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Soviets accuse
Reagan of tricks
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United P.ess International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union’s
jpfficial Tass news agency today dis-
pssed President Reagan’s disarma-
ent proposals as a maneuver de-
ned to improve his image on the
eve of a trip to' Europe.
I “This display of peace-loving rhe
toric in the President’s address was a
ftcessary concession to public opin
ion in order to create better condi-
Ins for the realization of militaristic
alms,” the news agency said.
I Unlike a milder early reaction
from the semi-official Novosti agen-
the Tass statement made no men-
ion of Reagan’s talk of dialogue with
the Soviet Union.
I “What was really new was that the
[resident’s speech combined fabrica
tions and attacks on the Soviet Union
and its policy, which have become cus-
[ipmary with present American lead
ers,” Tass said.
The news service also said Reagan
[ccused the Soviet Union of interfer
ence in the internal affairs of other
countries and trying to impose its
orders on them.
“These are attempts to ascribe to
the Soviet Union what the United
States itself is guilty of,” Tass said.
The statement indicated the Krem
lin was also upset by Reagan’s refer
ences to Soviet agressiveness and
growing military strength, describing
them as excessive and unproved.
Reagan’s speech indicated that the
administration intends to carry out an
increase of American military poten
tial to achieve dominance of imperial
ism over the socialist countries, Tass
said.
It acknowledged that Reagan
spoke about the need for peace and
mutual understanding with the Soviet
Union.
Stating the president used the re
ference to peace for camouflage to
mask a 16-month delay in announc
ing that the United States was ready to
open negotiations of limiting strategic
nuclear weapons, said Tass.
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Outlook grim
for budget
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Prospects for a
ludget compromise again were grim
oday following staunch bipartisan
ipposition to the inclusion of Social
Security reductions in the fiscal 1983
ipending plan.
In another setback for President
Reagan Tuesday, the House Republi
can leadership opposed the Senate
Budget Committee plan requiring
$40 billion in unspecified savings in
Social Security over the next three
years.
Senate GOP leaders, in an attempt
to persuade their members to vote
against a Democratic amendment
that would put the chamber on record
against Social Security cuts, ham
mered out compromise language that
will be introduced today.
The compromise would have the
Senate delay a decision on Social
Security cuts until Reagan’s task force
makes its recommendations this fall,
then making only adjustments “abso
lutely necessary” to keep the fund sol
vent.
On Thursday, the Senate Budget
Committee approved the budget plan
that was immediately embraced by
Reagan and attacked by Democrats.
This package was adopted after
Reagan’s plan was formally rejected
by the panel.
It would raise $95 billion in taxes
over three years, including the $40
; billion in unspecified Social Security
i savings; a three-year freeze on
l domestic spending programs and
most increases in government benefit
; programs other than Social Security,
a one-year freeze on federal and
military pay and a minor reduction in
the increased military spending.
One of the six maverick Senate Re
publicans opposed to Social Security
cuts, Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylva
nia, introduced a resolution Tuesday
that would remove the Social Security
trust fund from the federal budget
altogether.
The split within the GOP left in
tatters Reagan’s contention only irres
ponsible Democrats oppose his plans.
It also left the budget process snarled
in a maze of alternative plans, none of
which has enough support for pas
sage.
Amid the backdrop of tangled par
ty lines, the House Budget Commit
tee planned to begin work today on its
Democratic alternative outlined by
Chairman James Jones this week.
The White House criticized the
Jones plan as “the same old Democra
tic plan of tax, tax, tax and spend,
spend, spend.”
Jones’ budget projects a deficit of
$102.9 billion in 1983, compared to
deficits of $106 billion in the GOP
alternative.
Reagan had attempted to exert
political pull on the budget debate
Tuesday by promoting “a shopping
list” of suggestions from House
Democrat Phil Gramm of Texas, and
appealing to leading businessmen to
join his effort to hold down govern
ment spending.
Reagan telephoned Gramm, a
leading member of the Democratic
conservatives known as “Boll
Weevils,” to discuss budget ideas the
Texan has been floating for weeks.
Serving the Universily community
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 12, 1982
Bruce Dunn, of Cochranville, Pa., didn’t waste any time.
Saturday, after he graduated, he married Debbie Lackey,
of Plano. The afternoon wedding took place in the
Memorial Student Center garden, the area between the
MSC and the regents’ annex. Dunn graduated with a
degree in physical education.
TDC order bans prisoner moves
United Press International
The Texas Department of Correc
tions ignored a court order from a
state district judge and turned away
68 prisoners from Harris County,
proving it did not plan to back down
from a ban on accepting new inmates
in the overcrowded facility.
The TDC imposed the ban Mon
day because its penal system — the
largest in the country — cannot hope
to comply with a federal court
ordered prison reform under its cur
rent inmate population explosion,
officials said.
County officials transported 82
prisoners to the TDC Diagnostic Cen
ter in Huntsville Tuesday, but offi
cials at the state prison headquarters
would only accept 14 of the inmates,
including seven parole violators and
seven who were serving bench war
rants, said Sheriff Lt. J.K. Men
denhall.
The other 68 prisoners were re
fused admission to the prison Tues
day night by Lt. William C. Bradham
and were to be returned to the Harris
County Detention Center in Humble,
Mendenhall said.
Armed deputies stood guard for
more than an hour around the six
vans that had transported the inmates
to Huntsville, while sheriffs officers
and prison officials conferred.
Earlier Tuesday, county commis
sioners and judges for the Texas
Administrative District, which in
cludes Houston, met to examine what
could be done in view of the TDC
action announced Monday.
The transfer of the 82 prisons,
ordered by State District Judge Ted
Poe, was decided upon as a test of the
TDC order.
Poe said early Tuesday that the
TDC could be held in contempt if it
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan’s imposition of quotas on im
ported sugar faces a court test stem
ming from a lawsuit by independent
cane-sugar refiners who say the
quotas could cost consumers as much
as $1.5 billion.
The U.S. Cane Sugar Refiners’
refused the obey his order.
The TDC action, expected to last
30 days, was in response to an order
issued by Judge Justice in Tyler in
April 1981 as part of a massive prison
reform package case, primarily dire
cted at overcrowding.
Justice told state prison officials he
would close down the state’s 17 facili
ties if the reforms were not instituted
by Aug. 1, 1983.
Meanwhile Tuesday, prison and
parole board officials who met with
Gov. Bill Clements and TDC Director
W.J. Estelle, announced 450 prison
ers would be paroled early next week.
Association, which filed suit Tuesday
in the U.S. Court of International
Trade in New York, are seeking to
have the quotas declared illegal. They
said the president’s move could mean
higher prices for sugar, processed
food, soft drinks and baked goods.
The quotas transferred costs of the
Ruben Torres, chairman of the
Board of Pardons and Paroles, said
the 450 inmates who will be paroled
by Monday already were scheduled
for release in the next 30 days.
He said they would be followed
within two months by the release of
another 1,200 inmates whose parole
dates would be moved up as much as
six months to help relieve overcrowd
ing at the TDC.
Elsewhere across the state, urban
counties were expected to join Dallas
and Bexar County in seeking a court
injuction against the TDC.
administration’s sugar program from
the government, which might have
had to take over $400 million worth of
sugar in the absence of quotas, to con
sumers, the refiners said.
Reagan imposed quotas when
world sugar prices dropped below 9
cents a pound.
Sugar quotas face court test
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Summer graduates
should apply early
market tightens
Students planning to graduate in
August need to apply for graduation
before June 11, says Donald L. Gard
ner, assistant registrar for admissions
and records.
Gardner said as many people as
possible should come by this week to
apply.
August degree candidates will be
able to apply for graduation at sum
mer session registration, he said. The
registrar’s office will have a table set
up at registration for this purpose.
Gardner stressed that students
who will attend only the second sum
mer session must apply for the Au
gust graduation soon.
Ordinarily students apply during
the semester they will graduate. But,
because of the length of summer ses
sions, there is not enough time for the
registrar’s office to order and receive
diplomas for students who apply dur
ing the second summer session, he
said.
Students applying for August gra
duation should first pay the $15 gra
duation fee at the fiscal office in the
Coke Building, then take their receipt
to 105 Heaton and fill out graduation
forms, he said.
Gardner said many students think
all they need to do is pay the gradua
tion fee. However, he said, the appli
cation forms are necessary for order
ing diplomas. If students don’t fill out
the forms, they won’t receive a diplo
ma, he said.
Area job
by Kathy Robinette
Battalion Reporter
A tight summer job market in
Bryan-College Station awaits Texas
A&M students who don’t have a high
ly marketable skill, says Walt Baker,
manager of the Bryan-College Sta
tion branch of the Texas Employ
ment Commission.
Judy Vulliet, assistant director of
placement at the Texas A&M Place
ment Center, said a person with a
broad education and non-technical
training is in much greater supply
than the individual with technically
training.
A non-technical person will face
tougher competition in the job mar
ket and will have to adjust his job-
search techniques to fit this area’s
supply and demand, she said.
Baker said two traditional employ
ment markets in Bryan-College Sta
tion — the construction and oil field
markets — will not be offering stu
dents as many jobs this summer as in
past years because of high interest
rates and the drop in oil prices.
But the state of the local economy
is still sound.
Vulliet said: “Texas is really in
much healthier shape than most
other areas in the country right now.”
She said the nationwide economic
slow-down barely appears to be
touching the local area this semester.
Bryan-College Station has the third
lowest unemployment rate of the 25
standard metropolitan statistical
areas in Texas. In February 1981, the
unemployment rate was 2.8 percent;
it is 4.5 percent this year. Baker attri
buted this rise to the influx of people
from the North and Northeast who
are searching for jobs in the South
west.
About 3,000 people joined the
Bryan-College Station work force this
year.
Students searching for summer
employment also should try the Stu
dent Financial Aid Office.
C.E. Fink, assistant director of the
Student Financial Aid office, said the
office has listings for both on- and
off-campus jobs. On-campus jobs in
clude office work, typing and moving
furniture in dorms. Off-campus jobs
include a YMCA job in Dallas, camp
counselor jobs, construction work
and a job on a fishing boat in Alaska.
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Sports 17
State 5
What’s Up 7
Today’s Forecast: 70 percent
chance of rain today, 60 percent
tonight, decreasing to 20 percent
Thursday. Highs of 80 today and
Thursday, with lows in the mid-
60s.
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