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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 23, 1986
Segents place Adkisson in A&M chancellor spot
-r, difp By Mona Palmer
e Sa ^ M- Reporter
5 a ^' I 1 exas A&M Board of Re-
u , ts Tuesday t hose Dr. Perry L.
as the new chancellor for
^ _ Uiiversity System.
| ' 'eJent William McKenzie, chair-
' W'Bf the chancellor search com-
1 H, recommended Adkisson for
Hsitinn after almost six months
roll leliberations and the board unan-
■v accepted the recommenda-
i.
irs. \dlisson, 57, was chosen from
1 Btminees — eight from within
s AIM System, McKenzie said,
adc asi Hesaid the committee considered
!rtisins Texas economy and the effects it
profib Hive on A&M, and decided the
‘rpoiidiversity needed strong leadership
nd jok H; the economic crisis.
‘Ht meets our criteria in every
y,” McKenzie said. “He brings
irmS 5ven t ‘ x P ert i se l<) l l ie office, espe-
J Ilyat this time of economic stress.”
rv Adkisson came to A&M in 1958
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Dr. Perry L. Adkisson
and has spent most of his academic
career at the University.
“We need to do everything we can
to maintain the quality, stability and
continuity of A&M — this is my
main focus,” Adkisson said during a
press conference.
A&M also needs to raise the stan
dards of the engineering depart
ment so it will compare with the Uni
versity’s agriculture department, he
said.
Adkisson said he hopes to serve as
a role model for the A&M faculty
and show that faculty members can
excel here. He said he wants to pro
vide the stability and commitment
faculty members need to do a good
job.
Adkisson commended the Board
for their “commitment to Texas”
program.
Adkisson commended the Board
when it announced the commitment
program Monday and said he is
committed to the program himself.
“We must develop the technolo
gies that will give birth to the new in
dustries needed to keep Texas eco
nomically competitive on national
and global fronts,” Adkisson said.
Bird’s-eye View
Jim Musto, an employee of ELCO Roofing and
Sheet Metal of Brenham, pauses on his high perch
at Harrington Tower to take a look at the repair
Photo by Anthony S. Casper
work he did on the roof Tuesday. The roof, which
Musto estimates is about 145 feet high, was dam
aged about five weeks ago by high winds.
nmates file prison lawsuit
exas officials said to violate reform order
“We must also educate the work
force that will be needed to staff the
additional jobs that will be created by
these industries.”
When asked if he plans to further
cut the University budget and con
solidate departments and programs,
Adkisson said the University has
done what Gov. Mark White asked it
to do. Additional reductions would
result in an employee reduction, he
said.
Adkisson served as the entomo
logy department head for 11 years
before being named a vice president
in 1978 and he was named A&M’s
deputy chancellor two years ago.
As deputy chancellor he worked
closely with Arthur G. Hansen,
A&M’s previous chancellor, for
seven years.
Eller added that Adkisson is one
of the most widely honored scientists
and administrators in the Southwest.
President Reagan appointed Adkis
son to the National Science Board in
May.
Recently, Adkisson was elected to
the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, an organization that stud
ies issues of national and interna
tional importance.
He was the first A&M faculty
member to be elected to the National
Academy of Sciences on the basis of
research conducted at the College
Station campus. He now serves on
the academy’s Committee on
Relationships between Universities
and the U.S. Government.
Adkisson holds two degrees from
the University of Arkansas. He
earned his Ph.D. at Kansas State
University and did post-doctoral
studies at Harvard.
'Commitment to Texas'gets final approval
By Mona Palmer
Reporter
The Texas A&M Board of Re
gents in other action Tuesday
voted to establish a system office
at the Texas Medical Center in
Houston and gave final approval
to the “Commitment to Texas”
program.
For the Texas Medical Center
project the regents appropriated
$41,000 to establish a branch of
fice.
(see Regents, page 4)
Reagan resists demand
for harsh S. Africa policy
HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for
Iras prison inmates want a federal
Igeto fine the state up to $5.5 mil-
1 a month because state officials
;gedly are violating court-ordered
son reforms.
In addition, attorney William
nnett Turner wants U.S. District
Ige William Wavne Justice to trim
: overall capacity of the Texas
son system by 400 inmates to ease
wding.
‘Plainly, since so many of de
fendant’s failures are due to crowd
ing, this type of further relief will as
sist in bringing about greater
compliance with all the court’s or
ders,” Turner wrote in legal briefs
filed Monday in Houston.
State attorneys, meanwhile, are
insisting more time should be al
lowed to make staff improvements
in the Texas Department of Correc
tions. Attorneys also asked for
changes in previous court orders,
such as writing tighter restrictions
on what inmates may have in their
cells.
Assistant Attorney General Scott
McCown said, “The fact of the mat
ter is that the TDC of today is very,
very different than the TDC of yes
teryear.”
McCown said the fines could total
as much as $5.5 million per month.
The money should be placed into a
special fund and used to pay for
more staff, and more single cells, in
mate attorneys said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan implored Congress and
America’s allies Tuesday to resist the
“emotional clamor” for sanctions
against South Africa and urged the
white-ruled government there to fix
a timetable for abolishing its system
of segregation that has plunged the
country into crisis.
“We and our allies cannot dictate
to the government of a sovereign na
tion, nor should we try,” Reagan said
in a speech that firmly rejected de
mands from Democrats and many
Republicans in Congress for a
tougher policy toward South Africa.
His White House audience consisted
of foreign policy experts and some
members of Congress.
Western nations should not cut
off economic ties with South Africa
but should become more deeply in
volved in its business community to
serve “as agents of change and pro-
gess and growth,” the president said.
“As one African leader remarked
recently, Southern Africa is like a ze
bra,” Reagan cautioned. “If the
white parts are injured, the black
parts will die too.
“Those who tell us the moral
thing to do today is embargo the
South African economy and write
off South Africa should tell us exac
tly what they believe will rise in its
place. What foreign power would fill
the vacuum if ties with the West are
broken?”
And he denounced South Africa’s
system of rigid racial segregation as
“morally wrong and politically unac
ceptable” but praised the govern
ment of President P. W. Botha for his
“reforms”.
Bitter reaction came from Bishop
Desmond Tutu. “I am so angry after
listening to that speech that I’m not
quite sure that I wanted to talk to
you,” he said. “I found.it quite nau
seating.” Tutu spoke in an interview
from South Africa broadcast in Lon
don, adding, “I think the West, for
my part, can go to hell.”
And in an interview with AP Net
work News, Tutu said: “Your presi
dent is the pits as far as blacks are
concerned.. . . He sits there like the
great, big white chief of old . . .”
The House of Representatives al
ready has approved legislation to im
pose a total trade embargo on South
Africa; similar legislation will be con
sidered soon by the Senate, and Sen
ate Republicans told Reagan Mon-
Congressional support
claimed for sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Back
ers of economic sanctions against
South Africa said Tuesday they
have strong bipartisan support to
adopt them despite President
Reagan’s plea that no action be
taken and his threat to veto puni
tive legislation.
And they said that in refusing
to consider a tough sanctions pol
icy in a White House speech ear
lier in the day, the president
made the U.S. government a de
fender of white-run South Afri
ca’s apartheid system of racial se
paration.
Rep. William H. Gray III, D-
Pa., one of the leading House
supporters of tough sanctions,
said in the text of a televised re
sponse to the president’s address
on South Africa: “Today, Presi
dent Reagan declared the United
States and Great Britain co-guar
antors of apartheid.”
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., said Reagan has given
“hope and sustenance to the
forces of apartheid.”
Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn.,
said the speech represented a
thoroughgoing defense of Rea
gan’s “constructive engagement”
policy and contained “nothing
He said it is now clear the Sen
ate will vote on a sanctions bill,
adopt tough measures and pre
serve them by overriding a presi
dential veto.
But Kennedy, who said there
may be support not just for a
middle-of-the-road sanctions
package but for complete U.S.
business disinvestment in South
Africa, predicted that overriding
a veto may not be necessary.
“I predict that the president
will hear the American people on
this issue and see the wisdom of
reversing his position and hope
fully sign this legislation,” he said.
In the House, Rep. Mickey Le-
land, D-Texas, chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus, said
Reagan’s speech contained “noth
ing new” but reaffirmed his posi
tion “as our nation’s leading apol
ogist for the Botha regime” in
South Africa.
Leland said he and caucus
members are “appalled that this
president has placed America on
the wrong side of history.”
Even some of Reagan’s staun
chest supporters on Capitol Hill
voiced reservations over his
South Africa policy, although
some said sanctions are a bad
idea.
day that legislation to impose
sanctions is inevitable unless he un
dertakes new steps. All of those out
lined by Reagan already were part of
U.S. policy.
Responding for congressional
Democrats, Rep. William H. Gray,
D-Pa., said that Reagan is protecting
Pretoria from the “one weapon it
fears most” by joining British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher in op
position to economic sanctions.
“Today, President Reagan de
clared the United States and Great
Britain co-guarantors of apartheid,”
he said.
Reagan said the government and
its opponents “should begin a dia
logue about constructing a political
system that rests upon the consent of
the governed.”
Without suggesting any deadline,
Reagan said “a timetable for elimina
tion of apartheid laws should be set.”
Apartheid is the country’s system of
legal segregation by which the coun
try’s 5 million whites dominate the
nation’s 24 million voteless blacks.
Reagan said the imposition of
sanctions “would destroy America’s
flexibility, discard our diplomatic le-
veral and deepen the crisis. To make
a difference, Americans — who are a
force for decency and progress in
the world — must remain involved.
“We must stay and work, not cut
and run,” the president said.
P.M-
toy a I couple playful
n wake of wedlock
LONDON (AP) — Andy and
ergie kissed and cut up on tele-
sion Tuesday, the eve of their
Westminster Abbey wedding,
hose glorious pomp will lead to
>bering duties in the royal
ousehold for Prince and Prin
ts Andrew.
Flags flew throughout London
>r the wedding of Prince An-
rew and Sarah Ferguson, both
fwhom are 26. Hundreds of en-
tusiasts camped out at the his-
>ric abbey, willing to spend 24
ours in sleeping bags for a ring-
de view.
In a series of interviews broad-
tstlon television and radio Tues-
ay, the couple w r ere shown kiss-
ig and holding hands, and
H——— ■" —
talked of her clothes, his money
and their future.
“Kiss me, kiss me, the camera is
watching,” the redheaded bride-
to-be Britons have come to know
as Fergie said in a television inter
view on both national networks.
Andrew obliged with a tender
buss on the lips, said, “You’re a
monster” and gave her a playful
slap on the cheek.
They were filmed at the Port
land naval base in southwest En
gland where Andrew, a Royal
Navy pilot, is to be trained as a
helicopter warfare instructor.
Today comes the fairytale: the
royal Glass Coach, the pomp and
remembered splendor of empire,
the cheers and blessings of the
nation.
Judge 1st to be ousted in 50 years
House gives impeachment vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House, taking
its first impeachment vote in 50 years, unani
mously recommended on Tuesday the ouster of
a federal judge who refuses to resign and is still
drawing his salary while serving prison time for
tax evasion.
The 14th impeachment vote in House history
sent the case of Harry E. Claiborne to the Senate
for trial. Conviction there would remove Clai
borne from his lifetime appointment as chief
U.S. district judge in Nevada and possibly bar
him from any further federal employment.
Even in advance of the 406-0 vote in the
House, the Senate put itself on a timetable that
could lead to Claiborne being stripped of his po
sition by fall.
In the closing minutes of a “debate” in which
no member rose to the judge’s defense, Rep.
George Gekas, R-Pa., said Claiborne “mocks us”
and is “laughing at us.”
Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli, D-Ky. said Clai
borne’s refusal to resign while “in the federal
slammer” is “misbehavior in the grossest sense, a
public scandal.”
Earlier, veterans of the impeachment effort
against former President Nixon a dozen years
ago urged support for impeachment to stop Clai
borne from returning to the bench and continu
ing to collect his salary.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter
W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., said that Claiborne is sit
ting in prison “while retaining many of the inci
dents and emoluments of the office which he has
disgraced.”
He said confidence in the judiciary would be
gravely jeopardized if Claiborne is not removed.
Rodino pointed out that judges are the only fed
eral officers serving life terms, but in return must
meet “the most exacting standard of public and
private conduct.”
Rep. Hamilton Fish, ranking Republican on
the committee, said that as of Sept. 1, 1988, Clai
borne would be 71, have completed 10 years of
service and would be eligible for retirement with
full salary.
“Judge Claiborne is more than a mere embar
rassment,” Fish said. “He is a disgrace — an af
front — to the judicial office and the judicial
branch he was appointed to serve.”
As the proceedings got under way Tuesday,
the author of the impeachment articles assured
his House colleages that there was “substantial
evidence” tojustify Claiborne’s removal.
The 69-year-old judge is serving a 2-year term
at the federal prison camp in Montgomery, Ala.
— continuing to draw his regular salary of $215 a
day. He was the first federal official in half a cen
tury to face a House floor vote on impeachment
articles.