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ew mall ipens doors crowds See page 6 I" Rodeo gives students experience See page 5 ine Barra on Serving the University community 75 No. 99 DSPS 045360 40 Paaes In 3 Sections College Station, Texas Thursday, February 18, 1982 & Salvadoran leader asks for U.S. aid •vem**’ j^Tss' ^ ^ . — IIU: . _ mm- What a coincidence! staff photo by Eileen Manton Ireshmen Tom Huffman* right, a floriculture major from friendswood, Mike Watson, certter, an agricultural tigineering major from Keller, and Robert Savage, a sophomore majoring in civil engineering from Medford, New York, all had the same idea of how to enjoy Wednesday’s sunny weather along Rudder Fountain. \&M to host five-state student government conference Universities to share ideas United Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Defense Minister Gen. Jose'Guiller mo Garcia warned the United States may have “to come here to fix up our problems” if El Salvador’s ruling jun ta does not receive more military aid. “We don’t want U.S. troops. We don’t want any soldier setting foot on our country,” Garcia said in an inter view with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald. “What we need is aid. It is prefer able that we be given aid now so that later they won’t have the obligation to come here to fix up our problems,” said Garcia, considered, the nation’s most powerful militaxy leader. Garcia also indicated Wednesday Argentina may send military advisers to the wartorn Central American na tion. He said, “None are here. But it is not a remote possibility (that they would come) if we should reach an agreement.” The United States, so far the only nation to send military personnel to El Salvador, has 49 advisers training government hoop's' in equiprnent maintenance and counter-insurgency techniques. Garcia’s statements came as leftist guerrillas staged raids across the country and two U.S. congressmen began talks with officials on both sides of the conflict to discuss the political and military situation in the country. Rebels shot to death three soldiers Wednesday at Hacienda Zacamil, ab out 6 miles north of San Salvador, a soldier at. the scene said. The soldier said he called for a helicopter to “bombard and strafe” a nearby guer rilla camp. There was no information avail able on guerrilla casualties. Government troops firing 90mm hand-held cannons repelled guerril las who attacked four army check points Wednesday outside Suchitoto, 29 miles north of the capital, witnes ses said. Guerrillas severed the nation’s coastal highway and burned four vehicles on the road just east of the bombedout Golden Bridge. They said the same guerrillas knocked down eight utility poles in the continuing rebel drive to wreck the nation’s electrical grid. The Defense Ministry, in a com munique issued Wednesday, denied accusations by refugees that soldiers massacred 400 peasants last week out side Jucuaran. It said only 28 rebels were killed in combat and four guerrilla camps were •seized . <- In Washington, the Organization of American States voted, 19-0, with three abstentions to send observers to El Salvador’s March 28 elections to a constituent assembly. State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said the United States welcomes the OAS decision. No Euro pean nation has agreed to send obser vers to the elections, which Washing ton has made a cornerstone of its Sal vadoran policy. by Sandra Kay Gary Battalion Staff ludent government representa- from universities in five neigh ing states will gather at Texas ’ University next week to discuss |r jobs and how to improve them. Representatives from Texas, Okla- na, New Mexico, Louisiana and ansas are expected to attend the bnd Conference on Student Gov- |ment Associations, which will be Sunday through Tuesday. |The basic idea of the conference is to provide a forum for student gov ernments where they can share their strengths and weakness and learn ab out ways to to improve their effective ness,” COSGA Chairman Joe Jordan said. Twenty workshops will take place during the conference, covering such topics as student apathy and motiva tional techniques, allocation of stu dent service fees, following up stu dent government proposals with administrators, dealing with fraterni ties and sororities and getting off- campus students involved in activi ties. “Most workshops will be presented by student government representa tives from other universities,” Jordan said. “A few workshops will be panel discussions.” Universities invited to COSGA have been encouraged to send fresh men and sophomores so these stu dents can take ideas back to their uni versities and have time to implement them in their student service prog rams, Jordan said. “We’re expecting about 120 to 150 at the conference,” he said. “Mostly it will be student government people, but we won’t turn anyone down who wants to come and learn more about the services that student governments offer.” Universities that have registered for COSGA include: Louisiana State University, New Mexico State Univer- ^ sity, the University of Kentucky, Texas Tech University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Houston, Sam Houston State Uni versity and North Texas State Uni versity. Vandiver to discuss A&M at dinner nion leaders, Ford OK contract United Press International pHICAGO— United Auto Work- | leaders overwhelmingly endorsed liistoric contract with Ford Motor . and moved immediately today to [task of selling the rank and file on idea of giving up benefits for job urity. I The union’s Ford Council, wear- f green and white stickers and but tons emblazoned with the slogan “Vote Yes for Jobs,” endorsed the pact Wednesday on a 132-12 standing vote. The contract is designed to help pull Ford from its worst economic situation since the Great Depression. UAW President Douglas Fraser, who said he was pleased with the con tract endorsement, immediately re turned to Detroit to give his first pitch for the pact to a meeting of union production workers today. “This pact is in the best interest of Ford workers,” Fraser said. “They (Council members) realized we wouldn’t bring to them an agreement that wasn’t in their best interest.” Fraser also said the contract should result in more stable pricing even though no guarantees of price cuts were made. UAW Vice President Donald Ephlin, the union’s chief negotiator at Ford, predicted the margin of approval by hourly workers will mir ror the Ford Council’s vote. “Ford workers, I’m confident, will vote in relatively the same manner as their leadership did,” Ephlin said. Six months after his appointment, University President Frank E. Van diver will deliver his State of the Uni versity address tonight at 7. Vandiver will be speaking at a din ner in his honor organized by the Bra zos County A&M Club. The dinner will be held in the banquet room of the Memorial Student Center. Organizers said Tuesday that tick ets for the $9-a-plate dinner are sold out. “We’re going to have that ballroom full of people,” said John Stanislaw, an organizer of the event. “We’d like to accommodate more people but there’s just going to be no way to fit any more.” One of Vandiver’s assistants, Nelda Green, said Wednesday that his speech will be a general look at the condition of the University. The period since Vandiver’s appointment has been a turbulent one for the University, starting with the sudden resignation of Athletic Di rector Marvin Tate in late September. Then, just before Christmas, Van diver announced a hiring freeze and cutback in some operating expenses. In early January, the University fired a head football coach and hired a new one, who also serves as athletic dire ctor. In addition, Texas A&M Universi ty System Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert has announced his retirement plans, and Vandiver himself has offered to resign twice this year. lements defends his administradon 1111! i£*U ■#*:, , A . r , * - b photo by Rose Delano )v. William Clements leaves Rudder Theater with MSC political Forum Committee members Wayne Bailey, a senior [political science major from Rockdale, and Sara Trim, a senior agricultural economics major from Richardson. by Daniel Puckett Battalion Staff Gov. William Clements, speaking on campus Wednesday, said his admi nistration has helped Texas by pro viding a good climate for business, appointing excellent regents for Texas A&M University and cutting down the state’s bureaucracy. He also said one of his top priori ties is finding a solution to the illegal alien problem. Clements, who is campaigning for re-election this fall, arrived on cam pus about 10:20 a.m. After a short reception for University officials and student leaders, Clements delivered a short speech in an almost-empty Rud der Theater. His speech dealt with the accom plishments of his administration, spe cifically with the Legislature’s passage of bills designed to cut down on crime and the growth of state government. “Our efforts ... produced the most comprehensive and hard-hitting laws in recent history to fight crime,” Cle ments said. “At the top of the list — along with a law authorizing the use of oral confessions — was a law that for the very first time permits the use of wiretapping in drug cases.” The result of his efforts to reduce the size of government, he said, has been a decline of 3,000 in the number of state employees since he took office, which he called “the first re duction in Texas state government in 30 years.” The audience was allowed to ask Clements questions after his speech. Clements’ responses were often witty, but sometimes brusque, especially on the subject of the Permanent Univer sity Fund. •To stop the flow of un documented Mexican workers into the United States, Clements proposed a joint U.S.-Mexico program. The program would include better documentation for workers leaving Mexico, sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens and “a fast track for citizenship” for certain aliens. This would benefit those who have lived in the United States for at least five years and have good records in their communities. • To the first question on how the PUF would be divided in the future: “I foresee no change ... It’ll stay the same ... Do you understand ‘same’? S-A-M-E.” • To the second question on the same subject, Clements curtly re sponded, “Same.” The questioner re turned to his seat; Clements appa rently relented and explained that the issue had been discussed for the last 40 years and that he did not expect any changes in the fund’s structure. Texas A&M receives one-third of the revenues from the fund; the Uni versity of Texas gets the rest. Texas A&M’s share is expected to be about $40 million in fiscal 1982. • On the state’s budget: “We have an $800 million surplus ... I’m trying to protect it. When the Legislature meets, it’s 150 bandits. We play a game of cops and robbers around that money.” inside Classified 12 Local 3 National 9 Opinions 2 Sports 17 State 7 What’s Up.. 7 forecast Today’s forecast: Partly cloudy and cool with a high near 70; low tonight in the low 40s. Friday’s forecast calls for cloudy skies with cool temperatures.