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Thursday, December 5, 1985
return spy
>e supported. _ B
awksiIsrael will
A'eddington said,'!*
ve more respect [oit|;j
e it in the corral
inH the rourt Idisiff
attaiioi documents
ng or production. § Associated Press
so said The BaaMWASI II\(; ro\ — The classifiecl
ove the way it utilitsi tftilitarv (loemnents Israel allegedh
■porters and phoct iBiained Ironi ar c used spv Jonathan
irnalism classes. |a\ Polhud dealt with moderate
:o have them unde Vial) governments and included ra-
mship with the paptt <|jr-jamming teehni(|iies and other
derstand the serioffii elation it data, an informed U.S. of-
for this paper," shn l|Lial said Wednesd.tv.
get some morepeopit£ ! 1 he doc uments dealt with Kgvpt,
vho are really devoid |l)i dim, Saudi Arabiii ;md other
"h iendh ” Arab govei mnents, detail-
iic sit las '(■: iheii militarv eapabilities as well
11 ' t ;! ' as their methods of countering ter-
■|ism, the oilicial said. Isriiel has
it looks good,"shts if^ 1 . to return the documents to
|y, it’s as^undpapetllLn'tfd States.
need moresubstanct. , VV1,lle . 1 V t ountermtelhgence tn-
lonnaiion on Libya and othei nidi
• , cal reuimes is shared with Israel un-
this semester wevtr: , .y . • • ,
, , • , (ter the straternc tooperation and
towardshowmstEfi . itc*
6 other agreements, L .S. assistance to
t do more in-i
till l>e students
jobs.”
Vial) countries considered friendly
to the United States generally is
withheld, the of f icial said.
ded that whileshenJ f lsiael . ll ! l ! s u , as ablt : > ,0 (,b,ail ' ( T l T ata
uld like to see event available through norma U .S.
writing and betterpbl cl > a "!' els - sai(1 ,he ()HlclaI ' wh() in -
° r silted on anonymity.
■ Israel has apologized publicly for
Snider, currentefcl'l'e espionage "to the extent that it
lion, said sheapproief'ltd take place." It also lias said that if
it PublicationsBoarf^A 111 investigation confirms it, the unit
involved will he disbanded. It is be-
4* AAAAfi heted to operate out of the defense
K An Israeli source here said, tnean-
| wjiile, “no one was spying on the
| United States. If there was anything
itjwas to gather information on oth
' eK.''
. HAs part ol ;t deal worked out in a
j laigthy telephone exchange last
weekend between Secretary of State
l;.Qeoige P. Shultz, and Israeli Prime
| Minister Shimon Peres, the docu-
| uit tits are to he returned to the
United States and the FBI will he
I ^ - | MA permitted to interview two Israeli
a Cj U lul ( |l ) l ()Inals 1 ^called in the scandal.
■ retrieving the material, intelli
gence experts can flesh out how bits
I and pieces of U.S. secrets are eval-
| tutted and used by even a friendly
coimirv. the of ficial said.
L S
McFarlane
quits security
adviser post
Jest For Loughs
Uorkv Surdacki, playing a jester, entertains guests
tit the MSU, Madi igai Dinners Wednesday night at
the Hilton. Wine, wenches, and wassail abounded
in a whirlwind of holiday cheer from the Renais-
Photo by JON P. KARP
sance era. The other performers seated at the ta
ble are,(left to right) Susan (.'oubbs-Hall, Jonathan
Hacked, Carmen Martinez, Stephanie Moll, and
James Lund. See story page 8.
Associated Press
WASHING ION — President
Reagan accepted the resignation of
Robert C. McFarlane as national .se
curity adviser “with deep regret and
reluctance" Wednesday, and imme
diately replaced him with his deputy,
Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, a
l/wc -L ti/ci/*i££ W’llO
Reagan and Mcfarlane Doth den
ied he was leaving because of well-
publicized friction with White House
chief of staf f Donald T . Regan.
“That's nonsense,” McFarlane
said, standing grim-faced next to
Reagan and Poindexter.
McFarlane, who is expected to
land a high-paying job in private in
dustry, said he Intel no immediate
plans and quipped, “If you've got
any leads, let me know.”
Reagan said McFarlane, after 30
years of government service, “feels a
responsibility, that I think all of us
feel, toward his family.” T he presi
dent told reporters, “You have all
been misinformed” about Regan
and McFarlane feuding.
Poindexter, a 27-year Navy vet-
eran who was first in his class at the
U.S. Naval Academy, said he had as
surances from the president and Re
gan that he would have direct access
to the Oval Of fice, with no interfer
ence from the chief of staff.
"I don’t anticipate am problems,"
Poindexter said. “Don and 1 are
good friends. I've known him since
he w;ts secretarv of the treasury."
T he president said Poindexter's
selection underscored "ihe continu-
itv of our foreign policy." Speaking
of McFarlane, Reagan said, T know
of no president who has been better
served.”
Virtually unknown outside the
realm of national security experts,
Poindexter was the architect of th.e
administration's successful plan to
intercept and force the landing of
the Egyptian jetliner carrying lour
Palestinians accused of hijacking the
Achille Lauro c ruise ship.
Poindexter has long avoided in
terviews and has privately expressed
an aversion to the press, which he
has criticized for what he considers
to he consistent inaccuracies.
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of
Grenada, he instructed presidential
spokesman Larry Speakes to tell a
reporter it was “preposterous" that
See McFarlane, page 14
Reagan: U.S. won’t scrap missiles until Soviets abide by SALT II treaty
occef;
etballi
Associated Press
FALLS ION, Md. — President
Reagan said Wednesday there is “no
wav" the United States will scrap nu
clear missiles to stav within the limits
of the unratified SALT II treaty un
less the Soviet Union also agrees to
abide by the pad completely .
Reagan, visiting a rural high
school to espouse his proposals for
people-to-people exchanges with the
Soviets, was asked in a question-and-
answer session with students about
his intentions regarding SALT II.
He faces a decision on whether to
continue compliance after the end of
die vear. which could require the
scrapping of some missiles.
Reagan said he has not made a de
cision. hut hits before him a Defense
Department report showing 23 vio
lations of the treaty by the Soviets.
“We have to decide whether we
can have complete agreement of
both sides that we are going to abide
bv it even though it has not been ra
tified, or we are going to have to
conduct ourselves on the basis of
what thev tire doing also," he said.
“T here is no yvay rve can he so
one-sided as to he destroying mis
siles or things of that kind (to) stay
within a limit that they are violat
ing," he said.
He said die U.S.decision yvould
depend in part on negotiations yvith
the Soviets about their violations.
The treaty yvas negotiated during
the Garter administration, hut yvas
yvithdrayvn from consideration by
the Senate after its prospects of rati
fication yvere dimmed by the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan in Decem
ber 1079..
Reagan responded to questions of
a select group of students gathered
in a hand room at the l,6tt5-pupil
high school about 20 miles north of
Baltimore.
Fai tier, in a speech m the school
theater, Reagan said he had told So
viet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at
their Geneva summit last month:
“Just think how easy his task and
mine would he at these meetings if
suddenly diere yvere a threat to the
yvorld from some other species from
another planet outside this universe."
De la Madrid: Mexico-U.S.
relations complex, difficult
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — President
Miguel tie la Madrid, in an inter-
viey\ published Wednesday, de
scribed relations betyveen Mexico
and the United States as “com
plex and difficult” hut said the
tyvo nations yvere in constant con
tact to try to improve them.
De la Madrid in the fourth part
of the interview with the neyvspa-
per Excelsior said, “We have
many problems but this dialogue
and this communication permit
us to overcome them."
“It is a permanent phenome
non that rve Mexicans must un
derstand. Its necessary to he in
constant communication and ne
gotiation yvith the United States.
At times we overcome the prob
lems and at other times not," he
said.
In the early part of the year,
relations between the two coun
tries have suffered some of their
greatest strains in recent memory
over U.S. charges that Mexico
had not moved quickly enough to
crack down on drug traffickers.
Cotton Bowl tickets on sale Tuesday
University News Service
Tickets to the 1986 Cotton Bowl
game will go on sale to Texas A&M
students on Tuesday, December 10
at 7 a.m. at G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
Athletic Director and Head Foot
ball Coach Jackie Sherrill has as
sured that Christmas will come early
for students buying the tickets as he
has made a special arrangement for
them to receive a $5 discount on the
S25 Cotton Bowl tickets. It is the first
time in history that a school has pro
vided student tickets at a discount.
Forty percent of the initial 20,000
tickets allocated to Texas A&M will
go to the student body.
“We hope that this special student
discount on Cotton Bowl tickets yvill
in some small yvay repay and say
‘T hanks’ for the tremendous sup
port that the student body of T exas
A&M has provided the players and
coaches of the 1985 Texas Aggie
football team,” Sherrill said.
Students are reminded that one
person can pick up a maximum of
six tickets. The purchaser must have
in his or her possession, six Texas
A&M student coupon hooks yvith at
least three of them a junior, senior,
or graduate classification.
Texas A&M ticket officials said
that six yvindoyvs yvill be open at G.
Rollie White Coliseum for the conve
nience of the student body.
Officials stressed that each game
ticket yvill he stamped in the folloyv-
ing manner: “Texas A&M Student
Only; Must Be Accompanied by A
Student I D. Card.”
The student ticket policy for the
1986 Cotton Bowl yvas approved by
Sherrill upon recommendation of a
student committee consisting of the
following student representatives:
Lindsey Dingmore, student body
vice president; Carol Ellison, vice
president, student services; John Ri-
gas, student member of the A&M
athletic council; Thomas Buford,
head yell leader, and David Lavv-
horne, senior yell leader.
A spokesman for the committee
indicated that it had studied several
possible ticket plans and considered
various options yvhich included
opening sales to all student on a
first-come, first-served basis, hut it
was felt that it yvould prove an unfair
method and yvould create confusion.
The committee also considered
the possibility of allocating 60 per
cent of the the tickets for upperclass
men and 40 percent for under
classmen. A student poll concerning
this method proved less than desira
ble.
T he committee considered all of
the above options and rejected them,
feeling that the accepted system yvas
consistent yvith past years' distribu
tion of tickets and yvas most equita
ble for all concerned.
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Water pollution
Brayfon Firemen Training Field cited as one of worst contominators in state
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By BRIAN PEARSON
Senior Stuff Writer
The Texas Water Commission has said it yvill soon
(tighten the noose of enforcement around the necks of
dumping permit violators yvho pollute the state's yvater.
One of these on the hanging list could be the Bray-
Iton Firemen Training Field, according to commission
|s|)okesmen.
A recent commission neyvs release listed the field as
■one of the worst yvater polluters in the state.
District Manager Joe Morgan said the field is the No.
II yvater polluter in District 3 and among the state's top
twenty. District 3 is made up of 28 counties including
IBrazos County.
Morgan said the field was listed in the Nov. 15 re-
llease because the yvaste is hazardous and toxic in nature
[and “because of the violations of their permit and de
gradation to the water in White Branch (Creek)."
Part of the problem, Morgan said, is the excessive
[amount of chemical oxygen demand, or COD, in the
[yvater being dumped into nearby White Branch Creek.
J(X)I) is a measurement of how fast oxygen is depleted
gin water.
| “Without oxygen in the yvater, the water becomes
septic and odorous,” Morgan said.
He said a high oxygen depletion in yvater can occur
yvhen mixed yvith petroleum products such as diesel
fuel and oil. T he field uses these products in their
training procedures.
The field dumping permit allows dumping yvater
yvith 200 parts per million COD into the creek. On
three separate occasions in October, the commission
found COD levels of betyveen 843 and 982 parts per
million in yvater in the area.
John Donovan, manager of the field since July, said
the field has not violated its dumping permit.
“I don’t knoyv yvhy they listed us,” Donovan said.
"But I cannot speak for the past history of the field. It
may be a result of something that happened in the past.
"As far as 1 knoyv. I follow yvhat the rules say and
they (Texas Water Commission) know that.”
Donovan said there have been no permit violations
because the field is alloyved to dump yvater yvith over
200 parts per million COD into the creek as long as the
amount does not exceed 250,000 gallons per day.
“We have never exceeded the 250,000 gallon daily
limit since I've been here,” Donovan said. “If yve have
less than 200 parts per million, then we can dump ev
ery gallon (2.75 million) we have into White's Creek.”
He said the October COD measurements were
taken, in accordance with the dumping permit, after a
significant rainfall which caused water yvith over 200
parts per million COD to flow into the creek from the
field holding ponds.
The field has an oil separation pond, aeration pond
and freshwater pond. Water from the freshyvater pond
is used by the firemen to put out practice blazes.
Donovon said the amount of water yvhich spilled into
the creek in each of the three incidents in October did
not exceed 250,000 gallons. He added that there yvas
no yvay to accurately measure how much yvas spilled.
Morgan said that the field has improved the COD
level in its holding pond yvater over last year yvhen the
level yvas sometimes as high as 1,350.
“They need better treatment facilities,” Morgan said.
Max Woodfin, environmental coordinator of the
Texas Water Commission, said the commission is be
ginning to take a stand against dumping permit viola
tors.
“The Texas Water Commission only has had juris-
See Water, page 14
Photo by BRIAN PEARSON
This “freshwater pond” is one of three holding tanks
at the Brayton Firemen Training Field near Eas-
terwood Airport. Water from the pond is used by fire
men to practice on fires at the training site.