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Around town
This? Aggie Ployers present‘Tango’
The Aggie Mayers second production of the season will run
jh Saturday. “Tango*” by Siawomir Mr<«ek is a farcical satire
agic implications, fhe show begins at 8 pan. in Rudder The-
'ickets are S3 for Texas A&M students and S i for the general
ami are available at the MSC box Of fice.
workshops to be offered
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jock-
grad-
Tlie Leadership Development Committee of Student Govern-
tt is presenting a “Speaking Skills Workshop” tonight front 7
, to 8:30 p.tn. in 601 Rudder. Wayne Kraemer. director of tie-
tte, will cover the vocal and physical delivery aspects of presenting
feffective speech. All students are invited n> attend.
Chi Omega to present Songfest Saturday
Chi Omega, in conjunction with the Student Government United
Way Fund Drive, is sponsoring Songfest ’84 on Saturday at the
* 1/4 i *»s All »v»'/1 o (>'*>*»« «?''*<« Will be
and $4 at the
Black Awareness sponsors talent show
The MSC Black Awareness (Committee will htist its First Student
Talent Show on Friday at 7:30 p.tn. in Rudder Forum. The theme of
the show is "A Touch of Black Magic” and it will display various tal
ents of black students on the A&M campus. Tickets are $3 each.
Wolk-A-Dog-A-Thon will be Sunday at 3
The Humane Society of Brazos County and KORA ate sponsor
ing a Walk-A-Dog-A-Thon at 3 p.m. Sunday at Central Park on Kre-
nek Tap Road in College Station. The competition will consist of a 2*
mile walk with a dog provided by the entrant. Everyone who enters
will receive a commemorative T-shirt. Registration is $7 and all pro
ceeds will benefit the Humane Society.
Parents of the Year applications due
Applications to nominate your mom and dad for the 1985 Par
ents of the Year Award are available through Nov. 21 from the Stu
dent Programs Office, 216 MSC, and the Student Government Of
fice. 213 Pavilion. The 1385 Patents of die Year will be presented
during Parents’ Weekend, April 12, 13 and M.
Seminar for women offered tonight
| for career and personal life, tonight at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. Every-
1 one is encouraged to attend.
Farming leader
doesn’t expect
many changes
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The presi
dent of the nation’s largest farm or
ganization said Wednesday he fo ~e-
sees little change in the basic safety
net for farmers in legislation Con
gress will consider next year.
Robert Delano, a Warsaw, Va.,
farmer who heads the American
Farm Bureau Federation, said farm
ers will not support a dismantling of
farm programs for at least the next
five to 10 years.
“I don’t think Congress would be
ready for it either,” he said at a news
conference. “I don’t know that I ex
pect too much change in agricultural
policy.”
Agriculture Secretary John Block
will soon consider policy options as
he fashions legislation to send to the
new Congress. Block said that strong
farmer support for President Rea
gan’s re-election will be a “mandate”
for Reagan’s market-oriented farm
policies.
William Lesher, assistant agricul
ture secretary for economics, has
said he would like the 1985 farm bill
to be landmark legislation.
Delano said he would like grain
price supports to be based on an av
erage of previous years’ market
prices rather than specified in law as
in the 1981 farm bill. The soybean
and cotton support prices already
encompass that concept to a degree.
He said basing supports on aver
age market prices would keep them
at market-clearing levels and would
discourage accumulation of sur
pluses.
Delano said he wants to retain tar
get prices, which provide cash to
farmers when prices fall below tar
gets, but he would like Congress to
scrap the farmer-owned reserve,
created in 1977 to take grain off the
market when prices are low for sale
later when prices rise.
“It’s a surplus, regardless of how
you define it,” he said.
He also said the farm bill should
include some consideration of soil
conservation and emphasize farm
export promotion.
Delano said the Farm Bureau
would oppose limits on the amount
of payments that individual farmers
can receive. That limit has been
$50,000 per farmer, but the limit
was disgarded for the 1983 pay-
ment-in-kind program that gave
farmers crops in exchange for re
ducing acreage.
Delano said the payment-in-kind
program had mixed results and he
doubted if the government would
initiate another one in the next two
or three decades.
He said he foresees little change
in the controversial tobacco pro
gram, which limits how much fann
ers may grow and sell, but he pre
dicted the next dairy program will
give the agriculture secretary discre
tion to raise or lower the support
price, depending on the size of gov
ernment-held stocks.
More specific Farm Bureau posi
tions will be drafted at a January
convention.
Delano said the president’s farm
debt relief program, announced in
September, would ease cash flow
woes for some debt-burdened farm
ers, but it is not the complete solu
tion for farmers in desperate finan
cial shape. However, he said, “I
don’t know what else we can do.”
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Time: Israeli story
true in substance
Chile
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censorship of coverage of political
news and acts of terrorism.
In another move to quell unrest,
the government Wednesday banned
internal elections due to be held next
week at the 17,300-student Univer
sity of Chile.
The decision was made after
Tuesday’s nationwide university
strike erupted in violent clashes be
tween police and students in San
tiago and the northen town of Anta-
fogasta. Student leaders said more
than 40 people were arrested.
Yerko Lubjetic, student president
at the university, called on students
to join the protest against the gov
ernment to “end the state of siege
and demand democratic change.”
The government also banned a
week-long series of debate! and lec
tures sponsored by the Catholic
Church entitled “The Road to De
mocracy.”
United Press International
NEW YORK — A Time magazine
article about former Israeli Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon is “in sub
stance true” although some details
may be inaccurate, a Time lawyer
said in the second day of Sharon’s
$50 million libel trial.
The article, entitled “The Verdict
is Guilty,” implied Sharon condoned
or encouraged the massacre of hun
dreds of Palestinian refugees in
West Beirut in September 1982.
Sharon, 56, contends the article is
false and that Time knew it was false
when it published the story in its
Feb. 21, 1983 issue. The general said
his reputation was shattered by
Time’s “lie.”
Attorney Thomas Barr, who rep
resents Time, told the jury in U.S.
District Court that the article is “in
substance true.”
“What we will show is that events
that we say happened, happened,”
Barr said. .
“Whether it happened in the pre
cise time or place” as the Time arti
cle suggested was “neither here nor
there”, Barr said.
The Time article allegedly was
based on a secret appendix attached
to a report by an Israeli commission
that investigated the massacre.
According to Time’s article, Sha
ron paid a condolence call on the
Gemayel family a day after the assas
sination of Lebanese president-elect
Bashir Gemayel, leader of the Chris
tian Phalangists.
At that Sept. 15, 1982 meeting,
the article said Sharon “reportedly
discussed the need for the Phalang
ists to take revenge for the assassina
tion of Bashir.”
Over the next two days, the Pha
langists slaughtered an estimated
700 to 800 Palestinians, including
women and children, in two West
Beirut camps.
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