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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
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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
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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
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of 10 to 15 mph. The low tonight
near 74. Mostly clear skies Thurs
day with a high near 94.