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Thursday, February 18, 1982
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Salvadoran
leader asks
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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
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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.”
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