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Jefferson U its lo 1 fight s right: Ceremonies begin today for graduates See page 3 Aggies battle Horns for SWC title ■■■■■VI Texas A&M ^ m tk The Battalion Mavericks prepare for game 3 Serving the University, community , t a fol 79 No. 147 CISPS 0453110 20 Pages Perns with a d Don know ther!” chosen tiniunisi nth Bei >een to urse and I ough sl(| nember, Ewen. i h, was J ists arrtsl edition iw ietliuneB United Press International ck ofevcfliN ANTONIO — Tfie tliree ne and i^ihocratic presidential candidates the time Red Texas Democrats Thursday, k thatlitpkiiiga heavy bid for the large His- ^as gettiniHc vote that is expected to be the iomthefaiFy| n Saturday’s caucuses, pie who |Di spite the intense effort by Gary about J art and Jesse Jackson, there were I all this Jlpg indications the complicated Big procedure and endorsements f nearly ever y major state Democrat ft front-runner Walter Mondale re- m uydy to ride off into the sunset with Jl IHyofThe 1(59 national convention el^gates at stake. fAll three contenders stumped n trough San Antonio, the heart of ■Hispanic area that lias produced Bof the major elements of victory Bcent Texas races. te suu: But Hart planned no campaigning gdlccl in Bex as after Thursday, and aides lexasl idkated he would concentrate on h' lib Jidiana, which has a primary Tues- rsity, ("ay, as the one state where he can it TexasMondale bandwagon. Marcos! Hart sought fervently for a victory niversilyBewhere in the big batch of call uses and primaries in the next week progra here there wer e more than GOO del- uebec, gates at slake. Morelos Jackson too sought to broaden his 'spanol'"jainbow Coalition by adding His- ns a ino:|nic votes, hut as elsewhere in his ' Multitilmpaign this year his Texas audi- gces were heavily black. Still he was ih withtvored lo add to his delegate ;xican Irength in the Lone Star State, and i and ijould do especially well in Houston, ioinatomioing into Texas Mondale had for 32|212 of the 1,967 delegates needed fheprojBwin the nomination, while Hart ring grawad (544 and Jackson 209. College Station, Texas Friday, May 4, 1984 pursue vote Mondale, appearing on a farm near Waco, blasted President Rea gan’s farm program blaming it for much of the problems family farmers face today. He lit into Agriculture Secretary John Block, saying, “Where I come from they call him auction block.” In San Antonio, Hart first met with a group of parents, teachers and school superintendents around an oval conference table in a classroom and outlined his educational pro grams while at the same time de nouncing President Reagan for cut ting education funds. The parents and educators, grouped around the table, told Hart in a frank and open exchange that the Reagan cuts have had a “dev astating effect” on bilingual educa tion for the children of Hispanics. Asked why he was making no more appearances in the state, al though the vote is still two days away. Hart said he was confident of his or ganization’s ability and added, “Give or take one appearance would not make that much difference.” After leaving San Antonio, Hart headed for several events in Loui siana, which holds its primary in which 57 delegates are at stake on Saturday. There also are primaries in Ohio, Maryland and North Carolina Tuesday. Jackson campaigned across Texas from Tyler to McAllen, complaining about procedures for the caucuses and telling supporters they must “vote twice and make it nice.” See related stories page 12 Texas primary this weekend • . : t: S - " l ’ ' ' : Photo by ELIZABETH COOKSEY Quiet Beneath the Columns Cuathro Hundley finds that the best way to study for finals is in complete solitude on the steps of the system building. jn $eagan complies, cuts budget | |i United Press International KvASHINGTON — Bowing to po- in thelBal reality, the administration sent issue olffipgress $14 billion in military bud- . Thei' Ci cuts Thursday that leave un- )f the" niched its nuclear force buildup raphies nd space research programs, raphs. ||Tlie president accepted the orms atcinents of the congressional lead- inagaffltship that this would be the amount ional p®ssary to secure agreement to an verall deficit reduction package,” tot be JBcnse Secretary Caspar Wein- told the Senate Armed Serv- :r publi<# Committee as he outlined the JtS. The cuts — which both Wein berger and President Reagan said in crease the military risk to the country — amount to less than 5 percent and would bring the initial proposal for $305 billion in military spending in fiscal 1985 down to $291.1 billion. The real growth rate for the mili tary budget would be trimmed from 13 percent to 7.8 percent, with actual spending in fiscal 1985 reduced from a requested 9.3 percent Lo G-.9 per cent. The House budget resolution con tained a growth rate of 3.5 percent. and the budget proposal now before the Senate calls for a 7.5 percent in crease. The House Armed Services Committee already has made $19 bil lion in cuts, to a 6 percent growth rate. Weinberger, who in February de clined congressional invitations to point out areas for cuts, again was warned the final figure may be much lower than his revised proposal — perhaps as low as 4 percent real growth. In a letter to the committee, Rea gan said the cuts were offered only in conjunction with bills raising taxes and reducing non-defense spending to cut the deficit by about $150 bil lion over three years. “Any further reductions would be counter to our national security in terests and could not be accepted,” said Reagan, adding he accepted the cuts “on the expressed condition that the other two parts of the compro mise package be enacted.” Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., crit icized the budget cuts, however, as “the sort of juggling they’ve done in the past.” ADD fights attitudes on alcohol By KAYE PAHMEIER Reporter Icohol is a major factor in caus- traffic accidents and related ths in the United States, he United States Department of ransportation reports that each “ear 25,000 people are killed in acci- ents involving alcohol and 650,000 people are injured. Nearly $25 bil- on is lost in property damages, bod- y injury and lost work. he National Highway Traffic Jfety Administration estimates that Friday and Saturday nights, when ' :bhol consumption is at its peak, 10 cent of all drivers on the road are lly intoxicated. Of these num- fs, 44 percent of all fatal accidents t occur during these nights in- o|ve people between the ages of 15 B ^i^ntl24. According to the National l^nsportation Safety Board, that’s percent of the licensed driving lopulation. ^hilling as these statistics are, bow er, they are inadaquate to express e real tragedy of drunk driving, 'iijmbers can’t convey the awful real- | of broken bodies and burned h, the grief of families and nds and the lifelong guilt and uma suffered by the survivors. * 17-year-old Bryan Lee Hewitt’s UM words to his parents were “Am I ^ *lngto die?” Hewitt had just graduated from high school and was excited about at tending college in ijie fall. He was coming home from visiting friends Sept. 4, 1982, when his car was hit by an unlicensed driver, legally intoxi cated. Hewitt’s aorta ruptured when the front six feet of his car compacted around him on impact. He died three hours later, along with his three best friends who were in the car with him. The driver received a 30-day work release and a $250 fine. Hewitt’s story is a typical encoun ter of an innocent victim and the drunk driver. Families of the victims of drinking drivers have taken action. Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters have joined together to form Mothers Aganist Drunk Drivers. MADD is an organization of survi vors. The members fight back against criminally negligent drivers in the courtrooms, in the legislature and in the streets. The Brazos Gounty MADD chap ter has recently put the pressure on the local police to make more DWI arrests and MADD has just had their best year with some strong results, says Rick Brown, President of Brazos County MADD chapter. According to the Statistical Service Bureau in Austin, in the past 12 months, 206 alcohol related acci dents have occured with three fatali ties in the Brazos Valley. Assistant District Attorney Bill Turner said that 287 arrests and 157 DWI charges have been made against drunk drivers including felonies and misdemeanors in the Brazos Counity. Brown said he isn’t against drink ing, but instead encourages everyone not to drink in excess and drive. “It’s still a big problem though, but the success of MADD has been en couraging,” Brown said. “We want to help refocus public attitudes about drinking and driving to make the practice less socially acceptable than it is now.” Sergeant Fred Forsthoff of the Texas Department of Public Safety said, “The public doesn’t perceive drunk driving as a crime, yet more people are killed each year in this manner than they are by handguns.” Brown said he wrote many letters to Brazos County officals requesting that police in Bryan-College Station make more arrests for public intoxi cation before the intoxicated person has a chance to drive. The police now wait in front of lo cal bars looking for individuals stag gering out of a bar to arrest. “We’re actually doing them a favor by not letting them drive home,” he said. According to the College Station Police Department, most states have set. 10 percent alcohol in the blood as the level at which a person is consid ered drunk. At .10 percent, a person would have difficulty walking and coordi nating the movements needed to op erate a vehicle, but at .08 percent, senses, memory, reaction time, and mood all are adversely affected. “It doesn’t matter if you drink three beers, three mixed drinks or three glasses of wine, they all contain the same amount of alcohol,” he said. “The same amount of alcohol causes the same type of accident.” Brown, MADD members and its many allies have lobbied in Austin during the last session of the Texas Legislature, Brown said, and won one of the three bills they believed would put an end to the rising death toll and injuries due to alcohol. They won a bill stiffening penali ties for drunk driving, but lost their fight to enforce the open container law — which would make drinking anything while driving illegal. MADD also lost it’s attempt to have the drinking age raised to 21 in Texas. See MADD page 7 By ROBIN BLACK and James Walker Stall' Writers It’s primary time for the general election — that wondrous, if not con fusing, event that happens only once every leap year — and the candidates vying for the offices up for grabs in Texas in 1984 will be thinned out considerably by Saturday night. The healed campaigns have been running actively since last fall, with more mud-slinging going on within the individual parties than the tradi tional party-against-party skirmishes. Here’s a rundown of who’s run ning for what and the various qualifi cations the candidates have: U.S. President Gary Hart The senator from Goio- rado surprised the nation as one of the Democratic underdogs when he defeated opponent Waller Mondale in the New Hampshire primary that officially kicked off the 1984 race and went on to a series of primary wins, including a fair sweep on Super Tuesday. Jesse Jackson Jackson, a black minister, is barely hanging on in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, and scored his first pri mary win in predominantly black Washington D.C. this week. Walter Mondale Mondale, who served as vice president under Presi dent Jimmy Carter, has been favored to win the Democratic party nomi nation from square one. He is cur rently leading opponent Gary Hart about two to one in the acquisition of delegates to the party convention, which will be in San Francisco in July. Ronald Reagan Incumbent candi date — the Republican president is uncontested within his party. U.S. Senate Lloyd Doggett Currently a state senator, Doggett, a Democrat, has re ceived endorsements from teachers’ groups and the AFL-CIO. Kent Hance Democrat Hance is a U.S. Representative and won the en dorsement of the Houston Chronicle and has launched a statewide media blitz. Bob Krueger Krueger has served two terms as a democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives and was narrowly defeated by John Tower in 1978 in the race for this same seat. Others Democrats include: Harley Schlanger, Robert Sullivan and Da vid Young, Phil Gramm Gramm, a Republi can, gave up his position as the 6th U.S. district representative to pursue the place vacated by retiring Republi can John Tower. Henry C. Grover A former Texas legislator, this Republican came within 100,000 votes of beating out Dolph Briscoe for the governor’s seat in 1972. Rob Mosbacher Mosbacher, new to the game of politics, has been ac tive in Republican party activities as well as civic projects in his native Houston. Ron Paul Paul is another Republi can who has put in lime in the U.S. Congress. U.S. Representative 6th District Joe Barton Republican Patsy Hale (Pat) Friedrichs Re publican See PRIM page 7 Finals schedule The schedule for finals week is as follows: Monday 8 — 10 a.m. — Classes meeting MWF 8 Monday 11 — 1 p.m. — Classes meeting MWF 1 Monday 2 — 4 p.m. — Clasases meeting TTh 8-9:15 Monday 5 — 7 p.m. Classes meeting MW 5-6:15, MW 5:15-6:30 and MW 5:30-6:45 Tuesday 8 — 10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 9 Tuesday 11 — 1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF 2 Tuesday 2 — 4 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 9:30-10:45 Tuesday 5 — 7 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 5-6:15, TTH 5:15-6:30 and TTH 5:30-6:45 Wednesday 8 — 10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 10 Wednesday 11 — 1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF 3 and MWF 3-4:15 Wednesday 2 — 4 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 11-12:15 Wednesday 5 — 7 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 3:30-4:45 Thursday 8— 10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 11 Thursday 11 — 1 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 2-3:15 Thursday 2 -— 4 p.m. Classes meeting TTh 12:30-1:45 Thursday 5 — 7 p.m. Classes meeting MWF 12 Friday 8 — 10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 4, MW 4-5:15, MW 4:30-5—45 Local • The Northgate area committee brings recommenda tions to the College Station City Council. See story page 3. • Five former students to receive Distinguished Alumni Awards. See story page 5. State • The Texas Republican party is at a fragile stage says a Texas A&M professor. See story page 12. World • A variety of Cajun specialties will be on the menu at the 1984 World’s Fair. See story page 15.