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Serving the University, community
Vol. 79 Mo. 189 USPS 045360 16 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, August 27, 1984
Women
run for
Reagan
By MICHELLE POWE
Staff Writer
It looked like the Fourth of July
Sunday at Hof fbrau Bar 8c Restau
rant. There were American flags
and people dressed in red, white and
blue everywhere.
People dressed in red, white and
blue jogging suits, that is. And most
of them women.
The occasion: a five-day relay run
from Dallas to Houston by women
who support President Ronald Rea
gan.
The runners, who call themselves
Women Running for the Reagan
Team, were just stopping in College
Station for a bite to eat and a little
chat with the press "before continu
ing on to Houston.
About 25 women, ranging in age
from 26 to 54, started their trek Fri
day, August 24 from the Republican
Convention Center in Dallas and will
end at the Reagan/Bush ‘84 Head
quarters in Houston Tuesday, Au
gust 28.
They have taken turns running,
keeping at least three or four run
ners on the road at a time. Family
and friends supported them from a
Winnebago and a couple of vans
kept pace with the runners as they
ran along Interstate Highway 35 to
U.S. Highway 190 then to Texas
Highway 6.
Melissa Fuller of Houston, who
thought up the idea of a run for
Reagan, said she wanted to do some
thing to show Reagan that women
support him.
“He’s a good president for all
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Photo by PETER ROCHA
Running for Reagan
Women run along University Dr. to show their support for Ronald Reagan and his race for a second term as president.
Americans, and certainly for wo
men,” Fuller said.
When asked what she thinks of
Reagan’s opposition to the Equal
Rights Amendment, Fuller said Rea
gan’s support for women is evi
denced by his appointment of
women to top positions in his admin
istration, such as Secretary of Trans
portation Elizabeth Dole and Su
preme Court Justice Sandra Day
O’Conner. Fuller said Reagan only
appoints qualified women to office
and does not appoint women just as
token representatives.
“I think he’s a president who is
supportive of equal rights for
women, he just doesn’t think we
need a constitutional change,” she
said.
Texas A&M requests money for 1986-87
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
Texas A&M University System of
ficials made appropriation requests
totaling almost $ 1.1 billion for 1986-
87 to members of the Legislative
Budget Board and representatives
of the Office of the Governor during
hearings at Texas A&M last week.
Representatives of 12 system insti
tutions and agencies including
Texas A&M, Tarleton State Univer
sity, Prairie View A&M University,
Texas A&M University at Galveston,
the Texas Agriculture Experiment
Station, Texas Forest Service and
the Texas Engineering Experiment
Station presented and justified their
general revenue appropriation re
quests for the next two years during
the hearings tharbeg’an Wednesday.
The largest request for $510.3
million came from Texas A&M. The
proposal for the University includes
$250,300,108 for fiscal 1986 and
$260,023,893 for fiscal 1987.
The request includes money for
all expenses for operating the Uni-
A substantial amount of the money requested is to mod
ernize certain areas of the University.
The University asked fora 29percent increase in funds
for minority scholarships. Texas A&M would like to
spend $1.8 million in 1985-86 for minority recruiting
and scholarships.
Other requests include Texas
A&M-Galveston’s request for
$38,584,152 in 1986 and $7,072,612
in 1987 which is up from $5,619,599
in 1985 and Taleton State’s request
for $21,128,201 in 1986 and
$17,749,483 in 1987 up from
$12,003,179 in 1985. Prairie View
requested $50",'539,694 in 1986 and
$38,305,035 in 1987 which is an in
crease from $19,363,830 in 1985.
Many of the requests made by
Texas A&M-Galveston, Tarleton
State and Prairie View were for new
construction.
In addition to their regular re
quests, Tarleton State asked for $1
million to renovate its library and
Prairie View requested more than $4
million for scholarships and recruit
ment.
Other request for 1986 include
Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, $52,883,098; Texas Agricultu-
ral"Extension Service, $54,06>, 160;
Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion, $31,336,007; Texas Engi
neering Extension Service,
$13,945,654; and the Texas A&M
University System administrative
and general offices, $3,795,095.
Requests for 1987 include Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station,
$59,098,004; Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, $58,817,612;
$2,957,406; Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station, $32,617,877;
Texas Engineering Extension Serv
ice, $15,030,928; and the Texas
A&M University System administra
tive and general offices, $4,034,062.
Lancaster said the System will not
know until May 1985 the actual ap
propriations, but the System will
know what the Legislative Budget
Board will recommend by the end of
the year or around the beginning of
the Legislative session in January,
verisity including administration,
teaching, departmental operations,
the library and organized research.
It also includes the medical school
and the veterinary school, said W.
Clifford Lancaster, assistant vice
chancellor for budgets.
The request for 1986 is a 30 per
cent increase qver the $192,745,773
appropriated for fiscal 1985, which
begins Sept. 1.
A substantial amount of the
money requested is to modernize
certain areas of the University, Lan
caster said.
Lancaster also said the actual ap
propriations typically are less than
the requests and that increases over
the next few years may be lean.
Texas A&M also asked for several
items that would be to be considered
separately from the $250 million re
quest.
The University asked for a 29 per
cent increase in funds for minority
scholarships. Texas A&M would like
to spend $1.8 million in 1985-86 for
minority recruiting and schol
arships. This is an increase from the
$1.4 million which will be spent this
year.
Texas A&M also asked for a 47
percent increase in funding for en
ergy research. The increase will al
low the University to spend $2.25
million on projects such as research
into lignite use, energy conservation
arid hydrogen use. Texas A&M will
spend $1.6 million into such projects
this year.
given
21 days
United Press International
JERUSALEM — President Chaim
Herzog, declaring “delay is intolera
ble,” granted opposition Labor Party
leader Shimon Peres 21 more days
Sunday to form a government and
end Israel’s political crisis.
Peres, one vote short of forming a
minority government, met Herzog
for an hour to request the extra
three weeks to assemble the widest
possible coalition.
“I am hopeful that in the coming
three weeks, a government will be
formed, and the president was kind
enough to extencf me the additional
21 days according to the law of the
country,” Peres said. “I shall con
tinue my efforts.”
The prime minister designate tra
ditionally gets a total of 42 days to
form a government.
During the first three-week pe
riod, Peres lined up support from
smaller parties while holding talks
on forming a broad-based national
coalition with Prime Minister Yitz
hak Shamir’s Likud bloc.
If Peres, 61, fails to stitch together
a government at the end of the pe
riod, Herzog is likely to ask Shamir
to try to form a government even
though Likud came in second in in
conclusive July 23 elections.
Herzog, who stressed Israeli de
mocracy was in danger when he
asked Peres to try to form a new gov
ernment, said no prime minister-
designate has even been denied the
additional three weeks to form a
government.
“I stress again the compelling ur
gency to put together a government
to deal as soon as possible with the
economic, security and social prob
lems in which delay is intolerable,”
Herzog said.
“The president again expresses
his hope it will be a national unity
government that is formed,” the
Herzog statement said.
In last month’s elections, neither
the opposition Labor Party nor the
ruling Likud won a sufficient major
ity to form a coalition in the 120-
member Knesset.
Labor won 44 parliamentary seats
to Likud’s 41, and Peres was named
to try to form the government.
Since the election, Peres has lined
up a sure 54 Knesset votes plus the
support of the four Communist
Party members and the two mem
bers of the Jewish-Arab Progressive
List for Peace.
To form a minority government
Peres needs one more vote, which he
could gain from the one-seat Tami
Party or the two still uncommitted
religious parties.
Bill Robinson
Battalion editor still
in critical condition
By MELISSA ADAIR
Staff Writer
Bill Robinson, a senior journalism
major and editor of The Battalion,
remained in critical condition at St.
Joseph Hospital Sunday night as a
result of a one-car roll over.
Wednesday was to have been his
first day as Fall 1984 editor of The
Battalion.
Robinson, 22, of Round Rock, was
in a one-car accident Monday at
about 10:45 p.m. and was pinned
under a Fiat sports car convertible.
The car flipped on Dowling Road
near Hopes Creek Road. Dowling
Road is near the intersection of FM
2818 and Wellborn Road in south
west College Station.
Dr. Carl Schmidt, Robinson’s neu
rosurgeon, said that the car appar
ently was on top of Robinson’s chest
and he stopped breathing for “quite
a long while.” Robinson is in the in
tensive care unit in a deep coma with
severe head and brain injuries. He
has been in a coma since the accident
occurred.
Robinson is one of three Texas
A&M students involved in the acci
dent.
The driver, Daniel Rogers, 21, a
civil engineering major from Austin,
also was pinned under the car. Rog
ers was released from the hospital at
3 a.m. on Tuesday with a large cut
over his left eye, but otherwise he
had only minor cuts and bruises.
The other passenger, Billy Drum,
21, a computer science major from
Caddo Mills and Robinson’s room
mate, was not admitted to the hospi
tal.
Robert Martinez, a trooper with
the Texas Department of Public
Safety said there is no evidence that
Rogers was speeding when the acci
dent occured. __
Robinson served as editorial page
editor for The Battalion this sum
mer. He was the assistant sports edi
tor in the spring and was a sports re
porter for the newspaper in the
Spring and Fall of 1982. He also
worked at KAMU-TV as a reporter.
In Today’s Battalion
Local
• A&M medical researchers say don’t chicken out on egg
eating. See story page 10.
• MDA honoring firefighters with an appreciation week.
See story page 3.
National
• Olympic winners honored in New Orleans. See story
page 10.
World
• More fighting in Beruit as Moslem and Lebanese
break ceasefire. See story page 6.