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Page 14/The Battalion/Monday, April 29, 1985 I KGB defector now crusading for far-right Associated Press ODESSA — Tomas Schuman says he soent much of his life as an agent of tne left, working for the RGB. Now the Russian defector is a Cold Warrior for the far-right. Sporting a tie adorned with American flags, liberty bells and minutemen, Schuman spoke in Odessa as part of his nationwide tour for the Larry McDonald Cru sade to Stop Financing Communism. McDonald, a conservative U.S. congressman, died in the Korean Airlines flight shot down by the Sovi ets in 1983. Schuman, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1970 as Yuri Bezme- nov, said he met McDonald in 1978 while lecturing in journalism at Carl ton University in Toronto, Canada. UPI asks for protects from paper’s creditoi Associated Press WASHINGTON — United Press International tiled Sunday for pro tection under Chapter 11 of the fed eral bankruptcy code, saying it must reorganize its affairs after compiling $45 million in liabilities against an estimated $20 million in assets. approve payment of four week! to about 80 employees laid offk! out notice Friday. Schuman said he called the John Birch Society, an ultra-conservative group founded in 1959 to fight the spread of communism in America, and was persuaded to coordinate his speaking engagements through them. "Basically, what happens in a Chapter 11 is the tiling of a petition allows some breathing space for the corporation to restructure its af fairs,” said Francis DiCello, the Washington attorney who filed the papers. In addition, attorneys for news service said they will seelp mission to enter into a finau agreement with the Foothill Cori). of L.os Angeles, its primii lender, to provide funds needed during the reorgania jH-i iod, UPI said. Photo by ANTHONYS. CASPER Musical Interlude The Texas A&M Singing Cadets provided entertainment between baseball games Sat urday afternoon. A&M hosted a double- header with the University of Texas. The ca dets also sang the national anthem for the opening game. Davitl Wickenden, a UPI spokes man, said that effective Sunday, UPI raised rales for its clients by 9.9 per cent, a move he said was aimed at generating several million dollars in revenues. "We’ve basically been looki this option for a long time,"t President Ray Wechsler said. Ht scrilred the petition as "ternlit the company” as it movestorttti ni/.e. UPFs four-member board of di rectors authorized the tiling Friday after the agency was unable to cover its April 26 payroll. Although Schuman said he does not belong to the John Birch Society, joining w’ould bejust a formality. Government auditors discover overbilling in defense contracts l lie tiling would stop creditors “from taking any enforced collection action pending further order ot the bankruptcy court,” DiCello said. I he largest liabilities listed by l were $6.1 million to AT&TCoi nications Co. for news and m transmissions and newsgatbi $2.1 million to Equatorial Coiti: nications Co., which provides lite dishes to UPI clients, andli million to American Express C which provided credit cards for ployees. Joe Davenport, a San based John Birch Society id An relo- coordina- tor for West Texas, said the Larry McDonald Crusade is a standing committee of the anti-communist group. Associated Press Schuman said Friday that he once had a high-paying job manipulating the American press in the “disinfor mation” section of the KGB, the So viet Union’s secret police and intelli gence agency. Now he claims federal welfare programs, large corporations and “monopolistic media such as tele vision networks could turn the U.S. into a communist dictatorship. Schuman said communism can be defeated — but only if the media stops repeating messages from com munist governments and if commer cial trade with communist countries is halted. WASHINGTON — A team of au ditors uncovered $109.7 million in “absolutely inexcusable” claims against the Pentagon by seven giant defense contractors, the House Armed Services Committee said Sunday. The questioned bills were found in audits of one-year billing periods by General Dynamics Corp.,the Sperry Corp., the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany, Bell Helicopter, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Rockwell Interna tional Corp. and Boeing. The auditors examined $3.6 bil lion in claims for overhead expenses by the seven corporations and con cluded “that up to $ 1 for every $33 submitted to the government for overhead expenses is questionable,” said Rep. Bill Nichols, D-Ala., “The problem is broader than one company,” Nichols said, “and the volume of questionable billings al ready found shows that the problem goes deep —it’s not just a matter of an occasional and isolated wrong bill.” year period. The Defense Acquisi tion Regulations say companies must operate food services with the intent of breaking even. UPI plans to ask the court today to grant permission for UPI to cover last week’s paychecks for nearly 2,000 employees, who were advised Thursday night that their checks would bounce if deposited. The court also would lx* asked to UPI Chairman Luis Negate, of the four directors, hasbeem ing with creditors “in an aumji informally reach an agretmm would clear the company's term debts of more than$20ni| and also provide vendors witlna payment or stock in the comps UPI said. Vol. 80 I s Hobl asse $8rr Hearings will begin in mid-May and legislation is likely to be intro duced to “eliminate the incentives that Firms now have to charge the Pentagon for everything ^)ut the ■MariUltti said. • $10,713 to cover operating losses of a barber shop reserved for senior executives. kitchen sink,” he “We haven’t seen the report and we can’t comment at this time,” said Alvin Spivak, spokesman for Gen eral Dynamics. Comment was not available from the other companies. • $62,071 “to enhance the ‘public image’ of a firm after the crash of a plane it manufactured. Costs in cluded those for a news conference, rehearsal of company officials ap pearing at the conference, monitor ing of newscasts, limousine rental, a clipping service and library research on crashes of airplanes built by com petitors. The billings include: • $261,000 for an executive din ing room where company officials were “fed without charge.” • $160,000 for taxes paid to a foreign government in connection with the contractor’s commercial business. • $1,099,619 for operating losses of employee cafeterias over a two- • $162,149 for promotional give aways. Around to A&M Macintosh users group forming AUSTIN was worth a beginning o financial sia retary of stal The r e i statements, < mandate thai tailed breakcl Hobby volui listing his ass That page sets over liab of Dec. 31,11 The T exas A&M Macintosh Users Group is a non-profit,mi? pendent group of people who own or use Macintosh computers. First meeting will lx- held 7 p.m. Thursday, Mav 2 in Room 103,Sd Sc Crop Sciences-Kntomoiogv Center. Membership is $10 and» dudes a free disk of public cloniaiti software (including fontsadi new Finder). Everyone is encouraged to attend This is the pta , where you can get your questions answered. AA jgMcDonaurs DRIVE-THRU WINDOW MCDONALD’S INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS At University Drive At Texas and S.W. Parkway At Manor East Mall At 2930 E. Highway 21 McDonald) ■ I BREAKFAST EVER! MORNING The gove $5,000 on ea ing to the re] quire offici amounts. White lisi ceived, inchr a pistol from sociation, hoi dents" and from an Ausi Linda Gal | wife, listed h tate agent. 1 White’s thrt have no jobs. Attorney ( port listed a ' Jests, includi [owns. SUMMER SPORTS Never fear die hard In tramural fans! The ad vent of summer doesn’t mean the end of your fun. Intramural sports will be played during both summer sessions. Here’s a list of the events sched uled for the first ses sion: WINNERS! WINNERS! WINNERS! VOLLEYBALL TRIPLES CLASS A: MEN’S— Team Canada WOMEN’S —Whatever COREC —Split Six III Lav Editor's nott cle in a th rights of mil By CAT CLASS B: MEN’S — Trader WOMEN’S — Anonymous COREC —GWN CLASS C: COREC — Slugger ARCHERY TOURNAMNET •Slow Pitch Softball •Basketball Triples •Volleyball Triples •Tennis Singles •Handball Singles •Racquetball Doubles •Golf Singles SINGLES: CLASS A: MEN — (tie) Randal Whittlesey Jeff Tague WOMEN — Ingrid Seaborne CLASS B: MEN — Shain Chapman WOMEN — Kathy Craig DOUBLES: CLASS A: MEN’S — Brian Koehl & Gary Boecker WOMEN’S — Eugenia Algaze & Julie Burg COREC — Foster Ullmann & Eugenia Algaze Paul De Vries from team Canada blocks a spiked ball in the AU-U championship valleyball triples game. CLASS B: MEN’S — Bob Stallsmith & Mark Usnick WOMEN’S — Kathy Craig & Cheryl Craig COREC — Kepler Johnson & Leah Starr Lockers Innertube Wate Polo All-U championship AM recreational lockers Innertube Water Polo finals All-University playoffs for must be cleared out or re- will be tonight, April 29 begin- Softball will begin Wednes- newed before Tuesday, June 4. ning at 7 p.m. in the P.L. Downs Pool. day, May 1 and will conclude on Sunday, May 5. These schedules will be posted to day after3 p.m. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS McDonald’s Intramural Highlights is sponsored in the Battal ion by your local McDonald’s® Restaurants at University Drive, Manor East Mall and on Texas Avenue. Stories are written by members of the Intramural Staff, graphics are by Joel Nickerson, and photos are by Tom McDonnell and Marcy Basile. SUMMER FACILITY HOURS- Deware Fieldhouse Closed May 13-June 2 Beginning June2 12p.m.-7p.m. M-F 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. & sun. 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