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for the April pril 8 at the A'! 'ORS(AS£):.i 1 speak on ATI The Battalion Serving the University community ipus prop, ?. Thiakini Center wil )f,76No. 124 USPS 045360 18 Pages In 2 Sections College Station, Texas Thursday, March 31,1983 ATI ON: A ft Is from cond floor II! leagan seeks alter Bradley i. in 113 Kleixi actions wi ag Evans Libra ead m talks l)N:A meetinj -in, scheduled! ew members i 4: Holy Thui r 7:30 pan, all United Press International LOS ANGELES —By of fering the iviet Union an interim limit on edium-range nuclear weapons, esident Reagan set out to recapture |c initiative on arms control and ost his political standing on both les of the Atlantic. fCIETYiA yone interesti Wednesday's ct Cheryl Burii lATION:! Reagan, hopeful of seizing the lead hat has become a public relations rhetween the superpowers, flew to lifornia Wednesday after unveiling long-awaited proposal to break a adlock at the nuclear arms bargain- i table in Geneva, Switzerland. In a broadcast staged before an show is schedi dience of NATO diplomats and ministration officials, Reagan ifted to the Soviets the burden for iking the next move in the arms ntrol talks. Reagan offered to limit, but not fill out a notict in advanced Keagai rap, the deployment of American lissileson European soil, scheduled I begin in Decemeber, if the Soviets Vee to dismantle some of the (HKJ iissiles they now have in place. J In heated calls by the allies for a kw proposal to break the current /as arraigned It nn in the Intermediate Nuclear irst degree Jnrces negotiations, Reagan also ndangermem |rew a new twist into the talks, by lifting the focus from launchers to arheads — an accounting change d to jail in fa teenagers tv ich police said home. His to have been ime of'theim it ness the bunt that would affect the Soviets, with their large force of multiple war heads, more than the United States. Agreement would be contingent on negotiation of a specific ceiling on warheads, with the warheads counted “on a global basis,” including Soviet missiles in Europe and Asia. Reagan also is scheduled to speak to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council today. The speech is in tended to provide a forum for Reagan to review his initiatives in the areas of strategic arms reductions, conventional force reductions and the elimination of chemical weapons. Aides indicated Reagan would por tray himself as a crusader for peace by describing what he termed Wednes day as “our efforts to drastically re duce the arsenals which burden the lives of our own citizens, of our friends and allies and, yes, of our adversaries as well.” “This administration,” he said, “has undertaken a comprehensive and far-reaching arms control prog ram.” Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan would use his speech today to express “our desire to move the talks forward and encour age serious consideration and a favor able Soviet response to our interim proposal.” Two heads better than one staff photo by Guy Hood Carrie Gladwell, left, a freshman civil engineering major from Paris, France, and Julia R. Hardy, right, a sophomore journalism major from Manhattan, New York, put their heads together while studying on a bench near the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue at the Academic Building. Groucho’s mistress must pay; attorneys say she’s penniless itudent election incy! n Free) iseling vs t • •••in esults delayed by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff Posting of student body election re- Its has been delayed because of oblemswith the computer program mb tabulates the votes. The results will be posted af ter 5 tight. They originally were sche med to be ready at midnight ednesday. Student government workers were unable to get the program to run on |ecomputer. A consultant was called this morning to help run the ogram. “I haven’t run into any problems so If,” consultant John Kane said of the program is running this orning. Kane expects to be finished by tonbut the results will not be official itil after the Judicial Board, which 34 reported dead in El Salvador meets today at 5 p.m., approves them. The omission of three names from the student government elec tion ballots may cause parts of the election to be invalidated. Candidates who feel the omission of the names changed the election re sults may file an appeal. Candidates must file their appeals of the election results withing 48 hours of the posting. Les Asel, elec tion commissioner, makes the appeal decisions. Appeals of Asel’s decision are referred to the Judicial Board which has final authority in election appeals. Two of the errors were noticed and corrected around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. The third missing name was added to the ballot by 12:30 p.m. The ballots were corrected early Wednesday morning. United Press International SANTA MONICA, Calif. — For mer showgirl Erin Fleming, ordered to pay nearly $500,000 to the estate of Groucho Marx, says she could not have exploited her relationship with the late comedian because he was too independent. In a confusing climax to the bizar re two-month trial and 1 1 days of de liberation, the Superior Court jury Wednesday ordered Fleming to pay the Bank of America, executor of Marx’s estate, $221,843.09 in com pensatory damages and $250,000 in punitive damages. Fleming’s attorneys said Wednes day she cannot pay because she is broke. “I was wondering if I could put it on my Master Charge,” Fleming said on ABC’s “Nightline” in her f irst in terview after the verdict. “I really loved Groucho with all my heart, and I know he loved me,” said Fleming, 42, who was Marx’s live-in companion during the last six years of his life. “Anyone who knows anything ab out Groucho Marx knows he was his own man. He was out all over town wi{h whoever he chose to go with. It simply was not possible (to exploit him).” Jury foreman Eugene McCarthy, a retired Santa Monica police officer, told reporters there was a “prepon derance of evidence” Fleming had breached the trust the comedian had placed in her. After the verdict Miss Fleming’s attorney, David Sabih, refused to allow her to speak to reporters, saying she was “flipping out” and he feared she might try suicide. Later on the television program Fleming appeared calm and occasion ally giggled. Construction fund discussed United Press International AUSTIN — Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said Wednesday he and several other legislators will meet with oil and gas representatives Tuesday to discuss a possible oil and gas severance tax in crease. Sen. Grant Jones, D-Abilene and Sen. Bob Vale, D-San Antonio, want to increase the severance tax to fund construction at 25 colleges that do not share in the University of Texas and Texas A&M’s oil-rich Permanent University Fund. The money would be used to cre ate a construction fund for the non- PUF schools. After the fund reached $2 billion, the appropriation would cease and the universities would use interest revenues for their construc tion needs. The House already has passed a proposed constitutional amendment that calls for an appropriation of $75 million annually for funding con struction at the 25 schools. However, because of declining state revenues, Jones and Vale adv anced the idea of a I percent increase in the severance tax on oil and gas. Although a firm proposal has not been drafted, it was expected that a 1 percent increase would generate nearly $400 million a year. Hobby said that under such a tax increase, the $2 billion fund could be created in approximately six years. Representatives of the oil and gas industry already h^ve reacted harshly to the proposal, saying it would adversely affect the entire state’s eco nomy and possibly cause an increase in utility rates. “It might initially be good for col lege construction, but if the full im pact of the tax is traced through the economy, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the $400 million annual tax have a negative effect on jobs and the gener ally struggling Texas economy,” said a representative of the Texas Inde pendent Producers & Royalty Own ers Association. But Hobby said he would try to convince the industry to accept the tax. He pointed out that the severance tax has not been increased since 1947. United Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — uerrillas killed 17 militiamen Wednesday in an attack on a Salva- Dian town and then ambushed two impanies of U.S.-trained reinforce- lents, leaving another 67 dead, rebel idio reports. Radio Venecermos said guerrillas acked the town of San Isidro, 66 iles northeast of San Salvador, at iwn Wednesday and captured it an hour later. The broadcast said leftist forces killed 17 army-organized militiamen stationed there, drawing in reinforce ments from the elite Belloso Batta lion, trained in 1982 at Ft. Bragg, N.C. It said a company of Belloso sol diers were rushed to the battle site from nearby Osicala, but the soldiers were fired on by well-entrenched guerrillas holding high ground out side San Isidro. In the afternoon, another com pany of Belloso troops was rushed to the area, but it was ambushed 2 miles outside San Isidro, the broadcast said. The guerrilla radio said that at least 67 Belloso soldiers were killed in the two ambushes, and that the rebels rec overed 70 rifles and heavy weapons. It said at least 46 soldiers were wounded. It also claimed that a war-jet from the Honduran air force provided air support for the Belloso soldiers, but that the plane was driven off by the rebels. The report of 84 military dead is one of the largest government death- counts given by the rebels for a single battle this year. Military of ficials were not immediately available for com ment. Treasury police agents, mean while, released free-lance reporters T.J. Western, 31, of Minneapolis, and Joan Ambrose Newton, 32, of Col umbia, Mo., five days after their arrests by Treasury Ministry agents in San Salvador. “I feel very good about being out,” said Western, sipping a beer at an im promptu news conference Wednes day at a San Salvador hotel. He said he was “treated fine and with reason able courtesy.” Western, a free-lance reporter for Associated Press Radio, said the only restriction on his release was that he remain in El Salvador while police in vestigate possible gun-running from the United States to guerrillas. He said Treasury agents arrested him to investigate an 8()-minute tele phone call he made to a San Diego, Calif, radio station. The station, KPBS, broadcasts a program called “Enfoque Nacional” (National Focus), a Spanish-language broad cast, which on March 24 aired inter views Western had had with U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton and a guerrilla commander. f First year tough for cadets tm*** k v number of years in his graduating “ 1 h by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff When a freshman enters the iorps, he must be prepared for uch activities as Corps traditions. Some traditions he’ll enjoy, some te won’t. “The Corps is like a game,” said Mike Holmes, commander of the Corps. “You must learn the rules ind once you know them, you can jet back. “The imagination of the guys in the Corps is incredible,” he said, commenting on the way traditions were started. It often seems as if underclass men receive the worst aspect of some traditions. Endurance tests are one example. Both pushing and crapouts, tra ditions aimed at building character and discipline, are physical disci plinary sessions in which cadets must exercise until they are “crap ped out,” Holmes said. Some mus cles that people usually don’t use are exercised, he said. p AMPfiMOe- #3 Another example of an endur ance test involves a coat hanger. The student must hold a coat hanger up right by sitting on it for a certain number of seconds, usually the number of years in his graduating class. However he can’t sit on it too hard or he will bend the hanger. Freshmen can be instructed to do either of these by upperclassmen. If a freshman “pulls out” — by using a privilege of or wearing the brass or uniform of an upperclassman, not knowing something about the menu or something else considered wrong, he may be told to do pushups. Chuck Haddick, a sophomore in the regiment, said traditions are a generally accepted method of train ing, but said that at times it did bother him. “Occasionally it got on my nerves,” he said, “when I thought I was in the right and my upperclass men didn’t see it that way.” By joining the Corps, however, cadets have subjected themselves voluntarily to the punishments, Haddick said. Holmes said sophomores and juniors also have to do pushups at times but it’s not as prevalent. “The seniors are pretty much ex empt from pushups,” Holmes said. “Their buddies don’t usually make them push.” Another tradition says freshman cadets must “hit the wall” to make way for a passing senior. In the dorms, if a freshman sees a senior in the hall, he must stand with his back against the wall and introduce him self. The cadet is supposed to be making room for the senior boots as they pass. The cadets also must drop their books for seniors when asked what outfit he’s in. The seniors have the privilege of making a cadet stop to introduce himself and “hump it” for his outfit yell. To do this, the cadet must put his books down. At dinner, freshmen also must eat at a certain degree of attention while taking fish bites — bites small enough to be swallowed after only a few chews, about the size of the end portion of the pinky finger, Had dick said. The freshman also must See CADETS, page 8 Ex-athletes get probation serving club from staff and wire reports Two former Texas A&M football players who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the theft of a pizza and assault of a pizza deliveryman have been ordered to serve their year long probation sentence at a local boys club. Burnis Simon, 22, of Houston, and Gary Lynn Rogers, 19, of Dallas, admitted earlier this month to pushing a Domino’s Pizza delivery- man down a flight of stairs in Cain Hall and taking his $12.50 pizza in early November. Brazos County Attorney Jeff Brown said Tuesday that the men must spend between 50 and 70 hours at the Boys Club of Brazos County this summer. Brown, a director of the club, said each of the men will have to pay a $300 fine, plus court costs. inside Around Town 4 Classified 8 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 10 State 4 National 9 Police Beat 4 What’s up 14 forecast Partly clear skies today with a high of 79. Southeasterly winds of around 10 mph. Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight with a low near 57. Mostly cloudy Friday with a 40 per cent chance of thunderstorms and a high near 74.