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In recent magazine articles
moringthe "best” Texas legis-
tors, Senator and former
ggie Kent Caperton made the
it three times.
In the past three months,
aperton, D—Bryan, has been
anted as an outstanding legisla-
dr by several Texas magazines,
itxas Monthly, The Texas
tbservei and Texas Business
tagazines commended Capet-
tnforhiswork during die 68th
gislative session.
Texas Monthly described
aperton as a senator who “uses
is intelligence as a tool rather
tan a weapon: doesn’t put any-
ne down, doesn't make any
nemies.”
In Texas Business magazine
aperton was described as will-
jgtoput in extra hours — do
is homework— and eager “to
tarn,to light and to lead."
And, The Texas Observer
sen said Caperton “is himself a
otential lieutenant governor.
Regardless of each maga-
jne’s paniculiar wording, they
agree on one thing — Caper-
mis rising in the world of poli-
Caperton said many considera
tions must be made before de
ciding on his political plans. He
said he must take his family into
account as well as his law prac
tice in College Station.
“Timing is ... important in de
ciding on a political future ...
and I can’t necessarily control
that,” he said. “If I had to decide
today, I would stay in politics.”
But Caperton said tie is not
certain what type of office he
will run for if he does decide to
stay in politics.
“There is no doubt that every
lawyer who serves as a senator
would love to be attorney gener
al." he said. “And of course you
always think about the gov
ernorship.”
But for now, Caperton said,
he is waiting to see w hat will hap
pen during the next three years
of his term.
Caperton is appealing be
cause he is extremely diplo
matic.
Texas Monthly said Caperton
“knew how to play good cop -
bad cop ... and seemed to have a
sixth sense about where the
pressure points were, where
each side could and couldn’t
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give.
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Awards recognize Grain embargos
outstanding faculty debated by leaders
by .Nicole Williams
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M and the Associa
tion of Former Students will be
gin presenting this year’s Col
lege-Level Distinguished
Achievement Awards for Texas
A&M faculty on Wednesday.
“I think the program has been
valuable in encouraging out
standing teaching,” Phillips said.
The dates of the presentation
ceremonies and the number of
awards distributed per college
The awards are designed to
reward, encourage and recog
nize the University’s outstand-
University’:
ing educators, says Dr. Clinton
A. Phillips, dean of faculties.
The total awards program rep
resents a $108,000 effort by the
Association and the University.
This year 27 awards will be pre
sented.
Sept. 7 — College of Business
Administration will present
three awards; College of Medi
cine will present one award.
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Sept. 15 — College of Liberal
Arts will present four awards.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate
Democratic leader Robert Byrd
Thursday said the Reagan admi
nistration should cancel its new
grain agreement with the Soviet
Union in reaction to the shoot
ing down of a South Korean
jumbo jet.
But members of the House
and Senate Agriculture Com
mittee disagreed saying cancel
lation of the grain sales pact
would serve no purpose and
would be ineffective.
Each award carries a $4,000
cash award and a framed certifi
cate to be presented to the
selected nominee at one of the
regularly scheduled faculty
meetings this fall.
The selected nominees are
chosen by a committee from
‘within their respective college —
consisting of five student mem
bers, three faculty members and
one former student.
Sept. 22 — College of Educa
tion will present two awards;
College of Agriculture will pre
sent three awards.
Sept. 27 — College of Science
will present four awards.
Sept. 30 — College of En
gineering will present four
awards.
Oct. 6 — College of Veterin
ary Medicine will present two
awards.
Nov. 10 — College of Geosci
ences will present two awards.
Nov. 11 — College of Architec
ture and Environmental Design
will present two awards.
Byrd called the downing of
the plane “reprehensible, horri-
ible.”
ble, inexcusac
“As far as I’m concerned, said
Byrd, “we ought to cancel the
recently negotiated grain con
tract if legally possible. That
would be one strong action we
could take.”
The new five-year agree
ment, which goes into effect Oct.
1, was formally signed last week
by Agriculture Secretary John
Block at a ceremony in Moscow.
Despite restrictions in the agree
ment against cancelling grain
sales, Reagan conceivably could
unilaterally cancel the agree
ment.
Byrd said, “The important
thing now is to get the facts but
there can be no explanation for
shooting down an unarmed pas
senger airline even if it were
over Soviet air space.”
Opposing Byrd’s call for can
cellation of the grain pact. Sen.
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who serves
on the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee, said another grain
embargo would not “affect this
kind of activity” and would be
ineffective.
“I don’t think the Soviets see it
as an effective tool, or an effec
tive threat,” he said. “I think
they simply ignore it when we
have grain embargos. They just
go and buy the grain someplace
else.”
In January 1980, Jimmy Car
ter embargoed grain sales in ex
cess of the guarantees in the pre
vious agreement in retaliation
for the Soviet invasion of Afgha
nistan. President Reagan lifted
the embargo, but postponed
talks on a new agreement in De
cember 1981 after martial law
was imposed in Poland.
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who can accommodate himself
to other people’s interests ... but
willing to stand firm when he
has to.”
Another reason for Caper-
ton’s recent recognition is that
he has gained respect from fel
low legislators.
The Texas Monthly article
said a main criteria for its “ten
best" list was that the legislator
“inspires respect rather than
fear.”
Caperton said the best way to
gain respect from legislators is to
never mislead them. “I can’t
overemphasize the importance
of keeping your word,” he said.
When a legislator has a repu
tation for being reliable, Caper
ton said, his colleagues will re
spect him even though they dis
agree with his approach to va
rious issues.
In addition to Caperton’s rec
ognition by these magazines, he
also was honored by the Texas
State Council of the National
Organization for Women. NOW
honored Caperton for his “sen
sitivity to the issues concerning
women constituents.”
Caperton graduated from
Texas A&M in 1971 with a de
gree in business administration.
He was also student body presi
dent during his senior year.
The selection committee
reads the resumes, letters of
nomination and accompanying
letters of recommendation for
each nominee to determine the
winner or winners. The number
of recipients varies according to
the size of the college.
“The number of awards with
in each college is determined by
the full-time equivalent,”Jim Je
ter, associate executive director
of the alumni association, said.
This equivalent is a result of the
combination of the number of
faculty members with the num
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“We (the Association) have al
ways felt that they’ve done an
excellent job in selecting the re
cipients,” Jeter said.
Phillips said he is enthusiastic
about the program and said he
likes the idea that a member is
not limited to winning only once
but can be nominated again five
years later.