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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.”
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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.
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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
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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-
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$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.
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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
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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.