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The Battalion
Serving the University community
Vol. 75 No. 127 USPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 6, 1982
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Scott Winston Anderson
John Clark Hutchison
Mark Allen Legler
Silver Taps tonight
Silver Taps will be conducted in front of the Academic
Building tonight at 10:30 in memory of the following
students: Mark Allen Legler, a junior management major
from LaGrange who died Jan. 14; Scott Winston
Anderson, a graduate student in statistics from
Nacogdoches who died March 6; and John Clark “Jack”
Hutchison, a junior sociology major from College Station
who died March 6.
Speaker praises
independent oil
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Reporter
I Independent oil companies can be
Successful in today’s society, but only
/through hard work and dedication,
(^Oilman Clayton Williams Jr. told the
Bociety of Petroleum Engineers
Monday.
“Independent oil companies
I should be the Avis of the oil business,”
he said. “Tight operators in the oil
pbusiness are much more successful.”
Avis Rent-A-Car Company’s slogan is
‘we try harder.”
Williams has been successful even
though he has never had any technic
al training in the oil business. He re
ceived his degree from Texas A&M
University in animal husbandry.
“I tried to build my business from
the successes of other businesses,” he
said. “My approach has been to buy
.land by scouting other people. If
somebody is buying a lease, I xvatch
and see how successful it is. If it is
successful, I try to expand to my lease
(around theirs),” he said.
Williams did say, however, that sev
eral times he has wished he did have a
technical background, but he told the
audience not everything can be
taught in the classroom.
“I learned the business step by step
through experience,” he said. “Don’t
ever think you know all the answers.”
If a company is involved in every
aspect of the oil business, it is also
more likely to be successful, said Wil
liams, who owns his own drilling and
pipe companies.
He also said that petroleum en
gineers who work for independent
companies might have an advantage
over those who work for larger com
panies.
“If an engineer works for an inde
pendent company,” he said, “he has
more of a responsibility than if he
works for say Phillips or Champion.
With a major company, engineers
have a long training period and their
work is more specialized.”
However, he also said, the inde
pendent company an engineer works
for should be stable.
“Nowadays there are more major
companies and major independents,
he said, and the fly-by-nighters are
falling by the wayside. If an engineer
does work for an independent com
pany he has more of a chance of even
tually becoming a consultant or
partner.”
Run-off elections
to be held today
Mike Lawshe and Pat Pearson will
compete in a run-off election for the
position of student body president to
day. In last week’s Student Govern
ment elections, Lawshe received
1,982 votes, 32 percent of the total
votes cast, and Pearson received 1,535
votes, 24 percent of the total votes.
Class officer positions and posi
tions on the Graduate Student Coun
cil also will be decided in today’s run
off election.
Class of’83 presidential candidates
are Lance Bryant and Joe Meyer.
John Dungan and Barbara Brunner
will compete for the position of Class
of ’84 president.
In other class officer run-offs,
Bentley Nettles and Brett Smith will
compete for the Class of ’85 vice pres
idential position. Running for Class
of ’85 social secretary are Tracie
Woods and Anne Dixon.
George Crowson, J. Black, Bob
Armentrout, Jim Garry, Steve Roesl-
ler, Bruce Martin, John Fabian and
Eloy Corona will compete for College
of Agriculture positions in the Gradu
ate Student Council.
Running for positions on Graduate
Student Council in the College of
Geosciences are Catherine Strong
and Chris Dean.
Reagan wants to meet with
Brezhnev on nuclear arms
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, insisting the Soviets have a
dangerous nuclear edge over the Un
ited States, says he would like to meet
President Leonid Brezhnev at a U.N.
disarmament conference in June.
Reagan announced Monday he
would address the United Nations on
reducing the nuclear arsenals and
said he hoped Brezhnev also would
attend and speak to the conference.
Brezhnev’s health, however, is a
big question and there have been re
ports he recently suffered a stroke.
Reagart said he has no confirmation
of this.
Regardless, White House aides
admitted there is no indication Brezh
nev is planning to join other world
leaders at the United Nations session.
White House aides indicated
Reagan, by urging the Soviet leader to
attend the conference, was seeking to
grab the peace initiative on the nuc
lear deterrent controversy.
At an informal news conference
Monday, Reagan said “arms control is
one of the most important things fac
ing us, and, as I say, I hope we’ll both
be able to address the conference.”
Secretary of State Alexander Haig
was to follow up Reagan’s comments
today with a speech stressing the need
for a strong defense. Sources said it
would address the growing concerns
over the continuing superpower nuc
lear build-up.
The speech was to be delivered
Georgetown University International
Center for Strategic Studies, a foreign
policy think tank.
In Belgrade Monday, Soviet Fore
ign Minister Andrei Gromyko joined
with Yugoslav leaders in a call for the
revival of detente and an end to the
ever more dangerous arms race.
Gromyko arrived in Belgrade Sun
day on his first visit to Yugoslavia
since the death of President Josip
Broz Tito in 1980. He returns to Mos
cow today.
Reagan told his news conference
Monday he did not regret picturing
America as behind the Soviets in nuc
lear retaliatory power.
“No, I am not sorry that I said it,
because we know for sure the Rus
sians know that,” he said. “I think the
American people ought to be able to
know everything they know.”
Britain reportedly knew of
Falklands takeover in advance
United Press International
LONDON — The British govern
ment, shaken by resignations and cri
ticism of its handling of the Falkland
Islands crisis, had evidence Argentina
planned the invasion 10 days in adv
ance, news reports said today.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatch
er, who has staked her future on re
taking the islands 450 miles off the
coast of Argentina, had no immediate
comment on the reports.
An armada of 40 warships — two-
thirds of the British naval force and
its largest fleet assembled in 26 years
— Monday began steaming the 8,000
miles to the British -colony in the
South Atlantic. They are not ex
pected to arrive for two weeks.
Officials in Buenos Aires reported
President Leopoldo Galtieri ordered
reinforcements for the 4,000-man
Argentinian invasion force in the
Falklands and men reportedly lined
up to volunteer for the army.
Evidence of top secret Argentine
plans for the invasion, including
American satellite photographs, was
transmitted to London 10 days before
the attack, the Daily Telegraph and
the Times of London reported.
Quoting “unimpeachable” and “in
telligence” sources, the newspapers
said the evidence showed Argentine
ships were steaming toward the Falk
lands.
There was no immediate comment
from American intelligence agencies.
Foreign Secretary Lord Carring
ton accepted responsibility for Bri
tain’s humiliating affront in the crisis
and resigned. Thatcher named Fran
cis Pym, former defense minister and
House of Commons leader, as his re
placement.
Thatcher, whose government was
thrown into its worst political crisis in
its three years over the Falklands, also
accepted resignations from Deputy
Foreign Secretaries Humphrey
Atkins and Richard Luce.
Thatcher refused to accept De
fense Minister John Nott’s resigna
tion, saying his presence was vital “as
our forces prepare for the possibility
of armed action.”
Thatcher said the navy was pre
pared to use force if necessary against
Argentina and observers said the fu
ture of her Conservative government
depends largely on diplomatic and
military efforts to win the Falklands
back.
L.abor foreign affairs spokesman
Denis Healey said Thatcher should
have resigned over the affair, claim
ing she was “primarily responsible for
the humiliating experiences Britain
had last week.”
In a television interview, Thatcher
said it was difficult to see how diplo
macy could succeed. Asked if she
would resign if a British naval force
failed to capture the islands, Thatch
er said:
“‘Failure?’ Queen Victoria once
said, ‘The possibility does not exist.’”
Officials advised the 17,000 British
citizens in Argentina to leave the
country and consular officers were
swamped with phone calls from Bri
tons worried about the possibility of
war.
Rex Hunt, the British governor ex
pelled during the invasion of the
Falklands, returned to London and
said he surrendered the islands to
Argentina with a white flag lashed to
the tip of his umbrella. He said he
refused to shake hands with the in
vaders’ military leader.
Two injured,
in apartment
tire in C.S.
Fire officials are still investigating the
cause of a fire in the Viking Apart
ments, 1601 Holleman Drive, which
destroyed one unit and damaged
seven others.
The College Station Fire Depart
ment answered the call at 1:30 this
morning and one fireman was treated
for minor smoke inhalation, said
Dave Giordano, captain of the de
partment. An 18-year-old woman was
taken to St. Joseph Hospital also for
smoke inhalation, but site was later
released.
The fire began in building T of the
complex, Giordano said. One apart
ment in the building was destroyed
and another received heavy smoke
and water damage, he said. Six other
apartments also received minor
smoke damage.
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forecast
A child’s playhorse sits among other items
hurriedly removed from an residence in
staff photo by Peter Rocha
the Viking Apartments after the section of
the complex caught fire Monday night.
Today’s Forecast: Sunny, mild and
windy with a high near 72 and a low
near 52. Wednesday’s forecast calls
for cloudy skies with a high in the
mid-70s.