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76 No. 111 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Monday, March 7, 1983
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H United Press International
UATEMALA CITY — Pope
n Paul II today brought his mes-
; oi peace to the “born-again”
isttan leader of Guatemala who
week permitted the execution of
men oespite a Vatican plea for
•cy.
rh£ pontiff, on a whirlwind eight-
n tour of Central America and
tEstopped in El Salvador Sunday
're| he chanted for peace with
,000 war-weary people at an out-
r riiass.
The pope flew to Guatemala City
Sunday where he was met by
voi ks, marimba bands and Presi-
woi k
dent Efrain Rios Montt, Protestant
leader of the predominantly Catholic
nation.
Calling Guatemala a country that
“continues to suffer the whip of the
fight between brothers,” John Paul
urged a “mobilization of all the forces
of good will” to end civil strife.
Rios Montt, a born-again Christian
who abandoned the Catholic Church
for a fundamentalist sect, asked John
Paul to condemn “commercialization
and party politics” by some members
of the clergy.
The president, however, did not
specify whether he was speaking of
politically active Catholic churchmen
or Protestant evangelists vying for fol
lowers in the nation of 7.2 million
people.
The former army general, who
came to power after a coup nearly a
year ago, ignored a papal plea for
clemency and allowed the executions
of six men Thursday — a move Vati
can officials called “an insult to the
pope.”
John Paul spent Sunday in El Salva
dor where three years of civil war
have claimed 42,000 lives, among
them 16 nuns and priests. San Salva
dor Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo
Romero was assassinated March 24,
1980, by presumed rightist extrem-
ir Force study urges
ists.
The pontif f paid a highly emotion
al visit to the San Salvador cathedral
to pray at the tomb of the assassinated
archbishop.
Security for the pope’s visit to El
Salvador was tight, following govern
ment reports tnat 18 terrorists had
entered the country to kill him.
The pope’s 11-hour stay in El Sal
vador marked the halfway point of his
peace mission that has taken him to
Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.
Using Guatemala as a base, he will
also visit Honduras, before leaving
for Belize.
the
development of missiles
|| United Press International
■SHINGTON — A classified
Force study looking ahead to the
ilentury urges development of
iballistic missiles based in space
Hiises the possibility that a nuc-
iwar might not destroy the super-
,veis.
gpletl “Air Force 2000: Air Power
tering the 21st Century,” the docu-
JUwas prepared at the direction of
former Air Force chief of staff,
BLew Allen, and completed in
it. The Air Force “conservatively
imated” several hundred military
Bvilian personnel contributed to
Taking a leaf from a secret Penta
gon paper drawn up a year ago, the
Air Force document sets a war
winning goal for the United States in
the event of a “massive exchange” of
nuclear weapons, including denying
the Soviet Union “or other nuclear
armed nations the ability to coerce an
unfavorable settlement.”
The U.S. objective, the document
said, should be to retain enough
offensive nuclear capability after the
onset of a war to ensure destruction of
Soviet strategic and army forces.
The Air Force study predicts 11
nations will join the six that now pos
sess nuclear weapons by the end of
this century: Pakistan, Iraq, Libya,
Taiwan, South Korea, West Ger
many, Japan, Israel, South Africa,
Brazil and Argentina.
The “nuclear club” now includes
the United States, the Soviet Union,
Britain, France, China and India.
T he document says it “was initiated
for the purpose of making a realistic
assessment of the challenges likely to
confront the Air Force at the turn of
the century.”
“It is a fundamental premise of this
study that we are in a period of pro
found political, economic and tech
nological change calling for adjust
ment within the U.S. military estab
lishment,” it said. “Problems that
could in past years be conveniently
postponed now demand immediate
attention.”
The Air Force summary paper
does not delve into details about fight
ing a nuclear war but poses the possi
bility of massive nuclear exchanges
and “the protracted phase of the con
flict,” while stressing the need for the
United States to emerge in control of
events.
staff photo by Dena L. Brown
Wheelchair-a-thon
Ron Menard manuevers his wheelchair around Kyle Field
Saturday morning in a lapathon sponsored by MSC
Outdoor Recreation. Donations were taken and will go to
the Association of Handicapped Athletes for its national
competition and to the Outdoor Recreation for its able-
disabled program. Menard is a junior building construction
student from Hartford, Conn.
Free ball game
These spectators watch the Texas A&M baseball team
from a cheaper vantage point than the stands, while
Sherman Corbett, an Aggie pitcher, warms up.
Provost suggests
funds it receives reduced.
“The University now needs to
weigh much more carefully just how it
is spending its money,” he said. “I
think times are getting more stringent
and we have to become more pru
dent.”
To prepare for the possible cut in
funds, the University must stay within
a budget based on funds consistently
given to Texas A&M by the state, he
said.
“And I think really the only way of
effectively achieving that state of
affairs (staying within the state
budget) is to develop a steady-state
enrollment situation — that is, not to
continue our growth,” he said.
Eaton said he plans to develop and
work on programs to decrease growth
in enrollment.
“Right now, students can enter in
any number and they can ... major in
any particular field,” he said. “And
by Kim Schmidt
Battalion Staff
To meet the demands of a growing
udent body, Texas A&M needs to
stall a better program of resource
anagement, University Provost
ordon P. Eaton says.
Eaton, who was named provost for
ademic affairs Feb. 2, said that
anagement of resources involves
:fer control of money as well as bet-
rcontrol over faculty distribution
id student enrollment.
I To increase resource manage-
ent, Eaton said, the University
lould work to reduce its dependence
l the Permanent University Fund,
lerease the rapid growth of enroll-
ent and better distribute the stu-
:nts and faculty in the various col-
But because other universities
n to share the PUF, Eaton said
nas A&M might find the amount of
Students angry about proposed
oil drilling at Hensel park site
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Reporter
The granting of oil drilling rights in
Hensel Park by the Texas A&M
Board of Regents has angered at least
two students here.
On Feb. 22, the board accepted a
bid of $1.28 million from North Cen
tral Oil Co. of Houston for the drill
ing rights to two pieces of University-
owned land. The other site is north of
the F&B Road.
Two Texas A&M seniors, Tyson
M. Broad and Andrew Jones, sent a
letter to the board Feb. 26 to protest
the decision to allow drilling at the
park.
In their letter, Broad and Jones
said Hensel Park is a place to “relax
and enjoy the aesthetic side of A&M."
They questioned how the oil well will
“fit into the park’s pastoral setting.”
Broad says he wants the park left as
it is now.
Several residents of the married
student apartments — located next to
Hensel Park on South College Ave
nue — expressed concern about hav
ing an oil well next to them.
Judy Kingman, an August gradu
ate, says she “personally wouldn’t
want one.” She added, however, that
she understands why the regents
leased the land.
Cindy Cooley, a junior manage
ment major, said that the drilling is
fine with her as long as the money is
put back into the University.
However, Cooley said the idea
bothers her because there aren’t
enough parks. She says she thinks it
would be a good idea to use some of
the money to build another park.
Grad,uate student Scott McConnel
says he doesn’t like the destruction of
streets by large equipment needed at
a drilling site.
Iyer Venkit, an aerospace en
gineering graduate student, said the
well will be all right as long as it
doesn’t make much noise.
None of the students said they have
heard any talk about the matter from
other residents.
Dave Bergen, Hensel Park admi
nistrator, said the well’s effect on the
park will depend on the exact location
of the well and routes of access into
the park, which have not yet been de
termined.
The proposed location of the well
will have to be approved by a group of
University officials, including
Bergen.
North Central recently put in a well
on the golf course at Briarcrest Coun
try Club. Country club president Bob
Coen said the well has not caused any
environmental problems.
Coen said there were a few minor
complaints about the noise at night
when the well was first being built.
The complaints came from the three
houses closest to the golf course and
lasted about 30 days.
Union ‘interested in dumping’ Reagan
United Press International
DALLAS — Walter Mondale, for
now, has a lot of friends in the million-
member American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Em
ployees. President Reagan does not.
“Our union is interested in dump
ing Ronald Reagan,” said Gerald
McEntee, AFSCME president. “And
at this point in time, Walter Mondale
is the man we like the most to do the
job.”
The AFL-CIO’s third largest un
ion wound up a nationwide caucus
Sunday in Dallas.
McEntee said a consensus 1984
presidential endorsement is expected
by August.
“Almost all of our members want
to see Ronald Reagan out of office,”
said McEntee. “The issue is who do we
spend our money on.”
The union says it plans to double
its 1980 campaign chest and target
$1.6 million against Reagan, and
spend an another $900,000 in state
and local races — a total of $2.5 mil
lion.
“We believe we are probably the
most politically sophisticated institu
tion in the American labor move
ment,” said McEntee, noting hun
dreds of members were available to
canvass neighborhoods and man
phone banks.
In a speech to about 200 delegates
McEntee called President Reagan the
“Babe Ruth of all deficits.” Federal
program cuts have decimated the
union.
“We as an institution have had
enough of politicians who look upon
government as something bad,” he
said. “We have a mandate to change
the system. Reagan is against public
employees whether you are a state or
city employee or a former air traffic
controller.”
McEntee said a single defense de
partment cost overrun on a missile
system would provide enough money
to completely fund a nutrition prog
ram for women and infants.
He said federal programs in edu
cation, highway construction and
other areas have been cut by about $5
billion in the Southwest through
1984.
“In the Sunbelt as in other areas of
the country,” said McEntee, “a broad
range of necessary state and local gov
ernment services have been reduced
or eliminated since President Reagan
took office.”
resource management
we’ve had such incredibly rapid
growth in engineering and business
administration that we have not been
able to provide adequate numbers of
faculty.
“We may have now reached the
point where we need to seriously con
sider somehow limiting enrollment
even within individual colleges of the
University as well as total enrollment
of the University.”
Eaton said he would like to see en
rollment limited within the next five
years.
In addition to enrollment, Eaton
said he would like to see other im
provements — including a growth in
the proportion of graduate students
— made at Texas A&M.
By recruiting, backed up by fellow
ships and assistantships, and by gain
ing greater prominence professional
ly in the various fields, Texas A&M
can draw more graduate students,
Eaton said.
But other signs show that Texas
A&M is a university on the rise — for
example, the recent computerization
of Texas A&M, which Eaton said was
long overdue, and the addition of a
department of computing science.
And although the constant changes
taking place here can be maddening
to University administration, change
is important to the health of the Uni
versity, Eaton said.
“If the institution is alive, there
ought to be this kind of flux and fer
ment going on all the time,” he said.
“When nothing is changing, I think
the institution is dead on its feet.”
Eaton is experienced in handling
change.
His assignment to the postion of
provost last month became the most
recent advancement in a career
marked by advancements and rapid
change.
During the last five years, Eaton
has moved from scientist-in-charge at
the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in
1978, to associate chief geologist at
the U.S. Geological Survey at Reston,
Va., to dean of the Texas A&M Col
lege of Geosciences in 1981 and now
to provost.
And in coming directly from his
last post in Virginia to Bryan-College
Station, Eaton experienced more
than just a career change.
“It was a major change in many
ways — culturally, geographically, cli
matically, professionally.”
But Eaton said he likes it here and
is glad he, his wife and his two chil
dren made the move.
Further changes came when Eaton
took his position as provost.
see PROVOST page 4
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25 through Dec. 3 can he picked up
in the Pavilion Registration Center
starting Tuesday.
Rings will be available at the
counter in Room 119. The counter
will be open from 8:15 a.m. to noon
and from 1 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. until
Friday.
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forecast ,
Sunny skies for today with a high of
79. Winds from the west at about
10 mph. For tonight, clear skies
and a low near 51. Clear and sunny
on Tuesday with a high near 80.