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United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Secretary
of Defense Caspar Weinberger prom
ised to brief NATO’s ultra-secret
Nuclear Planning Group today on
President Reagan’s decision to deploy
the MX “Peacekeeper” intercontinen
tal ballistic missile.
UV.S. officials said Monday Wein
berger would try to reassure Euro
pean allies the decision does not mean
the Reagan administration is prepar
ing for nuclear war.
Today’s meeting also was set to
review plans to deploy 572 cruise and
Pershing 2 missiles in Western
Europe starting in about a year.
NATO officials said the European
missile deployment was certain to go
ahead in the face of mounting anti
nuclear protest, unless the Soviet Un
ion agrees to dismantle more than
300 SS-20 missiles aimed at Western
Europe.
Weinberger called the MX decision
“critically important” to Reagan’s
strategic rearmament program.
The Reagan plan calls for the de
ployment in Wyoming of 100 densely
packed MX missiles, each of which
will carry up to 10 independently
targeted warheads.
The decision to base the missiles,
Reagan renamed “Peacekeepers,” on
land rather than on ships or aircraft
partly responds to NATO realities.
Alliance officials said, had the Un
ited States been unwilling to place the
weapons on its soil, it would have been
much harder to proceed with the plan
to deploy new missiles on European
territory.
The Soviet news agency Novosti
warned Monday the cruise and Per
shing deployments made an acciden
tal nuclear war more likely.
In some of Moscow’s toughest lan
guage to date, it said Soviet forces
would launch their missiles “on warn
ing” if any of the new NATO weapons
were detected approaching Soviet
territory.
European defense ministers, in a
separate meeting Monday, expressed
concern over a proposed Senate
amendment to the 1983 appropria
tions bill that would result in the with
drawal of some 23,()()() of the 220,000
U.S. troops in Europe.
The European ministers also were
concerned about the increasing imba
lance on defense purchases between
the United States and Europe. They
said Europeans buy nine times more
U.S. defense equipment than
Washington buys from them.
Second storm aimed
for ravaged Hawaii
Trees 'spruce' up holidays
staff photo by Robert Snider
l MI Lambda Sigma representative Ken Moore,
a sophomore from Barstow, California,
began the annual Christmas Tree sale
Monday in front of Rudder Tower.
Deborah Barber (center) and Susanne
Davis, both Texas A&M Development
Office employees, decided to buy their
tree while the best were available. The
trees will be on sale all this week in front
of Sbisa Dining Hall and in the Commons.
rograms help juvenile
offenders, lessen crime
United Press International
HONOLULU — A new storm
headed toward Hawaii today,
threatening more destruction to areas
left vulnerable by Hurricane Iwa and
setting off fear in ravaged neighbor
hoods where residents proclaimed, “I
can’t take it anymore.”
The National Weather Service said
Monday the storm was intensifying
near the International Dateline,
1,200 miles west of Honolulu, and
could arrive by Wednesday.
An NWS spokesman emphasized it
was not known how the storm system
would af fect the islands but said the
decision to announce the status of the
storm was for planning purposes
“due to local conditions of lack of
power and water as well as for the
emergency rehabilitation measures
now being undertaken on Kauai and
Oahu.
“The system has a potential for
bringing heavy rains and possible
flooding and high winds by Wednes
day beginning on Kauai and spread
ing shortly thereafter to other is
lands.”
Reaction from Kauai residents,
many still trying to repair their hurri
cane-strafed homes, was one of
dismay.
“I can’t take it any more,” Kathleen
Ladera of Hanamaulu said. “I can’t
believe it. I hope you’re joking.”
In Honolulu, police patrols were
. asked to call in high wind and surf
conditions so Civil Defense author
ities could evaluate the information.
The islands of Kauai and Niihau,
both in the northwest corner of the
state, and parts of Oahu, where Hon
olulu is located, sustained damages
running into the millions of dollars
and prompted President Reagan to
issue a disaster area proclamation.
As of Monday, about 40 percent of
Kauai’s 13.000 homes were still with
out electricity and water was trucked
into three communities.
The Red Cross said one of every
eight of the island’s residences was
demolished or made unlivable by
Iwa’s 1 10 mph winds.
The survey showed 1,907 homes
and businesses were either destroyed
or sustained major damage on Kauai
and another 2,983 homes sustained
minor damages.
On Oahu, another 418 dwellings,
including 30 businesses, were des
troyed or rendered unusable.
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by Carole Craft
Battalion Reporter
Billy is 12 years old. But while most
lids his age were playing little league
laseball or video games, Billy chose to
follow the influence of his older
brother and break into an office
building.
Now Billy is one of the 267 juvenile
offenders counseled by the Brazos
County Juvenile Probation Depart
ment.
; Over the past two years, the depart
ment has reported a 15 percent de
crease in the juvenile crime rate for
jhe county. E.A. Wentrcek, the chief
[juvenile probation officer, said the
decrease can be attributed in part to
an expanded department staff and
the department’s programs.
“1 think we’ve held juvenile crime
substantially when you consider the
rapid growth of this area,” Wentrcek
said.
Juvenile crime has been held to the
same level it was two years ago, he
said.
! The department has nine prog
rams to help juvenile offenders deal
with problems that might steer them
toward crime.
Janet McNutt, counseling unit su
pervisor, said many of the programs
are intended to show teenagers other
activities in which they can partici
pate.
The eight-week program, for chil
dren 10 through 13, is designed to
'show the children that many opportu
nities are open to them in the com
munity, McNutt said. Each day,
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groups of the juveniles and probation
officers tour businesses in the Bryan-
College Station area including Easter-
wood Airport, McDonald’s re
staurants, St. Joseph Hospital,
KBTX-TV, KTAM and KORA radio
stations and the Blue Bell Creameries
in Brenham.
Children in the.Summer Program
also have toured the Texas A&M
campus. Last summer, groups toured
the dairy farm, the swine and horse
centers, the Fireman’s Training
School and some math labs, McNutt
said.
In the Volunteer Program, com
munity personnel volunteer to spend
time with the children, either on a
one-to-one basis or in groups.
Linda Ricketson, community re
sources coordinator and supervisor
of the Volunteer Program, said the
one-on-one part of the program still is
in the organizational stage. When the
program begins, volunteers will make
a six-month commitment to spend
time with a child, serving as a role-
model and friend.
Volunteer groups primarily work
in the community with the children
and teen-agers, Ricketson said. The
groups take juveniles in the program
to parks and picnic areas to help clean
up the facilities and plant flowers, she
said. Volunteers in the groups pro
vide transportation and supervision.
“The Volunteer Group gives peo
ple in the community a chance to get
involved and makes them aware that
Bryan-Gollege Station does have
problems like this,” Ricketson said.
Personnel from the Texas A&M
College of Education have supported
the program by offering tutor prog
rams for children and teen-agers with
problems in certain classes, Ricketson
said.
The probation department also
sponsors a teen court, where the de
fendant — the juvenile offender — is
tried by a jury of his peers.
Rita Villareal, who supervises the
court, said the judge, jury and attor
neys are high school students.
The students apply to participate
in the program and are chosen by the
probation department, Villareal said.
In each trial, students are responsible
for all case investigations and for get
ting witnesses to appear, she said.
They run the trial and decide on ver
dicts without adult help.
“The best thing about Teen Court
is that offenders get tried by their
peers,” Villareal said. “It makes a big
impression on them.”
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Out-of-season sunning
staff photo by Robert Snider
December is almost here but winter isn’t,
or so it seems. Chris Smith, a freshman
electrical engineering student from
Houston, figured it was time to take off
his shirt and coat and get back into the
sun.
inside
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Local 3
National 9
Opinions 2
Sports 11
State .' 4
What’s up 14
forecast
Today’s Forecast: Cloudy skies
through Thursday. High of about
77, with tonight’s low about 58.
fWinds of 10 mph.
Explosion
in Thatcher’s
private office
United Press International
LONDON — A bomb hidden in a
package exploded today inside
Prime Minister Margaret Thatch
er’s No. 10 Downing Street offices,
slightly injuring one man, Scotland
Yard said. The prime minister was
not harmed.
Thatcher was in her private
office around noontime when the
bomb, concealed in a yellow pack
age, exploded in another room, a
spokesman said.
Texas chief justice sworn in
United Press International
AUSTIN — Despite threats by
Democrats in the Texas Senate to nul
lify the appointment of Jack Pope as
head of the Supreme Court, Pope was
sworn in as chief justice,
At the swearing ceremony Mon
day, Pope praised outgoing Gov. Bill
Clements for improving the state’s
judicial system.
Pope, who has served 17 years on
the Supreme Court, last week was
named chief justice by Clements, a
lame duck Republican, as replace
ment of former Chief Justice Joe
Greenhill, who resigned in Septem
ber after 25 years on the court.
But his appointment must be rati
fied by the Senate in January, and at
least a dozen senators have
threatened to block the confirmation,
claiming Gov.-elect Mark White, a
Democrat, should have been allowed
to make the appointment.
At the swearing in ceremony Mon
day, Pope, 69, a native of Abilene,
praised Clements for strengthening
the Texas judicial system. He cited
the governor’s support of constitu
tional amendments that created sev
eral new appeal courts and expanded
the jurisdiction of lower courts in cri
minal cases.
“There are those who say that these
changes are the most significant im
provements to the judicial branch of
government that have occurred in
Texas for a century,” Pope said.
“So governor, while this moment
may be mine, I am claiming it to ack
nowledge that the judicial branch is
stronger throughout Texas than it
has been in many decades, and I’m
sure it will prove itself strong enough
in the future to master our oppressive
dockets.”
Pope also complimented Greenhill,
who he said “used himself up in the
night and day service of this state.”
Elected to his first judgeship in
1946, Pope was described by Cle
ments as the longest-sitting active
judge in the state. He announced his
retirement from the Supreme Court
last year and said he will not run for
the chiefjustice post when his appoin
tive term ends in 1984.
Justice Sears McGhee adminis
tered the oath to Pope. All but one
Supreme Court justice — Franklin
Spears who was hospitalized for a
checkup — attended the ceremonv.