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ler Texas A&M Battalion Serving the University community /ol 76 No. 178 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 27, 1983 egents OK names f campus buildings by Angel Stokes heturfujH Battalion Staff Re Texas A&M Board of Regents -hild upday approved names for the new Hcellor’s residence and two other rhornio jiildings on campus in honor of for- ichiseaiiier students. en ownJp'lie chancellor’s house will be Hed the Chester J. and Billie Jean theimpeed House in honor of the Reeds ho donated Si million to the De- Riment Foundation for the pur- ye arsai R 0 f building the house, mies toigeed graduated from Texas A&M id man], [t)47 a degree in veterinary it. lnrtt| e M c ine. cktoger; j| ie 7,291-square-foot house, will e »approximately S1.2 million to 1982 jild and furnish. inner®; Th e regents awarded a $860,000 winaniR-act to the H.B. Zachry Co. of San :rowdlt* n tonio to begin the project, oesho Tin* pond located on the 13-acre Hvill be named the Pat and Elsie rkare i|sen Pond. The Olsens — residents t, inclucR)Hege Station — are building the lereareRl, The baseball stadium also is er on tailed for Olsen. icreispe t W) other buildings renamed in ofan onor of former students are the tinontfcademic and Agency Building hkh was changed to the John R. ■ker Building. The new Texas faM University Press will be named .sketballd jter sai'il landiro idder SFLasf oppont me to Is lejohn H. Lindsey Building. Blocker, Class of’45, has given $1 million over the past year to fund two chairs in the College of Business Administration. He also has served on the Board of Regents for six years. Blocker was vice chairman of the board at the time his term expired earlier this year. Lindsey, Class of ’44, initiated the fund for the University Press in 1974. He also has served as president of the Association of Former Students. The regents appointed James B. Bond as vice chancellor for legal and public affairs for the Texas A&M Sys tem. Bond, who has been a system attorney since 1976, graduated from Texas A&M in 1958. The board also appointed Dr. Mel vin Friedman dean of geosciences. Friedman has served as interim dean for the College of Geosciences since Dr. Gordon Eaton’s appointment as provost and vice president for acade mic affairs. Friedman, who has been with the University since 1967, has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. from Rice University. In other action the board: •approved the purchase of .43 acres of land in Brazos County from TerEco Corp. The land is located on FM 60 adjacent to the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine. The regents appropriated $280,000 from the University Available Fund for the purchase. •awarded Cahaba Construction Co. of Houston a bid of $6.8 million to build a new medical sciences library for Texas A&M. •authorized Tarleton State to seek approval from the Coordinating Board to establish a bachelor of fine arts degree program in music, art and theater. If approved Tarleton would be the second school in the state to offer a bachelor of arts in all three areas. •authorized Texas A&M to seek Coordinating Board approval to change the name of the Institute of Statistics to the Department of Statisi- tics. The board also authorized Texas A&M to seek Coordinating Board approval for the consolidation of the industrial and vocational education programs into the Department of In dustrial, Vocational and Technical Education, which would be in the Col lege of Education. •adopted a resolution in apprecia tion of Coach Bob Brock and the Texas A&M women’s softball team for their success and contributions to Texas A&M. Attack kills 3 at college imeorf® United Press International |( Qiinmen firing automatic rifles and urling hand grenades from a speed- Hcar killed three Palestinians and founded 28 today in an attack on an .j slamit college in the occupied West It is a sir' I The attack in Hebron came just layji after Israeli authorities lifted a somefRew imposed in response to the ndatior.pbing death of a Jewish seminary ment in the town market place and iton toR by angry Israeli settlers seeking evenge. “At about 12:30 p.m., four men in a car drove past the Islamic College and opened fire with Kalashnikovs,” an army spokesman said of the attack in Hebron. “They also hurled gre nades into the college.” The spokesman said three Palesti nian students were killed and 28 others were wounded. The military immediately sealed off all roads to and from Hebron and declared a curfew in the town, the second largest in the Israeli-occupied territory. The attack came as Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir were in Washington Tuesday to defend their plans to pull back Israeli troops into southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s President Amin Gemayel arrived unnanounced in Beirut shortly after midnight. Fighting raged in the Bekaa Valley between rival Palestinian guerrilla groups and in the hills east of Beirut Christian and Moslem gunmen clashed amid sharpening tension as the government moves to assert its authority in areas now controlled by the Israelis. Dial-a-tinie staff photo by Brenda Davidson Bill Dillon, a graduate student in geophysics, figures out the time Tuesday from the armillary sphere in the floral test garden. The sphere indicates the time of day by the shadow it casts on the ground. Dillon is from Washington, D.C. MCI, marketers team up Budget shortfall could Torce tax hike in Texas ilernaWi United Press International — Ridi AUSTIN — The Texas Legislature ;xas R 0u ld be forced to approve a tax in- ERA (Fase to offset a budget shortfall as twostarlgh as $500 million brought about by St. 1 niiMse than expected revenue deficits, ed Pla Ne Financial experts said. \meriaBThe dismal economic news pre- Mond| nt ed Tuesday to the Legislative udget Board, the state’s budget e( ] ijjj atdidog panel, showed dwindling tax revenues and oil and gas tax collections could thrust the state treasury into the red during the up coming two-year budget period. LBB Director Jim Oliver said such a budget shortfall would violate the Texas constitution’s “pay as you go” provision that forbids deficit spending. “You would not be required to re medy that situation at the moment,” Oliver said. “But the more time that goes by and the more you get into the red the quicker you would need to remedy it.” Oliver said that if the Legislature is called into special session and is in formed of a large potential shortfall, lawmakers could be forced to approve a tax increase. “If there was a prediction that on Aug. 31, 1985 (the end of the 1984- 1985 budget period), that you would be in the red, then you’ve got prob lems,” he said. by Rusty Roberts Battalion Reporter MCI Communications Inc., a long distance telephone service that offers low rates, is planning a cooperative program with the Texas A&M Mar keting Society, which is scheduled to begin here in late August, an MCI sales manager says. Rich Sanders said that MCI, the second largest long distance service in the world, uses state-of-the-art equip ment — the most advanced equip ment being used at the time. Sanders said that MCI’s computerized micro- wave system is more advanced than that of AT&T which is the largest long distance service. “We use machines and not people to handle long distance calls,” San ders said. “Our computer can trans fer long distance microwaves onto local phone lines much more effi ciently (than a person could). We re turn this to the customers in the form of lower rates.” MCI currently provides service to about 5,000 Bryan-College Station re sidents. Sanders said he plans to in crease this number through the Mar keting Society Cooperative Program. “We plan to provide access to MCI service for A&M students and facul ty,” Sanders said. Marketing Society members will sell subscriptions to cus tomers on a commission basis, he said, and those earnings will go toward supporting the society. “Everyone will benefit from the program,” he said. “The marketing students will get experience in sales, we’ll get an increase in service and prospective customers will get a spe cial three minute free call to see how they like MCI.” Sanders said he expects most stu dent and faculty subscribers to use the “super saver” service which is offered Monday through Thursday between 4 p.m. and 10 a.m. and all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Dr. A1 Bush, a faculty adviser for the Marketing Society, said he is look ing forward to the program. “I think it’s great,” he said. “It will help the Marketing Society in getting the funds needed to visit businesses on field trips and also help the society in job hunting for graduating stu dents.” Raising, cutting taxes debatable by Gwendolyn Hattaway Battalion Reporter In the long run, taxes should be raised, but not when a country is com ing out of a recession, says a Texas A&M professor. Dr. Thomas Cosimano, assistant professor of economics says taxes are raised, then production falls and slows the economy. Solving this year’s predicted feder al deficit of $200 billion is more than just an issue in Congress. The ques tion of whether to raise taxes or to cut government spending is an ongoing debate. “It is argued that we should wait to raise taxes until we move toward full employment, then work on the de ficit,” he said. Leonardo Auernheimer, also an assistant professor of economics, agreed that taxes shouldn’t be raised at this time. “The government can finance ex penditures in three ways,” he said. “By taxing people, borrowing in the open market and by printing money. In my personal opinion,.raising taxes at this moment is unwise but it also would be very unwise to print money.” Borrowing in the open market, such as selling bonds, is the viable alternative, he said. Auernheimer agreed with Cosima no that raising taxes in the future may be a possible solution to our deficit. Cosimano said that in the ongoing debate, conservatives lean toward cut ting government spending while li berals lean toward increasing taxes. Those in favor of cutting govern ment spending argue that: •Raising taxes would allow the gov ernment to expand too much. •The tax level already is too high. •The United States would not pull out of the recession unless money would be available for investment and spending if taxes were raised. •Tax hikes are just a smokescreen for income redistribution. •Supply-side economics have not yet had a full chance to work. Tax hike advocates argue that: •Without a tax increase, the feder al deficit will abort economic re covery. •Cuts already made have not ade quately reduced the deficit. •Tax receipts have been lower than expected. Gunmen seize hostages, take embassy in Portugal staff photo by Brenda Davidson B uilding a walk A worker hammers out a path Tuesday for a sidewalk that is included in the Academic Building renovation project. Construction is in high gear on and off campus during the slower summer months. United Press International LISBON, Portugal — Four gun men stormed the Turkish Embassy today and seized hostages in a bomb and gunfire attack that seriously wounded an embassy guard and kil led an assailant, the Noticias de Por tugal news agency said. The assailants were holding an un determined number of hostages in the embassy building, the news agen cy said. Immediately after the attack, police sealed off the area around the Turkish Embassy and were trying to open negotiations with the assailants. Portugal’s president and prime minis ter were in emergency session. An Armenian group, the “Revolu tionary Armenian Army,” claimed re sponsibility for the embassy attack in a telephone call to a French news agen cy in Paris. Witnesses said a bomb ripped through the embassy building on Avenida das Descobertas, shattering windows and sending people on the street outside running for cover mo ments before the start of the 11:05 a.m. attack. The news agency said gunfire erupted immediately after the explo sion and that one of four gunmen was killed in the assault. A policeman was seriously wounded, the news agency reported. A spokesman at the embassy said a fire was burning in the building. “I was on duty at the door when a man approached me very closely without saying anything, pulled out a pistol and began firing,” the wounded guard, Abalio Ferreira Pereira, 23, said from his hospital bed. “I fell to the floor as three more approached — they were already in side the building — and one of them shot me,” Pereira said. The attack came less than two weeks after Armenian terrorists ex ploded a bomb at the Turkish Air lines counter at Paris’ Orly airport, killing six people and injuring 48. One embassy employee said the attackers spoke Turkish, but it was considered likely they were Arme nians. One unofficial source identi fied the attackers as members of the “Armenian Revolutionary Army.” Armenian attacks on Turks and Turkish installations have killed seven people in Europe this month, inside Classified 11 Local 3 Opinions 2 Sports 9 State 5 National 11 forecast Mostly sunny skies and warm today with a high of 94. Southerly winds of 10 to 15 mph. The low tonight near 74. Mostly clear skies Thurs day with a high near 94.