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The Battalion
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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.
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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
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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. The counter
will be open from 8:15 a.m. to noon
and from 1 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
inside
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forecast
Clear skies for today with a high
near 76. Northerly winds of
around 10 mph. Mostly clear skies
tonight and a low of 44. For
Wednesday, sunny skies with the
high near 77.