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Voll 75 No. 145 DSPS 045360 36 Pages In 2 Sections
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 30, 1982
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\|embers of the 1st Regiment battle 1st Wing members
in a water fight on the Quad. The regiment comprises
Cool, wet war games
the Navy and Marine Corps units and the wing is
composed of members of the Air Force Corps units.
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Primaries to be held Saturday;
governor’s race heated, bitter
Who will fire
the first shot
in Falklands?
■Candidates for every statewide
office will be chosen by the state’s vo
ters in the Republican and Democra
tic primary elections Saturday.
One of the most bitter struggles of
the primary may be the race for the
Democratic nomination for gov
ernor. Six candidates have entered
the race.
| Attorney General Mark White —
elected in 1978 after serving a five-
year stint as Gov. Dolph Briscoe’s sec
retary of state.
Railroad Commissioner Buddy
Temple — served four terms in the
Texas House of Representatives be
fore being elected to the Railroad
Commission in 1980.
)' Land Commissioner Bob Arm
strong— elected in 1970 after serving
three terms in the House of Repre
sentatives during the 1960s.
Donald Beagle — received 14,000
votes in the last gubernatorial election
and said he plans to run for president
in 1984.
Ray Mayo — ran in the Democrar
tic primary four years ago.
David Young — never has sought
political office previously.
The Democratic nominee must
face one of two Republican primary
candidates in November’s general
election.
Gov. William P. “Bill” Clements
— the first Republican elected gov
ernor since Reconstruction. Clements
also served as a deputy secretary of
defense under the administrations of
Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald
Ford.
Lowell “Duke” Embs — has work
ed as a volunteer in many Republican
campaigns.
Lieutenant
Governor
The lieutenant governor’s race has
drawn one of the smallest fields of
candidates this year. Only two Demo
crats and one Republican are seeking
the position.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby — is hoping to
add another four years to the 10 he
has already spent in this position.
Troy Skates — a retired Navy war
rant officer and Cedar Park busi
nessman.
Republican candidate George W.
Strake Jr. — was Texas secretary of
state until he resigned to enter the
lieutenant governor’s race.
Attorney General
Another tight battle is being waged
for the position of attorney general
being vacated by Mark White.
Four Democratic candidates are
vying for the opportunity to meet the
unopposed Republican candidate in
the general election.
Max Sherman — former president
of West Texas State University; has
served six years in the Texas Senate.
State Sen. Jack Ogg — member of
the Legislature for the past 16 years;
served in the House of Representa
tives from 1966 until his election to
the state senate in 1973.
U.S. Attorney John Hannah —
served three terms in the Legislature,
beginning in 1966; elected district
attorney for Angelina County in
1972; appointed U.S. Attorney for
the Eastern District of Texas in 1977.
Dallas Congressman Jim Mattox
— served as assistant district attorney
in Dallas from 1968 to 1970, before
entering private law practice. He has
served two terms in the Legislature.
One of these Democrats will face
State Sen. Bill Meier who is running
unopposed on the Republican ballot.
Meier has served in the Texas Senate
since 1972 and was president pro
See PRIMARY page 16
United Press International
Argentina and Britain squared off
today for a military showdown in the
South Atlantic, each side vowing to
destroy any enemy ship or plane
found after dawn within a 200-mile
war zone surrounding the Falkland
Islands.
As a last-minute U.S. peace bid
crumbled, the White House conceded
there was very little basis for optimism
and administration of ficials said the
United States may soon throw its full
support behind Britain.
The showdown — virtually in
escapable with both Britain and
Argentina declaring identical air and
sea blockades around the contested
islands — came exactly four weeks
after Argentina’s April 2 invasion of
the Falklands.
Hours before the start of Britain’s
air and sea blockade at 6 a.m. today,
Argentina’s military junta also de
clared any ship “within the 200-mile
limit” or any plane entering its air
space will be “considered hostile and
treated accordingly.”
Argentina’s blockade was effective
immediately Thursday evening and
applied to the Falklands and its de
pendencies of South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands, as well as the
Argentine coastline, the junta said.
“Any warplane or warship in the
area will be bombed immediately,” a
military spokesman warned.
Britain’s response was swift.
“It doesn’t change our position one
iota,” a spokesman for Prime Minister
United Press International
WASHINGTON — With a jury
nearly picked in the trial of John W.
Hinckley Jr., a judge must decide
whether to exclude as “tainted” four
government psychiatrists who con
cluded Hinckley was sane when he
shot President Reagan.
An adverse ruling for the govern
ment on the issue — at a hearing now
set for Saturday — could delay for
months the trial of the 26-year-old
drifter.
U.S. District Judge Barrington
Parker today entered the final stages
of selecting a pool of 43 qualified jury
candidates who could serve on a 12-
member panel to consider Hinckley’s
plea of innocent by reason of insanity.
But prosecutors planned to ask
Parker not to swear in the jury until
after Saturday’s hearing because of
the potential legal complications.
One federal lawyer conceded pro
secutors would have problems if Par
ker disqualified the government-
hired psychiatrists for examining evi
dence obtained illegally from Hinc
kley’s jail cell and by investigators on
the day of the assassination attempt.
Margaret Thatcher said. “We have
created our total exclusion zone and
we’re sticking to our plans.”
Pitching through 40-feet waves
and gale-force winds in some of the
world’s most treacherous seas, the
main battle groups of the 60-ship
British fleet had orders to move into
the war zone at dawn today to enforce
Britain’s 200-mile blockade.
Ujj to the last minute, both sides
publicly hoped Secretary of State Ale
xander Haig’s newest set of proposals
could avert a battle. Argentine offi
cials said the proposals were “under
study” and Thatcher told Parliament
Haig’s ideas “bear all the hallmarks of
compromise.”
But privately, both sides said the
proposals were unsatisfactory and
Argentine officials bitterly de
nounced the U.S. mediation effort as
“unbendingly pro-British.”
“We no longer consider the United
States to be a mediator,” one Argen
tine official said in Buenos Aires.
Argentina sought a meeting with
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez
de Cuellar this morning in a last-
minute bid to avert war and diploma
tic sources said U.N. plans for media
tion in the dispute had been pre
pared.
But the sources said there were no
indications either Argentina or Bri
tain would accept a U.N. role to avert
an armed confrontation because
neither is willing to relinquish claims
of sovereignty.
Lawyers said if the psychiatrists
were excluded as tainted, the govern
ment would have no expert testimony
to counter the defense’s psychiatric
witnesses. The psychiatrists are ex
pected to testify that Hinckley was in
sane at the time of the March 30, 1981
shooting attack.
Prosecutors then would be forced
to either make an emergency appeal
or seek postponement of the trial so a
new set of doctors can examine Hinc
kley’s mental state, they said.
Defense lawyers asked the judge to
disqualify the government psychiat
rists on grounds they read personal
papers seized from Hinckley’s cell at a
federal prison in Butner, N.C., and
spoke with federal agents who inter
viewed him following his arrest.
While Hinckley remained in his
basement cell, Parker and lawyers for
both sides interview'ed a stream of 20
prospective jurors behind dosed
doors Thursday.
The judge found all but six accept
able to serve on the jury or as alter
nates. That brought the number of
tentatively qualified candidates to 36
before today’s interviews.
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Reagan asks public to ‘do
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, fresh
from a nationally broadcast speech in which he
sought public support, called a meeting of key Re
publicans today to begin drafting “an acceptable
budget initiative.”
With the collapse of White House-congressional
negotiations earlier this week, Reagan is seeking to
put together a revised spending proposal that
would carry forward his economic recovery plan.
: In his speech Thursday night from the Oval
Office, Reagan urged the American people to make
their voices heard in support of his program and
hinted he may again take on the uncooperative
Democratic leadership.
gTonight,” he said, “I ask for your help, your
voice, at this turning point.
fc'You did it once,” Reagan said,referring to the
strong public support he received last year in
obtaining the bulk of his economic program from
Congress. “You can do it again.”
The president said today’s meeting with congres
sional GOP leaders would be “to forge the begin
ning of an acceptable budget initiative.”
Reagan said Wednesday’s breakdown of biparti
san negotiations to resolve differences over the de
ficit-ridden fiscal 1983 budget grew from a philo
sophical difference between him and the Demo
crats.
While much of the Reagan address was a recita
tion of developments and a restatement of Reagan’s
economic philosophy, the president did make on
overture certain to be well-received — a constitu
tional amendment to outlaw federal deficits, once
the budget is brought into balance.
In a reply immediately following Reagan’s
address, House Democratic spokesman Richard
Bolling of Missouri said he regretted the presi
dent’s speech was “so political.”
“The problems of America are not Republican,
they’re not Democrat. They’re American prob
lems,” he said.
it again’
Reagan stressed balancing the budget — with a
budget deficit projected by the administration at
$101.9 billion in 1983 and by congressional budget
experts at $132 billion. He said reining back federal
spending and encouraging economic growth with
tax cuts is the best way to ensure continued pros
perity.
The president indicated he may try to resurrect
the coalition of Republicans and Southern Demo
crats that proved so successful in last year’s budget
and tax victories.
“I will also consult with responsible members of
the Democratic Party in Congress to make this a
truly bipartisan effort in the national interest,”
Reagan said.
Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., said later: “This
isn’t last year. The president is trying to use an old
game plan for what is a new ball game.”
The White House reported its switchboard was
busy with calls two hours after Reagan’s speech,
most in support of his policies.
Hinckley trial
has key hearing
Regents to discuss
land sale Saturday
Haas dorm wins RHA
residence hall award
Astronaut
expects baby
this summer
United Press International
■SPACE CENTER, Houston —The
first pregnant astronaut is expecting
her baby this summer, Johnson Space
Center officials say.
I! Astronaut Mission Specialist Dr.
Rhea Seddon Gibson and Pilot Astro
naut Lt. Cmdr. Robert L. Gibson said
Wednesday they are expecting a
child.
■ They were both selected to be in
the astronaut program in January
1978.
The Texas A&M System Board of
Regents will meet Saturday at 1:45
p.m. in the Regents’ Annex to consid
er a possible land sale.
The land is currently part of the
Texas A&M University Research and
Extension Center at Dallas.
The Service Units Committee will
convene at 1:30 to discuss the land
sale and recommend a course of ac
tion to the regents.
The regents have discussed the
sale previously. This meeting was
announced April 26.
The next regular board meeting
will be held June 9, 10 and 11. On
June 9, the ad hoc committee consid
ering the proposal for an on-campus
hotel will meet for the last time and
will formulate its recommendation to
the board.
At that meeting, the board also will
consider this year’s bond issue.
Each year, the Texas A&M Univer
sity System and the University of
Texas System jointly sell bonds back
ed by the Permanent University
Fund.
Haas Hall was named Residence Hall
of the Year at an awards banquet
Thursday night in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Haas, a modular women’s resi
dence hall located on the north side of
campus, won the Lock Up and Look
Out Award at the Residence Hall
Association Spring Awards Banquet.
The hall won for its outstanding par
ticipation in the RHA crime aware
ness program earlier this semester.
Cindy Love, Briggs Hall president,
was named Outstanding Hall Presi
dent.
Outstanding RHA Delegate is
Sherry Howell, delegate from Legett.
Celia Monteleone, from Haas, was
given the Distinguished Service
Award, presented to the outstanding
general member.
Stacy Graf, director of external
affairs and RHA president-elect, was
named Director of the Year.
In addition, special awards were
presented to five halls. These are:
Outstanding Community Service
Project — Krueger Hall
Most Improved Hall — Mclnnis
Hall
Outstanding Programming —
Keathley Hall
Outstanding Social Project —
Puryear Hall
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State 4
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Cloudy with a 20
percent chance of rain; high in the
upper 70s with a low in the 60.
Saturday’s forecast calls for a 30
percent chance of rain with a high
in the mid-70s.