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\SHlNGTON — President
^■vill release secret intelligence
mation to try to convince a skep-
public his defense policies are
edlo counter an ominous Soviet
t, aides say.
leap ia scheduled a televised
:h for 8 p.m. EST to deliver a
led assessment of Soviet military
t, hoping it will help minimize
Kftu ks Congress is expected to
■ in his defense budget in coming
“There is a knee-jerk reaction that
defense is overblown and no matter
what figure you put up there, it’s fat
and you can cut it,” an administration
official said Tuesday. “We have to
show the threat is real and this money
is needed.”
To dramatize his contention the
Soviet Union is engaged in a “relent
less drive” that has tipped the military
balance in its favor, Reagan planned
to release information available until
now only in classified briefings.
The information was expected to
include satellite reconnaisance photo
graphs showing new weapons and
military installations, as well as tech
nical data to help provide a qualitative
comparison of U.S. and Soviet capabi
lities.
Similar information was included
in a splashy Pentagon publication ti
tled “Soviet Military Power,” released
two weeks ago.
Reagan only last week ordered new
curbs against leaks of classified mate
rial. He is using his declassification
authority to put before the public sec
ret data some Republican lawmakers
have seen and found convincing,
aides said.
“At least a dozen of them have told
him if the American people could
only see what they saw in those classi
fied briefings, they wouldn’t have any
doubts about the extent of the (Soviet)
threat.” said one presidential assis
tant. “This gives him more of a basis
to prove his policies are right.”
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I by Kim Schmidt
Battalion Staff
ejeas A&M faculty senate be-
■ reality Tuesday when the
■A&M Board of Regents
vet I the senate’s creation after
y tvo years of planning,
lul with the announcement of
, ^Approval, plans for faculty
.^orlelections were put immedi-
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teperiod for nominating senato-
^fcidates begins today. Two
• ara, however, faculty senate
®ns seemed very far away.
^ ^Bosed in October 1981, the
^was designed to increase the
ty’s role in University govern-
IilDecember 1981, after studies
b|de on the need of a senate at
University President
1 Vandiver appointed the Fa-
Knate Steering Committee to
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write a constitution.
The constitution was completed
and ratified in November 1982, and
the proposed senate was brought up
for approval by the Academic Council
and the Board of Regents. Following
a delay in January 1983, regents
Tuesday approved an amendment to
the System objectives, rules and reg
ulations to allow the creation of the
senate.
After the two-year wait, adminis
trators and faculty say they are ready
to get the program underway.
And because of the enthusiasm
already shown for the new senate, a
large number of faculty members are
expected to be nominated for senate
positions, a steering committee mem
ber said.
“The faculty members that I have
talked with seem very enthusiastic ab
out the senate,” said Dr. George Kat-
tawar, professor of physics. “I think
we’re going to get a good number of
nominees.”
Nominees eventually will fill 85 fa
culty senate positions in 11 colleges
and libraries. Positions will be appor
tioned according to the number of
faculty members in each college as
follows:
— College of Agriculture, 14
— College of Architecture, 4
— College of Business Administra
tion, 7
— College of Education, 6
— College of Engineering, 16
— College of Geosciences, 4
— College of Liberal Arts, 13
— Library, 2
— College of Science, 11
— College of Veterinary Medicine, 5
— College of Medicine, 3
The School of Military Science will
have one non-voting representative.
Nominees must be employed by
Texas A&M on the College Station
campus or by the College of Medi
cine. They must be tenured or on the
tenure track, or hold the rank of pro
fessor or lecturer and receive full
time salary from teaching funds.
Nominees also may be employed
under the director of the University
libraries and be paid full-time from
library funds.
Visiting professors who have been
employed at Texas A&M for more
than three years and retired faculty
members who currently are teaching
here also may be nominated.
Faculty members may nominate
themselves or agree to their nomina
tion by another.
Elections for faculty senators will
be held April 19 and the body could
begin operation by early May.
Is Bud Tired?
staff photo by Bill Schulz
Bud, a six-week-old German Shepard-Shelty puppy takes a
nap in Maning Evans’ camera bag. Evans, a senior from
Grapevine studying areospace engineering, is selling the
puppies for five dollars each.
Democrats win
budget test vote
ents approve fee increases
By Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
10 ercent increase for residence
and a 7 percent increase in
w of board plans were approved
ujbsday’s meeting of the Texas
4 Board of Regents,
he increases will take effect in the
egents also approved a feasibility
y for the expansion of Kyle Field
was prepared by the Aggie Club.
Resign places 48 prestige boxes
ojrows along the horseshoe at the
end of Kyle Field,
detailed design for an engineer
ing/physics building also was
approved. The 160,000-square-foot
building, which will replace Parking
Lot 7, will cost an estimated $2.1 mil
lion.
A design for the chancellor’s resi
dence also was approved. The total
estimated cost, including furnishings,
is $1.2 million. The 7,291- square-
foot house will be located on a 13-acre
site off Jersey Street.
Regents also approved an amend
ment to the System’s objectives, rules
and regulations to create a faculty
senate. The 85-member senate will
serve as an advisory body to the Uni
versity president.
Regents then heard progress re
ports from the presidents of the Sys
tem universities.
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver said progress is being made
in the efforts to get and keep quality
faculty here. He also announced that
Sheldon Glashow, the 1979 Nobel
prize winning physicist, will be at
I exas A&M during his sabbatical
from Harvard University.
“We need to back out of the game
of building and place money in de-
hysicist Glashow to spend
■art of sabbatical at A&M
by Connie Edelmon
( Battalion Staff
harvard physicist Sheldon
show will spend a large part of
1983-84 sabbatical here, Uni-
;ity! President Frank E. Vandiv-
nnounced during a meeting of
[pxas A&M Board of Regents
:sdhy.
Slashow, who shared the 1979
>el prize with two other resear-
rs, said in a telephone interview
: “plans have not been formal-
1,” but that he would be spend-
a 1‘large number of weeks” at
KA&M during the next acade-
year.
Tip very happy,” Glashow said.
“I’m looking forward to visiting
you.”
Vandiver said that Dr. Robert E.
Tribble, physics department head,
still was negotiating the terms of
Glashow’s agreement.
“They haven’t struck a bargain
yet,” he said.
The University of Houston re
cently announced that it had ac
quired Glashow on a part-time
basis. Glashow will spend one week
each year at UH and will be avail
able as a consultant for the remain
der of the year. His salary was not
announced.
Texas A&M has tried for several
months to lure Glashow here. On
March 16, the Harvard student
newspaper, the Harvard Crimson,
reported that Glashow had decided
against accepting Texas A&M’s
offer of a permanent position with
a financial package that would
equal the best available at any
American university.
Vandiver made his announce
ment to the regents after saying
that recruitment of distinguished
faculty was going well. He also said
that another distinguished faculty
member was close to being ac
quired by the University. He later
declined to give the name of that
person, saying the negotiations
were “delicate” at this stage.
ges prosecute with private
yers in CBS contempt case
veloping programs and people,” Van
diver said.
Vandiver said that he was con
cerned about the graduate program
in general.
“The quality of the program leaves
a lot to be desired,” he said.
Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen said
he agreed with Vandiver about the
need to improve the graduate
program.
“The undergraduates are first
rate, but much of the reputation of a
university is based on its graduate stu
dents and programs,” Hansen said.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Demo
crats defeated President Reagan
Tuesday in a test vote on the 1984
Democratic budget plan that scales
back his military buildup and raises
taxes.
The Democrat-dominated House
planned to vote late today on the
budget plan itself, and House Speak
er Thomas O’Neill, D-Mass., cheer
fully predicted the Democrats would
pass the budget by more than 20
votes.
The $863.5 billion Democratic
plan would cut Reagan’s proposed
defense increase in 1984 by $9.3 bil
lion, add $26 billion to domestic social
programs and raise $30 billion in
taxes by repealing this year’s income
tax cut. It projects a $174 billion de
ficit, $15 billion below Reagan’s
budget deficit.
The House vote on the Democratic
budget, which would hold defense
spending to a 4 percent increase, was
expected to take place about an hour
before Reagan’s address tonight.
In a test vote, the House rejected
230-187 a Republican request for an
“open rule” to allow alternative
budgets and amendments to be
offered on the House floor to the
Democratic budget proposal.
Only 30 Democrats defected to
vote with the Republicans.
Under the Democratic “closed
rule” that was adopted, only one Re
publican substitute will be allowed to
be offered to the Democratic prop
osal.
In a surprise move, House Repub
lican leaders decided they would not
offer a substitute today and would in
stead devote all of their efforts to kill
the Democratic budget and force the
Budget Committee to w'rite a new
one. .
Their decision means there will be
only one up-or-down vote on the
Democratic budget.
House committee
strengthens rape,
child abuse laws
United Press International
W ORLEANS —A panel of fed-
udges has sidestepped the U.S.
fiey to select private attorneys to
:cute CBS News for its refusal to
lOver the script of a controverial
^Tnutes” report.
SlDistrict Judge Adrian G. Du-
ier cited CBS attorneys for con-
t on Jan. 14 when they would not
he judge a script of the segment
ling an investigation into the
ing of a New Orleans police
:r.
[Si Attorney John Volz refused
to prosecute the contempt charges, so
the judges of the district court unani
mously voted to proceed with the con
tempt prosecution by selecting pri
vate attorneys.
Court sources said the selection of
private attorneys to prosecute the
contempt citation was an unusual
maneuver, but added the case pre
sented unusual circurmstances.
Donald M. Richard and Phillip A.
Wittmann, both New Orleans
lawyers, were selected to carry out the
prosecution, according to an order
filed Monday. They will recommend
to the judges how they believe the
prosecution should be handled, offi
cials said.
The order said 11 of the court’s 13
judges voted to appoint the private
attorneys, while two were not at the
meeting and did not participate in the
decision.
Duplantier held the CBS attorneys
in contempt in a case involving the
shooting death of officer Gregory
Neupert and the ensuing investiga
tion that resulted in the deaths of four
blacks.
United Press International
AUSTIN — Witnesses told a House
committee the terror of rape, vividly
portrayed for lawmakers by the tape-
recorded screams of a rape victim,
was worsened by the fact that author
ities have only three years to
apprehend and prosecute rapists.
The House Criminal Jurispru
dence Committee unanimously
approved a Senate-passed bill Tues
day that would extend from three
years to five years the statute of limita
tions in rape and sexual abuse cases.
The measure was one of several
bills debated Tuesday that dealt with
toughening laws against rape, sexual
abuse and abuse of children. Most of
the bills were sent to subcommittees
for more study, but the committee
unanimously approved the statute of
limitations extension and a proposal
to abolish the so-called six-month “cry
out” rule in child abuse cases.
Testifying on the rape measure,
Jane Bingham of the Tarrant County
rape crisis center played a vivid
taperecorded phone caH to police by a
woman who screamed hysterically
during a sexual assault.
She said rape victims were forced
to relive their traumas when the
three-year statute of limitations for
rape ran out.
“The knowledge that she no longer
has any recourse is intolerable,” Bing
ham said. “Her emotional survival is
questionable.”
Other supporters said the existing
limitation was unfair especially when
compared to longer prosecution
periods allowed for less violent
offenses like burglary.
“A man can come in and take your
silverware and you have five years to
apprehend him. If he rapes your wife
or your child, you only have three
years,” said Rep. Roy English, D-
Arlington.
The committee also approved a bill
that would abolish an existing law that
forbids prosecution of child abusers
unless the assaulted youngster re
ports the crime within six months of
the incident. The measure also would
allow uncorroborated testimony by
accomplices in child abuse cases.
“The six-month outcry is not a
child’s law at all,” tetified Betty Drake
of the Texas Federation of Women’s
Clubs. “I would beg you on behalf of
the 400,000 projected children who
will be abused this year (to pass the
bill).”
Sent to a subcommittee was a bill
supporters said would save children
from the “trauma of the courtroom”
by allowing their testimony in abuse
cases to be videotaped. The bill also
would add sexual abuse as grounds
for removing a child from a home.
Also sent to subcommittees were
bills that would make possession of
child pornography a crime, define
sado-masochistic abuse of a child, and
force spouses to testify against each
other in child abuse cases.
Moderator set
Veteran broadcast journalist
Marvin Kalb has agreed to moder
ate a meeting of three former
heads of state at Texas A&M.
Former President Gerald Ford,
former West German Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt and former Brit
ish Prime Minister Edward Heath
are scheduled to participate in a
panel discussion April 4 on “The
Future of the Western Alliance.”
< Tickets for the program, set for
8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium, are
available at the Rudder box office.
Prices are $10, $8 and $6 for stu
dents and $12, $10 and $8 for
others.
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