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Before the offer was made, the
U.S. delegation had been optimistic
the anti-Israel vote would fail. The
United States contributes $3.1 million
of the $40 million annual ITU
budget.
Secretary of State George Shultz
ordered Gardner to walk out of the
conference, suspend all U.S. pay
ments to the ITU, and return to
Washington to “reassess any future
U.S. involvement in the ITU,” Gard
ner told delegates.
If Israel is expelled, Britain,
France, West Germany and other
Common Market members have said
they would join the U.S. walkout.
Iran’s director-general of telecom
munications, Mustafa Safavi, said the
Tehran government would cover
$250,000 of the U.S. contribution and
the entire U.S. payment if other states
did not offer to help.
The U.S. delegation was confident
it could force a secret ballot on the
resolution today in hopes countries
that might take an anti-Israel stand in
public would not do so in private.
There also was a move by Euro
pean countries, Canada and Australia
to replace the resolution with a wa
tered-down version that would con
demn Israel for the recent massacre
but not expel it from the union.
The resolution, sponsored by
hard-line Algeria, seeks to exclude
Israel from the 157-nation organiza
tion because of the recent “massacres
of Palestinians and Lebanese civi
lians” during Israel’s invasion of
Lebanon.
Besides condemning last month’s
massacre of hundreds of residents of
Beirut refugee camps and the killing
of thousands of civilians in the Leba
non war, Iranian leader Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini considers Israel
an enemy of Islam.
U.S. delegate James Pope said the
Iranian offer would not affect the
U.S. position because “we’re not talk
ing about money but the principle of
universality.”
Both Gardner and the ITU’s legal
adviser said the Arab, African and
Cuban-supported resolution was
illegal because it lay outside the ITU
mandate.
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by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
jA special College Station police task
'one is looking for about 1,900 peo-
|e with unpaid traffic tickets, War-
Bit Officer T.R. Preston said
imday.
■People being sought are those who
Be not paid their traffic fines within
B specified time period and have
id warrants issued for their arrest,
bton said.
Normally, handling arrest war-
jams is Preston’s responsibility. But
ause of a backlog of about 1,900
Warrants, a task force was formed to
pist him, he said.
Patrolman M.G. Langwell had
Bested one Texas A&M student by
Monday afternoon. The student was
Ben from his dorm room.
K Langwell said the people he
■rested were cooperative, but a little
embarrassed. To avoid further
Embarrassment, he did not handcuff
them, Langwell said.
If “Our department policy is to hand
cuff them,” he said. “But if we’re
going through a crowded place, I
don’t (handcuff them). I just let them
that if they run they’ll be
bpped.”
Once arrested, the offenders are
brought to the College Station jail,
where they are held until they post a
cash bond.
Exceptions to the rule are rare,
Preston said.
“We hardly ever let them out with
out a cash bond,” he said. “Sometimes
we do. It depends on the personality
of the person.”
Checks are not acceptable when
posting bond, Preston said. If the
prisoner has no cash with him at the
time of arrest, he is allowed to phone
someone to bring the cash — usually a
friend or a bailsman, he said.
John Kennedy, captain of the Spe
cial Services Bureau, said he has in
structed his officers to arrest the
offenders wherever they find them —
at home, at work or in class.
Kennedy said the directive applies
to professors as well as students.
“I don’t know if we have any (pro
fessors to be arrested),” Kennedy
said. “But if there are, they’ll be tre
ated the same as anybody else.”
Preston said they do not expect to
bring in all 1,900 offenders in the
two-week period. Eight arrests were
expected by the end of the first day,
he said.
It's here!
staff photo by Octavio Garcia
The centerpole for the Aggie bonfire arrived Friday,
slightly ahead of schedule. The two-piece pole was
brought from Navasota, the reason being the better-
quality wood is needed to support the weight of the other
logs. After the pieces are put together, they are glued and
wired in order to stand the weight of the other logs.
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Packers say nuclear freeze will affect voting
United Press International
Nuclear freeze advocates are trying
unseat the “Doomsday Dozen” —
1 congressmen they consider foes of
eir mounting peace movement.
Many of the targets, however, in-
t the main campaign issue is the
ionomy and the nuclear freeze poli-
al drive won’t have much of an im-
act on election day.
Katherine Magraw, political dire-
of Peace PAG, said she hopes its
assroots network will tip the ba-
!nce in the races despite a modest
She said the targeted congressmen
are in tignt races ana naye voting
records in opposition to a curb on
nuclear armament.
The list includes two Democrats,
Rep. Bill Chappell of Florida and Sam
Stratton pf New York, and 10 Repub
licans: Bob Michel of Illinois, the
House GOP leader; William Carney
and John LeBoutillier of New York;
Don Clausen and John Rousselot of
California; Dan Marriott of Utah; De
nny Smith of Oregon; Frank Wolf of
Virginia, James Coyne of Pennsylva
nia, and Larry Craig of Idaho.
and frankly the question has never
been asked,” said Karmen Larson,
Craig’s campaign manager. “That
shows that while people are con
cerned about nuclear proliferation,
right now their overriding concern is
the economy.”
Michel is in the toughest race of his
16-year career, and in his unemploy
ment-plagued central Illinois district
anything could tip the balance.
“The economy is such an overrid
ing concern this year, it’s hard to tell
whether in this district the nuclear
freeze will play a part,” said Paul
Krell, campaign manager for Michel’s
Democratic challenger, Doug
Stephens.
Marriott has been fending off cri
ticism from state Sen. Frances Farley
on several nuclear issues — among
them MX missile proposals that in
volve the state and hi
nuclear freeze.
lis opposition to a
“I don’t want to continue the arms
race,” says Marriott. “We must stop
proliferation but we have an obliga
tion to our citizens to remain strong.”
Ms. Farley said, “I think the eco
nomy is the No. 1 issue,” but, “At ev
ery debate I’ve been in, someone has
asked a question about the arms
race.
Wanda Strew, a Clausen campaign
aide, said the nuclear-freeze issue has
been “overexposed” in Clausen’s
northern California district and has
faded.
But Sharon Usher, campaign man
ager for Clausen’s opponent, Assem
blyman Doug Bosco, said 25 percent
of the registered voters in Sonoma
County, home of 55 percent of the
population, signed petitions to put a
freeze initiative on the statewide
ballot.
In Pennsylvania, former Democra
tic Rep. Pete Kostmayer is counting
on the movement in his campaign to
oust Coyne in a suburban Philadephia
district.
Kostmayer spokesman John Sea-
ger said the issue will have a “substan
tial” impact because, “this is going to
be a very close race.”
But Timothy Gay, a Coyne spokes
man, said the congressman is on the
hit list simply because the Democratic
National Committee had him
targeted.
“Frankly, from what we’ve seen,
the nuclear-freeze issue is not going
to be a cutting issue in this campaign,”
he said.
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Attorney General Mark White speaks to
(left to right) county party chairman
Neeley Lewis, county clerk Frank Boriskie
and senator Kent Caperton after the press
conference that took place in room 202
staff photo by Octavio Garcia
of the Ramada Inn Monday. During the
short interview period White answered
various questions from the press
representatives and others present.
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
The 17 state universities that want a
share of the Permanent University
Fund should be given another source
of revenue, Democratic gubernato
rial candidate Mark White said
Monday.
White, Texas attorney general and
former Texas secretary of state, was
in College Station for a press confer
ence and luncheon at the Ramada
Inn.
The PUF is the primary source of
construction funding for the Texas
A&M University System and the Uni
versity of Texas System.
It is a constitutionally mandated
and protected endowment of 2.1 mil
lion acres of land in West Texas,
which is administered for the benefit
of the Texas A&M and UT systems.
The discovery of oil and gas on the
land during the past 30 years has
caused the value of the PUF to sky
rocket.
Rather than make the PUF avail
able to other state universities, White
said, he wants to provide them with
their own source of funding.
“When we take care of these 17
universities, we take care of Texas
A&M,” White said.
The 1983 Texas Legislature is ex
pected to consider an alternative
source of funds for those universities.
White also discussed another issue the
Legislature is expected to address —
raising the legal drinking age from 19
to 21.
“I would support it (the proposed
bill) if it can be demonstrated to save
lives,” he said, but added that the law
needs more study.
An increase in utility rates has be
come a major issue in the Texas elec
tion, White said.
“The business people and homeow
ners of Texas are paying unwar
ranted electric bills,” White said.
Some homeowners are paying elec
tric bills that are larger than their
house payments, White said, and he
blamed those high bills on the energy
surplus charge. This charge is no lon
ger necessary, White said.
The energy surplus charge was put
into effect during the Arab oil embar
go. The charge allows utility com-
panies to pass the higher cost of fuel
on to consumers.
Public utility commissioners should
continue to be appointed until it be
comes clear that commissioner elec
tions would not be bought by utility
companies, White said.
He continued his “election
buying” criticism in his discussion of
his Republican opponent, Gov. Wil
liam P. Clements Jr.
White criticized Clements for
spending more than $10 million on
his campaign.
“In a sense, he is trying to buy the
election,” White said. “The office of
governor is not for sale.”
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slightly with high haze. Very slight
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