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Spring, midterm
at White House
by Helen Thomas
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Suddenly it’s
spring at the White House. But instead of
enjoying the flowers in bloom. President
Reagan is manning the barricades.
The White House has become a bat
tleground as Reagan stakes out his posi
tions and takes on some improbable
opponents.
iMi,
It would have bee^difficult to predict
two years ago that me president would be
fighting the bankers, calling them a “self
ish” special interest group and chastising
them for seeking to block legislation that
would require withholding on interest
and dividends.
He did so by calling William Ruckel-
shaus back to duty as EPA chief, a post
Ruckelshaus held 13 years ago when the
agency was created in 1970.
But he has his dander up, and has ac
cused those in banking circles, who have
been his supporters, of “obstructionist
tactics” and “hostage taking” in trying to
tie their amendment first to the jobs bill
and then to the Social Security package.
Reagan insists the attacks against the
EPA operation are “unwarranted” and
says he believes it was a “misreading” and
a “misunderstanding” on the part of any
agency appointees who may have tilted
toward business.
“It would be far better if the bankers
would spend less time lobbying and more
time lowering interest rates,” he said.
It happens to all presidents.
At some point in their administration
they are bound to collide with old f riends
and backers, the kingmakers who can no
longer call the shots.
If that isn’t enough, the president also
is fighting a rearguard action against the
Democratic budget proposal that would
repeal the third year tax cut, reduce de
fense spending and increase some tax
levies to bring the deficits down.
Reagan has used his harshest rhetoric
against this proposal, calling it a “dagger
in the heart” of his economic recovery
program, and a “declaration of war.”
The fight for his own 1984 spending
program has brought out his most inten
sive lobbying since he put over his tax cut
program two years ago.
Somewhere down the line, probably in
the Senate controlled by the GOP,
But the president says that he wants
“common sense” in regulating the en
vironment and still believes some en
vironmentalists are extremists.
If that wasn’t enough, Reagan also has
been upset of late with those in his admi
nistration to leak information to the
press.
He has not pinpointed them, but he
did sign an order which severely cracks
down on socalled leakers, putting their
jobs in jeopardy, and subjecting them to
lie detector tests.
But a couple of weeks after Reagan
cracked down on potential leakers, he
declassified some of the nation’s top sec
ret photos to make his case for a strong
defense buildup.
And so it’s spring. And the president
says he is “up to his keister” in leakers,
bankers and environmental “extremists.”
But about midterm for any president
that is par for the course.
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USPS 045 360
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Government: From outside
by Maxwell Glen
and Cody Shearer
The embattled arms control chief-
designate, Kenneth L. Adelman, ought
to take a lesson from his former boss,
Ernest W. Lefever: One can be more
effective working outside government
than in.
cused by senators of misrepresenting
himself and opposing the office for
which he was nominated, charges Lefev
er denies to this day.
Adelman, 36, might appreciate such
fatherly advice now that the Senate Fore
ign Relations Committee may release
documents which indicate the Reagan
nominee misrepresented himself at a
confirmation hearing Jan. 27. Though
the committee has already sent the nomi
nation to the Senate floor with an un
favorable recommendation, Sen. Paul
Tsongas (D-Mass.) told reporters last
week that Adelman endorsed a hit-list of
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
(ACDA) personnel on Jan. 17 — 10 days
before he told the committee that he
“had not addressed the personnel situa
tion at all.”
“I’m one of the few people who know
the ordeal he’s going through," Lefever
told our reporter, Michael Duffy, last
week. “And he’s told me no one under
stands it better than I.”
an ethicist, he recently authorttl
of Maryland’s new list of'
values” for incorporationinpuiJ
curricula. And sometime soorj
predicts, the U.S. Councili
Bishops will revise someofiij
nuclear war as a resultoflobli
and other theologians.
Almost two years later, Lefever seems
to be prospering. He’s now back in vogue
on a variety of issues and, by any reason
able measure, no less influential than a
State Department bureaucrat.
“I feel as though I can be more effec
tive on the outside,” Lefever acknow
ledged.
Regardless of Adelman’s qualifica-
tons, which some senators say are insuffi
cient for the ACDA job, the new inconsis
tency can only further jeopardize his
chances for confirmation.
No nominee in recent memory can
perhaps understand Adelman’s plight
better than Ernest Lefever. The controv
ersial 63-year-old author, theologian and
foreign policy consultant endured a
nearly-five-month confirmation process
in 1981, only to withdraw after the Fore
ign Relations Committee rejected his
nomination as assistant secretary of state
for human rights and humanitarian
affairs. Like Adelman, Lefever was ac-
Since he withdrew, Lefever’s chief in
strument of influence has been his Ethics
and Public Policy Center, a seven-year-
old think-tank that publishes neo
conservative tracts on a wide range of
topics. EPPC recently received a
$190,000 grant from the U.S. Informa
tion Agency to conduct three European
seminars later this year on the ethics of
nuclear weapons (seminars which Lefev
er insists will present a diversity of views
and not simply toe the USIA line).
Meanwhile, one of Lefevt
projects — exposing theWi
of Churches’ financial supporti
groups -- was recently pickediii
“60 Minutes,” creating a smj
Among the key sources forik)
“Amsterdam to Nairobi: Hi
Council of Churches andil
World,” a 1979 book writtenl*
but roughed out in a first|
would you believe — Kenneth.!
(“He’s a fine writer ... and he*
work at the time,” Lefeverrea
Indeed, Adelman has
almost as many dif ferent are
himself. While for the most
ca specialist, Adelman haswnti
on foreign policy and in such
areas as the role of the Voiced
(radio network) in the 1980s.
More recently, EPPC published a fx>ok
of 31 essays on nuclear arms — ranging
from George Kennan to George Will —
to quell wJiat Lefever calls “inordinate
public fear” about the arms race.
Lefever has also consulted at the State
Department since 1981 on, among other
things, the public’s lax attitude toward
international terrorism. Meanwhile, as
Rather than force the Sea
between full rejection and nt
mation, Adelman might st
more from following Lefevi
Withd raw gracefully, form
think-tank, and consult as
habilitation comes quickly
friends in government wil
your wav.
ntfl
As Lefever will attest, it’s a fa
ter tiling to do, and less hassle
Reagan may get closer to his own terms,
although he will have to show some abil
ity to compromise on Pentagon outlays.
On other fronts, the president also has
been beleaguered.
His top appointees to the Environ
mental Protection Agency have either
had to resign or be fired, leaving the
agency in disarray. With seven congres
sional committees looking into the EPA
operation, Reagan had to move quickly
to reassert the credibility of his commit
ment to the public health and safety.
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Letters: Dorms vs. Chancellor’s hoi
Editor:
Calculator missing
I am writing in reference to the front
page article in the Monday Battalion con
cerning the dorm fee hikes. I agree with
our President Vandiver that the rates
seem to go up every year including this
years 10 percent hike.
Lower down in the article we are in
formed that the planning and building
committee is considering a proposed
$1.2 million, 7,291 square foot house for
one of our chancellors. The article goes
on to “brag” about the 13 acre site with its
ponds and creeks running through the
land. The house contains among other
things, a caterer’s kitchen and a 3 car
garage.
Now to me, it seems ridiculous that
such a lavish $1.2 million house is being
built in light of the dorm hikes. Here we
have the university getting ready to shell
out $1.2 million on the housing of one
man and his family, while making some
10,000 odd dorm students pay ten per
cent more for their dorm rooms. Believe
me you will see no creeks and ponds run
ning through our back yards.
The comparison of A&M, U.T. and
University of Houston showed that A&M
had lower rates. I am not consoled by this
fact. I would like to see a comparison with
all the Southwest Conference schools tak
ing the relative luxury of the dorms into
account.
In the future I hope that the responsi
ble parties, including the Board of Re
gents, will act more responsibly in the
handling of our university’s money and
take into consideration who and how
many people the money is benefitting.
Editor:
true Aggie, and is obviously as
business and Texas politics.I|
wish him the best of luck.
Gig ’em and God bless ’em.
This letter is to the person who bor
rowed my HP-15C calculator Wednesday
March 9th in Zachry 102 after Deans’
Forum. You are probably just keeping it
safe from the elements. Thanks for set
ting me back one hundred clams. I’m
willing to shell out 20 more to get it back.
Call it a reward or a ransom payment. I’d
really appreciate it being returned. No
questions asked and the 20 dollars are
yours tax free. Either that or I’ll sell you
the owners manual for one hundred.
Tommy'
Lost bracelet
Editor:
Ted Meseck
260-3579
Hey Ags,
On Monday morning I lost!
bracelet, probably while waM
Harrington to the MSC. If you' 1
it, please call me at 696-69l2j
6023. It has a great deal of sell
value to me.
Yell leaders
Suzie)
Editor:
Berry s World
Steven Pearson,
Dunn Hall
Editor’s Note: This letter was accompa
nied by 21 other signatures.
I read with interest the article by Dorm
Friedman about Texas Land Commis
sioner Garry Mauro when he was a civi
lian yell leader in 1968. I was in that
group of freshmen who “attacked” Mr.
Mauro at that first yell practice. A couple
of comments regarding that incident.
First of all, the freshmen were from the
First Battalion, not just Spider D.
Secondly, we were put up to this by a
group of First Battalion juniors who took
exception to the fact that Mr. Mauro
wore a junior Corps belt buckle. Our in
tent that day was to relieve him of that
buckle. What we thought was “good bull”
actually turned into a rather ugly inci
dent. Fortunately, no permanent dam
age was done.
To make a long story short, Garry
Mauro was a good yell leader, was and is a
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