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_|T.x«A&M Q ■■ |- me Banal ion Serving the University community 1.76 No. 118 USPS 045360 16 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 23, 1983 l[| kJ 5 wild pj iNy Killy y We3?i( leagan to release secret efense information today the elyi MtLnited Press International \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.” ly have« ' ihtca ualiuut (1 ihero e Comi t Rfain acuity senate nominations pen with regents’ approval 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- l Uj into effect. 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 In NEf 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. inside Around Town 4 Classified 6 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 12 State 6 National 9 Police Beat 4 What’s up 12 forecast Mostly cloudy skies today w'ith a high of 61 and a 50 percent chance of showers. Winds becoming northwesterly at 10 to 20 mph. Partly cloudy tonight with a low near 39 and a 20 percent chance of rain. Partly cloudy skies Thursday with a high near 63.