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TlwC me baTTanon heduled E. ni e n. K. ro Serving the University community 76 No. 115 USPS 045360 28 Pages In 2 Sections College Station, Texas Friday, March 11, 1983 iuledl ONdnit, )CIE 350 Rue Soviets expel American diplomat United Press International MOSCOW — The RGB secret olice said Thursday it caught a U.S. ipl®mat operating satellite radio spy piipment and the Soviet govern- tent ordered him expelled. ^■he diplomat, Richard Osborne, as petained by Soviet agents Mon- ay as a spy but a U.S. Embassy )okt sman said he was not in Soviet custody Thursday. “Richard Osborne has been de clared persona non grata for actions incompatible with diplomatic status,” the Soviet news agency Tass said. The chief U.S. spokesman in Mos cow said Osborne, a first secretary at the embassy’s economic section, had been ordered to leave the country. He refused to discuss any details of the Soviet allegations. The spokesman said Osborne was “in the process of making his plans to leave.” Osborne arrived in Moscow in August 1982. The move followed a flurry of ex pulsions of Soviet diplomats from Western European countries, includ ing a naval attache and a translator in London, an army attache in Rome, two diplomats in Stockholm and an assistant military attache in Berne, Switzerland. Osborne “was apprehended red- handed as he was working with espionage radio apparatus,” the KGB said in a statement published in the government newspaper Izvestia. “Confiscated from him were a kit of portable spying apparatus for transmitting intelligence information via the America Marisat communica tions satellite and hand-written notes, recorded in a notebook made up of paper that dissolves quickly in water, implicating R. Osborne in spying activity,” the statement said. “For actions not compatible with his status as a diplomat, R. Osborne has been declared persona non grata.” Osborne, who is married and the father of daughters aged 6 and 8, was not available for comment. Reached by telephone, Osborne’s wife Mary said the announcement came as a complete surprise. Her voice breaking, she said only, “I can’t talk about any of this.” iSC.Ap Reagan asks x>r more aid n El Salvador ill idvi IS d thei siern York at l< playingl away cro i, D.C.tl is redoo mmodati laid then ipularitv inicago, United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — ITesi- :nt Reagan set the stage for a clash th (iongress by asking for $ 110 mil- in in new military aid for El Salva- ir.liinting he will send more milit- ^^Btdvisers if the amount is not (proved. With Congress about to begin prk next week on a major foreign d bill, Reagan unveiled an aid re- ies| Thursday intended to combat stability in El Salvador and prevent from spreading throughout Central merica. At the same time, Reagan said he ill pot be bound by a self-imposed nit on the number of U.S. military Ivitjers and trainers in El Salvador id fnay feel compelled to dispatch ore if his request is not met. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill 'Id reporters there was “a strong ding the president has gone too r.' O’Neill said Reagan’s view of the tngcr in El Salvador was “grossly /erlplown.” ■hey haven’t justified getting the oney they are asking for,” he said. Reagan proposed $298 million in .*w aid for Central America as part a broad policy approach to econo- icand political problems he blamed irBnviting insurgency by Soviet- icked leftists. The $298 million represents $130 illion in military assistance — $110 r El Salvador and $20 million for dghboring countries — and $168 illion in extra economic assistance, of which El Salvador would receive the largest share. Reagan said only $85 million would be new money, with the remainder allocated from other assistance prog rams. Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on inter- American affairs, predicted Congress will attach strings to whatever aid it approves. Anticipating opposition in Con gress, Reagan at one point said, “We welcome all the help we can get” in winning approval of his aid program. El Salvador recently returned to center stage in high-level foreign poli cy discussions within the administra tion. Reagan pointed with alarm to “the tactical advantage” taken by the guerrillas and warned the outcome in El Salvador will affect not only its neighbors, but U.S. security as well. “We have been slow to understand the defense of the Caribbean and Central America against Marxist- Leninist takeover is vital to our na tional security in ways we are not accustomed to thinking about,” he said. The forum —- a speech to the Na tional Association of Manufacturers — was an unlikely one for a detailed E resentation of foreign policy. The usiness crowd applauded only twice — in response to comments unrelated to El Salvador — and sat in silence even when Reagan paused at lines de signed to,spark applause. Staff photo by John Makely Repent and Be Saved 1 A crowd of over 100 people gathered in front of Rudder Tower Thursday to listen, question and heckle Jim Gilles, a Christian speaker from Evansville, 111. Gilles, a member of the Jed Smock Christian Evangical Circular spoke on Christianity and damnation, receiving more heckles than criticism from the crowd. Dave Bergen, a student activities advisor, requested that Gilles move to the fountain as classes in the Academic Building were being disturbed. nd Irlpw ico (of! 8 35. Dep cooveoW JW Call ormaliW I Regents to discuss Teacher pay hikes mean cuts other programs, senator says id Press International cates a salary schedule which certainly local taxes would be required, with If the state passes a progra — Gov. Mark White’s ” UntUr “t infort.in. rh#-l^rcrp-u rnmina in rm al is unbalanced, under-funded a ee ? rent increases Texas A&M System Board of B^egents will discuss fee increases for pfmitory rooms, board plans and | 11 mule bus service for next semester its March 20 meeting. ■ he proposed increases for resi- |nce halls, which are due to the ex- Becl rise in utility costs, would iean a 10 percent increase for all — "'boms. A Increases in the cost of operating i/|Mi) ie [food services area has caused a ^ Iquest for an estimated 7 percent •^icrease in board plans for both five- nd seven-day plans. Regents also will consider increas- ig the shuttle bus service fee from 0 per student to $42 per student, a , r percent increase. ’T |‘Other proposed increases include J (I OPf'h 8 percent increase in student laun- h Greal ■F ees anc * an * ncrease * n hie physic- ^ ’ education service fee from $10 to 30 der4 Sol $12 per student per course. One proposal calls for the monthly rental rates of some married student housing units to decrease 6 percent. Rental rates are decreasing because, beginning Sept. 1, the tenants of the College Avenue, College View and Hensel Terrace Apartments will pay their own electricity bills. The Univer- sity now pays those utility bills. The University will continue to pay the electric bills at the Southside Apartments. The rent at those apart ments will increase 10 percent. No increase is proposed for rent at the Avenue “A” apartments. Other items to be discussed include appropriations for detailed designs of the chancellor’s residence and the En gineering/Physics Building and appropriations for the preliminary designs of the new System Building and Chemistry Building. United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White’s proposal for a 30 percent overall in crease in teachers’ pay comes at the expense of $136 million in transpor tation, maintenance and vocational education, a state official said. Joe Kelly Butler, chairman of the State Board of Education, was one of several senators and public officials who made budget presentations Thursday before a specially-called meeting of the Texas Senate. “The governor’s proposal advo cates a salary schedule which certainly is attractive,” Butler said. “Unfortun ately, the total package does not allo cate state money in such a manner as to allow the full increases to get to all the teachers.” Butler said the governor’s propos al for higher teacher salaries could force local school districts to either raise taxes or withold part of the in creased pay. Butler said that under White’s budget formula, $ 166 million more in local taxes would be required, with the largest increases coming in rural areas. Although he praised White’s efforts to increase teacher pay, Butler said the governor’s education budget was “unbalanced” in other areas. Butler reminded lawmakers that voters can call an election to limit school district taxes if the district in creases its tax rate by morp than 8 percent. He said 49 such “roll-back” elections already are in process. “If the state passes a program that is unbalanced, under-funded and un fair in the burden placed on local dis tricts, we are encouraging an increase in the number of these roll-back situa tions,” he said. “Ultimately, the very teachers whom we want to give raises to probably will never get them.” Butler said that under White’s proposal, state funds are shifted from populous counties, such as Harris, Dallas, Tarrant and some rural areas, and into areas such as Bexar, El Paso and border counties. Students take part in dean selection by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff Two Texas A&M students are par ticipating in the selection process for a new dean for the College of Business. The Academic Programs Council approved a request by Student Gov ernment to have two students serve on all dean and vice president selec tion committees. Selection committee member Jolie Mailhos said that it is important that there be at least one student from the college seeking a dean on the com mittee. “It is important to have student input, and students from that college would be most familiar with it and know what it needs,” Mailhos said. “The student also must be someone mature and able to handle that type of responsibility.” She said it’s a good idea for the students on the committees to come from Student Government because they are familiar with the administra tive process. The bill submitted to the council requested that the students be appointed by Student Government. Mailhos and Jabby Lowe, a finance graduate student, were selected by Student Body President Pat Pearson for the business dean search com mittee. “We had our first meeting Tuesday and the faculty were very receptive to the students,” Mailhos said about the search committee. “It went really well and we felt very comfortable.” Another search committee has been formed to find a clean for the College of Geosciences, but the stu dent committee members have not been chosen. Last year. President Frank E. Van diver placed two students on the selection committee for the new vice president of academic affairs. Because the new vice president was not chosen last year, Pearson appointed two new students, Chris E. Cleveland and Clifford Walton to take the place of the two students who graduated. ,*3Mipiii n g deadline I Filing for positions with Student 10 Soil 95 Government, Residence Hall Asso ciation, yell leaders and Off- [Campus Aggies closes at 7 p.m. today. inside rti j Classified 6 (Mia 3 ilFOP'Sports 5 W1VT State ; 6 Early! ^Rational 9 —^ Police Beat 4 What’s up 4 forecast Sunny skies today with a high near 67 Winds from the north at 10 to 15 mph. Clear and chilly tonight with the low near 38. Clear skies Hturday moi, ing becoming partly cloudy by the afternoon. Satur day’s high near 69. Sportsmanship committee fights for respect By Robert McGlohon Battalion Staff • It’s been an uphill battle but the head of the Southwest Conference Sportmanship Committee says the student group will be around for a while. At a recent meeting of confer ence athletic directors, questions were raised about the usefulness and expense of the committee, said Joe Jordan, a Texas A&M senior who is executive secretary of the committee. He added that com plaints about the committee’s use fulness in the past had some merit. “There’s been major concern that the committee has not been functioning as it should,” he said. The Sportsmanship Committee is a group of 27 students, three from each of the nine SWC schools. Its function, as stated in the com mittee’s constitution, is to promote and evaluate sportsmanship at SWC schools. Problems with the committee were due to its lack of an official voice within the SWC and to a few uncommitted committee members, Jordan said. But the committee is trying to change that, he said. As it stands now, the committee meets three times a year to discuss possible solutions to the promotion of sportsmanship in the nine col leges of the SWC. “And that has been where it has died usually in the past,” Jordan said. After the discussion wa$ com plete and a decision reached, it was left up to the students to take the ideas back to campus. But some of the students — who were assigned to the committee only because they had a free weekend — didn’t care, he said. And of those who did care some weren’t listened to when they returned to campus, Jordan said. “We would like to see our prop osals go directly to the Southwest Conference for consideration,” he said. Although it probably won’t be completed and is not on the official schedule, a proposal to reorganize the committee will be the primary subject of the meeting, Jordan said. The proposal will require the committee to submit its ideas and decisions to the SWC governing body for official approval, Jordan said, and that would give the com mittee’s decisions more bite. The committee will try to pre pare a rough draft of the proposal, which will be finished at the next meeting in September, he said. Jor dan said the proposal then will be given to the governing body of the SWC, which is composed of faculty representatives from SWC schools. If accepted, he said, the proposal will be incorporated into the SWC constitution and give the x Sport smanship Committee a more offi cial status. Jordan said that the committee’s mandate now is one sentence in the SWC constitution that states the committee will exist, but not much more. During Saturday’s meeting, the committee also will vote on w r hich SWC school should receive the yearly sportsmanship award. Jor dan, as executive secretary, will present a plaque to the representa tives of the winning school. He said there’s a good chance he will be able to present the plaque to himself. Committee members are not allowed to vote for their own schools, Jordan said, but he thinks that other members will be inclined to vote for Texas A&M. He said there are basically three reasons for his belief: — Texas A&M won’t be immedi ately disqualified for blatant acts of unsportsman-like conduct, a situa tion facing a couple of the SWC schools. — The other members are aware of the effort that Jordan and the other two Texas A&M representa tives, Jeff Bissey and Steve Atkins, have put forth to establish a degree of respect for the Sportsmanship Committee in the SWC. — Texas A&M is recognized for its good crowd control at football and basketball games, primarily due to the efforts and resourceful ness of Texas A&M yell leaders.