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>$: Thursday, February 23, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 h as in tk Congress blames Reagan for enforcing school funds lated thei; lis disirici thl fromlfi impared in ars. The J;*- )f G rav 4 United Press International •strongco. WASHINGTON — Con- waterusebjress and House Majority • and thef |eader Jim Wright Wednesday is plant fori reused Reagan of “straining at iferleveliiiiBiat while swallowing camels” ^impounding education funds while ignoring multimil- H-dollar military waste. In a speech on the floor of he House, Wright added fire to ■ Texas congressional dele- ■bn’s efforts to force the gov- lll jfnnient to free up $30 million r I I ■ funding to lessen the impact Kchool districts forced by a jupreme Court decision to pro ne momt® free schooling to illegal iif his fir dien children. criffinfc ‘Bn this case, the Office of of Dallas. Bnageinent and Budget ac- ig guilts fn is a flagrant violation of the !b, Vanceiulfiiti-Impoundment Act,” log)' for 1 Wright said. for beinj “In spite of written assur- lituemoitfcs given to me on Jan. 5 by etc this niiiftetary of Education T.H. had beenlij that the program would be tr forthelfipleinented without delay,’ f Public kj| hauffetir the administration has coun termanded Secretary Bell and simply marked the program down for administrative death in a budget line-item labeled ‘unobligated balance lapsing,’” he said. Administration officials say that because the funding was passed in November as an at tachment to a continuing reso lution — a vehicle to allow the government to keep running until Congress finishes approv ing budgets for major depart ments — they did not consider it an authorization. Wright and Texas Demo cratic Reps. Solomon Ortiz and Kika de la Garza earlier in the day fired off a letter to the Gen eral Accounting Office to find out why the funds are being withheld. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, on Tuesday asked President Reagan to ovefrule ICIeu fexas top state in oil production espite decline United Press International Dartmocf DALLAS — Even though pe- e also isor;|P eum activity slowed during |3, Texas still was the na- m’i top drilling and produc- I is expects* state for the year, the Pe is for April fro I e u m Information contractrtiJorporalion said Wednesday, lie election, p. ■A presentation by PI, a - Denver-based subsidiary of A.C. Nielsen Co., showed ex- ■ ,, ttradon in the Permian Basin RWest Texas and offshore in ■Gulf of Mexico were among » , the bright spots in the national I w jJ Mroleum scene last year. Ij yl There were 24,297 well com- L/ letions in Texas in 1983, more lip twice as many wells as were tornpleted in Oklahoma, the teeond-ranked state. 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Wright said the OMB deci sion comes at the same time an investigation of military spend ing revealed inattention by Pen tagon auditors to subcontractor prices, including one military manufacturer “unjustly en riched by more than $40 million at the taxpayers’ expense be cause the Army did not insist that reduced prices by subcon tractors be passed on to the American taxpayers.” “These two disclosures dem onstrate the administration’s priorities,” he said. “Straining at gnat while swallowing camels, the administration impounds funds needed for children and blithely ignores millions of dol lars in waste on military wind falls and cost overruns.” Famous educator to lecture here on teacher education Maxine Greene will speak on teacher education at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder Tower as part of the Aikin-Stinnett Lecture Series. The lecture series, spon sored by the College of Edu cation and the Dean’s Grant Project, is in honor of two great men in the history of education: A.M. Aikin and Tim M. Stinnett. The pur pose of the series is to discuss teacher education and educa tional policy. Greene’s speech, ’’Perspec tives and Visions: Rationale for ‘Foundations’ in Teacher Education,” is the second of two lectures presented in the series. Aikin and Stinnett are be ing honored for their out standing contributions to ed ucation in Texas. Among many other accomplish ments, Aikin is responsible for setting up the current structure of education in Texas and was officially named the Father of Modern Texas Education by the Third Legislature of Texas. BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL • Airline Reservations • Hotel/Motel Accomodations • Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours • Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 • Agency is fully computerized- 410 S. 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