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try that can t other for n ingot} bility of oter and The Battalion Serving the University community lat « fol, 76 No. 167 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 29, 1983 Better teachers sought hrough loan program rtes aw > decidt a coi tes i Commis.|tiei ohibitii bsidiariti ouldcoifou: Till lion taa Lew onsi ble ireevota . Writinj ice “imposeie tonsisteil prevent snt froii ; inafii re afiei [jei feden \ m \ by Scott Griffin Battalion Staff The College of Education will offer lar loans this fall for undergradu- interested in teaching math or ience at the secondary level follow- tinjlg graduation. The loans will be provided by va- isindustries, organizations and in- jviduals, says Bryan Cole, associate tan for student affairs in the college. Cole, with help from the college’s evelopment council, was instrumen- in initiating the program back in Ipril. The result of the council’s work lists of six loans to be offered for 1983-84 school year. Five of the loans are being donated the Carl B. and Florence E. King undation in Dallas. The other loan :ingdonated by C. W. Simmons of declan t to Sov ndroport/ monllii Germai ohl. The King Foundation loans will be for $2,000 each while the Simmons award totals $1,000. The King Foundation will continue their five loans through four years and will donate an additional five for the next three years. The Simmons loan also will continue for four years. Students who wish to participate in the program will be required to meet several criteria. They must: — submit a written statement ex pressing a career commitment toward math or science teaching. — have a combined SAT score of at least 1000 and a high school average of at least a B. — be students currently enrolled in a college or university must maintain a 3.0 grade-point ratio. — have evidence of school/univer sity and community involvement which indicates a strong commitment to education. — have U.S. citizenship and live in Texas. Cole said students who participate in the program will be required to either teach a year in math or science for each year of the loan or must make repayment. A person who receives scholar money for four years would not have to repay the loan if he taught math or science for four years after gradua tion. Students who receive the loans will be known as the King scholars and the Simmons scholars, and Cole says he’s already received several applications. Applications for the loans are in the education dean’s office and must be received by July 15. Burton foresees larger adet corps for the fall rs last inalars .vhenthei 1, endorsin| H proposals al non ' he West* nts by Angel Stokes Battalion Staff The largest Corps of Cadets in 13 is expected at Texas A&M this .Corps Commandant Col. Donald urton said. Burton attributes the increase in lembership to the high rate of stu- returning to the Corps and the icrease in freshmen entering the orps. He expects about one in four of the freshman males entering Texas A&M in the fall to enter the Corps. Appro ximately 20 percent of the male stu dents attending each summer confer ence want to join the Corps, he said. The percentage has varied at each conference, but the lowest was 16.5 percent and the highest was 36 per cent. Last year male enrollment in the Corps was 14 percent of the enroll ment of full-time male students at Texas A&M. He said that male enrollment in the Corps is running ahead of female en rollment, but female enrollment is up 30 percent over last year. There has been an increase in female members, Burton said, because more women are looking at the options of joining the military. He said starting salaries in the military are very good for women. i econoi that Ism inempb ent. U ebanon fighting spreads Mastering meat science staff photo by Brenda Davidson James Mickelsen, a graduate student in meat science, gets hands-on experience Tuesday by slaughtering steers for research in the new Meat Science and Technology Center. The modern slaughter facility is certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. United Press International Dissident guerrillas seized two Be il Valley towns held by forces loyal s.thelM iPalestine Liberation Organization ikwarnfl lief Yasser Arafat Tuesday in artil- iver ^ iy and mortar battles that spread aseneso om the Damascus highway to the esidestlifun of Baalbeck. Lebanese police reports said the lerrillas attacked and captured the Nils of Rasm al Hadath near Baal- kand surrounded Deir Zanoun on strategic highway that cuts across echnical istern Lebanon, linking Beirut and Unascus. The new outbreak of fighting )82 an(lf rile f° ur days after Arafat was ex- fd tiled from Syria for accusing Syrian ttsident Hafez Assad of backing the ito takei :bt in gross m irease econonK h ui Secretary of State says Vietnam has dead Americans n-daysai y / sands ini ten i itte, "'ll taxed. in ale BANGKOK, Thailand — Secretary ta fState George Shultz said Tuesday ietnam is holding “a sizable num- *t” of bodies of American service- ten and appealed to Southeast Asian ations to press Hanoi to return the A senior official traveling with the ecretary said Shultz believes the re tains of several hundred men are >Jo.2al)0« tvolved. Shultz told a news conference the Inked States opposes independent irdt {forts to locate possible American iHospn , of Ward th niui ^ fjjni loners of war in Southeast Asia be- lOO iuse such endeavors raise and then psh the hopes of POW’s families. re® " guerrilla mutiny to seize control of the PLO. It also came just a day after artil lery exchanges were made between Syrian and Israeli forces along their front lines in Lebanon’s eastern Be- kaa Valley. “The dissidents attacked and took the village of Rasm al Hadath (near Baalbeck) without much resistance. The dissidents also arrested several of Arafat’s men. The situation in the re gion is very tense,” a police report said. “The situation in Baalbeck itself is also very tense. Arafat’s men there are on the alert,” the report said. Baal beck, 52 miles east of Beirut, is one of Arafat’s last strongholds in the fertile Bekaa. The police report said the dissi dents surrounded Deir Zanoun and fighting was reported around nearby Rawda. The two towns lie between the Syrian border and Arafat’s main Be kaa Valley base at Chtaura, 22 miles east of Beirut. “Deir Zanoun is considered lost militarily, but the town has not yet been attacked by the dissidents,” the police report said. Christian Phalangist radio earlier reported the dissidents occupied a loyalist artillery base, arms depots and other supply centers around the two towns. “They also captured a number of Arafat’s men,” the broadcast said. Letter reveals missile plan United Press International DALLAS — The Defense Depart ment informed Congress in a secret letter that it plans to buy its entire stock of high-speed anti-radiation missiles from Texas Instruments Inc., a contract that could amount to $7 billion, a local newspaper reported Tuesday. The Dallas Times Herald said the decision, disclosed in Washington by Deputy Defense Secretary W. Paul Thayer, defies congressional orders to seek a competing producer to keep quality high and drive costs down. The HARM contract is a boon to TI’s government electronics business, especially now with heavy losses in its home computer business. TI announced that second quarter losses could be as high as $100 million, and the company’s stoclt lost almost a third of its value onAVall Street. TI has been developing HARM, a missile launched from aircraft to seek and destroy enemy radar defenses on the ground, for eight years, the Times Herald reported. During the past year, the HARM system has been moved into production at plants in Lewisville. The newspaper said both the Air Force and the Navy plan to buy thousands of the missiles, but have not been able to agree on how. The Air Force told Congress both services should buy all their weapons in bulk from a single source to lower the cost. The price of TI’s missiles has risen to nearly $1 million each. The Times Herald said the Navy has urged that a second manufactur er share production and has been re viewing proposals from Raytheon, Bendix and Ford Aerospace to share the HARM contract. United Press International An American spokesman said the United States has no knowledge of any Vietnam War era POWs or MIAs being alive. Shultz said there are more than 2,000 American servicemen missing from the conflict in Indochina. “We made a point of our concern to know what has happened to the mis sing in action and have returned to us those killed in action because we care so much about our men and our armed forces who have fallen and ab out their families,” Shultz said. “We have intelligence that suggests the remains of quite a sizable number are in hand but have not been turned over to us.” A senior U.S. official told reporters that Shultz believed the remains of several hundred dead Americans were being deliberately held by Viet nam — “a cruel and heartless action on their part.” The official said he could only spe culate that Hanoi was using the re mains as a possible “bargaining chip” in its relations with the United States. Shultz said the United States sup ported “any means that can be effec tive” in locating possible American servicemen but he did not favor inde pendent efforts as those of former Green Beret Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz. Gritz was expelled by Thai author ities this year because of his unautho rized missions into Laos in search of American servicemen he believed were held captive. Shultz was in Bangkok for a two- day meeting between the foreign ministers of the five-nation Associa tion of South East Asian Nations and those of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the European Community. Shultz appealed to the officials of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand for their aid in locating Americans missing from the Vietnam War. He was well received at the ASEAN conference in Bangkok, the second stop on his tour of the region. The meetings ended Tuesday. Also during the conference, Shultz warned of a growing Soviet military threat in Southeast Asia. “It is imperative we join together in calling for an end to the use of che mical and toxic weapons on innocent people,” Shultz said. In a private address to officials of the five conference nations, Shultz said the Reagan administration sup ports the ASEAN policy of opposing Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia, made possible by millions of dollars in Soviet aid each day. “We follow your lead,” Shultz said. “We know that the chances of per suading Vietnam to change its course are greater if the message comes from its neighbors.” Shultz said Washington provides moral, political and diplomatic sup port to the noncommunist resistance to the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, but will have “no dealings with the Khmer Rouge,” the com munist member of the three-faction Cambodian coalition government formed last year to oust the Hanoi- backed Heng Samrin regime in Phnom Penh. Shultz said the Soviets were ex panding their use of Da Nang and the giant Cam Ranh Bay naval base de veloped by the United States during the Vietnam War — “a further dis turbing element of tension in the re gion. when tl* inside laney Ito ie p 1 uj Classified 6 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 7 State 4 National 6 ntC’ to* pfiC6 ST” forecast Partly cloudy skies and warm today with a high of 94. A 20 percent chance of thundershowers tonight with a low near 74. For Thursday, a 20 percent chance of thunder storms with a high near 94. Reagan defends his staff s use of secretly obtained information in 1980 Carter debate United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan says politics should be “above reproach,” but sees no im propriety in his staff s use of inside information from the Carter camp to prepare for the 1980 debate. Reagan compared his staff s sec retly obtained briefing books pre- ared for President Carter for a de late with Reagan to “the press rushing into print with the Penta gon Papers which were stolen.” Questions about the documents and whether it had been proper for Reagan’s campaign to use the mate rial dominated the news conference. Reagan, acting at times both amused and exasperated by the line of ques tioning, consistently emphasized his £ aides did not know whether the in formation was leaked or stolen. He objected to suggestions the docu ments may have been stolen. “Is it stolen if someone hands it to you, some disgruntled individual hands to another countpart in a campaign organization?” he asked. “We don’t know how it was obtained.” He also noted repeatedly the Jus tice Department has been asked to look into the situation and would decide if any laws had been broken. Pressed on the ethical question, Reagan said “I don’t happen to be lieve politics should have a double standard. No, I think it should be above reproach. “And there shouldn’t be unethic al things done in campaigns, even such things as accusing the other candidate of being a racist, and things like that.” Reagan contends Jimmy Carter made such insinuations during the campaign. “It probably wasn’t too much dif ferent from the press rushing into print with the Pentagon Papers, which were stolen. And they were classified and it was against the law,” he said. “Now, I want the Justice Department to find out if anybody did anything that broke the law.” Formally facing reporters for the first time in six weeks, the president also: —Renewed his pledge to veto any effort to limit the July 1 income-tax cut in bills “that bust the budget.” —Disputed charges he is “a rich man’s president,” declaring, “The rich don’t need my help and I’m not doing anything to help them.” —Allowed “presidents never say never,” but repeated there are no plans for American troops to go to Central America to stop communist insurrection. —Revised upward his estimate of the national recovery and called on Congress to stick with his tax- reduction and budget-cutting program. Despite the tensions in reporters’ repeated questions about the Carter papers, Reagan smiled when he said, “I happen to agree with House Speaker Tip O’Neill, who said today that he didn’t think the debate would have turned out any diffe rently one way or the other and he thought the whole thing ought to go away.” But Rep. Donald Albosta, D- Mich., chairman of a House Post Office and Civil Service subcommit tee that has jurisdiction over gov ernment ethics codes, said he had told O’Neill he would continue an investigation into the briefing books and O’Neill agreed. The president denied the mate rial his aides received from the opposition gave him any added advantage in his only campaign de bate with Carter.