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Page 6AThe Battalion/Thursday, October 11, 1984 Former Air Force officer says arms’ race is based on fear By KIRSTEN DIETZ Reporter Soviet and U.S. nuclear freeze agreements are hampered by the arms’ race, retired Air Force Col. Don Clark said Wednesday night. Clark, who was speaking at Freeze Forum ’84, is director of international education and a lec turer in international affairs at Montana State University, as well as an international relations col umnist. He is a former advisor to the joint chiefs of staff on SALT 1 and 2 and a former assistant air attache in the U.S. embassy in Russia. Clark said that because the So viet Union and the United States are scared of each other, each feels it must increase its nuclear weapon supply to keep up with the other. “We obviously have no hope of reaching an agreement because we are frozen in fear and misun derstanding,” Clark said. “We’re scared to death of them and they’re scared to death of us.” He said in the last several years Soviet leaders have indicated they are ready to reach a mutual, veri fiable nuclear freeze agreement. Polls indicate 88 percent of the American people are also ready for this agreement, he said. After reaching a nuclear freeze, Clark suggests forming SAVE US, a commission com posed of people from both coun tries. The commission would take the money saved from a nuclear freeze to improve conditions in Third World countries. Clark also said the public is a victim of misinformation by the government. Facts can be deleted or twisted by the government to influence the people and con vince them the government should spend more on nuclear defense, he said. Clark’s speech was sponsored by Aggie Peace Action in cooper ation with Brazos Valley Peace Action and Peace Links. Ret. Air Force Col. Don Clark Paroled attorney will seek help Woman says she regrets her part in escape scheme United Press International NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorney Mary Evans, apologizing for the first time for engineering the escape of her convict lover, was granted a Feb. 4 parole from prison Wednesday on condition she receive psychiatric help. The 3-2 vote by the Tennessee Pa role Board means Evans will serve less than 11 months of her three- year sentence for aiding the escape of William Timothy Kirk, 37, whose crimes include the execution-style killing of two convicts at Brushy Mountain State Prison. Pictured by the defense during her trial as a schizophrenic who saw “demons” and looked on the muscu lar, bearded Kirk as her savior, Evans told the board she smuggled a gun to Evans and helped him escape from a psychologist’s office because she was convinced he would not re ceive a fair trial. “I felt tremendous pressure to do something and legally there was nothing I could do,” she said. “Rather than commit a crime, I should have done everything I could do legally and then my conscience would be clear. ... “At the time I felt I knew how the case would turn out and it wouldn’t have been the right result.” “I participated in the plan but I didn’t make any suggestions what to do because I didn’t know what to do.” Parole Board Chairman Nevin Trammell, who cast the deciding vote after the board’s two women members voted for parole, said he agreed because of Evans’ psychologi cal problems at the time she com mitted the crime. “I’m going to recommend parole with the provision that you go to a bona fide mental health specialist,” I rammell told Evans. “This one is terribly difficult for me.” Evans told the board she re gretted the “embarrassment” her ac tions had caused her family and friends and agreed to have no fur ther contact with Kirk. Evans was Kirk’s court-appointed attorney March 31, 1983, when she arranged for him to undergo a psy chiatric examination in the Oak Ridge of fice of Dr. Gary Salk. The lawyer slipped her client a un at the psychologist’s office and nelped him tie up two Brushy Mountain Prison guards. The pair then fled in her red Toyota. i; SALE OF THE YEAR JthesewWP® CBS Rt'-' SALE ENDS OCTOBER 31ST. LOOK FOR THE NICE PRICE STICKER ON CBS CASSETTES & LPS. Record Bar RECORDS, TAPES & A LITTLE BITMORE. Barton Politician: No tax increase By JULIA HARDY Reporter Joe Barton, Republican candidate for U.S. Congress, said Wednesday at a press conference that “the Re publican party is set to do tremen dously well because people want conservative government.” Barton said one reason the Re publicans are doing well is because the Democratic platform has en dorsed more taxes. “The Democrats want a minimal corporate income tax which will hurt business owners,” Barton said. “The Republicans do not want a tax in crease.” The Republicans also are doing well because they want a strong de fense, Barton said. The defense budget is $230 bil lion, Barton said. The Democrats want to cut this budget. “The Republicans don’t think the defense should be cut,” Barton said. “We need to have a strong defense in order to protect our shores.” Barton said he is for an anti-missle defense system. The Republican convention in Dallas committed Barton to this job. Barton said at the last reception of the convention a man approached him and argued about everything. “He told me that the convention was boring and Reagan’s speech was horrible,” Barton said. “We did not agree on anything." Barton learned later the man was an ambassador from the Ger% Democratic Republic (East Cti many) and one of the top five leas ers of his country. “The United States teachespeopi to think and act for themselves an: to talk openly,” Barton said. “Tlios who don’t like government haveilj opportunity to change it in J United States, but people in £4 Germany have no choice.’ Barton, a 1972 Texas A&Mp, uate, will succeed Phil Gramm intli sixth congressional district if he elected. Dan Kubiak is Barton’s opponet: in the Nov. 6 election. Jim Collins, former state resentative, was scheduled to before Barton, but was unable pear. Police beat The following incidents were j reported to the University Police I Department through Wednes day. 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