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By JULIE ENNIS
Reporter
| Two student leaders representing
more than 250,000 students from 20
Texas colleges and universities lob
bied in Washington recently to op-
bose a national drinking age. One
university not represented in the co
alition was Texas A&M.
Bjirhe coalition was coordinated by
the University of Texas’ Texas Stu
dent Lobby, the lobbying arm of the
UT Students’ Association.
Ejohn Hatch, director of the Texas
A&M Legislative Study Group, says
Texas A&M did not join the coali
tion because the Legislative Study
Group’s bylaws limit the LSG to par-
rapation only in statewide legis
lative issues.
f A lack of funds and manpower to
Hby against national legislation
were factors that helped determine
H restriction, he says.
KTwo years ago, Texas A&M lob-
Died in Austin to raise the drinking
age to 19, Hatch says.
WAs soon as the drinking age be
came a national issue, the Legislative
Ictidy Group couldn’t participate,”
he says.
liTexas A&M cannot officially par-
J|ipate in the coalition, so students
n|t want to express their opinions
should first register to vote, Hatch
?ays, and then write their congress
men and senators.
“Many people think that writing
their congressmen isn’t worthwhile
— it is,” he says. “They value opin
ions from citizens interested in the
issues.”
Hatch, a junior business major
from Big Spring, says the LSG is
similiar to the Texas Student Lobby.
The LSG was officially designated
three years ago by then student body
president Pat Pearson, to represent
Texas A&M in Austin.
Since then the LSG has grown
into a 30-member committee that re
searches state legislative issues relat
ing to Texas A&M.
Last year the LSG researched is
sues such as tuition, minority re
cruitment, international student
fees, faculty salaries, and the Perma
nent University Fund, Hatch says.
The LSG answers to the student
body president and the Student Sen
ate .
Hatch says the Student Senate
recommends current issues to the
LSG.
“After an issue is recommended
to us by the Senate, an issue coordi
nator is assigned from the LSG to re
search it with the help of his commit
tee,” he says.
The issue coordinator represents
Texas A&M students in Austin.
“The committees determine the
pros and the cons and a ‘position’ pa-
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New Zealand wants renegotiation
Shultz defends U.S. alliance
John Hatch
per is presented to the (Texas A&M)
Senate.”
He says the amendment to raise
the national drinking age was over
whelmingly passed by the U.S. Sen
ate despite the efforts of the Texas
Student Lobby representatives.
“It looks pretty bleak for the
TSL,” Hatch says.
The defeat in the Senate, Hatch
says, is likely to cause the Texas Stu
dent Lobby to redirect its efforts to
ward reeducating the congressmen
in Washington. This, he says, would
provide time for a stronger grass
roots student lobbying effort and
maybe reverse the decision in the
House.
United Press International
WELLINGTON, New Zealand —
Secretary of State George Shultz
Monday defended the United States’
defense alliance with New Zealand
and Australia as an “unshakeable
relationship” despite demands to
have the treaty renegotiated.
Shultz made the comments at the
opening of an annual ANZUS alli
ance meeting, overshadowed by the
New Zealand Labor Party’s election
victory Saturday on a platform call
ing for a renegotiated treaty ban
ning nuclear-armed and nuclear-
powered ships from the nation’s
ports.
New Zealand officials said the nu
clear ships issue did not arise during
the first day of the two-day meeting,
which brought together representa
tives of the United States, Australia
and New Zealand.
But Australian officials told re
porters their American counterparts
were concerned that a nuclear ship
ban could threaten the ANZUS
treaty — and sour relations between
the United States and New Zealand.
Without mentioning the nuclear
ship ban, Shultz defended the AN
ZUS alliance at the opening session
and said Wellington and Washing
ton had an “unshakeable
relationship.
“There is no greater testament to
the friendship between two peoples
than a resolute commitment, such as
that embodied in the ANZUS treaty,
to come to the defense of a valued
ally,” Shultz said.
Prime Minister-elect David Lange,
who does not assume office until
next week and was not represented
at the ANZUS meeting, has said he
wants to renegotiate the three-na
tion defense treaty and ban U.S. nu
clear-powered and nuclear-armed
ships from New Zealand’s ports.
Political observers said Lange was
under pressure to moderate his AN
ZUS policy, although his Labor Par
ty’s powerful anti-nuclear left wing
would resist.
Shultz was expected to meet
Lange Tuesday before leaving Well
ington, the final stop on his two-
week, six-nation tour of Asia and the
Pacific. He has already visited Hong
Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indone
sia and Australia.
Shultz met Monday with outgoing
Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon,
whose National Party ruled nine
years before its defeat at the polls
Saturday.
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Car owners can save police Beat
with prompt renewal
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tbout shif& Reporter
xidtic coiB) wners 0 f- ]979 or neW er vehicles
who have to renew their license
jrovided plates in July or August will save
. Otherwismoney if they do so before Aug. 1.
, s ■* Hi he tax package to fund the edu-
: Chief a
vard the
cation reform bill, which includes an
JdlCrease in vehicle registration fees,
Wl lake effect Aug. 1 — Gov. Mark
vbar. Ht While signed the lax bill Friday.
I talked loKriiis means some vehicle owners
ie noddewill be seeing an increase in their li-
k the boai^ ense plate renewal fees.
it?” W-laitte Hanus, supervisor of the
‘ , , motor vehicle division of the Brazos
Cotinty tax office, said the tax hike
ill not affect people who have to re
new their plates in July if they do so
before Aug. 1. Anyone who needs to
renew plates in August can do so in
July and still pay the old rales, Ha
nus said.
The law bases registration fees on
the vehicle’s age instead of weight.
Some people are better off wait
ing until the new rates take effect,
she added. If you have a 1978 car
and are paying $33.80, your license
plate renewal fee will be $28.30.
The new fees will cost owners of
1978 or older cars $28.30 to register.
For a 1979, 1980 or 1981 model the
new fee will be $38.30. All 1982 or
newer models will cost owners
$46.30 to register.
The following incidents were re
ported to the University Police De
partmem through Monday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A green Vista ten-speed bicycle
was stolen from a student's apart
mem porch.
• A red and black Huffy Winds'
print ten-speed bicycle was stolen
from the Underwood Hall bike rack.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• The passenger door window
was broken on a 1978 Ford Mustang
parked on Lamar Street.
ASSAULT:
• A student reported that while
site was walking across the Academic
mall, an oriental man rode up to her
on a bicycle and grabbed her around
the neck. She broke away from him
and he fled the scene. Investigating
officers were unable to locate the
man. . ^ :
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian
troops Monday took control of vil
lages in northern Lebanon to end
five days of clashes between two pro-
Syrian militias, but fighting flared
near Beirut’s newly reopened air
port.
But the outbursts of sniper fire
and shelling in the capital did not
appear to disrupt Beirut’s 12-day-
old, Syrian-mediated security plan
that allowed the Lebanese army to
take over rival Christian and Moslem
strongholds and reopen key crossing
points along the Green Line dividing
the city.
Christian and Moslem radios re
ported light anti-aircraft, machine
gun and mortar fire between two vil
lages less than 1 mile south of Beirut
International Airport.
A police spokesman described the
clashes as “brief and had no imme
diate report of casualties. He said
the sporadic fighting lasted for
about two hours in the late af
ternoon and did not disrupt air traf
fic.
Beirut’s port and airport re
opened a week ago, 154 days after
they were closed during a Moslem
revolt.
In northern Lebanon, Syrian
troops took over positions in em
battled villages where the 1,500-man
private “Marada” army of former
President Suleiman Franjieh and the
rival 1,000-strong militia of the Syr
ian Social Nationalist Party fought
for five days.
Beirut radio said the militiamen
disengaged peacefully, allowing Syr
ian troops to take over their posi
tions, one day after their leaders
agreed to a peace plan arranged in
Damascus.
The artillery, rocket and heavy
machine-gun battles that began last
Wednesday left at least 30 people
dead and wounded 150 others be
fore ending Sunday, the respected
An Nahar newspaper reported.
British dockworkers join strike
United Press International
LONDON — Dockworkers at
Britain’s last major port to operate
normally Monday joined a week-old
dock strike and Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher met with Cabinet
ministers to review the country’s
mounting labor troubles.
Longshoremen at Dover, Britain’s
“gateway” to Europe, voted two-to-
one to stop handling all cargo bound
for the continent, union officials
said.
The strike at Dover, which took
effect at noon, will not affect the
30,000 vacationers and 7,000 cars
that pour through the port daily this
time of year, the peak holiday sea
son.
Maritime traffic at more than 60
major ports, including Liverpool,
London, Glasgow and Felixstowe,
has been halted by the walkout,
which flared July 10 when a contract
laborer, rather than a dockworker,
was used to shovel iron ore at a
northern port.
Although that dispute was re
solved, the dockworkers’ union is
now demanding guarantees of fu
ture work. Union and port officials
are scheduled to take part Tuesday
in separate talks with government
arbitrators.
The longshoremen’s walkout in
creased pressure on Britain’s econ
omy, already pressed by an 18-week-
old coal miners’ strike that has closed
135 of Britain’s 175 coal mines.
Thatcher has vowed to invoke
emergency powers enabling the gov
ernment to use troops to move es
sential supplies from strikebound
ports if necessary.
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