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rn Texas A&M w«% mm 'W + he Battalion Vol. 82 No. 36 GSPS 045360 12 pages College Station, Texas Monday, October 20, 1986 Five U.S. diplomats expelled by Soviets Official calls move retaliation for U.S. action MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union expelled five U.S. diplomats on Sunday, five days after the last of 25 Soviet U.N. envoys ordered out of the United States returned home. A Kremlin official linked the ex pulsions to the U.S. order against the Soviet U.N. diplomats. In Wash ington, Secretary of State George Shultz responded, “We will protest and we will take some action.” Sunday’s expulsions of four diplo mats in Moscow and one in Lenin grad were announced by the official news agency Tass. It said the For eign Ministry determined they had engaged in “impermissible activ ities,” a catch phrase for espionage. The five are Jack Roberts of the U.S. consulate in Leningrad and four diplomats from the U.S. Em bassy in Moscow: William Norville, a first secretary, Charles Ehrenfried, a third secretary, and attaches Gary Lonnquist and David Harris. The Tass announcement did not mention the U.S. expulsions of the Soviet diplomats from the United Nations, but Georgy Arbatov, a chief Kremlin spokesman, indicated that the Soviets were retaliating. Arbatov spoke in a satellite interview from Moscow on the CBS-TV program “Face the Nation.” “The Americans will (see that) Mr. Gorbachev is a very forthcoming man if he has good partners. But if you behave in such a way he be comes very tough,” Arbatov said, referring to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. “It can cool down to zero in both countries if you go on this way of re taliation after retaliation,” Arbatov added. Shultz, appearing on the NBC- TV proigram “Meet the Press,” said it is up to President Reagan to decide what action to take. In an interview on “Face the Na tion,” Donald Regan, White House chief of staff said: “I’m disappointed to see that (the expulsions). I thought that after Reykjavik, relationships would have improved somewhat. We are now going to have to consider taking appropriate action ... to consider what our alter natives are.” Neither Shultz nor Regan would elaborate on the possible U.S. re sponse. In March, the United States or dered the Soviet Union to reduce its U.N. Mission staff by 105 people over a two-year period, contending many of the diplomats were engaged in espionage. It was stated that it was up to the Soviets to determine whom to recall. A&M College of Education hit by recent faculty losses Editor’s note: The following article was first printed Friday inThe Battalion, but the statistics from several of the colleges were inadvertently omitted. By Sondra Pickard Senior Staff Writer The following statistics com pare faculty turnover in each col lege over the past two academic years. They estimate the number of faculty that have left for higher salaries or better positions at other universities. T he statistics, from Fall 1985 to Fall 1986 are estimates from each of the 10 colleges, while those from Fall 1984 to Fall 1985 were compiled by the A&M Office of Planning and Institutional Analy sis. The College of Education has seen a significant number of losses — all of them recent. The college has a total of 150 faculty and 10 have left within the past three months. Only five faculty members are left from Fall ’84 to Fall ’85. Dr, Dean Corrigan, dean of the college, is especially worried about filling positions at a time when the undergraduate teacher education program is experienc ing rapid growth. The program has increased by 40 percent over the last four years and 100 more students will be student teaching this spring. “If you couple our losses in fac ulty with our tremendous in crease in students,” Corrigan said, “it creates a real crisis.” The College of Business Ad ministration, with 147 faculty, re ports losing eight so far this year, compared to a total of eight losses from Fall ’84 to Fall ’85. Thirteen faculty have left the College of Liberal Arts this year for reasons other than retire ment, and 15 left from Fall ’84 to Fall ’85. The liberal arts college has a total of 280 faculty. Liberal arts college officials were unable to determine how many left this year specifically for higher pay at another university. The College of Engineering, with 345 faculty, lost six faculty this year compared to 16 who left from Fall ’84 to Fall ’85, and the College of Agriculture, with 350, has lost 10 so far this year com pared to nine in the 1984 aca demic year. The College of Veterinary Medicine has lost seven faculty this year compared to five faculty who left the previous academic year. The veterinary medicine college has 135 faculty. None of the four remaining colleges — architecture, geosci ences, science or medicine —have lost more than three faculty this academic year. — Congress leaves uncertain legacy end of session WASHINGTON (AP) — The 8th Congress, by odd turns bitterly |rtisan and pragmatically cooper- itive, has left an uncertain legacy of jiatershed legislation that will touch J1 Americans. From modest measures to begin [hjjjght Savings Time three weeks Br and designate the rose as the ponal flower, to the most sweep- Sgtaxcode revision in a generation P the biggest spending bill in his- pjthe Congress that ended Satur- |ay night compiled a record of stag- [ering scope. ' Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, ^•Kan.. summarized the session in a ■K word: “Productive.” But, he ioed, “Not every policy dilemma w resolved and some of our an- Wrsare less than complete.” | The exact impact of the tax ianges and a rewrite of the nation’s itnigration laws will take years to htermine. For a time, this Congress, divided een a Democratic-controlled e of Representatives and a Sen- in Republicans hands, appeared the verge of unbreakable stale- Indeed, it was only in the past sev- 1 months that Congress appeared us about doing anything. And it seemed legislators would go home as adjournment ar- two weeks and a day behind hedule. Senate President Pro Tempore om Thurmond, R-S.C., said it ded up being one of the most pro- ictive sessions he has ever seen. Some legislators, though, said fey were concerned by tendency on Capitol Hill to let the legislative busi- less pile up until the end. Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., said, “I sense in this Congress a greater tendency to play this crisis-manage ment approach. We’re not getting anything done until we get to over time.” It was only after weeks of bicker ing, and a partial governmental shutdown last Friday, that Congress completed work on a $576 billion catchall spending bill needed to fi nance federal operations and pro grams for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. The bill, the biggest ever consid ered, also pointed up the frustra tions Congress has had in trying to shrink the government’s red ink, which is still soaring at an annual rate of about $200 billion. Last December, Congress hope fully enacted the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law aimed at forc ing a balanced budget by 1991. This year, legislators tried to live with what they created. Delays created by squabbling over the constraints of the new budget law meant none of the 13 regular ap propriations bills gained final con gressional approval by the start of the fiscal year. Thus, the catchall spending bill was necessary. Meanwhile, Congress barely, on paper, met the fiscal 1987 deficit ceiling of $154 billion mandated by Gramm-Rudman. There are ques tions about whether the fiscal 1988 target of $108 billion can be met or whether the 100th Congress will give up on Gramm-Rudman altogether. The 99th Congress marked a transition as some of the most senior and influential members of each chamber retired. Red tide threatens livelihood of fishermen CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — The toxic red tide that has swept the Texas Gulf coast is not only littering beaches with mounds of rotting fish, but is threatening the livelihood of those who depend on seafood sales and tourism as well. “We can’t sell because the public is scared,” Corpus Christi fisherman Gabriel Bodukoglu said. “When I don’t make money, I get angry. I have to eat.” Red tide, the explosion of toxic microscopic organisms, has killed millions of fish since mid-September along a coastal stretch from Mat agorda Bay to the Rio Grande. The Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife Marine Laboratory in Rockport said the red tide was stronger than ever last week and showed signs of resurgence in areas where it had retreated. Officials have closed some beaches, including those near Cor pus Christi and Padre Island, while surgically masked crews have been cleaning shores. Nervous tourists and consumers are abandoning the beaches and fish markets in droves, businessmen and commercial fishermen say. Bodukoglu said business is down 90 percent. The red tide is wiping out sales to ward the end of the season, hitting budgets hard, shrimpers said. The toxin does not affect shrimp or crabs so businesses could operate if only the tourists were there. Any fish that was still healthy when caught is safe to eat, according to state health and wildlife officials. But oysters, clams and mussels re tain it in their systems for weeks, cre ating a health hazard if eaten. State officials have closed oyster beds from south of Galveston Bay to the Rio Grande. A prolonged prohi bition could sink many oyster opera tions. When the toxin becomes air borne, it can sting the eyes, irritate noses and produce coughing or sneezing, health officials said. Behind Bars Photo by Greg Bailey An inmate from the Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Correc- Annual Texas Prison Rodeo in Huntsville. The rodeo continues this tions prepares to compete in Sunday’s bull-riding event at the 55th weekend, with its last show Sunday. See story and photos, page 6.