Wednesday, October 15,1986/The Battalion/Page 3
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'xperf calls disarmament unrealistic
Superpower accord ‘impossible’
By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Staff Writer
|An agreement between the two superpowers
eliminate the their nuclear arsenals is impossi-
because of the nuclear arsenals of other na
ns, an expert on Soviet tactics and strategy said
re Tuesday.
Hritish expert Dr. Peter Vigor said that Gorba-
iev’s Iceland arms control proposal would, as
■ understands it, have led to the eventual dis-
itling of all nuclear weapons in the Soviet
Ur.on and the United States.
"Who then is going to be the master of the
irld?” Vigor asked. “India? China? We (Great
Blitan) have got a few and the French but they’re
unpredictable, God knows.”
Vigor’s speech was sponsored by The Military
iidies Institute and The Center for Strategic
chnology.
The Soviet Union has more to gain than the
West from a contraction in the size of nuclear ar
senals in the world, Vigor said. This is because it
would give more weight to the might of its con
ventional forces and the nuclear might of its al
lies such as India, he said.
“The Soviet Union is genuinely interested in
nuclear disarmament for the very simple reason
that nuclear weapons are the only weapons with
which we could do damage to the U.S.S.R. itself,”
Vigor said.
He said that the Soviet Union’s yearlong uni
lateral moratorium on nuclear weapons testing is
an example of its propaganda efforts. He said a
Soviet general recently was quoted as saying that
the propaganda and diplomatic value the Soviet
Union has reaped from the moratorium has far
outstripped the damage it has suffered militarily.
Vigor also said arms control proposals also will
be affected by the differences between Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former Soviet
leaders.
Gorbachev is the first Soviet leader since the
revolution to have a University education, and
Vigor says fact should make a clear difference in
the way the Soviet Union handles itself diplo
matically.
Gorbachev has a “greater degree of finesse at
the tactical level . . .,” that will allow him to avoid
such blunders as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the
1962 confrontation that brought the superpow
ers to the brink of war, Vigor said.
The media in the United States and Great Bri
tan make Gorbachev out to have greater control
over the Soviet government than he in fact does,
Vigor said.
In Advance
student group
lasts seminar
Itexamining
'drug trade
The International Student As-
ociation will host a seminar dis-
hissing the international drug
fade from the perspective of
Latin Americans at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday in 404 Rudder Tower.
I The seminar, entitled “Cocaine
■ raffic,’’ will open with short
leeches by Henry G. Smith, a
Texas A&M professor of Latin
Imerican studies, and represen-
atH* itives for the Bolivia Student As-
^Ijj Dciation and the Peru Student
.ssociation.
him
The speeches will be followed
aquestion-and-answer session.
Briscoe backs Clements, denies charges
AUSTIN (AP) — Defeated Demo
cratic gubernatorial candidate An
drew Briscoe endorsed Republican
Bill Clements for governor Tuesday,
denying he once offered to support
Gov. Mark White if the Democrats
would pay his campaign debts.
“There have been no offers what
ever, no guarantees to force my deci
sion so far as supporting Gov. Clem
ents,” said Briscoe, who received
247,000 votes in the May 3 primary
race against White.
Dwayne Holman, White’s cam
paign manager, said that on Sept. 4,
Briscoe offered to campaign for
White if White’s campaign would
pay his campaign debts. Holman
said he met with Briscoe at the Lone
Star Cafe in Dallas after Briscoe had
called him several times.
“He (Briscoe) said he was out
about $219,000 and he sure would
like to endorse Mark (White), and if
we could basically pay him $219,000
he would campaign for us,” Holman
said. “I told him I was sure we were
not interested but he asked if I
would run it by the governor. I
called him back the next day and
said we were not interested.”
Holman said Briscoe appeared
“There have been no of
fers whatever, no guar
antees to force my deci
sion so far as supporting
Gov. Clements.”
— Andrew Briscoe.
disappointed and said he at least ex
pected a counteroffer.
“I’ll take a lie detector test on it,”
Holman said.
When Briscoe was asked if he
would take a lie detector test, he
said, “I can’t answer that now until
the rules are clarified.”
He said, “I did not ask any finan
cial renumeration. I did talk with
Dwayne Holman and the governor.
I said to the governor, ‘If you will
take care of the issues, everything
else will take care of itself.’ No prom
ise of endorsement was made.”
Clements, who called the news con
ference, said there was no consider
ation of any kind offered for Bris
coe’s endorsement.
Clements said Briscoe would be
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organization to appeal to conserva
tive Democrats and independents.
Briscoe said, “I urge my fellow
Democrats to vote for the future of
Texas. He (Clements) will help turn
the economy around and help create
jobs.”
Clements said, “Andrew Briscoe
and I share common principles of
state government. We want to curb
state spending and hold the line on
taxes.
“We want quality education and
an economic climate in Texas that
will attract business and investment
for the creation of jobs.”
Briscoe said his final campaign re
port would be submitted by Jan. 15.
“I guarantee you that I don’t have
one more penny in my campaign
committee than I had before I made
this decision,” Briscoe said.
At the news conference, Clements
also criticized White for a series of
appearances Sunday at black
churches in Fort Worth.
He said White told the church
members Clements would do away
with education, health and social
programs that benefit the black com
munity.
Clements: Cutting
higher education
not Texas' answer
By Mike Sullivan
Reporter
Republican gubernatorial can
didate Bill Clements said Tues
day that tightening higher educa
tion’s belt is no way to expand the
sagging Texas economy.
Cuts in higher education are
counterproductive to university
research programs, Clements
said at a news conference in the
new Ocean Drilling Program
building in Texas A&M Universi
ty’s Research Park.
“It is absolutely wrong to cut
higher education,” he said. “That
is 180 degrees from what this
state should be doing.”
He said solid research and de
velopment programs, such as
A&M’s Ocean Drilling Program,
will attract new businesses to
Texas, creating jobs and diversi
fying the state economy.
Louis E. Garrison, director of
the ODP, said that the National
Science Foundation recently
granted the ODP $30 million in
research funds, and part of that
money was used to build the new
ODP building.
Garrison said the 150-person
ODP staff will move into the new
building Nov. 10.
Funding from the National Sci
ence Foundation also will aid re
search and exploration con
ducted at sea by the ODP, he said.
The OOP’s 476-foot ship trav
els the Atlantic, Pacific, Antartic
and Indian oceans with a crew of
about 50 A&M student techni
cians taking samples from the
ocean floor at depths of up to
1,500 meters, Garrison said.
The samples will be stored in
the OOP’s new building and will
be used to research the history of
the earth and geologic pi ocesses.
Clements said, “The kind of
technology that is being used (by
the ODP) in drilling in these ex-
Bill Clements
treme water depths is absolutely
at the razor’s edge of ocean tech
nology.”
Clements’ youth director Alan
Hill said that the development of
university research programs is
what Texas needs to prove its
commitment to higher education.
He said that 217 professors
have resigned and left the state
this year, and about 220 more
have indicated they may leave be
cause they don’t believe Texas is
committed to higher education.
Clements said Texas is the only
state in the nation to cut higher
education funds this year.
Hill said A&M is taking a step
toward becoming a world-class
university while showing Texas
and the nation that it is com
mitted to research and devel
opment with its building of the
research park.
He said one of the future pro
jects slated for development in
the park is an incubation pro
gram where good ideas will have
the chance to develop.
The program will lease space
in a specially developed building
to A&M graduates who have
ideas that may be developed into
new businesses.
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