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Tuesday, March 22, 1983
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As results of the secret parliamen-
■B)alloting were announced, the
|e|)f Begin — whose personal can-
iceff iatc, Rabbi Menachem Elon, was
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Ti l AVIV, Israel — Former U.N.
nbassador and opposition politician
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eat vic-
opponents ot Prime Minis-
defeated — showed “shock,” state-
run Israel Radio said.
One member of Begin’s ruling
Likud coalition party called the vote
“deceit.”
Herzog, 63, a Knesset member for
the opposition Labor Party, was
elected Israel’s sixth president by a
vote of 61-57. A soldier-statesman,
Herzog will succeed President Yit
zhak Navon, who ends his five-year
term in May.
The balloting in the 120-member
Knesset, or parliament, marked a
stunning upset over Begin’s personal
candidate and over the prime minis
ter’s ruling Likud coalition.
The results of the vote, with two
members of parliament abstaining,
underlined the defection by a num
ber of Likud deputies who shunned
the obscure Elon in favor of the oppo-
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W SHINGTON — For the second
lain as many weeks, the withhold-
^Bnx on interest and dividends
^■rdized Senate passage of a cru-
al bill — this time the S165 billion
oci^l Security rescue plan.
Hhances faded Monday for quick
assageof the measure when the Sen-
tHecame enmeshed in a bitter de-
ate over the proposal by Sen. John
lelcher, D-Mont., to delay the with-
Jriding tax for six months until Jan.
19s I. He attached the tax amend-
^TAnent to the Social Security bill.
ipst week, a similar amendment to
* J '™'epeal the withholding provision due
Kjegin July 1 stalled Senate con-
———Ideration of a multi-billion-dollar
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lbs bill.
The Senate resumes debate today
on the package which includes higher
payroll taxes this decade, a six-month
delay in this year’s July cost-of-living
increase, and a first-ever tax on up
per-income pensioners to ensure the
system’s solvency over the next 75
years.
In addition, the Senate bill would
hike the 65-year retirement age to 66
by 2015 and cut the basic benefit for
new retirees 5 percent as of 2008.
Congressional leaders still hope to
send a final version to the White
House by Easter.
But the 116 million Americans who
contribute to the system and the 36
million retirees dependent on its be
nefits will have to wait a little longer to
see what the Senate will do about the
keyenfs consider adding
new Kyle Field boxes
sition Labor candidate.
The German-born Elon, 59, was a
surprise candidate, but greatly re
spected by Begin for his writings and
teachings on Jewish law. Begin called
Elon, a Supreme Court justice and
professor of Jewish law, “my master
and teacher.”
“I wish (Herzog) success in his high
office and call on everyone to support
our new president,” EJon told state-
run Israel Radio after the vote.
But Roni Milo, a Knesset deputy
for the Likud party, complained, “We
will have to check what happened
here. It was simply deceit. It was a
great victory for the opposition.”
Herzog said he was not surprised
by the upset.
“I will work toward unifying the
nation, brotherhood, and increasing
the nation’s esteem,” Herzog told
Israel Radio after the vote. “I hope
that during my term we will achieve
peace with our (Arab) neighbors.”
Herzog was Israel’s ambassador to
the United Nations from 1975 to
1978. It was at the world body that he
skillfully defended the Jewish state
and Zionism against attacks from a
hostile Arab bloc.
fate of the retirement system.
Not only must it resolve the with
holding tax logjam, but it still faces a
key amendment by Sen. Russell Long,
D-La., to delay the inclusion of new
federal workers in the Social Security
system until they are guaranteed a
supplemental retirement plan.
Senate Republican leader Howard
Baker of Tennessee said approval of
the Long amendment would be a
“major change that would create ma
jor problems” for the fragile com
promise.
Early in its fourth day of debate
Monday, the Senate rejected 60-31 an
amendment to increase Social Secuir-
ty protection for older workers who
are forced to leave their jobs because
of poor health.
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Battalion Staff
A feasibility study for the construc-
:on of prestige boxes in Kyle Field-
ias presented by representatives of
be Aggie Club during Monday’s
meeting of the Texas A&M Board of
Regents.
^H’he board was scheduled to vote
n whether to continue the project
luring this morning’s session.
|lln December 1982, the Aggie Club
uovided $18,000 for the feasibility
tuclv. The architecture firm of Lock-
hod, Andrews and Newnam, Inc. of
Iquston was selected by Chancellor
hthur G. Hansen to prepare the
tudy.
I Harry J. Green Jr., former presi-
lentof the Aggie Club, said Athletic
bifmor Jackie Sherrill asked a few
nonths ago about placing boxes on
he east side of Kyle Field. But
irchitects determined that it wasn’t
easible because of the structure of
he stands.
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he latest study — one placing the
foxes at the south end of Kyle Field
md the other placing them at the
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Cloudy to partly cloudy skies today
with a high near’60 and a 30 per-
cent chance of showers. Mostly
cloudy tonight with a low near 49
ajid a 40 percent chance of thun
dershowers. For Wednesday,
cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
thundershowers and a high near
Two students dismissed
from Corps for pot use
north end of Kyle Field, Green said.
The south-end structure would be
six stories high, with 12 boxes on the
top four levels, leaving the boxes iso
lated from other parts of the stadium.
The preferred design places the
boxes in two stories with 24 on each
level in the north end of the stadium.
The boxes, which could be connected
to present suites with a walkway,
would seat 16 and have a parlor area
for entertaining and additional sea-
ting.
Included in both designs is space
for a multi-purpose room, which
would be placed below the boxes, and
a weight room, which would be placed
at the south end of the field.
The estimated cost of the south-
end structure is $5 million, while the
estimated cost of the north-end struc
ture is $7 million. The multi-purpose
room would cost about $545,000 and
the weight room would cost about
$600,000.
Steve Stevens, the 1983 president
of the Aggie Club, said that based on a
poll of the executive committee of the
club, they believe the boxes will sell.
Members of the Aggie Club would be
contacted to lease the boxes according
United Press International
HOUSTON — The court-
appointed master who monitors
progress in Texas prison reform has
filed another report, and this time he
particularly cites the Texas Depart
ment of Corrections’ Eastham Unit as
lagging behind.
In a report to U.S. District Judge
William Wayne Justice made public
Monday, special master Vincent
Nathan said monitor W. David
Arnold checked 57 points at nine of
Texas Department of Corrections’ 26
units.
Arnold found fault with all nine
but particularly cited the Eastham
unit as lagging behind.
Arnold asked 57 questions in re
gard to a May 1982 agreement be
tween opposing lawyers that TDC
would stop using inmates as authority
figures and would install better grie
vance and discipline procedures.
“The findings in the report, taken
as a whole, reflect both serious prob
lems and significant progress,” the re
port said.
“Given the complex provisions of
the stipulation, which was designed to
uproot a longstanding practice
to senority. The proposed lease
would be for 16 years at a cost of
$150,000.
After hearing the proposal, Board
Chairman H.R. “Bum” Bright said
that the planning and building com
mittee would continue to work with
the Aggie Club on the project. Prob
lems with financing still need to be
worked out, he said.
Another problem would be the
perception people might have of
Texas A&M because of this expense,
Bright added.
“We don’t want to present
ourselves to be taking away from
academic funds for athletics,” Bright
said.
During committee reports, the fol
lowing items were discussed:
• Final negotiations for an industrial
park chairman should be completed
by May. The industrial park will be
located on 393 acres on the northwest
corner of the campus.
• The Target 2000 committee will
present its final report at the May re
gents’ meeting. Target 2000 is a plan
for the Texas A&M System to follow
through the year 2000.
throughout TDC, such a result is not
unexpected.
“The problems, including con
tinued exercise of authority by some
inmates over others and sporadic vio
lence, are extremely serious,” the re
port said.
“Nevertheless, the overall tenor of
the monitor’s report makes clear that
significant progress toward com
pliance has been made, with the ex
ception of the Eastham Unit.
“The orderlies at the Eastham Unit
counted other inmates, actively broke
up altercations between other in
mates, controlled TV programs, re
layed messages to other inmates,
escorted other inmates, and kept a
count board and independently re
corded the movement of other in
mates,” the report said.
“Support service inmates (at Eas
tham) were permitted to physically
and verbally abuse, to discipline and
to control the movement of other in
mates.”
Justice in April 1981 appointed
Nathan special master to oversee re
forms Justice had ordered in Texas
prisons after the year-long trial of a
lawsuit initiated in 1974 by inmate
David Ruiz.
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
Two Texas A&M students have
been dismissed from the Corps of
Cadets based on an investigation into
marijuana use within a company of
the Corps, Col. Donald L. Burton said
Monday.
The students also were removed
from the University Reserve Officer
Training Corps program and will be
denied a commission in the U.S.
Armed Forces, he said.
Burton said on March 3 that there
was evidence that four cadets — all in
the same company of the Corps —
had been using marijuana.
Two of the cadets were implicated
in fairly recent use of marijuana.
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SASEBO, Japan — More than
6,000 sailors from the USS Enterprise
filled Japanese bars and video game
parlors today in this port city where
thousands of demonstrators pro
tested the visit of their nuclear-
powered ship.
Riot-equipped police today kept
order, a day after the protests in small
boats and on the city’s streets against
the visit of the 75,700-ton aircraft car
rier, which opponents said violates
Japan’s anti-nuclear policy.
But police reduced the number of
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AUSTIN — The Senate has
approved a bill that clears the way for
Texas to take over management of
18,000 acres of federal property on
Matagorda Island.
The land at one time was used as
an Air Force bombing range, but
more recently has been preserved as
critical habitat for the endangered
whooping crane.
The U.S. government and Texas
reached an agreement last December
that turns over management — but
not ownership — of the land to Texas.
Senate action was needed because
current state laws require that the is
land be used primarily for recreation
while the other two cadets were sus
pected only in past use of the drug,
Burton said.
The cadets’ dismissal was decided
by a board of officers, which reached
its decision Monday, Burton said.
“We’ve wound that action up,” he
said. “Two cadets were heavily impli
cated as being recent, fairly frequent
users of pot. And the recommenda
tion has gone forward to their respec
tive military services that their con
tracts be terminated, that they be dis-
enrolled from ROTC and removed
from the Corps of Cadets.”
No action will be taken against the
two cadets who had been suspected of
using marijuana in the past, Burton
said.
special security forces from 3,000 to
2,000 “because the town is so quiet
today,” a spokesman said.
An official of the Maritime Safety
Agency said the boats used to keep
protesters away from the giant war
ship and four accompanying U.S. ves
sels had been reduced from 24 to five.
More than 6,000 American sailors,
on shore leave after U.S.-South Ko
rean maneuvers, packed bars and
video-game parlors in the city of
250,000 people, 600 lyiiles west of
Tokyo, and got a generally friendly
reception, police said.
“You can’t fight against the govern-
and secondarily for wildlife preserva
tion.
The bill passed by the Senate Mon
day amended the law to specify that
wildlife preservation along with re
creation will be the island’s primary
purposes.
Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus
Christi, was the only lawmaker voting
against the proposal. He said he fa
vored state management of the is
land, but questioned whether the
state could afford the estimated
$450,000 it will cost to manage the
island each biennium.
The Senate also passed a bill in
creasing the fees for a variety of state
fees and permits.
“There wasn’t enough evidence to
show that they were actually impli
cated that heavily,” he said.
Burton said he considers the inci
dent a rare one. Cadets as a rule, he
said, have a fairly dim view of mari
juana use.
“This behavior was not normal for
that outfit because that outfit had
some problems a few years back and I
think the senior class has made a con
certed effort not to allow anything
like that,” he said. “This just hap
pened to occur.”
Burton said the University prob
ably will not take any further action
against the two former cadets.
merit. Besides, the American sailors’
money helps,” said a shop owner.
An estimated 7,000 Japanese de
monstrators protested the arrival of
the Enterprise Monday, police said.
Radicals, Socialists and members of
Japan’s militant Federation of Trade
Unions charged the visit proves Japan
has become a link in U.S. nuclear
strategy.
Japan, the only nation ever sub
jected to atomic attack, remains ex
tremely sensitive about nuclear
weapons. U.S. officials have declined
to say if the Enterprise carries nuclear
arms.
Sen. John Leedom, R-Dallas, said
the fees had not been increased in
decades and fell far short of covering
the state’s administrative costs.
Under the bill, fees-charged by 18
agencies would be increased enough
to generate an estimated $23.5 mil
lion in state revenue next year.
In a separate bill, the Senate voted
to increase fees for alcohol-related
licenses and permits. The increase is
expected to generate $10,8 million
during the next 'fiscal year.
Before the end of the session, the
Legislature is expected to consider
fee increases that would generate a
total of $109.3 million in state re
venues.
Eastham lagging
in prison reform
Bill allows Texas takeover
of federal land management
Japan protests ship visit