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College Station, Texas Friday, April 2, 1982 )uarte J rna; ■nay be hoi / t out irepared manualsi i and the daily a I I I i'* United Press International be followed inth 4 AN SALVADOR, El Salvador — ve to be in mam md the translatioi tep interpretive [ must guard ice of a foul-up. example, a ui map, made up ugic data gather! geophone, radat, iliisticated meant iuable clearly ad lit U.S.-backed Christian Demo ats reportedly discussed dumping Eir leader to win power in a new fernment with r inn lists, and Presi- ignt jt Reagan warned of great difficul- Jn giving aid unless reforms con- U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton neuvered behind the scenes , Jdnesday to keep five right-wing ius v in manyr s j- rom f orrna ]i z j n g a coalition or there wou i(i control 36 seats in the new e throughout» eat assembly, CBS news reported. isner said. ■ Htalso reported a Christian Demo- anc leader said the party was con- pring sacrificing Junta President Be Napoleon Duarte — hounded by Kitists for being too liberal. They Rild appoint an interim president pvin approval of top army generals nd the rightists. Reagan indicated a right-wing re- peicould prompt Washington to hd its aid, warning it “would give us lat difficulty if the government |ned away from reforms instituted” Juarte in economic and social jus- |:e policies. he president praised the election ess that brought out 1.2 of 1.5 lion registered Salvadoran voters nearly twice as many as officials aected — despite threats of in- eased violence by leftist guerrillas. The Christian Democrats won 40.7 cent of the popular vote in Sun- y’s ections but took only 24 assem- seats compared with 36 controlled the five right-wing parties, accord- ig to unofficial results. Results in after delay; run-offs on Tuesday by Cyndy Davis Battalion Staff Election results were validated by the Judicial Board Thursday night at 8:25, after an eight and one half hour delay. Results from Tuesday and Wednesday’s elections were delayed by computer programming difficulties and by a large amount of write-in candidates that had to be hand counted, Election Commissioner George Crowson said. Mike Lawshe and Pat Pearson will compete in a run-off election for the position of student body president. The run-off election will be Tuesday. Lawshe received 1,982 votes, 32 percent of total votes cast, and Pearson received 1,535 votes, or 24 percent. Other candidates for student body president were Jeff Anthony, who received 1,459 votes, or 23 percent, and Jeff Bissey who received 1,289 votes totalling 21 percent. Pearson, a junior political science major from San Antonio, stresses the fact that he is still in the presidential race because he took the issues to the students. Some of his main campaign points are enhancement of communi cation between student organizations, provisions for a crime awareness program and an increase in academic services available to students. “Student Government should support all organiza tions,” Pearson said. “We need to try to cut out the over lapping of some groups with others, and also fill in some ol the gaps,” he said. Lawshe, a junior industrial engineering major from Dallas, says it’s important to have someone representing the University in Austin when the Texas Legislature meets next January. “Some very important issues, such as the Permanent University Fund and tuition increases, that affect Texas A&M University students are coming up in the next legislative session,” Lawshe said. Lawshe also wants to make changes in the way the Senate is run. “The important issues are all being addressed, but all the little nit-picky back and forth debate about who can amend what debate on whoever’s motion gets senators disinterested,” he said. “This needs to change.” Winners in the vice president positions include: Pat Pearson Mike Lawshe Jolie Mailhos, a junior accounting major from Bay City, vice president for academic affairs; Jay Holland, a fresh man finance major from Dallas, vice president for exter nal affairs; and R. Scott Staton,junior finance major from Round Rock, vice president for finance. Vice president for rules and regulations will be Greg Bates, a junior civil engineering major from Houston. Vice president for student services will be Joe Nussbaum, a sophomore industrial education major from Corsicana. Senior yell leaders for 1982-83 are: Tom Joseph, an agriculture economics major from Hamilton; Jon Burt, an agriculture economics major from Rosser; and Charlie Childs, a petroleum engineering major from Tyler. Junior yell leaders are Jeff Crofton, an industrial en gineering major from Tyler and Todd Kronshage, an accounting major from Spring. The new yell leaders will make their unofficial debut tonight at the Aggie baseball game against Houston, Crofton said. See page 4 for complete election results. staff photo by Peter Rocha The Coneheads? Linda Thompson of College Station and Joan Moore of Bryan shield themselves from Thursday’s midday rain. Both were selling goods at the crafts exhibit at the Rudder Fountain. They may need to keep their newspapers and bags handy as Friday’s forecast calls for a 30 percent chance of rain. SS funds may run out by 1983, trustees say bidding starts tonight In KAMU-TV auction by Steven B. Larkin Battalion Reporter I Bidding on over $50,000 worth of donated merchandise will commence ronight at 7 p.m. when the fourth jmnual Channel-15 KAMU-TV fun- aising auction begins. The seven day event is attempting raise over $40,000 to purchase ograming for the Texas A&M Uni- rsity Public Broadcasting Station, ist year the station raised $30,000 through the auction. I RAMU-FM will also receive a share of all proceeds made from the licticn. I “The auction is conducted like a real auction; each night a certain number of items will be auctioned ind at the end of that evening’s Iroadcast the highest bidder on each item will be sold the object,” said Pen- ly Zent, KAMU auction coordinator. All auctions items will be sold even if the final bid is lower than the sug gested retail value. Auction items range in price from $35 to over $1,000. The biggest item is a complete four-day vacation for two to Orlando, Florida. Other items include clothes, sofas, burglar alarms, a variety of pictures and paintings. Viewers will be able to see the auc tion items on television and hear a discription of them by an auctioneer. To bid on an item, a viewer can call in his bid to one of the station’s phone operators at 845-5656, tell what item he wants to bid on and how much. The bid will then be posted next to the item until a higher bid is received. At the end of each broadcast, the highest bidder will be announced for each item. The high bidder can then come to the station the next day to pay for the item. Over 500 items have been donated by area merchants. Over 30 local businesses and organizations became “underwriters” by donating cash to help finance the production for air ing the auction. Producing the auction is a large community effort. “To make the project a success KAMU needs a large amount of com munity support for the auction,” said Zent. Over 75 people will be needed to produce the seven live three-hour segments of the auction. A majority of these people will be volunteers who will be doing everything from run ning cameras to taking bids over tele phones. Many of the auctioneers and TV hosts will be leading local com munity leaders whose professions vary from medicine to newspaper writers. United Press International WASHINGTON — Blaming a sour economy, trustees said today the Social Security System faces a signifi cantly worse short-term financial out look than last year and will be unable to pay benefits by July 1983 if nothing is done. The trustees — the secretaries of labor, treasury and health and human services — projected that even with borrowing among the three Social Security trust funds, money to pay benefits could run out by the end of next year. In their annual report, the trustees forecast “severe financial problems for the Social Security program in both the short range and the long range. “The short-range financial status is significantly worse than was esti mated last year, because of con tinuing unfavorable economic condi tions. The long-range deficit . re mains about the same as last year.” Without changes in the current law, the trustees said, the retirement fund “would not be able to pay be nefits on time by July 1983.” The report covered the status of Social Security’s retirement and disa bility funds, which pay benefits to 36 million Americans, and its Medicare fund, which serves 28 million people. The trustees warned in 1981 the retirement fund would run in the red by the end of 1982 unless something was done. Argentina seizes Falkland Islands in South Atlantic United Press International BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina officially announced today that it has seized the British-ruled Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. There were no immediate reports of resistance from island residents or the 78 Royal Marines stationed there. The island’s defense force is compris ed of 120 men. The Falklands have been a major bone of contention between London and Buenos Aires, both of which claim sovereignty over the islands, which are believed to be rich in pet roleum resources. The primary industry on the is lands, which have the lush, green look of Scottish moorlands, is sheep raising. Newspapers in London reported a fleet of about six warships led by the 4,000-pound nuclear-powered sub marine Superb and the aircraft car rier Invincible steamed toward the is land, where they will back up the navy icebreaker Endurance stationed in the Falklands. Dinosaurs in Dallas? United Press International DALLAS — College geology stu- ientjulie Tyler had a hard time con- I’incing museum officials she had tumbled across a “one in a million” set of dinosaur footprints. The fact that dinosaurs inhabited Texas 65 to 135 million years ago has tlready been proved by the discovery )f their remains, but finding actual footprints is most unusual — and quite unique in the Dallas area. The Brookhaven College geology major and her husband, both di nosaur buffs, sighted the six 15-inch,, long and wide footprints in a sand stone rock when they went to Lake Grapevine near the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to look for fossils a few weeks ago. Aggie gets presidential appointment Lilli Dollinger by Laura Williams Battalion Staff Lilli Dollinger, a senior economics major at Texas A&M University, has been appointed to Reagan’s National Advisory Council on Women’s Edu cational Programs. Dollinger applied for the position in August 1981 and the Senate offi cially approved her appointment Wednesday. The council is one of several edu cation councils, but the only one whose members are presidentially appointed. Dollinger will meet in Washington, D.C. for two to three days about four times each year. “The committee will make recom mendations to Reagan on the prog rams we study and even the funding of these programs,” Dollinger said. She said she will begin work near the end of April. Dollinger became involved in the political world through the Commit tee for Responsible Youth Politics, a 10-year-old political action committee based in Washington. This committee places college students in active cam paigns for conservative candidates. “I’ve been the youth coordinator for three successful United States Senate candidates,” Dollinger said. Dollinger said she has traveled across the country campaigning for conservative candidates and staying in the homes of fellow supporters. In 1981 she traveled to Germany with two other U.S. students to attend an international conference spon sored by the Heritage Foundation. Now Dollinger serves as national chairman of the youth politics com mittee, and plans to live in Washing ton after she graduates in May. Dollinger is an officer in Cap and Gown, a Who’s Who nominee and communications director of Student Government. “I want to stay involved in the con servative movement, probably in Washington,” Dollinger said. “In what capacity I’ll be in is still up in the inside Classified 8 Local 3 National 8 Opinions 2 Sports 11 State 6 What’s Up 9 forecast Today’s Forecast: Overcast and mild with a high in the low 80s. There is a 30 percent chance of rain today and tonight.