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Aggies sweep over Gents
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75 No. 108 USPS 045360 20 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 3, 1982
Iternative budget
ears completion
United Press International
^SHINGTON — The Senate
leadership hopes to complete
veek a draft of a comprehensive,
tit-reducing alternative to Presi-
Reagan’s embattled budget
[josal for fiscal 1983, a spokesman
he package could include any of
tral options to reduce Reagan’s
ected $91.5 billion deficit, includ-
tax hikes, more spending cuts for
dement programs and reduced
ense spending, said Senate Re-
ilican Leader Howard Baker’s
ss secretary, Tom Griscom.
“Nothing is final yet,” he said
:sday, although adding none of
the options frequently mentioned
have been ruled out either.
As an indication of what might be
expected in the draft, however, he
noted Baker has indicated he believes
$5 billion to $10 billion could be re
moved from Reagan’s proposed $263
billion defense budget.
Griscom also noted Reagan is ada
mant about keeping intact the 10 per
cent personal income tax cuts sche
duled for this July and for July 1983.
The compromise is being put
together by Chairmen Mark Hatfield,
R-Ore., of the Senate Appropriations
Committee; Bob Dole, R-Kan., of the
Senate Finance Committee; and Peter
Domenici, R-N.M., of the Senate
Budget Committee.
The tax-writing Senate Finance
Committee voted, 14-3, to send the
Budget Committee a letter endorsing
the deficit-reduction figures in
Reagan’s budget as a minimum goal,
rather than making specific recom
mendations on each item in the
budget under its jurisdiction.
The procedural vote by which the
committee signaled its approval of
Reagan’s deficit-reduction figure in
dicated the panel will work to reduce
the 1983 deficit by at least as much as
Reagan proposed and maybe more, a
staff member said.
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dorticulture, profits aid
landicapped in project
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Spring cleaning?
photo by Christine Mallon
With brasso in hand, four Company F-2
freshman spend their Tuesday afternoon
giving “Sully,” Lawrence Sullivan Ross, a
spring shining. Freshman cadets such as
Allan White, John Sottile, Cary Wortham
and John Cartwright, (left to right) keep
the statue in good condition throughout
the year.
by Michael Larkin
Battalion Reporter
i love of plants mixed with a desire
human contact, has resulted in a
il program to aid the hand-
aped.
Geranium Junction, located on S.
liege Avenue, supervises hand
led employees who will grow
nts in a special greenhouse de-
ned to accommodate wheel chairs.
Temporarily operating out of a
iverted gas station, the program
nds horticulture and profits and
o may eliminate handicapped per
is’dependence on federal aid, said
tricia S. Barksdale, a 1976 Texas
icM floriculture graduate who be-
n the program.
She embarked on the project be-
se she knew she wanted to work
h plants but didn’t want to be
seel up in a greenhouse, she said.
“I still wanted the contact with the
ople,” she said. “(These people) are
izens of the community.
While Geranium Junction will con-
ntrate mainly on selling plants
olesale, Barksdale said the busi-
ss also will do some retailing.
“The whole success of this program
pends upon it being profitable.
“We are a non-profit organization
ose goal is to provide jobs for se-
rely handicapped people, while at
e same time producifig a market-
le item.”
Although most aid programs in the
untry rely heavily on government
nding, Barksdale said she plans to
ake her program self-sufficient.
Currently, 70 percent of the fund-
ig for Geranium Junction comes
om the Texas Rehabilitation Com-
iiission.
Barksdale relies mainly on help
^om volunteers in the community.
While there are no legal ties be-
veen Geranium Junction and the
Jniversity, she said, various profes-
ars and student organizations are ac-
Ively involved with the project.
Nine handicapped people work at
cranium Junction, putting in a six-
kour day, five days a week.
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Haig says Nicaragua
aiding leftist guerrillas
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pr
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United
States says it now has “overwhelming
and irrefutable” evidence El Salva
dor’s leftist guerrillas are under fore
ign control and a key senator says the
CIA pointed the finger at Nicaragua.
“The operations of the guerrilla
forces in El Salvador are controlled
from external command and con
trol,” Secretary of State Alexander
Haig told the House Foreign Affairs
Committee Tuesday.
Haig did not say what country was
manipulating the guerrillas, but Sen
ate Intelligence Committee Chair
man Barry Goldwatef, R-Ariz., re
ported a secret CIA briefing on Cen
tral America last Thursday showed
Nicaragua plays a direct role in the
insurgency in El Salvador.
“The briefing left no doubt there is
active involvement by Sandinista gov
ernment officials in support of the
Salvadoran guerrilla movement,”
Gold water said in a statement issued
shortly after Haig’s testimony.
Both Haig and Goldwater declined
to provide specific details. Haig
warned disclosure would jeopardize
intelligence sources while Goldwater
said the details of the CIA briefing
must remain secret.
Goldwater said the CIA provided
evidence Nicaragua’s support “in
cludes arrangements for the use of
Nicaraguan territory for the move
ment of arms and munitions to guer
rillas in El Salvador.”
He said it also includes “the con
tinuing passage of guerrillas in and
out of Nicaragua for advanced train
ing in sabotage and other terrorist
tactics and the presence of high-level
guerrilla headquarters elements in
Nicaragua.”
Gasoline prices may drop 10 cents
Oil glut hurts OPEC
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photo by Karen Kaley
Gary Webb fixes plant racks of an abandoned nursery while
Troy Amerson looks on. Both are involved in the Geranium
Junction workshop project on S. College Avenue.
The Texas Rehabilitation Commis-
responsible for obtaining
a v
sion
handicappe'
workers for the project.
The program will be housed at its
present location for only six months,
until Barksdale can obtain a perma
nent location where the new green
house can be built.
Wide aisles, ramps and waist-high
benches will facilitate work. Hand
icapped workers grow and maintain
the plants, prune them, transplant
them and sell them.
United Press International
Britain slashed the price of North
Sea oil $4 a barrel, Iran has turned to
selling its national treasures and de
sperate OPEC members want an
emergency meeting to halt what one
analyst calls the unraveling of the oil
cartel.
But bad news for producers is
good news for American consumers:
the world oil glut could mean as much
as a further 10-cent-per-gallon drop
in the price of gasoline.
Britain, America’s second largest
oil supplier, became the latest expor
ter to buckle under to the global oil
glut when it cut crude prices Tuesday
$4 a barrel. It already had trimmed
prices $1.50 to $35 a barrel Feb. 9.
That lowered North Sea crude $3
below OPEC’s base price of $34 a bar
rel. But the 13 nations of OPEC also
have been been cutting prices and
some analysts believe its base price
should sink to $26.
“We are witnessing the unraveling
of OPEC,” said William Randol, a
senior oil analyst at First Boston Corp.
in New York. “Unless OPEC can
agree on some production curtail
ment, OPEC has a real problem con
trolling the world oil market.”
Analysts estimated the latest Brit
ish price could save U.S. motorists ab
out 3 cents a gallon. But a Cornell
University economist said the current
glut will cut gasoline prices 10 cents a
gallon by summer.
“The major factors in determining
how low the prices will eventually go
are American consumption levels and
the degree to which the OPEC coun
tries are able to hold their monopoly
together,” Duane Chapman said.
“Gasoline prices will go down 10 cents
a gallon and might go as low as $1 a
gallon.”
The current oversupply of oil, de
creased consumption and a reluct
ance by oil companies to keep big in
ventories at high interest rates
already have lowered U.S. prices ab
out 10 cents a gallon.
Power fails
in Bryan
A short in a power line was
probably the cause of a one-
hour power outage that affected
500 to 600 homes and a televi
sion station in Bryan Tuesday
night, a spokesman for the
Bryan utility said this morning.
Kyle Kuntz, assistant super
intendent of Bryan Utilities’
light department, said a fire on
an electrical pole was probably
started by some of the wires
coming into contact. He said the
area served by the line had to be
cut off from power until the
damage could be repaired.
The area affected was
around 29th Street, Rosemary
and Carter Creek; Kuntz said
the customers hit by the outage
were mostly residential.
Chancellor gets on board
of Blocker Energy Corp.
by Dennis Prescott
Battalion Reporter
Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert, Texas
A&M System chancellor, has been
elected to fill a vacancy on the Board
of Directors of Blocker Energy Cor
poration.
Blocker Energy is a worldwide
drilling contractor presently operat
ing 54 oil rigs in the United States,
Canada, Africa and Latin America.
The company also has domestic ex
ploration and production operations
in 10 states.
John R. Blocker, vice chairman of
the Texas A&M System Board of Re
gents, is chairman of the board and
chief executive officer of the com
pany.
Alan Payne, manager of public re
lations for the company, said Hubert
would begin serving as a director im
mediately.
Hubert has served at Texas A&M
since 1959, first as dean of the College
of Liberal Arts and dean of the Col
lege of Education, which he helped
establish.
He has served as chancellor since
Oct. 1, 1979 and will retire from that
position Aug. 31.
Hubert is a former president of the
Association of Texas Colleges and
Universities and is a past president of
the board of directors of the National
Regional Educational Laboratory for
Louisiana and Texas. He presently
serves as president and chairman of
the board of the Corporation for .Re
search and Engineering of Bryan, a
private consulting firm.
Board of Regents to meet
on building expansions
An appropriadon for the Halbou-
ty Geosciences Building expansion
design and bids for the Transporta
tion Center expansion wall be among
the items discussed at today’s commit
tee meeting of the Texas A&M Sys
tem Board of Regents.
The Planning and Building Commit
tee will meet at 4:30 pm. in the meet
ing room of the MSC regents annex.
The meedng is expected to adjourn at
1:30 p.m. Thursday.
The Committee for Service Units
is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Thurs
day. The committee will meet jointly
with the Planning and Building Com
mittee to hear a report concerning
forestry programs of the Texas
Forest Service.
Both committees will discuss items
on the agenda for the March 23 meet
ing of the Board of Regents.
In September, the Board appropri
ated $100,000 for the design of the
Halbouty Building expansion and is
requesting $235,000 for the detailed
design. This 40,000-square-foot addi
tion to the geosciences building will
cost an estimated $7 million.
The $1.3 million addition to the
Transportation Center will provide
service and maintenance areas, park
ing space for 34 buses and space for
future expansion.
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forecast
Today’s forecast: MosUy cloudy
and mild with a high in the mid-
70s; low in the mid-50s. Thursday’s
forecast calls for partly cloudy skies
and mild temperatures.