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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
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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.