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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 2,1983
Jamaica expels
Cuban, Soviets
United Press International
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime
Minister Edward Seaga Tuesday
ordered the expulsion of four Soviet di
plomats and a representative of Cuba’s
official news agency for their alleged
role in a murder plot.
and ordered him to reduce his current
embassy staff to a size “consistent with
bonafide activities between the two
countries.”
Sources close to the prime minister
said Seaga’s action was designed to link
Soviet and Cuban activities in Jamaica
to the situation in Grenada, where U.S.
troops landed last week after a bloody
coup that killed Prime Minister
Maurice Bishop.
Seaga, an ally of President Reagan
who contributed 150 soldiers to the
U.S.-Caribbean task force that invaded
Grenada, told parliament he was giving
the four Soviet diplomats 72 hours to
leave Jamaica and Cuba’s Prensa Latina
news agency bureau chief Dario Ibanez
was told to leave within 48 hours.
“I warn saboteurs that in these dan
gerous times when the future of our
country is at stake, we will respond to
any act of sabotage with a shattering
offensive that will once and for all re
solve any dilemma that may exist in the
minds of some as to whether saboteurs
and traitors will be allowed to destroy
our country,” Seaga told parliament in a
nationally broadcast speech.
No more work permits will be issued
for the Cuban news agency. Seaga said.
The prime minister identified the
four Russians as Viktor Ivanovich
Andrianov, senior first secretary. First
Secretary Oleg Ivanovich Malov,
embassy staffer Vladimir Bondarev and
interpreter Andrei Nikiforev.
The total size of the embassy staff was
not immediately known.
There was no immediate response
from the Soviet Union or Cuba.
Seaga told the parliament that Fore
ign Minister Hugh Shearer called in
Soviet Ambassador Dmitri Petrovich
Seaga said security officials disco
vered the five men were involved in a
plot to murder a woman at the Jamaica
foreign ministry’s protocol section. The
woman, who was not identified,
allegedly had learned that the Soviets
were obtaining information frorfi Joseph
Burie, a ministry employee who was
fired Tuesday.
Seaga also named 25 prominent
Jamaican leftists who he said were in
creasingly involved with Cuba, the
Soviet Union and the former Marxist
government of Grenada.
Seaga said the leftists had stepped up
visits to Cuba, the Soviet Union and
Grenada. He said Cuba had asked Tre
vor M unroe of the Marxist Workers Par
ty of Jamaica to recruit volunteers to
defend Grenada’s Marxist government
against last Tuesday’s U.S. invasion.
Among the leftists he named were
Dudley Thompson, a former foreign
minister and a member of the pro-
Cuban Peoples National Party and party
secretary general Paul Roberts.
Carlyle Dunkley, a former utilities
minister and member of the Peoples
National Party also was on the list read
by Seaga.
Seaga’s Jamaica Labor Party won an
election victory against the leftist Peo
ples National Party, led by Michael
Manley, Oct. 30, 1980.
There was no immediate response
from the party to Seaga’s accusations.
Group Study
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John Makely, Battalion staff
Sitting in the shade of Rudder Tower,
hun. senior biochemistry students Anne Smith
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Davenport from Altus, Oklahoma compare
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McGovern to discuss
I
^residential platform
by Rhonda Snider
Battalion Reporter
Former Senator George McGovern,
i the midst of his second race for presi-
fent, tonight will discuss his presiden-
B|platform in Rudder Auditorium. _
where he served until I960. In 1962, he
was elected to the U.S. Senate and re
elected in 1968 and 1974. He was defe
ated in his bid for a fourth term in the
1980 elections.
wlcGovern, a Democrat from South
>akota, will be the first in a series of
esidential candidate speakers spon-
d by MSC Political Forum.
Hie will discuss his platform as well as
is work as chairman of Americans for
'ominon Sense, John Hickson, national
ipgram coordinator for MSC Political
orum, said.
Hickson said McGovern is on his way
to California from Washington, D.C.
He agreed to speak here, but like most
political candidates only recently gave
Political Forum official confirmation
that he would speak. MSC Political
Forum generally receives confirmation
of a candidate two or three weeks prior
to the program.
with other universities to arrange sever
al speaking engagements for the candi
date to make it worth their while to
come, Hickson said. McGovern spoke
at the University of Texas Tuesday
night.
Other speakers scheduled for MSC
Political Forum are George Strake and
Bob Slagle in a debate tentatively set for
Nov. 21, Longin Pastusiak on Nov 22
and Ambassador William Sullivan on
Nov 29.
IcGovem was elected to the U.S.
To increase its chances of having
presidential candidates speak at Texas
louse of Representatives in 1956, _ A&M, MSC Political Forum confers
Hickson said Political Forum cur
rently is working with the other pres
idential candidates to arrange to have
them speak here. There is no charge for
the program, which begins at 7 p.m.
by Steve Thomas
Battalion Stall'
“Let us never disarm out of fear, but
let us never fear to disarm,” Paul F.
Walker said, ending his lecture on nuc
lear war Tuesday in Rudder Theater.
The former U.S. Army Russian intel
ligence specialist told the sparse Aggie
crowd that the atomic superpowers are
in danger of running amuck with nuc
lear armament build-up unless some
boundaries are set.
And it is up to the people to help set
those boundaries, he said.
In a program sponsored by the MSC
Great Issues Committee, Walker said
the public suffers from “psychic denial,”
a social phenomenon where people
ignore great tragedy and deny its possi
bility of happening to them.
The public must first realize the sev
erity of this problem, he said, then pur
sue its solution as intensely as issues
such as minority rights have been pur
sued, issues which he feels are much
less important than his topic.
“Everything pales in significance
when compared with nuclear war,” he
said.
Walker lectured for about an hour
using slides and films to emphasize how
extensive and powerful nuclear
weapons have become since Hiroshima
and how dangerous the world situation
really is.
Speaking hypothetically. Walker said
if 100 percent of the U.S. population
was warned of a Russian first strike, and
Russia only hit U.S. military bases that
have nuclear weapons on them, leaving
urban areas alone, the United States
still would lose 25 to 50 million people
instantly, not counting deaths afterward
from radiation sickness.
And he said a limited attack of this
kind is unlikely. .
To illustrate the immense power of
each weapon, Walker said a one mega
ton bomb creates a fireball 7,000 feet in
diameter, and everything inside it is
vaporized.
The wind from this explosion could
push a 2-ton boulder 5 miles high, and
would inject 2,000 pounds of rock and
soil into the atmosphere.
And Walker added that even the
smaller weapons are usually three to
five megatons.
Walker said the answer with this
issue depended upon the public’s in
volvement.
“I think we’ve got to come up with
new ideas,” he said, “we” being the
public. However, he did have some sug
gestions of his own.
Walker supports the nuclear freeze
and said he thinks it is the simplest and
most effective solution. He said the Un
ited States should continue negotia
tions, including the SALT talks, until a
compromise is reached.
The United States and Russia, he
said, should sign a comprehensive test
ban treaty to stop nuclear testing, in
cluding a flight test ban on ballistic mis
sile testing. Walker said restrictions of
this type would dampen both sides’ con
fidence in accuracy.
He said the superpowers need to tot
ally ban anti-satellite weapons before
we enter a nuclear space race. And both
sides need better command control
communication, he said.
“We have seven false alerts a day,” he
said. “And if we have seven imagine
what the Russians have.”
roup demands
renada answers
by Kay D. Mallett
Battalion Reporter
The Brazos Valley Peace Action wants
rswers.
i“We want the people to be able to
nake their own decisions as to the right-
xess or wrongness of the U.S. govern-
nent actions in Grenada, ” Kris Parsons,
HBVPA member, said Tuesday.
L 'he BVPA has sent a list of 17 ques-
s dealing with the U.S. invasion of
Grenada to President Ronald Reagan,
lep Phil Gramm, Sen. John Tower,
ien. Lloyd Bentsen and other congress-
nen and senators.
Parsons said the BVPA wants to know
vhy the United States violated articles
18 and 20 of the Organization of Amer-
can States as well as the United Nations
Hurter by interfering in the internal
Burs of Grenada.
B“We have serious concerns about the
delations,” Lamar Hankins of the
BVPA said.
The group says other countries might
use the U.S. invasion of Grenada as a
precedent for future action of their own
governments. The BVPA also fears the
reputation of the United States has been
damaged.
“Does this (the invasion of Grenada)
mean that we can’t be trusted?” Parsons
said. “Are we special or something?”
The BVPA’s second main concern is
the secrecy the Reagan administration
has kept on the invasion of Grenada.
The group wants to know why the press
wasn’t allowed to observe the U.S.
operations in Grenada like it did in Viet
nam, Korea and World War II.
“We had to take the word of the gov
ernment as to what was happening,”
Parsons said.
She said the BVPA wonders what
Reagan has to hide and said others
should be concerned too.
“There is a great deal of secrecy in the
present administration,” Parsons said.
She said the BVPA will release to the
public all the information it receives.
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pigh in the upper seventies with a 30
percent chance of rain.
Freshmen
officers
announced
Results of runoff elections for fresh
man class officers:
President: Van Leftwich
Vice President: Dodie Rodger
Social Secretary: Cindy Webb
Treasurer: Joe Lessard
Mauro says veterans
will stimulate Texas
’ program
economy
by Karen Wallace
Battalion Staff
Texas Land Commissioner Gary
Mauro said Tuesday the proposed
Veterans Housing Assistance Program
would stimulate the Texas economy
and would be one way we can thank
veterans for sacrifices they have made.
obligation bonds will be sold for the
housing program and another $300
million in general obligation bonds
will be offered for the land program if
the measures are approved,” he said.
The proposed program would allow
veterans to borrow up to $20,000 at a
low interest rate for the purchase of a
home, Mauro said during a public
hearing at the Brazos Center. The
proposal, as a constitutional amend
ment, will be up for voter approval
Nov. 8.
Veterans would repay the loans
through the house payments they
would make, he said.
The current Veterans Land Prog
ram allows only the purchase of rural
land whereas the proposed Veterans
Housing Assistance Program will en
able veterans to choose between rural j
and urban purchases.
The program would enable veter
ans — who at one time could not buy
homes because they were serving the
country — to purchase now at a lower
interest rate, Mauro said.
The program will stimulate the
Texas economy because 25,000 new
homes will be constructed and 45,000
new jobs will be created, he said.
“This is a model program which will
benefit both veterans and private busi
ness without costing the taxpayer one
penny,” said Mauro, chairman of the
Veterans Land Board. “No new gov
ernment bureaucracy will be created
as private lending institutions will
handle the loan transactions and
paperwork. ”
Mauro said the program will be
funded by the sale of general obliga
tion bonds.
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“We will be adding a dimension to a
very sucessful program,” Mauro said.
If the program is approved, the
Veterans Land Board will choose lend-
— ing institutions to participate in the
program.
Texas veterans choose lending insti
tutions that have been approved, and
the institutions determine veteran
qualification for a mortgage with the
same standards used for all loan appli
cants.
The Veteran Affairs’ Commission of
Texas will determine veteran eligibil
ity in terms of service in the Armed
Forces and residency in Texas.
If the veteran is eligible, the board
will arrange payment of up to $20,000
to the lending institution toward the
- purchase of a home for the veteran.
“I am hoping that more people in
the Brazos County will become aware
of the program,” Mauro said. “Re
member, we don’t need to do the
veterans a favor, we just need to repay
one.”
Gary Mauro
John Makely, Battalion staff
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