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United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
■an said Tuesday the “enemies of
oin” are watching congressional
Hte over aid to El Salvador, and
^lled on the lawmakers to pro-
nough support to do the job.
“ll the Congress offers too little
jort, it would be worse than
jmy, nothing at all,” Reagan said as
^^^■pened his 24lh nationally tele-
I ll l )ress conference.
f |lu Reagan plea came as Salvado-
^^|President-elect Jose Napoleon
finie lobbied Congress for $62 mii-
fTRjj ( | n| n emergency military aid for his
u|try.
Bur Congress faces some historic
ie onl\§|' ons t h' s week,” Reagan said.
■nt A • % e must support the democratic
‘ piraiions of the people of Nicara-
!Ct, f°|. Hand oppose the Sandinista ag
nomen Issors against their neighbors,” he
Bd. “Peace can only be achieved
Sentral America if the forces of
icracy are strong.
Duarte Tuesday made the rounds
d Kapitol Hill, apparently making
■way in securing aid.
House Speaker Thomas O’Neill
id lhat although he opposes fur-
S Bmililary aid for El Salvador, he
||mpressed by Duarte’s “courage,
Bsty and decency” and he pre-
led the House will approve both
Bier military and economic aid
are hai!*?' 111 Salvador.
j l0 ^ 11 ie House is expected to act later
ibjeclloB^k on Reagan’s request for the
her _ 12 million in military aid, which
Diier tlil^ ^ )e added on lop of $64.8 mil-
re b’ U | )i| that Congress earlier approved
""the grrlP 1 * 5 fiscal year.
niinenlB a S an refused to say what the
, pl a yei nited States will do in the Persian
urse. B ^ l ^ e Iran-Iraq war worsens,
Khesaid he does not think Ameri-
nen IxJf become involved in a shoot-
ue. B var -
-stioinjl fiank it’s very slight,” he said of
efcossibility of U.S. troops becom-
lopof g involved. “I can’t forsee that hap-
0 (,i s Bug. As things stand now, no I
l dowi P 1 think so.”
- to inaiH ea g an said that despite U.S.-So-
Btensions, he thinks the world is
Ijpg. fernow than it has been.
“1 don’t think we’re any closer or
was [lJ°se as we might have been in the
B... to a nuclear conflagration,” he
B “Yes, the Soviet Union is un-
lp))v.... We’re building up our mili-
'oudid fy and we’re not unilaterally dis-
»utit.’’ Bing while they continue their
d botltesive buildup. I think the world
op thtBbe is a little safer than it has been
line past.”
antes 1 Reagan also said:
-olilion • He is not worried about the in-
$250.’eased presence of Soviet subma-
e dropffts off the U.S. coast. “If I thought
re. B e was some reason to be con-
Bed about them I wouldn’t be
ping in this house tonight,” he
|. “This isn’t anything new.”
He said the Soviets apparently
re doing “something in return”
|NATO deployment of interme-
ate-range missiles in Europe.
Photo J
Nice weather
Taking advantage of the calm after the storm, this
bicyclist rides through the debris knocked from
the trees by rain, hail and high winds Monday.
Sidewalks, such as this one in front of Leggett Hall,
were covered with leaves and branches. Please see
related story this page.
Regents approve runway plan
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
The Texas A&M Board of Re
gents Tuesday approved plans to ex
tend one of the runways at Eas-
terwood Airport and build additional
prestige boxes at Kyle Field.
The plans tor the airport would
lengthen the runway to 7,000 feet
and would ^allow larger planes to
come and go from the airport. Pre
sent facilities at the airport make it al
most impossible for large jets to take
off from the too-short runways.
The Federal Aviation Administra
tion must approve plans for the
longer runway, and if they do the
federal government will pay 90 per
cent of the bulding cost.
The FAA has already said it would
approve the 90 percent subsidation
for a 6,200-foot runway, and the re
gents are hoping the agency also will
approve funding for the additional,
800 feel.
The board has estimated the total
cost for the runway extension at $6.4
million.
Regents also approved plans to
have preliminary designs drawn up
for 48 more suites to be built around
the horseshoe area in Kyle Field.
The complex, which will include
facilities to accommodate 1,200 peo
ple for meetings and social events,
will be funded by donations from the
Aggie Club.
Although no definite price for the
suites has been determined at this
time, people have already committed
to leasing 22 of the suites. The lease
revenues will be the source of funds
for the project,.and the overall lease
prices will be set higher than actual
construction costs.
The board also approved the Stu
dent Center Complex fee hike that
was approved in a student body ref
erendum during student elections in
March.
The fee, which has not increased
since 1973, will be raised from the
current rate of $10 to $20 over the
next three years.
The fee will be raised to $14 a se
mester during the 1984-85 school
year, then to $18 during the 1985-86
school year and will level off at $20 a
semester during the 1986-87 school
year.
The fee increase was originally au
thorized by the State Legislature in
1983, with the stipulations that it in
crease to no more than $20 per se
mester and that the increase must be
approved by a vote of the student
body.
The student referendum recom
mends that a portion of the fee in
crease collected be set aside in a sepa
rate reserve fund to provide for
planning and construction of addi
tions to existing facilities to increase
space available for general student
usage.
In other business, the board heard
a presentation of the goals of the to
tal engineering program at Texas
A&M as provided for under the Tar
get 2000 project.
In the presentation, it was pointed
out that the University ranks fourth
in the nation in the number of Na
tional Merit Scholars it has enrolled,
and more than half of those at Texas
A&M are enrolled in the College of
Engineering.
The schools ranking above Texas
A&M in the race for brains are Har
vard, Princeton and the University of
Texas.
In the recruiting war to acquire the
scholars, Texas A&M claims a total of
545 National Merit Scholars, while ri
val UT has 541 National Merit schol
ars on its rolls.
The run to recruit the high school
scholars is fast rivaling the recruiting
war for high school athletes, and is
equally expensive for institutions.
Texas A&M is ahead of UT in one
other respect — it has more money to
offer the scholars.
Every year the University offers
between 70 and 90 four-year,
$10,000 scholarships to outstanding
freshmen. Other scholarships rang
ing in value from $750 to $2,000 per
school year are available to about 180
other students.
UT spends about $150,000 each
year to bring 1,200 outstanding stu
dents to Austin for a three-day visit
to the campus during the summer.
That does not include the minimum
$1,000 scholarship offered to each
student invited.
Rains
flood
area
By Kari Fluegel
Staff Writer
Bryan-CoIIege Station residents
got more than they hoped for in the
recent torrential storms, and more
showers may fall today, but the Na
tional Weather Service is predicting a
clear weekend.
Thunderstorms that swept
through the area Monday, dumping
up to three inches of rain in several
parts of Brazos County, caused some
minor damage and flooding on cam
pus and in the area. Golf-ball-sized
hail was reported in some areas.
Lightning struck a unit of South-
side Apartments, the married stu
dents’ apartments, on the Texas
A&M campus.
The lightning hit the roof over
apartments 7-C and 7-D leaving a
hole about a foot in diameter and a
small amount of smoke damage in
side, Elmer Schneider, Texas A&M
chief of police, said. The apartment
residents were not home at the time.
The only other incidents on cam
pus were false fire alarms set off by
the weather and flooding on Lamar
Street and near the Grove, Schneider
said. The flooding cleared when the
downpour stopped, he said.
In College Station, traffic lights at
the intersections of University Drive
at Texas Avenue and University at
College Avenue went down for a
short time due to the lightning activ
ity in the area.
“The electronic equipment in sus-_
ceptible to energy from a lightning
burst,” John Black, College Station
traffic engineer, said. “The lightning
doesn’t have to strike the equip
ment.”
Also in College Station, police dis
patchers had to use flashlights in
their work areas and manually check
for incoming calls when the outage
caused the switchboard to go dark
during a 20-minute power outage at
the Police Department.
In Bryan, lightning caused two
feeders at a sub-station to go out and
struck at tree at 901 Ruskin Drive
leaving smoke damage inside the
house. There were no injuries result
ing from the incident.
The heavy rains caused flooding
in the Wheeler Ridge area when cars
driving by sent water into the living
rooms of houses on Green Valley
Road.
Bryan city officials expect pot
holes to develop because of the heavy
water flow on the streets. Also, bro
ken branches will have to be cleaned
out of the sewers.
College Station City Engineer Da
vid Pullen said the storms won,’l
cause any delay in the road repair
work on Southwest Parkway and FM
2818.
ritain expells Soviet diplomat
United Press International
EONDON — The British govern-
em announced Tuesday it had ex-
Beci a lop Soviet diplomat who re-
pnedly was the KGB’s London
ation chief in the latest of six recent
portations of alleged East bloc
tefrom Britain and Belgium.
In Moscow, the Kremlin retaliated
■London’s action by ordering the
pulsion of Britain’s top security
in in Moscow, the Foreign Office
fid.
phe Soviet diplomat, Arkadi Cuk,.
pBritain after being declared “per-
Ki non grata” on May 14, a For-
gn Office spokesman said. It was
■immediately clear when he left
country.
|Guk worked as first secretary at
(Soviet Embassy, but he has been
described as head of Soviet spy oper
ations in Britain.
The Foreign Office said the Brit
ish Embassy’s first secretary in Mos
cow, John Burnett, had been or
dered out of the Soviet Union by
May 28 in what they called a “totally
unjustified” reprisal over Cuk’s case.
Burnett was responsible for secu
rity in Britain’s Embassy in Moscow.
Last week, Burnett gave evidence
at a British inquest into the suspicious
1983 death of British banker Dennis
Skinner, who was a suspected double
agent and had contacts within the
KGB.
Cuk’s alleged role in the KGB was
revealed in the London press during
last month’s trial of British security
agent Michael Bettany, who was con
victed of trying to sell secrets to the
Soviets and sentenced to 23 years im
prisonment.
Cuk. was the first Soviet expelled
from Britain this year. Six Soviets
were thrown out of the country in
1983.
Britain also said it has expelled two
Czech diplomats for “activities in
compatible with their status as diplo
mats” — the usual euphemism for
spying. They were named as Bohu-
mar Seda, a vice consul, and Jan Mal-
asek, a clerk.
In Belgium, the government an
nounced that a Soviet and two East
Germans had been thrown out of the
country in recent weeks for spying.
A Justice Ministry official said one
of the East Germans was a second
secretary at the East German Em
bassy while the other was an engineer
working for a Belgian-East German
company identified as Rupert Kraus.
Kraus had tried to take pictures of
installations at a Belgian army bar
racks during an alert exercise, police
sources said. He was expelled April
30.
The second secretary, who had
tried to make contact with NATO of
ficials, left the country of his own
free will April 27.
The Soviet, identified only as La-
cheff working for Moscow’s trade
mission, was arrested during the
weekend and was put aboard an Aer
oflot airlines flight for Moscow Tues
day with his wife and two children,
the Justice Ministry said.
Lacheff, along with another un-
identifed member of the mission,
had approached a national from a
neighboring country working at
NATO headquarters to obtain classi
fied information, the ministry said.
In Today’s Battalion
Local
• The colleges of Geosciences and Engineering are
sponsoring special summer programs to aid minority stu
dents' See story page 3.
• The new “Raiders” movie, Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom, opens today at area theaters. See story
page 6.
World
• Walter Mondale stepped up pressure Tuesday on ri
val Gary Hart for a debate among the Democratic presi
dential candidates in New Jersey this weekend — and of
fered to hold another one in West Virginia. See story page
3.
• The Supreme Court ruled that women cannot be
barred from business partnerships on the basis of their sex.
See story page 6.