Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, October 31, 1986
Warped
by Scott McCullar
White calls
Clements
hypocritical
Waldo
by Kevin Thomas
Clements says his direction
would make port successful
INGLESIDE (AP) — GOP guber
natorial candidate Bill Clements,
touring a proposed site for a Navy
fleet, said Thursday the home port
site would flourish under his admin
istration.
Clements, who faces Democratic
Gov. Mark White on Tuesday, said
his experience as a deputy secretary
of defense would be an asset in get
ting the home port to Texas.
Funds have yet to be appropriated
for the construction of a facility that
would be home to a battleship, an
aircraft carrier and two support ves
sels.
Galveston also would be home to a
reserve fleet for the Navy.
“This is notjust good for those lo
cales . . . it’s good for the state of
Texas,” Clements said aboard Capt.
Clark’s Flagship that toured the pro
posed home port site north of Cor
pus Ghristi.
“We’re talking about pumping in
billions of dollars and thousands of
jobs, literally,” Clements said. “That
affects everybody in Texas.”
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas,
who worked to get the home port to
the state, said President Reagan and
military brass would be more re
sponsive to Clements than to White.
Clements said the friendships he
established during his military ad
ministrative experience, especially
that with Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger, would help.
the Department of Defense or even
within the government. He has no
experience in that regard.”
Clements, in the last week before
the election, has continued on his
economic platform.
He said his political and business
experience would help attract new
businesses to Texas during a time
when the state is suffering because
of falling oil prices.
The home port plan would be one
of his priorities if elected, Clements
said.
He said he doubts White’s effec
tiveness in getting home port to
Texas.
“He does not understand the sys
tem,” Clements said. “He does not
understand the procedures within
Gramm said that once built, the
home port would pump $250 mil
lion a year into the economy.
“Bill Clements can do more to
help me make home port a reality,
and make it grow once it is a reality,
than Mark White,” Gramm said.
“When Mark White knocks on
Ronald Reagan’s door, nobody an
swers,” he said. “Mark White has no
credibility in working with the Rea
gan administration.”
DOMINO (AP) — Gov. Mark
White said Thursday it is “incredibly
hypocritical” for Republican Bill
Clements to blame him for the state’s
economic crisis when President Rea
gan has cost 170,000 Texans their
jobs.
It Reagan had slapped a tariff on
imported oil, White said, more Tex
ans would be working and Texas’ fi
nances would be healthier.
“National policies have created
unemployment in Texas,” White
said. “For Gov. Clements to criticize
me for an economy that’s not per
forming properly is incredibly hypo
critical.
“I think the Republican adminis
tration in Washington is holding
Texas hostage on its refusal to put
an import fee on oil.”
The Democratic incumbent, cam
paigning in seven East Texas cities
and Houston, said he is convinced
Reagan will yield on the tariff after
Tuesday’s election.
But he predicted the GOP policy
will backfire because voters can see
through the ploy of delaying the im
port fee.
“It’s the Republican policy that
caused the problem and the people
of Texas know it,” he said. “The
people of Texas are not going to po
litically reward people who are hold
ing us economic hostages.”
A tariff on imported oil — which
White first urged last winter —
would have offset the dramatic
price-cutting by OPEG that saw oil
tumble from $30 per barrel last No
vember to below $10 this summer.
White said Reagan’s refusal —and
Glements’ failure to persuade the
president — to impose the oil tariff
had been devastating.
“The Republicans ought to make
these decisions because they are
right for America and not for poli
tics,” White said.
“Now Bill Clements savs he sup
ports Mark White’s call for an im
port oil fee,” he said. ‘'But he won’t
stand up and ask the president of
the United States — his good f riend
— to impose one. He won’t stand up
on a podium in the East Texas oil
field and say, ‘Dear Mr. President,
we desperately need an import fee
on imported oil to save jobs in
Texas.’ ”
W’hite’s criticism comes at a time
when his Republican opponent is
telling voters that he and the GOP
will lead Texas back to prosperity.
Salutes
By Dawn Bute;
Care Team founder honored ingronff
The founder of Texas A&M’s
Emergency Care Team has been
honored for her contributions to
emergency medical care as the
namesake of a $25,000 grant
given to an A&M physiologist.
The American Heart Associa
tion research award was pre
sented in the name of Laura Kitz-
miller to Dr. Debora Gawlowski,
for Gawlowski’s research in the
microscopic study of ischemia.
The award was given by the
Texas Affiliate of the AHA.
Kitzmiller was given a Volun
teer Recognition Award f rom the
AHA in ceremonies Oct. 28.
Kitzmiller came to A&M in
1974 and now is the director of
Laura Kitzraillei
the emergency medical care programs in the University'sHeali
Physical Education Department. She founded A&MsECTani
its sponsor.
She has taught more than 150 courses in emergencyartanii
diopulmonary resuscitation and has been responsible forIik
CPR acliv ities in AHA’s Region 12, covering the Brazos Valiev
Kit/.niiller chaired the Brazos Gounty Heart AssociationpriB
as well as programs for the Texas Heart Association CPRComii
She has received teaching awards and is a former memliertf
Texas Health Department’s school accreditation committeeovr
ing emergency medical service training.
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Teshman & Sophomores
Oct. 6-Oct. 31
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Freshmen and sophomore photos for the
1987 Aggieland will be taken from Oct. 6 until
Oct. 31 at AR Photography, 707 Texas Ave,
across from the A&M Polo Field.