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\ laic >'EH) The Battalion Serving the University community I. 76 No. 112 USPS 045360 12 Pages ’ College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 8, 1983 OPEC prices, production, still unstable Next stop, Broadway staff photo by David Fisher Students practice dance moves during an audition Monday night, while directors and writers watch to pick out potential least members for a second call. The auditions were for the musical “Transit,” which has its debut in April at Texas A&M. It was written by Sue Douphin and Penelope Kosztolnyik. lenate committee cuts jobs bill United Press International LONDON — OPEC ministers to day began the sixth day of consulta tions to forge a new price and produc tion accord but Iranian and Nigerian ministers still opposed lowering prices and production, conference sources said. United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Mana Saeed Al Otaiba, heading the Persian Gulf lobby for a cut in the benchmark price of $34 a barrel to $30 or $29, met Indonesia’s Subroto in a London hotel where a full session was starting later. “This is the day of the crunch, if they can’t meet Tuesday (today) they might as well break up,” a Gulf con ference source said. After an hour of talks Monday night with other tpinisters favoring a price cut, Otaiba issued the bleakest statement of the week’s talks in London. “Nothing has been reached,” he told reporters. “We are still at the be ginning of the road.” Otaiba said all 13 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers were meeting informally to day. Iran’s Mohammed Gharazi, drumming up support for his antire duction campaign, said he would attend the talks. Conference sources said the talks hit a major snag in patching up differ ences on the producers’ shares ih a proposed 14 million barrel-a-day ceiling. “Virtually everyone except Iran agrees the price should be cut. That’s as if the price no longer is an issue,” an aide said. “Discord now has erupted on who should produce how much — demands for quotas stretch beyond 18 million. What Otaiba hailed Friday as an “understanding” on both price and production levels has been under mined by Iran’s insistence a cut will not spur demand, Arab diplomats said. OPEC’s production already is running below 14 million barrels a day, they said. Saudi Arabia, which voluntarily cut its 7 million barrel daily quota to 5.5 million this year, was told by Iran it should produce no more than 3 mil lion barrels, diplomats said. Britain’s assertion that it will cut its North Sea prices further in response to any OPEC price cut has left dele gates wondering if a price agreement would hold and whether it could pre vent a price war, diplomats said. “The way it looks, OPEC may have to scramble for a new policy ho sooner than it achieves one this week,” said one analyst. Britain and Norway proposed a cut of $3 a barrel to $30.50 in their crude prices last month, but neither could enforce the rates while the market awaited an expected larger reduction in OPEC prices. Gharazi said Monday Iran would “never” go along with the price cuts and lower ceiling proposals. He said the only issue he would consider was defense of the $34 oil price. tt >M >M I) lAlffli tl -M >M (AIM® tl M night ’M iaintem ,1 night 'M LAlNTENt United Press International Washington — seeking to icad off a possible veto f rom Presi- ent Reagan, the Senate Appropria- ons Committee cut $1 billion worth I ' pork” from the House's jobs bill nd sent a $3.9 billion package to the nil Senate. ■'he House approved a $4.9 billion ill last week. After that action, White Ibuse deputy press secretary Larry wakes said Reagan would take a , Bbselook"at the House bill and fight prone costing less. Reagan’s original )l)s program called for spending 4.11 billion. ■The Senate GOP leadership had i(feed to get a waiver of the usual three-day wait and send the measure to the floor as early as today. But a Senate source said some Republican opposition may prevent floor debate until Friday or perhaps next week. A key committee aide said the bill might create up to 600,000 jobs. With unemployment at 10.4 per cent nationwide and reaching 50 per cent for black teenagers, the adminis tration and members of Congress of both parties joined forces to fashion a jobs measure quicklv. The Senate committee, seeking to quiet charges that much of the money was for “porkbarrel” projects, voted to target $2 billion in areas of high unemployment. A third of the $2 bil lion would go to states based on how many people are out of work and a third would be distributed according to present law'. The other third would go to the 15 states where unemployment was higher than the national average dur ing each month in 1982 — Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The House bill, passed overwhelm ingly last week, provided 75 percent of the $4.9 billion would be spent in pockets of high unemployment, de fined as areas where unemployment was 90 percent of the national aver age for the past year. Sen. Alien Specter, R-Pa., was de feated, 18-6, in a similar amendment to target much of the bill in cities, counties and towns where the average unemployment was higher than the national average the past year. Specter said his inclination is to in troduce his amendment on the Senate floor. In the biggest addition to the House bills, the Senate committee voted $263 million for construction of veterans hospitals. Secretary blasts DWI in military Jury says woman lied in Wood case United Press International [ SHREVEPORT, La. — Jo Ann larrelson has been found guilty of nhgtoagrand jury investigating the 979 contract killing of a federal udge. It was her third conviction re tted to the probe.* ■Harrelson collapsed moments af- er hearing the verdict Monday, but Btamedics who examined her said he was fine. ■The seven-woman, five-man U.S. lisirict Court jury deliberated about x h hours before unanimously re- irning guilty verdicts on all five nun is. Harrelson, who faces up to 25 ears in prison and a $10,()()() fine, ilapsed While U.S. District Judge William Sessions was pronouncing her guilty on the fourth of the five charges. Her attorney, Charles Campion, said she was taking two types of medi cation for a heart condition. Sessions did not schedule sen tencing for Harrelson, who was ex pected to be returned today to the Federal Correctional Institute in Fort Worth. “I expect the appeal process will be initiated,” Campion said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Jahn, who has spearheaded all triajs result ing from the Wood investigation, said he was pleased by the verdicts. Prosecutors said in closing argu ments that Harrelson lied to FBI agents, to a grand jury and during her own trial because she was “sinking in a sea of evidence” tying her to the 1979 slaying of U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio. Harrelson was convicted of lying twice when she told the grand jury she did not remember buying a .240- caliber Weatherby Mark V rifle be lieved used in the judge’s murder or using the alias Fay L. King to buy the gun. Harrelson had admitted she bought the rifle believed used to mur der Wood and gave it to her husband, Charles Harrelson. She also admitted lying when she said she did not use a false name to buy the rifle. But she said that occur red through a misunderstanding with her attorney, who advised her how to answer the grand jury’s questions. After Monday’s conviction. Ses sions said he would be forced to post pone the March 18 sentencing in San Antonio of Harrelson, her husband Charles and Elizabeth Chagra for their convictions in Wood’s death. Charles Harrelson was convicted of murder, Harrelson was found guilty of obstruction ofjustice and Elizabeth Chagra was convicted of conspiracy in the slaying. Harrelson also was con victed in a Dallas trial of using a false name to purchase a rifle and was sent enced to three years in prison. United Press International WASHINGTON — Drunken driv ing, not cancer or heart disease, is the No. 1 killer in the military and the worst form of drug abuse, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger says. In a report, the Pentagon said Monday Weinberger has asked the President’s Commission on Drunk Driving to seek passage of a national minimum drinking age. The statement in the Manpower Requirements Report for fiscal year 1984 echoed a memorandum on drunken driving from Weinberger to the service secretaries dated Nov. 26. The memo was made available by a Pentagon spokeswoman. “We must leave no doubt that drunk driving is a very serious offense and will not be tolerated,” Weinberger said. “It is the No. 1 killer in the department and the worst form of drug abuse.” Drunken driving killed 26,000 people last year, and nearly 500 of the dead were armed-forces personnel, Weinberger said. Injury and proper ty damage costs were estimated to be between $110 million and $150 mil lion. “Drunk driving, not cancer or heart disease, is the leading cause of death in the military,” the secretary’s memo said. “This national tragedy has continued because we have toler ated it. It is time to address this prob lem head on and give it our best effort.” Heart disease is by far the biggest killer in the population as a whole, followed by cancer, with all accidents ranking a distant third as a cause of death. A national campaign against drunken driving has been under way for several months, with many states adopting or considering stiffer laws to control intoxication on the country’s roads and highways. The memo instructed the Joint Service Committee on Military Justice to draft a regulation establishing a blood-alcohol content level “as con clusively establishing intoxication.” It emphasized that any member of the service, a dependent or civilian employee of the Defense Department who is convicted of drunken driving will not be permitted to drive a private vehicle on a military installation for at least a year. In addition, Weinberger ordered a detailed service-wide policy directive be issued on drunken driving next month. heating policy revisions onsidered by committee Bacli”'" 1 1.1c Tc” 1 , CapW . gastfi by Kelley Smith E Battalion Staff ■ he Student Government Special Immittee on the Code of Honor is eviewinga preliminary plan on scho- astic dishonesty, which was proposed | the Department of Student Flairs. ■Theplan is a written procedure for professors to follow if they catch a student cheating. Under the plan, rofessors would handle cases involv- !g first offenses and cheating on ptnnework. If the professor felt the past' was serious enough for expulsion 3r suspension or if the student pro- cited his punishment, the case would to the college dean. ■ Appeals of the dean’s decision tvould go to the University Discipli nary Appeals Panel. I The plan also calls for a central registry where names of students who nave cheated would be kept on f ile. »‘I think it’s great that student iflairs is finally looking into this prob- em,” said Greg Bates, vice president or the rules and regulations. “The Ign is a step in the right direction, but I think we could improve upon it.” Bates said that referring cases to deans would be advantageous be cause it would be personal and within the department. However, Bates said he has proposed an impartial student/ faculty council to hear cases involving suspension or expulsion. Texas A&M regulations relating to cheating are vague, Bates said. In addition, freedom of action is given to professors, regulations are not consis tent and charges against students often are dismissed because of tech nicalities or because students were not informed of their rights. An impartial council would bring consistency among the individual col leges, he said. A student adviser from the stu dent/faculty board would assist stu dents accused of cheating through the hearing and inform them of their rights. The adviser would notact as a lawyer for students. The council then would recom mend disciplinary action to the dean or the student affairs department, Bates said. The student committee has been looking at other universities’ scholas tic dishonesty policies for possible alternatives. At Rice University, students may be expelled or suspended for dishonesty if they are caught cheating on exams. Both the Air Force Academy and the University of Virginia have impartial student boards that deal with cheating. All three of those universities have strong traditions of academic honor and integrity, Bates said. Texas A&M has not had a strong tradition of honor for the past few years, he said. He said students should be re educated to be honest and the' faculty to enforce disciplinary actions fairly and consistently. However, the edu cation process could take a few years. The Student Government commit tee will hold open meetings today and March 22 in 145 MSC to discuss the student affairs plan and possible im provements. On campus Election filing begins Filing for positions with Student Government, Off-Campus Aggies, Residence Hall Association and for yell leaders opened Monday and will continue until Friday. All candidates for student body president, yell leader, vice presi dents, class presidents, RHA presi dent and OCA president must have their pictures taken today or Wednesday for the Voters’ Guide, a supplement to The Battalion. Pic tures will be taken from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in 216 Reed McDonald. No pictures will be taken after Wednesday and no other pictures will be accepted. Only candidates for the offices listed above need to have pictures made. All candidates must fill out a Vo ters’ Guide questionnaire when they file for office. The forms are avail able in the Student Government office and should be turned in as candidates file. All forms must be returned to the Student Govern ment office by 5 p.m. Friday. Elections will be March 29 and 30. Adam Ant concert set The Adam Ant concert'that was scheduled for March 20 has been rescheduled for 8 p.m. May 8 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The concert was postponed be cause the singer injured himself during a recent concert. Tickets that have been bought for the concert will be honored for the rescheduled date. Ticketholders who do not want to attend the con cert on the new date may return their tickets for refunds at the MSC Box Office. Refunds will be given through April 29. Rings ready Senior rings ordered from Oct. 25 through Dec. 3 can be picked up this week in the Pavilion Registra tion Center. Rings will be available at the counter in Room 119. 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