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United Press International
AUSTIN — Speculation centered
Wednesday on former Austin state
Rep. Sara Weddington as the most
likely choice to succeed John Fainter
as Texas secretary of state.
Fainter, considered Gov. Mark
White’s most trusted political adviser
and one of his best friends, resigned
Tuesday to return to private law
practice.
;! White has not indicated whom he
Kill name to replace Fainter, al-
hough Weddington, who is cur
rently in charge of Texas’ Office of
State and Federal Relations in Wash
ington, D.C., has been most fre
quently mentioned.
[ Weddington said she would like to
have the job, but she said she does
not think White has made up his
mind.
“It would be a great honor to
serve as secretary of state,” she said.
Dwayne Holman, White’s ap
pointment secretary, indicated Wed
dington is a candidate for the job,
but ne said White has not made a fi
nal decision, and there also are seve
ral other people being considered.
Weddington, who worked in for
mer President Jimmy Carter’s ad
ministration, was lead counsel in the
historic Roe vs. Wade case, which re
sulted in the legalization of abortion.
Fainter, 45, informed White of his
resignation Tuesday afternoon, said
Holman. The resignation was effec
tive immediately.
Former EPA chief
departs—again
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Anne Bur-
ford, saying her return to govern
ment created “an unwarranted fu-
; ror” that hurt President Reagan in
year, Wednesday
this election
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g I turned down appointment to an ad
visory panel the day before she was
to take the job.
Burford, who was forced to resign
as chief of the Environmental Pro
tection Agency amid a scandal 17
months ago, pulled out of the new
environmental post after her ap
pointment was condemned in over
whelming votes on Capitol Hill — by
the House on Tuesday and by the
Senate last week.
Her nomination as chairwoman of
the National Advisory Committee on
Oceans and Atmosphere did not re-
. quire congressional confirmation,
orei ? n ' and Reagan had insisted he would
ignore the House and Senate votes,
contending as recently as Tuesday
she was “a victim of a lynching.”
But White House spokesman
Larry Speakes, in California where
Reagan is vacationing, said the presi
dent “has agreed to abide by Mrs.
Burford’s wishes.”
Burford last Friday strongly indi-
■re with: cated she was less than satisfied with
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described the advisory panel as “a
joke,” and a “nothingburger.”
In a letter delivered to Reagan
Wednesday, she said there “has been
an unwarranted furor created
around my appointment” that was
not helpful to Reagan.
“The people of the United States
must be given the opportunity to
make a fair and objective analysis of
your accomplishments on environ
mental issues,” she said. “Conse
quently, and to avoid further disrup
tion . I respectfully requent that you
withdraw my name.”
Burford resigned as EPA admin
istrator in March 1983 with the
agency engulfed in allegations of
mismanagement of the Superfund
toxic waste cleanup program and re
laxed enforcement of environmental
laws.
Her selection to the advisory
anel post, announced by Reagan
uly 2, undercut a Reagan re-elec
tion campaign effort to mend fences
with environmental leaders.
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The head of the nation’s largest
conservation group said Reagan will
have to do more than “fluff and rhe
toric” to make peace with environ
mentalists.
Photo by ERIC EVAN LEE
Waiting for relief
Doctoral student Carol Cheek waits in the summer heat for
her son to go swimming with her in Wofford Cain Swimming
Pool.
U.S. chargedwifh 'flouting'agreement
A&M will offer
new program
From staff and wire reports
In response to a growing need ex
pressed oy private industry, Texas
A&M University will offer a new
E aduate degree program in urban
id development.
The program, a master of science
with a major in land development,
will emphasize physical planning
and construction management cou-
f »led with appropriate instruction in
inance and other related areas.
“It is simply a matter of respond
ing to demand in private the sector,”
Wolfgang Roeseler, profesor of ur
ban and regional planning, said.
The program must be approved
by the state coordinating board be
fore it can be officially implemented.
Approval is expectea at the board’s
October meeting, Roeseler said.
The program was recently ap-
E roved by tne Texas A&M System
card of Regents at their July board
meeting. In April, it also was ap
proved oy the Graduate Council, the
Academic Program Council and the
Faculty Senate.
The program, to be administered
by the department of urban and re
gional planning in the College of Ar
chitecture and Environmental De
sign, will prepare students for
careers as managers and entrepre
neurs in the field of urban land de
velopment.
Tne purpose of the program is to
strengthen the private business sec
tor by providing graduates to deal
with developing real estate for uses
such as shopping centers, residential
neighborhoods and industrial areas.
It will be a non-thesis program
which will require 36 hours of com-
f ileted coursework and a satisfactory
inal examination.
Texas A&M currently offers two
graduate programs concerning real
estate through the agriculture eco
nomics and finance departments.
The new urban and regional plan
ning program will deal with plan
ning and designing real estate with a
emphasis on the physical character.
Previously, students could do
graduate work similar to the new
program while enrolled in the Mas
ter of Urban Planning program with
an emphasis on land development.
A similar program was instituted
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1983 and Harvard
University is preparing for such a
degree to be offered by the Harvard
School of Design. Texas A&M will
be the first university in the South
west to offer such a program.
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver said the objective of the
land development program is “the
strengthening of the private busi
ness sector by providing competent
persons to deal with the effective
conversion of raw land into a wide
variety of urban uses in a manner re
sponsive to market forces, mindful
of social responsibilites and fully
cognizant of the competitive invest
ment market.
“With this proposed program, the
University will respond to a demon
strated need in Texas and surround
ing regions by producing competent
physical developers and managers.”
Russia marks Helsinki anniversary
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union
marked the ninth anniversary of the
Helsinki Accords Wednesday with
charges that Washington is “crudely
flouting” the agreement that was
supposed to foster an unprece
dented era of East-West detente.
Instead of detente there are dan
gerous new tensions in Europe, said
a front-page editorial in the Com
munist Party newspaper Pravda. It
blamed the policies of “the aggres
sive circles of imperialism, above all
United States imperialism.”
The newspaper said Washington
and its NATO allies were “pursuing
a policy of confrontation and diktat,
crudely flouting the principles of the
(Helsinki) Final Act.’ 1
The editorial focused its attack on
the deployment of American cruise
and Pershing-2 missiles in Western
Europe, making no mention of the
document’s human rights provisions
which the West has regularly ac
cused Moscow of breaking.
Pravda did credit the Helsinki
Accords, which were signed at the
height of detente, with improving
European cooperation “in the fields
of the economy, science, culture, ed
ucation and others.”
The non-binding Helsinki
Accords were signed Aug. 1, 1975,
after 22 months of negotiations by
the United States, Canada and the
33 European nations excluding Al
bania.
Soviet-initiated provisions, which
effectively legitimized post-World
War II boundaries, confirmed the
“inviolability” of national borders
and prohibited intervention by one
state in the affairs of any other.
The West insisted on a human
rights section protecting individual
liberties and promoting the free ex
change of ideas, people and infor
mation.
As East-West relations have deterio
rated, each side has accused the
other of failing to honor the accords.
The West specifically says Moscow
has broken its commitments by in
vading Afghanistan, helping to
crush' the Polish free labor
movement and cracking down at
home on dissidents — in particular
Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov.
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