the vice president and the program
coordinators.
Dedeker said coordinators often
had been bypassed in communica
tions from directorate committee
chairmen to the vice president of
programs. To that end, the functions
of the vice president and the coordi
nators were often confused.
The proposed reorganization com
bines those functions for four vice
presidents and thus alleviates that
confusion, Dedeker said.
Inasmuch as the council president
would oversee the vice presidents and
the committee chairmen, the prop
osed structure would give him more
direct involvement with program
ming, he said.
That particular point has met with
some disapproval.
“I would question if the president
can do all that plus what he does
already,” said Kirk Kelley, council
vice president of student develop
ment.
At present, the president is pritnar-
ily an administrator for all council
vice presidents.
Kelley expressed concern about
the reorganization proposal because,
he said, the council needs to strive for
stability and give the changes made a
year ago a chance to work.
During the fall 1980 semester,
council members approved a controv-
ef-sial reorganization structure that
has provided for six vice presidents —
for development, finance, opera
tions, programs, public relations and
student development — and 17 assis
tants known as directors and coordi
nators.
The main point of controversy
among council members was the in
crease in personnel within the struc
ture. Originally there were 19 council
officers, and the reorganization cal
led for 24.
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Money needed to bring Magna Carta
by Jean Kiser
Battalion Reporter
The Magna Carta Committee does
not have the $ 14,750 needed to bring
the 13th century document to Texas
A&M University, but committee
Chairman J. Wayne Stark says he’s
not worried.
‘T’m sure the University will find
the money,” said Stark, special assis
tant to the University president. Stark
works for the cultural development of
the University community.
It will cost $800 to have the docu
ment at a special showing and dinner
Feb. 27 and $3,500 a day for the dis
play, which is scheduled for Feb. 28
through March 2. The Magna Carta is
to be displayed on the second floor of
the Memorial Student Center.
Stark said he hoped the money
could be raised internally through
donations and partial funding from
the cities of Bryan and College Sta
tion.
As of late last week, donations had
totaled about $5,000. In addition,
Stark said the Texas Commission for
the Humanities approved a grant re
quest for $1,650 for the project.
But $8,100 is still needed to bring
the Magna Carfa to the University.
Last week, the Magna Carta com
mittee asked the Bryan City Council
for $4,000 to assist it in bringing the
exhibit to the area.
Council member Ron Blatchley
said the council turned down the re
quest because it did not think the city
could pay for it with taxpayers’ dol
lars. The council already has allocated
a specific amount of its budget to the
arts council for such projects, he said.
Thursday, the committee asked the
College Station City Council for
$4,000. The Council tabled the re
quest until a special workshop session
Wednesday.
“I feel like I approached both city
councils in a very naive way,” Stark
said. More preparation should have
gone into the presentations to the
councils to tell them what it was all
about before asking for money, he ’
said.
Dr. David C. Ruesink. committee
member and extension sociologist,
and the Rev. Robert B. Greene, ex
ecutive director of the Magna Carta in
America Foundation, decided to try
to bring the document to Texas A&M
during a conference in Pennsylvania
last September.
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