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HARLINGEN — High-altitude Soviet spyplanes regularly fly out of bases in Cuba on Central American missions and retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt claims some have been vio lating Mexico’s airspace. Pentagon and Congressional of fi cials would not confirm reports of ny flights over Mexican airspace, al though they said the so-called “Rus sian Bear” surveillance craft have operated out of Cuba f or years. A source with the Senate Armed Service’s committee said Caribbean reconnaissance flights out of Cuba are well known, but any penetration of Mexican airspace “doesn’t ring a bell.'’ Zumwalt wrote in the April issue ol Air Force Times that “Soviet long- range reconnaissance planes, be lieved to be originating from Cuban bases, are making an increased num ber of flights over Mexico’s Tuxtla and San Cristobal de las Casas re gions...." near the Guatemalan bor der. - In what military of ficials called “a coincidence,” a group of Phantom jet interceptors is scheduled to arrive in Harlingen Sept. 24 to begin a week of operations f rom Rio Grande Valley International Airport. The warplanes are f rom a Texas Air National Guard unit based at E.l- lington Air Force Base in Houston. Besides Harlingen, the supersonic lighters also will be deployed from airports in nearby Brownsville and at Laredo 180 miles up the Rio Grande, in what the group’s com mander called “a variation on the old shell game.” Col. Maurice Udell, commander of the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group at Ellington, said the planes would l>e shuffled from airport to airport in groups of three or four at a time. The reason for the exercises, Udell said, is to prevent a potential attacker from knowing where U.S. air defense capability is strongest at a given moment. According to Air Force figures, the Air National Guard is responsi ble for 67 percent of the nation’s air defense. Unlike its Army coun terpart. the ANG is manned by many “full-timers” who have combat experience f rom Vietnam. Udell said his jets, which are re sponsible for defending the entire Western Gulf of Mexico, have yet to intercept a Soviet spyplane in his ju risdiction, but Soviet-made aircraft fly between Cuba and Central Amer ica regularly, usually staying over in ternational waters. The 30-year jet fighter veteran stopped short of con firming communist violations of Mexican airspace. “Of course, they have had a wide variety of military aircraft flying out of Cuba for years,” Udell said. “They leave Cuban bases and fly west and sometimes north, but I See SPY, page 16 Students pick A&M despite distance Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ Sidewalk art A junior cadet views one of three chalk drawings at the south side of Sterling C. Evans Library Wednesday afternoon. By KARI FLUEGEL Staff Writer Even though out-of-state tuition is ten times higher than in-state tu ition, approximately ten percent of Texas A&M’s student population is from out-of-state. Tuition for out-of-state students is $40 per semester hour, while in-state tuition is $4 per semester hour. Why do students come from 150- pl as miles away to pay $40 a semes ter hour for an education? Darby Roberts, a freshman busi ness major, travels about 1,500 miles from Las Vegas, Nev., to attend A&M because she likes the traditions and spirit of the school, she said. “Also, the people are friendly and helpful, and they’ll smile and say ‘hi,'” Roberts said. “That’s a lot dif ferent from Las Vegas.” She chose to attend an out-of-state school because the University of Ne vada school system — though it’s im proving — is not one of the better systems for getting a degree and a job, Roberts said. Roberts is one of the many out-of- state students who is attending A&M with the help of a scholarship. For out-of-state students, scholarships help cut tuition costs and help pay for expenses. If an out-of-state student receives a competitive scholarship — for which in-state students also compete — of $200 or more from A&M, out- of-state tuition is waived and the stu dent pays in-state tuition. Out-of-state tuition also can be waived for students employed by the University who are working at least 20 hours a week in a job related to their field of study. During the 1982 fiscal year — the latest figures available from the fis cal office — 6,256 students were exempt from more than $2 million in tuition. Students who received exemptions included those on schol arships, those employed by the Uni versity, teachers, non-resident stu dents married to residents and military students stationed in Texas. Not all out-of-state students re ceive the benefits of having their out-of-state tuition waived. Leslie Martin, a senior journalism major from Layfayette, La., is at tending A&M without the benefit of having her tuition waived. In an ef fort to reduce her expenses, Martin entered the Miss Texas A&M Schol arship Pageant last year. Besides the expenses, Martin says the hardest part of going to an out- of-state school is being so far from her family. “They can’t be as involved in my life,” Martin said. “I miss having them come up. The money isn’t too fun either.” Martin decided to attend A&M because she grew up in the Bryan- College Station area. Her family moved to Layfayette in 1981. Like Martin, Melissa Williams, a senior economics and history major from Derby, Kan., is attending A&M because she lived in this area when she was a child. “It was an area I knew about,” she said. Out-of-state students have to make many adjustments that in-state students don’t have to deal with. One such adjustment is not being able to go home on weekends. A trip home can become a major excursion See A&M, page 16 t) Beer legalized in Texas 50 years ago By ROBIN BLACK Senior Staff Writer As the state gears up for its 150th birthday in 1986, another anniver sary-one very important to many Texans — will probably go unno ticed. What could be so important? Why, the 5()th anniversary of the le galization of beer in Texas. Not that there was an absence of the brew during the prohibition that was repealed in 1934, but at least beer could be purchased and served legally and publicly. Since the legalization, the Texas beer industry has grown substan tially, ranking second only to the state of Wisconsin in beer produc tion. The six breweries in Texas pro duce about 10 percent of total brew ery sales across the nation — that’s 13.7 million barrels of gusto a year. Texas isn’t doing too badly in beer consumption, either— it ranks sixth in the nation in per capita consump tion. That averages out to about 30 gallons of beer per person per year. Ken Goodman, co-owner of the Goodman wholesale beer distribut ing company, said he figures that the Bryan-College Station ranks in the state’s top 10 in beer consumption. “Needless to say,” Goodman said, “students play a big part in that con sumption. The community’s only about 100,000, and about 30,000 of that is students.” The students play such a big part, in fact, that the beer business in creases about 20 percent when the students return for school in the fall, he said. “Just to give you an example,” he said, “everywhere else in the state, peak sales months are July and Au gust. Here, though, the peak months are September and May. So, when other areas are showing a decrease in sales, we’re showing an increase. The University is a big pendulum for beer sales around here.” Bob Heath, manager of the Ice House package store on South Col lege Avenue in Bryan, said students Manager of the Ice House in Bryan: “On a good weekend we'll sell around 200 16-gallon kegs and about 500 cases of beer. ” make up about 85 percent of his to tal beer sales. “On a good weekend vverll sell around 200 16-gallon kegs and about 500 cases of beer,” he said, “but kegs are our main business.” To show the impact that students have on beer sales, Heath said that during the summer keg sales drop to about 50 a weekend. In case you’ve ever wondered how kegs are handled from start to fin ish: The package stores receive the kegs — filled — from the beer dis tributors. The kegs must be re turned to the store by the purchaser, and the empty kegs are then sent back to the distributors to be refilled and used again, much the same way returnable bottles are recycled. Bob Garcia, manager of J.J.’s package store on Texas Avenue in Bryan, said students buy more beer in kegs than by the case. “Right now is an especially big time for us,” Garcia said. “Mostly due to the fact that the fraternities are holding rush right now. We sell anywhere from 200 to 300 kegs a week during this time of the year.” Beer has other virtues besides giv-. ing college students something to spend their money on. The industry in Texas employs 7,800 people in the production area, 7,200 at the wholesale level, and an estimated tens of thousands more in retail and transportation. Wages for the brewery employees alone total around $280 million a year. The beer industry also provides the state with about $220 million in excise and sales taxes, and in the 50 years since the prohibition on beer was lifted, the state has collected $1,1 16,405,758.90 billion in taxes. The industry can have quite an impact on other businesses, too. A University of Texas study showed that Anheuser-Busch alone used about $19 million last year Th Texas-produced rice used in the brewing process. The breweries in Texas also spend about $350 million a year in packaging costs and $35 million on utilities. Here are some more beer facts: • An Assyrian tablet of 2000 B.C. said that beer was among the provi sions taken aboard Noah’s ark. • Columbus found that Ameri can Indians brewed a grain beverage much like beer. • William Penn, Samuel Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jef ferson all brewed beer. • In a single year, the brewing in dustry uses about 6.5 billion bottles and 15.4 billion tin-coated metal cans. • For every 31 gallons of beer sold, the U.S. Government collects a tax of $9. University continues preliminary disciplinary hearings Student doesn’t testify in cadet case By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer Preliminary hearings for four Texas A&M students allegedly in volved in the circumstances sur rounding the death of a Corps of Cadet member have been scheduled for this week. The first of the four disciplinary hearings was held Tuesday for se nior Gabriel Caudra, 21, of Hous ton, who resigned from the Corps last week. He appeared at a hearing conducted by Bill Kibler, assistant director of student affairs. Caudra, formerly the personnel officer of Company F-l, allegedly approved a request from three ju nior cadets to conduct an off-hours exercise session for two sophomore transfer students in the company. The 2:30 a.m. exercise session which followed resulted in the death of one of the sophomore cadets. Bruce Dean Goodrich, 20, of Webster, N.Y., collapsed during the exercises and died about 12 hours later in St. Joseph Hospital ift Bryan. John McIntosh, the second sopho more cadet on the run, suffered no ill ef fects from the exercises. Hearings for Tony D’Alessandro, Louis Fancher and Jason Miles, the three juniors who allegedly con ducted the exercise session, will he later this week. Caudra — who was already on probation for his involvement in a May 1984 incident in which a cadet was paddled with an ax handle by upperclassmen — declined to testify in the first phase of his preliminary hearing. However, he requested per mission through his attorney, Henry “Hank” Paine Jr. of Bryan, to cross examine other students involved in the case. Caudra and Paine spent about an hour at the hearing, but most of the time was spent reviewing records and statements from witnesses in the case. Ron Blatchley, director of student affairs, said Paine requested an open hearing for his client. “The one student who did come in (Tuesday) indicated he wanted an open hearing,” Blatchley said. “That doesn’t mean that any other meet ings will be open.” T he hearings for all four students were arranged to accomodate the students’ schedules, Blatchley said. The purpose of the hearings is to review the students’ rights, inform them of the charges against them and investigate possible violations of University rules. In addition to the University hear ings, the Brazos County Grand Jury is expected to review the results of an investigation conducted by Bob Wiatt, director of security and traf fic. Bill Turner, Brazos County Dis trict Attorney, said last week that he hopes to present the results of Wiatt’s investigation to the grand jury on Sept. 27. ■T Astronauts commend Discovery United Press International SPACE CENTER — Henry Hartsfield, who commanded the shuttle Discovery’s maiden flight, had kind words about the spaceship Wednesday, but not for private pi lots who intrude in the shuttle launch area. Discovery’s blastoff Aug. 30 was delayed about seven minutes be cause a Jacksonville, Fla., physician flying a light plane had to be es corted out of a launch warning zone. Private planes have intruded in shuttle airspace on seven of the 12 shuttle launches and Hartsfield told a news conference to discuss Discov ery’s flight that he was concerned about the problem. “We did discuss that a little bit, af ter having been delayed on several occasions, that it sure would be a shame if we were delayed by some clown flying around out there,” he said. “My personal opinion is if some body’s fool enough to fly out in the warning area, they ought to take their own chances and we shouldn’t worry about it. We put it all over the map that you aren’t supposed to be there.” The Jacksonville pilot was not in the restricted zone, but he was in a warning zone about six miles away and the Federal Aviation Adminis tration is investigating the matter. The airspace immediately around the launch pad is restricted. Hartsfield and his crewmates — Michael Coats, Judy Resnik, Steven Hawley, Richard Mullane and Charles Walker — were unanimous in praising Discovery’s performance once it got into space. “We think we had an extremely successful flight and we’re quite proud of that fact,” Hartsfield said. “The orbiter flies extremely well. It’s a good solid airplane.”