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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, January 18, 1983
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ee Shaw, a freshman environmental design ma-
br from Dallas, Amanda Pike, middle, a fresh-
han business administration major from Stavar-
staff photo by Irene Mees
ger, Norway, and Mary Ann Rameau, a junior
education major from Houston, examine the
exhibit at the Academic Building.
'Vnonymous art exhibit
rets varied reactions
by Ann Ramsbottom
Battalion Staff
n anonymous exhibition of art
Ised considerable conversation
.mcng returning students on cam-
p Monday.
|The brightly painted cane-like
Iks were placed in bundles
foughout the campus by several
identified persons Sunday even-
ig I he stalks were accompanied
maps of the campus which
wed the locations of similar dis
c's placed on campus. The in-
■ption, “Homage to Stonehenge”
as written on the maps.
Ptudents who saw the art exhibits
jl varied reactions. Responses
gcd from approval to distaste for
objects.
One student said that it didn’t
latter whether the objects were art
or not, because the displays cause
people to think. Another student
said that she thought it was another
way to pull Aggies closer together.
For example, she said, strangers
would stop to confer over just exact
ly what the art was supposed to be.
Some students didn’t find the
bundles to be quite as meaningful.
One student said that the stalks were
“ugly as sin” and should be removed
from campus.
Other comments were indiffe
rent. Maybe the art was meant to
catch attention, just a joke, or bizar
re art. One observer thought that it
was an advertisement for the local
nightclub Lipstik.
Campus grounds maintenance
personnel had no explanation for
the objects.
“We haven’t found out who is re
sponsible but we’re interested in
finding out,” Dr. Eugene Ray, dire
ctor of grounds maintenance said.
“Whoever did it failed to follow the
accepted policy and procedures for
displaying things on campus. Many
irrigation pipes run underground
for the sprinkling system and when
things are stuck carelessly in the
ground, the pipes can be easily
broken.”
Ray said that his department con
tacted the environmental design de
partment in an effort to find out
who is responsible for the art. Stu
dents in the department were re
sponsible for several art exhibits
during the fall semester.
Environmental design personnel
said they did not know who put the
art display up.
sraeli-Lebanon discussions
nay bring troop withdrawal
■ United Press International
8 ae| and Lebanon held substan-
| e discussions on ending their 35-
j-old state of war with the assur-
Tt i • V S - Middle East envoy Phi-
dabib s shuttle diplomacy may
the withdrawal of foreign
c es from Lebanon.
a e ^ an ese Foreign Minister Elie
01 said following the seventh
« 11 °i Israeli-Lebanese negotia-
iday, w®" 1 ; Monday that the two nations
leagues aP | e ‘'^ly to produce a protocol
penient on diplomatic relations in
5 near future.
I An Israeli official who attended
jsession in Khalde, 8 miles south of
J ut, said a subcommittee estab-
ec in define the future Israel-
r, r ,n ° n „ r e i at i°nship made “good
tf es j i ; n three hours of talks.
. ° j a y’ s talks were the first round
! etwo sides agreed last week on
opted n!
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ns.
a compromise agenda to end a pro
cedural dispute that had blocked
progress since meetings began on
Dec. 28.
Negotiators originally planned to
simultaneously discuss — in separate
committees — Israel’s demand for
security agreements and Lebanon’s
demand for the pullout of 40,000 Sy
rian, 10,000 Palestinian and 30,000
Israeli troops.
The two sides formed a subcom
mittee on future relations Monday,
however, and left Lebanon’s demand
for the withdrawal of foreign forces
to future discussion.
But Lebanese officials, watchful of
relations with the rest of the Arab
world, took pains to stress the initial
focus on relations did not imply a les
sening of their emphasis on troop
withdrawal.
Salem said there would be no for-
High Court delays
windfall tax review
United Press International
WASHINGTON — T he Supreme
Court refused Tuesday to speed up
review of a Wyoming judge’s ruling
overturning the windfall oil profits
tax, which has already netted the gov
ernment more than $26 billion.
The Justice Department had
urged the court to give faster-than-
usual treatment to its appeal of a rul
ing by a Cheyenne judge who struck
down the tax as unconstitutional be
cause it exempted oil produced in
Alaska.
The government had asked for the
expedited treatment because it stands
to lose large sums without swift legal
action. It argued that the lower court
decision may disrupt the federal
budgetary process. ,
The Reagan administration is
planning to send to Congress on Jan.
31 its fiscal 1984 budget with possible
deficits of $200 billion.
By requesting an early hearing, the
? ;overnment apparently was trying to
orestall any chance it would have to
repay any of the windfall profit taxes
collected so far.
Settling the case this court term
would “greatly reduce the uncertain
ty that now exists with respect to the
formulation of the 1983 and 1984
budgets,” Acting Solicitor General
Lawrence Wallace told the court.
The court’s action Tuesday does
not mean it will not eventually hear
the case. It could still take up the case
and hear arguments next term — but
that would mean no final decision un
til at least 1984.
Two justices — Harry Blackmun
and Sandra Day O’Connor — said
they wanted to hear the case this term.
Apparently the seven other justices
felt otherwise.
The government warned that un
less the case is decided this term, it
“would be forced to plan for a possi
ble substantial reduction of future re
venues and a substantial expenditure
of public funds for refunds of wind
fall profit taxes already collected.”
Enacted as part of decontrol of
domestic oil prices, the windfall pro
fits tax was keyed to preventing pro
ducers from reaping excessive profits
from decontrol.
The Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax
Act, which President Carter signed
into law in April 1980, exempted oil
produced in Alaska north of the Arc
tic Circle from taxation.
The Independent Petroleum Asso
ciation of America and other oil pro
ducers sought to have the law over
turned and recoup substantial re
funds.
On Nov. 4, U.S. District Judge Ew
ing Kerr held the tax violated a clause
of the Constitution that requires taxes
to “be uniform throughout the Un
ited States.”
Ex-leader of Solidarity
plans ‘trick’ to get job
United Press International
WARSAW — Rebuffed last week in
his first attempt to get his old job back,
former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa
said he hopes a “certain trick” will
persuade authorities to rehire him to
day at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk.
Managers at the shipyards in the
northern port of Gdansk, the birth
place of Solidarity in 1980, said a final
decision on whether to reinstate
Walesa as an electrician would be
made today.
T am going, but I will not tell you
where to,” Walesa, leader of the dis
banded trade union, said in a tele
phone interview. “I want to play a
certain trick on them (the shipyard
management).”
Walesa, who was interned for 11
months, has applied for reinstate
ment at the shipyards. He was turned
away Friday after officials said his
documents were not in order and
administrative formalities had not
been completed.
The formalities referred to
documentation of payment and leave
time accumulated during his Solidar
ity stewardship.
Since the 9-million-member union
was suspended under martial law and
later banned, the papers needed for
Walesa to return to work must come
from the military commissar of
Gdansk.
Walesa attended two special
church services in Gdansk Sunday,
the first requested by workers at the
Lenin shipyards.
The second service was to pray for
the freed internees and the 1,500
activists and dissidents still in jail for
martial law violations or awaiting
trial.
Accompanied by his eldest son,
Bogdan, 12, at the first service and his
wife, Danuta, at the second, Walesa
flashed the “V” for victory sign to
cheering onlookers but made no
speeches.
About 2,500 worshipers attended
the morning mass and about 12,000
worshipers attended the evening
mass.
The government newspaper
Rzeczpospolita said authorities are
considering granting pardons to
some 700 of those in jail.
AScM library to get
ex-politicians’ papers
mal peace treaty as sought by Israel.
The two countries have been in a for
mal state of war since Israel declared
its independence in 1948.
Christopher Ross, a member of the
U.S. negotiating team participating in
the talks, said “good progress was
made” in the subcommittee meeting.
Lebanon agreed to the change in
opening issues after assurances that
Habib would concentrate on with
drawals during shuttle talks in Beirut,
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Lebanese
political sources said.
Salem told Lebanon’s National
News Agency that Habib had secret
proposals “that might achieve unex
pected results.”
He said Lebanon had expected the
negotiations to last a month or two,
but Habib’s diplomacy “makes us ex
pect the negotiations will end earlier.”
The papers of former Texas
Speaker of the House Bill Clayton
and former state Agriculture Com
missioner Reagan Brown, both Texas
A&M graduates, are being presented
to the Sterling C. Evans Library
University President Frank E.
Vandiver said that, as a historian, he
appreciates having the papers avail
able for research purposes.
“Such documents are invaluable in
gaining insight into the processes in
volved in reaching important deci
sions,” Vandiver said. “And in these
cases, state-level decisions that had
far-reaching effects.”
Clayton, Class of’50, was elected to
the Texas Legislature in 1962. He was
elected speaker in 1975 and re
elected three times. He steps down
this month, after deciding not to seek
re-election as a representative of Dis
trict 74. Clayton was sworn in last
week as a member of the Texas A&M
Board of Regents.
Dr. Irene Hoadley, library dire
ctor, said Clayton’s documents are
contained in more than 200 boxes
and include correspondence,
speeches, government reports and
publications and other records. The
collection includes several videotapes
of legislative action and gavels used by
Clayton when he presided over the
House of Representatives.
“These papers have every appear
ance of being one of the most com
plete records of political activities that
the library has received and should be
a rich resource for research on mid
twentieth century Texas politics,”
Hoadley said.
Brown, Class of ’43, served as agri
culture commissioner for five years.
He was associated with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service for
more than 25 years before entering
public service at the state level in
1973. Prior to becoming agriculture
commissioner, he was assistant to
Gov. Dolph Briscoe.
Hoadley described Brown’s collec
tion, delivered in about 25 boxes, as
an important research source for
Texas agricultural activities and de
velopments.
Vandiver said the Clayton and
Brown papers add to a growing col
lection of personal papers donated by
prominent Texans in both the public
and private sectors.
Michel T. Halbouty, an interna
tionally acclaimed geologist who was
recently sworn in as a regent along
with Clayton, announced in Novem
ber that he was donating his papers to
the Texas A&M library and already
has presented a portion of them. The
papers of the late Congressman Olin
E. Teague, also a Texas A&M gradu
ate, are housed here.
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More surplus programs suggested to aid farmers
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r Pr H , ING1 ON — Despite general support
ns
- ivcagan’s new “crop swap” prog-
(t ; rn leaders are suggesting additional
help accomplish the same goals of re-
o farrne^ 0 ^ sur P* uses an< 4 boosting prices paid
..| e e ‘'^ an s program, outlined last week before
necessa. [l . IT,eilcan Farm Bureau Federation’s
Good P ua ‘ meeting i n Dallas, promise a share of
- s ! Vain 1 ® du( rntn j Sur .P lus crops to farmers who help
jr . P l Co$ M,rJl roduction by having land idle,
the Intrai" 1 finer? oro °- ,he Farm Bureau, the largest
1 Sports 0 idorsed theX? 01 ' 1,1 the countr y’ P rom P d y
> oined
ay, K
■EEC SPj 1
|y ln , ' other farm groups in clas-
at s u. *5 P ro gram as a short-term measure
at s o,, a ! w s ,a m as a snort-term measure
J at 159 ® build fl' )e acconi panied by other efforts to
845-7826 Reagan’s ? rug S Un S farm economy.
nd nr un veihng of the new payment-m-
ngram, which he dubbed a “crop swap.”
was coupled with the announcement of two
other market-building moves that have been
advocated for months by farm leaders.
First was his expansion of a 3-month-old cre
dit program designed to generate sales of
American farm goods to developing nations;
second, his decision to sign “sanctity of con
tract” legislation softening the impact of trade
embargoes on agricultural exports.
But Farm Belt lawmakers and other agricul
tural leaders said other action is needed to
speed up reduction of the huge stockpiles of
some crops and to provide relief for farmers.
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., said statistics indicate
the United States will not be able to achieve a
significant reduction in its wheat surpluses over
the next 18 months unless demand for the crop
increases. . , _ , ,
Earlier, Dole told interviewers on the Cable
News Network he hoped to introduce legisla
tion to prescribe new programs to use govern
ment food surpluses to feed the poor and the
elderly.
The idea is to supplement existing food and
nutrition programs, Dole-said, adding that sur
pluses of raw farm goods should somehow be
processed and given to the poor “until we, in
effect, eat up the surplus.”
A similar suggestion came from a lawyer for
the American School Food Service Association,
which represents school cafeteria managers.
Association attorney Marshall Matz sug
gested that the government donate surplus
wheat, rice and other commodities to the Na
tional School Lunch Program. The donations
would both strengthen child nutrition prog
rams and help use up surpluses, he said.
Two Farm State congressment recom
mended another step to help farmers survive
what could be a financially harsh spring and
summer.
Democratic Reps. Byron Dorgan of North
Dakota and Thomas Daschle of South Dakota
said they plan to refile legislation to give far
mers more time to repay loans from the Far
mers Home Administration. Without the time
extensions, the two lawmakers said, some far
mers will not be able to stay in business until fall,
when they will receive the bulk of their pay
ments under the new acreage reduction
program.
Other farm leaders, including Michael Hall
of the National Corn Growers Association, have
urged Reagan to offer to negotiate a new agree
ment with the Soviet Union to raise the mini
mum annual Soviet purchase of U.S. grain.
Hall said the United States should make the
offer soon — possibly during the regular March
consultations with representatives of the Soviet
Union — to assure farmers he wants to expand
their share of the Soviet market.
Dorms hit
by power
outage
Several northside residence halls,
the A.P. Beutel Health Center and
Milner Hall suffered a power outage
Monday about 5 p.m. The outage re
sulted from a short in an under
ground cable vault, a physical plant
spokesman said Monday.
In some of the buildings, electricity
was restored as early as 7 p.m., but it
was about 10:30 p.m. before all elec
tricity was restored, said the foreman
of the electric shop, Norman Hayes.
The dorms affected were Cle
ments, Haas, Hobby, Hotard, Legett,
McFadden and Neely halls.
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forecast
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Cloudy today with a 70 percent
chance of showers and a high of 55.
Northeasterly winds at 7 to 15
mph. The clouds will persist
tonight with a 60 percent chance of
rain and a low of 43. Wednesday
will be cloudy to partly cloudy with
a 50 percent chance of showers and
a high of 50.