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Photos by PETER ROCHA
Long lines over; late registration, add/drop begin
Texas A&M students Monday stood
in lines that sometimes curved up the
ramp, right, and stretched across the
overpass on Wellborn Road, above, to
register for the first summer session.
Late registration begins today and
continues through Thursday for the
summer session and 11-week semester.
Students also can add classes until
Thursday and drop classes with no re
cord until Friday. Classes begin today.
Fees will be collected today through
Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
The deadlines for Q-drops are June
15 for the five-and-one-half week
courses and June 28 for the 11-week se
mester.
Seniors attending either the first
summer session or both sessions and
who plan to graduate in August must
apply for graduation by June 15. Se
niors attending the second session
should apply for graduation by July 20.
Commencement is Aug. 18.
Finals for the first summer session
will be July 10 and 11. Registration for
the second summer session will be July
12.
Hance, Barton
request recounts
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
out telegraphini
I Two apparently defeated con-
jenders in Saturday’s runoff elec
tions for the Democratic senatorial
[ace and the Republican 6th District
pngressional race are requesting a
fecount.
_ U.S. Rep. Kent Hance, seemingly
allplayer, Redft |efeated in the vitriolic Democratic
.8. Senate runoff, Monday re
quested a statewide recount of the
rotes that gave state Sen. Lloyd Dog-
;ett a slim 476 vote edge over the
ubbock congressman in Saturday’s
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“With that narrow a margin, I owe
to the voters of Texas, my support-
it steps to ensm |rs, everyone who worked many
“The Naturai’fbng hours and those who have
l)s, and Buffalo s given money to this effort to call for
Stadium, built astatewide recount,” Hance said,
ic backdrop foB Unofficial returns had shown
enes. And the|f Hance running behind Doggett by
portray playenB09 votes, but the official tally gave
include formerplance extra votes, narrowing the
J hil Mankowshpiargin to 476. Official returns com-
eau andSibbySlpiled by state elecion officials show
‘Doggett garnered a total of 489,927
|otes, or 50.02 percent, as opposed
a total of 489,460, or 49.98 per
cent for Hance.
I The recount is expected to cost
Bance about $50,000. State election
law says that candidates who desire a
recount must pay for it.
I Despite the call for a recount,
bad the enlirt
atural.
ISION
Doggett remained optimistic he
would be the Democratic nominee.
“That’s still enough for us,” he
said. “It’ll go up and down all week,
but I don’t think the order of finish
will change.”
If Doggett remains ahead, he will
challenge Republican nominee U.S.
Rep. Phil Gramm of College Station
in November for the seal left empty
by retiring Republican Sen. John
Tower.
Attorneys for Doggett and Hance
met Monday with members of the
Democratic Party office to discuss
the recount.
“Although the campaign got
heated Lloyd and Kent still want to
remain friends,” said Rich Paul,
Doggett’s campaign secretary.
Ken Vest, Hance’s press secretary,
had said early Monday that a re
count was necessary because “some
counties look a little strange.”
“I can’t elaborate on that right
now,” he said in a phone interview.
“I’m not suggesting there are any
improprieties, just voting mistakes.”
Fewer voters cast ballots in the
runoff than in the May 5 primary
and Hance was defeated even
though he outpolled Doggett in 200
of 254 counties. Hance won the Bra
zos County vote by a slim margin,
gaining 50.J percent of the vote to
Doggett’s 49.9 percent.
Republican Max Hoyt narrowly
defeated Joe Barton by 18 votes in
the 6th Congressional District run-
Reagan: U.S. to ponder
Soviet’s force proposal
Lloyd Doggett finished 476
votes ahead of Kent Hance in
the runoff for the Democratic
senatorial nominee.
off race. Barton affirmed Monday
that he plans to file a request for a
recount.
“I expect that I will come out
ahead,” Barton said in a phone in
terview Monday. “We’re not making
any claims of abuse. We’re just say
ing let’s make sure every vote is
counted correctly.”
Hoyt earned 4,630 votes, or 50.1
percent, as opposed to Barton’s
4,612, or 49.9 percent, in Saturday’s
election.
If Hoyt maintains first place in the
runoff, he will face Democrat Dan
Kubiak in the November general
election for 6th Congressional rep
resentative.
United Press International
DUBLIN, Ireland — President
Reagan, in a speech to the Irish Par
liament, offered Monday to consider
a Soviet proposal renouncing the use
of force in Europe in return for
“concrete action” to reduce the risk
of nuclear war.
Reagan’s address was interrupted
briefly by the walkout of three of the
166 Irish lawmakers. And outside
about 5,000 protesters, shouting
“Ronnie, Ronnie, out, out, out,”
marched on Leinster House, where
the Irish Senate and Dail held their
first joint session since President
Kennedy addressed the body in
1963.
The president’s remarks, in es
sence addressed to all Europe, reaf
firmed U.S. foreign policy three
days before an economic summit of
Western industrial nations, with spe
cial emphasis on dialogue rather
than conf rontation with Moscow.
The address capped Reagan’s
four-day sentimental journey to Ire
land, the land of his ancestors, and
he flew in the afternoon to London,
site of the summit and his base for
the balance of his 10-day European
tour.
Reagan planned only a brief
meeting with Prime Minister Marga
ret Thatcher after his arrival in Brit
ain. He had a light schedule today in
preparation for a daylong D-Day an- _
niversary extravaganza Wednesday
on the beaches of Normandy tai
lored for election-year television
coverage.
Speaking to the Irish lawmakers,
Reagan reiterated an offer “to halt
and even reverse” deployment of
U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles
in Europe — a source of political dis
cord in several NATO countries — if
“a verifiable and equitable
agreement” can be reached with
Moscow to reduce or eliminate such
weapons on both sides.
As Reagan began to speak, three
members of the lower house stood
up and walked out. They spoke, but
their words could not be understood
as others in the chamber called after
them, “Out, out.”
“There are some countries in the
world today where representatives
would not be allowed to speak as
they have today,” Reagan observed
after the outburst.
He urged the Soviets to return to
the nuclear arms reduction talks and
to accept “confidence-building”
measures proposed by the West at
the Stockholm Conference on Euro
pean Security.
The proposals include limiting
the size of military maneuvers in Eu
rope, advance notice of major exer
cises and exchange of information
“to reduce the risk of surprise attack
or war from accident or miscalcula
tion,” a White House official said.
“If the Soviet Union will agree to
such concrete action ... this would be
an important step forward in cre
ating a more peaceful world,” Rea
gan said.
The Soviets have proposed — and
the United States has rejected — a
treaty banning the use of military
force in Europe. But Reagan said,
“If discussions on reaffirming the
principle not to use force, a principle
in which we believe so deeply, will
bring the Soviet Union to negotiate
agreements which will give concrete
new meaning to that principle, we
will gladly enter into such dis
cussions.”
Reagan’s comments on nuclear
weapons drew an ovation, but a de
fense of his policy in Central Amer
ica — a focal point of demonstra
tions that marked his Irish visit —
was met with silence.
“The United States must not turn
its back on the democratic aspi
rations of the people of Central
America,” Reagan said.
“I know that some see the United
States, a large and powerful nation,
involved in the affairs of smaller na
tions to the south and conclude that
our mission there must be self-seek
ing or interventionist,” he said.
“Well, the Irish people, of all people,
know Americans well and we strive
to avoid violence or conflict.”
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State
• Author James A. Michener is t ravelling on the Texas
Clipper, the training ship for 'Texas A&M University at
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Democrat may be chosen today
Mondale nearing magic total
United Press International
Walter Mondale staged a grueling
5,800-mile, coast-to-coast campaign
marathon Monday on the eve of five
primaries that could give him
enough delegates to claim the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination.
As the former vice president
closed in on the 1,967 delegates
needed to win the nomination, his
stubborn rivals Gary Hart and Jesse
Jackson vowed to fight on whatever
the delegate numbers show.
The latest United Press Interna
tional count showed Mondale with
1,704 delegates, Hart 973 and Jack-
son 327, with 271 uncommitted.
In the past 24 hours, Mondale’s
count has crept up as he continues to
court and win uncommitted dele
gates in an all-out drive to fulfill his
prediction that he will go over the
top by noon Wednesday when all the
votes are counted.
The key to Mondale’s hopes of
wrapping up the nomination are the
486 delegates at stake in the final
primaries today in California, New
Jersey, West Virginia, South Dakota
and New Mexico.
Mondale needs not only to win
enough delegates to go over the top
but must carry New Jersey and pre
ferably California as well so he looks
like a big winner as he clinches the
nomination.
“The question that should be
asked of Mr. Mondale is what hap
pens if he doesn’t win all five tomor
row?” Hart asked on the eve of the
final vote. “That would be a very se
rious setback for his campaign.”
A weak showing in the final pri
maries would give credence to Hart’s
claim that Mondale is damaged
goods as he tries desperately to pry
delegates away in the month remain
ing before the Democratic National
Convention opens in California.
A new California Poll showed
Mondale increasing his lead on Hart
but many believe the race is too close
to call. Mondale is thought to be
ahead in New Jersey and West Vir
ginia, while Hart is the favorite in
South Dakota and New Mexico.
If he does win enough delegates
to claim the nomination, Mondale is
expected to make a unity pitch to
Hart and Jackson in what many
party leaders hope will result in a
burying of differences in the uphill
effort to unseat Ronald Reagan in
November.
Mondale took nothing for
granted, putting in the most gruel
ing day of the campaign. He arrived
in New Jersey at 3:30 a.m. from Cali
fornia and was up early to greet
commuters and construction work
ers.
After a morning in New Jersey, he
flew to West Virginia to campaign
among coal miners and other sup
porters in Appalachia, then took off
for a stop in Alburquerque, N.M.,
before winding up the marathon in
California.
Only South Dakota was missing
on the journey.
“I want a message sent here in
West Virginia,” Mondale declared.
“Some people decided ... not to cam
paign here,” an apparent reference
to Hart.
Hart took a few hours off the
campaign trail to attend his son’s
high school graduation in Washing
ton, then set out for a final swing
through New Jersey before return
ing to California Tuesday.
“I feel very confident that on
Wednesday the delegate count will
be much closer than it is today,”
Hart said.
He predicted that victories in Cali
fornia and New Jersey, which would
extend a string of triumphs that be
gan in Ohio and Indiana, would add
momentum and convince conven
tion delegates he should be the can
didate.
“We will have won more primaries
than Mr. Mondale, we will have won
more primary and caucus states than
Mr. Mondale, and we may wind up
with a plurality of the popular vote,”
Hart said. “I think that’s what the
uncommitted will look at.”
Jackson campaigned in Los An
geles and for the first time this year
used a television advertising blitz for
the final primaries.