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Gramm offers proposal
to reduce deficit by 1985
United Press International
DALLAS — Rep. Phil Gramm
of College Station, calling the
current $90 billion budget de
ficit “unacceptable,” announced
his own revised budget that
would reduce overspending by
$80 billion by 1985.
The conservative Democratic
congressman, who helped
push President Reagan’s econo
mic programs through the
House last year, said Monday
those proposals have been hin
dered by a recession that began
before the president’s budget
was presented.
However, Gramm, a former
economics professor at Texas
A&M University, told represen
tatives of the American Bankers
Association’s 41st National In
stallment Conference he is still
convinced massive cuts in
spending are needed to balance
the federal budget.
“The projected federal de
ficit has expanded to $90 billion
and to fund that deficit, even
with the president’s budget cuts,
the government will have to
keep borrowing money,”
Gramm said.
“That will only impede recov
ery. The deficit needs to be re
duced substantially by 1983 and
the budget balanced by 1985.
We can not allow the govern
ment to keep spending money it
does not have.”
The congressman said he
would propose the government
sell some of its assets, particular
ly the unoccupied military bases
and unused grasslands scattered
throughout the country.
Gramm said his budget in
cludes reducing foreign aid by
50 percent to countries nones
sential to national defense, re
examining public works prog
rams, reducing non-flood con
trol water programs and alter
ing the tax code.
Although Gramm’s plan
would call for even more spend
ing cuts than Reagan’s, it does
not recommend a tax increase or
additional cuts in social prog
rams and it does not affect the
president’s proposed military
expenditures, he said.
Gramm also said he would
like to see further changes in the
guaranteed student loan prog
ram, whereby graduate students
would be required to pay market
value for their loans after receiv
ing their degrees.
Dog’s love life up
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United Press International
FORT WORTH — At age 5,
Castlebay’s Sprinter, a prize
winning Labrador Retriever, is
ready for motherhood, but U.S.
District Judge David O. Belew
Jr. decided Monday who her
mate would be.
The judge ruled the dog’s
former owner had the right to
choose the mate for the $30,000
animal. Her present
Judith Weikel, a Grapevine dog
trainer, disliked the mate chosen
by Henry S. McNeil, a kennel
operator in Dresher, Pa., who
sold the dog to Weikel.
Gary Moates, attorney for
Weikel, said Tuesday McNeil
had retained the breeding rights
for the dog and was exercising
that option. Weikel sought to
block the mating through a
court order, Moates said.
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12 noon-6 p.m.
Monday-Friday
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Tenn.,
Eddie’s
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hide at the Horse Center on before or after riding. The horse
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Amoco Foundatio
gives $35,500
in grants to A&M
EYEWITNESS
REPORTING:
A Lesson In Memory Training
by Chris Hunley
Battalion Reporter
Amoco Foundation Inc., a
branch of Standard Oil Co.(In
diana), has donated $35,500 in
grants and fellowships to two
Texas A&M departments to
help promote research and en
courage students to work for
graduate degrees.
The chemical engineering
department received $20,000 in
faculty grants and $10,000 in
doctoral grants, and the geophy
sics department received a
$5,500 one-year master’s fellow
ship.
The purpose of the grants is
to help relieve a nationwide
shortage of engineering and
geoscience faculty and graduate
students.
Because today’s engineering
industry offers high beginning
salaries to graduates with bache
lor’s and master’s degrees, there
is a shortage of graduate stu-
dents which in turn cause
shortage of faculty memli
when older faculty retire.
Universities, includingTe
A&M, attempt to retain you
and new engineering fact
through faculty grants*
are given to individual^ i
make a t hree-year teachinicu
mitment.
The f aculty grants, whiffli
elude a salary supplement,iij
be used for career reseat
usually conducted in thesa
mer, and professional develi
ment activities. Recipientsolij
grants are chosen by thedep)!
ments.
Doctoral fellowships raflj
from $1 1,500 to $21,000 aK*
The fellowships provide
$10,000 annual allowance 1
each student and full pas#
of University tuition and fe
An additional SI ,000 per fell 1
ship will go to the deparirnt^ -
for use in research.
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
Wednesday
March24 /MSC GREAT ISSUE
8:00p.m. jlju
Rudder Forum
Admission: Free
THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
PRESENTS
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON EVOLUTION
Keynote Address
The Punctuational Model of Evolution
Steven M. Stanley
Professor of Paleobiology
Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, March 24, 1982 Rudder Tower 70 1 8:00 P"
9:15 P.M. Reception
Thursday, March 25, 1982
Rudder Tower
9:00 a.m. Coffee
9:45 a.m. Commentary and Discussion of Keynote
Address
Ira F. Greenbaum
Department of Biology
Texas A&M University
11:00 a.m. A Predictive Theory of Speciation
|. Spencer johnston
Department of Plant Sciences
Texas A&M University
Commentary and Discussion
John W. B ickham
Department of Wildlife Sciences
Texas A&M University
12:15 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Evolution, Destiny and Human Spiritu
ality ✓
Robert W. Burch
Department of Philosophy
Texas A&M University
Commentary and Discussion
John J. McDermott
Distinguished Professor of PhilowP'
Texas A&M University
3:15 p.m. Elemental Transmutation in
Organisms
Solomon Goldfein
Material Technology Lab (Retired 1
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Commentary and Discussion
James D. Smith
Department of Plant Sciences
Texas A&M University
Dinner
4:30-
6:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Round Table Discussion
Moderator: Manuel M. Davenport
Department of Philosopt"
Texas A&M University
8:30 p.m. Reception
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
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