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nd3- lame •berts Tuesday, December 3, 1985/nThe Battalion/Page 11 World and Nation ' A tv n Vi's Lisa Langston : on our part to maktsil their home courtandirf nditions," LangstonJ is a long wav fromltl u’l think ol thosertfstl where but Oregon.™ were cheating, but tlie| • questionable” v said she was esp with the play of fre an, who came off thel 14 points and grab lh on, along withjuniotspJ and Beth Young, c the five All-Tourii itions. ent up there (to thetoi ed we can compete,’h was fun to see what* be able to do." .ady Ags will go for ome-court victory tonijs nst Oral Roberts Unit® Mickey says is "mtitli over last year. run a full-court ra isure defense," Hide) tis vear. noonehassho* I of defense, mid be a pretty good®* are young and we’rej much improved proved." ton said tonight’s \gs a chance to practiced nan offense, and hope them for their next! jainst national powerbc na, Louisiana State Sgt. York gun Four charged with conspiracy to defraud government Associated Press WASHING ION — James M. Beggs, the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was indicted Monday along with three other present and former executives of General Dynamics Corp. on the Army’s ill-fated Sgt. York anti aircraft gun, the Justice Depart ment said. General Dynamics and the four men were charged with conspir ing to ddZssreduce the firm’s los ses on their Army contract ex penses to other government- funded accounts. The seven-count indictment was returned in federal court in Los Angeles. The individuals and the* rnr- poration were charged with one count each of conspiring to de fraud the Department of Defense between January 1, 1978, and Aug. 31, 1981, in its function of, administering and paying its con tractors. They also were charged with six counts of making false statements. A government source who did not wish,to be identified said $7.5 million was mischarged, resulting in a $3.2 million net loss to the government. Beggs was not immediately reached for comment. NASA spokeswoman Barbara Selby said the agency planned to issue a statement. In addition to Beggs, the indict ment named as defendants: bu Ralph E. Hawes, Jr., 54, of Claremont, Calif., formerly cor porate vice president and general manager of General Dynamics' di vision in Ponoma, Calif,, and now corporate vice president and gen- real manager of the Valley Sys tems Division of General Dyna mics. bu David L. McPherson, 45, of Alta Loma, Calif., a General Dyna mics employee who was program director for the anti-aircraft prog ram at the Pomona Division. bu James C. Hansen, Jr., 53, of Upland, Calif., a General Dyna mics employee who was assistant program director for the program. According to the indictment, the companytvfficials fraudulent ly charged several million dollars worth of expenses on the contract as ‘‘bid and proposal” and inde pendent research and develop ment expenses. They did this, the indictment said, to reduce multi-million- dollar losses on the firm’s $40 mil lion Army contract for the pro duction of the Sgt. York prototype systems. Contractors are reimbursed by the Department of Defense for those two types of expenses, but they are not permittea to use the funds for work required by an ex isting contract. The Sgt. York (also called DI- VAD for Division Air Defense) was a gun mounted on a tank and was designed to protect tanks and infantry against enemy aircraft and helicopters. White House staff is ’concerned’ about defense cuts Associated Press WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan told senior Republican senators Monday that the administration is “quite con cerned” about Pentagon spending cuts under a pending balanced- budget plan aimed at wiping out fed- 1 of the< eral red ink by the end i ■ decade. ay student groups common on campuses dy, and itk you mazing $ — and $ being e I was [ began >ok!” | Bible continued from page 1 The group has a table set up on campus to advertise and distribute literature, such as information ab out AIDS, Bernal says. He says the group sponsors an AIDS awareness forum each semester and attempts to educate both the gay and straight com munities about sale sex. “We’re trying to destroy myths like, ‘leardrops cause AIDS,’ or ‘If someone coughs in your face, | that can cause you to get AIDS,”’ Bernal says. He says he doesn’t know if any attitudes toward homosexuality have changed on campus, hut says educational programs are impor tant. “The more people become aware of homosexuality, I think they become more accepting of it,” Bernal says. David Zertuche, treasurer of the GLSA, says that other campus groups have lent help to the group. “We get a lot of participation from students,” he says. “We work in conjunction with lots of prog ressive organizations. “As for (acceptance from) the student body, it’s hard to say. Per sonally, we do sometimes encoun ter things like snide remarks. But that comes with the territory.” Zertuche says the organization currently has about 50 dues- paying ($5 a semester) members. Between 50 and 70 people attend the regular meetings, and about 15 can usually be expected to show up at an informal weekly gather ing at an on-campus cafe. Another organization, the Gay/ Lesbian Law Student Association, exists for those in UT’s law school. President Scott Con rad says a 2gay service group called Law Stu dents for Human Rights formed at UT in about 1977, but that it eventually died out. “It never had much success, possibly because people didn’t know what it was with a name like that,” Gonrad says. After that organization folded, the current group formed. Con rad describes the organization as a social and professional contact group. He says that within the law school the grymp has experienced very few problems. Gays and lesbians also are rep resented in the UT Students’ Association, a governmental body of students. The Subcommittee on Lesbian and Gay Issues was formed in Feb ruary as part of the Minority Affairs Committee. ' Mark Moebius, head of that subcommittee, says the group is trying to get a resolution passed ~ calling for sexual orientation to be included in the non discrimination statement of the university. The effort has the sup port of both Texas Civil Liberties Union Director Gara LaMarche and State Sen. Craig Washington, Moebius says. The subcommittee also is con ducting a survey of 1,000 UT fa culty, sdents and staff in an attempt to gather opinion^ on homosexuality, Moebius says. The 10-question survey in cludes inquiries about how re spondents would .feel about hav ing a gay or lesbian roommate, lab partner or close friend, Moebius says. Also included is a question asking respondents if they feeldis- crimination occurs against homosexuals at UT. Moebius says he is planning for a larger report to be delivered to the university president once the results of the survey are in. Unlike the Austin groups, a , low-profile approach has been taken at the University of Texas at Arlington. “1 NOT PARTICULARLY OPEN," SAYS J.B. Keasler Jr., president of UTA’s Gay/Lesbian Association. “We advertise in the student newspaper, but our group is small. We haven’t been open enough to really know how well we’re accepted.” He says the group is going to try to sponsor a symposium on AIDS in cooperation with other student organizations sometime this year. But for the most part, the group stays out of the public eye. At the University of Houston, gay students are regrouping this year after having no campus orga nization last year. Kevin Besch, secretary- treasurer of UH’s Gay/Lesbian Student Association, says negative reactions to the new group have surfaced partly because or prob lems associated with an earlier gay organization on campus. Besch says the .earlier group, the Gay and Lesbian Resource Group, was negatively perceived even by some gays. He says the new group plans on CHRISTMAS SPECIALS! $10 00 Discount Perms/Cut included $5 00 Discount Sculptered Noils PRESENT AD FOR DISCOUNT EXPIRES 12/7/85 Texas AveiSouthwest Pkwy 696-8700 Yearbook photos for Juniors, Seniors, Vets, Meds and Grads will be taken through December 6 at Yearbook Associates Studio above Campus Photo Center at North- gate. getting as many new members as possible. At Southern Methodist Univer sity, the faculty adviser of a gay student group says that the group is not operating clue to the intense opposition it faced on campus. “There basically is no effective gay student organization at SMU now,” says Campbell Read, the adviser. “1 attribute this largely to the hostile way the group was tre ated during about an 18-mOnth period.” Read says from February 1982 to May 1983, the Gay/Lesbian Stu dent Support Organization ex perienced many dif ficulties when trying, to gain acceptance on campus. As for A&M, GSS President Marco Roberts says that Universi ty administrators have been very cooperative with the group since its court victories. “I’m sure they don’t like us,” Roberts says, “but 1 can’t com plain.” Negative reaction to the group from other students also has de creased since the group attained official status, Roberts says. “It’s funny the way things have changed,” he says. “What I sense now from people is kind of a res igned acceptance. It’s not that im portant (to students) anymore now that it’s over.” Roberts says that the court’s rul ing for GSS gives the group more leverage as an organization than it- would have had if it had not pur sued any legal recourse. But, he says, the group isn’t out to spite anyone who opposed its fight for recognition. “We haven't gone out of our way to rub anybody’s nose in it that we won our lawsuit,” Roberts says. Emerging from a Capitol Hill meeting with Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., and Budget Committee Chairman Pete V. Dome- nici, R-N.M., Regan also said he sug gested a. way to rise with inflation during the current fiscal year which began Oct. 1. “We don’t want the defense por tion crippled by this” by this ba lanced-budget plan, Regan said. Regan, budget director James C. Miller 111 and M.R. Ogleshy, the president’s assistant for legislative affairs, fnet with the senators as Con gress returned from a week-long Thanksgiving recess. The president planned to meet at the White House on Tuesday with GOP congressional leaders to discuss the budget legislations, a tax over haul plan pending in the House and the legislative agenda for the remain der of the year. Separately, Miller told an Amer ican Enterprise Institute luncheon that the president “continues to be very muen in favor of the concept of the pending budget measures although he has serious reservations about how the plan might affect milit ary spending. Nonetheless, Miller reiterated a pledge that in the budget the presi dent sends to Congress early next year he intends to meet a fiscal 1987 deficit target of$ 144 billion, the same level specified in the Senate-passed version of the budget proposal. The deficit in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 was about $211 billion. Miller also said Reagan remains adamantly opposed to tax increases to cut the deficit and that such action remains a “last resort.” The House and Senate have each passed measures mandating automa tic, across-the-board spending cuts if Congress and the president fail to meet declining, annual statutory ceil- ' ings on federal budget deficits. Congressional negotiators seeking to draft a compromise have been at odds on the timing of the deficit targets and what programs should be subject to automatic cuts, particularly hOw the Pentagon and payments to low-income people would be effected. Before Congress adjourned for the holiday, the negotiators said they had all but accepted a compromise that would allocate automatic cuts equally between domestic and milit ary spending programs. “Were trying to get that changed,” Regan said, adding “we’re quite con cerned” about how such a 50-50 split would affect military spending, parti cularly at a time when arms negotia tions with the Soviet Union are underway. Shuttle Atlantis to land in Californio Monday Associated PreSs SPACE CENTER, Houston — Atlantis’ astronauts, their pioneering spacewalks completed successfully, packed up equipment and tested spacecraft Systems Monday to pre pare for today’s landing on a Califor nia desert runway. Atlantis will land at Edwards Air Force Base, completing a mission that included the launch of three satellites and two days of construction experi ments by astronauts Sherwood Spring and Jerry Ross. The crew also planned Monday to conduct a news conference from orbit, with questions posed in English by American journalists and in Span ish by journalists from Mexico. Rodolfo Nori, the first Mexican to fly in space, is a member of the crew. Others on the crew are mission com- SfrAcCo-Ub 1,2. & 3 IBectraant Ap'OfiUH,e*tt4,& VctfrUx “Rente $250 StavuUa laM SevtCCa lAndMSOK C.8. i9DI < 3ioMeman 693-6505 693-2108 mander Brewster Shaw, engineer Charles Walker and astronauts Mary Cleave, Bryan O’Connor, and McDonnell Douglas. During excursions into Atlantis’ open cargo bay Friday and Sunday, the astronauts built and disassembled a 45-foot tower and a large pyramid. They also manipulated the two struc tures by hand, proving that astro nauts in space can manually control metal framework that could be used to build a space station. Doug Heard, an engineer from NASA’s Langley Research Center where the tower experiment was de signed, said data from the spacewalks will aid in planning the nation’s first space station. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to build a _ space station during the 1990s,